Author Archives: kth

Bookmarks

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I created some bookmarks back in May for an end-of-school-year gift. I like how they turned out, so I’m posting here (finally).

First up is a pretty simple bookmark. I cut Aqua Mist cardstock to fit in the bookmark sleeve. Then I cut a piece of Bitty Dot paper in Spring Moss, Aqua Mist, Chocolate, and Melon. I stitched the pattern paper bits to the cardstock. I added the sentiment and scallop circle die and finished it up with some twill ribbon.

Next up is a paperclip bookmark. I love making these because I love using mine. To create this one I die cut the flowers from chipboard and felt (2 pieces each – one for the front, the other for the back). The leaves were die cut from the Sending You die set (just the big leaf). I added the leaf details by stitching with thread.

I used Melon & Terracotta for the flowers and Chartreuse for the leaves.

The final bookmark is by far my favorite one. I love this flower set and coloring it was so fun. This bookmark is much larger than the first one. (I got my sleeves from Clear Bags: small &large.)

Colors for this: Aqua Mist cardstock and the Melon Berry Copic trio. I don’t remember which greens I used – sorry.

When I was done coloring, I went back and added glitter to the shadow bits. And you can see better that I also outlined the image with a light blue Copic.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Girl Talk

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I created this card for my niece.

No challenge, just have been wanting to use this set 🙂 I’ve had this idea in my head since I bought the set. Creating this card was fun!

The bubble in the middle that says “hello” is popped up with dimensionals. On the inside of the card I have the same bubble but it says “miss u”.

Oh and something I learned. To get a die cut that isn’t marred on the back (so you can flip it over to face the other way) I took a piece of cardstock and folded it in half. Then ran that through the big shot. The die cut that is inside – closest to the die – will not have any marks on the back, so you can easily flip it over to stamp on the back. Of course, you don’t have the wonderful edge, but that isn’t all that noticeable.

Thanks for stopping by!

hello
Stamps: Say What (MFT);
Colors: Green Galore, Bliss Blue, Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait, Lavender Lace (SU); White, Hibiscus (PTI);
Other: bubble dies (MFT);

Autumn Birthday

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I created this card for a friend’s birthday this week. I used a sketch from SCS (cas138).

I recently received the Autumn Abundance set (won it during a countdown). It isn’t a set I thought I would want, but I love it. It is sorta small for coloring (at least for me), but I gave it a go 🙂

To do the sentiment, I started by stamping a line from Faux Ribbon. Then I inked up the top part of the sentiment, stamped it; cleaned the stamp and stamped the bottom part.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Celebrate
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Autumn Abundance, Faux Ribbon;
Colors: Spring Moss, White; Suede (SU);
Other: Wood Grain impression plate, twine; markers (Copics);

Fall Anniversary

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My brother and his wife will be celebrating 5 years together next week. She loves fall colors and I recently purchased the Spice Cake paper from Stampin Up so I used that as my starting point. I thought today’s sketch by Iwona (ssc32) was a perfect fit.

It is hard to see in the photo, but the flower petals have glitter on the edges.

Oh, and the little swirlys on the tag are a perfect fit for this die, even though they are a PTI stamp (Boxes Bags & Tags).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Anniversary
Stamps: Fabulous Florets (SU); Fillable Frames 4 (PTI);
Colors: Suede, Pool Party, More Mustard, Pear (SU);
Other: doily die (PTI); label die (SU); rhinestones (Kaiser);

Yuletide Blessings

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I created this card for the Waltzingmouse sketch challenge (wmsc68). This was a fun sketch to figure out.

I did some layering (paper tole I think it is called) on the pine cones to help them pop a bit.

Thanks for stopping by!

Yuletide Blessings
Stamps: Festive Foliage, Compliments of the Season, Gingham & Co (WMS);
Colors: Espresso, Cherry, Hunter, Vanilla (SU);
Other: tag die (SU);

PTI Blog Hop

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It is the 25th of the month – which means a PTI Blog Hop! I love this inspiration photo – which should be obvious seeing as I haven’t managed to stamp for a blog hop in months…but this one I couldn’t pass up!

I started by deciding how I would lay out the lines. I liked the intersecting lines in the photo, so I decided I would use 4 colors and stamp them in the corners offset from the center point. Next, when I chose the colors, I started with a PTI color combo I liked and then tried to find some ink that would match as best as I could.

Finally I needed to add a sentiment. I knew I would be covering up the center point so I wanted something that could ‘compete’ with all the lines. I think I read once that, in design, lines love curves, so I thought this Fillable Frame would be a great compliment to the linear feel of the base. I chose a melon color for the die cut, again to stand out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Faux Ribbon, Fillable Frames #1, Fillable Frames #5;
Colors: White, Black; Cool Carribean, Groovy Guava, Daffodil Delight, Morning Marigold (SU);
Other: Fillable Frames #5 die;

For the Newlyweds

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A co-worker of my husband’s (from our time in Hawaii) recently got married. We weren’t able to go to the wedding, so I sent this card (and a little gift) along afterwards.

I took my cue’s for designing from her invitation which was quite elegant. The invitation had a clear embossed border as well as a black border. I used those as starting points.

I chose a script for the clear embossed background. Thankfully the Mat Stack 1 Collection had a perfect label to use. The Mat Stack mat is not the new Layerz – that was just too wide for my taste. What I did was lay the die down on black paper and use a thick-leaded pencil (i.e., not mechanical) to trace the die; when I cut it out, I kept to the outside of the pencil line – between the extra space around the die and the think lead line, it was a perfect finish.

I wanted a pop to my card, so I decided a red rose would be perfect. I had so much fun coloring this image! I think I’m finally getting the hang of my Copics! I ended up using 4 different colors of red – 1 very dark shade, 2 medium shades, and 1 very light. I almost didn’t want to give it away, lol!

I forgot to take a photo of the inside, but I used Background Basics: Diamonds to create top and bottom borders in grey on the inside and finished it with a black stripe to partition it from the writing space.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Congrats
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Mat Stack 1 Collection, Communique Curves Sentiments, Year of Flowers Collection; French Script background (SU);
Colors: White, Black; Going Grey (SU);
Other: Black Satin ribbon, Mat Stack 1 die; Markers (Copic); Clear Embossing Powder (SU);

Blue Cameo

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I created this card to mail to a friend who likes blue: (Lydia @ UnderstandBlue).

To create the cameo, I used lots of white embossing powder; I did about 3 layers, restamping with craft ink for each layer – I LOVE clear stamps!!. Once that was done, I used my embossing buddy again and this time stamped the frame and gold embossed.

For the rest of the card, knowing I wanted lots of blue, I used some old SU DSP for the background. To break up the blue a bit I added a layer of pink (light so it wasn’t overpowering).

I used WM Sketch #61 for the layout.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Birthday Wishes
Stamps: Cameo Maker, Labels 4, Fancy Phrases Scallops & Dots (WMS);
Colors: Brocade Blue, Pink Pirouette, Gold (SU);
Other: Gold & White embossing powders; Dainty Lace border die (MFT); Labels 4 die & Oval dies (Spellbinders);

New Driver

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A couple months ago we had another family member receive her driver’s license – the day before she and her family moved. So I waited to (create and) mail this card until they were “settled”. (The quotes are due to the fact that they are still in temporary housing and as they will be for a couple more months, I decided not wait any longer.)

Other than the car stamp, I had no idea what I would do. So, I did what I normally do and started flipping through my sketch book (which is not a book of sketches that I’ve made, rather, sketches from others that I’ve collected – if I could make my own sketches, I wouldn’t need to collect everyone else’s, lol). Anywho – I decided that a recent Fall-to-Layout (ftl153) would work great.

The green strip and clouds are both embossed with the canvas impression plate (I was going to say the pieces were impressed with the impression plate, but that just raised weird images of cardstock engaging in intelligent conversation).

Before stamping the pink solid image of the car, I kissed it with a tight polka dot background image. Oh – and see the license plate – the tiny sentiments from the original Mixed Messages fits so well (which, if PTI had included a “celebrate” in the car set I wouldn’t have had to know!).

Well, that was quite wordy for me, so I’ll beg off now. Thanks for stopping by!

You Did It
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Enjoy the Ride, Mixed Messages, Polka Dots Basics 2;
Colors: Spring Rain, Lemon Tart, Simply Chartreuse, Hibiscus Burst, White, Black;
Other: Canvas impression plate, car die; Stickles (on the headlights);

Index Cards

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These cards are all ones that started their lives as index cards for the SCS gallery. It was fun to try to create an index card that I could “finish” as a real card.

The first card is actually the index card. I thought it could stand on its own fairly well. Since the image is the sentiment I didn’t need to add anything else. I kept the theme of stars and stripes when picking the pattern paper and ribbon.

The machine stitching was originally just on the layers, but it got lost in the patterns, so I extended it to the full horizontal. I probably will eventually add a couple vertical stitch lines on the edges, but the back is so horribly done with all the starts and stops I’m not even sure the needle would make it through, lol.



 
This next card is what I had in mind when I created the index. For the index, I could only use the ball and the “Home Run” sentiment since that is all that is part of the stamp set.

After taking the photo for the index, I went back and added the rest of the sentiment. Of course I had to do it word by word so I could squeeze it all in, and so it isn’t as straight as I would have liked.

The ball is hand-cut to have that “crack” graphic (comic-book) look.



 
This final one is another a la carte image, so the index card is sans the greeting, but also without the leaf die cut – mostly because I didn’t want to obscure the image.

The bird image is watercolored. The background is embossed with the Elegant Bouquet folder from SU. The ribbon, I’m not sure about the ribbon, but I think it is an old retired SU color – Cranberry (one of the first InColors).

Thanks for taking a peek!