Vintage Thanks...

Hiya!

I'm popping in quickly to share a litle vintage thank you card I made using this week's Viva la Verve sketch...

I've had an order of thank you cards and of course I don't have enough masculine ones, so I spent some time yesterday creating some. This one used some Vintage Kaisercraft papers and Verve stamps...

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Papertrey November Blog Hop Challenge

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I thought I would join in the fun at this month's Papertrey Ink blog hop with this gorgeous inspiration photo...

I loved the colours and the baubles so I used PTI's Star of Wonder, along with a couple of others, to create this...

I stamped the circular images onto cardstock with Versamark then embossed with glittery embossing powder and then punched out with a 1 3/4" circle punch. The background was embossed with an old embossing folder I've had for years and the sentiment is a mixture of one of the frame stamps from the Mat Stack 2 collection, together with a sentiment from Christmas Poinsettia. I finished the baubles off with some bakers twine and satin ribbon. This card looks much more shimmery and sparkly IRL - one day I would love to learn how to photograph my cards properly!!

Thanks for stopping by today...

x Amy x

Rustic Butterflies...

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It's time for another great ColourQ challenge and this week's colours are lovely and rustic...

I was looking through my paper and spotted a tag from Kaisercraft that featured these colours nicely so I used that as my focal point...

Of course, I had to add a couple of extra butterflies! They were cut from some matching dsp. I distressed the edges of the card layers and added a sentiment from Verve as well as some pearls to finish. I used the Viva la Verve sketch this week for my layout...

Make sure you check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the Royal Court this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Grateful for You...

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It's time for another fab ColourQ challenge and this week's colours are so pretty together...

I pulled out a set that I just {HAD} to have when it came out - Lovely Layers by Papertrey - but have barely used it since I got it (does anyone else do this??!). I had such fun creating the flower focal point for this card, I'm definitely gonna have to use this set more!

I pulled out a Project Life card for the layer behind the flower for the splash of orange, and stamped a border stamp from Verve in the background with white craft ink on Wisteria Wonder card. I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch this week for my layout...

Make sure you check out the lovely creations from the rest of the Royal Court this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Masculine thank you

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This week's colours at the ColourQ are lovely and autumnal...

There's lots you could do with these and I chose to go in a masculine direction with a thank you card (I always need more thank you cards and it's always the guys' ones I don't seem to have enough of!).

Once again, my starting point was my dsp stash - I found a few pieces of this old SU paper that was perfect for these colours, added a few leaves, some twine and a button and voila! The sketch comes from Viva la Verve this week (I do love their layouts!)...

Make sure you check out the fabulous inspiration from the Royal Court this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Cast Your Cares...

Hiya!

It's time for another great ColourQ challenge - check out this week's colours...

 The napkin in the photo reminded me of some old dsp I had in my stash, and when I pulled it out I was pleased with how close it was to this palette...

I found a little scrap of Raspberry Ripple card that a used with the butterflies die, and added some Kaisercraft pearls to the centre of each. The scripture stamp is from Verve, stamped on Naturals Ivory and cut with one of the MFT stitched circle stax dies. I added a piece of vellum behind the patterned paper as I was playing around with some scraps and quite liked the look of the vellum softening the combination of layers.

The layout is from Viva la Verve's sketch this week...

Make sure you check out all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the Design Team this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x