Make It Monday #51 Dimensional Sentiment Banner

This weeks card was learning how to make a dimensional banner and I love how quick and easy this was and gives your card a wonderful element.  I used printed paper for my background instead of stamping my own (only so much time in the day) and my new stamp set, Warm Happiness for the cup of coffee and sentiment.  I have been wanting this set for a while but always seems to get bumped off my wish list but then I saw another forum member was selling both Warm Happiness sets and the die, too good of a deal to pass up! Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Ivory and Orange Zest

Printed Paper: PTI - Autumn Abundance

Dies: PTI - Warm Happiness, Mat Stack 1 and Mat Stack 1 Layerz

Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia and Memento - Tangelo

Stamps: PTI - Warm Happiness and Polka Dot Basics

The 12 Kits of Chrismas - January Challenge

Yes, it's another Christmas card and each month there will be more. I am doing this monthly Christmas challenge called The 12 Kits of Christmas with 11 other incredibly talented ladies and I am really excited to see what they have all come up with this month.  We are each assigned a month to put together card kits to send to all 11 other ladies and January was Renee's month and oh my goodness did she spoil us!  There were enough ingredients in this kit to make so many cards....I made only 3 but I am so happy with what I ended up with.
There is also some wonderful Blog Candy to one lucky person who comments on all of the blogs. Maybe this will temp you into leaving those wonderful remarks....a die from Memory Box and a few other fabulous goodies too.
Thanks for taking a peek!

January Kit

Here is the list of blogs to visit and leave comments...

Joyce - Cards-by-the-Sea

Renee - It's a Patchwork Life

Cathy - Empty Nest Crafter

Kara - KandRDesigns

Jeanne - A Kept Life

Amy - Stamp-n-Paradise

Jessica - The Paper Parade

Marybeth - Marybeth's Time for Paper

Sharron - On Papillion Wings

Suzanne - thecardyard

Christina - Sea Glass & Sentiments

Ingredients

Dies: Memory Box - Star of Wonder, Poppystamps - Grand Madison Window and Cheery Lynn - O Tannenbaum Tree

Cardstock: PTI - Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select, Rustic White and Enchanted Evening

Velvet Ribbon: Simplicity

Glitter: Martha Stewart

January 2012 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Usually there is a inspiration photo for each month's Blog Hop challenge but this month the inspiration was to go back and find your favorite project and use that as inspiration for a new version of the card.  My favorite project/card from last year was one I made for a monthly challenge I do with some other PTI forum friends called "4 of a Kind".  Each month one of us is the host and sends out kits and we all make at least one card using 4 of the elements. So here is my favorite card from 2011...

Here is my take on a new and inspired version of it...on this card I am using a homemade button made by my friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea...she is so talented and creative. I changed up the color scheme too to make it more of a spring time card and the soft pink button that Joyce made are just perfect for it.

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Spring Moss and Sweet blush
Printed Paper: PTI Polka Dot Parade
Stamps: PTI - Button Boutique and Beyond Basic Borders
Ink: SU - Regal Rose and VersaFine - Black
Doily: Michael's

Make It Monday #50 Shaker Card

I haven't made a shaker card or embellishment in so long...this really brought back some fun memories for me.  Several years ago when I was scarpbooking and this was the new trend, my friends and I would try and come up with some pretty wild ideas for shaker boxes and what a mess did they make! Glitter, sparkles and confetti everywhere but it was fun...so night before last I could not sleep so I was up at 3:30am and working on my card and this is what I ended up making. So instead of using glitter or confetti I oped for buttons and I am very happy with the way it turned out.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and White
Printed Paper: PTI - Simple Valentine
Dies: PTI - Filigree Border, Doilies, Heart and Spiral Notebook
Stamps: PTI - Love and Marriage and Think Big Favorites #11
Embossing Powder
Buttons: PTI - Pure Poppy and Hibiscus Burst
Rose: Prima

Love it the Best Gift - CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #36

It seems as if it has been forever since I posted a card to my blog... Today's card was inspired by CAS-ual Friday's weekly challenge and Ted from the PTI forum. Ted posted the most beautiful Valentine's Day card on his blog and linked it the the forum and I just fell in love with it, so this is my version and it goes with the Penguin Suit theme for the challenge.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI White
Printed Paper: PTI - Black and White Basics
Dies" PTI - Heart Dies
Ribbon: PTI - Black
Stamps: A Muse and Verve - Hundred Hearts

WaltzingMouse Stamps Blog Party - Sweet Things - January 2012

I have been having so much fun playing the Afternoon Tea stamp set from WaltzingMouse, so for this month's challenge we have to use a stamp set to make a card with the theme of Sweet Things. Once I completed the card I really felt like it was missing something, a tea charm.  I thought I had a bunch of these but could not find one single charm, so on eBay I went and found these adorable little silver tea bags, just too darn cute.  Going to tea and having sweet scones along with a nice hot cup of Ceylon tea is at the top of my list of "sweet" things to do.  So this is my take on the challenge this month, thanks for taking a peek

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Scarlet jewel
Charm: eBay
Baker's Twine: PTI - Pure Poppy
Die: Spellbinders - Fancy Tags
Pearls: SU
Edge Punch: Martha Stewart
Printed Paper: Echo Park - Yours Truly
Ribbon: PTI - White
Stamps: WaltzingMouse - Afternoon Tea
Ink: VersaFine - Black

Clean & Simple Day 6 - Simple Embellishments

It was so nice to have the day off today and be able to get a few cards made.  This one was very different from anything I have done before...and I really love the end results. The flower is made from 6 one inch circle punches and then fold two sides just a bit. I don't have any large back round stamps so I just used what I had and turned the PTI set Background Basics - Sheet Music into one. I added the three little red hearts on the front so it would look more like a Valentine's Day card.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Rustic White
Ink: SU - Real Red
Bakers Twine: PTI - Pure Poppy
Printed Paper: Echo Park - Yours Truly
Stamps: PTI - Background Basics - Sheet Music, WPlus9 - Love You More and Avocado Arts - Hello Friend

WaltzingMouse Sketch Challenge #80

I don't have too many WaltzingMouse stamp sets, so my cards are pretty much limited to Christmas, tea or cakes.  I received this set as a gift and have played with it a bit but never very happy with the end results, so I thought I would give it another try today.  So happy that I did and thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet and Spring Moss
Printed Paper: PTI- Polka Dot Parade
Ribbon: Michael's
Dies: PTI - Edgers #2 Collection
Stamps: WaltzingMouse - Eat Cake
Pearls: SU
Ink: SU - Regal Rose and VersaFine - Black
Punches: SU

4 of a Kind - Beautiful and Elegant

This is our 5th month of doing our 4 of a Kind challenge and Cathy Weber's turn to be hostess...each month one of us sends "kits" to the other three and then we have a few weeks to be creative with all of the supplies and if you are anything like Joyce, your cards will "Self Assemble".  Our challenge group consists of some pretty creative and talented ladies and it is a real honor to be part of this group.

Joyce    Cards-by-the-Sea

Cathy    Empty Nest Crafter

Renee    It's A Patchwork Life

This month's kits were just breath taking beautiful...the color combinations that Cathy Weber choose are just so incredible and such fun to play with.  Cathy included so many wonderful elements to the kit and some I had never used before so that was a real treat. 

Kit Ingredients

Finished Cards and Projects

Note Pad and Post-it Pad

Thank You

Friends

One card, Two challenges...

I have to say doing these card challenges are so much fun and I have seen so many others make one card to post to two or more challenges.  The colors for this weeks Play Date Cafe are not colors I would use together or even alone for that matter, but the sketch from 52 Card Pick up was a fun one, so this was a very difficult card to make with regard to the colors.  I decided to keep it pretty easy and use one of my favorite sets from PTI, Mehndi Medallion.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: Unknown Source
Stamp: PTI - Mehndi Medallion
Ink: Versa Color - Amethyst
Pearls: SU
Ribbon: Wrights Hem Tape - White
Tag: My Sweet Sister

Clean & Simple Day 4 - 1 Stamp, 3 Ways

Today is day 4 for the Clean & Simple online card class and it's also the 4th day of making a card with a technique I have never done before.  Today the lesson was to take a background stamp and use it in a different way so I used number dies in a solid color, stamped them with VersaMark and used white embossing powder.  I had these butterflies forever and was so happy that they matched the color on the card, I think it turned out to be a nice finishing touch.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Spring Moss, Sweet Blush and Berry Sorbet
Printed Paper: PTI - Polka Dot Parade
Dies: PTI - By the Numbers
Stamps: PTI - Big Birthday Wishes and Background Basics: Newsprint
Bakers Twine: Unknown Source
Butterfly: Jenni Bowlin Studio
Doily: Wilton
Embossing Powder: Stampendous - White
Ink: VersaFine - Black

January 2012 Waltzting Mouse Christmas Card Challenge

I know, I know more Christmas cards and it's only January...well Waltzing Mouse has a year long Christmas card challenge where you make one card per month and follow their theme.  This is the first month and the theme is to have either day or night time sky.  I choose night time and was able to use some leftovers from another annual challenge, 12 Kits of Christmas (more on that to follow at a later date and post).  This card was lots of fun to make and uses plenty of glitter, sort of hard to see from the photo but trust me if you saw my craft table you would think Tinker Bell lived here.  My favorite thing about the card are the adorable little red birds perched on the tree.Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black and White
Dies: Renee (thanks)
Glitter: Martha Stewart
Stamps: WM 2011 Holiday Ornaments

Clean and Simple Day 3 - Tone on Tone Dimensional

So today's card was a little bit more work, but well worth when you see the end results. For my card, I used PTI heart dies...I cut out six of each in white and then glued them all together and placed the final raspberry fizz heart on top.  It really gives the card a dimensional look that is pretty easy to do.  My sentiment is stamped in VersaMark with white embossing powder over the top.  So, like the class title, it is pretty clean and simple!  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Raspberry Fizz
Stamps: PTI - Think Big Favorites #11
Dies: PTI - Hearts
Embossing Powder: Stamp Stuff - White

Clean & Simple Day 2 - Flat Cards

Well...it is day 2 of the Clean & Simple online class and the lesson for the day is to make a flat card.  After I completed the card I had to share with Ashleigh to get her opinion and she just smiled when I told her it was flat card day...she always comments when I make a card that has a a bunch of jingle bells on it, how are you going to mail that one?  Well I have to admit this card was a lot more fun to make than I initially thought.  I will be making more of these, but need stamps with bigger images.  I used some of the flowers from the PTI Rosie Posie set and they seemed to work out just perfect. I choose the orange and yellow inks to go with the sentiment, Wishing you brighter days...really love the end result.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White
Stamps: PTI - Rosie Posie and Think Big Favorites #10
Ink: VersaFine - Black, Memento - Dandelion and Tangelo

Clean & Simple Day 1

My friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea told me about this online class-Clean & Simple Card Making, so we decided to take it together.  Today is the first day and this here is my card...clean and simple Halloween.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Orange Zest and Black
Stamps: Tim Holtz - Trick-or-Treat and PTI - Been Boo'd
Spider Die: Cricut - October 31
Buttons: Joann's
Embossing Powder: Stamp Stuff - Detail Black
Ink: VersaFine - Black and VersaMark

Afternoon Tea - A Cordail Invitation

Last card for the weekend.  This card is for the Waltzing Mouse Challenge #79.  I don't have too many WMS sets and one used in this card is one that I won.  I have a girlfriend that is hard to buy for and her birthday is coming up so I thought why not take her to tea and this is the perfect set to make a card inviting her for a relaxing afternoon of tea and treats.  Thanks for taking a peek.

Ingredient
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Pure Poppy
Printed Paper: PTI - Beautiful Blooms
Ribbon: PTI - Pure Poppy
Ink: SU - Real Red
Stamps: Afternoon Tea
Edge Punch: Martha Stewart
Tag: Unknown Source

Happy Birthday

I finished two more cards last night but it was just way too dark to get good pictures of either of them.  I case'd both cards, Happy Birthday from LimeDoodle and Make it Count from Maile Belles and just changed them up a bit.  Both were quick, simple and fun to make and added a couple more cards to my birthday card stash.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Happy Birthday
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Hawaiian Shores
Stamps: PTI Birthday by the Numbers
Ink: PTI - Hawaiian Shores and Aqua Mist, VersaFine - Black, Memento - Cantaloupe and SU - Real Red

Make it Count
Solid Card Stock: PTI White and Royal Velvet
Ink: Distress -Dusty Concord, PTI - Aqua Mist and Spring Moss and VersaFine - Black
Buttons: PTI
Stamps: CTMH - Make it Count (thank you Miss Paula)

Rosie Posie - Oh My!

Ever since I got this stamp set I have been wanting to use the dies to match.  They were so easy and quick to stamp and the filigree die is at the top of my favorites list. I cased another card by Debbie Olsen, wow is she talented!  My birthday card stash has been getting low so tonight I am going to attempt to get enough made to last me for the next month or two. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI White
Printed Paper: Echo Park - Summer Days
Ribbon: PTI - White
Dies: PTI - Rosie Posie and Filigree
Stamps: PTI - Rosie Posie and A Muse - Oh my! (thanks Miss Paula)
Tag: Unknown source
Doily: Wilton

ColourQ Challenge #118

My card for this week's challenge was inspired by Joyce from Card-by-the-Sea, it was simple yet so beautiful but I did not have the stamps set that Joyce had so I had to make due with what I already had.  After flipping through all of my sets I found PTI Mehndi Medallion and thought it would be a perfect fit.  Since I love glitter, I decided to add a few strips of that too in the coordinating colors.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI White
Inks: PTI - Aqua Mist and Spring Moss, SU - Real Red and Distress Ink - Spun Sugar
Pearls: SU
Glitter: Martha Stewart
Stamps: PTI - Mehndi Medallion and A Muse - Kiss Kiss (Thank you Miss Paula)

Play Date Cafe Challenge #113 - Sending You Thanks

Another card challenge for the week and this one is for Play Date Cafe.  I just love the color combinations this week, Juniper, Mint and Vanilla.  I cased this card from Debbie Olsen and just changed it up a bit.  I am over the moon with this stamp set from PTI and it always stamps so clean and clear.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: Unknown Source
Printer Paper: PTI - Holiday Flourishes and Swirls
Dies: PTI - Filigree Border
Tag: Cricut - Winter Frolic
Pearls: SU
Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia
Rose: Michaels
Lace: SU - Chantilly

Runway Inspired Challenge #3

What a great blog if you love fashion.  I was so excited when I saw my friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea make a card for the Runway Inspired Challenge's last challenge and decided I had to play along.  After looking at all of the Design Team cards I really felt like I was getting in over my head and started rummaging through my stamps and dies and then came up with this idea, hope you like it.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Black
Dies: PTI - Eyelet Border, Mat Stack 1 and Layerz Mat Stack 1
Stamps: PTI - Mat Stack 1 Collection and Signature Series: Dress Form Stamp Set
Ink: VersaFine - Black
Ribbon: PTI - Black