Great Impressions DT - Etsy Summer Inspired Card

I can't believe how fast May has gone. With the kiddos out of school we've had a few lazy mornings and I'm hoping for a few more!

Yay for sunshine and summer break!

And for Etsy...I found a darling pendant that inspired today's card. Love the two-toned background, the pop of color and the gleam of metal.

Click on the picture to visit Glittering Dreams to find your own inspiration!

Lots of blending using Distress Ink: Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Broken China, and Peacock and a generous spritz (or two or four) of Perfect Pearls in Pearl.

Love making my own backgrounds - makes the most of the stamps I already have (and even sometimes that old paper I can't seem to get rid of...more on that later)!

You can do the same using these Great Impressions Stamps:

Rose Trio (stamped in Vintage Photo Distress Ink)

Butterfly Flourish (stamped in Peacock Distress Ink)

Butterfly Frame (stamped and cut out the butterfly)

A Flower (the sentiment)

The black satin crinkled ribbon was hard to photograph. IRL the texture is just right!

The sentiment panel edge is embossed in silver and touches of Fran-tage Mica fragments. Love the vintage shimmer...sigh.

Today's the last day to link up your project for Great Impressions Stamps May challenge - Anything Goes! Scroll to the bottom of the post to link up! Good luck!

Inky hugs,

Angi

WOYWW #24 (156) - 3rd Anniversary Edition!

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Julia Dunnit and her fabulous creation WOYWW!

Thanks to the lovely Julia, once a week you can visit her blog and have access to tons of creative spaces. There's lots of great inspiration for your space and even projects, new blogs you'll love...and when you get over 'no one wants to see my messy desk' syndrome, link up YOUR creative space, so we can visit you!

To help celebrate, she's hosting an ATC swap. Stop by her blog to see what I'm talking about or to sign up and make sure to leave her some comment love!

For those of you WOYWWers swapping more than one, I would love to swap with you, too! Email me with your snail mail address:

makingmayhem {at} gmail {dot} com

and I will get an ATC out to you!

So, I've been hanging out with the WOYWW crowd on and off since January 2011. Click HERE to see my first WOYWW post! Things were a little different...still messy (LOL), but I've done a little reorganizing since then...

Here's the desk, picture taken this morning:

Messy will always be a part of my creative mayhem...that's okay with me! A few things you may find...

...those pink buttons are from an old DKNY shirt

...Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions sprays

...Mentos (needed a temporary change from chocolate)

...bits & pieces of an ATC swap *wink*

...some new 'dollar' stamps from my LSS

Can't wait to make the rounds this week! I'll reveal my ATC next WOYWW...until then happy sightseeing!

Inky hugs,

Angi

Operation Write Home Memorial Day Bloghop

How do you observe Memorial Day? Do you honor those that gave the ultimate sacrifice for our nation?

In May 2000 a "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed that asks:

"...[on Memorial Day] at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps." (Memorial Day History)

This Memorial Day I not only wanted to honor the fallen, but the men & women and their families who are currently serving our great country. Operation Write Home is dedicated to "Helping heroes keep in touch with home."

(Please visit the OWH site to see how you can help!)

I know there is a lot of inspiration to be seen today, so I won't keep you much longer! I chose to use Sketch #62. (click the link to see more projects using sketch #62.) I love how it resembles a polaroid. Remember those 'instant' pictures?

I wanted to make a 'thank you' card using this adorable Great Impressions Stamp. We all have so much and so many to be thankful for, don't we?

God Bless America!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to leave a comment, so I can visit you, too.

Click the badge below to get back to the link list for the OWH Memorial Day Sketch Bloghop!

Inky red white & blue hugs!

Angi

Great Impressions DT - Canning Time

Less than a week left to link up your project for our May Challenge - Anything Goes! I'm sure you've made something fun this month...why don't you link up to our challenge for a chance to get a few of your own Great Impressions Stamps? 

A pinch, a tablespoon or maybe a cup...there are those days you know someone who could use a pick me up, a little reminder that you're thinking of them and wish them well even if you can't be there with them...

Cup of Cheer (D272), Canning Time (G316) and Lacey Border (H225) together with a bit of inspired splatter and lace, a die cut tag...

(I customize my splatter paint using white acrylic paint, a little water and Distress Stain, Shabby Shutters in this case, or reinker. )

Covered the jars with Diamond Glaze and paper pieced the labels after the glaze dried. I popped up the kraft tag and the bottoms of the jars.

Happy Thursday & Inky hugs!

Angi

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Spatter Technique Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
Spring Colors Challenge - Oozak
CAS-ual Fridays CFC53

Great Impressions DT - Beautiful You

Another fabulous week on the Great Impressions' blog, wouldn't you say? Did you miss the special post yesterday? Great Impressions sponsored the Midweek Throwdown - a Color Challenge - with Operation Write Home. Be sure to stop by OWH for the details and then link up a project for a chance to win a gift certificate...and then go and link up with our Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes! Easy, peasy, right?

This week I used a few gorgeous stamps - Scent of a Rose, Rose Trio and Beautiful Forever. I love being able to use my water-based markers with the Great Impressions' lovely sentiments; I'm able to use only the words I need to create the perfect sentiment for my project.

Want to see what I mean? Take a look at my card...

The original sentiment is wonderful just the way it is - great for an engagement or wedding card - but I wanted something a little different for this beautiful silhouette stamp.

I think I'm going to have to make a few more of these...I know more than one deserving woman! Take some time to stop by the Great Impressions Stamps blog for more inspiration...

Happy Thursday!

Inky hugs,

Angi

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Lily Pad Cards - Vera's View Challenge
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 217 - A Touch of Sparkle
By the Cute and Girly - May - Spring is in the Air