Stretch Your Stamps - Label Stamps

Here's a card I made from an idea in the Stretch Your Stamps online card class. The idea is to use the label as a gift card holder. Here I used one of my Half & Half dies from PTI and added the sentiment on a Christmas Label. Perfect for the gift card from Cold Stone creamery. The card is held in place by two foam dots.

Colors are inspired by this week's challenge at Play Date Cafe #141.

Thanks for taking a look!

Stamp-a-faire Morning Make-n-Take

Well, its finally Stamp-A-Faire at Papertrey Ink.

Nichole Heady shared a video on her blog with the morning warm-up card. My take below uses the same colors but I changed the card base to Orange Zest instead. I don't have the new Natural Beauties set she used so I used the big flower from Rosie Posie. Can you believe its the ONLY PTI floral set I have other than the Flower Fusion series and Happy Hydrangeas? I know, unbelievable!

Loved her technique of scoring the vellum and using scor-tape. Great idea because you can sort of see the adhesive but it looks like it's supposed to be there!

Hope you are having a great time playing along at Stamp-A-Faire too! Thanks for stopping by!

colourQ challenge #146

Here's my card for colourQ this week.

I used PTI's Botanical Silhouettes along with their striped Simple Chartreuse patterned paper.

Thanks for looking!

Getting Ready.....

....for PTI's Stamp A Faire event tomorrow. Made some cards to get warmed up, cleaned my space, and prepped the kids for some Daddy-Daughter special time. Haven't done a solo crafting day in YEARS so I'm excited.

MIM Roll the Die #3

Here were Sydney's rolls -

I was very excited she rolled Happy Hexagons because I hadn't yet inked up that set. Challenge for her card was that I had to use Happy Hexagons, Half & Half AND Fillable Frames 9 or 10. That's a LOT of stuff for one card.

Here's my third card:

I was thrilled with the result and had a great time playing with the colors, patterns, and PTI's coverplate makes it SO EASY. But notice anything? First thing Sydney noticed was that I didn't follow the sketch. YIKES! I was so excited about how pretty the hexagons were turning out, I forgot the sketch part.

So back to the drawing board I went because my follow-the-rules daughter wouldn't let it go! Here's my second attempt:

I reduced my Half & Half use to the little '& Wish Big' sentiment on one circle. Otherwise, there would be WAY too much going on. Love this too. Thanks for stopping by!

MIM Roll the Die #2

Next up was Sabrina's card.

She rolled layout #3 which I found to be a bit more challenging. She loved the results but that's probably because she's 6, likes everything I make, and probably didn't want to hurt my feelings. Honestly, I think its ok, probably could be tweaked to be better but with Stamp-A-Faire tomorrow, I don't have the time.

Thanks for stopping by. Wait till you see card #3!

MIM Roll The Die #1

I haven't been playing along with PTI's Make It Monday challenges for a few weeks because summer has just been crazy. But Erin Lincoln's MIM challenge this week looked like it could be a lot of fun. So I got my girls together and decided they would help me pick some of the supplies to go on my challenge list and they'd get to roll the die for an entire card I'd make. They loved it and I'm actually going to simplify the challenge worksheet so we can make some cards together. They are, after all, only 8 and 6 and some of those sketch layouts were even hard to put together for me!

Anyway, here's my sheet -

Sierra's rolls -

First card I made was Sierra's. Her roll got the pretty Heart-2-Heart#3 set she picked out. Love the colors and the texture the impression plate (red piece) gave to the card.

She loved it. Thanks for looking! Two more cards to go!

Stretch Your Stamps - Alphabet

I have so many stamps that I figured I had everything I needed for the Stretch Your Stamps class at onlinecardclasses.com. I really didn't want to buy anything special for the class. So when the Day 3 lesson was published I dug out my alphabet stamps and was disappointed to find I only had a few and they were all small letters, nothing like the big bold ones used in class.

I used PTI's fresh alphabet set to make a background but again, the letters are so small and dainty the background did not have a striking impact. So I used the letter 'D' to make this design and cut them apart to make these card elements. What resulted was not planned at all but its cute enough I suppose. Colors were inspired by this week's color challenge at Paper Players but I didn't post this card in time to enter.

I also used the same alpha set to personalize these two cards I made for our friends 4 yr birthday this week. They are twins so I thought personalizing them would make them a touch more special.

Thanks for stopping by!