Simple thank you

I've been experimenting with different styles lately.  Here is a super simple thank you card that involves minimal stamping and incorporates a large Kaisercraft rub on (which took ages to apply).  Maybe rub ons aren't so convenient after all?  Perhaps this style is best described as 'clean and lazy:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white cardstock
Stamps - PTI mega mixed messages (sentiment)
Ink - Versafine onyx black, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - Kaisercraft Prairie Lane rub ons

Snow globe shaker card

Ho ho ho here's another card with glitter for the festive season.  This time it's a  snow globe featuring some of my favourite Christmas paper from Cosmo Cricket's jolly by golly collection.  I made my own snow globe cut using SCAL:

Supplies:
Paper - PTI vintage cream, dark chocolate cardstock, cosmo cricket jolly by golly patterned paper and borders, SU kraft cardstock
Stamps - PTI fancy flourishes
Ink - PTI fresh snow pigment ink, vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - SVG die cut, PTI woodgrain impression plate, SU chunky sprinkles, foam mounting tape, acetate, WR memory keepers corner chomper, white metallic thread

Moxie Fab World Tuesday trigger part 2

I came up with another card from the Tuesday trigger on the Moxie Fab World blog.  The stripes on the gloves inspired this stripey thank you card:

 

Supplies

Paper - PTI stamper's select white cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Golly by Jolly patterned paper, SU yoyo yellow

Stamps - PTI YOF: violets (sentiment)

Ink - Versafine onyx black

Accessories - PTI victorian lace border die, Mark Richards metal stickers, cricut die cut, foam dimensionals

Moxie Fab World Tuesday trigger

  
I saw the Tuesday trigger over at the Moxie blog and was inspired to use up some scraps of ribbon to make this mitten card.  Of course it's the wrong season for mittens down here (25C today) but I'm thinking ahead.

Here's what I came up with:

I printed the sentiment and the font is called 'rough typewriter'.

Supplies
Paper - SU kraft cardstock
Ink - PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - mitten svg file, cricut, PTI hawaiian shores bitty dot ribbon, hawaiian shores saddle stitch ribbon, dark chocolate twill tape, dark chocolate swiss dto satin, scarlet jewel twill tape, white ribbon from stash, PTI simply chartreuse felt, PTI friendship jar toppers die, pop dots

Delightful doilies

I've seen such gorgeous cards recently using doilies that I wanted to use them too.  I managed to get some from Diane Jaquay on the PTI forums and here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream cardstock, BasicGrey Nook & Pantry patterned paper
Stamps - PTI friendship jars holiday fillers
Ink - SU chocolate chip, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - BasicGrey Nook & Pantrychipboard stickers & brad, Making memories yellow ribbon, mini tag svg file cut with cricut

Moxie Fab World Glitter is Glam challenge

There's a great glitter challenge over at the Moxie Fab World blog (details here).  Here's the card I came up with. I've just been to a vintage card class, so I'm continuing with the vintage theme.  I was planning to make a glitter frame, but when I saw this angel I couldn't resist the idea of glittery wings:

Supplies

Paper - PTI vintage cream, pinefeather cardstock, DCWV Mariposa matstack

Accessories - vintage lace, PTI victorian lace border die, angel from Kathleen Green vintage collage sheet, Zig 2 way glue pen, prisma glitter, sewing machine, SVG frame file, Mark Richards metals stickers, printed sentiment

Grocery list notebook

For Christmas this year, I'm churning out notebooks. Haven't had so much fun in ages. I got inspired when I saw the many wonderful notebooks on Mish's blog.  Here are a couple more I've made as gifts for friends and relatives:

Supplies
Paper - PTI new leaf, pure poppy, Basic Grey Nook & Pantry 6 x 6 patterned paper
Stamps - PTI take note
Ink - Versafine black
Accessories - PTI new leaf grosgrain ribbon, new leaf & pure poppy buttons, rustic cream button twine, white ribbon from stash, cricut die cuts

Supplies
Paper - PTI aqua mist, pure poppy, Basic Grey Nook & Pantry 6 x 6 patterned paper
Stamps - PTI take note
Ink - Versafine black
Accessories - PTI aqua mist grosgrain ribbon, aqua mist & pure poppy buttons, rustic cream button twine, white ribbon from stash, cricut die cuts

Vintage Christmas

At the weekend I went to a vintage Christmas card class at my local scrapbook store. Vintage isn't really my thing, but we got to try out some new techniques like micro beads, image transfer and crackle effects. I had a lot of fun and might be brave enough to try a few more cards like this:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white card stock,  card stock & patterned paper from kit, Kathleen Green collage sheet
Accessories - Ranger crackle accents, red rhinestones, black lace trim, sewing machine

Packaging

It's that time of year when you need simple but effective packaging ideas. I've just packed up a birthday present for a friend and made a 'box in a bag' using this tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. I just altered the size to fit my gift. It was very easy and I'm pleased with the result (and I think my friend will be too!) I used double sided designer series paper from SU which works really well:

And a view looking from the top:

Supplies
Paper - SU baja breeze, rose red, Cutie Pie DSP
Accessories - scor tape, apron lace punch, making memories ribbon, hole punch, white gel pen, curved tab svg file

Birthday card & bookmark

After my notebook frenzy, I've discovered bookmarks.  Papertrey Ink's bookmark die makes it super easy to crank them out (literally!)  Here's a set I made for my Godson's sister Sophie (shhh don't tell her). 

I often cut letters or sentiments with my cricut but for this bookmark I wanted to stamp a monogram instead.  Since I don't have any alphabet stamps I improvised and inked up the 's' in the 'notes' stamp from PTI's Take Note. Maybe I don't need alphabet stamps after all?  Here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, SU Cutie Pie DSP
Stamps - PTI birthday  bash sentiments, take note (tag circle & monogram)
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Accessories - SU so saffron grosgrain ribbon, circut die cuts, foam dimensionals, PTI vintage cream button twine

Card Creations: Favorite Occasions Week All Occasion Challenge

Here's a card and matching bookmark I created for the All Occasion challenge over at the Moxie Fab World.  The bookmark was super easy to make using Papertrey Ink's bookmark die and some patterned paper from Stampin' Up's Haiku DSP:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream card stock, SU tangerine tango, so saffron, Haiku DSP
Stamps - PTI Asian Fusion,  2008 Holiday Tags (sentiment)
Ink - Versafine onyx black, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - PTI bookmark die, SU so saffron grosgrain ribbon, PTI vintage cream button twine, foam dimensionals

Ribbon wreath

I fell in love with Alli Miles' ribbon wreath and had to make one of my own. I used PTI's scarlet jewel, hwaiian shores, new leaf, chocolate chip and fresh snow.  The base is a 20cm polystyrene wreath from Spotlight which I wrapped in brown ribbon first:

Supplies

Base - 20cm polystyrene wreath

Ribbon - PTI dark chocolate Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon, Topnotch Twill, Classic Grosgrain,

New leaf  Luxe Satin Ribbon, Classic Grosgrain Ribbon, Bitty Dot Satin, Topnotch Twill

Hawaiian Shores Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon, Saddle Stitch Ribbon, Bitty Dot Satin, Topnotch Twill, Luxe Satin Ribbon

Scarlet jewel Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon, Topnotch Twill, Saddle Stitch Ribbon, Bitty Dot Satin, Luxe Satin Ribbon

Fresh snow Topnotch Twill,  Classic Grosgrain

Another notebook

I've been decorating more notepads for gifts. I'm tempted to give one to almost everybody I know because I'm having so much fun making them. Great way to use patterned paper and they come together so quickly.  I give the measurements for the cover in an earlier post:

Supplies
Paper - PTI hawaiian shores, new leaf, aqua mist, green boutique patterned paper
Stamps - PTI Take note
Ink -Versafine black

Accessories - PTI notepad, hawaiian shores saddle stitch grosgrain, hawaiian shores, new leaf & aqua mist buttons, rustic cream button twine

Embellish holidays colour challenge

 I saw the Embellish Magazine holiday challenge using these colours and thought it would be fun to try something other than a card. Since I've been in tag-making mode the last few weeks, I thought I'd just continue!  Here's what I came up with:

The tag and 'suburst' shape are free svg  files I cut with my cricut.  I had  real issues with stamping the round tag frame and sentiment  - I must have stamped that thing about half a dozen times before I got it properly lined up. Maybe my eyesight is finally going?  But here it is in all its glory:

Supplies

Paper  - SU pirouette pink, PTI pure poppy, spring moss, cosmo cricket jolly by golly patterned paper

Stamps - PTI 2008 holiday tags
Ink - SU riding hood red, versafine onyx black, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - cricut cie cuts, vintage lace, PTI dark chocolate grosgrain, spring moss satin ribbon, spring moss button, rustic cream button twine, SU felt snowflakes, pink pirouette grosgrain ribbon,  red stickles, kaisercraft brad, glue dots, dimensionals, fabric glue, sewing machine

Papertrey November blog hop challenge

 
Hi and welcome. This month's challenge was to design a holiday tag using some of our favourite products.

Perfect timing because I needed to make some tags for work gifts. This year I'm making chocolate cookies and other homemade treats for some of my co-workers.  The recipe for the cookies is from Nigella Lawson and the cookies are just divine! (You can download a copy of the recipe below).

So, here are my cookies:

Download the cookie recipe here (link will take you to MediaFire)

And here are two of my tags.  I cut a jar layer from acetate (used the clear boxes PTI stamps come in) to layer over the stamped jar and give it that shiny look:

Supplies
Paper - SU Kraft, cosmo cricket jolly by golly patterned paper
Stamps - PTI firendship jar, friendship jar holiday fillers
Ink - versafine onyx black, memento lady bug, memento cottage ivy, stazon (for jar lid)
Accessories - PTI friendship jar die, jar label die, acetate, Quickkutz metal sheets, SU riding hood red striped grosgrain, PTI rustic cream button twine, green & red stickles, dimensionals.

Scrapbook layout - leaf prints

Lots of autumn/harvest declorations on display in Vienna during my recent holiday, so this was a perfect opportunity to break out PTI's Leaf Prints stamps and dies:

Supplies
Paper - SU summer sun, PTI stamper's select white
Stamps - PTI leaf prints
Ink - Memento Cantaloupe, lady bug, tangelo, PTI ripe avocado, Versamark onyx black
Accessories - PTI leaf prints dies

An apple a day?

I've been making some more birthday cards to have on hand. This is one which uses strips of patterned paper on a shaped mat.  This one is from the cricut storybook cartridge:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU real red, SU summer picnic DSP
Stamps - SU tart & tangy
Ink - SU riding hood red, chocolate chip, versafine onyx black

Notebook frenzy

Ok. I have to confess that I'm now addicted to making covered notebooks. I've seen the fantastic items that others have produced and thought they'd make lovely gifts.  I recently bought some of Papertrey's notepads and gave them a try myself.

My cover  is an 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inch piece of cardstock scored along the short side at 2 3/4 and 3 inches to make a spine for the pad. If you want to have a pocket flap on the inside left cover, use an 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 piece of cardstock and score at 2 1/2, 5 1/4 and 5 1/2 (or use Nichole's great  template which you'll find here). Then decorate!

Supplies
Paper - PTI dark chocolate, ripe avocado, spring moss, turning a new leaf patterned paper
Stamps - PTI Take note
Ink - SU chocolate chip
Accessories - PTI notepad, spring moss buttons, rustic cream button twine

Supplies
Paper - PTI pure poppy, hawaiian shores, SU kiwi kiss, PTI beautiful blooms patterned paper
Stamps - PTI Take note
Ink -Versafine black
Accessories - PTI notepad, hawaiian shores, simply chartreuse & black felt, hawaiian shores button, rustic cream button twine

Cards for OWH

I've just made some more cards for Operation Write Home. A friend in Texas and I send them cards several times a year.  Here are a couple of simple cards using SU's Haiku DSP.  The instructions for the pleased flower in the first card come from Mary Fish and her video can be found here:

Supplies

Paper - cream card from stash, SU tangerine tango, so saffron, old olive, haiku DSP
Stamps - PTI blooming buttons bits (sentiments)
Ink - versafine onyx black, versamark
Accessories - PTI medium scallop & beautiful blooms #1 dies, EK success open scallop punch, SU styled silver brad, kiwi kiss button, PTI rustic twine

More bleached leaves

Love the bleach technique which Gina K demonstrates here and this is another card which uses some of the bleached leaves I made.  It's the wrong season down here for cards with autumn leaves, but am still tempted to send a few :)

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU chocolate chip, bravo burgundy, PTI riipe avocado
Stamps - PTI leaf prints
Ink - versamark, versafine onyx black
Accessories - PTI leaf prints dies, woodgrain impression plate, clear embossing powder, glue dots, bleach

Scrapbook layouts

Haven't done much card making just recently because I've been working on my photos from our trip to Austria. Here are a couple of layouts I've done so far.  The album is A4 size which I like, but it means it doesn't take much to fill up a page:

 I have a lot of bright coloured cardstock in my stash I haven't used for cards, so this is a great way to be able to put it to use!  I've been using my cricut to cut the headings and some of the embellishments. Really should use it more.

Dotty birthday

And yet another birthday card!  Good for using up scraps - the circles measure 1 1/4". Trying out my new EK success open scallop punch so you'll probably see that a few times :)

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU riding hood red, summer picnic DSP
Stamps - PTI birthday basics (sentiment)
Ink - versafine onyx black
Accessories - EK success open scallop punch

PPA64

I'm in  challenge mode this week. Here is a card for the Pals Paper Arts challenge #64 - fall inspiration using this photo.

When I saw the photo, I had to break out my leaf prints stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink. Here is what I came up with:

Supplies:
Paper - PTI stamp's select white, ripe avocado, SU real red
Stamps - PTI leaf prints, YOF: violets (sentiment)
Ink - Memento lady bug, tangelo & cantaloupe, versafine onyx black, PTI ripe avocado
Accessories - cricut die cut, PTI leaf prints dies, black pen, PTI canvas/linen impression plate, dimensionals, SU linen thread

Embellish felt colour challenge/ FTL111

I haven't participated in any challenges recently, and I really need some inspiration.

So here's one card that works for two - the Embellish challenge to use felt and the colours brown, pink, yellow & red which is based on fall to layout 111 on the Clean & Simple blog:

Supplies

Paper - PTI pink blush, pure poppy, stamper's select white, beautiful blooms pattterned paper

Stamps - PTI YOF: violet, mega mixed messsages

Ink - SU chocolate chip

Accessories - PTI harvest gold felt, chocolate chip felt, sewing machine, PTI canvas/linen impression plate, PTI medium scallop die, red rhinestones, fabric glue, scor-tape, dimensionals

Miss you - Letterpress look

Sorry for the silence but I've been away on holiday!  A while ago I saw this post from Heather Nichols about using Papertrey's impression plates to achieve a letterpress look and wanted to try it out for myself. I inked up the in bloom plate with fresh snow pigment ink and here is the result.  Love the look and can't wait to try this technique again:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU taken with teal, kraft, pink, PTI ripe avocado
Stamps - mega mixed messages (sentiment)
Ink - versafine onyx black, PTI fresh snow, vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - PTI in bloom impression plate, cricut die cuts, black pen

Life is short...

Here is a card I made with PTI's all booked up stamp set. I'm a great reader, so love the images and sentiments in this set. Using SCAL I made my own shape to act as a mat for the frame, similar to Papertrey's mat stack 3:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU riding hood red, baja breeze
Stamps - PTI all booked up
Ink - SU riding hood red, Versafine onyx black
Accessories - SU riding hood red grosgrain ribbon, foam tape, stampin dimensionals, twine

Bleached autumn leaves

This is my take on a bleach technique which Gina K demonstrates here.  I used PTI's leaf prints set and am pretty pleased with how it turned out. Tried bleaching a range of colours and the darker colours definitely work best.  Instead of using black embossing powder, I inked up my stamp using versamark followed by the black ink and embossed with clear powder:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU bravo burgundy, kraft, PTI ripe avocado
Stamps - PTI leaf prints
Ink - versamark, versafine onyx black, PTI vintage touch tea dye duo
Accessories - clear embossing powder, PTI linen/canvas impression plate, PTI ripe avocado saddle stitch ribbon, foam mounting tape, glue dots, bleach

Glitter butterflies

Time for another birthday card. This one uses a layout I cased from Niki Estes.  I used PTI's butterfly dreams and broke out my stickles which I haven't used for a while. I'm still trying to use up some scraps so this kind of  layout is perfect for that.

The scalloped sqaures were cut with my cricut, as was the ticket shaped mat for the sentiment.  The ticket shape is from a free Penny Duncan svg file I downloaded here:

Supplies
Card - PTI stamper's select white, SU yoyo yellow, chocolate chip, good morning sunshine DSP
Stamps - PTI butterfly dreams, just the ticket
Ink - SU chocolate chip
Accessories - circut die cuts, stickles, sewing machine

Bouquet of roses

I thought it was about time I posted something that wasn't a card! Just got this cross stitch framed and am really pleased with how it turned out. When I bought it I didn't realise that it was worked on linen, not canvas but 2 years and 1 magnifying glass later, this is the result:

The cross stitch is a kit  by Thea Gouverneur called 'Rozenboeket'.

Miss you

This card features a layered flower from PTI's beautiful blooms 2 - cut out using the matching dies.  The journalling block is a digi image which I downloaded a while ago - useful to have a few of these around and the beauty of them is they don't take up any storage space:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, SU baja breeze, kiwi kiss, whisper white
Stamps - PTI beautiful booms II, mega mixed messages (sentiment)
Ink - SU baha breeze, kiwi kiss
Accessories - button, digi journalling image, linen thread, PTI beautiful blooms die 2, PTI rickrack die

Enjoy the ride 2

Here's another card which uses PTI's cute enjoy the ride stamp set and die. I paper pieced the card using some scraps and the 'road' was just hand cut from a scrap of black card I had on hand:

Supplies
Paper - cream and orange card from stash, striped paper from stash
Stamps - PTI enjoy the ride
Ink - SU elegant eggplant, memento tuxedo black
Accessories - PTI enjoy the ride die, linen/canvas impression plate, white gel pen, foam mounting tape, buttons, glue dots

Howzat!

I've just made a birthday card for my Godson who is mad about all kinds of sports.  He's a talented goalie but also plays cricket, hockey, touch rugby, swims ... well you get the picture.  This is a super simple card (no stamping!) using some 3D stickers I found at my local scrapbooking shop. I embossed the large layer with PTI's woodgrain impression plate to give a bit of texture:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, SU chocoloate chip, riding hood red, bella rose DSP
Accessories - PTI woodgrain impression plate, stickers

More balloons

I think I'm addicted to these balloon images from PTI's up, up and away:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white cardstock, SU baja breeze, pirouette pink, bella rose DSP
Stamps - PTI up up and away
Ink - PTI vintage tea dye duo, PTI fresh snow, SU chocolate chip, baja breeze
Accessories - PTI balloon die

Papertrey July blog hop challenge

Hi and welcome. This month's challenge was to use office supplies in a paper crafting project. I found some fun paperclips and decided to incorporate those.

 I used the linen side of the canvas/linen impression plate for my kraft layer and the torn notebook is an SVG file from Lauren Meader.  I've continued the 'office' theme with some SU designer series paper.  The flower was cut using PTI's beautiful blooms die #2.  I sewed the flower onto another heart shaped paperclip to form the leaves.

Thanks for visiting/commenting!

Supplies:
Paper - cream card from stash, SU kraft, baja breeze, Notebook DSP
Stamps - PTI YOF: violets (sentiment)
Ink - SU rose red
Accessories - Joojies heart paper clips, PTI beautiful blooms die #2, dark chocolate felt, raspberry  fizz felt, raspberry fizz button, rustic cream button twine

Moxie Fab World Challenge - elegant

Yet  another card for a Moxie challenge!  This time it's the Classy and Elegant Challenge.  I'm enjoying all the card style challenges - lots of inspiration over at the Moxie Fab World blog!

Well, on to my card.  I've used PTI's Round and Round stamp set for my focal point.  I designed the mat using SCAL and cut it with my cricut.  Super easy - just a circle and 2 hexagons welded together.  I just bought somee Versafine black ink and tried it out for this card.  Very impressed with the results - I think it's my new favourite black ink!

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, scarlet jewel
Stamps - PTI round and round
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Accessories - ribbon, kaisercraft clear rhinestones, glue dots, bow easy

Moxie Fab World Challenge - shabby blooms

Time for another Moxie Fab World Challenge - this time it's the Card Style Shabby Chic and Vintage Challenge.  My card features PTI's 'In bloom' stamp set and some vintage lace (so I guess it qualifies for the vintage as well as the shabby part of the challenge?).

I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would, so maybe I'm more 'shabby' at heart than I realised :)

And here's a close up of the vintage lace.  One of my great uncles was a lace salesman at one stage and my mother was given quite a few of his samples. Finally putting them to good use!:

Supplies
Paper - cream card from stash, PTI plum pudding, lavender moon, 2008 bitty box basics
Stamps - PTI in bloom, asian fusion
Ink - Memento tuxedo black, PTI plum pudding pigment, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - WR memory keepers corner chomper, vintage lace, PTI lavender moon grosgrain ribbon, plum pudding button, rustic cream button twine, glue dots

Moxie Fab World Challenge - Couch potato?

I recently succumbed and bought PTI's 'On my Couch' stamp set. Love the images and sentiments and have been using it a lot!

Here is a clean & graphic card I created with it for the Card Style Clean and Graphic Challenge in the Moxie Fab World:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, SU baja breeze, SU bella rose DSP
Stamps - PTI on my couch, on my couch additions
Ink - SU chocolate chip, riding hood red
Accessories - PTI on my couch dies, foam mounting tape