Retro Sketches #34 - a study in speed stamping

Hello!

What do you do when you have 30 minutes between gymnastics pick up and ballet drop off? Make a card, of course! Well, no sane person would try to do this, take the photo, and then blog it... but I do try to push the boundaries of time-management on a regular basis!

Here is my card for Retro Sketches #34

The deadline is fast approaching and I didn't want to miss out this week like I did last week. :-)

This was the sketch:

Pretty, isn't it?

I used PTI Rosie Posie, Turning a New Leaf, and Pretty Peonies. Colours are Vintage Cream card base, Berry Sorbet, SU! Pure Poppy, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, and Early Espresso.

Thanks for dropping by!

Michelle
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Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop - Part 2

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The second card I made for the Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop is this one.

I used PTI Happiest of Holidays and Snowflake Serenade stamps. Colours are SU! Certainly Celery, Pool Party, Bashful Blue, and Gable Green. Die is PTI Mat Stack #1.

Inspiration came from:

I feel that I went a bit bluer than the inspiration picture, but I still love the outcome!

Thanks for dropping by. I'm off to sleep and I'll link these in the morning when the hop will be well and truly underway!

Michelle

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Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop - Part 1

Hello!

It's Blog Hop time over at Papertrey Ink! I have made two cards using two different colour combinations. The first is this one.

I used PTI Christmas Friends and Think Big Favorites #20. Colours are PTI Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, Fresh Snow, SU! Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Memento London Fog.

Inspiration came from:

I probably wouldn't have used this colour combination for Christmas cards if left to my own devices, but I quite like the feel of this pastel card. :-)

Michelle
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Dynamic Duos #25

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Tomorrow is my hubby's birthday! Fortuitously, the Dynamic Duos colours this week are orange and black, two of his favourite colours!

This is the card. I must start concentrating on the angle of my cards in the photos!

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles for the background stamping. Colours are SU! Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, and Whisper White. The vellum is PTI. The die cuts are PTI Mat Stack and Mat Stack Layers (Mmmmm, #1 I think).

Here is the colour inspiration, the dessert option being die-cuts.

Thanks for popping by!

Michelle
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Hello!

Hello,

Third card for today. This will probably be it... I do have to make some dinner at some stage. :-)

Made in response to CASE Study #113 where Julia Stainton is the muse with this lovely card:

and CR84FN #65 with one of my favourite colour combinations:

I used PTI Heart-2-Heart #4 and #7. Colours are SU! Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, and Soft Suede (sentiment), and PTI Fresh Linen, and Fresh Snow.

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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Tuesday Trigger: Val de Victorian

Hello!

It feels like ages since I've entered a Tuesday Trigger. The current challenge inspired me very directly.  This is my card.

and this is the inspiration

I really wanted to add that angled sidewalk in, too, but couldn't work out a solution for that one! Such a cute picture. As soon as I saw it, I was thinking housewarming cards. I wanted to use the same colour combination, because I found it unexpectedly appealing (I NEVER in a million years would have put these colours together myself). I didn't have the inspiration picture in front of me while I made the card, I looked at it first, took a note of the colours, and then went to work on my own version.

I used one of my favourite little stamp sets, which doesn't get enough love. It is Stampin' Up! Good Neighbors. The sentiment is from PTI Think Big Favorites #19 (I think). Colours are SU! Perfect Plum, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Crumb Cake.

My husband looked at my card and asked me how many stamps I used to make it... he's usually fairly unimpressed with my "flat" cards (one-layer, or close to one-layer), but I got the idea that he realised there was a bit of work putting this one together. I used 9 separate stamps (with 13 different opportunities to make a mistake), and my trusty stamp-a-ma-jig. 

Thanks for dropping by. That was a lot of words to get through!

Michelle

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Runway Inspired CAS-ual Christmas!

Hello!

I have been playing with my stamping this afternoon. I really should have been in the swimming pool, it's rather HOT! But I wanted to kick-start my mojo, and a good stamping session was required for that.

First I have created a card for Runway Inspired Challenge #22 and CAS-ual Fridays #75.

It's a tricky card to see in a photograph. The white bauble is glittered up around the edges and it is hanging "over the edge".

Inspiration came from:

and

I used Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsakes, PTI Snowflake Serenade and Happiest of Holidays. Colours are PTI Fresh Linen, SU! Real Red, and Whisper White.

Thanks for dropping by.

Michelle
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