ColourQ #228

I'm having a great time playing along with the anniversary challenges at Papertrey Ink this past week. Can't believe I've been able to make so much time to create things and its been a blast. My craft space is a mess but WTH right?

Today's card is inspired by the PTI challenge to use stripes. I was dry embossing a panel of white cardstock using the Super Stripes embossing plate when the handle slipped and I stopped part way. I was going to run it through but when I looked at it, I liked how it was only partially embossed so I decided to use it that way. I wanted to use my photo finishers dies to separate the panel and scattered some images from the Mehndi Medallion sets. Took another photo closeup because the embossed stripes are hard to see in the photo.

Colors are inspired by the pretty palette at ColourQ this week.

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Teacher Cards

I have two cards to share today for the Papertrey 7th anniversary celebration - Day 6. The challenge to create a project using a large word as a focal point.

I decided to use the Wonderful Words Teacher die as my focal point word when I found this embossed script alphabet paper from Core'dinations. I sanded down the top of the alphabets so that the white core of the grey/khaki paper now shows through. I remember buying a bunch of this embossed card stock but never used it. Time to dig it out!

I pairs this paper with two different color combinations and stamped the rest of the sentiment on a banner. And adhering the Wonderful Words dies are much easier now that I learned the trick of running the card stock through my xyron before die cutting.

Yay, two cards for teacher appreciation week in May done!

Thanks for stopping by to look at my cards.

Polka Dot Parade #12

Haven't had a chance to play with the new Polka Dot Parade #12 set from last month's release so I thought it would be perfect for PTI Anniversary Day 7 challenge - word focal point. Have some birthday gifts that need a tag and card so perfectly timed!

First is a square card using the Wish as a focal point and one of the color schemes from PTI's earlier challenges.

Next is a tag using the same set. Can you tell I'm absolutely in love with this bitty dot patterned paper. And it goes so well with the whole Polka Dot Parade stamp series!

Thanks for taking a peek! Have a great week.

Pocket Scrapbook Cards

I'll be honest....I never even thought of creating my own cards for my Project Life album. Until today. Papertrey Ink is releasing their first set of products for pocket scrapbooking and are celebrating today with a challenge - create a 3x4 card that can be used on a card or in a pocket scrapbook.

People online always talk of making their own cards but I really never thought to do it until this challenge. I always thought it would be too hard or complicated. I'm pleased to say that it isn't. The 3x4 canvas is perfect and I like to keep things simple anyway. And now I feel like the possibilities are endless because I have so many Papertrey stamps that could work well on these little cards.

I'm sharing four pocket cards I made today that can easily fit in my monthly pocket scrapbook.

This first one is for a back to school page. I used the PTI Teach and Inspire set.

Next one uses some fun colors and the Live Life Love set.

This one is my favorite and perfect for the weather we are having here lately. I used the Wonderful Words:Snow set.

And the first one I made early this morning was a travel themed card using the PTI Destination set.

Hope you are having a great weekend and thanks for much for taking the time to stop by!

PTI Anniversary Take 4

OK, I think this may be my last card for the Day 1 challenge....at least for this week anyway!

Here's a card I made today using a PTI 8x8 bitty dot pad I got last week. LOVE the mix of colors and I am finding myself using them a lot this week. Might have to get another pad this month.

I used these sketch and color combos -

I love the boldness of these colors with the dotted paper. Such a great, happy color combo.

Thanks for taking a peek at my card!

PTI Anniversary Double Challenge

Hi, I'm back again with another card for the PTI Anniversary challenges. This one is for the timed challenge on Day 3 which means 7 products picked out in 7 minutes to make a card in 17 minutes. The hardest part of this challenge for me was to make sure I grabbed everything I needed because once the 7 minutes was up I couldn't go back to add anything. So, I decided to take some guesswork out of it and use the sketch and color combos from the Day 1 challenge so I wouldn't waste anytime trying to figure out color combos.

My 7 products were: Maya Road Kraft Doily, AC red twine, Think Big Favorites Thank You stamp, dark chocolate and fine linen cardstock, linen impression plate, and scarlet jewel ink. Whew. I was so afraid I was going to forget something critical but 7 minutes ended up being plenty of time for me to grab what I needed.

So here's my card that I made in 7 minutes and 9 seconds. Pretty good I think.

I'm having fun playing along with these challenges and checking out everyone's creations too. Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Anniversary Day 2

For the second day of PTI's Anniversary Challenges, I made three wine bottle tags using the 2014 designer printables. They are all so gorgeous but I picked the ones appropriate for some occasions I have coming up. I matted the printables and put them on wine bottle tags cut out of matching PTI patterned cardstock. Easy, peasy and I'm excited to give these out.

Dawn McVey's design....

Lizzie Jones' design....

Betsy Veldman's design....

Thanks so much for taking a peek! Hope you are having a great time playing along with these challenges too!

Papertrey Anniversary Take 3

Another card for the PTI sketch/color combination challenge on Day 1:

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