PTI Princess Challenge- One Layer

This card is for Anya's Challenge to make a one-layer card. This is harder than you might think!.

Thanks, Anya, for a fun yet challenging challenge!

PTI Princess Challenge- Banner

This is for Lee's Challenge to use a banner on a card. I don't have any cute triangle banner stamps or dies, so this will have to work. I had lots of fun putting in an acetate windshield and Crystal Effects headlights.

Thanks for the great challenge, Lee!

PaperTrey Princesses Challenge- Non-Traditional Christmas

Playing catch-up on my challenges. This card goes along with Michele's Challenge to use an older Christmas stamp set and to use a new non-traditional color scheme. Well, I can say I have never used Plum Pudding, Harvest Gold and Spring Rain before on a Christmas Card!

Thanks for the fun challenge, Michele!

WooHoo! I did it... 7 Card Challenge

with 3 minutes to spare! At three minutes til midnight I put the finishing touches on card #7. It was so fun watching the pile of unused stamps get smaller and the pile of cards get larger.

I do need to thank Lisa Johnson for her inspiration on the Just for You card and Michelle Wooderson for her inspiration on the Round and Round card. I also got the idea for the Friendship Jar Fillers card from someone, but I can't remember who. Sorry, if it is you, thank you!!!

This has been such a fun challenge, but now I must do some laundry....

7 Card Challenge #3 & #4

On to continue my challenge of 7 cards before the end of the week. Here are cards 3 & 4. The first card uses Tea For Two Additions. I love these little tea cups and can you see the spoons on the top of the card in versamark? Too cute! This color combo is inspired by Dawn, the queen of putting the most amazing colors together and making them look great. I never would have thought to put Pure Poppy and Berry Sorbet together! Dawn did it and it looks GREAT!

The next card uses Background Basics: Geometric. Another color combo that I wouldn't have chosen all on my own, but it works! This is another "guy card" for the bookstore.

Thanks for stopping by! I will be back tomorrow with some more cards, hopefully! ;)

PaperTrey Princess Challenge #4 & 7 Card Challenge #2

Some times you just have to multi-task! I realized I still had not completed Princess Challenge # 4, which was to Score It. Not sure if you can see the score lines on here, but they are present and accounted for! The top score lines have black embroidery floss going between them and the bottom scores have some teeny-tiny buttons between them. Thanks Pam for a great challenge!

I also need to keep working on my 7 card challenge to ink-up some unused stamp sets. This card uses Enjoy the Ride by PTI. It was fun masking and detailing the car with black stripes. I also used SU! Glaze on the headlights. I had some requests for masculine cards in the bookstore so I couldn't do too much embellishment!

7 Card Challenge: #1

Here is card #1! This card uses the stamp set Scattered Showers Additions. The colors are Ocean Tides and Spring Moss. I also used PTI ribbon and the medium scalloped die. The umbrella comes from Scattered Showers. I love the background rain drops. Feel better, my friend!!!

Only 6 more to go! HeeHee...

Princess Challenge #9

The challenge was issued by Dana to remake a card from the past. You could use the same layout, same color combo, same stamps or all three. I chose a card I made a while ago and gave it a fresh new look. The cards are both Lemon Tart with Lemon Tart Saddlestitch ribbon, the layout is the same, but I changed up the stamps and the DP. As you can tell on my new card, I still haven't mastered my Copics yet.

Thanks Dana for a very fun challenge!

7 Card Challenge

I just discovered that I have 7 unused PTI stamp sets. So, I am challenging myself to use all of them before this week is over. I need to make at least 1 card with each set and get them posted on my blog-o, as Dawn would say.

Here they are:

Scattered Showers Additions

Background Basic: Geometrics

Enjoy the Ride

Tea For Two Additions

Friendship Jar Fillers

Round and Round

Just for You

Want to join me in my Unused Set Challenge?

PaperTrey Princesses Challenge- #8 & #10

I am doing better than I thought! I made this card for Father's Day using Masculine Motifs. It fits Mariah's challange and Melissa's challenge. Mariah challenged us to "make it POP" using Pop Dots or dimensionals and Melissa posted a beautiful picture for us to use as inspiration. I also used the woodgrain stamps, fillable frames, embroidery floss and buttons. CS is Spring Moss and ink is Dark Chocolate.

Thanks for looking! Now off to find Challenge #9...

PaperTrey Princesses Challenge #11-In the Air & Friendship Jar

Welcome! Last week Mara issued our latest challenge, to make a card using something "up in the air". Well, I decided to use PTI's new butterfly set. My colors are Hawaiian Shores and Raspberry Fizz.

While the mojo was flowing, I also made a card using the new Friendship Jar set. Since the Raspberry Fizz felt was still on my desk, I used Raspberry Fizz everything else. I think I am really going to like this jar set and the dies that go along with it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Now to catch up on all of the other challenges I missed....

Busy Mom

Well, I haven't been doing very much stamping but, I did get one son graduated and one son married. I am looking forward to cranking out some cards again.

Hope to be back soon....

Congrats to the Grads

Wow! It has been forever since I blogged or crafted!

With graduation here I needed to get my act together and get some cards made. Since I hadn't used my Dotti Biscotti patterned paper yet, I decided that was a great place to start. Each card base received a coordinating Dotti Biscotti layer and then the fun began. I wanted to use ribbon in all different sorts of ways. I think I wound up with a pretty good variety. I was glad to have the For the Graduate stamp set from PTI!

The other single card was made a couple of

weeks ago. It uses the Green Boutique

patterned paper as well as Star Prints

and Fillable Frames stamp sets.

Thanks for looking and Congrats to the Grads!

P.S. Sorry for the horrible photography! No sunshine heading our way today.

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.