Belated Play Date Cafe #90

Hi there!  I'm a little bummed to realize I missed the deadline for The Play Date Cafe Challenge.  It's so hard to keep your days straight on vacation!  Anyway, I thought I'd share it with you today.  I noticed that there was a wide range of interpretation for the "Fuschia" color in the gallery, but I went with a hot pink on my card.

I started with a Melon Mambo card base that I stamped all over with white ink using the leaves from Verve's Bloom & Grow.  I stamped another leaf image in Melon onto white cardstock, then cut it out by hand and adhered it over a white frame cut with two Labels 18 Nesties.  In the middle of the frame is a piece of Peach Parfait cardstock debossed with text.

I didn't bring any buttons with me on my trip *gasp!*, so I made my own with 5 layers of Concord Crush cardstock and Glossy Accents.

The sentiment is from PTI's Faux Ribbon.

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! (Melon Mambo, Peach Parfait, Concord Crush), Papertrey Ink (white)

Stamps:  Verve (Bloom & Grow), Papertrey Ink (Faux Ribbon)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Melon Mambo), Clearsnap (Frost White)

Tools:  Spellbinders (Labels 18 dies), Papertrey Ink (Book Print impression plate, button dies)

Accessories:  Ranger (Glossy Accents), DMC floss

Thanks for dropping in today, friends!  Hope you're staying cool!

Mojo Monday #198 & PDCC #89

Happy Friday, friends!  We're off to see the new Cars movie this afternoon, my son's first trip to the theater!  What do you have planned for the weekend?

Before I go, I wanted to pop in and share a card I made with the Mojo Monday sketch using the colors at The Play Date Cafe.  These were just the colors I needed for what I had in mind.

Patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket's Everafter collection and the Neutrals DSP collection from Stampin' Up!.  I stamped flowers and leaves from Verve's Bloom and Grow set and cut them out by hand (although there are dies available, I don't have them yet).  I added a few brown pearls to the flower centers and popped them up on foam dots.

The sentiment is from the same set, stamped on a die cut Nesties Label 18 that is sponged with tea dye.  For the horizontal banners in the sketch, I die cut one banner from Vintage Cream cardstock and stamped it with text.  For the other strip, I die cut a Victorian Lace border from Certainly Celery cardstock.

I couldn't decide what to do with the vertical strip in the sketch, and nothing I tried there was working.  I finally decided to bend the rules a bit and add a pearl flourish, and I like how it turned out.  My only concern is that the design might be a little top-heavy, so I may go back and add a pearl flourish in the bottom right corner.  What do you think?

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (Vintage Cream), Stampin' Up! (Certainly Celery)

Patterned paper:  Cosmo Cricket (Everafter:  Something Old), Stampin' Up! (Neutrals DSP)

Stamps:  Verve (Bloom and Grow), Papertrey Ink (Background Basics:  Text Style)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (So Saffron, Certainly Celery), Clearsnap (Parchment), Papertrey Ink (Dark Chocolate, Chamomile tea dye)

Tools:  Papertrey Ink (banner die, Victorian Lace border die), Spellbinders (Labels 18 die)

Accessories:  Michaels (pearls), thread

Thanks for stopping by and leaving some thoughts!  Hope you have a great day!

Make it Monday #19 & PDCC #86

Hello!  I'm back with a quick and simple card to share before we head out on a Father's Day adventure.  I hope all the Dads in your life have a great day, too!

This card was inspired by this week's Make it Monday challenge from Papertrey Ink to use the rock and roll stamping technique.  I was also itching to use these fun, summery colors from the Play Date Cafe challenge.

I started with a Blueberry sky card base that I cut to 4 in X 5.5 in, to make room for the banner to stick off the side and still fit in an A2 envelope.

I stamped several butterflies from PTI's Butterfly Dreams by inking them first in hot pink and then inking just the outsides of the wings orange.

Once I had the butterflies placed, I wanted a dimensional element so I die cut the larger butterfly from Raspberry Fizz cardstock to layer under a smaller stamped one, wrapped them with floss, and adhered just the body so that the wings can be curled up a bit.

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (Blueberry Sky, Raspberry Fizz, white)

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink (Butterfly Dreams)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Melon Mambo), Ranger (Spiced Marmalade), Clearsnap (Cyan)

Tools:  Papertrey Ink (butterfly dies), We R Memory Keepers (Corner Chomper)

Accessories:  embroidery floss, thread

Okay, time to get my family moving if we're going to enjoy this beautiful day!  Thanks so much for your visit!