Breaking into my kit! (finally...)

Thank you Simon Says Stamp for featuring me in your Designer’s Spotlight for last week's posts!

This is my second time in the spotlight. This made me so happy! 

Ok, so I finally broke int to January My Monthly Hero from Hero Arts. I also got the additional stamp set, You are my Happy. It has such wonderful sentiments; but, somehow I misplaced it. So sad.

My sister's wedding is a week away and I still haven't made a card for her, so I thought this kit would be perfect! And I made this card:

It's a no-bulk shaker card. For the shaker component, I added additional glitter to what's in the kit already.

PTI Stamp-a-Faire 2015: Bridal Challenge

I just spent the past 24 hours with Ashley, inside her craft room, working on PTI Stamp-a-Faire challenges. 

However, I have not completed them all nor will I finish them all. PTI's deadline is by this coming Tuesday. The next few blog post will totally be all about these projects. All these projects are based on a fashion theme. 

It was 8:00 am, my brain was slowly waking up to this first challenge:

"Create your own wedding project utilizing nothing but the color white." This was a tough one to start the day! Initially, I thought, "I can't stamp white-on-white!" Rough start... but thankfully, Ashley just picked out a random wedding stamp set and said, "Here, use this," and got the ball rolling. This was the result:

The two cards are similar in design, but the embossed background and layout of the leaves are different. The is a shimmer on the leaves; I sprayed the shimmery alcohol concoction from Ashley (I believe it's from Stampin' Up). I think these cards are also an excellent choice for Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes. 

I love the gold embossing for the sentiment. The combination of white and gold give these cards a very elegant style.

yellow + orange = summer

My good friend, Grace, is getting hitched in less than three weeks! And her bridal shower is this weekend. I need a card for her but didn't find anything good in what I have made already. I was scrolling through Simon Monday Challenge: Summer. The color yellow and orange keeps coming into my mind. So I had to make a card with those colors! Plus her favorite color is orange.

I liked how this card turned out and decided to making it in purple as well, along with a different inside message. These turned out so lovely! They're perfect for the upcoming wedding and bridal showers.

colors: sahara sand (SU), always artichoke (SU), lemon tart (PTI), orange zest (PTI), simply chartreuse (PTI), royal velvet (PTI), winter wisteria (PTI)
stamps: natural beauty (PTI)

"From this day forward..."

I recently bought PTI's Make It Market Mini: Garden Gild Kit

It came and has been sitting on my desk for two weeks. It's time to break it out!

This card ended up a little messy because I didn't know where or how to start. I added some distress inks (milled lavender, festive berries, and shabby shutters) to make the background. Then added some glitter paper for die cuts to make it pop.

(The distress inks in the image aren't the right ones. Sorry!)

Here's the same card from an other angle. You can see the glitter flower die cuts better. This card turned out ok. If I had spend a little more time and not rush, I think it'd be much better. 

Fussy Cutting and Weddings

I was hoping to craft more since I'm back in my crafty mood. Of course life is always busy and I don't have the time to craft! Thankfully, I can this week.

I got a few wedding coming up this summer and it's time to get working on gifts and cards! I made a simple wedding card, inspired by Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge.

Fuzzy cut is the reason I get sentiment stamps with dies; but it was fun doing the cut for this "Congrats."

The stamps I used were Harvest Berries (PTI) and Your Perfect Day (Stampin' Up). I added some small blings on various leaves to give it some shine. The sentiment is embossed with mint powder (P K Glitz); it does have some glitter within the embossing.