thinking of you 26

 Hi there! I hope you are having a great week! Today I have a card to share featuring pretty patterned papers from the Pion Design Shoreline Treasures collection:

 I made this rather clean and simple card for my dear DIL because here sweet little bird of 18 years passed away. 

For color inspiration, I joined along with the current colour me...! challenge:

and for sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)









Pion Design
Shoreline Treasures ~ Warm breeze ~ PD4607back
Shoreline Treasures ~ Bottom of the sea ~ PD4603front
Shoreline Treasures II ~ Memory Notes ~ PD4808

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Happy spring 32

Hi there! It's that time of year again when many of us have spring fever? I know I have been bitten by the bug ~ have you? The Major League Baseball has kicked off spring training baseball games here in Phoenix, both Angie and Meredith will be on spring break next week, the temperatures are in the 80's, the sky is blue, so many plants and trees are blossoming and allergy season is in full swing! Once can't help but have spring fever even here in the desert! With spring in mind, I pulled out one of my all time PTI stamp sets and made a couple of cards along with a combination of pretty patterned papers from a couple of Pion Design collections including: Vintage Wedding, My Beloved Son and Paris Flea Market:

One of the many things I love about Pion Design papers is their versatility and how easily they can be mixed and matched.

I even dusted off my stash of Copic markers!

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the retrosketches sketch challenge:

I was also inspired by the card Concept challenge to create a Clean and Layered style card: 

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)









Pion Design products used:
Vintage Wedding ~ Borders ~ PD5910B
My Beloved Son ~ My son ~ PD5501B
Paris Flea Market ~ Pink fabric ~ PD5704B
Paris Flea Market ~ Pink lace ~ PD5707F
Paris Flea Market ~ Borders ~ PD5710B

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Absolutely Fabulous 37

Hi there! I hope you are having a great week so far! Today I have a layout to share featuring a photo of my dear sister Tina that was taken more than 50 years ago along with beautiful papers from the newly released Pion Design Vintage Wedding collection.

The Vintage Wedding collection is quite versatile and may be easily used for any occasion type of project. 

Tina's not only my sister but she's my best girlfriend :) There's nothing the two of us can't conquer together! 

To create the background, I collaged a variety of Vintage Wedding papers then added colour using various inks including the pretty ColourArte Radiant Rain Sea Foam:

Once the background was complete, I embellished with die cut foliage, flowers from my stash, a stamped clock face and a duo of die cut hearts that were colorized using the pretty ColourArte Radiant Rain Sea Foam:

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Sketchabilities sketch challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great week!
Be Sweet ;)








Pion Design products used:
Vintage Wedding ~ Photo Frame ~ PD5901B
Vintage Wedding ~ Rose ~ PD5903B
Vintage Wedding ~ Wedding dress ~ PD5907B
Vintage Wedding ~ Borders ~ PD5910B
Vintage Wedding ~ Images ~ PD5911B
Vintage Wedding ~ Tags ~ PD5912B

Other products used: ColourArte Radiant Rain Sea Foam

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love 31

Hi there! I hope you are having a great week! Today I have a couple of projects to share featuring beautiful Pion Design papers from the newly released Vintage Wedding collection. 

The Vintage Wedding collection is very versatile and may easily be used to create any occasion projects. Since I have many photos of our wedding day on hand, I scrapped one of those :)

I embellished with a die cut doily and butterfly which were made using pretty patterned coordinating papers from the Vintage Wedding collection:

The foliage was also die cut using coordinating Vintage Wedding papers along with flowers from my stash:

I also made a card for my dear sister's friend who's husband has become suddenly ill.

For layout sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Let's Get Sketchy sketch challenge:

For card sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current retro sketches sketch challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)







Pion Design products used:
Vintage Wedding ~ Rose ~ PD5903F
Vintage Wedding ~ Rose ~ PD5903B
Vintage Wedding ~ White flowers ~ PD5906F
Vintage Wedding ~ White flowers ~ PD5906B
Vintage Wedding ~ Wedding dress ~ PD5907B
Vintage Wedding ~ Wedding dress ~ PD5907F
Vintage Wedding ~ Tags ~ PD5912B

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Birthday wishes 25

Happy March! So did March come in like a lion where you live? Thankfully not here ~ we are enjoying 70 degree temps with partially blue sky. Makes for perfect hiking weather :) Today I have a couple of cards to share featuring beautiful beautiful patterned papers from the Pion Design Paris Flea Market collections. The first one up is a birthday card for my dear sister Tina:

 I embellished both cards with a trio of homemade die cut rolled roses, foliage, a stamped clock and sentiment:

 For a touch of shimmer, each rose was dusted with a sprinkling of glitter:

I cleaned the clock stamp but there was still stubborn black ink that remained on the stamp. When I stamped the image in the tan ink pad, the inks mixed. I kinda like the final result. Something different.

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current cardabilities sketch challenge:

Many thanks for visiting ~ I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Be Sweet ;)








Pion Design products used:
Paris Flea Market 6x6 ~ Forget me not PD5803
Paris Flea Market 6x6 ~ Rose du Jardin PD5804
Paris Flea Market 6x6 ~ Pink fabric PD5805
Paris Flea Market 6x6 ~ Blue fabric PD5806
Paris Flea Market ~ Forget me not PD5706F

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love 28

Hi there! It's hard to believe that February is nearly over ~ time sure flies. Today I have a couple of projects to share featuring beautiful patterned papers from the Pion Design My Precious Daughter collection. First up is a layout featuring a photo of sweet Meredith that was taken at least 14 years ago when Barbie's were the center of her world! :)

~she still drank from a sippie cup!

and still had all of her baby teeth :)

I created a textured, inky background using various ColourArte products:

and embellished with a variety of blossoms from my stash and die cut foliage:

From the scraps, I made a rather clean and simple greeting card:

For layout inspiration, I joined along with the current My Scraps and More Sketch challenge:

and for the card sketch and color inspiration, I joined along with the current retrosketches sketch challenge and the color throw down color challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)








Pion Design products used:
My Precious Daughter ~ My Daughter ~ PD4901 front
My Precious Daughter ~ My Daughter ~ PD4901 back
My Precious Daughter ~ Baby Doll ~ PD4904 back
My Precious Daughter ~ Alma's Dress ~ PD4907 front
My Precious Daughter ~ Alma's Dress ~ PD4907 back
My Precious Daughter ~ Borders ~ PD4910 back

ColourArte products used:
Radiant Rain Dauber ~ Plumeria
Radiant Rain Shimmery Mist ~ Pink Grapefruit

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