Festivities!

Here are two cards I made for the PTI 7th anniversary celebration.

The first I did was for the limited supply challenge. I chose my 7 supplies (white card stock, 5 ink colours, and 1 stamp set) within 7 minutes. And then I completed my card in under 17 minutes (I actually took only 8 minutes!).

Supplies:

Stamps: Happy Trails

Ink: New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, Orange Zest, Berry Sorbet

Cardstock: White

For my second card, I used one of the sketches and colour combinations from here (I went with New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Aqua Mist, Kraft, and Hawaiian Shores).

Stamps:Year of Flowers:Marigold, Bloomin' Button Bits
Ink: Ripe Avocado
Paper: New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Kraft, Aqua Mist
Accessories, etc.: Copic markers, brads

Feathers on the line!

Here's a card for WPlus9's "Comfort Zone" challenge. What makes this a "comfortable" card for me?

-The use of two of my favorite Wplus9 stamp sets

-Mix of bright and earthy colours

-Minimal layers (2)

Supplies:

Stamps: Fanciful Feathers, Heartfelt Mix (WPlus9 Design Studio)

Ink: Terracotta Tile, Harvest Gold, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Island Indigo (Stampin' Up!)

Paper: White, Island Indigo (Stampin' Up!)

An old classic.

Sometimes it's fun to go digging through the old stash of stamps and see what one finds! I stamped a few of these cheerful sealife images onto some basic card stock, coloured them with copic markers and then a quick swash of twinkling h2os overtop that.

Supplies:
Stamps: Silly Sealife, Fishy Friends, Whale Wishes, Medallion
Ink: Tuxedo Black, Tempting Turquoise
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Winter Wisteria, White
Accessories, etc.: Copic Markers, twinkling H2Os

Happy Cupcakes!

Today was a bit of a snowy, overcast day. What's a good solution for that? Rainbow cupcakes!!

I really like the look of simple, bold outlined images in a range of colours just in a cascade down one side.

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweets & Treats 
Ink: Summer Sun, Only Orange, Tempting Turquoise, Limeade ice, Raspberry Fizz, Black
Paper: Raspberry Fizz, Black, White

Happy Birthday Flowers

I was cutting out several purple flowers the other day, and liked how the card stock looked with negative cutouts. I adhered that over a piece of acetate and then placed that over some shimmery purple paper. I finished that off with a few baubles and a sentiment strip and called it a day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Ink: Royal Velvet

Paper: Royal Velvet, Coastal Cabana, Certainly Celery, White, Shimmery Purple, Acetate

Accessories, etc.: gems, button, twine, blooms dies

Happy Happy Happy!

Good afternoon!

Today I have a delightful little cupcake card. I was in the mood for a one-layer card with a little "pop".

I die-cut the word birthday and placed that on the card. Whenever I am die-cutting letters or words, I placed some scor-tape on the reverse side of the card stock to make an instant sticker. I keep a roll of 1 inch wide scor-tape for this purpose alone.

Sometimes when I'm using cupcake stamps I feel like being bright and whimsical. This time, however, I felt like using traditional cupcake colours- chocolate browns and light pink frosting. Yum!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweets & Treats, Sweets & Treats Fillers
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Cherry Cobbler, Sweet Blush
Paper: Real Red, White
Accessories, etc.: Birthday Trio Die collection

Happy New Year!

Happy 2014!

Here are two quick birthday cards I made as part of a gift set. Although the leaves are traditionally masculine and the flowers, feminine, both could be used for anyone!

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms II, Stylish Sentiment: Birthday (PTI), Shapes and Shadows (SU!)

Ink: Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar

Paper: Kraft, Dark Chocolate, White, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush

Relax!

Here's a fun camping themed card.

Supplies:
Stamps: The Great Outdoors (DoodleFactory), Flipping Out (PTI)
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Tuxedo Black
Paper: Happy Campers (We R Memory Keepers), Spring Moss, Soft Sky, White
Accessories, etc.: Baker's Twine, Copic markers

Some Love-Themed Christmas Cards

I know it's only mid-September, possibly too early for Christmas cards, but it'll be December before you know it! I was looking through some old files and found several cards I made for a magazine card several months ago. So I present to you some "rejects". I was actually really happy with these two cards. 

This first card is extremely simple. I die cut out this sprig from felt, tied some baker's twine around it and attached tiny red pearls all around it. I love this sort of design on a kraft card base with round corners. I don't know why, it just seems classic, but a little rustic.

I don't remember what the specific call was. I think one of the themes was to use non-holiday product for a Christmas card. So what did I do? Used various chipboard hearts and covered them with glitter and paired that with a Christmas sentiment.

Supplies:

Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday

Ink: Dark Chocolate

Paper: White, Kraft

Accessories, etc.: Winterberry die, Red Pearls, Baker's Twine, Chipboard hearts, glitter, corner rounder

Wishing you sunshine

Here's an almost one-layer card today. I love making flowers using these bloom builder dies!

Supplies:
Stamps: Turning a New Leaf, Blooming Button Bits
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse
Paper: Kraft, Lemon Tart
Accessories, etc.: Button, Bloom Builders #3

"Herd" it's your birthday!

Here's a punny birthday card.

Supplies:
Stamps: On the Farm
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Harvest Gold, Pure Poppy
Paper: White, Kraft, Pure Poppy
Accessories, etc. Twill ribbon, Corner Rounder

You are my sunshine!

Here's a card I made a long while back that showcases an ombre background. I made use of glossy white paper and sponged inks across them. I also inked up the word sunshine using three different colours of ink to mirror the background.

 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Hello Sunshine

Ink: Terracotta Tile, Canyon Clay, Harvest Gold, Summer Sun, Lemon Tart

Paper: Summer Sunrise, Glossy White, Canyon Clay, White

What is this? A Christmas Card??

I know, it's September. Christmas isn't technically that far away... I just haven't felt like even thinking about holiday cards. However, I was perusing Pinterest and found this. I thought that it would be a good "warm-up" card. 

Do you ever have those days? You feeling like creating, but don't really know where to start. I like to find a good inspiration card to get me into the crafting groove. 

I had some awesome Chevron ribbon to use, so I thought this card would work well!

Supplies: Stamps: In the Meadow (PTI)
Ink: Fresh Snow, Dark Chocolate
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Kraft
Accessories, etc.: Cherry Cobbler Ribbon (SU!)

Vellum Leaves/Wooden Tri-Panels

This is one of those cards that was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest. I actually only used the basic idea of the tri-panel mask. To make the mask, was a bit of a process. I traced the die I wanted to use onto plain copy paper three times- I used this paper as my guide. The sandwich I used was the Spellbinders magnetic plate, the guide paper, the die (it easily stuck to the magnet through the copy paper), and then a 2nd piece of copy paper. I made sure to keep the top piece of paper the same size as my guide and kept them lined up throughout the process. I only had one die, so I did that three times until I had my mask ready to go!

I sponged on some Vintage Cream cardstock and then stamped over with a Woodgrain background image. Next, I stamped the leaves onto vellum, hurried the drying process with an embossing gun, and cut them out.

Supplies:

Stamps: Beyond Basic Borders, Leaf Prints (PTI), Woodgrain Background (SU!)

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, Canyon Clay, Summer Sunrise, Vintage Cream

Paper: Canyon Clay, Vintage Cream, Chocolate Chip, Vellum

Rainbow Make A Wish

I just can't get enough of watercolouring on this paper! For this one, I just starting playing with a rainbow palette of colours and then decided to actually use it on a card.

I don't have that many PTI reinkers, so I just used a larger clear block as my palette. I pressed the inkpads directly onto the clear block and used an aquapainter.

Supplies:
Stamps: Think Big Favorites #1, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday {the small stars}(PTI)
Ink: Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Spring Rain, Royal Velvet, Tuxedo Black
Paper: Basic Black, White, Cotton Paper

DIY Designer Paper

There's something about the Garden of Life stamp set that just makes me want to create my own patterned paper. For this one, I started with a very simple, monochromatic colour palette- Terracotta Tile, Melon Berry, and Vintage Cream. I chose three different flowers and started randomly stamping them. I started with the lightest dye ink (Melon Berry), then the darker dye ink (Terracotta Tile), and finally finished up with the pigment ink (Vintage Cream). I definitely recommend finishing with the opaque pigment ink.

Supplies: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday, Garden of Life (PTI)
Ink: Melon Berry, Terracotta Tile, Vintage Cream
Paper: Melon Berry, Terracotta Tile, Vintage Cream
Accessories, etc.: twine, button

Autumn Themed Birthday

It doesn't feel like autumn is completely here. The daily highs have still been in the 20s, the geese have only just starting rounding up, and the leaves are still quite green. But the nights are getting cooler, and the days grow shorter. 

Here's an autumn themed card. I love combining woodgrain patterns with leaves.

Supplies: 

Stamps: It's a Jungle Out There, Turning a New Leaf, Woodgrain (PTI)

Ink: Terracotta Tile, Canyon Clay, Dark Chocolate

Paper: Terracotta Tile, Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Rustic White

Accessories, etc.: Twine, Corner Rounder

Hexagon Quilt Birthday

I have all sorts of hexagon products, but I rarely use them... I had cut out the hexagon cover plate and had all these fun little hexagon shapes leftover. I also recently got the 2013-14 In Colors, and wanted to use those a bit more. This card just kind of came together!

Supplies:
Stamps: Big Birthday Wishes, Happy Hexagon (PTI)
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding, Baked Brown Sugar
Paper: Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, White
Accessories, etc.: Hexagon Cover Plate (PTI)

New Addition!

This card is for a dear friend that is expecting in the next month or so. I've known her since we were both 5 years old, so it's very exciting to see her starting a family of her own. I didn't want something super cheesy/in-your-face cutesy, but I thought this set by WPlus9 had the right balance of cute.

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Heartfelt Mix (WP9D)
Ink: Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate
Paper: Vintage Cream, Berry Sorbet, Dark Chooclate

Apple + Banner

Just a sweet and very basic card tonight. This one is a cute 4-1/4 square. I got this adorable Doodlebug Designs paper pack the last time I was in the US. As awesome and bright as it is, I actually wanted to tone it down a bit for this card. I achieved that by placing vellum overtop.

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Fruitful, Birthday Basics (PTI)
Ink: Pure Poppy, New Leaf
Paper: White, Pure Poppy, Fruit Stand, Harvest Gold, Vellum
Accessories, etc. Banner dies (Simon Says