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Saturday, October 7, 2017

Sometimes a birthday card becomes a book!

This week my nephew Jason celebrated his 21st birthday. Sensing this may be my last chance to be sure I've shared all the wisdom and encouragement I want him to always remember I decided to make him a little book. By design there are 21 pages. These are the times I'm grateful for my stash of stamps I've accumulated over the past 11 years!
From now until Feb there will be 3 more young birthdays ranging in age from 12 to 19, this book was so much fun to do I'm going to make one for the other 3 kids too!
My cover was inspired by this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch and was the perfect design. I left the chipboard "raw" for the casual guy look I wanted and choose the red stripe paper since red has always been Jason's favorite color.
Happy 21st Jason!
Hugs,
Aunt Patty

Monday, October 2, 2017

AHSC 232


I really love the sketch this week so I decided to follow it exactly. In my stamp stash I found a border stamp that matched perfectly. I used the shamrock on the Flower Market cartridge but only cut the pop up leaves. I cut them from the new 2 tone cardstock so I could layer them for the alternate dark / light effect. To finish it off I punch a circle from silver foil paper and stamped my sentiment.

I hope you will be inspired to join this week's AHSC, here is the sketch...


Monday, September 18, 2017

AHSC 230



This week I need a masculine birthday card. The woodgrain paper and the banner pieces from the sketch gave me just the look I wanted.
Here is this week's sketch...
I hope you'll be inspired to join us this week at AHSC

Monday, August 21, 2017

Hello - AHSC # 226



I love the new CTMH You Are Here Circuit cartridge because it appears to be designed for scrapbooking vacation travels but it has so many images that can be used in different ways. I also wanted to use this sticker for the sentiment on my card. So I opened up Design Space and started choosing images to cut. Here is how I laid them out on my screen...
The circle was a little larger than the sketch intended but I really didn't want my smallest flower to be much smaller. I've learned that the thin overlays are best adhered to the base image with a glue pen. The white space in the corners was a little too plain so I stamped some flourishes with Linen ink to finish my card.

Here is this weeks sketch. I hope you'll decide to create something and share on the Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge.


Hugs,

Patty

Monday, August 7, 2017

AHSC #224 Hello Darling


Hello Everyone, this is the card I made for this week's AHCS using one of my favorite old stamps. I've paired the stamp with the new Bashful cardstock and used the new Espresso ink to stamp.
I hope you'll be inspired to create something for this week's challenge.
Here's the sketch we are using...

Monday, July 10, 2017

AHSC # 220 Thanks so much

For this card I decided to use neutral papers and a sticker instead of a flower stamp, it's fun to use up that last sticker on the sheet! Sponging would have been a nice touch on the banner piece and the scalloped oval.

I hope you'll visit the AHSC blog and join this week's challenge.
Here is this week's sketch..


Monday, June 26, 2017

AHSC # 218 - Happy 4th of July!

My card doesn't follow this week's sketch perfectly but you can see it's inspired by the sketch. I'm actually not sure if Canada celebrates anything this time of year so to all my Canadian friends Happy Summer and to my American friends Happy 4th of July! Stay safe & have lots of fun!

Cardmaking tip: to attach trim easily use your tiny stapler like it did here.

Visit the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Blog by clicking here

I hope you'll decide to make something from this week's sketch...

Hugs to all,
Patty

Monday, May 29, 2017

AHSC # 214 - Congratulations to the Graduate!


This is my 2nd card as a Design Team member for AHSC. I am having so much fun doing this!
I've used Peacock and Glacier cardstock layers to dress up the wood grain paper for this card, it's always fun to use school colors. Please click here to visit the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Blog to see all what everyone else creates this week.
Hugs to all the graduates!

Here is the sketch...


Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Hello Lovely Tags


It's always good to have a few pretty tags on hand and the Hello Lovely collection offers lots of possibilities. Paper scraps, compliments stickers or maybe a stamped sentiment and some gold & white twine and you're done!

Friday, January 27, 2017

AHSC # 196 - sending Smiles


I'm packed for a crop tomorrow but had some scraps from my last card sitting on my table. I love this shell stamp set but it calls for something like coloring with markers or painting with watercolors and I haven't taken the time for that yet. But I wondered what happens if I stamp on a piece of printed paper? So I gave it a try and rather liked it. Now that my card is together I would make one change, I would switch places with  the Sea Glass colored cardstock and the printed paper. I wanted a weathered look so I sanded the Sea Glass and Cocoa cardstocks with the coarse grit sanding block. 

Hope you'll give this week's sketch a try...


Sunday, January 22, 2017

Thinking of you...

I've been wanting to create a card with the Swirly Seashells stamp set. My initial inspiration for the arrangement came from this week's AHSC sketch, but it turns out I really didn't follow the sketch at all!

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Inspire


In my January1st post below I showed you a leftover 9.5 inch chipboard circle from the Welcome Home Wreath Kit, well here is what I've created with it! I used both the gold and silver shimmer pens on the roses and leaves. The colors are Canary, Glacier, White Daisy, Sweet Leaf and New England Ivy.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

AHSC # 194 - Be Happy

For the past couple days I've been trying to decide on a design for a birthday card for my young nephew. I have 3 nephews who all love the color red so red has to be part of all their cards. This set of little stamps has been calling to me too so it was fun to put this all together. If you're looking for some inspiration for the sketch this week click here and take a look at what the AHSC Design Team has created! And I'd like to thank the Design Team for choosing my cards to be in the top 3 the past 2 weeks, I'm very honored.

Here is sketch # 194, it's time for you to create now!



Monday, January 2, 2017

AHSC #193 - Adore You


I love stamping with Desert Sand ink on White Daisy cardstock because it looks like gold. When I'm going to color an image I don't normally stamp the image with a dye based ink but I wanted the gold look for this image. The final gold highlights were using the gold shimmer pen for the tiny leaves and the centers of the flowers.
I hope my card inspires you to create something for this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Here is this week's sketch...