January Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

This month's challenge is to use an under-utilized stamp set, so I put Wonderfully Whimsical to work. I used some wooden craft squares which came in an assortment of sizes ranging from approximately 1/2" to 1.5". I used Aleene's Primer before I started stamping to create a cleaner stamped line. The ink is Memories Sepia. I used watercolor pencils on the larger image. The smaller squares are punched with the smaller Crop-a-dile punch. I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do with these yet, I might put a pin back on the larger one and use the smaller for earrings or I might use them for embellishments.

Hop over to Capture The Moment to see seriously enabling Papertrey Ink projects.

Easy Holiday Decorating

It is very difficult to shop for my father, he has everything he really needs, and it's difficult to think of things he really wants lol. He and his wife travel a lot, sometimes they are home for Christmas, sometimes they aren't. I made these decorations so they could remember places they've been, but would be easy to store and easy to put up and take down.

The die cuts all come from the Destinations cartridge, the hanging ornament stamp comes from Papertrey Ink's Holiday Button Bits. I substituted paper circles for the buttons. Merry Christmas comes from Making Memories, Fa La La stamp set. The snowflakes were stamped on the background with versamark. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy... once I decided what to do lol.

Lighthouse Card

Fine Linen Papertrey Ink cardstock for the card base. I have definitely not used my Wall Decor and More cartridge as much as I could (it's got so many great images on it). The thank you is made with the monogram-shift feature. The blue is one of those metallic shimmery cardstocks. Simple, basic, but I like it :D.

WOYWW 85

I'm up to my neck in projects. Actually I have so many ideas, I've had to go play Hatchlings to sort them all out lol. Today has been a bit of a feast. I got my star punch and matching PTI stamp set today as well as the new Stamp It magazine and the Tim Holtz ticket stamp set. The picture frames are used in a late present for my dad. The stack of CD cases are all filled with luscious PTI stamps. I'm trying to find my least used set for the PTI blog hop this month.

So if you want to see more crafty workdesks, hop over to Julia Dunnit's Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, join in :D.

Thrift Shop Challenge

The challenge is to restyle an item from a thrift store with Cricut cuts. So I started with a frame ($1.53 including tax) and turned it into a pin display.

I started with multi-surface primer and then put in a couple of coats of brown acrylic paint. Then I applied a few coats of old gold paint over that. I used one of the frames on the Sentimentals cartridge, cutting out the shadow, base, and 2 of the layers (the gold shimmery paper is layered over the cream with Stampin Up Dimensionals).  I put some wool over the glass and then covered that with fabric, put on the back and a frame is turned into a display for pins :D.

Feeling Frosty Challenge

I used the snowflake from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  For the shadow I used some of the 3M adhesive paper and made a stencil with the shadow cut and painted it on with white paint. Then I used a cream colored paper for the base and a shimmery eggshell for the layer cut. I used four brads from my stash and Stampin' Up Dimensionals for the snowflake layer cut and some really thick pop-ups for the mat. The card is made with Kraft cardstock from Papertrey Ink. The brown is from Anna Griffin and is shimmer also. Sadly the photograph doesn't pick up the subtle reflections.

Sandy Souvenirs and WOYWW 84

It's a late WOYWW post for me. I did take a picture of my workdesk, but my battery was flatlined and apparently didn't register the picture ... then I forgot I had to retake it ... so this week it'll just be a project I've been working on.

It's snowing like mad today, so I'm making beachy souvenirs as gifts just to balance things out. I have a bit of a compulsion to collect a bag of sand at every beach I go to, unless it's a national park, then I just take pictures of the sand. So I used some clear glass ornaments, put in some sand and sea glass and wrote the name of the beach and the year we were there with a copic pen.

The boxes are made with a cut from the Wrap It Up Cartridge and decorated with squares of paper from a K&Co. beach pad. After the first four, I learned it was way easier to put the decorative paper on before the box was assembled lol.

If you'd like to see what other crafty folks have on their workspace, hop over to Julia's Stamping Ground, or better yet, join in the fun :D.