Fortune Teller Card

So I let my girls loose in my craft area to make a card for the Color Fortune Teller challenge.  I armed them with a binder of PTI sketches and set them free. 

I shared Sierra's card in THIS previous post and wanted to share Sydney's:

Her color fortune teller colors were Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, and Blueberry Sky. Tough colors to create with but since they were monochromatic she wanted to do an overlapping stamp design. She used small medallions from the old PTI set Guide Lines. She picked out the sentiment and die cut the banner herself. They had a blast and since they cleaned up EVERYTHING they used, I might just let them play around with my stuff again! 

Here's Sydney and I on New Years - 

Thanks for looking! 

PTI Anniversary Part 2

Cold weekend here in NJ! Popping in quick to share a couple of cards.

First card I made for the PTI Anniversary Sampler Square challenge. To make this easier, I used my favorite colors for my 9 different techniques. The whole idea was intimidating quite honestly but it was a lot of fun and reminded me of some of the techniques to use.

Closeups of the squares:

Bottom row (L to R): Stamping & Perfect Pearls, Heat embossing and ink blending, stamping white then color

Middle row (L to R): Texture kissing, heat embossing in color, dry embossing

Top row (L to R): Die cut, tone on tone stamping, water coloring over heat embossed image

While I was working on my squares, my daughters were making cards of their own using the Color Pop Fortune Teller. How fun was that! They absolutely couldn't resist playing along. And I was kinda scared to let them loose with all my craft supplies but they had a blast. Once they picked out their colors, they flipped through my binder of PTI card sketches to get them inspired and off they went searching through my stamp sets and dies.

This card was made by my daughter Sierra -

She selected Royal Velvet, Summer Sunrise, and Melon Berry with the Fortune Teller. She used Snowflake Flurries and the Swoosh die to make her card. Pretty cute right! So proud of her. 

Stay warm. Check out my post HERE featuring my daughter Sydney's card. 

Thanks for popping in. 

ColourQ, CAS(E), & Create With Us

Hi friends - 

Checking in with two colorful cards today. 

First one was inspired by one of Lizzie Jones' PTI release cards this month for the Create Along With Us challenge.  Her card featured colorful fun Peep-like bunnies. 

My card features a colorful row of ice cream cones from PTI Sweet As Can Be using the same colors Lizzie used. I split the panel and stamped the sentiment in the space. I used a Jennifer McGuire trick of using fun foam to lift the panel off the card base instead of strips of foam tape. I used fun foam in orange to compliment one of the ice cream cones. You may see the orange peeking out in the photo. Looks kinda whimsical in real life. 

Second card is inspired by both the ColourQ and CAS(E) This Sketch challenges this week. I blended the three different pinkish shades using a Dylusions Dyan Reaveley Stencil. Wet Paint sentiment is heat embossed in gold. 

Temps dropping in NJ this weekend! :( Stay warm! Thanks for popping in! 

Three for Tuesday

Hi friends! Lots of fun stuff going on with Papertrey's anniversary bash this week. 

My first card is for the clothing inspiration challenge from Day 2. I'm currently searching for a gown for a formal event I'm attending in a couple of months. Pinterest and online stores are a rabbit hole that's hard to climb out of. I was inspired to make a card by this dress from a favorite designer of mine - Monique Lhuillier. Of course, none of her dresses are within my budget but they are wonderful to look at! 

I used Stitches and Swirls in Hawaiian shores on Harvest Gold card stock to mimic the design of the dress. A few enamel dots topped it off. 

Second card here is for the Day 3 Grab and Craft challenge. Challenge was to make a card using items grabbed in 5 minutes. Surprising 5 minutes is long enough to be more methodically about what I picked. I grabbed my favorite go-to inks - Simply Chartreuse, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold in black. I picked a stamp set from my NBUS bin - the SAF 2014 Joy set - as well as a a scrap piece of black paper and an Aqua Mist half sheet. 

Last card to share today is inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. 

I used birthday candles for the 3 strips along with a large sentiment collage from PTI In The Bag. I also scattered some stars along the bottom of the cluster to coordinate the stars in the sentiment. 

That's it for me today. Now off to work on crunching some numbers for taxes....ugh. Hope you are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology: Valentine

It's Valentine's Day next week so you'll see lots of Valentine themed cards all over the crafty sites on the internet. My husband and I don't typically exchange cards because the "Hallmark" cards cost too much! Wonderful words written but too expensive. 

I made this card sweet and simple and can be used for anyone really. I layered white and Smokey Sea card stock using the PTI Tipped Tops die for a simple angled look. Stamped xoxo is from Clearly Besotted. 

I die cut a small red heart and applied glossy accents over the top to create a shiny little embellishment. 

Check out the rest of the team's take on VALENTINE - 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Sherrie Mannion (HERE!)

Tracey McNeely

Have a great week! 

Loving The Aquas

I recently just created a Pinterest board for all my card creations (check out my Pinterest link on the right) and realized that I often create with colors in the aqua family.....think Papertrey colors Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores. Reminds me of the ocean and the sky. So versatile - can be happy or toned down when paired with certain other colors. These colors make me happy.

So when the Papertrey anniversary bash kicked off with a color challenge, in's no surprise that the palette I was drawn to the most was Amy's gorgeous combination -

The aquas look fabulous with various shades of grey. Plus this color palette used the two new Papertrey colors that I have not yet had a chance to play with. So here's what I came up with - 

I just got Stitches & Swirls which is stamped in Smokey Sea, Tropical Teal and Aqua Mist. Panel put on a card base of Smokey Shadow. I stamped the sentiment in Smokey Shadow on a strip of Mint Julep matted on Smokey Sea. Sentiment strip was adhered with foam tape. 

I continued the design on the inside with a sentiment fro Healing Touch. 

Got another card to share using the aquas inspired by the Pinterest Inspired Challenge this month - 

I used the Winnie & Walter 'Do You See What I See' stamp again but this time heat embossed it in white on an angle. I inked the background with Tim Holtz Crushed Olive, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade. 

I added a nest of white thread under the sentiment from Altenew Label Love. Panel added to a Hawaiian Shores card base. 

Now that I am more conscious that I use these colors so often, I'm going to TRY to use other color families....let's see how well that turns out! :)

Enjoy the weekend! Thanks for popping in! 

Two for Thursday

Hello friends -

I was very intrigued by the new Pinterest Inspired Challenge this month. Love the colors and graphic feel of this inspiration photo:

I used the awesome 'Do You See What I See' stamp from Winnie and Walter and heat embossed it in black on white card stock. I applied several Tim Holtz distress inks (Weathered Wood, Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive, & Salty Ocean) to the embossed panel. Looks really cool in real life but I wasn't sure what to do with it as a whole piece. 

So I die cut several vases out of it to make this:

I clustered the three vases (PTI Mega Vases) on one side and heat embossed a simple sentiment from the PTI Keep It Simple line. I adhered one flat and then the other two with different thickness foam tape for dimension. 

Second card I'm sharing today uses the supercool Balloon Strings stamp from My Favorite Things which I stamped on half of the card. I scattered various hearts cut out of Bazzill card stock on the strings. Sentiment from Mama Elephant.  Colors inspired by the ColourQ challenge this week. Hardest part of this challenge was using the two different red tones. Think it worked out well here. 

Hope you are having a great week! Snow is almost all melted here and temps now in the 50s. But guess what's expected tonight....more snow! 

Thanks for popping in! 

CASology:Glitter

It's Tuesday which means we have a new CASology cue card - GLITTER. I have a love-hate relationship with glitter. Its so pretty but also so messy! 

I remember my daughters made a craft in preschool which was made of paper, covered in glitter, and supposed to be hung from the ceiling or fixture. When it was suspended,  it would spin in the air. Can you see where this is going?? Although beautiful, it spread glitter everywhere when it spun! Seriously everywhere. Never again were my girls allowed to use glitter in their craft projects. 

For my CAS take on glitter, I wanted to incorporate it in a muted way so I went for a tone on tone, look. I used a Hero Arts  Large Lotus stencil with Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste on Smokey Shadow card stock. After letting the embossing paste dry for 3 minutes, I added Sparkle and Sprinkle glittered embossing powder in Ebony Spark to the top and applied heat. Wow. The embossing powder just melts into the paste and leaves a glittery finish. These pictures don't truly capture how cool it looks in real life - textured and sparkly. I heat embossed the sentiment in the same glitter embossing powder and Versamark. 

This is my take on a technique I learned from THIS video of Jennifer McGuire featuring embossing paste and embossing powder. 

Check out the fabulous GLITTER creations by the DT to see how glitter can be used in a clean and simple way. 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Sherrie Mannion (HERE!)

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer:  Sarah

and this week's sponsor  DeNami Design is offering a prize for our gallery winner. 

Look forward to seeing what you create in the gallery! Have a great week!