Birthday Celebration

Good Monday morning everyone!  
One of my dear friends is celebrating a birthday on Wednesday and I will be taking her to lunch tomorrow after a shopping visit to a yarn shop.  We are both knitters and she is a beach lover, so I made this card for her.  As inspiration, I used the CR84FN32 colours pic and this is what I came up with.
I started with an aqua card front (Coredinations) and this great colourful letter print paper (October Afternoon).  I rounded 2 of the corners and sponged the panel with SU crumbcake ink.  I used 2 new circular dies from MemoryBox that I bought from Ellen Hutson and layered together.  I then stamped a SU heart that has French printing and a floral image, cur out, sponged and coloured.  I have had these great cocktail picks with shells on them that I bought at Anthropologie last Summer and finally using one of them.  The Celebrate sentiment is from the SU set Fancy Phrases and I stamped it onto another MemoryBox "pastry labels" die that I also recently acquired from Ellen's store.  The little charm is removable for my friend to add to a bracelet or necklace and I tied a SU Pear Pizzazz seam binding length and tied into a simple bow.  I hope she will like the card and the yarn and I know we will both enjoy the Margarita that we will have with lunch in celebration of her birthday :)
Thanks for taking a peek,
Cheers ~ Chriss

Chicklet Easter Wishes

Good Monday morning and Happy Spring!  I have been playing with some more of my Easter images and made this card for a couple of challenges, CPS #107 and the Spring challenge going on at SCS.  I also used this tutorial from Tosh to create this flower.  I wanted to try it with paper and, although it's not as pretty and full as Tosh's, I still like the effect for this card.
I started by stamping this cute Lockhart chick stamp and coloured with Copics, edging the circle with a Copic also.  I used Tosh's loopy flower tutorial on a couple of strips of the October Afternoon paper and placed the stamped circle in the center of the flower.  The Label one Spellbinder die was used to anchor the flower and I added these Cosmo Cricket letters for the greeting.  I made the yellow center panel with a CB folder and then another panel underneath it with some punched MS edges.  The ivory ribbon finishes it off.
Thanks for taking a peek today,
Cheers ~ Chriss

CPS 166 Love2Sew

Happy Thursday everyone!

Today's card is for the Card Positioning System sketch #166. I wanted to use the "Stitched with Love" set that is versatile and wonderful to paper piece the Dresden Plate image with pretty patterned papers. I based the colour theme on this background paper that I recently purchased called Town Library from October Afternoon. I love the green/cream and aqua combo and pieced the petals from Papertrey Ink's Green Boutique, K and Co.'s "Black and Ivory" and Cosmo Cricket's "Girl Friday".

I also used the back side of the October Afternoon dp to punch the new MS Arches border and layered it onto a piece of PTI Aqua Mist card stock. I selected some PTI buttons from my decorated jars and decided at the last minute to use some black seed beads to put in some of the button holes and then to line the top of the button border. Here is a close-up. The pretty button in the center of the Dresden Plate is a cream Jenni Bowlin button that I threaded with embroidery floss that I used a Copic marker on to try to match the Aqua colour.
That's it for now,

thanks for stopping in today,

Chriss

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