PaperTrey Princesses Challenge- #7

It is my turn to hostess the PTI Princess challenge. I hope you all enjoy this inspiration challenge.

It is spring so throw open your closet and see what you have for warmer weather clothing. When I looked in my closet I found a lot of black and white patterns and this is the inspiration for my card. When I wear my black and white outfits I usually throw in a splash of color to jazz things up a bit.

You can do this challenge in 2 different ways. You can either use my color combo for your inspiration or open your own closet and see what you find. Either way, have fun!

Post a link to your challenge card on the Official Papertrey Princesses Challenge Thread. Thanks for playing!!!

Happy Birthday to me!

I have to share! Here is a link to my birthday present from hubby. I am sooooo excited! When were were at Best Buy looking at their display, hubby told me to go to my favorite forum and see how it worked. Well, PTI it was!! I then went to the gallery. Oh my! Could I ever zoom in on the cards. It was the clincher for me!

Waiting for the delivery of this is almost as hard as waiting for my PTI boxes!

PTI Princess Challenge #6

Thanks so much to BethieJ for posting our next Princess Challenge. The challenge is to celebrate the new, freshness of spring by doing something new.

For my card I used two new stamp sets that I haven't inked up yet and I also used a new color combo. The stamp sets are Background Basic: Tin Type and Take Note. The color combo is Melon Berry & Hawaiian Shores. I really like these colors together and Tin Type is a breeze to line up!

Thanks again, BethieJ! I love spring!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Well, I received my yearly email requesting Mother's Day cards for the church bookstore. These are so fun to do since I can make what ever tickles my fancy. These turned out to be so colorful and such a great variety of styles and designs. I still need to come up with 5 more by next Sunday so that is what I will be working on next week.

I hope you enjoy these and maybe find a bit of inspiration for your Mother's Day cards!

Everything that I used was from PTI except for the Creamy Caramel ink on the vine card with the Fizz flowers and the ribbon on the Sweet Blush card. The ink and the ribbons are from SU!

Card a Day!

My goal for last week was to make a card everyday after school. Well, mission accomplished! I was inspired by a bunch of old "Cards" Magazines I have on my shelf. I would flip through the pages until I found a card that jumped out at me and I put a PTI and me twist on it. It was so fun to work on my card stash again and play with some new stamps and colors.

I can't remember all of the stamp sets and colors I used but EVERYTHING beautiful is PTI! I can't even remember who my inspirations were.

I think I will try and do this again this week. Hubby is on a biz trip so we can do PB&J for supper. I don't think the kids will mind, haha!

I'm off to look for some more stamp sets that need to see some ink. With the new PTI release this week, I need to make sure I've used what I have before I purchase more supplies.

PaperTrey Princesses Challenge- Just Neutrals

Wow, what a great challenge! Valerie issued the challenge to make a card using just the neutral colors Kraft, Black, White, and Cream. Here is what I came up with for the challenge. I had seen one of the PTI Design Team members use the Outlines Alphabet stamps to make a chalkboard look. I loved the idea so I went with that. There has been lots of chatter on the forum about showing appreciation to our children's teachers. Here is a card for my high school son to give to his male teacher.

Thanks, Valerie! I wouldn't have thought of this on my own!

Stamps sets:

Teacher's Apple

Outlines Alphabet

125 invites later...

Well, this is what has been keeping me busy! DS#1 is getting married this summer and they asked me to make the invites. 125 invites later they are ready to be mailed. Future daughter-in-law and some of her siblings came over and helped with the final assembly. There were 12 of us gathered around the kitchen island and each person had their own task. Way too much fun! Yes, we even had 6 guys helping!

The CS and ribbon color is PTI Aqua Mist and the flourishes are from PTI's stamp set called Fancy Flourishes.

As much as we would love to have you all attend, I'm afraid we wouldn't have quite enough room.