Hoping you're fully recovered soon

 The inside of the card.



One of my gym buddies broke her leg vaccuming- how awful can that be? So our workout group has decided to send her a card, and I sold them on my services.  I had been trying to come up with a use for this week's Play Date Cafe colors, and ladies there are a few random pieces of other attempts sitting in my scraps drawer, but decided to stick to my CAS style and limit the color.  And while I was doing CAS I thought I'd retry this week's CAS-ual Fridays "buttons and twine".  So I've gone for the button throw pillow with Twinery lilliac twine accent.  Lawnscaping Challenge is polka dots and yes, I know I'm missing a Lawn Fawn stamp on this card, but who can resist a polka dot couch?  Lily Pad Cards is having an embossing challenge this month and I love the texture the swiss dots adds to this card.

This was attempt one for the card for the girlfriend, I recycled one of these cards (which I'd sold to my grandma and then she sent to me!) and added a new sentiment.  But since Tiffany Doodles and ABC Design Blog are celebrating flowers this month, I'll add this card to those challenges.  I think I'll send the card back to my grandma.

Materials: First card: PTI On My Couch, PTI On My Couch Additions, PTI Mat Stack 1, Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder, PTI Mat Stack 1 die, Penny something patterned paper, Fiskars corner rounder, Core'dinations Sugar & Spice purple card stock, Twinery Lillac twine, Crafty solutions buttons

Second Card: Patterned paper, Stampendous thinking of you, Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 8, water color pencils, Versafine black ink

You are an inspiration, plus winners!

I love that I've made all sorts of cards this week, but hadn't actually made one for my mom for Mother's Day, oops.  I found this sheet of SRM stickers at Ben Franklin and thought that I should make some cards for my girlfriend's Avon Breast Cancer Walk, but I haven't actually made them yet...  so when looking for the right sentiment for my mom I thought this one was perfect.  I've also used this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and the Play Date Cafe colors.  I've used some faux stitching to try to cover the clear vellum double sided tape for Yvonne's "Do More with Less" challenge.  Tiffany Doodles and ABC Design Blog are celebrating flowers this month, and I think the WMS Big Blooms set is great, especially colored in with water colors.

Right, now more importantly... blog candy winners!!!  Thank you for all the comments over the last week, such fun to see such fabulous blog love.  Because I've been lucky to win a number of things in the past, I wanted to have as many winners as possible.  So, with the help of Random.org here we go.

$10 gift certificate to Two Peas in a Bucket:
~Tammy~ said...I need to get commissioned! Paid to craft! How can I get signed up for this??? Love what you have done here! These are great! Congrats to your friend! :-)

PTI Button Dies: Lisa Petrella said...Both of these cards are FANTASTIC, Erin, but I especially LOVE that first one! The book plate and that GIANT flower---ahhhh---sooooo pretty! I'm definitely going to check out your author friend's book! I LOVE to read and I'm always on the lookout for good books!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Bananas For You set: yyam said...These are lovely Erin! Love the layers and all the text! :):

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Buttons: Pam W. said...WOW! Great cards, Erin! I must give the PTI MIM technique a try. I love what you did with it. Happy Mother's Day!!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Tickets: Emily Keaton said... SO clean, bold, and beautiful!! What a lovely card. Happy Anniversary, Erin!!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Sew Original: lynn said...your garden wedding sounds beautiful, erin:) hope your anniversary was a great one! cute card!

And the Maya Road Canvas album, Cosmo Cricket stickers and Flirt Album: Karen B. said...This certainly is a technique I hope you try more of in the future, your cards turned out fantastic. Love the colors on both of them. How cool is that to have a friend that has a book published. Cool indeed.

Winners please email me at paperobsessed at gmail dot com your snail mail addresses and I'll send them off. Thanks for helping me celebrate one year of blog addiction  love.

Materials: Waltzingmouse Big Blooms stamps, SRM Stickers Courage sentiment, vellum, water color pencils, Fiskars corner rounder, Unity background stamp, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Work Lipstick, Studio G orange ink, Tim Holtz Ornamental die, Twinery Mandarin twine, Cuttlebug Just My Type faux stitching embossing folder

Sweetie

PTI's very first Make It Mondays challenge has a great video and tutorial.  My first attempt (b/c there's another in the wings) was to make a Valentine's Day card with a collection of sentiments.  I've used the Off the Wall Craftiness colors.  I've included one Hero Arts sentiment (sweetie) to make this work for their Valentine's day month long challenge.  I'm also going to enter this in Tiffany Doodle's Valentine's Day challenge.  And lastly I want to include 2 photos of my work-in-progress craft space, b/c it's been a long time since I played with the fabulous What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday gang.

Materials: Sweetie- Hero Arts, Be mine/Love you/sweet heart- PTI Daily Designs sentiment, I love you- PTI Mailbox Greetings, You warm my heart- PTI Warm happiness Too, Hearts- PTI Mailbox Greetings, Copic marker R85, My Mind's Eye Love Me Do patterned paper, Stampin Up red card stock, 2 pink buttons from stash, white string, Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 4

be mine, 3 hearts

This week's Play Date Cafe colors are beautiful, but after several attempts of trying to put them all together I went back to favorite color-- white.  There are a number of fun Valentine's Day card challenges out there at the moment, including Tiffany Doodles.

Materials: Kaiserstamp Negative Heart, Stampin Up square scallop punch, Versacolor Camellia ink, VersaMagic Night Sky ink, StaxOn Royal Purple ink, pink string, Tim Holtz rays embossing folder, Fiskars rotary cutter with scallop blade, PTI Daily Designs sentiment, Stampin Up black ink, white card stock

fall leaves card

I think the Waltzingmouse Stamps Big Blooms leaves are great for fall cards. This card was done at the time I made these two cards, I just rotated the background/foreground stamps. Hope you northern hemisphere folks are enjoying the crunching leaves....  I'll enter this card in this month's Tiffany Doodles theme "fall cards."

Materials: Waltzingmouse Stamps Big Blooms leaves, Versacolor Camilla red ink, Studio G orange ink, PTI kraft, Stampin Up red card stock

fall friend/orange/green

This is a remake of this card, I think I like the other one better, but fun to play around with the same idea.  This month's Tiffany Doodles theme is fall, so I'm going to enter this card in that challenge (hopefully I'll remember to link the card when this posts!).

Materials: Hero Arts friend stamp, PTI leaves, Fiskars rotary scallop cutter, PTI kraft, orange card stock, green art paper, brown twine, Studio G orange ink

Happy Hellos

A CAS card using the Color Throwdown colors and the clean and simple sketch. Mark's Finest Papers Speedy Cat challenge this week is flowers and Tiffany Doodles is also celebrating flowers this month.

Materials: W Plus 9 Woodgrain Silhouette flower, Stampin Up sentiment, Stazon Purple ink, Stampin Up black ink, green ribbon, PTI kraft, Fiskars rotary scallop cutter

Retro Tulip Sympathy Card

365 Cards has this lovely photo as their Ad Inspired challenge and I immediately thought of the Jane Beljio Retro Tulip. I printed the digital tulip on a fun dandelion poem that my blogging friend Karen created. Originally I was thinking I'd do something black and white like the photo (b/c I have literal issues), but when I went to see what the current Squigglefly Challenge was it was for brown & cream sympathy card, since I already had cream going, I figured I'd work some brown into it. Tiffany Doodles is celebrating flowers all month long, so I'll add this to their current challenge. Sentimental Sundays is having an anything goes week, so here's another card for that challenge.

Materials: Jane Beljio Digital Retro Tulips, PTI sentiment, Karen Baker digital dandelion poem background, Stampin Up Chocolate Chip Designer papers, Fiskars tag punch, cream twine, Stampin Up black ink, Stampin Up green watercolor pencils and blender pen

Birthday Wishes

This week's Cas-tastic Wednesday challenge was to CASE one of the design team's cards. I already did a fun one based on Agata's card, click here to see that. But since I've become blogging pals with Karen (okay, I admit it, I'm cyber stalking her, but she's too friendly to tell me to get a life!), I wanted to do another entry for the challenge based on her lovely birthday card. And while I'm making a birthday card, I'll enter it in this week's Party Time Tuesday & Crafty Cardmakers "anything goes" birthday challenge. Tiffany's Doodles challenge this month is flowers and Sentimental Sundays is having an "anything goes" challenge this week. Simon Says Stamps is doing songs and I think this one makes me sing "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you..."

Materials: Stampin Up flower stamp, PTI sentiment, Stampin Up Rose red ink, Stampin Up watercolor pencils and blender pen, cream brad

365 Cards Guest Designer Card

Pam, at 365 Cards, asked me to be a guest designer for their celebration for reaching 1000 followers. I was honored to be asked to be one of the 11 guest designers. My challenge-- to use a digital image with at least one stamped image. I chose one of the freebies at Tiffany Doodles and had fun stamping the paper with W Plus 9 woodgrain first and then printing the birdhouse on top. Tiffany Doodles is also having a challenge for "birds and windows." Sweet Stampin Challenge is celebrating things with wings. Pile It On is having a favorite things this week and I just love Dawn's W Plus 9's woodgrain, it's so great to add an extra layer to some cards.

Please join me at 365 Cards for this challenge, the prize this week is a $20 gift certificate to Prickley Pear.

Materials: Tiffany Doodles treehouse, bird from Clear Mini Stamp, Stampin Up sentiment, W Plus 9 woodgrain, VersaColor Marigold and brown, Stampin Up black, markers, Inkadinkado flower stamp, versamark, corner rounder punch, Fiskars rotary scallop cuter, Fiskars circle punch