Happy Wedding Day

Because I always leave things for the last minute (my middle name is "procrastinator"), I had to start & finish a wedding card just hours before we had to leave for said wedding. It was a wedding at the zoo. Have you ever been to a wedding at the zoo? Very interesting...suited the couple. I saw alot of penguin butts.

Anyway, I needed a quick and easy card so I pulled out my brand new PTI Simple Sentiments set and got to work on a very CAS card. Since the bride's colors were darker tiffany's blue/tealish and brown I went for a sort of similar color scheme. I thought it looked a bit too plain so I die cut a few hearts from the TCP heart trio cut-up. I just love those hearts, so funky looking. It was definitely a five minute card, which was perfect b/c I still needed to wrap the gift...


The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Simple Sentiments
Paper: kraft & cream cs, MME stella rose
Ink: Brilliance pearlescent chocolate, spica glitter pen
Accessories: TCP heart trio die

Just Because

I got a sewing machine for christmas and just five short months later, I'm finally putting it to use. I sewed a grocery bag holder for my pal, N, since her hubs likes to hoard plastic bags. At least now she'll have something pretty to put it in. The pattern is based on the one listed on Moda's Bake Shop with a little tweaking. I like ruffles, so the one I made had to have ruffles.


As for the card, I kept it simple, opting for a coordinating color scheme. I stamped the sentiment panel with PTI's Matstack #1 and Beautiful Blooms II. Then I used the stripes in Retro Backgrounds to build a pattern on the four squares. I also stamped some polka dots in the background but they didnt turn up too well in the picture.


Here's a close-up of the grocery bag holder, using Moda's Giddy charm pack-






The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Matstack #1, Beautiful Blooms, Giga Guidelines, Polka Dot Basics II, Retro Background
Paper: PTI pure poppy & hawaiian shores, cream cardstock
Ink: Brilliance pearlescent chocolate, Versamagic red brick, Versacolor turquoise gem, Versamark
Accessories: kaiser gems, PTI matstack #1 die

Tiny Treats

It's been a while. I dont think I've taken a blog hiatus like that in a super long time. But what with the icky-sickness and the holidays, I suppose those are decent excuses.

I finally had some time to play with my things. Sadly, my uninked stamp list is steadily creeping back up. Curse those "too good to pass up" after-Thanksgiving sales.

But I broke out my newly acquired PTI Tiny Treats Christmas and made a simple christmas card. I decided to go w/ my current favorite holiday color combo, red & aqua. I stamped the snowman and colored him w/ copics. Then mounted him on a scalloped circle and matstack #1 die.


Hopefully I can get back to my regular crafting and posting routine. I'm so behind on my xmas cards and there's so many different project ideas I have going on now. All I want for christmas is more time....well obviously I want sparkly, material gifts too but that's a given.

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Tiny Treats Christmas
Paper: MB notecard, PTI pure poppy, October Afternoon very merry
Ink: Memento black, PTI aqua mist, Copics
Accessories: scalloped circle punch, PTI matstack #1, ribbon

New Banner

Since we're headed towards another holiday season, I thought it'd be nice to create a new banner. (Actually my mom asked me to make her one last year...) And apparently I have a thing for the word "Noel." But what can I say, Joy is too short and Merry is too long. Actually I wanted it to say "Tis the season, yo" my fave holiday line, but that was way too long.

I used my big scallop rectangle nesties for the letters mat and topped it off w/ a border end cut from labels eight. I cut the letters from glitter paper w/ my Storybook cartridge. Then I embellished with buttons, jewels and a couple vintage ornaments. This color combination is my current favorite and I've been doing tons of holiday stuff in variations of it. But I'm a creature of habit...

Detail shot of the letters - The Dets:

Stamps: PTI Signature Christmas

Paper: Cream cs, MB dot pattern paper, PTI kraft, DCWV latte matstack

Ink: Brilliance graphite black

Accessories: Cricut storybook cartridge, spellbinders labels eight & big scalloped rectangles, PTI aqua mist & berry sorbet buttons, jewels, PTI vintage ornaments die, divine twine & TCP linen thread

Altered Notebook

Long time no post. But I've been feeling under the weather and too tired to stamp (shocking I know). However, I'm on the path to recovery (hehe such a drama queen) and had a request from my mom for altered composition books.

I've seen the mini ones, in fact N altered me one a while back. But I've never done a full size one. I had this paper from my stash for a while now. Its superly awesome b/c the flowers are like letterpress into the paper. I've had intentions of making a stationary set with it, but never got around to it.

My mom wanted these to give to her knitting friends to hold pictures or...something for their projects. I played around w/ a few sentiments but liked the simple word of "ideas" the best. I added flourishes to each side with PTI's Simply Stationary set.

I pulled out a sheet of berry sorbet for the spine, but thought it looked a little too plain. So I stamped it with Text Style Background and Turning a New Leaf.

Detail shot -

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Turning a New Leaf, Text Style Backgrounds, Fresh Alphie, Simply Stationary, MFT Framed Greetings
Paper: PTI berry sorbet, Stardream bronze, EK Success aurora flora
Ink: Brilliance pearlescent chocolate, Versamark, Versacolor old rose
Accessories: MFT die, MS border punch, ribbon, scalloped circle

Framed Faves

So this past weekend I discovered that my LSS, or rather LCS, has fairly nice quality black felt. I've been dying for some ever since my friend got some PTI black felt in our last order. And once I had some of that delish black felt in my hot little hands I couldnt resist die cutting a slew of black flowers and borders. But you see, I didnt really have a purpose for them I just wanted them.

Finally, after I had rather pretty mountain of black embellies on my tiny craft table, the boy pointed out that I should probably use a few. I suppose he didnt quite see the point of having a oh-so-pretty pile of black felt flowers if I wasnt actually going to use them. So I brought out a few of my favorites. My current favorite dp, Basic Grey Olivia, my fave senti set Signature Greetings and my brand new MFT Framed Greetings.

As you can probably tell, if you've seen any other cards on my blog, I'm rather obsessed with MFT's open scallop die borders (in black felt of course). But I'm fairly sure this is the last of them. That is until I cut another mountain of them.



Thus ends a very long winded explanation of a rather little card.

The Dets:
Stamps: MFT Framed Greetings, PTI Signature Greetings
Paper: PTI true black, Basic Grey olivia
Ink: Versafine black
Accessories: Spellbinders circles, MFT open scallop border, PTI flowers, PTI Aqua Mist button, ribbon, felt

Clean & Simple TESC

If there's one thing I envy (and if we're being honest here there's alot of things I envy) its Nichole Heady's talent for making this super awesome cards using just a black pen and ruler. Never underestimate the difficulty of drawing a straight and even line w/ a pen. I had to do it three times before I came up with something that was okay. But then I've got this hate/hate relationship w/ rulers in general...

But I digress.

When I saw this week's Taylored Sketch, TESC126, I immediately thought of my PTI Take Three Summer set. As of late, my poor PTI sets havent seen the wet side of an inkpad in forever. I punched three squares in my current fave PTI colors (b/c I'm so fickle my "current faves" change constantly) then stamped each of the flowers in black ink. I topped them w/ coordinating buttons before mounting them.

Its fairly clean and simple for me. Definitely a change-up from what I had been doing. And I'm still not quite sure what the sentiment is supposed to be for either. Maybe its a condolence? Going away? I just thought looked pretty...

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Take Three Summer
Ink: Brilliance graphite black
Paper: MB licorice notecard, PTI hawaiian shores, simply chartreuse and pure poppy
Accessories: PTI hs/sc/pp buttons, copic mutliliner

Papertrey July Blog Hop Challenge

So this month's PTI Blog Hop theme was to use office supplies. And my MIL needed a wedding card so combining the two was a bit challenging. I was told the wedding invite had a whole "going green" theme, so I opted for a less traditional wedding color scheme of kraft, vintage cream and green.

I used Giga Guidelines and stamped it in green. Then went over the whole thing with a background from Background Basics Text Style I in Versamark. I distressed the edges with some tea dye inks. And mounted it on a cream panel with distressed edges. I die cut a labels three on spring moss. It looked a bit plain so I also stamped it with Text Style. I topped it off with a ribbon and added a couple staples for some added interest.

Then I stamped the inside with the companion sentiment.

The Dets:

Stamps: PTI Giga Guidelines, Text Style Background, Verve Wishing You

Paper: PTI ripe avocado, spring moss, cream cardstock

Ink: Versamagic spanish moss & tea leaves, Versamark, Brilliance pearlescent chocolate

Accessories: staples, spellbinders circles, labels eight & three, twine, PTI spring moss ribbon, cream ribbon, kaiser pearls

Happy Bunny Butts

So today is the birthday of a super awesome and totally fabulous girl. Yup, you guessed it Veronica Mars!

Hahah...technically its Kristen Bell's birthday but I {heart} VM (and Logan). But, its also the landmark birthday of my stamping buddy, N. She's the Nin in our celebrity couple name Ninja. Some people know Bennifer or Brangelina, we make up Ninja.

So I racked my brain trying to decide what stamp I should use for N's milestone birthday. I thought of a cool color-in TGF or a PTI set, but then I knew it. The only stamp that would possibly do.

Bunny Butts.


So I stamped the MFT Tea for Two bunnies in teacups and colored them in copics. Then I went over the cup with a few layers of glossy accents. Word of advice when working w/ glossy accents, it should be mounted on another layer of cardstock that way the weight doesnt warp the image panel. Dont ask me how I know this, I dont wanna discuss.

I had a dp paper all picked out but after I finish coloring I notice the dots that were really a pink color came out more red. So I stamped a panel of my favoritest Hawaiian Shores paper with my current fave PTI Polka Dot Basics II set. I colored a few of the dots w/ glue and covered w/ some MS glitter. Then on a Simply Chartruese piece with Tin Types. I used a white pen to add dots to the centers. Then I die cut a piece of my beloved HS and white felt and topped it a pure poppy button.

Since it is her landmark birthday I had to pick up a few stamping stuffers I know she'll love. I dont actually have any wrapping paper that doesnt sport christmas trees so I had to improvise. I wrapped each gift in white tissue paper and made little tags to coordinate. I die cut a few spellbinder labels one. Then I stamped each one w/ a different stamp in the Retro Backgrounds set.

I wrapped each individually in plain white tissue paper and tied it w/ some pretty ribbon from my stash.

The Dets (Card):

Stamps: MFT Tea for Two, PTI Polka Dot Basics II, PTI Tin Types

Paper: PTI black, hawaiian shores, simply chartruese, pure poppy

Ink: Memento black & new sprout, PTI hawaiian shores, Copics

Accessories: glossy accents, spellbinders curved rectangles, PTI med scallops, PTI flower die, hawaiian shores felt & ribbon, pure poppy button, black thread, MS glitter, white gel pen

The Dets (tags):

Stamps: PTI Retro Backgrounds, Fresh Alphabet

Paper: black & white cardstock

Ink: Versafine black, PTI aqua mist, hibiscus burst, hawaiian shores, Versamagic tea leaves, spring pansy, mango madness

Accessories: spellbinders labels one, cuttlebug polka dot embossing folder

This and That...

I love long weekends. Unfortunately I hurt my neck again so I stayed away from my crafting table most of the weekend. But I had this little Flutter Anya card I made before the sore neck week that I never got around to posting.

I love the PTI's Tin Types Background set. It makes simple and pretty backgrounds. So I stamped my fav in the set a few times in fresh snow ink on some yummy hawaiian shores paper. But I didnt really have a card in mind, I just wanted to make backgrounds. I must've been in a mood for practicing b/c I wanted to try my hand at streaky hair. I've seen it crop up on a few blogs lately and I just love the texture peeps are able to do with copics in hair coloring.

I stamped Flutter Anya b/c she had the biggest blank space of hair (which I deemed best to practice with). I obviously still need to practice but I was definitely pleased it wasnt a total disaster. I colored the rest of her up and gave into the desire to coat all of her wings in some stickles. She's super sparkly.

I paired her up with the hawaiian shores sheet I had. I hadn't intended to keep it so simple but I had this idea in my head where she'd be floating away a la flourishes. So I brought out my Inkado flourish set and stamped that. Then I went over the dots with some glossy accents to give it some dimension.


And for the "that" of my post. I've recently added food blogs on my list of blog trolling and found this awesome recipe for roasted tofu. Originally it was paired w/ noodles, but I had some baby bok choy I decided to roast up. Topped the tofu over it and wow...definitely a keeper.

The Dets:

Stamps: TGF Flutter Anya, PTI Tin Types Background, Inkado Dotty Flourishes, Verve Thankful Accents

Ink: PTI fresh snow, Versafine black, Copics, Memento Black

Paper: MB licorice notecard, PTI hawaiian shores

Accessories: glossy accents

Papertrey June Blog Hop Challenge

I've been meaning to participate in the monthly PTI Blog Hop for forever now, but of course the 25th of each month comes and goes. But this month's theme was a color challenge and I just had to take the plunge.

I chose a summery theme of Simply Chartruese, Hawaiian Shores, Orange Zest and Smokey Shadow. I've had the Beautiful Blooms II set ever since it came out in March...and had yet to use it. So I die cut a few of the blossoms then inked them with some orange ink. Then I stamped a panel with my Polka Dot Basics I in green and punched them out to be mounted on each blossom. I also stamped the Hawaiian Shores cardstock with PDB1. I stamped my sentiment from Signature Greetings, which is my total go-to senti set. I decided it needed a bit more so I die cut a strip of green with my medium scallop.

Confession time...I didnt get my latest PTI order so I had to fib with the orange & lime color, substituting it with Versacolor inks. And then I didnt quite dig the way smokey shadow was stamping out so I brought out some brilliance ink and loved it.

Thanks for checking out my card!

The Dets:

Stamps: PTI Signature Greetings, Beautiful Blooms II, Polka Dot Basics 1

Paper: PTI Hawaiian shores, MB key lime, SU!

Ink: PTI hawaiian shores, Versacolor orange & lime, Brilliance starlight black

Accessories: PTI med scalloped border & blooms #2 die, mounting tape, corner punch

Clean & Simple

So this card might have been based off a CAS sketch but I'm not too sure now. I did it a while back, when I first got my long awaited Retro Backgrounds from PTI. I wanted to color the little flower thingies to form a slightly gradient look. Then I dotted the center circles w/ some gold smooch for a little continuity. And topped it w/ a sentiment from Signature Greetings, which is easily my favoritest senti set ever.

The Dets:

Stamps: PTI Retro backgrounds, Signature Greetings

Paper: PTI kraft, pure poppy

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine black, copics

Accessories: kaiser pearls, MS punch, gold smooch

A {Purely Beloved} SYFTT

So for a certain landmark birthday of mine, this awesome rockstar got me the coolest birthday gift ever. Part of it was three totally fantabulous Pure Innocence sets from MFT. This little cutie was one of them.

I embossed then colored her up w/ some copics. But I think I might've heated up some stray embossing powder, hence the weird blotchiness on her pants. I used this week's SFYTT for the layout. And I just had to add the felt/vellum/paper flower cut w/ a combination of my PTI flower dies. And I brought some of my fav Beloved paper from my horde...er...stash.

The Dets:
Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Flower Girl, PTI Daily Design Sentiments
Paper: MB notecard bayou, MME beloved, vellum
Ink: Brilliance graphite black, copics, spica glitter pens, Versafine black
Accessories: PTI flower dies, felt, PTI button, embossing powder

Taylored Mothers Day

On impulse I decided to buy all three of the PTI's Guidelines set. But I've been having issues using them. Then Taylor had this awesome sketch for her sketch challenge, TESC111, this week. Add to that, I saw this great bag w/ the prettiest color scheme, dark brown, kraft & subtle aqua/turquoise.

So I brought out my guidelines sets and played with it until I found a pattern I liked best. Then with the Martha Stewart Glitter set, I added a strip of glitter to the scalloped edge. I also die cut a circle using two way sticker paper and put more glitter on that. Can I just say, her glitter is awesome. It sticks well, has tons of color and so pretty...

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Guidelines Two, Giga Guidelines, Text backgrounds I, Daily Design Sentiments
Ink: Versamagic jumbo java, aquatic splash, sahara sand
Paper: MB vanilla bean notecard, cream cardstock
Accessories: EK punch, spellbinders circles, MS glitter, kaiser pearls, embossing powder

CCC Sunday

You know how some stamps just call to you? Well Stamping Bella's Ketto's Dolly was one of them. While sitting down to try and finish the many Mothers Day cards I need (seven...), this stamp was just begging for my attention.

I thought this week's Copic Color Challenge, B02-BV02-YG03, would be a perfect trio for coloring her dress. I also added some smooch pool to her ribbons & trim. It added a very nice sparkley sheen. I'm not sure if you can see it in the picture but I actually added some glitter w/ a glue pen to the ribbons on her shoes. Then I added a mix vellum & felt die cut flower using my new PTI flower dies & topped it w/ a Hawaiian Shores button.

The Dets:
Stamps: Stamping Bella Ketto's dolly, PTI Daily Design Sentiments
Paper: MB notecard & poppy finch paper pack, vellum
Ink: Copics, Memento black
Accessories: PTI flowers #3 die, spellbinder long rectangles, smooch pool, PTI hawaiian shores button, white felt, krafters floss, glue pen & glitter, MS punch

I {heart} felt

My LSS was having their anniversary sale. And so I got to pick up a few pieces of pretty felt. It should tide me over until my PTI order comes with my lovely Hawaiian Shores felt.

For my card I used this week's Taylored Expressions sketch, TESC109. I first strategically placed the PTI Flower dies on the paper to die cut then. Then I ran it through again w/ swiss dots. The white circles are also small pieces of felt cut out w/ my spellbinders. I topped it w/ some buttons from PTI's spring button mix and added a layer using my medium scalloped border. Though I still need to figure out a better way to straight cut felt, b/c it wasnt working properly with my paper cutter.

The Dets will be coming later...

Its been awhile...

Forgive me, bloggers, for I have been...really really l-a-z-y.

Last week (or possibly the week before) the boy's cousin had a baby. This is the card I made for them before said new baby girl was born, yet it still sitting on my desk waiting to be written in and mailed. I'm using the excuse that I didnt know how to spell the new baby's name. Though they recently sent us a picasa gallery and we now know her name is spelled Keira...or was it Keara. I have no idea.

Anyway, I used one of my fave new sets, PTI Tin Types. The Melon Berry paper I used didnt quite turn out so well in the picture. But I used two the background stamps to create this card, stamped one in melon berry ink and then again w/ another in fresh snow. I used my Signature Greetings set for the sentiment. The border is a Martha Stewart punch I just got that I think totally rocks, though I find it a bit hard to use.


The Dets:
Stamps: PTI Tin Types and Signature Greetings
Ink: PTI melon berry, fresh snow, Brilliance pearlescent chocolate
Paper: PTI Kraft and melon berry
Accessories: MS border punch, PTI melon berry ribbon, PTI button

Hello...Kitty

Yeah...I bought the Hello Kitty cricut cartridge. But it was really really cheap. And I got brainwashed whilst at home, wanting all kinds of cutesy stuff, which included hello kitty. Plus I've been trolling all these awesome Hawaii girl blogs and they've got the coolest HK cards. Suffice to say, when I saw it on sale at Joanns the other day, I had to have it.

I made the background with my PTI tin types background in Melon Berry ink. Then I stamped another background from the set in fresh snow ink on the same red paper I used to die cut her dress. The cricut was sooo awesome...I cut out three different kitties in different sizes just to get a feel for how big they were. Sooo easy...

The Dets:

Stamps: PTI tin types background, TCP smells like cake

Paper: PTI melon berry, black, pink & red cardstock from Michaels

Inks: PTI melon berry, fresh snow

Accessories: Cricut Hello Kitty cartridge, PTI melon berry ribbon, stardust gelly roll, smooch gold

Lots of Stamps, One Little Card

The other day I attempted to do one of the most difficult things (that I think anyway) in card making. I had to make a boy card. *g* Today is the hub's brother's birthday and whilst I offered to send his bro a totally cutesy TGF card, he politely decided.

So I racked my brain a bit, brought out a great deal of stamps and did a bunch of backgrounds in blue, black & grey color themes. B/c really that's all my "boy" cards are - cards in blue. I brought out my PTI retro backgrounds and stamped it in enchanted evening ink over some matching cardstock. Then I used my polka dot backgrounds 1 in black over smokey shadow. I used some Fresh navy ink to stamp the bitty dotted frame and then stamped the sentiment in black ink. It looked a bit plain so I brought out my Turning a new leaf set and stamped a couple branches on the card and the frame panel in the navy ink. Then I added a bit of pearls for dimension.

All in all, six pearls, five stamp sets, four cardstock colors, three inks...and one ribbon.

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI retro backgrounds, fillable frames #1, signature greetings, turning a new leaf and polka dot basics 1
Paper: MB notecard licorice, neenah white, PTI enchanted evening & smokey shadow
Ink: Fresh navy, Brilliance graphite black, PTI enchanted evening
Accessories: kaiser pearls, grosgrain ribbon

You're late...

For a very important date.


Well not really, but actually I'm running late to go see Alice in Wonderland. Eck! I heard it didnt get the greatest reviews but how can it be that bad when you got wonderfully kooky characters like that of Bellatrix Lestrange and Johnny Depp?


Anyway, its is a late card for this weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch. She's got the most fabulous sketches. When I saw the oval shape I immediately knew I wanted to ink up my brand spankin' new TGF Ruby. I remember when I first saw her on Amy's blog for the Create Your Own Sprout challenge. I absolutely loved her, so when she came out on rubber, I wasted no time in buying her. I'm still lamenting the loss of my Y21, but since Ruby just sorta demands blonde to me I had to continue on w/ my "other" blonde.


The Dets:
Stamps: TGF Ruby, PTI Signature Greetings
Ink: Memento black, Brilliance graphite black, copics, spica glitter
Paper: MB lagoon notecard, BG lemonade paper pack
Accessories: diamond glaze, ribbon, ticket punch, kaiser jewels, oval spellbinders