Hi Sweetie!

Edited to add:  In re-reading my post this morning 7-10-13, I discovered that a paragraph regarding PTI's Make it Monday challenge was missing for some reason.  I am adding it back in.
Hello Friends,
My little one has been down with a horrible flu or possibly sick from something he ate for the past 48 hours.  He is finally feeling a bit better tonight and I whipped up this little card and envelope for a couple of challenges while trying to tackle the mountain of towels and sheets in my laundry room that have accumulated the last two days.

I needed something bright and cheerful and easy and decided to play along with The Shabby Tea Room's Week #174 - Cherry Pie challenge. Here is the inspiration photo:

 

 This week Tracey is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Cherry Pie' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that we who choose to play along create a card or project inspired by the photo using RED, WHITE (or CREAM), AQUA AND TWINE and/or BURLAP!

 I used some hemp twine to sew the cherry stems on my focal point.  And I made the cherries out of coaster board from PTI with a layer of red gingham die cuts so they would stand up more.  The stamps are Fruit Fusion: Cherries by Melissa Bickford for Papertrey Ink.  I just love this sweet little set and was so happy to have the Tea Room inspiration to cause me to pull them out!

I chose to stamp my sentiment on a piece of velvet ribbon from Michael's.  The ribbon is photographing darker than in real life for some reason. It actually matches the aqua gingham paper quite nicely in reality.  I tried adjusting the photo and re-taking it but could not get it to show differently.  Perhaps the brown ink of the sentiment is making it show differently.


I am also linking up to Nichole Heady's blog Capture the Moment for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #124.  This week Melissa Phillips posted a lovely video about decorating our envelopes.  I decided to try it with this card using some dry embossing and some leftover die cuts created while making my card design: 

 I also created a little gift label for the person I am giving this card to.

Thanks for taking a look at my card and envelope.
Hugs,
Jill

Supplies:
Stamps:  PTI: Fruit Fusion: Cherries with matching die
Cardstock:  PTI - white
Paper:  Digital gingham pastels - pink and aqua; Digital gingham brights - red.  Digital Floral paper
Ink: Memento Lady Bug, PTI Hawaiian Shores, Chalk ink - brown
Other:  Lil Inker stitched circle dies; coaster board - PTI; small doily dies; oval die: PTI; edge punch - EK success?; embossing folder: Anna Griffin; pop dots; tombow glue; hemp twine - Michael's. trendy twine; and pin.

Hello Everyone,
It’s Wednesday and time for the Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch Challenge at MFT! Here is the sketch for this week:

I hope you have time to play along.  There is a wonderful prize up for grabs - a $15 voucher ($20 if you used MFT stamps) to the MFT Boutique. You can submit your entry using the keyword MFTWSC109 to the Gallery at Splitcoaststampers. Entries for this week’s challenge will close on Tuesday, February 5th at noon EST.  I hope you join in all the fun!

Without further ado here is my card:

 This picture was taken outdoors in the rain!  I stayed under the back porch overhang so it is not the best angle or view....sorry!

This one was taken indoors in my light tent. Isn't light fascinating when it comes to photography?!?  I could play all day if I had more time...LOL!!!  I am definitely still trying to get the hang of how to take the best photo for my blog!  It is a challenge!

I used one of my very favorite stamp sets for this card - "Clearly Sentimental About Teaching".  I have a big soft spot for all the teachers who work with my son each day.  They have a very important job and I think they are underpaid for it!!!  So I like to try and give them a little something extra on Holidays and special occasions.  This card is going to my son's homeroom teacher for Valentine's Day.  I had made another card for her but it was given to one of my friend's daughter's who is in kindergarten.  She asked to come downstairs to see my studio the other day and her eyes lit up like the 4th of July (she is 5 years old).  I ended up sending her home with a mini scrapbook album all ready for pictures, some embellishments, and a valentine card for her Kindergarten teacher.  She wants to come and spend the day with me and craft which tickles my heart!   

Here's a little close up of the sentiment panel.  Love that I found that sweet heart-shaped button in my blue button jar!  The papers are from one of my favorite paper collections of all time from The Girl's Paperie!  Love them!  Wish I could buy more or get it digitally and print it out whenever I wanted to use it!  I did alter the paper a little bit by filling in those pink lines you see next to the blue with a copic marker RV11 - pink.  I thought it needed a little more substance to compete with the red polka dots on this card.

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I hope you join in this week's challenge!  It is also teaser time for the February 2013 release!  I am loving what I am seeing as I do each month.  See - I really, really, really DO need that $20.00 voucher so I can grab some new yummy crafting supplies at MFT!  LOL!!! 

:)  Jill

A little vintage mitten card sending warm wishes....

Ahhhh Monday Night Football...the men get together to watch sports and my son and I spend time crafting.  He was making snowflakes while I made this vintage-looking Christmas Card!  

I saw a challenge posted on http://cardiologycardsfromtheheart.blogspot.com/  for the ABC DT Challenge that requests that you use stitching on your card so I thought I would try it.  I spent a few minutes stitching the pair of mittens with some floss and then made this lovely card full of warm wishes.  It is my very first time trying a "card challenge" online and I am not sure if I did my entry correctly but I tried....Anyway it is time for me to run and put my boy to bed as it is a school night so here are some pictures....happy crafting!  : ) Jill