Papertrey Ink 5th Anniversary - Day One Challenge

It's the fifth anniversary for my favorite stamp company, Papertrey Ink (PTI) and it's the first time I've participated in their anniversary activities. And if Day One is any indication of all the fun in store for Papertrey fans, it's going to be a very exciting February!

Today's challenge is create a card based on one of the design team's favorite projects. I was inspired by all of them but after a long day and finally settling down for some crafting after the BIG Superbowl game, I was inspired by one of Debbie Olson's runner-up favorite cards. Though her style is different from mine, she an inspiration and her card inspired me to finally put some ink on the Botanical Silhouettes set that I have been dying to use since I purchased it from someone from the message boards.

Thanks so much for stopping by and as always, for your thoughtful comments.

Supplies: Cardstock: Memory Box (for base),PTI Rustic White, Patterned Paper: Echo Park Victoria Gardens, Stamps: PTI Botanical Silhouettes, Sentiment: PTI Fillable Frames #10, Ink: PTI Spring Moss and Canyon Clay., Twine: The Twinery Mandarin

Ready, Set, Go for LOAD

Its time for Lain Ehmann's Layout a Day (LOAD) Challenge again. This month marks my 7th LOAD challenge and I am excited! I always accomplish so much, probably the most scrapbooking I get done all year. I love the camraderie on the message boards as well as the inspiration from Lain's prompts and the gallery.

Here are my first two layouts -

Day 1

I was very inspired by Lain's prompt on the first day but I didn't have the right pictures for the layout I wanted to make but am definitely saving the idea for later on this month when I get my print order. So I made this layout with a collage photo I have on 11 photos I took on November 11, 2011. Just a nice snapshot of our everyday life.

Day 2

The prompt today was to scrap a favorite photo and this one instantly came to mind. I hadn't scrapped about Sophia yet, especially not since she passed away in June 2011. As hard the subject was, the journaling was surprisingly easy to write and the page came together quickly. Still, I cried the whole time.

PTI Make It Monday # 51

Supplies:Cardstock: Memory Box, Bazzill, Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye, Sentiments: PTI Mat Stack 3, Other Stamps: PTI Background Circles, Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Flowers: Prima, Pearls: Keizercraft

Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday video looked simple enough. Nichole always makes her techniques look so easy and they are always so gorgeous. Unfortunately my first attempt at making a custom background with PTI stamps failed miserably. I am slowly building my PTI collection and supplies but don't have any stamps really appropriate for creating a background that fit this design (hopefully will be corrected hopefully with the Feb release!) and sentiments to fit in a banner shape. I tried to make a background with the Simply Stationery set but the results were awful.
So I scrapped the whole thing and made this card using My Mind's Eye patterned paper as the background. I LOVE how it turned out. The dimensional sentiment banner look amazing in real life. And I have decided that PTI's Pure Poppy ink is my favorite color. I'll definitely be using this technique again.

Thanks so much for looking!

CR84FN Color Challenge

I'm so happy that I've gotten a lot of crafty time in this past week. Its invigorating to me. I feel like I'm climbing out of my creating rut where I spent the end of 2011.

I love color challenges and these colors make me very happy -



My take uses one of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers and some new Papertrey Inks I just got.


Supplies: Cardstock: Memory Box & Bazzill Basics, Patterned Paper & Diecut: My Mind's Eye, Sentiment: A Muse, Die & Stamp: Papertrey Ink Mat Stack 3, Ink: PTI Pure Poppy & Hawaiian Shores.

I really appreciate you stopping by!

Birthday Cheers

Hi there -

Here's my take on the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CDC37: this week as well as the Lily Pad Cards Patterned Paper Challenge:.


Supplies: Cardstock: Memory Box, Patterned Paper & Die Cuts: My Mind's Eye, Sentiment: Savvy Stamps, Ink: PTI Pure Poppy Ink


I made it with my niece's birthday in mind and I was so happy to use some of my favorite, but older My Mind's Eye stash.

Its based on this CAS-ual Friday sketch -

Thanks for visiting!

Clean & Simple - FTL175

Its been a LONG time since I posted a challenge card here. Its been a long time since I've gotten do something crafty in my craft room, just for fun. Sure, I'll blame the rotating door of visitors that have used my craft room as a spare bedroom since November! But really, its been that I've haven't been in the mood.

New year, new outlook, new FOCUS. That's my word for 2012.

Here are some cards I made for the Clean & Simple Stamping Challenge:.

Here's the sketch -


Here's my take -



Supplies: Cardstock: Memory Box & Bazzill, Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye, Rosettes: American Craft Delights Paper Flowers, Sentiment: Papertrey Ink, Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Thanks for stopping by!
Sherrie

Thank You.....

Much of this month was spent recovering from a severe reaction I had to the antibiotic Suprex. I developed something I had never before heard of - Serum Sickness - that eventually landed me in the hospital for almost two days and the medication to help with the symptoms left me with blurry vision for a week. I am grateful to all my friends and family who stepped in to help take care of my kids during that period while I was recovering and my hubby was at work. I couldn't have survived without your assistance.

I made these Thank You cards for them which I plan on including with baked goodies of some type when I'm feeling up to baking again.

I tried several different blingy options for the centers. My least favorite being the Stickles. Maybe next time I'll use my glue pen and actual glitter.



Supplies: Cardstock: AMuse, Flower Stamp: Floral Fusion #7, Sentiment: Think Big Favorites #4, Ink: Stampin Up Barely Banana, Momento Tangelo & Rosebud, Versamagic Tea Leaves, Embellishments: Keizercraft Rhinestones, White Blossom Hearts, Basic Grey Opaline Pearls, Distress Stickles Scattered Straw

One Little Word : FOCUS

I'm participating in the Ali Edwards Big Picture Class this year



and am determined to keep my word this year in the forefront of everything I do.

FOCUS is my word for 2012.

I wish to focus those things and people in my life that bring me joy and things that matter.
I want to confidently say NO to all things that use up my time in a unproductive or stressful way.
I want to feel like I've accomplished something this year.
I want to make active choices in how I spend my time.
I need to focus this year on all aspects of ME.

That being said, I hope to be posting to my blog more often this year.