Most Likely A Time Out....

This has to be one of my most favorite cards that I have made recently. Clean and Simple!  The background is a Studio G I purchased at Michael's a year ago, as well as the "Thanks". Add a punched heart and some beautiful black pearls and...done!

Most likely this will be my last post for a bit...a month or so. We have finally found a new home! Lots of things are headed to boxes and going to the new house...while we are still trying to sell our current home. With the start of softball season (yep it's that time again!) andthe move...this may be it for a bit. Good news, my new stamp room is 2x as big as the old one! Wooohooo!!!

More Butterflies...

Butterflies, butterflies, butterflies...they are EVERYWHERE. Everywhere in the papercrafting world that is. It's still a tad cool for them to be flying around in the back yard.

I have wanted to try this die out since the first time I laid eyes on it in the SU! catty.

I finally borrowed it from my SU! demo Tammy, and I have to say it will be the next thing I purchase at stamp night. The possibilities are endless!

This is a scrap card. Just pulled out three colors from the scrap box that were different but seemed to work togther.

The green betterfly has been stamped on and the other two are made with white core paper, so when embossed the white core acts almost like an outline for the embossed design. Here is a little close up. 

Thanks for checking my card out! Have a fabulous weeked!

Oh...It's Feelin Like Winter

In honor of finally feeling cold winter weather, (which I would trade for the 50 degree weather we had in January) I decided I would post this little frozen friend card!

These snowmen are SO cute. It is one of my old sets from TAC, but I have to say it is a set that I thik will be kept for a very LONG time!

We are off to watch our girl play some warm weather fun in an indoor complex this weekend. Indoor softball...in February, pretty awesome!

Then next weekend, hosting a craft day at church...add that to closing on a house next weekend...GOOD TIMES ahead!

PaperTrey Ink Anniversary Day 1....

Today is all about inspiration! I woke up very early this morning...way too early for me on a Sunday! But it gave me some extra time to check out the PTI blog and see what was going on over there. It is the 5th anniversary of PTI and this morning the post was about the design team members and their top 5 favorite PTI products.

The challenge was to choose one of the cards posted as inspiration.

Now I do have to throw out a tad bit of a disclaimer. Dawn McVey is completely my favorite blogger. Love her cards and I am even more in LOVE with Windsor the laborador!But this morning, Maile Belles inspired me! I love this card when it was posted the first time!!

Since I was up SO early, I was able to make 2 cards BEFORE I even headed to church today,lol. That's a big deal for this gal!

Here is my take on the inspiration card, I made three cards all together.

I used one peice of 4.25 x 5.5 piece of white cardstcok and stamped the argyle out in a rainbow of colors. I then cut it once to make my two pieces.

BUTTONS! You don't see me use them much but today...there are a LOAD of them in my  post. I used Glossy Accents to glue them on.

The third card below was a little scrap that I had trimmed off of one of my pieces. Perfect for one last card.

Since I had to take a little snooze this afternoon....because I was up so early, it took me a bit to get this posted. I hope everyone enjoys the Super Bowl.

Supplies:

Stamps: All PTI

Colors: Ballet Blue, Lucky Limeade, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Violet, Kraft and Chocolate Chip

Misc: Buttons, Twine, Woodgrain IP



A New Favorite!

So I made a couple of cards today...and came up with this "session's" (as in card amking sessions) favorite. Nothing makes me smile faster than a field of sunflowers!!

Something about seeing rows and rows of those smiling faces in the middle of Kansas when the sun has burnt up everything else just makes my heart sing!

And then there is one of God's other amazing little critters....the butterfly. I have been playing in the butterflies lately! New little embossing die from SU! and Tammy let me borrow her big butterfly die. Needless to say, I will be ordering one of those reaaaaalllllyyyy soon!

After all was put together on my card. I decided I need a little butterfly goodness on this card. So I glittered  one up, added some colored pearls...and PERFECT!

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Sunflowers, Verve Sentiment

Colors Used: Daffodil Delight, Summer Sunrise, Cognac, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi and Garden Green

Misc: SU Butterfly Die/Embosslit, Twine, SU Embossing Folder

A Little Snow...

A little bit ago, it was snowing here in Central Kansas.

My girl came in a little while ago saying they expect 6 inches over night.

Hoping to get out of school, I am sure.

However, the weather report says the snow is over, and we barely have anything,lol.

Looks like school is happening tomorrow!

All the snow chat, made me think this would be the perfect post for tonight.

The My Favorite Things snowflake dies are just AWESOME!

Have a SUPER week, and stay warm!!

FTL 172 Challenge

Oh My Golly, I made this for the challenge over at Clean and Simple stamping blog and almost forgot to post it. Duh!

I LOVE the way this card turned out. So fresh and crisp!

Lookin a little springy don't ya think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Paper: SU Certainly Celery and Pink Piroquette

Ink: Same as paper

Other: Wood Grain Impression Plate, Copic Colored Twine

Something A Little Different....

13 cards and a card book in two weekends and I think I am finally adjusting to life after my job change over a year ago!

I have a ton of gorgeous paper in my stash, it is tough to cut into it, but I did it!

I still have a lot more to go.

This little number is a little outside of my box. Somewhat vintage...ok for me it is as vintage as it is going to get.

The flower was cut using my cricut. I used my gold stickles to do all the outlining. The center of the flower is a square jewelled brad. I covered the jewell with stickles s well.

Supplies:

Paper: My Minds Eye

Stamps: Verve

Other: PTI Border Die and Black Felt, Stickles, Jewelled Brad

2011 Top 10

On the PTI forum, there is a thread asking folks to post their Top 10 Favorite cards (or creations) that they made during the year of 2011. I did this last year and decided that I wanted to play along again this year. I enjoyed going through all of my blog posts and looking at what I made through the year. I surprised myself when looking, I do believe the quality of my card making has gone way up this past year! So here ya go...what I think to be my Best 10 of the year!

Now that I am all excited about what I made last year, I am pumped to get creating to see what I can come up with in 2012. Of course, I am headed to check out everyone else's Top10! A little blog hoppin on New Year's Eve, with Big Bang Theory on TV, husband and pups...and if I am really lucky a trip to DQ!

Welcome 2012!

OCC Bright and Happy New Year Challenge

2011 is almost all gone! I am pretty Ok with that, not been the best year ever, but not the worst either ;). The only goals I have really set for 2012 are stamp related. Use up some of my "stuff" and make more cards! I am going to try to utilize the sketches over at Clean and Simple stamping to help out with this. They have put them in a PDF format. I printed off the first 19 and have started. I will say that I have only completed one sketch in a couple of hours....but I made two cards inspired from it! Go me! Total of 3 cards in one afternoon makes it a great start!

So as I was looking around the net today, I found a nice challenge over at Our Creative Corner. Bright and Happy New Year Challenge and since I can always use help with a good color combo, I decided to play along.

Here is my first card. I must say that the pink looks red but it really is pink! This card is inspired by my friend Jen over at Jen's Ink Spot. That girl can use he twine in  the coolest ways!

My second card is inspired by the #1 sketch over at Clean and Simple stamping. I left out a pfew pieces but hey, that is why they say "inspired by"

Off to visit the treadmill. Hope you have a safe and Happy New Year!

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI

Paper: Royal Velvet, Wite Cardstock

Ink: French Lilac Palette

Other: Impression plate from PTI and Twine

More Cocoa Cuddles....

So, I really like this stamp set I purchased from My Favorite Things! Cocoa Cuddles, how cute! Now, I had to show you the close up first because, when you see the whole card...well I am not sure what happened but it appears as though there is a bottle of glitter volcanoing (is that a word??) out of the cocoa cup, :).

It is one of those things the camera picks up but my eyes don't.

I purchased several sets from MFT when I ordered, this is the only set that has yet to see ink. One of these days (maybe this coming weekend), I am going to play with some of my other goodies.  

I am not one to set "New Years Resolutions". However, I have a couple of goals for this crafting year ahead. I am going to try to use the sketches at the Clean and Simple blog....starting with #1. And...I am going to work at making lots of new cards with all of the great stamps I already own. With all of the incredibly wonderful new products constantly hitting the market, it is very hard to focus on this goal. So we will see how that all works out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: My Favorite Things

Paper: Red Riding Hood, My Minds Eye

Other: SU! Snowflake Embossing Folder, MFT Snowflake Die and Gemstones from SU!

Merry Christmas

Christmas is here, another year has flown by...oh my!

It is Christmas Eve, the church services are on TV and the last report stated that Santa was in Goergia. The weather man said that someone in Kansas must still be awake, as he seemed to take a detour.

I made this cool winter card a few weeks ago. Love the snowflakes dies from MFT. Cut them out of post its, put them on white card stock and sponged over them. Oh and that icicle die from MFT is just awesome! I added a little prisma glitter, as can be seen better in the close up below. The silved adds a bit of elegance and bling to finish things off.

Thanks for stopping by...Have A Merry Christmas.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI

Paper: AquaMist

Other: PTI Impression Plate, MFT Snowflake and Icicle Die, Prisma Glitter, Ribbon and Mini Jungle Bells

FTL170 Been Thinking of U

Amazed??? I am...2 post in 2 days...that is amazing for me these days!

This was another sketch challenge that "tripped my trigger". This one is from the

Clean and Simple blog, one of my favs!  

I immediately thought of this flower die when I saw it.

I LOVE this die! The flowers are so awesome once they are put together. I added a close up so you could see some of the detail. I embossed the background paper with an embossing folder. The "ribbon or cording" is from Hobby Lobby.

The pearls were colered with Copic Markers.

Thanks for stopping by, I really do appreciate all of you who continue to look at my blog!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sentiment TAC

Paper: Patterned and Cardstock SU!

Other: PTI Flower Die, SU! Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Pearls/Cording from Hobby Lobby

MFTWSC49 Feel The Warmth

Change is good and new stuff is FUN! What is even better is feeling good enough to use my new stuff.

I have had these little gems sitting in my room just waiting for some L.O.V.E. !!! I saw MFT's Wednesday's Stamp Club sketch challenge and thought I'd give it a whirl. I adore this stamp set, I think the sentiments are just so cute...and can be used with another of my favorites...snowmen. Love versatility!

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT Cozy with Cocoa, PTI Peace Be Still

Paper: Hawiian Shores, Wild Wasabi, Choco Chip

Ink: Martha Stewart and Wild Wasabi

Misc: Square metal eyelet(??), PTI Woodgrain Impression Plate

Oh What Fun!

So, I was looking around on the internet for SVG files that I can cut with my electronic cutter. I ran across the website http://www.myscrapchick.com/

and fell in love with the CUTE  designs. Oh and the best part, I was able to take advantage of the black friday sale....60% of everything once you order $10. HELLO...20 svg patterns for about $5...cha---ching!

I have a BIG soft spot for snowmen or snowgirls--and had to have this one when I saw it.

And the "merry", welp it took a little time but that is my attempt at a "PTI" look-a-like! I cut it out and glittered it up with black glitter. This is actually a card, no worries, I am not turning in my stamps anytime soon, heck I have too many that have never seen ink yet,lol.

Cutting File: MyScrapChick.com

Embossing Folder: SU

Stamp: (Christmas) PTI

A Quick Card....

Just a little change in scenry. I haven't been posting much, hope that I can get back into the swing of thing in January.

Stamps: Sentiment- PTI, Waves-Hot Off The Press

Paper: Marina Mist, MME

Flower Die: PTI

Make It Monday from PTI....

Alrighty, I saw this Make It Monday challenge and had some ideas jumping around in my head.

I am one of those gals who just can not dream up a card and make it.

It is all a process...I start with one little inspirational part...and then go from there.

So, If you watch the MIM video, there are a few things that I changed around.

Basically, I got the die thing and that was it.

I had a cool piece of white cardstock that I had embossed and then used the brayer and a kaliedacolor pad to add all the scrumptious color.

 

With all that awesome color and pattern the only thing that would look good applied to the back was white cardstock and a few little pearls of course. Surprisingly...no stitching for me on this one. Go figure, a card where stitching is encouraged and I don't stitch. Feeling a little ODD today, I guess, LOL. It's all about inspiration correct???

Stamps: PTI

Embossing Plate: PTI

Dies: My Favorite Things

Ink: Kaliedacolor, Versamark and White Embossing Powder
Cardstock: PTI



Hello Cherry Cobbler!

This has to be one of my most favorite new colors. Cherry Cobbler is such a deep and rich warm red color.....yummy stuff!

I used the Sending You set from PTI to make this card...oh and their wonderful Snow White Ink.

A Little Banner....

Just a quick little post, without melons!! This card uses the Hero Arts banenr set that I eyed for many months. Love it when Hobby Lobby gets new stuff!

This card also inlcudes a little PTI (clouds and impression plate), MFT (grass die) and a delightful Studio G sentiment( that can be found at Wal-mart!!)

More Melon....

Oopsie...I didn't look at my blog before editing a photo to post, so back to back melon posts it is! Off this morning and all day to play in the paper, ink, glue and scissors....and let's not forget the FOOD!

We have organized a get together and have a group of gals getting together to spend the day crafting. I intend on making some cards but am going to try that color crayon canvas project that I've been seeing on Pinterest. If it works I'll share!

Enjoy your Saturday!