Cattail Designs: Petal burst Textured Impressions embossing folder

Thursday, October 6, 2016

PPA321, Love and Hugs

It's color challenge week at the PPA! Beautiful fall colors:

So, dig out those pretty fall sets, or whatever floats your boat and come join us. I couldn't tell you just what mine is, but someone is going to get plenty of love and hugs! We always know someone who could use those, don't we? While I love to make cards special just for the person, sometimes time doesn't allow so it's good to have a few things on hand. The challenges are very good for doing that.

I wasn't sure I liked this embossing folder, however I bought it and I've found it to be so usable. It's turned into one of my favorites. I'm sorry to have to say, but the Eggplant Ribbon is retired.

Please see the links below to see what I used on this card, if you would like to order or just check out the sets or anything else further, just click on one of them.

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Bundle

$59.25

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$23.00

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

$7.00

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

PPA318, Happy Anniversary.

This weeks PPA challenge is a sketch challenge. I need an anniversary card for friends of ours so hunted for some great stuff for it. I just bought the Seasonal Bells bundle that comes with the stamps and a punch for the bells, and that was perfect. The layering love sentiment set had 2 neat stamps to choose from for the main area of the card.

I embossed both the sentiment and bells in gold and used gold cord for my tie. It's a fairly simple card, but it does take a little time for the embossing, but what a difference it makes! I love pairing the gold and white with a dark color, it just makes it all pop.
I did use Night of Navy seam binding which is retired.

For such a simple looking card, I ended up using a lot of products, but I was searching for just the right things for a special anniversary card. I hope this gives you some inspiration, and thanks so much for stopping by.