SAF 2014: 1960's retro card

This one might be a stretch to fit Erin's era of the 1960's, but again, I had to be creative with what I had and what I could figure out fit the style of that era.  Mod images, martinis, browns and oranges,  etc.  I use the rustic burlap impression plate on my brown card base for some mimicking of the mod texture used in Erin's stamps, mod martini images on the tilted mustard layer for some interest and an ode to that era, and then an Ad Sense marquee sentiment for more angles and modern flair to tie it all together.  I think it still needs a little something, but I don't know what to use from my stash to add it. Oh well, this was quick and fun and turned out pretty much how I envisioned it.  Just having fun playing along today.

Stamp a faire: 1940's challenge

I love the inspiration pieces Betsy provided for the 1940's.  While I don't have much in the way of stamps like Betsy provided in the SAF kit for this era, I did use her bright primary color scheme and some stamps that convey some of the feeling of the times during the depression and war era.  They had to get through those tough days to enjoy the hard fought peace and prosperity that was to come after the war was over and our economy recovered.  So here is my positive outlook card to reflect that.   I kind of used one of the morning warm up sketches to inspire the layout of this card and the focal point.

Stamp a faire 2014: 1920s challenge

I made this card because it was the only era so far I felt inspired by and actually had some supplies that I felt were usable.  It was a little more tricky than I thought, but glitter is always a tricky medium to work with.  My SU! black embossing powder does not cover and stick to fine detail and print like PTI's fine detail embossing powder does, so my embossing isn't as clean as I would like.  

Anyway, I am happy with the results overall, and it is super sparkly in real life.  I used the art deco cover plate and Dawn’s art deco background where I stamped off the light grey color once before stamping because I didn’t want it to be a dark and distracting pattern.   I used some sticker paper and cut that with the cover plate first and then glued it down to put the glitter on.  It was hard to keep stray glue off the card so the glitter didn’t get stuck on it.  

My husband’s grandmother is turning 90 in a week and a half so I think this might be her birthday card.  I think it is quite fitting.  Hope she doesn’t mind getting a little glittery when she opens it.  :)

Some Autumn Creativity

I have gathered up several of my autumn stamp sets and been playing with them this past week.  Here are a few of the cards I have made with them.  Fall is my favorite time of the year.  Love the vibrant colors, the drier air and breeze, the smell of leaves and twigs burning, apple desserts of all kinds, and the bit of chill in the air.  Hope these cards get you in that autumn mood too.

I CAS'd this one from Pinterest, but used my Faux Washi Borders set for the woodgrain stripe.  Thought it was quite tallish and added a lot of fun interest to the card.  

This one I intended for it to say "Counting My Blessings" but the sentiment stamp that says that was way to large to fit on the front.  I had to settle for "Thankful For" but it kind of doesn't fit with the numbers down the side.  That was supposed to tie into the Counting my blessings theme.  Oh well, I think it turned out pretty anyway.  Love the Rich Razzelberry leaf.  Such a nice purple, wine color. 

This card was fun to make with the Four Square set.  The herringbone square is perfect for fall cards. I made it a 3 1/2 by 5 card.  I made a custom envelope for it.

This was a CAS of Dawn McVey's card from last year's fall release.  I just love her cards.  

MIM Rainbow medallions

Hi, Friends!  Back here after a little hiatus to participate in this week's MIM.  I have been so blessed and thrilled each time I have participated in these little weekly and monthly share times with Papertrey Ink.  I am blessed by the sweet comments of encouragement and praise and sometimes thrilled because I have actually won some PTI gift certificates.  Hey, if you don't enter, you can't win.

This week, Dawn showed us how to make rainbow medallions on our cards.  Well, I went to Dawn for even more inspiration for my project and Cased something she made just a couple of months ago in the way of a rainbow circle from Tiny Tags.  Hers were die cut and arranged, but I stamped mine flat on the card front.  I traced a circle  1 3/4" on my paper and then simply lined up the tag stamps and went around the circle.  It actually lined up really well as it wasn't a symmetrical number of tags stamped.  Woohoo!!!  Thanks,  Dawn, for all your awesome creativity.  You are by far my favorite of the design team, and your projects consistently make me want to purchase more stamps and make it into my Pinterest archives.

Here is my project.

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop

Last entry to today's festivities.  I was inspired by Betsy Veldman when she revisited Tiny Tags earlier this year.  Super fun interpretation of the frames sketch and used the colors in the color scheme: Spring Rain, Harvest Gold, Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry Tart, and Teal.

Papertrey June Blog Hop color and sketch inspiration #2

I keep saying that I am done with my cards for this month's blog hop, but I keep pulling out stamps and ideas to play along.  This follows the sketch for the color blocked circle card with a large word accent for the sentiment.  I used a pretty flower from Dawn McVey's new flower set.  I love these flowers.  They are just the right size and I love all the 2 and 3 step options they have.  I got all the colors from one of the sketches in except the spring rain color.  I used Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry, Teal and Harvest Gold.  I popped up the wet paint die cut on a piece of the coaster board PTI sells.  It was tricky to cut out such small details on that and have it come out, but it worked.