Market Street Stamps and June SFYTT

Hello! Our house officially went on the market yesterday morning, and we already have a showing this evening! YIKES! Kind of scary, crazy, and exciting all at the same time. So in between running around and tidying up the house yesterday, I managed to get this made for the Market Street Stamps Paint the Town Color Challenge, as well as the I{heart}2stamp June Sketch for You to Try - the sentiment is especially appropriate right now it seems!

Here is the color combo:

And here is the sketch:

I really  just am in love with the little Market Street Stamps set! The sentiment is so inspiring - especially with where I am at in my life right now facing so many changes with a move to another state for the first time in my life - and the butterflies are just plain GORGEOUS! I used some Spellbinders dies to cut and emboss the shapes, and some Basic Grey PB&J papers from a 6x6 paper pad. 

The butterflies are stamped with Tim Holtz ink, then cut out and adhered in the center, and the wings curled up and around slightly. 

I also added some lace, cotton twill ribbon, and jute twine from Ribbon Carousel, as well as a PTI green button. 

I love how lumpy and bumpy and dimensional this card is!  

Finished off by using a paper piercer to add some holes around the outside of the card, and the outside of the sentiment frame, and added a little sprinkle of bling. 

I am also entering this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge #33.

Thanks for stopping by today! I am off to spend a lot of time tidying up our house to be ready for the showing this evening. Fingers crossed that it all works out well! 

Market Street Stamps Block Party!!!

Good morning! Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!! I am off to celebrate with the other half of the family today, but I had a few minutes this morning to sneak a quick card in for the Market Street Stamps Block Party!!! I used the free digital image they made available, as well as one of their background stamps:

Isn't that digi adorable? I printed it on Kraft paper, then colored with Copics and my white gel pen. 

The paper is from one of Authentique's Free Bird 6x6 paper pads. I used the reverse side of the green polka dot paper to stamp the Punched Tin background on. The edges of all the papers are inked with Tim Holtz distress ink in Antique Photo. 

Did some hole punching with my new Tim Holtz ruler - has these perfect holes for perfectly spaced hole punching! So cool! Finished off with a Baker's Twine bow, and a hand cut tag with a sentiment from Unity Stamps (since I didn't have an appropriate one from Market Street stamps!) 

Thanks for stopping by - make sure and head over to Market Street Stamps Blog to find out how to join in on the fun - and get the free digi to play with!!!