Tuesday Trigger - Mantastic!

I was inspired by this Tuesday Trigger to make a Father's Day card for my husband. I love this color combination.

I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart #3 set for the hearts stamped in Ranger Espresso, PTI Hawaiian Shores and Pure Poppy, and VersaMagic Aegean Blue. Sentiments from PTI, Cardstock is PTI Soft Stone.

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CAS-ual Fridays #55

This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card with a little bling. I wanted to use some of the silver glitter Recollections paper I've been hoarding in my stash for a rainy day.

For my first card, I cut a piece of PTI Smokey Shadow cardstock using their Half & Half die. I heat embossed the modern Celebrate sentiment (PTI Think Big Favorites #13) using American Crafts Zing powder along with the champagne glasses stamp from A Muse. I used Stickles for the bubbly champagne in the glasses and continued it on the floating bubbles. I used rhinestones to continue the floating bubbles beyond the stamped image.

On this card, I used all the same supplies except I used the balloon die from PTI Heart 2 Heart #2.

Just a little bit of bling and sparkle goes a long way......

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Retro Sketches #14

Great challenge prompt at Retrosketchesthis week....very versatile too.

I made two cards using this sketch:

For this first card, I used Papertrey Ink's Sweet as Can Be stamp and dies topping the ice cream cone with a pale pink rhinestone. I die cut the ice cream from patterned papers from Echo Park and My Mind's Eye, two of my favorite patterned paper companies. For the border strip down the card, I used the frame image from PTI Framed Out 2 set in Ranger Espresso, PTI Autumn Rose and Melon Berry to match the patterned papers.

This second card used my new Papertrey Chevron dies which I used with various Echo Park patterned papers. I colored the cupcake from PTI Tremendous Treats: Birthday with Copics and stamped the Inkadinkado sentiment in Ranger Espresso. I love the pop of color on the kraft cardstock.

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Play Date Cafe #134

Hello friends,

I'm loving the happy color combination over at Play Date Cafe this week.

For my card, I used the oval frame stamp from the new Papertrey Ink Happy Hydrangea set and overlapped the ovals in Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, and Soft Stone PTI inks. I used Soft Stone cardstock as my base and stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from PTI Heart 2 Heart #2 in Versamagic Red Brick.

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colourQ challenge #139

The colour combination at colourQ this week seemed perfect for my new PTI set Happy Hydrangeas. For the hydrangeas I used Versamagic Chalk ink in Eggplant as well as Papertrey Ink Spring Rain. The leaves were stamped in Versamagic Night Sky and sentiment in Kraft to match the cardstock. I rounded opposite corners to give a softer look and added some Keisercraft light blue bling to the leaf stems.

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Make It Monday # 68 Pocket Cards

Being away from my craft area for almost two weeks was much harder than I thought. I was itching for my houseguests to vacate my spare bedroom/craft room so I could make a card or two, especially when I kept seeing such great challenges being posted in my blog reader.

Here is my take on Heather's Pocket Card tutorial:

I used beloved Kraft cardstock as my base, black as the mat, and Papertrey's School Time stamp set to make this teacher Thank You pocket card. Sentiment is from PTI Think Big Favorites and inks are PTI Pure Poppy, Momento Tuxedo Black, and Brilliance Sunflower Yellow. I also used my EK Success border punch to make the loose-leaf effect at the top of the pocket.

For the pocket cards, I stamped on two of the Becky Higgins Project Life cards which are like graph paper and goes well with my school theme. The back also has the graph design so she can continue writing her note on the reverse side (her handwriting not so tiny!). One card will be for my daughter to write a note to her teacher, the other for me to write one.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Papertrey May 2012 Blog Hop Challenge

Its that time of the month again! Its a time to browse such lovely creations made with PTI goodies.
This month's inspiration photo:

I was a bit short on time preparing for this Hop as I was preparing for a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my 40th birthday (AHHHH!)
I usually make three cards for the Blog Hop, not intentionally, just always happens that way because I get so inspired by the photo one card is never enough! But this time I only had time for one so here it is:

The stack of plates in the inspiration photo of course made me think of circles. And as you know, PTI Mehndi Medallion set is my all-time favorite, go-to in a pinch set. I used Momento Tuxedo Black and PTI Simply Chartreuse to create the design of various medallions and added some Kaizercraft green rhinestones. Then I realized that the green bling was more of a match to New Leaf ink so decided to add a few medallions in New Leaf too to balance the bling. Sentiment is from PTI Beautiful Butterflies. I love the result and never would have made a card with these three colors.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the Hop!

Play Date Cafe # 132

I'm having a blast playing along at the Play Date Cafe. What an honor to be selected as the Cream in our Coffee last week!

For this week's challenge, the colors are black, white, and a splash of mustard yellow.

I was inspired to make three cards. For this first one, I made a card using my favorite PTI double ended banner dies and some striped paper from Reminisce I've had in my stash for a while. I used Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink as my 'splash' of yellow. Its the closest ink I had to the inspiration photo. I used a PTI Think Big Favorites sentiment but it didn't show up as brightly as I had hoped.

Next I tried the same card on white cardstock instead and liked the effect of my 'splash' much better -

But my favorite card using this color combination was a teacher thank you card I made to fill up my stash for the end of the year gifts coming in a few weeks.

I used Becky Higgins grid journaling cards on black cardstock to make the background. Stamps were from PTI School Time set and sentiment from Think Big Favorites and the same Momento Black and Brilliance Galaxy Gold inks.
I love how it turned out and that its very different than the red/green apple themed cards I made for Teacher Appreciation Week.

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