Say CHEEEEEESE!

Ahhhhh... a little time just to do whatever... that's kind of nice!  I pulled out one of my favorite Avery Elle stamp sets called Picture It along with a instant polaroid dies from My Favorite Things and whipped up this 5 minute {well maybe 10 minute} card.  

The pattern paper, Dots & Washi Tape are from Doodlebug Designs and the ink is Memento Luxe.

love always with avery elle...

Since I'm still housebound because of the bad weather, I thought I'd break out some of my Avery Elle sets and dies to make a cute little valentine card.  I love how it turned out!

Supplies:
Stamps ~ Avery Elle (Fill in the Blank)
Dies ~ Avery Elle (Icon Fill in the Blank Elle-ments & Simply Tags)
Pattern Paper ~ Doodlebug Designs (Sweetheart Collection)
Ink ~ Memento Luxe (Love Letter, Rose Bud)
Embossing Folder (for the heart) ~ Embossalicious Petite Dots

Oh Snap!

A fun belated birthday card using some of my favorite Avery Elle Stamps!
Picture It & Fill In the Blank Stamp Set.

Pattern Paper ~ Pebbles Inc
Ink ~ Memento

Avery Elle Monthly Challenge

Welcome to Wednesday!  Today I have a pretty little card to share that I made using some of my favorite stamps from Avery Elle to play along in their Monthly Challenge.  The flowers are from the Petals and Stems set and they are cut out using the Petals & Stems Elle-ments matching dies.  The sentiment is from the Papel Picado Banners set.

The challenge this month is a photo inspiration challenge & I drew my inspiration from the colors of the photo.

love you best...

New stamps and dies from Avery Elle Stamps arrived in my mailbox this week & they just HAD to find ink ~ this company is one of my stamping weaknesses!  I was in a hurry when I made this card, so I'm not super in love with it...but it's growing on me.  LOL!

Gotta run...lots of deadlines today!  Thanks for buzzing by...

Supplies:
Stamps & Dies ~ Avery Elle (Aim High Stamps & Ella-ments Dies); Oh Yeah Stamp set.
Cardstock ~ Bazzill
Ink ~ Memento
Pattern Paper ~ My Minds Eye
Embossing Folder ~ Lifestyle Crafts
Twine ~ The Twinery

Color Throwdown with some Avery Elle!

Today it's Color Throwdown Day and I'm happy and sad ... all at the same time.  WHY?  Well because I love my card and I've had such fun playing along this month, but today is the last Wednesday of August and I'm all done with my guest spot.

Anyway... my card today uses some gorgeous stamps and matching dies from Avery Elle called Petals & Stems.  This set is one of my favorites!  Oh....and for the sentiment I used the Papel Picado Banners set ~ isn't it fabulous!!!!  The pattern paper is from My Mind's Eye (Happier) and the inks are from Clear Snap & Memento Luxe.

Here is the fun color palette for this week!

Thanks so much to The Color Throwdown team for having me as a guest this month!
It's been a blast!

Along with the Color Throwdown, I also played along on the Avery Elle monthly challenge.
This month they are doing a sketch!

Now you can hop around and see what the Color Throwdown team came up with...

Barbara AndersBroni Holcombe 
Joan Ervin 
Lori Tecler 
Lynn Put
Melody Rupple 
Tammy Hershberger 
Vickie Zimmer  
Wanda Cullen 
Kendra Wietstock – August Guest Designer (that's me!)

A little fun with my Avery Elle sets...

Super quick congrats card to share with you today because OH MY WORD ~ I am running around like a crazy girl today.  

For my card I used the stamp set and matching dies from Avery Elle called Oh Yeah Clear Stamps & Dies.  Super fun set!  The papers are from Simple Stories (24/7 Collection).

Avery Elle's June Challenge

With the month drawing to a close, I wanted to play along on the Avery Elle Challenge while I still could.  I ordered some fun new stamps and dies from them at the beginning of June, but found time to cracked them open just a few days ago.

The challenge this month is a sketch by designer Nina Yang {see below}.  The set and matching dies I used for my card are the Oh Yeah Clear Stamps & Dies. I love how the card turned out...so simple but super fun!

I took this photo because the sketch calls for circles {or other shapes} in the background.  Unfortunately, my photo above doesn't really capture the embossed circles, but they are fabulous in real life and this photo shows them a bit better.

Here's the sketch...

... and here is a view of the fun word bubbles all popped up.

Just a few more days to play along on this challenge ~ so get busy.

Supplies:
Stamps ~ Avery Elle (Oh Yeah Clear Stamps)
Word Bubble Dies ~ Avery Elle (Oh Yeah Ella-ments)
Cardstock ~ Bazzill
Pattern Paper ~ Pebbles Inc (Seen & Noted)
Ink ~ Memento (Tuxedo Black)
Twine ~ The Twinery
Misc Button

Gift Bags for All Occasions

With June here now, we have lots and lots of special occasions coming up this month & now I have some gift bags all ready for any special event!  I found these fun bags at Hobby Lobby and then used this great Avery Elle Stamp set called Framed Fonts.  The pigment ink is from Clear Snap & I heat embossed each sentiment in the ink color to match the bag.

Have a great weekend!

Bright Birthday Greetings!

Today's bright and happy birthday card is brought to you by my new Avery Elle Stamps ~ Framed Fonts & All Squared Up.  Super fun huh?   I used my Color Snap Cat Eye Queue ~ Jelly Bean stack of pigment inks & then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I love how bright the card is!

Let's Go For A Ride...

Just popping in for a quick post today to share my newest card using my Avery Elle Stamps.  This set is called Roll With It and the sentiment is from All Squared Up.

Have a great Sunday!

Avery Elle Monthly Challenge

OMW!  I love the new sets by Avery Elle Stamps & this one is called Petals & Stems.   My new sets arrived in the mail a week or so ago & I finally had a chance to ink them up this weekend.  So fun & TOTALLY MY STYLE!  Then I looked on the Avery Elle Blog and they have a photo inspiration challenge going on, so I decided to play along.    

Here's how I made my card... For the weathered look background, I used a paintbrush and white acrylic paint and just lightly brushed the paint.  Since it is acrylic paint, it drys pretty fast, but I just set it aside while I stamped and embossed the flower and stems with pigment ink.  After I trimmed them out, I attached the stems to the card and popped up the flower with foam dots.  The sentiment is from the the All Squared Up set & I heat embossed that in the same dark blue that I used on the flower center.

Supplies:
Stamps: Avery Elle Stamps ~ Petals & Stems; All Squared Up
Cardstock ~ Bazzill
Ink ~ VersaMagic (Tea Leaves, Night Sky), Versa Color (Atlantic)
White Acrylic Paint 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'm not really a St. Patrick's Day person, and I wasn't planning on posting a card today.  However, I started making this card with my new Avery Elle Stamps and it was green and had a "good luck" sentiments, so... here ya go!

I used the All Squared Up stamp set in two shades of green pigment ink and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  The clover is made from the tiny heart stamp in the  Framed Fonts set.  I just stamped it 3 times and drew in the stem.

Have a great weekend & tune in tomorrow for one of my favorite cards that I've made this week ~ LOL!

Avery Elle Challenge...

Happy Monday! 

This weekend I was playing with some new stamps and digi images from Avery Elle Stamps ~ one of my favorite new finds on the web!  Over on the Avery Elle Blog, there is a new photo inspiration challenge and I couldn't wait to play along.  So I printed off their new free digi image and pulled out my Picture It clear stamp set & made a few cards... here's what I came up with!

And here's a card with their new free digi image...

Play along and add our projects to their blog!  

CAS-ual Fridays Song Challenge

Say CHEESE!!!

{click}and {print}

Don't you just LOVE these cute images from Avery Elle's stamp set called Picture It?   I was looking through my supplies for something to use on this week's CAS-ual Friday challenge (CFC89) & this new set arrived in my mailbox!!!  The challenge is to make a CAS card inspired by a love song!  The song I picked is Freeze Frame by the J Giles Band ~ is that a love song?  Maybe ~ LOL!  

Regardless if the song really fits, I love the card & I know that more Avery Elle sets will be finding their way to my house!

Go play along on the challenge ~ they are super fun!