2nd Card for the Fourth

I saw the bike from Pedal Pusher with fourth of July flags and stars in the basket and loved it...I do believe it was a "Betsy" card...anyway, I thought I would give my next card a try with that:
Card # 2

 I die cut the bike off the page, then stamped it.  I hand cut the flag and star from an image in Vintage Picnic.  I selectively stamped the back three stringy's with stars (they are suppose to have cans for a wedding).  I was thinking...a lot of towns have a parade and the families decorate wagons, bikes, really anything...so here is my Fourth of July bike.  These cards are already on their way to my aunts to wish them a Happy Fourth and to let them know tha

All products are Papertrey,Ink
stamps:  Pedal Pusher, vintage Picnic, By the Numbers, Super Stars
           
  Go HERE to access the retro sketches challenge.

Fourth of July cards

That time of the month to send off three cards to my aunts who all live in the Seattle area.  I looked at the Retro Sketches and decided to give it a try...so this is what I came up with:

Card # 1:

                
Really simple card...I die cut the 4 from white card stock, put the blue paper from Bazzill Basic Paper pack behind the number, then I used pure poppy for the base, but stamped a lot of stars all over it with versamark!  the sentiment is from Vintage Picnic.  so simple, so easy!
go HERE to access the retro sketches challenge this week!

Festive Friday Challenge # 8 "Sweet" & Retro Sketches

I am playing along with the sketch from Retro Sketches # 63, which you can access HERE and also the Festive Friday Challenge which can be accessed HERE.  The trigger word for Festive Friday is "sweet"...so I pulled out this sweet little gingerbread (yummy!) and stamped him on kraft paper...I added the sweet little candy and put some rock candy stickles on the ends of the 'wrapper'...do you see the bit of smear?  Yes before it was dry and I was taking the picture, it fell face forward...darn...I am always too impatient to wait!


paper:  PTI pure poppy, PTI sugar plum pattern paper, kraft, white
ink:  pure poppy, dark chocolate, royal velvet
stamps:  Tremendous Treats:  Christmas, Sweet Baby, Wonderful Words:  Birthday, Background Basics: Christmas, MFT Right this Way
copics 

Retro Sketches # 62

You can go HERE to access the Retro Sketches blog for this sketch:

I was asked to bring some sympathy type cards to bible study for some friends, so I am making a few of them...thought I would use this sketch to make one.

Papertrey white paper
twinery orange twine
MFT Pretty Poppies stamp, sentiment from Beautiful Blessings PTI
black glossy accents 

Combining Retro Sketches with the theme Birds...

Today I am going to use the Sketch # 61 from Retro Sketches and the Element Challenge from Festive Friday which is to include a "bird" in our projects.

This sketch allows for a really CAS card, which I am really enjoying making...keeping things clean and simple! 
This is what I used:  all products Papertrey!
stamps:  Peace be Still
ink:  autumn rose, ripe avocado
paper:  white, autumn rose
twine and button from PTI
IP:  linen
dimensionals:  Dots from here look at her sidebar to go to her etsy and purchase a bag of 1,000!!

Retro Sketches # 60

Back again with a card for the Retro Sketches...I have a grandson who will be 4 on May day!  This card is for him.

How lucky that the cake from Tremendous Treats:  birthday has 4 candles on it!  I added some rock candy stickles to the icing to add some dimension and yumminess to the cake...looks good enough to eat in real life...well, not really, nothing is better than the REAL THING!  Do you want to play along?  Go HERE to get inspired by Deanna Dean from Kloset Kreations who gave us this great sketch...

Products of Papertrey Ink except where noted
Paper: PTI white, blueberry sky and pattern paper
dies:  nestabilities circles, By the Numbers
stamps:  Think Big Favorites # 12, Tremendous Treats: birthday
copics for coloring cake, twine from the Twinery

Retro Sketches and ColourQ Challenges

We have a great sketch from a fellow Oregonian...none other than Deanna Dean at Kloset Kreations!  Love her style and love her Dimensional Dots...go check them out on her sidebar!  Here is the sketch for the Retro Sketches:
And you can access the challenge HERE  at the Retro Sketches:  a challenge blog...isn't that a fun scketch?  I decided to combine the ColourQ challenge using this sketch.  these are the colors for this challenge:
Go HERE to access the ColourQ challenge and see what all the DT made for their cards.  This is what I came up with:

All products Papertrey except the twine
paper:  white, hawaiian shores pp, berry sorbet pp
stamps:  Tremendous Treats:  birthday, make a wish
ink:  memento grape jelly
copics:  red, mint green, violet
twine:  Twinery purple
 

Retro Sketches # 23

 The card is Aqua Mist, I stamped the center strip with the PTI Medallions in Hawaiian shores and simply chartreuse.  Hawaiian shores paper is used as a border for the medallion.  I took four squares from the Take Three die and stamped it first with the bitty dot stamp from Background Blocks in soft stone ink, then I stamped some of the small butterflies from Beautiful Butterflies.  The "hello" is from Heart 2 Heart # 4.

I took this sketch from HERE at Retro Sketches if you want to play along!