Over at Stuck on U Sketches the current die cut challenge is
Something to Wear...I have the perfect thing for this challenge (edited to add - I don't wear high heels but I wish I could - I broke my left leg a number of years back and haven't been the same in heels since):
A long time ago I made the card below for my sister-in-laws birthday - see original blog post here. I have been thinking of making this card again many times since then but haven't. This would make a great bachelorette party, pregnant in heels baby shower or just a girl party invitation don't you think!?!
Before everyone starts to ask yes, I designed this with my Gypsy & the Forever Young cartridge, no I can't share the cut file - not because I am mean I just don't know how...that being said here are a few step-by-step pictures to show how this works in case anyone would like to see how I make a shaped card.
See the shadow behind the top white layer above, that shows that the card base is not a complete shoe...
I am using this as a thank you card for one of my coworkers who is really into shoes and is always so helpful. I wanted to give her a unique card to say thank you for your time in helping me learn my new job/her old job. I hope the step by step pictures were helpful and thank you for looking. Oh yeah - the paper is DCWV The White Ginger Stack - love the blues, greens and gold foil!
When I saw the video and inspiration card here I knew immediately that I wanted to make my first ever shaker card - I hope the shaker fits the instructions window screen technique: Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and the window screen technique.
My paper and ink is all PTI - White, Hawaiian Shores and Limeade Ice. I used Sketched Shapes to add the tone on tone stripes to the Limeade Ice scalloped circle. The Hawaiian Shores tone on tone is stamped with a Simon Says Set Only Have Eyes for You. The sentiment is from the Birthday Bash set. My scalloped circles are Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circles Small since I do not own any Limitless Layers from PTI that was the only way I could come up with a window frame.
The beads are from a set of mixed embellishments I bought at Michaels before Christmas 2012, they were the inspiration for the colors because they are blue and lime green - great match to the Hawaiian Shores and Limeade Ice. I made the card twice because my first attempt, on the left, was overfilled and I didn't like the stamped stripes. The one on the right is the second attempt and I am happier but would have liked a bit more beads. Next time I will try to be better.
Thanks for looking have a great week! I am looking forward to PTI's 7th Anniversary Celebration over at their blog. I am sure there will be some awesome new releases as they have already begun to sneak us some peeks. Check it out for yourself here.
So the January Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge is Pretty in Pink and I used the inspiration from the Online Card Class that I am taking, Stenciled. I have hyperlinked both so you can go check them out for yourself. This is the first online card class I have taken and I am really enjoying it. They post videos in the morning and you can post your projects to the gallery. This class started yesterday (yes, Friday, while I was at work) and the last videos will be published on Monday (again, yes, while I am at work). Good news though is you have lifetime access to these videos. The gallery on the other hand is only open until 2/3/14 and they are giving away random prizes to students from the projects posted. No-brainer there to post projects!
Because the class is about using stencils, which I do own a collection of, I still decided to make another one. I took the Happy Hexagons cover plate from Papertrey Ink and ran it through my Cuttlebug with stencil material. Well that didn't work but it got close. I sat here for probably 30 minutes hand cutting along the oh so close to cut indentations and viola I have a stencil of my cover plate.
I am completely horrible at photography but that is indeed two shades of pink. The ink is Ranger Distress Ink by Tim Holtz in Victorian Velvet and Spun Sugar. The paper is PTI cardstock in White and Autumn Rose (matches great with the Victorian Velvet). The velum is from my stash and I have stamped on it with Happy Birthday from the Birthday Bash Sentiments also from PTI. I embellished with Darcie Iridescent Sequins and the bow is We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy floss in the color Princess.
Keeping up with my theme for this year of using things I own but have not yet used - I have never used the distress inks and the sequins. It feels so good to use items from your stash.
When I did my first project for this challenge, located here, the other night I didn't think I had colored glitter so I used clear and colored it with Copics which worked great but something was nagging at me that I had color glitter somewhere so I went searching and low and behold I found it.
Since Florida is just now starting to have colder weather (I am not bragging about it; it just happens to be true) I have been in the mood for hot chocolate. I filled a mason jar up with a mix to give away and created this tag using Heart-2-Heart #1 die and stamp set. Looks like I need to add some more marshmallows to this jar. I will be printing out the mixing instructions soon on the printer and adhering it to the back of the tag.
The cardstock is Recollections Kraft stamped with PTI Background Basics: Text Styles in Classic Kraft Ink. The die is cut with the die from the set three times from PTI Vintage Cream cardstock. I stamped the cup in Dark Chocolate ink on all three. The first is the base. The second one I cut down to just the cup/lid and used 1/8" Scor-Tape to create stripes. I covered the whole thing with strips of tape leaving the backing on the top side, then I pulled it off one at a time and alternated between Martha Stewart Brownstone, Fire Opal and Yellow Gold glitter. I backed it by running it through my Xyron X sticker maker and attached it to the base. Then I fussy cut just the cup lid from the third cup, used the X again and adhered that on top. I popped it up on the tag. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps Love This set stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink. The tag top was rounded with my corner chomper and the hole was punched with my Crop-a-dile. The string is Lawn Fawn Gold Sparkle Hemp Cord.
Thanks for looking! Comments are much appreciated.
When I started working on this card on Monday for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #149 - Glitter Embellishments challenge I didn't think I had colored glitter but now that I am posting this I believe I was mistaken so I might take another gander at this challenge before the week is out but that is a might. I am signed up for an online card class this weekend so I might be more busy than I realize right now.
Check out Nichole's blog here and watch the video by Heather for this weeks inspiration.
Since I didn't think I had colored glitter I followed all of the same instructions from the video except I covered the entire die cut with Prisma Ultra Fine Palette Stamp & Stick glitter and then colored them with Copic markers (E19, YR07, YR68, Y18, Y04). I used the Beautiful Blooms II #3 die collection for the flowers, the sentiment is from Congrats All Ways set. My color for ink is Summer Sunrise and the paper is PTI white & Lemon Tart.
I don't photograph things well so I tried to get a close up of the flowers and all of that sparkle below:
My sister-in-law recently had an interview for a job in her degree field so I hope to get to mail this to her very soon; fingers crossed. Thanks for looking!
I am cranking out some challenge completion posts tonight (#2 of 3). Over at CAS(E) this Sketch! (here) challenge number 60 is the sketch below:
Keeping with my other challenge to start using the wonderful stamps that come in the Simon Says Stamps card kits I used the large heart balloon, string and one of the sentiments from their January kit stamp set called "Only Have Eyes for You".
The stripe paper is also from the January Kit. My ink for the heart is Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel, the balloon string is Soft Stone (my current favorite neutral) and the sentiment is stamped in Versafine Black Onyx. The solid red paper and the card base are PTI also (white, Scarlet Jewel). I used glossy accents on the heart balloon.
Thanks for looking!
New year, more challenges completed (check), more entries posted to my blog (check)...well almost 100%. I did complete CAS-ual Fridays CFC125 last week but I never posted it (see below) so I was determined to complete AND post 126.
This challenge can be found here. Show your skills using blocks of color on your Clean and Simple creation using any products you would like. I enhanced my challenge by making myself use the Simon Says Stamps January 2014 card kit stamp set 'Only Have Eyes for You'. I have been getting the kits for a few months and love them all but I rarely use them. That is going to change this year!!
I used white Canson watercolor paper and cut it in 1"x1" squares. I stamped the small heart from the stamp set in Versamark ink on 4 squares and used Martha Stewart white embossing powder. I then stamped the sentiment 'OMG IheartU' on the last square with the same technique and supplies. I used four shades of Papertrey Ink ink (Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz and Pure Poppy) to watercolor paint the squares. I really need a new paper cutter blade so the edges are really rough so I decided to round the corners. The card base is also PTI, White Stamper Select.
Below is the card I created for challenge 125 that I never posted. The theme on that one was 'in a word'. Instead of a resolution, choose a word that describes what you hope for the new year. I thought about that for a bit and decided for 2014 I was going to focus on HAPPY. I am a brutally honest person and with that comes bluntness, sarcasm, etc so when I told my coworkers that my 'theme' is happy they all laughed at me. I said no, wait a minute, I am still going to be true to myself but I am going to focus my energy on those things that make me happy...crafting, spending time with my husband, reading a good book, etc and the negative things in my life (work stress, people who don't like me, etc) will be pushed aside for the things that make me happy. So that being said here is the card I created but was unable to post for challenge 125:
Thank you for stopping by to take a look. I hope you have a HAPPY day! Leslie
I seem to typically only post my projects up when they are related to a challenge but I wanted to get some things posted that I have created in the last few weeks.
First off here are my Christmas 2013 items:
Supplies for the card are:
- PTI White and Winter Wisteria cardstock
- Snowflake Medley stamps and die
- Think Big Favorites #20 for the inside sentiment
- SSS Falling Snow Stencil
- White Dreaweaver embossing paste
- Wink of Stella clear on the front snowflake
- Ink - PTI Winter Wisteria and Soft Snow.
I couldn't help but add in this photobomb pic - thanks to my cat Gracie:
For years I have been wanting to make my tags for the gifts we give and I hadn't done so until this year - the picture is from my cellphone so it is not great:
Supplies for the tags are:
- PTI Polka Dot Parade #9 die
- DCWV Christmas Creations stack - various green paper sheets
- PTI Pure Poppy cardstock for the tag itself
- My Creative time XL Label Borders and die
- Martha Stewart White Embossing powder
- VersaMark Ink
- Lawn Fawn Mistletoe trimmings
Here are a few scrapbook pages I have made so far this year:
- DCWV The Spooky Time stack:
- DCWV The Pumpkin Patch stack and The Rustic Stack
Thanks for looking. I am so excited that I have completed 4 scrapbook pages so far for 2014. They might not be the most current pictures in my pile but they are now completed pages and I am getting my mojo going again. Leslie
This weeks PTI challenge can be found here. The goal is to create a multi-layered image from a single stamp. That was hard for me to do because what I admire most about the PTI line of products is that they are designed to be step stamped - meaning each layer is it's own stamp so you can build the way you want. Not all of their stamps are that way but 99.9% of the ones I own are either buildable or single image/sentiment. .
Finally I decided to use the Big Ticket Basics and corresponding die. The inks are: Soft Stone, Hawaiian Shores, Limeade Ice & Hibiscus Burst. The paper is White Stamper Select and Hibiscus Burst pattern in stripes. Thanks for looking and have a great day! Leslie
Post 2 for January 12, 2014. I am just rolling with my blog posts today. This post is related to DCWV Diary January challenge found here. I completed a project using both the page sketch and the card sketch.
The page sketch is:
My project used the Crafty Christmas stack that was out in December 2012 (I think). My goal this year is to use supplies I already own and complete more challenges and scrapbook pages. The page is of my nieces Brooke and Peyton by their Christmas Tree for 2013. The stickers are red glitter Recollections from Michaels and everything else is from the Crafty stack.
The card sketch is:
Miss Peyton turned two yesterday so I used this sketch to create her birthday card. I love the bright colors in the Birthday Wishes stack so I chose that one for this project. The stamp is Papertrey Ink Quilled Elegance stamped in Raspberry Fizz ink and the button in the middle of the flower is a Raspberry Fizz button (all PTI). The stitching line was cut using PTI's Stitched Lines Die and threaded with some We R Memory Keepers floss. I found a great video on YouTube (here) showing how to make these accordian style flowers - I tried my own first and it didn't work well and the first one I tried after watching the video was great but it was about 6" wide which was too large for the card. Third time's the charm! The card size is 6" x 6" and I made a custom envelope (not shown) with my We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch board - this is a great contraption!!!
Thank you for taking a look and have a great day! Leslie
**********EDITED TO ADD - 1/31/14 - please check out the Top 10 for January here. My card was in the top 10 and I was one of the two random winners of some great DCWV prizes. DCWV really treats their customers well.
I am doing good this year so far - I don't make resolutions exactly but I do set goals for myself and so far I am thrilled that I am keeping up with my goals. Here it is the 12th of January and I am posting my second blog post for the year and will be posting three more posts after this all before the end of the day today. Crazy for me but very exciting!!
Some of my goals related to crafting for 2014 are: do more scrapbooking, use supplies I already own, complete challenges instead of just looking at them and moving on and post more on my blog. Another goal that will tie in with my crafting (mainly scrapbooking) is to take more pictures. I remember the camera when I go to family events, etc, but I never remember to use it. Hence taking more pictures will turn into more scrapbooking pages.
Ok, enough rambling. I saw the following sketch posted over at Stuck on U Sketches on January 3rd and got inspired to working on the stack of photographs my sister has given me of my nieces (her girls). Here is the sketch:
The picture I used is from 2012 and is from July 4th while out preparing to watch the local firework display.
The paper is all DCWV that I have on hand...various stacks. The stripe and stars is from a christmas stack from a few years ago, the solid blue and the blue pattern is from one of their ultimate stacks and the Independence Day was cut on my Cricut using the Graphically Speaking cartridge with some while glitter DCWV cardstock. The red rhinestones are from my stash. It has been forever since I got out my Cricut to work on a project for myself - I have used it for things for others but not myself. Thanks for looking and I am so excited to have one scrapbook page down for this year (even though the photo is from 2012 this still counts as a 2014 success).
Leslie
January 2nd and I have completed and am posting my first challenge for 2014. Posting it is the big deal as I don't typically get my projects posted prior to the challenge expiring.
This week the Papertrey Ink challenge is to create a project using Angled Backgrounds. You can view the challenge yourself here.
For my project I wanted to challenge myself to use some of the various rolls of washi tape that I have collected and really never use. My sisters birthday is coming up so I knew this would be a birthday card. I really like the colors I used, mainly black and white with just a hint of pink and gray/silver.
I used 2" strips of PTI White cardstock and adhered the washi tapes then I adhered them to a standard A2 card layer. I let the panel sit overnight as I brainstormed what I wanted to do to finish the card. The patterns on the washi tape are quite busy so I knew I wanted the rest to be very plain. I decided to die cut the Framed Out #2 die twice; I used some extra paper from the more solid washi tape strip and then plain white for the center. I stamped the inside border in Hibiscus Burst ink for that tiny hint of pink to match the pink stars and then I used Versafine Onyx Black for the sentiment from the Framed Out #1 set. I popped it up on foam squares and I was done.
Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great 2014!
Leslie
See the post here for details about this card:
InLinks will only allow me to link up a blog post once and I did three cards - sorry for the multiple posts. Leslie
See the post here to see details for this card.
This is my first time participating in a challenge from CAS(E) this sketch! blog. I have admired their blog for a while but never gave myself the time to participate. This weekend I needed to make a card for my mother-in-laws birthday and everything right now is very much geared to Christmas and Valentine's Day (already!?!) so this was the perfect inspiration that I needed to make her card.
I immediately thought of my recently purchased Stitching Lines Dies from Papertrey Ink - what a great match to this sketch.
For the card above (my mother-in-laws card) I used PTI White cardstock, those wonderful dies, PTI Raspberry Fizz ink, Sew Easy Floss the Pink and Red collection, my Wink of Stella pen was used to add glitter to the sentiment and the sentiment itself is from PTI Birthday Bash Sentiments stamp set.
The card above was my next creation. The colors are Sew Easy Orange and Yellow sets, the ink is PTI Summer Sunrise and the sentiment is from PTI Funky Florals set (limited edition - no longer available). You can really see that Wink of Stella sparkle here.
And to have a masculine birthday card on hand I used the Sew Easy Blue and Aqua trio for this card with PTI Blueberry Sky ink and another sentiment from the Birthday Bash Sentiment set. Again...Wink of Stella
Thank you so much for stopping by; comments are appreciated. Leslie
The inspiration for this challenge is located here at Nichole Heady's blog.
I didn't have any paste to use with my stencil so I went to Michaels to get some and they were out - hmmmmm, around Stamp-a-faire my local Michaels was out of a lot of those supplies too I wonder how many PTI fans there are in the Melbourne, Cocoa, Rockledge, FL area? Anyway, here are my two cards:
The first one I made using the Moroccan Stencil from Simon Says Stamps.
I then noticed that the instructions for the challenge emphasized the use of a cover plate for the stencil and a PTI product so I went back to the drawing board and created card number two using Happy Harlequins cover plate. I smudged a bit with the stencil - it was made out of paper - so I covered the smudges with a strip of white cardstock popped up with foam squares.
Majority of the supplies are the same between both cards. PTI White cardstock, Thanks All Ways stamp set and Simply Chartreuse ink. On card one the Simon Says Stamps products are the Moroccan Stencil and the border stamp from Cupcake Party stamp set. I love to emboss over my sentiments with Ranger Rainbow Embossing powder. The green paint I used with the stencils is Silks Shimmer Semi-gloss Acrylic Glaze in Pretty Peridot - great match to Simply Chartreuse. Below is an up close picture of the glaze and the rainbow embossing:
Thanks for looking and I really do appreciate comments...hint hint. Have a great day!
The link on PTI's website is not allowing me to post both projects in the same post so here is a new one for the second Mixed Mists project I completed:
The second card I used just the Aqua Mist spray. I did a very monotone card this time with only Aqua Mist ink and Aqua Mist and White cardstock. The stamp was Funky Florals in versamark with white emboss for resist purposes; I think this looks like the white parts of dandelion flowers. The sentiment is from Framed Out #1 and the frame is from Framed Out #12.
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)