Make It Monday #338 - Using Packaging Dies on Cards

Hello...popping in with a card for this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #338. I pulled out PTI's Quilting Base for use of packaging dies, and Warmest Wishes and Spring Rain card stock and ink, the sequins are from my stash.  Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by! Enjoy your day.

Retro Sketches #116

Happy Memorial Day weekend...hope you all have a fun and safe holiday and enjoy the extra time with your families. My card was inspired by this holiday, red, white and blue always make for a fabulous card. When I saw this week's sketch for Retro Sketches #116, I knew I did not want to make a circle and I also wanted to use some of my supplies that have not seen any love. I pulled out my stitched star dies from Lil Inkers but they were just a bit too small so I put Lucy to work, she always seems to pull me out of card making issues with just the right help. And it only took 2 tries to get my star the right size. 

I made my card for one of my co-workers...she decided today to take another job for the next school year to teach in Nebraska and so many are giving her such a difficult time about her decision so I thought this sentiment was perfect for her. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your holiday weekend!

Ingredients

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

Stamps: PTI - Simple Stars

Dies: PTI - Double Ended Banners and Lil Inkers - Stitched Stars

Ink: SU - Real Red

Sequins: my stash

One card for Sunday...

Hello and happy Sunday...just a quick post today with one card for this week's MIM #162 over at Papertrey Ink. It is always fun to learn a new technique, that is what makes the MIM challenges so much fun. The technique was all about using your scraps of paper and making a pie chart, you will not believe all the creative cards that are on Nichole's blog, so much amazing inspiration. I went through all my dies and decided on using butterflies dies from PTI.  I pulled out paper scraps from Pebbles Sunny side paper pad and added a few sequins and done. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Sunny Side

Stamps: PI - Birthday Bash Sentiments

Dies: PTI - Beautiful Butterflies

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

Two cards for Sunday...

Happy Sunday...hoping you are all having a wonderful weekend. Easter Break is now over so back to work tomorrow. I have had a fabulous weekend so far, I spent yesterday with 50 other crafty ladies, most scrapbookers at a 12 hour event. Needless to say I did not get much of anything done but I had a blast, spent most of my time visiting with friends and laughing, lots and lots of laughing.

My first card is for the current challenge at Fusion #8, love the look of chevrons and have been trying very hard to use the stamps I have on hand, so this set would qualify as a NBUS from MFT and was fun to use! It is always fun to go through what you have and find so many great stamps you forgot about. My second card is for this week's Papertrey Ink's MIM - Watercolor Splats.  My new daubers finally arrived and wow, they worked like a charm, so fun! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Hello

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Black

Stamps: MFT - Mod Borders

Dies: SSS - Hello

Ink: PTI - Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf, Winter Wisteria and Hawaiian Shores and MFT Lemon Drop

Sequins: My Stash

Thank You

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Dies: PTI - Thank you

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

6 cards for Saturday...

Happy Saturday...hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend.  I spent the morning stamping with my mom and introduced her to Washi Tape, you would have thought I invented penicillin! She had a blast and so did I.  My sweetie found me this really cool collection of Washi Tape complete with dispenser at Costco for $20, I was complaining that I thought is was a bit pricey but both my mom and sister thought it was a great deal.  We had so much fun and finished up close to a dozen cards between us and then headed for lunch. Once home I made my purple card for this week's CASology...purple is not a color I really like or use much. Not sure why, just not my thing. I do know many people how love it and my sister is one for them, maybe I should have made this into a birthday card for her...hmmmm, might just have to make another one.  Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards...have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

my mom showing off her first Washi Tape card

Costco Washi Tape Dispenser

Once I got home I decided to add a bit of sequins and enamel dots to some of my cards

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Stamps: PTI - Snowflake Flurries and PS - Sentiments

Ink: PTI - Winter Wisteria and Royal Velvet

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Dynamic Duo's #71 and Retro Sketches #82

Happy Sunday...hope everyone had a fabulous weekend, mine was pretty quiet which is just the way I like to spend my time off.  Friday started the weekend off at a very swanky 50th surprise birthday party for a dear friend and I spent Saturday making sure all my dolly domestic chores were done so I would have some crafting time on Sunday.  I had plenty of crafting time but only made one card and make my first pumpkin treat of the season, Pumpkin Streusel Bread from Lil Luna . My card is for this week's Dynamic Duo's #71 challenge and Retro Sketches #82 challenge. I love it when I can make one card for more than one challenge.  I pulled out a stamp set from Hero Arts that has never seen ink and I love the way it turned out. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card....have a fabulous week!

Pumpkin Streusel Bread

Ingredients - all Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: Kraft and Black

Stamps: Hero Arts, PS - Sentiment Sampler and MFT 

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

Happy Birthday Sharron - Surprise!

Birthday cupcake...

Yummy treats...

Happy Birthday Sharron...wishing you a fabulous day celebrating!

Once again the head party animal Joyce put this birthday blog hop together to celebrate Sharron's birthday. Sharron is one amazing card maker and so sweet and kind.  If you do not know Sharron's work you can find it her on her blog...On Papillon Wings. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and click away, so many fabulous cards and wonderful inspiration. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card...once you are finished here, head over the see what the rest of the party animals have made in celebration of Sharron's Birthday.  Don't forget to pop in to wish the birthday girl a Happy Birthday!

Joyce

Cathy

Christina

Darnell

Jeanne

Jill

Kara

Kelly S.

Kim (that's me)

Marybeth

Renee

Suzanne

Tracey 

My card is also for this week's challenge at ColourQ #207

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Enchanted Evening

Stamps: Neat & Tangled - Everyday Circles

Ink: SU - Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Strawberry Slush and Baked Brown Sugar

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

ColourQ #206 and Addicted to CAS #22 - Get Well

Happy Sunday...so far I have one card to share today and another first too. This is my first time playing with Addicted to CAS, their theme is get well and thought that the flowers from Bigger Blooms from PTI would be a great set to pull out.  This card is for ColourQ #206 too, one of the things I love about ColourQ is that it makes you use colors you might not ever use together and this week is no exception, they are so pretty.  Just happy that I had ink colors to make it work.  I added twine to start at the top but changed it to sequins and like the look much better.  Thank you for stopping by to peek at my card....have a fabulous day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White

Stamps: Bigger Blooms

Ink: Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shore and Hibiscus Burst and Adirondack - Wild Plum

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

CASology #61 - Silhouette

Well...it is that time of year, the best time of the year in my opinion. The weather starts to change, the air gets a bit crisp and everything turns black and orange in celebration for the best holiday, Halloween!  So when I saw this week's CASology cue card was silhouette, I knew I had to make a witch flying by a full moon.  I have had the sentiment stamp forever and just love what it says.  It was a quick and easy card to make...thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card...have a great week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Black and Summer Sunrise

Dies: Spooky Sweets II and Spellbinder Circles

Stamps: Peddlers Pack

Sequins: My Stash

Merry Monday's #70 and Seize the Sketch #1

Second post of the day and I have 2 cards to share. The first card is for Merry Monday's #70, I have not played along in some time and fell in love with the sketch and knew just what I would do.  Some time back a sweet friend of mine, Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter was so kind and sent me the most adorable Santa face stamp from Serendipity Stamps, isn't he just the jolliest?  My patterned paper is from Doodlebug and is pretty old, I knew I would find the right use for it some day.  

My second card is for this week's challenge over at Seize the Sketch and in fact it is their first challenge, how fun to be in on the fun the very beginning!  I pulled out a stamp set that has been sitting in my stamp bin for some time, it was fun to play with and added a bit of festive sequins for a bit of bling!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Santa

Solid Card Stock: White and New Leaf

Patterned Paper: Candy Cane Prints and Doodlebug

Stamps: Santa Stationary and Serendipity - Santa face

Dies: Spellbinders - Circles

Jingle Bells: Joann's

Twine: The Twinery

Ink: SU - Real Red

Seize the Birthday

Solid Card Stock: White and Black

Stamps: Grunge Me and  MFT - Journal It - Playlist

Dies: MFT - Cassette 

Sequins: N&T

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Papertrey Ink July 2013 Blog Hop

It's July 25th and that means a couple of things...the first one being it is Christmas in July, so for those of you who celebrate...Merry Christmas! And the other big event today is PTI's monthly blog hop and this month the inspiration was fabulous, 6 beautiful color combinations.  I tried to make one card for each but that did not happen, I made 4, so not too bad.  Warning...lots of NBUS on this post too! Be sure to stop by Nichole's blog - Capture the Moment to see all the wonderful cards that are there, I know they will be amazing and very inspiring.

Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a wonderful week!

Since 3 of my 4 cards are for birthday's I am adding these to the current challenges over at Seize the Birthday and Moxie Fab World - Birthday Cards...Seize the Birthday challenge goes until the 6th of August and Moxie Fab World Birthday Card goes until August 12th, so still plenty of time to play along.

Ingredient - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Life is Sweet

Solid Card Stock: White

Patterned Paper: Limeade Ice

Ink:Limeade Ice, New Leaf, Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry Fizz

Ribbon: Hibiscus Burst

Stamps: Sweet Life (thanks Joyce) and WMS - Chicken Wire

Dies: Sweet Life (thanks Jeanne)

Yay!

Solid Card Stock: White, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf and Limeade Ice

Patterned Paper: Orange Zest

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Sequins: N&T

Dahlia's

Solid Card Stock: White and New Leaf

Patterned Paper: Summer Sunrise

Stamps: Dahlia Additions

Dies: Dahlia 

Ink: New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise and SU - Crisp Cantaloupe

Sequins: N&T

Happy Birthday

Solid Card Stock: White, Melon Berry and Summer Sunrise

Stamps: Sweet Life

Dies: Sweet Life and Bountiful Banner

Ink: Scarlet Jewel, Hibiscus Burst, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise and SU - Crisp Cantaloupe

Bling: SU

Background Stamp: Hero Arts - Tiny Ink Spots