PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2015

I'm back to share my card I made for the Papertrey Ink anniversary challenge.  Today we are revisiting 2015 and I chose to use the Baker's Dozen stamp set.  This is one of my favorite birthday stamp sets because it gives you a different cupcake for every month of the year, plus a bonus cupcake, a lovely frame and some great celebratory sentiments.  I decided to get a head start on my sister's birthday card.  Her birthday isn't until the end of May, but it's always good to plan ahead!  She loves all things pink, cupcakes and butterflies.  I incorporated all three into this card!  This card also utilizes the Hooray patterned paper.  I love this paper collection.  It's my go-to paper for birthday cards and has patterns that work well for both masculine and feminine cards.

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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2014

I'm back to share my latest creation for the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebration.  I chose Embellished Elegance as the stamp set to work with for this challenge.  The giant happy stamp and die cut are one of my favorite elements from this set, and I knew I wanted to use it on my card.  I've mentioned before in previous blog posts that I moved into a new house last fall.  Putting together my new craft room has been both a joy and a pain point because I have so much stuff.  SO MUCH!  I've been stamping for 25 years of my life.  That's a long time to accumulate craft supplies and I still don't have all of it moved over!  So in setting up my craft space in the new house, this is now forcing me to confront how much stuff I have and to reassess what I really love and want to keep and what needs to go.  Patterned paper.  Love it, but I have way more than I can possibly ever use.  Accepting my patterned paper problem, I've decided I have to start using it up, it's taking up way too much space in my craft room.  So...back to my card. I pulled out some of the Green Tea Leaves patterned paper and actually used it on my card!  It was only one sheet and I still have the rest of the pad, but I'll take this incremental success!

These colors are not at all my normal crafting style.  I tend to prefer bold, bright colors and I've always shied away from pastels in pretty much everything.  I don't tend to wear soft pastels, decorate with them or craft with them.  Well, time to change that!  At least in the crafting arena.

 



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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2013

2013 was the year I finally had one of my cards accepted for publication.  After trying for several years, I almost gave up but on a whim, sent in a card for one of the Paper Crafts Magazine's special issues.  I remember receiving the email from Susan Opel, telling me that my card had been selected and I nearly fell off my chair and cried and laughed from amazement.  When trying to decide what to do for the 2013 PTI anniversary challenge, I thought back to that year and my card that was selected and decided to use the same color scheme of the card that was published, Pure Poppy and Summer Sunrise.  I wish I could link to the card that was in the magazine, but I can't seem to find a digital photo of it and my issue of the magazine is still packed away from my house move last fall. 

This card uses the Ruby Rose stamp set and dies, which I'm embarrassed to admit have never been used prior to this!  I also pulled out Mat Stack 1 for the frame image and die cut and the sentiment is from one of my favorite sets, We Go Together.  The Pure Poppy patterned paper is die cut with one of the Tipped Tops dies.

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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2012

This card I made for the 2012 challenge may be my favorite of the bunch I've been making for the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebration.  I decided to use the Sentiment Signs stamps set for the challenge, selecting the Thanks stamp and pairing it with the Eiffel Tour from City Scene and the frame die from Center Style:  Masculine.  Of course anything related to France is a winner with this Francophile, and I was tickled that the idea in my head for this card translated so well to paper!

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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2011

I'm having so much fun playing along with the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebration.  This is giving me the opportunity to pull out many neglected stamp sets and remind myself why I bought them in the first place!  For the 2011 challenge, I decided to use the Background Basics Newsprint set.  I remember being very frustrated when this set came out because I have serious issues with lining up stamps and for the life of me, I could not get these stamps to stamp out straight.  Fast forward a few years and now we have the MISTI to thank for coming to the rescue!  I think that tool has given me the opportunity to save a few stamp sets from the sell box!

I also used the Warm Happiness Too and Watercooler Talk stamp sets, along with the Limitless Layers Square dies on this card.

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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2010

Love Lives Here is one of my favorite stamp sets Papertrey released in 2010, so I was happy to pull it out to use for this challenge.  This card is a bit out of my comfort zone.  I have a hard time pairing multiple patterned papers together on one card, though it helps if you use papers that come from the same paper pad.  The floral and blue chevron papers came from the same Crate Paper pad, so I knew they would go together.  I also pulled out my Zig Clean Color brush markers and Distress watercolor paper to die cut the Memory Box floral heart and watercolor the branches and flowers.

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PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2009

I'm back with another card to share for Papertrey Ink's anniversary celebration, and this time we're revisiting 2009.  2009 was good year for me.  It was my first full year I was cancer free and I finally left a very toxic job that I'd endured for almost four years that had made me miserable and unhealthy.

I pulled out Damask Designs for my card, which I actually had in my box of stamps to unload.  Now I'm reconsidering my decision to let this set go and may hold on to it a bit longer!  In anticipation of a wedding I'll be attending this spring, I made a card for that ahead of time.  This card also uses the Love & Marriage stamp set, the Limitless Layers heart dies, Enclosed Love die and a sticker from Little B Designs.

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