Quick Thank You

Just a quick post to show ya a quick thank you.

I am making thank you cards for ny niece's baby shower...I already had an idea in my idea book...then I hopped over to Nicole Heady's blog to check out the Stamp-A-Faire posts...and saw THIS challenge.

Clean, simple & quick!  Plenty of space for a personal note to be written inside. 

This was NOT my original plan, but did I mention, it was clean, simple & quick.  LOL.   I'm using supplies on hand - my new PTI Text Style Big & Bold Wishes and my new SU! Nursery Additions. 

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Mr. & Mrs.

I believe this is the first wedding card I've ever made.  LOL. 

My first wedding card.

It was inspired by the CAS July 4 Holiday challenges on SCS - this one was TEA.  So I decided to do some tea staining...the SU! way.  Although, I do have some coffee stained workpapers at work...hmmmm...

This was steppy...and yep...had a craft-splosion.  Bigger than yesterday's...and nope...didn't take a picture. 

I break out the Bella Toile and the SU! markers.  Color the stamp...tap on versarmak...and STAMP!

Supplies.

Pretty.

 Grab the powder pal tray...dump on clear EP...hit it - the card (wink) - with the heat gun...and viola!

After embossing, before tea staining.

Not sure this is my style...but I'll carry on.  Out comes the SU! Distressing Essentials....and I found the cube of Tea Stain.  tee hee.

After tea staining.

WOW.  I was approaching shock territory.  I had to take a break.  I went to fix some supper.  Ham & cheese calzones, with a rabbit salad...I'm tired of salad...I'm growing long front teeth or somethin'.  :-p

After supper, I finish up my card. 

Love the elegant popped up sentiment.

Sentiment inside.

 I love the simplicity of the sentiment and the look of the inside after the business of the outside.

This card is going to work today...it's for a co-worker that got married over the holiday weekend.   SURPRISE!  Indeed. 

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PTI Order

I'm an SU! gal.  I spent quite a bit of time debating my purchase...but I need sentiments for inside my cards AND I need to get cracking on baby stuff.  Since my niece is gonna have a boy in August and we're all going baby, I figured this would be a good time to do my son's baby book, too.  LOL 

Uh...no...the cat didn't arrive from PTI.  I was trying to photograph my order and... I gotta give my cat some attention.   

Three stamp sets...

...two dies and two ink spots.  These are the first dies I've had from PTI.  Interesting.  Very compact, thin, space saving and probably, easy to loose.  eek.  I hope not...easy to loose, that is.

PTI sets come with a jewel case to store the sets.  I tried to use them...but one set was simply too big and I could not see what I had...too confusing to read a clear sticker and have clear stamps.  eek.

So...I used a SU! stamp case.  On these two, I used the PTI labels.  I put the labels on brown copy paper cut to insert size.  I used brown paper, so I can immediately pick out SU! and PTI sets when I open my stamp drawer.

On the third one, there were two labels.  I decided to stamp the sentiments and not use the stickers.

 
Here's the inside:

Those particular three images didn't stamp fully because of the bump on the back, the CS label I cut from the belly band that was on the original packaging.  So I stamped those on white CS, trimmed them and then run them through Xyron. 

TIP:  I traced around each image with the paper piercer.  Why?  Sometimes I get more sticky than I want...glue strigs and stragglers on the edges of the images that I don't want.  I discovered if I traced the image with a sharp instrument, there are no exposed sticky stuff.

I'm loving this...the sentiments are in the same order as they are stamped on the cover.  I can actually read the sentiment stamps through the cover, especially since they have been inked up.

Here's the SMASHing idea book page for this stamp set:

I'm glad I stamped the sentiments...cuz I have a better idea of what I have. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a moo'valous day.