PaperTrey Princesses Challenge #1

Welcome, Papertrey Princesses, to your first challenge.  For this challenge I would like for you to use paper piecing to show off some of those great outline images.  

I flunked coloring, so until I master the art of using copics, I like to use this technique to add a splash of color to my cards.  

The first card uses the new Tea for Two tea pot.  I also used the small tea cup from the new anniversary set and the verse from Warm Happiness.  The tea pot is paper pieced using the Polka Dot Parade patterned paper.

Card two uses the Scattered Showers outline umbrella along with the Pink Patterns patterned paper.  

For the third card I used the PTI stamp set Boards and Beams along with the Everyday Blessings patterned paper.  Even the roof and trees

are paper pieced.

I can't wait to see how you use paper piecing in your cards, layouts, or other paper projects.  

Happy Mother's Day

Just a really quick post showing some of the Mother's Day cards I made for the church bookstore.  These are all so different it is hard for me to pick a favorite.  

I think I am done making M.D. cards for the bookstore, now I need to make some for my Mom and my Mother-in-love.  

Happy Birthday Mom and Filed with Flair

Wow!  Two posts in one day!  

This first card is one we made for Ink Pad Missions and I liked it so much I made one for my Mom too.  It uses PTI's Woman of Life set.  The colors are also from PTI. 

Next is the FANTASTIC Filed with Flair boxes I made with Lauren Meader's template that can be purchased from PTI. (www.papertreyink.com)  These are so fun and EASY to make.  I made a different color of box for each type of card.  As I finish a card I put it in the appropriate box.  When a box has 10 cards in it I will take it to the bookstore to sell.  I should have taken pictures of the sides. I used the Friends til the End patterned paper.  I'll have to photo the side of the next box I make.  The fun part was seeing all of the PTI sentiments I have from different sets.  

Enjoy!!!

Raspberry Suite Week 3

I finally decided to join in the fun and partcipate in Dawn's color challenge.  Once I got going this was a lot of fun.  All of the cardstock I used is from PapertreyInk and My die cuts are made with Labels One Nestablities.  After all of the talk about how to attach the ribbon "through" the button holes I had to try it myself.  The sentiment is from PTI's Heartfelt Basics.

Well, Suzanne, it took me a while to find it, but I finally did and I thank you for this award!  I do feel loved!

You will all need to stop by Suzanne's blog and check out not only her gorgeous cards but also her beautiful quilts.  Even better yet is when she combines the two.  WOW, girl!  You do wonderful work!

Now it is my turn to pass on this award. 

The rules for passing this award on: you must post the award on your blog, name the person who awarded you, then pass the award to 6 other bloggers and leave a message on their blog that they've received the award.

1. Kerianne 

2. Edith

3. Lori

4. Lee

5. Cheryl

6. Michele

I invite you to stop by and visit the blogs of each of these wonderful ladies.  They inspire me to be a better stamper, a better organizer of my time, and have a closer walk with God. 

Bookstore Grad Cards

Time to start gearing up for graduation.  The bookstore lady said she wanted 30 grad cards so I figured I'd best get movin'.  Here are eight cards to add to the collection.  As I've said before, these are inspired by other people.  I sure wish when I printed out ideas the printout would say whose they were.  Oh well, if one of them looks like something you have done, THANKS!!! 

I think all of them use PTI stamps.  The die cuts are made using Spellbinder's Nestabilities.

2 Masculine Guidelines 2

Okay, you are probably sick of this set by now but I'm still loving it!  It makes it so easy to make great guy cards.  Here is one for a guy in our church and one for my big brother.  The first card also uses Mega Mixed Messages and the second one uses Father Knows Best and Birthday Blessings.

I hope they both enjoy them!  

PTI March Blog Hop

WooHoo!  Time for the March Blog Hop at Papertrey Ink! This month we were to make our background paper and then use it in our project.  I had such a hard time figuring out which was my fav, so you get to see my fav 4!  

Here are my four backgrounds.  I apologize for the shadows.  It has been raining here forever, or so it seems.  Hard to get a good pic with cloudy skies and no sunlight

And here are my four cards.  I really am enjoying using Guide Lines 2 from the March PTI release.  It makes creating backgrounds soooooo much fun!  I also used "Wishing You" with those beautiful tulips and "Mega Mixed Messages" so I can say just the right thing in just the right size.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

Easter & the Bookstore

Today I got an order for about 75 cards.  I should be able to make some progress on my using stamps challenges this way!

5 of the ordered cards are Easter cards so these are the first three.  Since they are for the church bookstore I figured I'd best not use bunny's or eggs.  Unfortunately, I don't have an Easter cross, so colors and Easter sayings will have to do for this year.  

I found the ideas for these cards in the SCS gallery so if I CASED your card, THANK YOU!  I have not much originality!  I used PTI stamp sets on all of these except for the Happy Easter  stamp that is from SU!  I am sooooo looking forward to receiving my Mega Mixed Messages stamps  from PTI so that I can have a larger version of the Easter Wishes.

Thanks for stopping by!  Come back again to see how I am doing on my order! 

PTI- Dawn's Color Combo Challenge

Final card for the PTI Anniversary Challenges.  Suppose I'll win with this one?

Dark Chocolate

Aqua Mist

Lemon Tart

PTI Friendship

Today's PTI challenge is to create a card for your bestest friend.   I sure hope she likes it!

PTI Sketch Challenge

Not my favorite card but I do like these colors together.  I used Faux Ribbon and Polka Dot Basics.

This card was made for a Papertrey Ink sketch Challenge.  Random winner receives LOTS of PTI ribbon!  SWEET!!!

Over the Rainbow with PTI

The challenge is to make a card or project using Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Ocen Tides, and Ripe Avocado.  I have so many Valentine's cards to make I decided to combine the two.  Enjoy!

I was inspired by a card in CARDS April '08.  Pardon the photography.  Not the best time of the day for pictures, plus picture taking isn't "my thing".

Time for another Blog Hop.  I haven't done one of these for a while, but it is good to be back.

For the January Blog Hop we were to make a birthday card.  I couldn't decide which one to do so you get to see both of them.  Our third son has a birthday tomorrow so the "Out of the Box" card is for him.  I got the idea from the Aug. 2008 Cards magazine.  I used Pure Poppy and Ocean Tides.  Thanks Niki for showing us how to use Faux Ribbon to make background papers.

Next is a card using "Out on a Limb, Revised".  This idea also came from a Cards Magazine.  I used Raspberry Fizz ink and ribbon on this card.  

Both of these cards go towards my challenge to make 5 cards using some of my PTI stamps that haven't seen ink in a while.

Here's the count so far:

Butterfly Kisses-0/5
Mailbox Greetings-1/5
Out of the Box-1/5
Out on a Limb-1/5
Silent Night-0/5
Teacher's Apple-0/5
Boxes Bags and Tags-5/5

Boxes, Bags & Tags

Here are the first five cards for my challenge.  These were all made using PTI stamp sets and most of them were CASED from the PTI gallery.  Thanks So Much was from Mary K., Get Well Tea from Julie Cameron, With Sympathy from Mary K, Baby was inspired by Niki E, and Special Birthday was actually my own idea.

I hope you enjoy looking at these. 

Time for another challenge.  I have several PTI sets that have seen very little ink.  I am challenging myself to use these sets to make 5 cards with each set.  

I will keep you posted on my progress! 

Butterfly Kisses-0/5
Mailbox Greetings-0/5
Out of the Box-0/5
Out on a Limb-0/5
Silent Night-0/5
Teacher's Apple-0/5
Boxes Bags and Tags-0/5

Cocoa and Recipes

Well, I think I am ready for the bookstore opening tomorrow.  It has been an intense week finishing up all these projects, but I've had fun!

This first project is more of Lauren Meader's templates except this time they have cocoa in them and they still use Pine's PTI stamps, Warm

Happiness.  

Then using Betsy Veldman's idea for a Holiday Recipe book, I made this:

Thanks, Betsy.  You can see Betsy's book here: http://forum.papertreyink.com/forum/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=34313   Also, you can purchase the recipe cards from PTI here: http://www.papertreyink.com/pb_recipecards.html

More Fun with PTI and FallCK!

While I'm uploading, I will add a few more items.  I am really enjoying my new PTI stamps!  These two cards were made using Made of Snow and Wise Owl.  Can you guess which one was made with which one? 

Then I made this card holder box with the Fall Craft Kit.  These kits are lots

 of fun!

PTI Template-A Cup of Tea

I am so loving the templates that Lauren Meader designed for PTI.  They are quick, easy and fun.  So many templates don't line up or look cheesy.  Not these!  I also used Pine's Warm Happiness stamps from PTI.  Fun stuff!  The recipe for the tea mix is on the back of the tag. 

It is good to be back!

It is that time again, Ink Pad Missions.

Here are the three cards that we will be making for the month of October. Of course, I don't have too many original ideas, so the second and third cards were cased. The second one was inspired by jmholmes25 in the PTI gallery and the third one was inspired by peanutbee on SCS. The first one I actually thought of all by myself.

Another thing that I have been working on is gifts for the girls in DD's class at school. I figured I would go broke quickly buying gifts for all of the birthday parties that Emily was invited to attend. So, this is what I will be making for all of the girls.

Hopefully I will be crafting a lot more now that the garden is starting to slow down.