Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #281 - Patterns Behind Die-Cut Windows

Hello....popping in with one card for this week's Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #281 - Patterns Behind Die-Cut Windows. I pulled out an old die Mat Stack #3, nice to pull out supplies that need a little love. I paired it with Bloomin' Cute flowers. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your day!

PTI - Make It Monday - Matchbook Valentines

Happy Friday...a quick post for this week's Make It Monday with PTI. I love this idea of matchbook Valentines, so fun and so clever. I was trying to figure out a quick way to make little Valentine's Day treats for my students this year and this is so perfect! To make it quick I pulled out PTI's February Monthly Moments journal cards, cut them in half that there you have it and no stamping either. I taped a sweet treat inside and I am finished! I will mass produce the rest later but I am just happy to have the idea. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Autumn Rose 

Patterned Paper: PTI - Monthly Moments - February

Twine: My Stash

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #236 and Muse Challenge #147

Hello...tomorrow is Friday, looking forward to a quiet crafty weekend. Once again I am a wee bit behind in comments, I had some minor surgery on Monday and am working hard to get to every one's blog. One of my goals this year is to stay caught up on commenting, I love seeing all your wonderful cards and creations.

I have two cards to share today, PTI's Make it Monday is first. I fell in love with Betsy's card when she made it last year and had so much fun doing my best to recreate it. I loved stringing the fabulous sequins, they look so festive. 

Betsy's fabulous card!

My second card is for the new challenge at Muse, what a fun inspiration card by Michele. I had fun making this one too. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week.

Michele's inspiration card!

Ingredients

MIM

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Dies: PTI - Phrase Play #11

Stamps: Birthday Style

Ink: Hibiscus Burst and Orange Zest

Sequins: My Stash

Muse

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Patterned Paper: MME - Charmed

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Love You a Latte

Dies: Lawn Fawn - Love You a Latte and PTI - Loop de Loop

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #235

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a wonderful and crafty 2016...we don't do much to celebrate other than get take out, watch movies and play games. So what ever you do, be safe and have fun. 

I have a quick post, one card to share for the current Make It Monday over at Papertrey Ink. Miss Darnell was sweet enough to let me borrow a few of her stamps that I don't have to play with and I thought Meadow Green would be perfect for this challenge. I use Inktense Colored pencils and a little bit of water to soften the ferns.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Stamps: PTI - Meadow Greens and Inside& Out: Birthday

Ink: PTI - Simply Chartreuse, Ripe Avocado and Spring Moss and VersaFine - Black

Colored Pencils: Inktense

Simply Create Too #91 - Anything Goes

Happy Friday....hoping you had a wonderful week! Another quick post with my card for the Anything Goes challenge at Simply Create Too #91. I made this card last month while I was visiting Joyce, Marybeth and Cathy and completely forgot to post it. It was so much fun to use stamps/dies (thank you for sharing Marybeth) that I don't have.  I hope you will find the time to play along with us. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

I made a quick little note pad for this week's PTI's Make It Monday #220. I made mine a bit bigger than the one featured. I wanted a wee bit more room to write on.

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #217 Make Your Own Borders

Hello...if you have not watched this week's MIM video by Laurie you need to take a few minutes to do it, the link is here. What a very cool idea of making your own border! This was so much fun and I can't wait to make more. When I saw Laurie's soccer balls, I thought ohhhh, I can use baseballs and use PTI's 7th Inning Stretch. It is the perfect set for this technique but like Laurie says you can really use any stamp! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

I finished my daughter's plaid flannel blouse today...I love the fabric, Britex hands down has the best plaid flannel around. 

I also have 2 new followers that I would like to welcome...Corinna from Corinna Coffee & Creations and SmilynStef from Jingle Bells. Be sure to check out both of these talented ladies blog, they are both amazing! Thank you two again, I am so honored!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White and PTI - Pure Poppy

Stamps: PTI - 7th Inning Stretch

Dies: PTI - Double Ended Banner and Spellbinders - Circles

Ink: SU - Real Red, Chocolate Chip and Baked Brown Sugar

Colour Me #62 and Papertrey Ink's MIM #204

Hope your weekend is a fun one...I spent most of my day hemming a wedding gown, 4+ hours to be exact and I am almost finished, maybe another hour or two. There are 7 layers to this gown and I have 2 1/2 to go. I have to say it has been so much fun working with this beautiful fabric. 

I have 2 cards to share today. The first is for the current challenge at Colour Me. This weeks colors are so beautiful...shades of green, beautiful green. So I made a St. Patrick's Day village. This is the first time I have pulled out the dies from City Scene by PTI. I could never line up the stamps, so why bother...but now that I have my wonderful MISTI (and thank you Marybeth for the fabulous tip too). 

My second card is for this week's Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. I have not played along in some time and I wanted to try out this "smooshing" technique. So much fun, but I will say that I messed up several times, almost ready to give up but I didn't. I only used one color and will try this again another day. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Papertrey Ink - Make It Monday #195 A la Carte

One more card/post for the day. I have been wanting to give this card a try since I watched Lauren's MIM video for #193. I have has so much fun playing with my mini distress inks and thought that since Valentine's Day will be here soon, a Love card would be just the perfect one to make. My sweet little hearts are NBUS...they just arrived in the mail today! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by again...enjoy the rest of your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Stamps: PTI - Heart Prints and Avery Elle - Sending You

Die: PTI - Wonderful Words - Love

Distress Inks: Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry

Sequins: My Stash 

Papertrey Ink - Make it Monday #182 Mason Jar Stamping

Just a quick post for Sunday...there are two post season games on today that I will be watching and being crafty too. My sweetie bought me a 5lb. bag of peanuts, hope they will last until the World Series is over, with 18 inning/6 hour games you just never know...LOL

I have a jar to share with you today for this weeks Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. Painting the jars was easy, I have 4 made to use as Halloween treats for friends, 2 black and 2 orange. The stamping portion was not so easy with the curved edges of the jar, so parts of my spiders are missing but I still love the look of the silver spiders on the black jar.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your weekend.

2 Cards and 5 little note pads

Happy Saturday...today was the first day in what felt like forever that I had time and felt like be crafty. The past two week's have been simply crazy and it really feels good to play with my supplies! I have 2 cards to share today, one for Curtain Call - Something Simple...have not played along with this one is some time and my second card is for the current challenge at Simply Create Too - #63 Celebrate your Country. I also used some NBUS supplies and will be playing along with Darnell...she is celebrating reaching 500 follows, click here to check out all the fun and there some fabulous prizes too!

maybe it is just me but after I finished my card I noticed that the placement of my Circle Scribble look like a modern version of Mickey Mouse

My next projects are for this week's MIM over at Papertrey Ink #167 DIY Notebooks. They are so much fun and pretty quick to put together. I made 5 of the little cuties. You can see lots of inspiration here on Nichole's blog. Thank you so much for stopping by...enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Two more cards for Sunday....

I really have 6 cards to share but I only made 2 of them. First the 2 cards I made...the first one is from this week's Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #164. I went through all my stamps looking for images that would work and I thought this graduation cap would be just perfect...I am also entering this card in the current challenge at Colour Me #20.

My second card is for ColourQ, challenge #241. I made 2 cards last night and unfortunately they both hit the trash, hate when that happens...I love these colors but could not get them to work for me to save my life. So today I pulled out my newest die, these beautiful butterflies from SSS, so fun to play with and I have a card to share. 

My next four cards were made by Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter. They are from my families husband kit. There are 4 of us who made cards for one another's hubby and children so we would be able to received cards for our special occasions, like Mother's Day, anniversary and birthday. 

It is such a treat to receive such beautiful cards on those special days...thank you again Cathy!

Ingredients

Congrats

Solid Card Stock: SU - Night of Navy and PTI - White

Stamps: PTI - For the Graduate and Congrats All Ways

Ink: SU - Night of Navy and Crushed Curry

Enamel Dots: MME

Make a Wish

Solid Card Stock: SU - Tempting Turquoise, Michaels' - Gold and PTI - White and Spring Rain

Stamps: Mama Elephant - Make a Wish

Ink: SU - Chocolate Chip

Die: SSS - Butterflies