DeNami Fresh Florals blog hop

 

 

 Welcome to the DeNami Design Fresh Florals blog hop. You should've arrive here from Deb's blog. Just in case you get lost along the way, you can always head back to the beginning. 

 

   

 My card was created using the inspiration colors for the current Play Date Cafe Challenge. I used some Red cardstock for my cardbase. Then I inked up Rosebud Trio onto some White cardstock and colored them in with my copics. I added some darker maroon shading to them. Although I did not have the perfect shade of soft jade for my leaves, I colored them in with one of my blue copics. Trust me when I say that I tried several variations of blending with my greens and blues to achieve soft jade, but I had no luck. Fortunately for me, I pulled out my Aqua Boutique buttons and found the perfect one for my card. I added some baker's twine and stamped my Thinking of you (cling) sentiment to finish of my card.

 

Your next stop along the hop is the talented Tina. I know you will not be disappointed.

 

 

 

Maroon ... Poppy ... Soft Jade

 

 

 Don't forget about the THREE gift certificates that will be given away! One gift certificate will go to a random participant and TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop! You have until May 20, 2013 11:59pm PST to comment and be eligible.

 



Happy Birthday, Michele!!!

Happy Birthday Michele!!!

Today we are celebrating Michele Gross by honoring her with a birthday blog hop. Michele is the creator of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. She is such an amazing person to work with. I mean, really amazing. Working as a Girl Friday has been my first design team work, and it has been such a wonderful experience. You deserve the absolute best today, Michele!!!

 You should've arrived here from Sylvia's blog. For my card, I used some of my CAS-ual Fridays stamps, Exclamations and Rad.  I used the current Play Date Cafe challenge as inspiration for my card. Your next stop along the hop is Jocelyn.

  

And here is a list of all of the participants.

Leigh Ann

Sanketi

Alice

Kelly

Jingle

Lorena

Lindsay

Sylvia

Deb ---- that's me

Jocelyn

AJ

Pamela

Angie

The Ink Squad is also celebrating Michele's birthday with a little blog hop of their own. Stop by and check out their creations. 

 Dana, Karen, Kelly, Laurie, Lynn, Michelle, Piali, and Virginia! 

Enjoy the hops!

And more splatter...

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, I said I would try my hand at splattering with acrylic paint and a brush. Since I had Friday off from work and was at home with my daughter, we tried out this technique together. We had a blast!!! I showed her how to hold the brush and tap it and she did a fabulous job! We used the same red paint for our splatter and I thought it was a perfect opportunity for her to make a Father's Day card. Since her favorite colors are pink and purple, what else can you expect, right? She cranked the Cuttlebug and I stitched down her hearts. She placed her star, which she die cut also and stamped her sentiment.

Here is Leah's card

I created my splatter card to play along again with Moxie Fab's  splatter challenge. The color scheme also plays along with this week's fabulous Play Date Cafe Challenge. It's been a while since I have particiapted in this challenge, too. I know that my Rose is a little more red, but I really like how it turned out.

My latest PTI goodies arrived on my doorstep yesterday. I loved greeting the UPS carrier at my doorstep in the rain. My eagerness to receive my package brightened his day. Love that! I was finally able to order the heart border die. ***swoon*** I just love adding the stitching detail to it. I was also able to order Soft Stone ink. Can I just say I am in love?! It is so subtle and pretty and happens to be a part of this challenge. I also dusted off my Creative Memories hexagon punch. They seem to be all the rage now. It's too bad I only have 2 sizes.

I had so much fun creating this card alongside my daughter. She is 4 1/2 years old, as she often tells people. I can't believe she will be turning 5 at the end of August. sigh. Thanks for looking!

A splash of pink

Yesterday, I had mentioned in my post that  I would probably recreate this card because it came together so quickly. So I decided to ink up some pink and orange for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge.

My other card could be given to a boy or a girl, but this one is obviously meant for a girl. I am a huge fan of bright pink, so this was a lot of fun. Thanks for looking!

Blackbird...

...singing in the dead of night. Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

This week over at CAS-ual Fridays, the challenge is to create a card inspired by a song title or lyric.

I was thrilled because my hubby is an accountant by day and a musician by night. He grew up listening to the Beatles and learned to play the guitar by listening to songs over and over and over again. I enlisted his help, but I must say that I came up with this one all by myself. Yep, you read it right. The first Beatles song that came to mind was Blackbird. I immediately thought of the bird image from PTI's Iconic Images. This song is pretty special to me since it was the first song that my hubby played for me on guitar when we were dating. Aw, so sweet, I know. It has such a sweet soft melody.

So I created my card using this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge: Black, white and a splash of brown.

My recent PTI order has lots of new ink and I am thrilled to be able to expand my colors. I used the new Kraft ink for my splash of brown. Can I say that I love this light brown?! I stamped it lightly with my Background Basics: Text Style I and I also stamped the bird image lightly in True Black ink. I gave my sentiment a little more of a smoosh since I wanted it more crisp. I had run my card through by cuttlebug with my Linen/Canvas IP first since I wanted the image and text to be somewhat faded.

And can you believe that this card is my first one layer card?! I know, I know. You just might see a few more of these from me. I am busy in my craftroom making that bubble dress and romper for my kiddos for Easter. I hope to show you those, well, before Easter ;) Thanks for looking!

thanks *again*

Happy St. Patrick's Day, friends! I hope you find that your weekend will be fun and relaxing. We will be enjoying the traditional corned beef and cabbage with my in-laws. I've got the crock pot loaded up with all of the trimmings and I am hope to get a little crafting done as well.

Teal...Electric Green...Tangerine...Jeans

Last night I made another simple thank you card for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge. I am a fan of theses colors, so I found my cardstock that matches best. I have come to realize that I need more thank you cards in my stash.  I made it based on this card. These colors also happen to be some of the colors in my son's nursery.  Yay for  a card that can be given to a boy or girl. Thanks for looking!

smile

Happy Friday to everyone! Before I start off this post, I just wanted to give a shout out to my friend Joyce, over at Cards-by-the-Sea. She was one of the VIPs for last week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge for this card. I am SO happy for her!!! Way to go, Joyce!

As I mentioned before, this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge includes my absolute favorite colors! So, of course, I had to create another card. And given the CAS gal that I am, I teamed it up with this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. 



To be honest, I am not too big on puns. I do not own any punny sentiments. So, once again, I enlisted the help of my hubby to me brainstorm. I told him that I have stamps that are flowers, hearts, butterflies, etc. He checks out one of his latest tweets and shows me a picture of this:

Can I ever take this guy seriously? So I tell him, "Clouds. How about clouds?" So we came up with this:



The pun was his idea. Thank you honey for your contribution! The only other bit of help I could enlist this morning was that of my 7 month old. Well, the only thing he could offer was a bit of spit up. Oh well. Thanks for being such a good baby this morning.

The later part of the sentiment was computer generated. The die cut circle represents the sun peeking through the clouds. I kept it white to keep with the PDCC colors, and I actually like it best as white. Thanks for looking!

For a dear friend

Today I have a card to share for a dear friend of mine. Although I have been under the weather since Tuesday, nothing compares to what she has endured. My friend, Gina, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. You can read more about her story here. She is currently in Texas participating in a clinical trial. I made her this card to send her way. These colors are some of my favorites. I am submitting it for 2 challenges: Play Date Cafe and Make-it-Mondays: glittered buttons. I love you, Gina! Keep on fighting, girl!!!!

Baby Blue...Orangesicle...Basil

 

Hello and Happy Birthday

Today I have a card to share for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge: create a card using ribbon.

When I saw the beautiful projects by the Girl Fridays, I was overwhelmed. WOW! They did a fabulous job using ribbon in so many ways. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with ribbon for my card. Last year, for Christmas, I made my sister a mini album capturing the first few days with her daughter in China and at home. I used a ribbon flower technique that I had seen on Laurie's blog here. Excuse the poor image since the actual flower is out of focus.

So, today's card uses the same technique. I am pretty sure that saddle stitch ribbon is my favorite since there is no wrong or right side. My card also uses the colors from this weeks' Play Date Cafe challenge: Color Splash.

I inked up my new Studio Calico Stamp that I won from this week's challenge. Love the font! Thanks for looking!

*edited*

In my **aha** moment when I uploaded my image to CAS-ual Fridays, I realized my entry is supposed to be a party card. So I went back to my craftroom to create a party card. Here is my new entry:

Butterfly thank-you

Happy weekend to everybody! Mine started a day early since I was fortunate to have yesterday off from work. I spent some time in my craft room making some Valentine goodies. I'll have those to share on the blog soon. To take a red and pink break, I whipped up a card last night for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge .

Plum...Pear...Moldy Cheese

I combined the color challenge with this week's CAS-ual Fridays sketch challenge by Laura.

I want to give a shout out to the Girl Fridays for selecting my card as the winner for last week's challenge. This was my very first win and I am still in shock. There were so many beautiful entries, I know it was a hard decision.

For this week's card I heat embossed the butterfly images with white embossing powder and popped them up with foam adhesive. The green butterfly was die cut from scrap paper that was already impressed with my Linen/canvas impression plate. I wanted to it be slightly different from the other butterfly beauties. I finished it off with my sentiment and  a little bling. Thanks for looking!

Play Date Cafe #115

I hope everybody's Monday wasn't too crazy. I managed to make this card rather quickly to submit for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge.  I tried my best to come close to the colors. I was inspired by Michelle's card.

Slate...Moss...Bark...Burlap
  

I do not have any slate ink or paper (sniff, sniff ). My smokey shadow paper was just too dark in my opinion. I used Ripe Avacado and Dark Chocolate for the Moss and Bark. I kept my card base in Rustic Cream and used my Antique Linen distress ink for the background. Thanks for looking!

A special thank-you...

...to my mother-in-law. My son, who turned 6 months old today, had his very first surgery. My mother-in-law came to our house in the wee hours of the morning to stay with our daughter and make sure that she got off to school okay. Joshua is recovering very well and I am thankful for the wonderful care that he received.

Today's card I made while my son napped in his crib. It will given to my mother-in-law for being so helpful to us today, as she always goes above and beyond. It plays along with this week's CAS-ual Fridays, create a project with scallops and this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge. If he continues to do well, I hope to have a few more cards to share this weekend.

Burgundy...Gold...Plum

2011 Year in Review

If you are looking for Pages with Papertrey, scroll down.

I've decided that I would join my blog friends for a Year in Review. The only problem is that I started blogging in September. So, I decided that I would share my 12 favorite creations from the last few months. These are in blog post order.

Hubby's birthday card

Make-it-Monday birthday

Make-it-Monday birthday

Valentine's Day

PTI September blog hop

 

PTI November blog hop

CAS-ual birthday

Make-it-Monday birthday

Make-it-Monday and CAS-ual birthday

ColourQ Christmas

Play Date Cafe and CAS-ual birthday

December PTI blog hop plus more

Join us for a Year in Review!