Clean and Simple FTL 98

Is it hot where you are? My, I am getting so tired of the 100 degree days! Lots of daylily activities last week so I am glad to at last have time to stay inside with my stamps. I made this card a week ago with the CAS sketch. I found these butterflies at Archiver's on my recent trip to Kansas City and always have fun playing with these little inchies images.

Supplies

Stamps: Butterflies (Inkadinkado), Background Basics: Retro, Birds of a Feather (sentiment) (both PTI)
Cardstock: Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Stamper's Select White (all PTI)
Patterned Paper: Vintage Blue (We R Memory Keepers)
Ink: Rose Bud, Cottage Ivy (both Memento)
Pearl

Have a great week!
Sharron

Papertrey Peeps Challenge #7

 

Some time ago Nerina's challenge was for the Peeps to visit the Creative Mint blog and select one of the awesome photos as inspiration.  My choice is from Creative Mint here. There are so many outstanding pictures but the title of this one caught my eye. DH's name is Harry so I of course couldn't pass up 'Harry's Berries'! And what a better summer treat than delicious strawberries!

I wanted to match the color of the strawberry box but my two choices were Aqua Mist and Spring Rain and IRL neither was exact so I did two versions! As you can see, in the computer photos the Aqua Mist comes across as a pretty good match but I also like the soft blue. In each the backgrounds are a combination of two embossing folders.. The large strawberry is from Green Thumb and the small ones are from Vintage Picnic. All materials are PTI unless noted otherwise.

Supplies-Card #1:
Stamps: Green Thumb, Background Basics-Retro
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Aqua Mist, Soft Stone
Ink: Lady Bug and Bamboo Leaves (both Memento), Aquatic Splash (VersaMagic)
Additional: Sizzix Argyle Embossing Folder, Sizzix Snowballs Embossing Folder, Circle Punch, Stampin' Up Punch, Crystal Effects

Supplies-Card #2:
Stamps: Green Thumb, Vintage Picnic, Background Basics-Retro
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Spring Rain
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Bamboo Leaves (Memento), Aegean Blue (VersaMagic), Copics
Additional: Sizzix Argyle Embossing Folder, Quikutz Stripes Embossing Folder, Mat Stack 2 Die, Pearls

Are you still with me? I really hope you like strawberries because since I needed several thank you cards, I decided to do a traditional color version also!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Picnic, Green Thumb
Cardstock: Spring Moss, Vintage Cream
Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety
Ink: Lady Bug and Bamboo Leaves (both Memento), Copics
Additional: Stampin' Up Punch, Mat Stack 2 Die, Ribbon (LSS), Rhinestone

Thanks for popping by!
Sharron

Papertrey Peeps Challenge #11

Just back from a quick trip to Kansas City to meet my stepson's sweet girlfriend and her two sons.  We had a wonderful visit, stayed overnight and even got to sleep late one morning. After breakfast, we made a brief (1 hour!) stop at Archiver's  and DH patiently waited while I took in all the goodies! 

My card today is for our most recent Peeps Challenge #11.  Nicole challenged us to do something 'out of our comfort zone' so I chose to work with a color that, for me, unfortunately falls in that category. TURQUOISE, one of this year's most popular colors, is a challenge for me! I see so many fabulous creations made by other people but for some reason I have steered away from it. While I bought PTI's Hawaiian Shores products in March, it was Heather's Peeps challenge in June that reminded me how little I reach for turquoise. I hadn't even opened the cardstock package! So after using a little turquoise for accents in that challenge and in two other cards, I decided to do something more bold! 

I wanted to use the flowers in the Take Three-Summer set so I combined Terracotta Tile with Hawaiian Shores for this card. I think I like it--definitely need to try this more often!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Take Three-Summer (PTI)

Cardstock: Hawaiian Shores, Terracotta Tile, Vintage Cream (all PTI)

Patterned Paper: Thrifty Shop-October Afternoon

Additional: Sea Breeze Ink-VersaMagic; Orangerie Ink-PTI; Copics; Quikutz Embossing Folder (Diamonds and Dots); EK Success border punch; Rickrack Die (PTI)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Sharron

Papertrey Peeps Challenge #10

This Papertrey Peeps challenge provided by Heather was to use the following colors: purple, turquoise, chartreuse, dark grey and white. While somewhat out of my comfort zone, it turned out to be really fun! I did have to make some adjustments as I did not have chartreuse. So I decided to use Spring Moss cardstock and Memento Pear Tart ink instead. And this was also the first time I got out my new Take Three Summer stamp set. I LOVE it! I don't have the Spring version yet but will definitely need to move it up on my wish list. The images are wonderful and the sentiment and font are the greatest! 

Now, back to my recipe. All cardstock is PTI except where noted. The base is Spring Moss cardstock, followed by Elephant (Bazzill) and then a piece of Plum Pudding embossed with a Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls embossing folder. The main image is a panel of Stamper's Select White over Hawaiian Shores. I used Sweet Plum Memento Ink for the image and then cut out and embossed with a square nestability. I then mounted it on Fillable Frames #1 cut out of Spring Moss. Additional stamps are from Turning a New Leaf in Pear Tart and the little flower image in the TTS set with an added rhinestone.

Note my little flower frog--I found two of these while on our recent trip! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Sharron

Time to Relax!

Happy Fourth of July to all my US friends! We are celebrating with a nice relaxing day at home! It has  been raining all day (pouring right now!) so it is not very conducive to outdoor activities. Haven't heard yet about the fate of the fireworks scheduled for this evening!

But thought this card would be appropriate to wish everyone a happy summer. I have been checking Mark's Finest Papers blog lately and saw that the current challenge #10 is to use die cuts. So this is my first entry! I chose 2 sets of Nestabilities--large circles and large scalloped circles--perfect to use for this Pure Innocence image!

Supplies:
Stamps: Start Every Day With Whee-Pure Innocence; All additional are PTI--Sentiment from On the Couch, Background-Petal Power, Leaves (cut outs) from Turning a New Leaf, Flowers from Wonderfully Whimsical
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Lavender Moon, Hawaiian Shores (all PTI); Elephant-Brazzil
Patterned Paper: Vintage Blue-WR Memories
Ink: Pear Tart-Memento, Turquoise Gem-VersaMagic Chalk, Copics
Additional: Buttons-PTI Hawaiian Shores, Lavender Moon; Crystal Effects

Enjoy your day,
Sharron

Masculine Retirement Gift

Hope no one thought I had melted in the awful heat, even though I have felt at times that I might! We spent four days over the past weekend attending a Regional Daylily Meeting. There were many fabulous gardens but we did have to contend with LOTS of heat and humidity.

Before we left for St. Louis, I was able to attend a retirement lunch for one of the doctors where I recently worked. Thought I would share what I made. Masculine cards are always difficult for me but with lots of inspiration I was able to come up with this card and accompanying notebooks. Even an idea for a gift was a challenge. He loves to read and mentioned wanting to do some travel so I purchased a book on travel. I love these little PTI notebooks and had some inserts on hand. I used what stamp sets I have plus the computer to make sentiments.

For the card I used a Waltzingmouse Stamps sketch--so easy to work with! The road was a variation of one by Diane Jaquay using the Up, Up and Away rainbow. Isn't she clever! Thanks Diane! Patterned papers were leftover from  recent cards I made (here and here). I made the sentiment on the computer.

I didn't have stamps to use so I created this notebook with patterned paper and KaiserCraft rub ons. I had never used rub ons before so this was kind of fun and supplied the look I wanted. Once again, I made the label on the computer and cut out with the PTI die that came with the teapot die set.

I even added a rub-on on the inside.

Notebook #2 uses all PTI stamps. I did make the 'Books to Read' on the computer. The cute little library cards are printed from a template by Heather Nichols (here). I just reduced them in size and cut them out.

I used On My Couch and Chair-ished here:

These notebooks are so much fun to make and I think were well received. Thanks to everyone that provided inspiration for my project.

Hope you are having a good week.  

Stay cool,

Sharron

Supplies:

Card: Kraft Cardstock (PTI), Core-dinations, Bazzill (grey), S-E-I En Route and My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Patterned Papers, Karen Foster Designs License Plate, Spellbinders Labels 11, silver brads

Notebook #1: Kraft Cardstock (PTI), Core-dinations, Making Memories Panorama Patterned Paper, KaiserCraft Pack Your Bags Rub Ons, Fly Away Stamp Set (PTI), Notepad (PTI), Tea Dye Duo (PTI)

Notebook #2: Ocean Tides Cardstock (PTI), Bitty Boxes (PTI), Chocolate Remix (PTI), Pack Your Bags Patterned Paper (KaiserCraft), On My Couch, Chair-ished and Sign Language Stamp Sets (PTI), Notepad (PTI), Copics

A Dose of Daylilies!

Hi Peeps! Here are my promised daylily photos. This is our backyard:

It really is quite small so as you can see we have really crammed it full of daylilies with a sprinkling of companion plants. Sorry about the hose through the middle, Hubby has been working on the pond! We do have dogs so at least a little grass is necessary! Daylilies are around all four sides of the house but won't bore you with a lot of yard pictures. I thought I would just feature a few different varieties so people could see that daylilies are more than the orange roadside version. They come in all colors except blue (so guess what the current hybridizer's goal is!). Most anyone would be thrilled to come up with the first perfect blue!

One of my new favorite spidery unusual forms is Belladonna Starfish.                                              

Above is one with glowing color-Reason for Treason

While this glowing beauty, At Sunset, is one of my all-time favorites

Topguns Double Eyeful is a double form with a ruffly look.

And for those loving pink, All My Tomorrows is a soft

pink shade.

Shown below, Rainbow Radiance is a dreamy cream that holds up in all the current high heat. Hope you enjoy my sampling. This has been a wonderful year due to no late frost and lots of rain. Daylilies do love water!

Will get back to posting things made of paper soon!

Smiles,

Sharron