Christmas Thank-you card

I had no intentions of making any cards until the weekend, but my sister emailed me this morning with a special request.  She needed a Christmas Thank-you card to give to the caterer for her work at their Tree-Trimming party and since Ashleigh is planning to attend, she will make my special delivery. The theme they have this year is snowmen and blue, this is what I came up with, hope she likes it as much as I do.  It is fun to try and put together a card at the spur of the moment, I think sometimes the less I think about what I want to make I am much more productive.  I'm always happy to help out my sister (considering when she went digital for paper crafts, I got all of her supplies).  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients - All PTI unless noted
Solid card stock: Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist and White
Printed Paper: Candy Cane Prints
Dies: Doily, Limitless Layers and Damask Snowflake (from Joyce)
Bakers Twine: Pure Poppy
Jingle Bells: Unknown Source
Stamps: Tag-it's #8

PTI November Blog Hop Challenge

I think this is only my second time participating in a PTI Blog Hop, by the time it's here I'm too busy to find time to make a card.  This time I planned ahead so I am ready to go! I love the inspiration photo, it is just so beautiful and I had no problem coming up with a card.  It was fun to make and I finally got to ink up my Stylish Sentiments Christmas stamp set.  I had to have this set...it has my favorite line from the movie Elf.
When my card was finished my daughter said, "good luck mailing that!", well that thought never crossed my mind when I put the jingle bells on it.  They are just too cute to take off, so they stayed on.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Inspiration Photo

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and Fresh Snow

Patterned Paper: PTI - Candy Cane Prints

Dies: PTI - Half & Half

Ink: SU- Real Red

Bakers Twine: PTI - Pure Poppy

Stamps: PTI - Stylish Sentiments Christmas

Ribbon: PTI - Pure Poppy



PTI Make It Monday #42:Layered Background with Sentiment Stamps

It's Monday again and that means another Make It Monday challenge. After watching the video that Betsy provided for this weeks MIM, I decided to the plunge and make one of my own.  I decided to continue on with the holiday theme and ink up my set of PTI Holiday Lights stamp set.  This set has so many possibilities and I am really looking forward to using it for Valentine's Day cards as well. 

This card uses a few different techniques that were fun to do.  First I inked the edges in spring moss and then stamped off twice before stamping the sentiments on the fillable frames to give a subtle look.  I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment in red and centered it on a beautiful snowflake die that my friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea was sweet enough to share with me.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy, White and Simply Chartreuse
Stamps: PTI - Holiday Lights
Dies: Fillable Frames #3 and Damask Snowflakes
Ink: PTI - Spring Moss, SU Real Red and VersaFine Black

in the meadow we can build a snowman....

This snowman has to be one of my top favorite stamp and die sets from Papertrey Ink.  He is so cute and has so many possibilities.  I stood him in a soft ivory snow bank (love this die set) and he is holding a nice warm cup of hot cocoa with a yummy peppermint stick.  I wanted to give the illusion that it was snowing so I used my versamark stamps pad and three different size snowflakes on the soft pink background. My friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea was sweet enough to stamp off images from her Tremendous Treats set and that is where the adorable cup comes from.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Dark Chocolate, Sweet Blush and Ivory
Printed Paper: KI Memories
Stamps: PTI -In The Meadow, Shape Up Snowman Accessories & Tremendous Treats
Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia and VersaMark
Dies: PTI - In the Meadow and Shape Up Snowman

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #74 & CAS-ual Fridays #29

I am pretty new to WMS but have fallen head over heels in love with them.  This will be my fourth card made for one of their challenges, this one is a sketch challenge.  I only own two WM stamp sets, one Christmas and the other is a background set.  Both are just beautiful but really limit the cards I can make for these challenges.  Good thing it is Christmas season, so I am safe for a little while. 
My favorite stamp from Santa's Coming to Town is the Santa cameo and I have used it every chance I could. I also love glitter and made my own red sparkle letters using Quikutz dies and then ran them through my little Xyron, sprinkled them with glitter and there you have it! It makes a bit of a mess but well worth it in my opinion.  So here is my Santa card...thanks for taking a peek!

This card is serving two different challenges, Waltzingmouse and CAS-ual Fridays.  I love it when I am able to get one card made for two challenges, such a fun bonus.

Ingredients
Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and Fresh Snow
Printed Paper: PTI - Candy Cane Prints
Ink: VeraFine - Onyx Black
Dies: PTI - Doilies and Quikutz - Chocolate ABC's
Glitter: Martha Stewart
Bling: Martha Stewart

First Waltzingmouse Blog Waltz -

I have been so excited to join the rest of you in my first blog waltz! My card was almost one of those "self assembling" cards that my friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea always talks about, you just leave the supplies on you desk...walk away and your card is complete! My card was inspried from one that I made for a challenge that is called "4 of a Kind" and this months kit (Renee sent out stamped images from the Sewing Box - Christmas set) was sent out by Renee from "It's A Patchwork Life". I made my first card for the our challenge and then had plenty of supplies left over and like I said, the card pretty much made itself! Thanks for taking a peek!

4 of a Kind Challenge - Take 4

It's that time again for the 4 of a Kind Challenge! This month's kit was so festive and so much fun and I got to use some new stamps too.  Renee from It's A Patchwork Life sent out the kits and since she is a Mischief Maker for Waltzingmouse stamps she sent enough supplies to create lot os mischeif on my craft desk. There were enough supplies to make several cards but I am only posting one for this challenge and will post the second one fr the my Blog Waltz with WMS a few days later. 
Renee has a very cool prize for one lucky person who leaves a comment.  The prize is a set of Waltzingmouse Stamps! So please check out the other three blogs and leave comments and one of you will be choosen at random.

Renee - It's A Patchwork Life

Joyce - Cards-by-the-Sea

Cathy - Empty Nest Crafter

This is a picture of the wonderful kit Renee sent...

and this is my take on the kit...

I fell in love with the mittens the second I saw them in the kit and knew they had to be the centerpiece of my card.  The snowflakes are the cutest buttons you have ever seen and then I added the little red pearls on top to brighten them up.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Card Stock: PTI Ocean Tides, Pure Poppy and Fresh Snow

Stamps: Waltzmouse

Buttons: PTI - Ocean Tides and Pure Poppy

Pearls & Snowflakes: Unknown Source

Cards that Care

I decided to make some Christmas cards to donate to Cards that Care and wanted to make something that would be fairly quick and easy to assemble. These cards will go to the elderly who are in nursing homes.  I cased my own card, one I made to Halloween that I used Waltzingmouse stamps for.  I love the idea of the cameo and this one of Santa is just too sweet.  Thank you for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Santa's Coming to Town and Off Beat Backgrounds
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Buttons: PTI
Card Stock: CM - Red
Printed Paper: Christmas Prints
Bling: unknown source
Ribbon: PTI - Fresh Snow

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #27 Over the Edge

I have been dying to use my Shape-up Snowman dies and stamps since I got them last month, so here is my card for the Over the Edge challenge.  It was so much fun to make once I got into it.  At first I just had the snowman on the card...it still needed something, just not sure what it was.  So my little snowman sat on my desk over night while I thought what could I do to bring him to life. So today he got a little sparkle around the edges (it is a bit hard to see it, but it is there) and some snowflakes as well to finish him off.  Hope you like him as much as I do...thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Card Stock: PTI - Ocean Tides and Fresh Snow
Buttons: PTI - Ocean Tides
Felt: PTI - Ocean Tides and Pure Poppy
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black and SU - White
Stamps: In the Meadow, Shape up Snowman Accessories and Christmas Labels
Dies: Snowman Shape UP set
Glitter: Martha Stewart - Crystal Fine

First Waltzing Mouse Challenge

I am so excited to finally own a set of stamps from Waltzing Mouse and get to participate in one of their challenges.  Their designs are so elegant and beautiful, it made it so easy to put the card together.  I was lucky enough to have the Hocus Pocus set on loan from Cathy Weber - The Empty Nest Crafter.  She is just too sweet! I did purchase one set and that one is Off Beat Backgrounds.  I know Halloween has already past, but now I will be ahead of the game next year.  I love the witch's silhouette, and that nose is just too cute! Just the way I would picture a witch in real life.  Thank you so much for taking a peek at my very first Waltzing Mouse card!

Ingredients
Stamps: WM - Off Beat Backgrounds and Hocus Pocus
Card Stock: PTI Fresh Snow, Orange Zest and True Black
Printed Paper: PTI - Halloween Prints
Dies: Spellbinders Scalloped Squares
Ribbon: PTI - True Black
Bling: Kaiser
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Buttons: PTI - Orange Zest and True Black