Island Lattice: PPA {59}

Oh how I love this paper...so much so that I have hoarded saved it for the perfect opportunity and the fabulous design team at Pals Paper Arts provided just the right one with this week's color challenge. With this paper in hand, this was literally a 10 minute card!  Love the colors: Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron and Old Olive and don't you just love these stylish ladies decked out in their SU frocks?!

Anyway...the Island Oasis designer paper includes all three challenge colors so it was the perfect choice for my clean-and-simple card.  I love how SU repeats design elements and shapes in paper, stamps and accessories and this paper is no exception.  The tropical floral pattern of the paper mimics the pattern made by the Lattice die I featured in yesterday's post...can you you see it?  So for my card, I thought it would be fun to make a flower from pieces of the lattice die.  I ran the die through my Big Shot on Tempting Turquoise cardstock and then cut away two of the flower pieces.  I layered the pieces on a 2.5" circle of Old Olive with a stampin' dimensional (cut in half) between each one. 
The center is topped off with a 3/4" circle of So Saffron and one of the sparkly new Glimmer Brads in Olive Olive.  I wrapped some (retired) So Saffron striped grosgrain ribbon around the main panel and stamped a Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment in Old Olive to complete the look.  Cute, eh?!  I really like this one...clean, simple and cheerful.  I hope it brightens your day...cheers!

supplies:

stamps: teeny tiny wishes

ink: old olive

paper: so saffron, tempting turquoise, old olive & whisper white CS; island oasis DSP

xtras: lattice die; 2.5" & 3/4" circle punches; glimmer brads (brights); So Saffron striped grosgrain ribbon

Springtime Flower Folds: PPA32

I think it's almost spring here in North Florida! And what a perfect time to enter this happy little flower pin in this week's spring-themed challenge over at the PPA. Just in time for our spring break this week which finds me crafting all day with my visiting mom! So much fun. We had a great time today playing with the, SU exclusive, Flower Folds die and this video from the Stamp Shack Lady on using the Big Shot with fabric. Oh.My.God, this could be addictive! We followed Christine's directions on assembling the flower folds but we used only the two smallest shapes from the die on our flower pins. Just the right size to adorn your shoulder nicely--or that of my six-year-old daughter as is the case here:
We cut the flower shapes from the two smallest flowers on the die and layered them with a piece of green mesh netting between each layer using the SNAIL adhesive, instead of a hot glue gun, to secure each flower. This was enough adhesion to keep it in place while working. When connecting all the flower pieces, it's possible to leave a little hole in the middle which was the perfect spot to slide in a rhinestone brad (circle, fire) on top of a fabric daisy (from my embellishments stash) to give it just the finishing spring touch. What a great celebration of spring--on a shirt, hat, bag, scarf--the possibiliteis are endless! Thanks for looking...I'm off to go raid my fabric stash (almost as bad as my paper addiction) and make more flowers!

supplies:
SU flower folds die; circle rhinestone brad; fabric; bar tack pin; felt

I love to play @ PPA!

I'm so exited to participate in the first Pals Paper Arts challenge! I've been a long-time reader of Mary Fish's blog (who hasn't?!) and am looking forward to great things from the design team of her downlines. This card meets the PPA Challenge #1, PPA1, using a slight variation on layout #52 (FTL52) from the Clean and Simple blog (another favorite). Here I started with a sahara sand base cut to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" folded at the top. The thoroughly modern dsp provides a beautiful panel of bermuda bay pattern set off by soft suede scalloped edges. Since I didn't have any of the rose red ink that coordinates with the thoroughly modern dsp, I substituted the "in color" melon mambo on the biggest flower from the "petal pizzazz" set. I cut it out and added a little oomph with a flower burst embosslit, an SU exclusive, that had been brayered with melon mambo before running through my cuttlebug. To tie the flower in with the other two colors, I punched out a 3/4" circle of bermuda bay and topped it off with a 1/2" circle of the soft suede pattern from thoroughly modern dsp then popped it up on stampin' dimensionals. The sentiment from "upsy daisy" was inked up with my melon mambo and bermuda bay stampin' write markers and stamped on whisper white cs. Don't you just love having the in color markers?! Lastly, it's punched out with the new modern label punch and tucked it under the flower. What do you think?
edited to add: Oops! I just realized that I used soft suede instead of the challenge color--chocolate chip! I think I intended to use one of the thoroughly modern patterns that included soft suede so there was, apparently, no getting me off the soft suede train. Sorry about that!

Supplies:
stamps: petal pizzazz, upsy daisy
ink: melon mambo
paper: sahara sand cs, soft suede cs, whisper white cs, thoroughly modern dsp
extras: stampin write markers (melon mambo and bermuda bay), scalloped edge punch, modern label punch, 3/4 " and 1/2" circle punches, flower burst embosslit, brayer, stampin' dimensionals.