HAPPY birthday

After making this birthday card yesterday with Papertrey Ink's Modern Cross Quilt cover plate die, I looked at the pieces removed from the die and told myself not to throw them away. Today I made a stencil from the Modern Cross cover plate, glued all the colorful smooshed pieces onto a PTI soft stone pattern paper panel, added two PTI word die cuts and a seam binding bow to complete it.

I've entered this in the January Time Out Challenge where the focus is birthday cards and an optional twist of adding sponging. The design team shared many beauties to inspire and you can look at all the entries by clicking here.

Birthday Wishes

Happy New Year!

Crafting resolutions for 2016:  to post more often and join a variety of challenges. 

At least the number of my 2015 posts more than doubled the previous year. Unlike many of the bloggers that I follow, my blog was created mainly for online classes and challenge entries. I enjoy the interactions we make on blog hops.

I'm busy making birthday and get well cards after months of Christmas cards. Today's card combined watercolor smooshing, stamping and embossing on vellum.  

Card Recipe:
Stamp: Papertrey Ink Swoosh
Die: PTI Modern Cross Quilt cover plate
Inks: Ranger Distress mowed lawn & peacock feathers, Momento New Sprout,      Versa Mark
Extras: silver embossing powder, PTI striped vellum, watercolor paper, silver card stock



Colors were inspired by the colour Q #324 challenge

Also entering this in the Just Us Girls Trend Week #325 Metallic

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