Hey there! Welcome to my corner of the world tonight in Beautiful British Columbia.
This months' PTI Blog Hop Challenge is all about color and I choose to go with bright!



The weather...should I even go there?...has been dull to say the least, and I think I have been color deprived! My flower garden was a bit of my inspiration for this card as well as PTI Designer Betsy Veldman on her tutorial about making rosebuds with the rick rack die using felt. I love that felt...it really cuts like butter!



Here's my recipe using all Papertrey Ink goodies:
Stamp - Buttterfly Dreams
Ink - Fresh Snow, Hawaiian Shores
Cardstock - Hawaiian Shores, Orange Zest, Rustic Cream
Dies - Beautiful Blooms 11 #2, Rickrack Border and Butterfly
Felt - Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse
Ribbon - New Leaf
Button - Raspberry Fizz
Twine - Rustic Cream
Other - white gel pen, white embossing powder



Here's a nice close-up of the felt flower and hand cut leaves. On the second layer of flower, I used two of the same size and folded them in half to look like one layer just to give it more definition. I tied the twine around the ribbon to look like a stem or vine for the border. Just on the left side of the cardstock, I stamped a border of buttterflies in fresh snow ink and dotted their tiny heads with a white gel ink pen. For the butterfly, I tied the button with twine to mimic their antennas.

Well friends, that's my contribution for this months' PTI Blog Hop Challenge. Hope you had great fun visiting my blog... now I'm off to hop on over to yours!

- Shirlann

How lucky was it that our son managed to get tickets and was a couple rows down from us. Hey...like father, like son? Yup, you can tell they are related! Even though the Canucks lost, we are forever fans.

And here are a few more photos of our touring downtown....love Vancouver for the fact that you can walk everywhere! We walked up to the new Convention Center and back down to Gastown for lunch. The Old Spaghetti Factory is tops on our list...the best lime margarita!! No your eyes are not crossed and the picture is in focus. It's a Lego Orca!

I'm leaving you with one last photo of Vancouver that will certainly want you to visit!

Thanks for stopping by today, would love to hear from you!

- Shirlann