PTI SAF 2017: 7th Anniversary Tradition Wool

I absolutely adore the felt cookies that Debbie Olson made for PTI's 7th anniversary challenge: wool!! I didn't have much felt on hand, although I have used PTI's before and it is exceptional - thick, luxurious, and easy to work with. I used felt and PTI Pure Poppy and Green Parakeet cardstock to create this simple Christmas cookie with sprinkles. The Swiss dot paper is vintage PTI bitty dots and the sentiment comes from their Cup of Cheer set. The red ribbon is also from PTI and is so beautiful and cuts perfectly. Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed evening!

PTI SAF 2017: 2nd Anniversary Tradition Cotton

Of all the projects presented during PTI's Stamp-A-Faire weekend, Stephanie Gold's little cotton candy cone was my favorite!! I decided to copy it, but I think mine looks more like a pink Olympic torch!! I used Hibiscus Burst ink to color the cotton candy, and I had planned to use sticky strip and glitter to create the stripes when I noticed I already had a piece of gold glitter cardstock that would be so much easier to work with. I added a little gold tassel that I had in my ribbon drawer and a subtle sentiment from Wet Paint III. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Make it Monday #295: Z-Fold Card

When I saw this week's Make it Monday Challenge: Z-Fold Cards, my first thought was "Nope! No way! Not gonna happen!" Then I remembered my sweet mama has a rather BIG birthday coming up tomorrow and I wanted to make her an extra special card! So, here is my z-fold card! I'm sure I don't have an envelope this size but I love the card so much that it doesn't matter!! I used PTI's Paper Clippings: Happy Birthday stamp set and dies, and the colors I used are PTI Harvest Gold, Blueberry Sky, & Spring Rain; Tim Holtz Faded Jeans; and SU! Daffodil Delight. Mom and I both love yellow, blue, and white, so I had several coordinating pieces of designer paper that worked perfectly with the die cuts. I can't wait to give her her card tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

PTI Create Along with Us: August 2017

I created my card for this month's PTI Create Along with Us early last week and nearly FORGOT TO POST IT!! Wouldn't that have been a tragedy?!? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Lizzie Jones's sunflower cards for this month but especially this one with the aqua gingham background. It's so fresh and beautiful and clean. For my card, I used PTI's Painted Petals and SSS's Gingham Background stamps. The sentiment is one of my favorites from PTI's Iconic Images. Thanks for stopping by tonight and have a great week! If you're checking out the eclipse tomorrow, BE SAFE!!

PTI Make it Monday Challenge #292: Color Blocking Three Ways

So, I know it might look like I phoned it in this week for my Make it Monday challenge project, but I really love these colors and SU!'s Lemon Zest stamp set together. The colors I used are Green Parakeet, SU!'s Daffodil Delight, and Limeade Ice. I used Nuvo crystal drops to look like drops of juice and I used my new PTI stamp set, Fruit Salad Sentiments embossed in white, which I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

PTI Make it Monday #291 Emboss Resist Shadow Sentiments

This week's PTI Make it Monday challenge is totally doable and that always surprises me! It's hard to tell from the big picture but I followed Ashley's tutorial exactly, even though my drop shadow looks a little gray up close. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

June 2017 PTI Blog Hop

I made this card today based on one I saw on Pinterest and I think it's overdone, but I just kept adding elements that I hoped would improve it. Sadly, it didn't happen! Anyway, for this month's PTI Blog Hop, I used their Friendship Jar and Daydreamer stamp sets along with SU!'s En Francais background stamp. I really like how the jar and water turned out - I used Tim Holtz's Peacock Feathers, Broken China, and Tumbled Glass distress inks. I used Berry Sorbet and Pure Poppy for the flowers - I just love these two colors together, especially on two-step stamping flowers. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Make it Monday #288: Pantone Chip Inspired Cards

This week's Make it Monday Challenge is a neat one! I follow Pantone on Instagram so I'm familiar with their color cards. I went for the easy ideas this week. The bunny card with Hawaiian Shores cardstock didn't really come together as well as I wanted it to (plus I flattened my sequins when I used the scallop die on my white panel), but I love my sunflower card with SU! Daffodil Delight. I spritzed a bit of DD ink on the white cardstock for a little bit more color. Easy peasy! Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening! 

Create Along with Us: June 2017

I can't believe it's been more than a month since I've blogged! I've been making cards here and there but just haven't been putting them HERE. When I saw the challenge to create a card based on this month's release inspiration, I immediately knew which card I wanted to use for my inspiration!! This amazing card by Nichole Heady uses this month's new release, Quoted: True Friends, and I think this is going to be a set I buy every month along with Month of Psalms! For my card, I used last month's new release, Quoted: Dream Big, formatted similarly to Nichole's card. I used Hawaiian Shores, Orange Zest, & New Leaf inks and cardstock along with SU! Bermuda Bay on Whisper White cardstock. I used the Noted Scalloped A2 Vertical Die to cut the focal point panel, which I attached to my card base with Stampin' Dimensionals. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Make it Monday #283: Watercolor Wash Backgrounds

So, once again, my card for PTI's Make it Monday challenge did not turn out the way I envisioned it, but since I'd already invested so much time in it, here it is! I used Tombow brush markers to create the watercolor wash background, although I had something else in mind. For someone who loves the look of watercolor so much, I sure am bad at it. I really need to practice, but I'm more of an instant gratification girl! I used PTI Flower Favorites with Limeade Ice, Hibiscus Burst, and SU! Melon Mambo inks. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!!

Make it Monday #282: Stenciled Watercolor Backgrounds

So, my intention was to kill two challenges with one card, but that didn't happen, so here is my card for this week's Make it Monday Challenge. I used a Faber-Castell stencil with PTI Canyon Clay and SU! Daffodil Delight ink on watercolor paper. The flower and sentiment are from Painted Petals, & the card base is SU! Really Rust cardstock. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great afternoon!

Papertrey Ink April 2017 Blog Hop

This month's PTI blog hop colors really didn't inspire me and I had a hard time putting them together, but here is my noble attempt. The colors I finally landed on are PTI Sweet Blush & Canyon Clay, SU! Daffodil Delight, and Tim Holtz Weathered Wood. I scored the SU! Daffodil Delight card base to give it some interest and mounted my focal point on a piece of SU! Basic Gray cardstock. I used PTI's Bigger Blooms and Mini Blooms stamp sets. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Make it Monday #281: Patterns Behind Die-Cut Windows

This week's PTI Make it Monday Challenge is completely doable for me which means it's completely doable for you, too!! I made this sweet little Easter/Spring card for my parents based on a card I found on Pinterest, and it's simple to put together but impressive. I used the bunny die from PTI's Polka Dot Parade #1 to cut a shape from a piece of white cardstock. I then stamped and colored all these adorable little carrots from Inky Antics' Carrot Bunny and placed a small piece of PTI's lemon tart bitty dot basics paper (from 2008, y'all!) behind the bunny opening. I attached a tiny white pom pom to the front and mounted the whole thing on a piece of lemon tart cardstock. Thanks for stopping by today!

Make it Monday #279: Curved Sentiments

This week's PTI Make it Monday challenge is curved sentiments, and I just happened to be working on a card today that required a curved sentiment! PTI's Life stamp set is one of my favorites, although I wasn't really getting the results I wanted with it today. I have a terrible time coloring stamps multiple colors, so I pulled out my favorite Wplus9 Freehand Florals and stamped the blooms in Angel Pink (Memento) and Winter Wisteria (PTI). I matted the focal panel a few times and added some sequins and VOILA! Thanks for stopping by on this beautiful Sunday afternoon - have a blessed week!!

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Transformation

OMGosh!! Today's PTI challenge is transformation and the prize is INCREDIBLE - $300 in merchandise from your wish list, which I have been working on all day!! I transformed this pink blobby mistake into a birthday card by adding a few more background colors (Aqua Mist & Simply Chartreuse and Tim Holtz Mustard Seed) and two stamp sets (Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Polka Dot Parade #12). I'm new to color blending distress inks so my first few attempts weren't very good, but I'm starting to get the hang of it and enjoy it more! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope it's warm where you are!!

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Multiply

I think this will be my last post for today. Three cards in one day may be a personal best!! For the multiply challenge, I used one of PTI's Chevron Stripes border dies (2 per set) on this semi-masculine card I made for a sweet friend who treated me and another friend to lunch recently. I had to add a few flowers so I pulled out Bigger Blooms and stamped a few blue ones. The sentiment is from Iconic Images. Thanks for stopping back by!!

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Photo Finish

I'm using today to catch up on all the challenges for Papertrey Ink's 10th Anniversary. I don't usually have too many photos laying around since they are stored on my phone, but I had just received an invitation to a dear, sweet friend's 100th birthday celebration and thought who better to feature on my photo finish card than her precious face. I cut out the picture and a matching mask from a post-it note. I used another favorite floral, Mini Blooms, to create a little frame around the picture. I also used a PTI Color Recipe from this past January and a sentiment from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday. I love the way the card turned out and I can't wait to send it to the birthday girl!!

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Favorite Florals

Today's Papertrey Ink challenge was made just for me!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE floral stamp sets! In fact, I am obsessed with them to the point that last night, I nearly ordered one I ALREADY HAVE! For this challenge, I chose Brushed Blooms, one of many PTI floral sets I own and one of my favorites. My card is inspired by one Laurie Schmidlin made just last month. Here are the details:
Stamp sets - Brushed Blooms, Graceful Greetings, Simon Says Stamp Gingham Background
Colors: Berry Sorbet, Limeade Ice, Tim Holtz Faded Jeans, SU! Daffordil Delight and Melon Mambo, and Versafine Onyx Black
Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a great evening!

Papertrey Ink 10th Anniversary Challenge: Altered Envelope

The folks at Papertrey Ink are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week with some fun challenges and today, I am showing what I created for the second day's challenge which is to create a card with an altered envelope. I broke out Peonies on Parade that I was thinking of getting rid of, but I found some new inspiration on Pinterest, so I'm going to hold on to it for a bit longer! I was inspired by a card Nichole made when the set was released. I stamped all the flowers and leaves in Versafine Black Onyx ink and then colored them with Crayola markers. I found the best set of 50 markers on Amazon awhile back for a great price so I scooped them up. The sentiment is from New Every Morning. I've been making so many thinking of you and sympathy cards lately. There is so much sadness in the world and I just want my friends to always know that they are not going through their tough times alone. I hope you'll break out a dusty stamp set and create something beautiful for someone you love! Have a great day!!

Papertrey February Blog Hop Challenge

Today is shaping up to be a pretty fantastic day!! My sweet family is out of town and I have THE ENTIRE DAY to do as I please! I started off with a croissant and coffee from my favorite local bakery, Wild Love Bakehouse, and then straightened and cleaned up my craft space (and watched a few guilty pleasure movies, too!). I love a clean workspace but it never lasts once I actually start working!! Today is Papertrey Ink's monthly blog hop and since I've been participating in everything they have going on lately, I knew I had to do this one, too. I was going to try a new technique on black cardstock, but I have just rediscovered Graceful Greetings (and learned there's a second Graceful Greetings stamp set that I am currently on the waiting list for), and was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest by Betsy Veldman that used darker, richer colors. The colors I used are PTI Autumn Rose & Orange Zest, and SU! Daffodil Delight (my favorite yellow). I love the interest the black leaves add to the card. Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy this beautiful weekend!!