Key to My Heart

Hi yall! Back today with another card using Practicing Creativity's "Key to My Heart" set. I talked about this set in yesterday's post and mentioned the great argyle background building stamps in the set. Here's my first go at creating the argyle and I will definitely be going back to these stamps!I have been using this sketch a lot ... and you'll set it at least one more time later this week ... sorry! But its so easy and since I like making backgrounds its even easier! In the same way I made yesterday's card, I stamped the background, distressed it and layered it over a distressed red mat. The sentiment was made by stamping the key and then overstamping with the sentiment. Again with the distressing and adhering with foam tape. I added another dangling heart-shaped lock by stamped the lock, cutting it out and adding it to the bow with some twine. I really love how this turned out. :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Practicing Creativity - Key to My Heart
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, Chai, Chamomile
Paper: PTI Kraft, Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream
Other: PTI Pure Poppy Stitched ribbon, twine

i heart you

Hey y'all! Busy week so far at my real job ... lots of meetings, an open house on Thursday, etc. So I haven't had time to make a whole lot in the past few days. But I did get a chance to play with a set of stamps from a new company called Practicing Creativity. This set is Courtney's first set and its called "Key to My Heart" and is a great value at only $12.99 for the set. I love the little keys and the argyle background builder (which I will show later this week)!

Here's one of the cards that I made using the "i (heart) u" sentiment. The heart is a separate stamp, so it was really easy to make this patterned background. I did use two different size hearts as well ... love these heart shapes! So fun.
Once I made my paper, I trimmed it, distressed it and mounted it on a piece of distressed red card stock. The key image was stamped on a scrap and then overstamped with the "i heart you" sentiment. I distressed the edges and added this on foam tape for dimension. I also stamped the heart-shaped lock and hung it from the sentiment with twine before attaching the sentiment to the card. I love how the heart lock dangles on the card.

What do you think of this new set? I think I will certainly be using it again and again ... and for more than just Valentine's day cards. Courtney, the owner of Practicing Creativity, also just released a new set called "You're Dandy," which looks really fun too!

Thanks for visiting today! I will be sharing more Valentines (and more Practicing Creativity cards) later this week! See you then!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Practicing Creativity "Key to My Heart"
Ink: PTI Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Chai, Chamomile
Paper: PTI Kraft, Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream
Other: twine, foam tape

Emboss Resist

Hiya! Back again to post a challenge card from PTI's anniversary celebration. Nichole showed us how to do the emboss resist technique and since I had never tried this before, I thought "I have got to try that!" :-)

Ok, let me say that I started off with a Valentine's day project and it didn't go so well. I learned that the new pigment ink works way better for sponging around the embossed images than the "old" ink style. So, after I made that revelation, I only had a few colors to choose in the new ink style. So, here's what I came up with (please excuse the terrible photo as its been raining buckets all day!) ... I stamped a medallion image from the Giga Guidelines set all over my white card stock in Versamark and added some clear embossing powder. I set it with my handy dandy embossing tool and then rubbed some Sweet Blush hybrid ink all over until I got a color that I liked.

For the sentiment, I stamped the "birthday" and "wishes" in Ripe Avocado and rubbed on more Sweet Blush and then a little Chai around the edges as well. Of course, I also distressed all the edges ... love that! A little ribbon and some foam tape under the sentiment and this was easy as pie. I think I'll go try it with hearts now and make some of those V-day cards! :-)

Thanks for stopping by to check out my project! Happy Friday y'all!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Stamps: Giga Guidelines
Ink: Sweet Blush, Ripe Avocado, Chai; Versamark
Paper: Kraft, White, Ripe Avocado
Other: Sweet Blush grosgrain; foam tape

Unity Friends with Flair

Happy Friday y'all! Popping in today to share a couple of Unity cards for the Friday Friends with Flair blog hop. Both of the cards I am sharing today use stamps from the October 09 Kit of the Month. This was such a cute kit!

The first card has this flower bunch/patch image, which I colored with some Copic markers and added a little bling with a Sakura gelly roll pen (which is kind of hard to see in the photo). I left a sentiment off the front, so I could stamp one on the inside when I decide to mail this off to a friend. Could be great for many different occasions! :)
The second card uses the cutie owl image from the kit. I stamped the image twice, so that I could cut out the eyes and add them on foam tape for a little dimension. Cute, huh?!Sorry to cut this short, but I have a busy day ahead of me so I will catch y'all later this weekend! Thank you so much for stopping by! :)

Supplies Used - Flower Card:
Stamps: Unity Oct 09 KOTM
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Copic Markers; Sakura glitter pen; PTI Chai, Chamomile
Paper: PTI White; SU! Pink Pirouette; My Minds Eye DP
Other: PTI Spring Moss grosgrain; corner rounder punch; sewing machine

Supplies Used - Owl Card:
Stamps: Unity Oct 09 KOTM
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Copic Markers; PTI Chai, Chamomile
Paper: PTI White, Spring Moss; SU! Pink Pirouette
Other: PTI Spring Moss swiss dots satin ribbon; Swiss Dots embossing folder; foam tape

Relax

Hiya! Only two more sleeps til the weekend! Woot! (Wait ... who am I kidding?! I really haven't been to work this week due to the snow days! And we do have a one hour delay tomorrow. Nice!)

Despite being off, I am looking forward to some flip flop weather and the summer, which explains this card ...Dude, flip flops are my thing. I would wear them everywhere all the time if I could, but its too cold and its not appropriate at work. Dern it! Anywho, I saw this paper at Archivers about a month ago and they had one sheet left. It totally fell in my basket! I cut out a pair and added them on foam tape next to those sweet alpha stickers. Must use more alpha stickers!

I also got some new books today ... again with the "I wish it was summer and I was chillin in my flip flops reading by the pool" vibe. An assortment ... The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. I will let you know how they are once I get them read!

That's it for now folks ... I had better get to bed or tomorrow morning will be a harsh reality. ;-) I will be back Friday with a couple new Unity cards for you. See you then!

Supplies Used:
Card stock: Papertrey Ink Stampers Select White, Orange Zest
Patterned Paper: Flip 'n' Flirt "Summertime Girl" (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Papertrey Ink Chamomile
Accessories: Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow grosgrain ribbon; American Crafts Thickers Nutmeg white alpha stickers
Other/Tools: Heidi Swapp edge distresser tool, foam tape

Happy Birthday Papertrey #7

Whew! This is Card #7 of 7 ... I mentioned previously in this post that I am showing off my "Happy Birthday to Papertrey" cards for their 3rd Anniversary contest. So, if you see this one first, please hit refresh on your browser to see what else I've had fun making today! :-) I hope to get to the other 2 images later this week, but for now this is all I've got! And this one is my favorite! :-)

The Birthday image is from Dawn. I just love that girl's style and the fonts she used here. So fun! You can see her sample and grab the image here. I punched a bunch of Dark Chocolate Bitty Box circles and stuck them to a Kraft base and trimmed the edges. Then I added a strip of Pure Poppy card stock and layered it with some Berry Sorbet ribbon (looks more pink here) and ties a sweet bow. I added a Pure Poppy mat behind the image and attached it with some red twine. EASY PEASY and love the effect. Thanks for a great image and color scheme Dawn! :-)

That's it for me tonight. They just announced another snow day for tomorrow, so I can't wait to see what else I can get into in my craft room in the morning! Thanks for stopping by and for your comments - love reading your feedback! :-)

Supplies Used (all PTI):
Image: Dawn McVey
Paper: Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy; Bitty Box DSP - Dark Chocolate
Accessories: Berry Sorbet grosgrain; red twine - craft supply

Happy Birthday Papertrey #6

Card #6 here ... I mentioned previously in this post that I am showing off my "Happy Birthday to Papertrey" cards for their 3rd Anniversary contest. So, if you see this one first, please hit refresh on your browser to see what else I've had fun making today! :-)

This card is one I made using a cutie image from Alli Miles. I think its perfect for a baby or little kiddo card and just by changing out the colors you can easily make it cater to either gender. You can see Alli's great sample and grab her image here.This card is pretty simple, but I added some Swiss Dots embossing to the bottom half of the card base ... since I had dragged my Cuttlebug out and all for this card. I had planned to go more Sweet Blush pink with this one, but grabbed the wrong Copic for that! Whoops! LOL Anyway, I love the Melon Berry so it turned out great. I distressed the edges of the Melon Berry layers ... an attempt to distract from my inability to freehand cut a perfect circle! (Shhhh don't tell anyone!) Seriously, this is a great way to hide some cutting/trimming imperfections.

Thanks for stopping by! I have one more card to show tonight ... I ran out of time and good light, but may attempt the other 2 later this week but don't forsee getting them done in time for the challenge.

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Image: Alli Miles
Ink: Copics
Paper: Kraft, Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Melon Berry
Other: Melon Berry twill ribbon; Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug)