PTI Make It Monday: Glitter Buttons

I'm back with a project for this week's Make It Monday, to use glittered buttons. I found this big yellow flower button in my stash and decided to sparkle it up with some Buttercup stickles. The rest of the card just fell into place after I picked out some coordinating card stock and paper in my scrap bin.

It is sunny right now in Seattle, though the forecast today does include some snow! It's definitely cold out, but I'm not seeing any clouds that look like they are going to bring us snow. I hope not, I'm ready for spring!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good week!


Card details:
PTI: Summer Sunrise and New Leaf card stock, Blooming Button Bits stamp set; Lifestyle Crafts trellis die; Basic Grey Indie Bloom paper; Stampin' Up yellow card stock; Adirondack ink in Watermelon; Memento Bamboo Leaves ink; buttercup Stickles; button from my stash.

February PTI Blog Hop: Interactive Cards

Hi and Happy Weekend! I'm back with a project for Papertrey Ink's February blog hop, to make an interactive card. I knew my February release order wouldn't arrive in time for me to play with the new zipper or slider dies for the hop, so I created this project last weekend.

I found a depleted Starbucks gift card lying on my desk and it got me thinking about fun ways to present a gift card to someone. I came up with this:

And here is the interactive part where the recipient can pull out the gift card:

Thanks for stopping by! I look forward to seeing all the other projects in the hop!

Card details:
From PTI: New Leaf card stock, Dark Chocolate card stock and ink, Dotty Biscotti patterned paper, Warm Happiness Too stamp set and die, Simple Sentiments stamp set, Mini Tab stamp set and die; Memento inks in Bamboo Leaves and Cottage Ivy; Martha Stewart baker's twine in brown and green; mini kraft sacks from?; Tim Holtz tiny attacher and staple; We R Memory Keepers corner chomper; Fiskars notch punch.

Heart to Heart

I got a late start to crafting today. It's just after 10 p.m. as I post this. I have a friend coming over tomorrow and I've spent all day getting my house ready for my guest. I'm tired, but I just had to play along with today's PTI anniversary challenge, which is to create a project using hearts.

Do you remember Nichole's red, white and kraft card here? It is one of my all time favorites, I just love everything about it. I was thinking about the new Heart 2 Heart coffee cup set Melissa Bickford is releasing this month, and it reminded me of Nichole's card. I decided to do a variation on it, swapping out the white for dark chocolate coffee cups and adding in some pops of Raspberry Fizz for something different.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Card Details:
All supplies by PTI except for the kraft card stock.

Sending Birthday Wishes

Happy Friday!!!! I'm back with a card I made using this sketch provided by PTI in honor of their 5th Anniversary celebration:

Here is the card I made inspired by the sketch. It doesn't follow the design exactly, but that's the fun part of sketch challenges. They offer a good starting point and then you can change things up as you like.


Have a wonderful weekend!


Card details:
All from PTI: Berry Sorbet card stock, Spring Moss card stock, Raspberry Fizz card stock, ink and button, Hibiscus Burst card stock; Sending You stamp set and dies; Background Basics Tin Types stamp set, Limitless Layers Ovals dies; Beautiful Blooms II #3 dies.

Shades of Blue

Friday Eve! One day closer to the weekend! I'm back with my project for today's Papertrey Ink challenge, to pick an image from Pinterest and make something inspired by it. All of the designers' projects were lovely, but I decided to select my own inspiration photo from Pinterest. I chose this one:

image from yours-faithfully.tumblr.com

Those who know me know blue is my favorite color (I guess you could figure that out from my blog template, too!). Since I've been making so many pink projects lately, I decided it was time for a change. Here is my card inspired by the blue tile image above:

This is a super simple graphic card. I just used a 7/8" square punch to cut out four squares each from Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky and Hawaiian Shores card stock and layered them on a Soft Stone card base. I left off the fourth Hawaiian Shores square and stamped "Miss You" from the Communique Curves Sentiments set. Easy Peasy.

Thanks for stopping by!

Fun with Color

Happy Hump Day! I'm back with a card for today's PTI color combination challenge. I selected Melissa Phillips' color combination shown here:

I've been drawn to pinks lately, so her color combination was right up my alley!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card details:
By PTI: Mat Stack 5 stamp set, Background Basics: Tin Types stamp set, Mat Stack 5 and Layerz Mat Stack 5 dies, Simply Chartreuse felt and cardstock, Autumn Rose cardstock, felt, ink and satin ribbon; Hibiscus Burst cardstock, Raspberry Fizz cardstock and ink; MFT rolled rose die; We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper; Versamark ink.

More Fun with Freebies

Two posts in one day! I'll keep this one short. I'm back with my second card featuring one of the PTI freebie images. This one features Dawn's tag:

The tag aside, I was definitely tapping my "Dawn muse" for this card. Bold colors, lots of layers, damask background. Super fun card, I think it's one of my all time favorites!

Thanks for stopping by! I can't wait to see what's in store tomorrow for the PTI anniversary festivities!

Fun with Freebies

Happy Monday! I'm back with another card featuring a fun image from the PTI freebie sheet here. I remember how much fun I had last year playing with the free images provided by the PTI designers, and the designs offered this year are proving to be equally enjoyable!

I was anxious to get home from work today and play. All day I had been thinking about which images I was going to use, and even took a few minutes to sketch out some ideas. I decided I wanted to use the images that Melissa and Dawn created.

Here is my card with Melissa's love stamps image:

I created my own background using images from the Postmarks set stamped with Smokey Shadow ink. The Hawaiian Shores mat was punched with a Fiskars postage edge border punch. I layered a couple of buttons together and tied them around the Raspberry Fizz knot at the top to finish off the card.

I'll be back shortly with my card using Dawn's image!

PTI Anniversary: Inspired by Maile

Happy 5th Anniversary PaperTrey Ink! I'm playing along with the challenge to create a project inspired by one of the design team member's projects from last year.

My stamping style has evolved over the 20 years I have been practicing this craft. At one point I was a typically clean and simple stamper, but now I consider my style more classic and elegant. It's fun to re-visit the past though, and that's what I decided to do with today's challenge.

I selected Maile's card, here, as my inspiration piece. I'm essentially done with my Valentines for this year, but it can't hurt to add to one's stash!

I'm so glad PaperTrey is part of the crafting industry. The products are incomparable and I find myself reaching for my PTI stamps, paper, ribbon, etc. far more than my other crafting supplies. Nichole and the design team are the best sources of inspiration and have helped me take my crafting to a whole new level. Thank you! Here's to many, many more anniversaries PTI!!


Card details:
Hibiscus Burst cardstock, Background Basics: Hearts stamp set, Think Big Favorites #11 stamp set by PTI; Memento inks; Neenah Classic Crest white cardstock; EK Success heart punch.