CPS102 - Papertrey Style

Papertrey's anniversary celebration has me addicted to messing up my craft room! haha

Today's challenge is hosted through Card Positioning Systems (CPS). The sketch is here. Nicole is also giving away a ginormous container of buttons - I hope I guessed close enough, early enough! :-)

I really love how this turned out. Love it! Can't decide to send it or keep it! haha I decided to go with the 4-1/4" square size again - I think its just too cute and it fits in a regular A2 envelope. I did base the ribbon "skirt" off of Dawn's card. I will definitely be trying it again.





Supplies:
Cardstock: PTI Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart
DP & Buttons: Basic Grey Urban Prarie
Ribbon: PTI Raspberry Fizz grosgrain
Stamps: PTI Faux Ribbon
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip
Other: SU chipboard heart, DMC brown floss

Connect the Dots

Papertrey is still celebrating their big 2 year anniversary. Today, Nicole posted a card sketch where you had to connect the dots to actually get the sketch design. Here's what I came up with.

Supplies:
Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics, Garden of Life, Faux Ribbon; Cardstock: PTI White, Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Raspberry Fizz; Ink - PTI Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, Ripe Avocado; Ribbon: PTI Raspberry Fizz Twill; Other: SU! Scallop Edge punch, Martha Stewart Rhinestones

Kristina's Color Inspiration #40

Here's my 3rd post for today. I have had a wonderful afternoon/evening of stamping! :-)

This is Kristina's color inspiration for this week. Well, I am not sure that I am totally in love with how this came out ... it was better in my head. But I do love the color combo and will try it out again in the future - but I am not sure if that will be before the challenge ends! :-)

Colors for this challenge - Taken with Teal, So Saffron, More Mustard, White, and Old Olive.

Supplies Used: Stamps - PTI Faux Ribbon, Garden of Life, & Mixed Messages; CS - PTI White, Lemon Tart, SU Old Olive; Ink - Teal from the craft store and SU Old Olive and More Mustard; Ribbon from Taylored Expressions.

SCA04 Sketch

Sara is a stamping friend from SCS and she has some challenges that she's started up so I thought I'd play along.


The sketch called for 5 horizontal rows and a sentiment - simple. I like it. I took a cue from some monogram notecards I got printed once at Swoozies and did my version up with some ribbon scraps in my fav color combo - hot pink, lime and black. Sweet! What do you think?



It was pretty simple to make - I stuck some ribbon down with a strip of adhesive in the middle of the strips and the zig-zag stitched them in place with my sewing machine. A quick stamp from PTI's Faux Ribbon and there you have it!

PTI Challenge - Altered Bag

Happy almost Friday everyone! :-) Papertrey is celebrating its 2nd birthday and there is lots of stuff going on that is way cool. Today, Nicole posted a challenge - alter a bag. Well, didn't I spend the rest of my day at work daydreaming about what to do. haha

I decided to use some little treat bags (the lollipop size) to wrap up some yummy Dove chocolates. I made a little topper for the bag and stamped it up with the "XOXO" and heart stamps from PTI's Heart Print set. I then stamped a heart in Raspberry Fizz ink onto some Summer Sunrise cardstock and cut it out. After I adhered the topper to the bag, I wrapped some Summer Sunrise twill around it and added the heart. I think it turned out pretty cute for a nice little "thinking of you" treat for friends or some coworkers. Speaking of which, I better make a few more little bags so I will eat a few less of these chocolates! :-)

PTI January Blog Hop

Well, here we go! I am going to participate in my first PTI Blog Hop today! How about that?! This month's challenge was to create your best birthday card. Here's what I came up with ...I started by stamping the Guide Lines grid in Dark Chocolate on the Vintage Cream CS and then used Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Fizz inks to create the pattern. The bottom is a strip of Dark Chocolate CS layered with a strip of Raspberry Fizz CS that was punched with a slit punch and hole puncher. I added some Raspberry Fizz twill and a sentiment from the Faux Ribbon set to finish it off.

Hope you like what I came up with - I really love this color combination and will definitely be using it again in the future! :-) Hope you all have a great evening blog hopping!

Valentine's Accordion Tags

So, I really love all these accordion tags that I have seen on several blogs. They are just too cute. I made one for Christmas and I think I never got around to taking pictures and getting it posted. Well, yesterday I went to work on a Valentine's day theme. I LOVE it! My husband was like "oh dear Lord" when he saw it. I guess, I love it more than him! Or maybe it was just that I interrupted the FSU game! haha Here's a close up shot of my handiwork. I really love the color scheme I have going on here - Ocean Tides, Lavender Moon, White & Raspberry Fizz. I stamped the backgrounds with PTI's Heart Prints stamps and then added some Bazzill Just the Edge strips for the ric rac along the bottom. The ribbon is all PTI except the polka dots are from Taylored Expressions. The chipboard letters are leftover from the DCWV Christmas chipboard set that I picked on sale at Joanns back in December.
I really love it. My husband wants to know if I can sell them and what I can get for them. Just like a man.

Have a great day everyone! Come back later tonight - I am going to try out the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop this month!