ColourQ #230

I'm slowly working through my Papertrey February release goodies. Circle Scribbles has been put away, for now anyway! Now I'm sharing a card this morning that I made using my new PTI diagonal striped cover plate. Diagonals are a bit trendy and modern so I thought it would be perfect to pair with this week's ColourQ palette which is just that. Sentiment is from the new Building Blocks set.

Enjoy your day. Thanks for stopping by.

CASology # 84

This week's CASology cue is PAINT. I have mixed feelings about paint, actual paint I mean. I used to use it all the time on my scrapbook pages when I used foam stamps but haven't done that in years. But for my kids, I'm not a big fan, at least of the clean up anyway. I remember when my twins were young and I was the helper parent at their co-op preschool once a month, the art project of the day would ALWAYS be paint. It became their teacher's little joke because she knew how much I hated managing twelve 3 year olds with a paint project.

So when I saw the cue card I wanted to use the Papertrey Watercolor Wonder stamps which is a set of paintbrush strokes. Perfect for the kind of crafter that doesn't want to get too messy with paint! LOL.

I stamped a rainbow of brushstrokes along the bottom and inked up the sentiment in those same colors. Not sure how it was gonna turn out as there was some overlap but I figured it would be just like paint.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you are having a great week.

Circle Scribbles Card Set

I'm back again with a set of cards I made with Circle Scribbles. Circle Scribbles is easily my favorite new set to play with and I promise I will take a break from that set after this. I need to ink up my other new goodies!

This set started with this first card I made for the Papertrey Ink February Blog Hop which challenged us to use spring colors. For this card, I used PTI Lemon Tart, Spring Rain, Summer Sunrise, and Hibiscus Burst.

I loved the way it turned out so I made a similar card using the fabulous colors at ColourQ this week.

And to complete the set I made one last card with a different Spring color scheme - PTI Winter Wisteria, Limeade Ice, Hawaiian Shores, and Aqua Mist.

All sentiments are from the Keep It Simple Happy Birthday set. I have a feeling that this series will be very loved on my craft desk. I rounded the corners to soften the card and compliment the circles better.

Thanks for taking a look at my latest cards!

Papertrey Ink February 2014 Blog Hop

Its Blog Hop time at Papertrey Ink! The challenge this month is to create a spring themed project using either a fresh spring color palette or use spring imagery. I'm all for busting these winter blues so I was excited to play along this month!

For my card, I cut the Fabulous Frames die out of Aqua Mist patterned paper and used that to display my little spring scene - pink bloom growing in the warm sun against the picket fence. The card base is embossed with the linen impression plate.

I have a few more Springy cards to share so I'll be back with another post later hopefully. Hope you are enjoying the Blog Hop. I'm looking forward to channeling Spring to arrive when I hop around everyone's blogs! Thanks for stopping by.

Playing Around with Circle Scribbles

I'm having fun playing around with some new Papertrey goodies I got last week. I loved Circle Scribbles from the moment I saw it during release week and let me tell you, its as fun and playful as I knew it would be. I'm sharing this card that I made with Circle Scribbles and the triple threat colors at Dynamic Duos. I also used the Papertrey Tipped Top dies I got last week too. When I first cut out my papers, I didn't realize that they needed to be cut in a certain direction. It wasn't until I glued down the pink and stamped panels that I realized they were "supposed" to be flush along the left side of the card panel and not the right. But I think with the playful scribbled circles, it still looks cute on the other side.

Have a good week. Thanks for stopping by!

Dynamic Duos #91

Triple threat week at Dynamic Duos this week...I love the challenge of the extra color. For this card I used my favorite PTI Mums The Word flowers which come out of vellum die cut vases. Not sure why the the sentiment banner looks so neon pink in the photo but its really not in real life.

The design was inspired by CAS(E) This Sketch this week.

Weather is warm here today in NJ - we're up to 53 degrees so these mounds of snow are finally melting. Just in time to clear the way for the next snow storm on Tues! I'm happy that we have a little bit of a break from Old Man Winter for the weekend.
Hope you are enjoying yours! Thanks for stopping by!

CAS(E) This Sketch #65 & CCMC #8

I was so excited to get my February release package from Papertrey Ink and couldn't wait to play with the new Circle Scribbles set. My card uses the scribbles as trees with the tree trunks made from the road stamp from City Scene. Colors inspired by Colour Me challenge and design by CAS(E) This Sketch.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Dynamic Duos #90

As soon as I saw the color challenge at Dynamic Duos this week, I knew I wanted to make a scrapbook page instead of a card. The black and yellow were a perfect backdrop for photos I had related to a fun Harry Potter outing we had back in 2011.

I did also make a teacher appreciation card that featured yellow pencils but I can't seem to find it in the mess that has become my craft desk this month. PTI Anniversary challenges and the Layout A Day challenge have just thrown my desk into complete chaos. Good chaos mind you, but still a wreck! I'm hoping to find it soon so I can post it before the challenge closes.

Thanks so much for taking a peek!