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.
Whew - what a long weekend!! I told my hubby weeks ago that I was going to do the entire Stamp-a-faire that Papertrey Ink does annually instead of last year where I just did a few projects and don't even remember if I posted any of them. For details check out their website shown below or click on each of the underlined headings below to be taken to the website showing videos, techniques and the design team's projects:
I am participating alone as none of my friends or family do papercrafting. Here are a few pictures of my space before total chaos. There is one of my favorite helpers, Socks, who loved to steal my seat. She will rush into the room ahead of me and jump right up.
I started off with a list of cards that I need in the next few weeks to keep myself on target. I want to clarify that I didn't do the projects in order (I sure tried) but I did do a new project for each challenge...that is what this is to be a challenge, learn new techniques, etc not post the same card for three different techniques. Ok - soap box done :)
I was actually up on Saturday at 6:30 so I got moving right from the get go. My hubby got up around then too but was out of my way by 8 to go help his parents move. This first challenge was a quick one; color recipe and a sketch recipe. I selected the recipes below and created the following card:
This just screamed baby boy to me so I did just that; card number one is not on my list of needed cards...oh well. I stamped 'Little One' on vellum from the Mega Mixed Messages set in Staz-on Blue ink. The circles are Sketched Shapes stamp set on White PTI cardstock punched out with 1" scallop circle Martha Stewart punch. I used all of the inks shown in the color recipe.
For this challenge I didn't start on Friday by soaking my muslin and felt I started soaking on Saturday so I didn't do this card until Sunday. I tried both a strip of cheapy white felt and two small pieces of muslin in a bowl of instant coffee and the same a bowl of regular store-brand black tea. The felt didn't really stain at all; the muslin however worked out great.
I used one piece of the coffee stained muslin for this project. I stamped with Dark Chocolate using Background Basics - Text Styles and then Melon Berry and Plum Pudding inks with Simon Says Stamps - Cupcake Party circle stamp with small dot. I die cut with Beautiful Blooms II #2 dies and the very small flower from Lovely Layers die set and sewed them together with Sew Easy floss in Quick Sand with a Melon Berry, Plum Pudding and Dark Chocolate button. I stamped the leaves from the Embroidered Blooms set with Simply Chartreuse and the sentiment is also from that set in Ripe Avocado. I love how this turned out. This will be my in-laws anniversary card for next week and I will totally be doing this more often.
Again, I didn't start this on Friday as suggested in the Meet and Greet post because I wanted to see the videos and design team projects before I decided what I wanted to do. I am glad I waited because I used the Heart Prints stamp to impress in the paperclay. Once it was dry on Sunday I used reinkers, water and a paintbrush to do some ombre coloring. (Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst and Sweet Blush). I then painted on a thin coat of Crystal Stickles by Ranger. Once that was dry I used one of the sketches from the first challenge to prepare my card. Paper is all PTI; white, pure poppy, sweet blush and hibiscus burst pattern paper.
I mixed up two different spray mists; Aqua Mist and Hibiscus Burst. I happened to have a pack of Ranger Mini Misters sitting unused so I put them to work. I did two projects.
On the first one I followed Nichole's video by stamping Quilled Elegance with versamark ink, embossing it with white powder, misting the lower portion with Hibiscus Burst and the upper with Aqua Mist. Then I colored in pieces of the design with the Scarlet Jewel and Raspberry Fizz reinkers and water as paint. I stamped the sentiment in Raspberry Fizz and then again with Ranger Rainbow embossing powder (my favorite).
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.
I got a lot of use out of the Funky Florals set as I used it again for this card. I have never seen this technique before and I didn't like how it was turning out but in the end I loved the finished product. At first everything was too square and plain; so I rounded the corners of the white and green, added Background Basics Text Style to the New Leaf green card stock with New Leaf ink. Then I kind of did a sloppy swipe of Summer Sunrise ink around the edge of the white.
Again I referred back to the sketches from the morning as I needed inspiration. The colors are Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise (my new fav and I don't like Orange), Canyon Clay and New Leaf. I used the Notched Flowers dies to cut out the flowers, stamped them, and then did the school glue/salt technique. Once they were dry, I used the Harvest Gold reinker to touch the salt as shown in the sample video. Oh yeah - the leaves were from the Boutique Borders - Father and the sentiment from Signature Greetings. This salt technique was quite fun; I am sure I will be doing it again.
For this one I also pulled color inspiration and the sketch from the morning post:
Here I go with Embroidered Bloom again. The Ocean Tides is my 'gallon', Berry Sorbet is my 'quart' and Dark Chocolate is my 'pint'. The square frame and border stamp are Framed Out #1, sentiment from Congrats All Ways, restamped with versamark and Rainbow embossing powder.
I was most excited about this one but it turned out to be my least favorite. I will experiment with Shrinky Dinks again and hopefully get better results. The was a Sunday project. Again, used a color and sketch recipe from challenge 1.
I used Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Small Circle S4-125 (the largest circle) and Staz-on Black to stamp the Congrats from Congrats All Ways. I heated it with my heat tool in a cardboard box as Ashley showed in her video. I really liked how it turned out but then I tried to color it to the Winter Wisteria color and that was when it went south. I ended up using a Copic marker to start then stamped the actual ink on the back and then covered it up with white acrylic paint. Again, turned out ok but my least favorite.
After work on Friday I went to pick up my last few supplies and for the life of me I couldn't find Kool-aid and was just ready to head home so I ended up going back to the instant coffee that we have in the pantry (we don't drink coffee but I needed it for a recipe at the holidays). It was the only scent that I had that made sense with a stamp that I own. I did get to use my new Cuttlebug embossing folder that I bought at Michaels on clearance.
PTI Vintage Cream cardstock, Michaels Kraft, Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Fizz ink, Heart 2 heart #1 stamps and die. It really does work as a scratch and sniff.
This one terrified me the most and was the last one that I completed late Sunday afternoon. The colors, Aqua Mist, Melon Berry and Harvest Gold are three colors that I would never have put together. I was ready to take a break when I opened my new goodies from Simon Says Stamps and saw the September stamp set Life is a Journey jumped out and grabbed me. I knew that the zig-zag stamp was perfect! I really love how this turned out. Paper, ink, stamp, paper cutter and adhesive...viola...I surprised myself with this one!
Like I said i didn't do these in order but I was doing this one around 10:45 on Saturday night - I am so glad my hubby was asleep because I got glitter everywhere. Thank goodness for swiffer floor cloths, picked up ton's of very fine glitter.
I used a color combo and sketch from the upcoming blog hop - I hope that was ok; I will NOT be resubmitting the card for the hop and I don't think that is right. I used 1/4" ScoreTape, pressed it down, sprinkled the ArtMinds Irridescent glitter that I picked up from Michaels (need to order the glitter from PTI next time I order) and then colored it with the following Copics. RV13, Y17, YR68, B01 and BG13 - I tried to use a color from the combos that coordinate with the colors from the sketch but I don't have the exact ones so I got as close as possible. The sentiment is from Signature Greetings in Hawaiian Shores ink all on white PTI cardstock.
Look at that sparkle!!
I try very hard to clean up as I go along and with two cats it is almost necessary or they will take off with my supplies. So I leave you with a picture of the box of my stamps and papers that need to be put away. I am very happy I did this. I got my list of cards that I needed almost complete. I need an anniversary card for my sister and brother-in-law and I have a vision using the Shrinky Dinks so I will tinker with that during the next few weeks (anniversary is at the end of September).
Also, I do typically play along with the Make-It-Monday videos when they inspire me but I have a heck of a time making myself post them. Here are two cards I made with the white crayon resist - I actually used white color pencil. The stamp is a Studio G from the dollar bid somewhere. I used post-its to do some masking and Blueberry Sky for the cake with Lemon Tart for the 'rays of light' coming from the candles.
Thanks for looking and I truly appreciate comments and feedback. I will be doing this again next year and might even remember to order the 'kit' on the day they sell it!! Two very long days and work tomorrow...time for bed.
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