PTI February Blog Hop: Scallops

Today is Papertrey Ink's February Blog Hop!! Welcome to the world of SCALLOPS ;-)... should be a fun hop!

My entry today is a compliation of lots of fun goodies. I used scallops cut from a cricut cartridge layered over each other and a scallop circle under the butterfly. What's fun is I have been using ideas and inspiration from Nichole and Dawn and Mish: lots of layering, cutting out dies ahead of time in different colors to have on hand when I am ready to craft, and using an inspiration jar. My "inspiration jar" holds my die cuts. All I knew when I started was the base color of my card would be Sweet Blush from PTI and I would use layered scallops along the bottom.

Enjoy!
Kristin

All supplies PTI unless otherwise noted:
Cardstock: Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy
Ink: Pure Poppy, Chai, CTMH Chocolate (last 2 for distressing)
Stamp: Everyday Button Bits
Die: Signature Series: Butterfly, MS4
Pattern Paper: Distressed Dots (PP & FL), Flowers & Frills from TPC, One of a Kind from OA
Other Cuts: Cricut-Scallop Circle (Lacy Labels 2"), Scallop Borders (Plantin 3/4"), Heart (Doodlecharms 1/2"), Flower (Paisley 1 1/4")
Doily: Hobby Lobby
Baker's Twine: Pure Poppy

Full of Joy

I don't have a lot of flower stamp sets, but hopefully this will qualify for the Papertrey Paper Dolls FLOWER challenge! Please join us and link you card as well :-).

I was inspired by an Erin Lincoln card in this post (4th card down). Using Kraft cs as a base and SU dsp and their Poppy Parade cs and ink it really came out so pretty. Signature Series: Flower stamp and die (on a dimensional) finished it out perfectly.

Enjoy!

Kristin

Happy 7th Birthday Wishes

Sorry I was absent for a week! This is the week of my annual business meeting out of state. Glad to be home! I usually set some posts to show up, but I didn't even have time for that this year. For my ds's 7th birthday last month, I made this cute card. The grass and sentiment are from PTI's Mailbox Greetings and Birthday Bash Sentiments. The boy and "word balloon" are from an October Afternoon Fly a Kite stamp set. He is mostly paper pieced. The cardstocks are PTI Fine Linen and Pure Poppy.

Enjoy!

Kristin

Love notes for the kiddos

So PTI introduced the cutest little die last month: Lunchbox note. I think it is darling and have seen some cute things done with it. But, I do not have it on my must have list yet. Since I own the cricut, I have to be very choosy about dies. Well, I have several cricut cartridges and *before Christmas* as I have time I am cataloging my cartridge images and sentiments. I also wanted to know which ones made cards, tags, or 3D items. Big project even if you only have a few carts. Imagine my very pleasant surprise when I ran across the LB Note "image" in a cricut cartridge!! Paisley!! Yahoooo!! So, cutting it at 3 inches it appears to be just about right. I made these 2 *love* notes for the kids for Valentine's today. I paired them with Tiny Treats: Birthday images and Signature Greetings sentiments and TT: Valentine sentiments on the inside. On the inside I used more cricut cuts that matched the TT stamps. LUCKY me!! What a good day.

Happy Valentine's Everyone!

Kristin

Goodbye Teacher

Goodbyes are always sooo very hard. Especially when it is your own child saying goodbye to a wonderful teacher. And this year my 7yo son's first grade teacher had to leave unexpectedly after the Christmas break was over.

Can I brag just a little?? This ENTIRE card was his idea/design and execution. I only told him of the cuttlebug folder with dots for the dolphin. Also, he wanted the "sentiment" to be so large I changed "You Are" to U R because it wouldn't have fit otherwise.

This is all Papertrey product because she was THAT good of a teacher, lol! The cartridge we used was Life's a Beach. (I was so glad we had gone to the beach earlier last year because that is the only reason I owned it... when he said her card *had* to have a dolphin I knew LAB had one... otherwise that would have been a VERY expensive card!!).

Enjoy!

Kristin

Color Challenge... PTI style

Today's challenge over at PTI is a color challenge. I chose Jessica W.'s colors of Soft Stone, Summer Sunrise, Aqua Mist, and Raspberry Fizz. Her cards looked so amazing and different I really thought I could pull it off. Now I am not so sure!! I changed this card at least 3 or 4 times. At least I finally came up with something I could show on my blog :-).

So, the base is Soft Stone cs with a mat in AM. I used tone on tone color ink (AM) at the bottom with Text Style II to give the mat some character. I die cut the SG: Flower out of RF felt and the Spiral Notebook die from Soft stone. I used Versamark ink and the Embellishments stamp set on the SN page. I edged the AM mat and the SN page in Summer Sun ink. Then, I stamped the sent in Summer Sun. Finally, I cut my own banner in Summer Sunrise cs and put it behind the SN page. Still lacking something... I sewed an AM button onto the flower using SSunrise floss and put 3 rhinestones at the top for balance.

Hope you like it!

Enjoy!

Kristin

Make It Monday Week 1 #1

What a FUN challenge! PTI is now issuing weekly "Make It Monday" challenges via a video on Nichole's blog and You Tube. It is open all week long and there is a prize at the end. This was the first challenge. We were to select similar type sentiments from a variety of sets and group them together. I've looked over a variety of cards (especially now with ANOTHER snow/ice day here in DFW today), and even though there have been several birthday cards... including Nichole's, I'm always needing masculine cards.

So, I pulled out my birthday sentiments... and I have finally accumulated *enough* (lol). Even though these came from only a few sets, there was a lot of variety. To help the black stand out on the Smokey Shadow I embossed the background sentiments. Then, I used soft stone and Matstack 1 and Enchanted Evening ink to soften that but keep it *manly*. Finally, it needed something extra, so I added a blingy rhinestone for the *I* in birthday on the MS the "to you" in Smokey Shadow ink and the EE ribbon behind the mat.

I might have to try this again in a few other color combos!

Enjoy!

Kristin