03.23.11

 Hello everyone... long time no blog, hey?  It's good to be back!

Today I've got a card for this week's Make it Monday challenge from Papertrey Ink.  The challenge was to color with copics on non-neutral cardstock, which is my favorite way to color with copics.  My crafting time is seriously limited and I want to make the most of it so sitting down to spend an hour coloring isn't feasible, but adding shading here and there is.

This card was made for my cousin's birthday.  She's one of my best friends and like a sister to me, we grew up down the street from each other, got into plenty of trouble and have countless childhood memories to make us laugh.  Love that girl :)

The rose, from year of flowers:roses, was stamped in smokey shadow ink on sweet blush cardstock.  Background basics:sheet music was stamped in sweet blush over it.  Then I shaded with my copics and cut it out.  It doesn't show up very well in the picture but I used a sakura glitter pen to trace the rose outline, it's so seriously gorgeous in real life.

This bookmark was another part of her b-day gift.   Since I gave her a book, she had to have an accompanying bookmark, right?

Well that's all I've got for today, thanks for stopping by!

PTI anniversary tags no.2

I'm back with my second entry using the tags from Papertrey Ink.

This is Maile Belles image.  Can't wait to see Maile's stamp sets, I heart her style and can not wait to see what she'll do with stamps!!

This card uses a bunch of dies (limitless layers, doule ended banner and banner borders) and the numbers impression plate

10.13.10

Hello Everyone!

Sorry to leave the blog unattended for so long.  I feel guilty not stopping in, but you know how it is, life just gets busy!  So what have I been up to? 

Well I got distracted by

  

Knock Off Wood

Which got me into building furniture!!  So far I've built this Kids elementary table and these storage chairs, then a variation of this book shelf.  I used this farmhouse table plan to make a workbench for my husband, and I'm working on a dining room table using that plan too but I adjusted it to be wider.  Just yesterday I built these totally fun Truss shelves.  Using my own plan I also made a side table for the living room and am working on a bench for the dining room table. 

So, yeah, I got a little obsessed!  Haven't taken any pictures of them yet, but if you'd like to see anything just let me know.

Besides that, the wood for our wood boiler so we've been cutting and hauling that like it's going out of style!  There's been no crafty time for this girly, but I've got a couple more cards from Practicing Creativity.

This one uses the tree and sentiment from Retro Christmas and the presents from The Whole Cycle.  Fun isn't it?!

Here's a tag using hte deer and striped tree from Retro Christmas and happy birthday sentiments from you're the man.

Here's a clean lined masculine card featuring the striped tree from Retro Christmas and sentiments from Chatterbox.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Kiddo

Today's card features some of my favorite stamps from Practicing Creativity, the whole cycle and chatterbox.  I am so in love with this little tricycle, it makes me think of my youngest son.  He has a little red tricycle like this only his has a little storage box on the back.  You can always find it filled up with something, dirt or trucks or apples from the apple tree.  Makes me smile just to think of it, then it makes me worried that I should check how many rotting apples are left in the back of it, haha.

Anyways back to the card, I stamped the tricycle and the ground on a mat stack 4 die cut.  Then colored the tricycle with a copic marker.  The sentiment is actually "a happy birthday" but that wouldn't work for this card so I just didn't ink the "a" and added the word kiddo after that.  I sponged some aqua mist around the edges and tied some bakers twine to highlight the sentiment a little.  Matted that onto some patterend paper from Echo Park.

Well that's all for today, thanks so much for stopping by!

Dot spot birthday

Today's card is a bright and fun birthday card Featuring dot spot and a sentiemnt from Birthday Bash Sentiments.

I'm so completely addicted to this Label 4 die!  Seriously, I LOVE this thing!!!

Stamped a couple dot spots off the edges.  If I did this again I'd switch out the red for a lighter color, it's a bit hard to see the sentiment, but whatever, live and learn.  Right?!   I kept the colors gender neutral so the card could be used for either sex.

Supplies all PTI:

Cardstock:  black, white, Simply Chartreuse

Ink:  Palette Noir, Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: Dot Spot, Birthday Bash Sentiments

Other:  Linen and Canvas Impression Plate, Hawaiian Shores Grosgrain ribbon

Happy Day

Today I've got a cute and super simple card for you.  Using the bottom half of the kite from PTI's Up, Up, and Away as a banner.  I was a little late to jump on the banner band wagon, but I'm on it full force now!!  Everything I make seems to scream to me "add a banner!"  haha  The sentiment is one from fillable frames #5

Can you see the impressing on the white background?  It's PTI's tin type impression plate, in person it really adds a lot.  I love the CAS design of this one, what do you think?

Supplies:

Cardstock:  Craft (PTI), white

Ink:  Hawaiian Shores, Orange Zest, Simply Chartreuse (PTI), Noir (Palette)

Stamps:  Up, Up, and Away, Fillable Frames #5 (PTI)

Other:  Tin Type Impression Plate and Twine (PTI)

Let's PARTY!!!!

Here's one of the 30 invitations I made for my boys' birthday party this year.  We did an undersea adventure theme, so what better stamps to use than Lawn Fawn Critters in the Sea.  Echo Park's A walk in the Park line had the perfect bright colors.

Here's a sampling of the 30+ favors filled with goldfish crackers.  All kids love goldfish so they were a crowd pleaser and the fish went with my theme.

This is my favorite part.  Party Hats!!!  The numbers were cut with my cricut using the Pooh Font cartridge.

The cupcake toppers are all Lawn Fawn stamps which were stamped, colored with copics or stamped on patterned papers.  Using my cricut and the cupcake wrappers cartrdige I cut all of the cupcake wrappers out of 3 different Echo Park papers.

These cupcake wrappers were for the birthday boys, I wish I would have noticed the wave wrapper first because I would have cut them all with the waves.  However, I like the plain scallops as well and they cut easier.  These cupcakes are a kid favorite, party chip with buttercream frosting and of course sprinkles!!  Isn't the turtle soo cute?!?

Here's a closup of the octopus topper and scallop cupcake wrapper.  These cupcakes are sooo tasty!  They're chocolate chocolate chip with butter cream frosting and chopped oreos, yum!!

Last but not least are my absolute favorite cupcakes ever!!  It's peanut butter cake with peanut butter buttercream frosting and chopped peanut butter cups on top. 

Now you know what's kept me so busy for a while.  I was so happy with how everything turned out, wish you could have seen how cute the whole party was.  But I think you have a good idea.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Critters of the sea and Harold's alphabet (Lawn Fawn), A little argyle (Papertrey Ink)

Cardstock:  Aqua Mist, Hawaiiand Shores, Simply Chartreuse, Orange Zest (Papertrey Ink), White and Black

Patterned Paper:  blissful days border, tree tops, flutter, playful stripes

Ink: Hawaiian Shores (Papertrey Ink), Noir (Palette)

Punch:  Wave Punch (fiskars)

Birthday Pinwheel

Today I've got a fun pinwheel birthday card using a couple new PTI supplies.  The notebook page die is my newest favorite thing ever!  I think I've used it on 80% of my cards since it came in the mail.  The sentiment is from Just the Ticket.  Patterned papers are Echo Park.  I also used the woodgrain impression plate on the kraft layer.

I'm lovin' it, what do you think?

Thanks fors topping by!

Just droppin' a line

This stamp set is just too much fun!  It's from WPlus9, it's called Hooked On You.

How perfect is this for a fisherman's birthday?  Man cards are just not easy, so I kept it really simple.  The only thing I don't like is my funky bow on the hook  It's strands of embroidery floss and they just wouldn't stay together, grrrr.  Other than that I really like it, what do you think??

Thanks for stopping by!!

Birthday Boy

This card is for the Card Style Fun and Cute Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.  I used last weeks sketch from 2S4Y, of course I'm too late to enter that one, but I really liked the sketch so decided to use it anyway.

These 'fun and cute' stamps are from Lawn Fawn.  I totally love them, so much that I'm designing my boys' birthday party around them.  The whale is from critters in the sea and birthday boy is using Harold's ABCs.

Last but not least, I've got a little toot today.  I won the sketch challenge at Practicing Creativity!!  There were some amazing entries so I'm proud to have been chosen.  Yey me :)

Thanks for stopping by!

birthday wishes

Here's a card using PTI's up, up and away set.  I am LOVING this set, it's so much fun!  The background is polka dot basics II stamped on Spring Moss with Simply Chartreuse.  I used the eyelet lace border die to ground the kite.  Not sure if you can tell but I used the linen impression on the spring moss layer and the canvas side on the focal point, I am completely addicted to that impression plate!

How is your summer going?  Mine can be summed up in one word:  BUSY.  I'm not sure why it seems so much busier than any other time of the year, maybe because my kids are home all the time and it's the first summer my DH is working steady day shift?  Whatever the reason it seems like time is just flying by.

Well gotta run, I guess I've got to feed my kiddo's, ha!

Have a good one and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Cardstok:  Enchanted Evening, Spring Moss, White

Ink:  Palette Noir, Simple Chartreuse, Enchanted Evening

Stamps:  Up up and away, Polka dot basics II

Other:  Eyelet lace die, Linen and canvas impression plate

boy birthday

Today I've got a fun card for a birthday boy using Have a ball from PTI.  The border along the bottom uses the dot strip from A little argyle with the small star from star prints stamped between the dots.  Super quick and simple but for a teen/tween boy I believe that quick and simple are the way to go.

New PTI goodies :)

All of my birthday PTI goodies came on Friday!!  What a happy mail day.  I got Beautiful Blooms II and all the dies, Delightful Dahlia and the dies, the ric rac die, Hawaiian Shores CS buttons ink twill and grosgrain ribbon and dot spot.  Hawaiian Shores has got to be my all time favorite color EVER, yum!

Here's a simple graphic card for Lisa's Poppy Seed Challenge.

Now, you can't see much of the spring moss, but the leaves are spring moss, just stamped with ripe avocado.  I'm totally loving the hawaiian shores on aqua mist.

Today was a really happy mail day too, I got a whole bunch of copic markers!!  They are SO MUCH FUN!

Supplies

CS:  white, black, spring moss and aqua mist

Stamps:  Beautiful Blooms II (flower, leaves and background dots), Delightful Dahlia (sentiment)

Ink:  Terracota Tile, Hawaiian Shores, Staz-on Black

Other:  Hawaiian Shores button, Black floss

Did ya miss me?

Sorry I've been away for a bit.  Promise to be better about posting!!

I've got anoter quick little card for you today.  It's a boy card, which I tend to struggle with, but I really like this one.  Whaddaya think?

Supplies
Cardstock:  White, PTI pure poppy, the green is bazzil and I don't know what the name is, the light blue is some random piece from my stash
Patterned Paper:  My Minds Eye
Stamps:  Star Prints and "birthday" is from Let Freedom Ring
Ink:  PTI pure poppy and Enchanted Evening
Ribbon:  Enchanted Evening

A toot for me :)

So today I have some really super duper news! (does anyone still say super duper?!?)

I made the top 5 Poppy Seed Bloomers on Lisa Johnsons blog!!  Yey, I'm soo thrilled!

I do have a card for you today as well.  This one uses one of my fave color combos lately, aqua mist and terracotta tile.  Can you say YUM!  The background is stamped with the damasky looking image from Vintage labels with versamark and I made one of Dawn McVey's scallop circle bookprint flowers.

Well, I've got a sick kiddo so I can't stay and chat, but thank you so much for stopping by!

Celebrate today

Dropping in with a little cupcake card for you today.  Using dark chocolate, scarlet jewel and melon berry.

All Supplies PTI
Cardstocks:  Dark Chocolate, Melon Berry and white
Ink:  Versamark, Melon Berry, Dark Chocolate and Scarlet Jewel
Stamjps:  Polkadot basics II, Cupcake collection
Buttons:  Melon Berry
Ribbon:  Scarlet Jewel saddle stitch
Punch:  Fiskars apron lace

quick and cute

Just dropping in to show you a super quick and cute little boy birthday card. This one uses squares that were leftover from a layout I did a while ago (you can see it here).  All that was left to add was a pen drawn border, cute little sticker and a sentiment.

See, super simple and quick, just the way a like it!

PTI Paint by numbers

When I was a little girl I used to LOVE those paint by numbers, or even better, do you remember the paint with water books?  hehe, so much fun!


Here's my entry for the paint by numbers PTI challenge.  I could not, for the life of me, get a decent picture of this card, that brownish greenish looking mat is actually ripe avocado.  Yeah, I couldn't tell either!

In person these colors look really pretty, never would I have put them all together though so I'm glad that Nichole shoved me out of my comfort zone.

Supplies all PTI
Cardstocks:  White, Ripe Avocado, Raspberry Fizz and Orange Zest
Stamps:  Turning a new leaf and Communique Curves sentiments
Terracotta tile grosgrain ribbon
1/4" scor tape, Martha Stewart glitter, random button

Thanks for stopping by!