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Moving Birthday

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I made it to the next round of the CAS DT search! There are two challenges this time. One challenge is to make a card with a moveable part. To me interactive cards always end up not CAS, so I was a little stumped at first, but then this very simple idea came to me! I stamped the arms on another piece of paper, cut them out and added a brad. Lifted the layer with dimensionals and now I have a simple card with movement!

The best part is this is a stamp set that I *had* to have (a few years ago) and never inked up! Gotta love that!

Birthday
Stamps: Windmills (TAC); It’s Your Birthday (SU);
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); markers (Copic);
Paper: Dark Chocolate, Rustic White (PTI);
Other: twine, brad, dimensionals (SU);

Sending Smiles

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I got a chance to play with my new sets today! I am in love with this set! I’ve been wanting a good rainbow image and clouds. The die cuts make working with this set so easy.

I colored the rainbow and balloon with Copics. I’m still not sure I know what I’m doing, but I do like working with them. I’m not sure I like the highlights on the balloon – I’m thinking since nothing else in the scene has highlights or shadows I shouldn’t have created them in the balloon. That’s what happens when you create on the fly!

Sending Smiles
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Up Up & Away, Up Up & Away Sentiments;
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); markers (Copic);
Paper: Lemon Tart, White, Spring Rain, New Leaf, Lemon Tart Bitty Dot DSP;
Other: balloon & cloud dies; Sunshine impression plate; Distressed texturz plate (Sizzix);

Hoppin’ with Felt

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This month’s PTI Blog Hop is about felt. I’ve had this idea in my head since they released the egg die, but until May’s release I didn’t have enough colors of felt. Thankfully my box of PTI goodies arrived yesterday and I was able to pull this off (though we won’t talk about how many cards I ruined trying to accomplish the frame embossing!).

Easter Wishes
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages;
Ink: Hawaiian Shores;
Paper: White;
Other: Felt & Buttons in Hawaiian, Raspberry, Chartreuse colors; Egg & Ric-Rac dies; rectangle die (Spellbinders); texture plate (SU);

Summer Sunflower

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This week’s Clean & Simple challenge on SCS is all about summer (cas68). Usually summer means sleeping in for me and more tv time for the girls. Not exactly something that you need a card for 😀 One thing I miss from back home are the giant sunflowers mom has in her garden. Sunflowers are my favorite flower.

This card was pretty simple – just a few die cuts and a sentiment. The label is actually a Canvas Cut from StampinUp that I grabbed from their clearance rack for just a few bucks (what a deal!!). The flower center is a giant brad that I added dots to using my Galaxy Marker.

Smile
Stamps: Say it With Style (PTI);
Ink: Burnt Umber (Palette);
Paper: Aqua Mist, Summer Sunrise (PTI); Kiwi Kiss (SU);
Other: Canvas Cut label (SU); Woodgrain impression plate (PTI); Leaf die (SU); Flower die (CB?); brad (SU); Galaxy Marker (Am.Crafts);

Make Life Fun

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Jen, the hostess of the CAS challenge on SCS, is looking for the next design team. The challenge (Sum2010CAS1) was to have a person as your focal image. I only have a few people type images – most of them Bellas. The theme for this design call is amusement park. As soon as I saw my HuggyBella image I thought it looked a lot like a photo they take when you go to an amusement park.

The other requirement for the card was to use fun/funky ribbon. This ribbon is about as funky as my current collection gets – and I thought the colors in it would be good for the image. I had to keep the card simple, which actually wasn’t too hard since the Bella image is so big.

I wasn’t sure what to do for a sentiment, but this one also fit the amusement park theme quite well. It was too long to just stamp directly on the background, so I did this fun flag – even using a paintbrush handle to add curves. Again, this calls in the amusement park feel.

Thanks for taking a peek!

You Make Life Fun
Stamps: HuggyBella (StampingBella); Handwritten Notes (PTI);
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Copics & SU Markers to color;
Paper: Black, White, Hawaiian Shores (PTI);
Other: ribbon (?); photo corner punch (SU); Texture Plates #4 (Sizzix/SU);

Thank You Flower

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I needed a card to send with the goodies for my latest round of DSS contest winners. I went simple because I needed four cards. I chose this stamp set because I had already embossed the Kiwi background and I needed something that would “go” (my original idea being to complicated to do four cards).

The rhinestone started out clear, but I colored it with a Copic. I am really starting to enjoy using these markers!

Thank You
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Art of Life, Curvy Verses;
Ink: Orchid Opulence, Rich Razzleberry, Kiwi Kiss;
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Rich Razzleberry, Naturals Cream;
Other: Weave Impression Plate; Rhinestone (Kaiser);

Pixie Pattern Paper

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I recently joined a blog group on the PTI board. We chose the name Papertrey Pixies (I love that name). Unlike other groups we are doing monthly challenges (about all I can handle, lol). May is the first challenge and Teresa came up with a great one – create your own pattern paper (PTPC1). I love doing this! I was feeling in a bright-and-sunshiney mood today, so I went with another rainbow bouquet.

I love PTI but I am super excited that StampinUp will begin to sell a kraft colored ink. To get the kraft for this card I used CTMH’s Desert Sand and off-stamped, then used the 2nd generation impression. It is almost a perfect match!

You make me Smile
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Beautiful Blooms 2, Say it with Style, Fillable Frames 1;
Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Summer Sunrise, Spring Rain; Landscape (Palette); Lavender Lace (SU); Desert Sand (CTMH);
Paper: Kraft, Hibiscus Burst, White;
Other: Fillable Frame 1 die, Hibiscus ribbon;

Winter Wishes

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I created this card for a past Clean & Simple Sketch (ftl86). This is a great sketch.

I chose to go the winter route because I wanted to use an image that wasn’t already over-used with this sketch (flowers, butterflies, etc.). I thought about a few options, but when I thought snowflakes this card popped right in. I love this Christmas Tree set.

Merry and Bright
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Merry & Bright;
Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet; Burnt Umber (Palette);
Paper: Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet, White;
Other: Frosted Lace Stickles (Ranger);

Simple Shabby

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This week’s challenge on the CAS forum on SCS is Shabby Chic (cas67). I would never think to pair clean and simple with shabby chic! I’ve always felt shabby chic is accomplished by lots of fru-fru and layers.

Shabby Chic is definitely not my style, but it was still fun to put together a little fru-fru. I think it needs something, I’m just not sure what. I think I need to add embossing to the background for texture, but I didn’t want a strong texture, so I wasn’t sure what to use. Feel free to leave suggestions!

The chipboard heart is so much pretty IRL. I took a plain chipboard shape, gave it a base coat of cream pigment ink and heat set. Then I covered that with Twink H20 (Golden Sand – which matches the kraft CS really well) and finished it up with a sprinkling of glitter. The piece reminds me of a sugar cookie which is sorta how I view shabby chic (a pain to put together nicely, but so worth it in the end).

Hello from the Heart
Stamps: Finding Beauty (CTMH), Vintage Picnic Sentiments (PTI);
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery (SU); Cream (PTI);
Paper: Cream, Kraft (PTI);
Other: Sweet Blush ribbon (PTI), chipboard, button (K&Co), lace, pearls (Kaiser), machine stitching;

Have a Hoot

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I made this card for the CAS challenge (cas66) which was to use Kelly’s card as a sketch.

After perusing my stamp sets, I settled on the owl image and everything else just fell in place. I stamped the owl on PTI Rustic paper before I thought about how I was going to color it. I opted to use my Copics. Unfortunately I don’t have any brown markers yet, so I used the Artichoke trio.

The moon is Lemon Tart paper that has white sponged on one side and orange (whatever color was on my “orange” sponge) on the other side. I also used the Wood Impressions plate along the top, but you can’t see it in the picture. I had a hard time coming up with a sandwich since I don’t have PTI’s mats.

Hoot on Your Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Wise Owl, Background Basics – Diamonds;
Ink: Burnt Umber (Palette), White, Orange;
Paper: Kraft, Lemon Tart, Orange Crush, Rustic White;
Other: Copics;