♥ mme pinspiration friday ♥

good morning.  how are you?  did you have a good 4th?  we had the best time and the boys were tuckered out by the end of all the activities as evidenced in this photo

sleeping on daddy......

i hope yours was fun and not too hot, although it was pretty dern hot outside.

today is Pinspiration Friday on the MME blog.  i love Pinspiration Fridays, and try to always sign-up because there is so much eye-candy on our MME Pinterest Inspiration page.  for this month's challenge, i selected this card from the incredibly talented Laurel Seabrook.

oh how i love this card♥ 

there is just so much to be inspired by.  the hexagon paper, the stitching, the doily, the flowers, the twine, the large sentiment, the scallops, it's all just so gorgeous and flows seamlessly.

when creating cards "inspired" by other cards, i try to choose "3 elements" to be inspired by and no more, that was really hard to select just three on her card.  but alas, i chose the hexagons, the doily and the large focal sentiment.  

thank you card 

(click pics to enlarge)

 i chose to accent my hexagons with more of a gradient color scheme with the gorgeous Indie Chic Ginger line of papers.  i can NOT tell you how i love these papers, they make me so happy.

i decided to cut my doily in half and accentuate the large sentiment that way (since i wasn't adding the spiral flowers to draw attention to the big sentiment)

supplies: Indie Chic Ginger 6 x 6 pad, Indie Chic Nutmeg button 

misc: papertrey ink dies and stamp, technique tuesday sentiment stamp, twine from stash, Cameo cut file

  to see more of laurel's amazing cards, you can find here blog here: want 2 scrap.  thank you laurel for allowing me to use your card this week, it is absolutely breath taking♥

thank you so much for visiting me today, for your incredibly sweet notes that always make my day, and for your friendship and inspiration.

hugs & so much love♥

danni

♥ MME designer tape love ♥

 good morning.  how are you?  do you have crafty plans this weekend?  i am going to try to finish up some projects but i am also going to take some mommy time for my babes.  before i go out to play with them in the sunshine, i wanted to share my project this week over at the MME blog.  

our friday post features projects selected by Jana, Anam and myself from our Pinterest MME Inspiring Pages & Cards page.

i chose this card from the incredibly talented Tracie Claiborne 

i absolutely LOVE her gorgeous palette and design.  i love that you could use this design over and over with the gorgeous patterns in all of the MME lines, with MME scraps or the brand new MME Indie Chic Designer tape.

i chose to create my version using the new tapes i received.  these are so beautiful, have beautiful patterns and adhere beautifully to a piece of cardstock.

here is the designer tape i decided to use for this card

Indie Chic Ginger Designer Tape

your smile makes life sweet card

 i began my card by cutting a piece of white cardstock 3 x 5".  i then began applying the strips of tape on a diagonal.  when i was finished applying the strips, i turned the card over and cut off the excess tape.  i ran my card front through my sewing machine with different stitches on the tapes.

embellishing the card was easy since the new Ginger layered stickers make it easy to dress up any card.

i then tied twine through the Ginger buttons (direction) and adhered them to the card front

i then adhered the card front to a card base.  this design could be used over and over with designer/washi tapes or scraps of papers you can not bring your heart to throw out.

thank you Tracie for the gorgeous inspiration.  please make sure to check out her blog, but only when you have time to look around, it's incredible.

thank you for visiting me.  to see all the other featured layouts and layouts, please visit the MME Pinterest-Inspired post

have a GREAT weekend!

hugs & so much love♥

danni