Noel

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

it's that time of the month again.

 

This cheerful group of holiday plates was our inspiration point!

They reminded me of the Tinsel & Tags stamp & die set from December 2014.

I stamped my "Noel", added it to a PTI polka dot vellum circle and attached

the circles to a piece of an old MME Christmas designer paper. After seeing
Leigh Penner's tags I think die cuts would have made it more special! Next time.

 

Check out more cards at Capture the Moment Blog Hop

Christmas Cards 2015

This is the first year that I didn't mass produce the same card for everyone and it was so much fun! A few designs were repeated but not many. I thought you might like to see a variety since I don't post daily. Some cards are cased from Papertrey Ink designers; almost all of the stamps & dies used are PTI products.

PTI Treetops Glisten, Basic Bookmark 3 die

                                                       

PTI Treetops Glisten

PTI Peace, Love & Joy mini set

                                                               PTI Bells & Boughs

PTI Rustic Wreath, 'Tis the Season Sentiments

PTI Treetops Glisten

PTI Petite Places: Nativity Mini Stamp Set

PTI Bells & Boughs

                     
                            Paper Smooches stamps/dies with the inside sentiment "is you!"

Merry Christmas glitter

Yay! only 4 more days until I see my three grandsons and their parents!!

Today's card is out of my comfort zone. I was trying to use some PTI Holiday
Folk patterned paper and combined it with Virginia's View Challenge #21: Glitter. Virginia is closing her popular challenge this month - boo hoo!  My entry resulted in a busy, festive, and glitzy-for-me Christmas card! The card size is 4.25 x 6" in order to place a photo inside. Some of my family and friends do not get on Facebook so needed to send a new picture with me and my gray hair!

Card Recipe:

Ink: Delicata Golden Glitz, Hero Arts Royal Red & Green Hills mid-tone shadow, Momento Black

Stamps: PTI Bells & Boughs, Oopsie Daisy (for the dotted line), 'Tis the Season Sentiments

Glitter tape, PTI Holiday Folk paper, Gold Wink-of-Stella, dimension tape

Peace

MAKE IT MONDAY #234: 

EMBELLISHING WITH FELT

Winding down 2015 with one of my last Christmas cards created after 

watching Ashley Newell's challenge to use felt as an embellishment.

You can view Ashley's video and cards at by clicking on

Make It Monday #234: Embellishing with Felt

PTI Simply Chartreuse felt

PTI Enclosed: Wreath stamp & die set

PTI Tinsel & Tags Sprigs die

PTI Linen/Burlap Impression Plate

My Mind's Eye Vintage Christmas paper, red glitter paper

Gold & red sequins

Delicata Golden Glitz ink

Happiest of Holidays

Papertrey November Blog Hop Challenge

 Love, love, love these colors, the shine, everything about this photo~ yet white is not in my home at all! This photo is inspiration for our entry in this month's blog hop. I took her challenge quite literally! You can't see all the shine but the colored balls have a thin layer of silvery Stickles smeared on them and the sentiment is stamped in silver. Oh, how I need a Misti as stamping the sentiment twice would have helped the photo so much more! Alas too late to emboss it with silver powder since it was already glued to the card front and heat might warp the whole card. Happy Thanksgiving blog friends! I'm going to sneak in some blog hopping time throughout the day!

Materials used:
Stamps: PTI Confetti Garland Borders & Sketched Shapes (using the back side for the circles), Think Big Favorites #20 sentiment
Die: PTI Confetti Garland Borders
Inks: Distress Inks mermaid lagoon, peacock feathers, tumbled glass; Hero Arts Silver Shadow; Momento New Sprout, Pear Tart
Silver Recollections paper, misc. pattern paper, card size is 4.25 x 6"

Linking this to: capture the moment November Blog Hop

Be Merry tag

Make-It-Monday: #227

Focal Clusters

PTI Stamps: Bells & Boughs, Spruce & Sprigs, 'Tis the Season Sentiments, Watercolor Wonder

PTI Dies: Bells & Boughs, Tag Sale: Quilted

Momento/ Hero Arts inks and a bit of clear Wink o' Stella on the bow, ribbon & twine

Tagging this to capture the moment blog

Merry Christmas to You

Papertrey Ink October 2015 Blog Hop Challenge

We were given this photo as an inspiration point.

It's been so much fun ordering new Christmas stamping stuff this fall and I'm glad that the blog hop catered to all our desires to showcase the holiday season early. When PTI's Brushed Off stamp set appeared Amy Sheffer designed a card using the circle images and stamping twice, rotating the stamp and using a second color on the second stamping. I used Distress Inks festive berries and picked raspberry making an instant ornament! Drawing a string with a gold Sharpie pen, I hung my ornaments and decorated with snowflake dies from Paper Smooches. The sentiment is from PTI's Treetops Glisten. The panel was mounted on fun foam and adhered to PTI red card stock. I'm enjoying all the variety of inspiration at October PTI Blog Hop so click on over to enjoy it yourself!