Glitter Hello card

Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #28 the challenge was to use a thick glue pen around a die, only I don't have a thick glue pen, so I used a copic marker (cool gray) and colored over it with a Martha Stewart glue pen and used Pallette Ultrafine Prism glitter.

cardstock: pink mat from stash, PTI soft stone (mat) and sweet blush (A2 card), vintage cream (mat shape #3).
marker: C5 (cool gray) Copic, chisel edge around the shaped mat, side of brush to edge the rectangular mats.
inks: Spun Sugar and Pumice Stone Distress Inks
stamps: Papertrey Ink Honey Bees and Mat Stack 3 Collection.

Two Fast and Easy(ish) Cards

Finally had a chance to do a Make It Monday. This week's challenge was to make a copic colored ribbon. I used red and green on Papertrey Ink's Fine Linen Topnotch Twill Tape. The cardbase is Papertrey Ink's Stampers Select. The robots on the bottom of the card are from a self-inking Inklings stamp I picked up at the dollar store. The other robot stamp is from a Stampin' Up Lots of Bots stamp set.

The thank you card is Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select cardbase masked off with painter's tape. The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink's Embellishments stamp set and the inks are Distress Inks (bundled sage and sooty black). Easy peasy! I'm thinking this would do well as a Thank You card set.

WOYWW 114

Papertrey Ink stamps to use on the left, box of Cricut cuts under the Papertrey Ink cardstock sample book on the right. Cards to finish behind.

It's great for picking out cardstock color combinations. One of my favorites: vintage cream, pure poppy and Hawaiian shores.

It has a handy dandy chart in the front.

So I added the various whites that I have (stamper's select, white shimmer, vintage cream, rustic white), and re-arranged my cardstock in the order of the chart. Thinking this will make it easier to find what I'm looking for :D.

It's been a fairly quiet week considering that DD is back after 5 weeks away at camp lol. And somehow I managed to get a gallon of water in the floor of the passenger side back seat (American seating that is). Thankfully I bought a small automobile wet/dry vac a couple of years ago. Still haven't figured out how the water got in, if it was an open window I think the seat and door would have been wet too. Apparently there is no gel pack I can just put on the floor and vacuum up later. I might have to borrow a hairdryer to dry out the residual.

If you are wondering what's all this WOYWW, head over to the Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, take a picture of your workdesk and join in the fun :D.

I'm Really Loving the First of the Month!

As I might have mentioned once or twice lol, I'm on the Club Ruby Designers' Design Team.  On the first of the month I get to see the fabulous projects my team mates have posted on the site and I get to share what I've made.  This month we're allowed to share a photograph of one of our projects on our blog and this is the one I chose :D. It's a small gift box, about 3 x 4.5 inches, and I feel the colors are neutral enough you could use it for a gift box for anyone. And no wrapping required! And it's a birthday keepsake! Love multi-purpose things :D. Except for the stickles and the Papertrey Ink Twine, everything is from the Fancy Pants August 2011 kit.

So if you want to see all the other projects, hop on over to Club Ruby Designers and join up. There is even a free membership level!

WOYWW 112!

Happy WOYWW :D. I've been playing with my Papertrey Ink stamps. This is the Honey Bees stamp which I used to make the card from the previous post and this one (which my daughter sent off to a friend). The wellies are from the Daily Designs stamp set. I'm so in love with versamark for stamping btw lol.

I'm happy to say the weather has cooled off significantly from last week! Nothing like 100 degree weather to make 89 seem balmy :D, actually it was 108 with the heat index last week, bah.

Now for you Tim Holtz fans (It's been ages since I put a Tim Holtz label on a post), one of my favorite CHA reporting blogs, Scrap Time has posted a series of Tim Holtz videos, so I'll enable anyone interested by providing a link for videos 1 and 2 and this link for 3, 4, 5, and 6. Watch at your own fiscal peril however lol.

If you are wondering about what's all this WOYWW, then head over to our fearless leader's site, The Stamping Ground and have a gander, better yet, take a picture and join in :D.

Stamp-a-faire Challenge #10

Papertrey Ink had a Stamp-a-faire event over the weekend, only with one thing and another I wasn't able to participate with the online challenges, but since challenge #10 didn't post when it was supposed to, now I can :D. The challenge was to create depth by only using one layer, stamping a background and then focal points on top of it.

I used Papertrey Ink's Honey Bees and Background Basics: Retro, with Marvy Heritage Old Gold, Antique Linen Distress Ink and Memento Black Tuxedo inks, Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select White and Harvest Gold cardstocks.

July Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Everything is Papertrey Ink except for the curtains.
card base, couch, pillows: Stampers Select White Cardstock.
couch seat: Ripe Avocado Cardstock
mat: Fine Linen Cardstock edged with Distress Ink Tea Dye
stamps: On My Couch, (Botanical Silhouette used for decorating pillows.

Curtains were rippled between three skewers two below the paper and one on top between them.

There are lots of wonderful projects at the PTI Blog Hop.