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Friendly Valentine

Rosanne February 3, 2016 February 3, 2016Cards

I’m not participating in any challenge today…but I am busy making my Valentines. Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. I really enjoy holidays that are just about expressing an emotion. Thanksgiving is another one that I truly enjoy. No big hype or months of planning…just a day to let those special people in your life know that you care and are grateful for them.

I really enjoy sending cards to friends. Most times they are an unexpected surprise and I know that they are appreciated.

These little “love” notes are just that…little. They are note card size and really sweet. Again, I used my favorite DSP, Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack. For a small 6 x 6 pad, this paper packs a BIG punch. I am particularly drawn to the floral prints. The coordinating stamp set, Bloomin’ Love, is another bang for your buck. I love the florals in this set and can see using this beyond Valentine’s Day. I punched the heart with the Sweetheart Punch twice and layered it. The floral in the heart was heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then it was adhered with dimensionals.

I used a retired sentiment for the inside, since it said exactly what I wanted.

I stamped the front of the envelope, as well as the envelope flap, with floral stamps from the same set. I try to find different ways to decorate my envelopes. I must be honest here, though. I really like this paper and did not want to waste it on the envelopes since I am sending quite a few of these cards out. So stamping them was a perfect solution and still adds a special little touch.

I hope you liked these “friendly” little notes….after all, it is the little things that matter!

Thanks for looking on my post today and have a wonderful day.

Rosanne

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A Very Valentine

Rosanne January 31, 2016 January 31, 2016Cards

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Good Sunday to you. I had such good intentions to get my challenge cards done in a timely manner this week and that just did not happen. So yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down for awhile to craft and decided to make one card for a few challenges…which is quite a challenge itself. Here is who I am playing with…..

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So needless to say, this card really had to go the distance for me.

I think I covered all the bases here. I cased the Heart from the #GDP020 Case the Designer, choose the vertical column on the right (heart, pink, bling) from the SIP#32 Tic Tac Toe and followed the PPA color challenge.

The absolute star of this card is the Bloomin’ Heart Thinlit Dies. To be honest, I was not completely sold on this at first but I did love the Bloomin’ Love stamp set and these were offered as a bundle as well as individually. I can NOT pass up a bundle and I am so glad I didn’t. This thinlit is perfect not only for Valentine’s Day but also weddings, anniversaries, birthdays….

The inside sentiment and the images on the envelope are from the Bloomin’ Love stamp set. As you can see, this bundle had everything I needed to create a pretty special Valentine card.

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Hope you enjoyed this card. I am really going to try to get my act together with these challenges, however, this last minute “fire drill” turned out pretty well.

Thanks so much for looking in on my project today. If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know. I do appreciate your comments.

Rosanne

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Happiest of Birthdays

Rosanne January 24, 2016 January 24, 2016Cards

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Well today we are digging out of 2 feet of snow thanks to Jonas! But at least it is bright and sunny…really bright with all the white stuff on the ground. I look at it like we are one less snowstorm until Spring!

Today I am entering in two challenges. A sketch challenge for Mojo Monday and a theme challenge for StampInkPaper.

I chose to make a soft feminine birthday card mostly because I simply love the DSP from the Love Blossoms Paper Stack and thought that this particular pattern was so pretty.

The beautiful flower, I think it is a cabbage rose, from the Birthday Blossoms stamp set in the Occasions Catalog takes center stage on this card. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and then colored it in using Blushing Bride, Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz ink and my blender pen. I also heat embossed the sentiment which is also from this set.

Here is a close up of the flower

The inside sentiment is from the Cottage Greetings stamp set in the Annual Catalog. I think the font coordinates very nicely with the sentiment on the front of the card even though they are from two different sets.

And to pull the whole card together, I just embellished the flap of the envelope with DSP. I just decorate the flaps when using designer series paper that I particularly love for two reasons. First, it can be seen from the outside and before the envelope is torn open and secondly, because I am usually trying to hoard the paper and get a little stingy with it because I don’t want to use it all up.

Thanks very much for taking a peek at my project today. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday.

Rosanne

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A Super Sketch for PPA 284

Rosanne January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016Cards

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This week’s Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge really had me stumped for a while….I guess that’s where the “challenge” part comes in!

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I had no idea where this card was going to come from. Usually when this happens, I will start with the stamp set but this card starting forming when I found the DSP laying on my desk under a pile of other papers.

I love the barn wood look of this paper from the Farmers Market Designer Series Paper. I then turned to what is probably my favorite stamp set in the whole annual catalog, Butterfly Basics, for the flower image.

I colored it using Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz ink and a blender pen. The sentiment is from the Sheltering Tree stamp set and the small butterfly is from Papillon Potpourri set punched with the bitty butterfly punch. I stamped all the images and sentiments with Chocolate Chip ink to coordinate more with the wood background.

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The sentiment on the inside is also from the Butterfly Basics stamp set.The pink DSP is from the Love Blossoms Paper Stack. This card can be used to a variety of occasions from a simple hello, get well or even a birthday. I like to have a few of these kind of cards on hand.

I hope you have a very relaxing weekend and get to spend some time crafting. We here in PA are expecting the blizzard they’ve named, Jonas any minute now. Hopefully, it will just be a lot of snow which we can deal with. However, they are predicting very high winds and power outages.

Take care,

Rosanne

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