I need your help!

I'm here to tell you that I am a finalist in the cardmaking contest over at Practical Scrappers!!!  What this means is that I need your vote now to go to the next round!!  I would LOVE it if you could throw in your support of my card this week.  You can vote every day!  To vote you leave a comment in the comment section and that's it!  You can vote HERE.

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a vote for me!!!  I'm sending this over to Simon Says Stamp the "Anything Goes" challenge!

{Happy Birthday}

Stamps:  Hope Blooms (Verve)

Paper:  SS White (PTI), Fifth Avenue DP (Melissa Frances)

Ink:  True Black (PTI)

Misc:  Bloom Builder #3 Die (PTI), Branch with Leaves Die (Sizzix), Frame Die (MFT), Sweet Blush Button (PTI), Janome Sew Mini, Pearls

August Papertrey Blog Hop!!!

***For my Market Street Stamps new release post CLICK HERE***

I'm a bit late to the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop party but I made it!  I just couldn't pass up that GORGEOUS inspiration photo and a chance to use my new Bloom Builder #3 Die.  I sponged Victorian Velvet Distress Ink to the edges of my Damask pattern paper and roughed up the edges with my fingernail.  My TANL leaf die was distressed a bit by running it through my Big Shot with the Linen IP.

 

I'm sorry but I can't stop using my pattern paper from MME.  This time---Lost and Found Two: Blush.

Everything coordinates beautifully and really takes the guess work out of using pattern paper.  My card also uses another Viva la Verve sketch for August (week 2) .......I'm challenging myself to try them all this month!

I did change the orientation of this sketch from vertical to horizontal as it fit better for my card elements. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!~

{Thinking of you today and always}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Iconic Images

Paper:  Scarlet Jewel, Kraft, Lost and Found Two: Blush (MME)

Ink:  True Black, Victorian Velvet Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)

Misc:  Bloom Builder #3 Die, Turning a New Leaf Die, Small Scallop Border Die, Janome Sew Mini, Linen IP