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.

January 2012 PTI Blog Hop: Revisiting Last Year's Favorites

Hi Everyone!

I was excited to see the theme for this month's PTI blog hop--pick your favorite project from last year and make a new project inspired by it! In my case, I picked two projects. Please click on the photos for a closer look if you like.

Here is my favorite card from last year:

And here is my new take card on the card:

I went with a Valentine theme choosing shades of pink and swapping out the straight glitter border on the first card for the heart glitter border on this new one. I also embellished the butterfly with a tiny heart from the Love Lives Here die collection and added Glossy Accents to it to make it shine. Since my sister adores butterflies and pink, this card is for her.

My favorite non-card project last year was this printer's tray devoted to Paris:


And here is my miniature burlap canvas devoted to Paris:

Common elements between the tray and canvas are the Signature Series dress form die, some collage stickers and button and the color scheme of cream, brown and light blue. Since I couldn't find the right sentiment in my stamp collection, I opted to write out "l'amour" (love) on a strip of blue paper and tuck it into the memo pin.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I look forward to seeing your creations!

Christmas Wrap = Kraft & Red Valentines

Happy Tuesday! I'm back with a set of Valentine cards I made. My co-worker brought me in some red & kraft gingham patterned Christmas wrapping paper she spared from the recycle bin and wanted to know if I could use it with my crafting projects. I was happy to take the paper!

As a thank you, I made her a set of Valentine note cards. I made two each of three designs. The card layouts are essentially the same, I just swapped out different doily dies cuts and switched up the focal images and outside sentiments.

Here is a picture of the boxed set. You probably recognize the box--it's a recycled PTI stamp box that I embellished with new patterned paper and a handmade label:

Here is a close up of one of the cards:

The white scallop with the heart punch-out is an embellishment I made. I saw a Martha Stewart punch in the same style at my local stamp store and passed it up. As I was at home regretting not getting the punch, I decided to scour my punch collection for an alternative and was delighted to find that I had three separate punches that when combined, could give me the identical look to the Martha punch! I punched a heart in the middle of some white paper, then took a small scalloped circle punch , centered it around the heart and punched it out. Finally, I took a teeny, tiny hole punch and punched out the middle section of each of the small scallops. I then layered my scallop punch-out over a red circle punch out, and my embellishment was complete. It took a bit of time, but it was great to use my existing supplies rather than buy yet another new tool!

Here is the second card in the set:



And finally, here is the third card:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please come visit me tomorrow when I share my PTI blog hop projects!


Card Set Details:
Doily Details die collection, kraft paper, Tag-Its #11 stamp set, Mat Stack #2 die, Just For You stamp set, button twine and clear box from PTI; heart buttons from my stash; Marvy and EK Success punches; Memento Rich Cocoa ink; Versamagic Red Magic chalk ink; Amuse red note cards; red and kraft wrapping paper courtesy of Meaghan.

A Winter Wonderland

Hello! Western Washington received a good dose of winter this week. I've been snowed in since Tuesday night and have worked from home the last three days. I think I got between 6-8 inches of snow at my house. I'm really happy that temperatures warmed up today and the snow and ice are departing! As an ode to winter, I made this card a few nights ago:

This card is also for the current challenge at the PaperTrey Playhouse, to make a card using the negative space from a die cut. Hope it counts that I used both the negative and the positive from the die cut!

Though it's hard to see in the photo, I used two different shimmer sprays--Shine from Mr. Huey's color mists and a bluish gray color (didn't have a label on it) of Smooch Spritz that was a close match for the Aqua Mist paper.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Weekend!

Card details:
Aqua Mist and Soft Stone cardstock, Damask Snowflake die from PTI; metal snowflake charm from Impress Rubber Stamps; American Crafts glitter ribbon; clear rhinestones from my stash; Mr. Huey's color mist in Shine; Smooch Spritz spray in blue/gray.