C1934

I love Cosmo Cricket's circa 1934 patterned paper. My mother has a friend who is really into the 20s and 30s, so I decided to use incorporate some paper and chipboard elements into her birthday card.  The card came together quite quickly and I'm pleased with how it turned out:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, pure poppy, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 6 x 6 patterned paper, ready set chipboard
Stamps - PTI Asian Fusion (sentiment)
Ink - Memento lady bug
Accessories -PTI large scallop border die, PTI pure poppy satin ribbon, sewing machine, foam tape

Moxie Fab World get daring with decorative tape challenge

Check out this new challenge over at the Moxie Fab World blog.  The challenge is to create a paper craft project that incorporates decorative tape in an innovative way. Not sure about the innovative part, but this is what I came up with. Pretty simple really:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white
Stamps - PTI mega mixed messages
Ink - SU riding hood red
Accessories -Cosmo Cricket circa 1934 chipboard, Pink Paislee artisan tapes

Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger

It's time for another Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World blog. This week's photo is this gorgeous flower cushion.  I was inspired by the colours to create these 3D roses:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, terracotta tile, plum pudding, SU taken with teal
Stamps - PTI Birthday Bash Sentiments
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Accessories - black pen, rose svg cut file, Tattered Angels glimmer mist, glue dots

Shabby Tea Room buttons and bows challenge

Just came across this challenge over at the Shabby tea Room and thought it would be fun to play along.  Need to use some of those hundreds of buttons in my stash :)

Here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream, Cosmo Cricket circa 1934 patterned paper & elements, Basic Grey Curio chipboard sticker

Ink - PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories -PTI buttons, vintage cream button twine, ocean tides grosgrain

Embellish color trends challenge with birds

There's a new Embellish color trends challenge which you can check out here. The challenge was to use the colours shown to the left, together with some sort of bird image.

I decided to put some curio chipboard to use, though I ended up recolouring part of the bird to get rid of its red chest :)  I made my own postcard using a piece of cardstock, some patterned paper, a printed label and a stamp. The card got a bit mangled going through the printer, but that probably fits with the vintage type look.  Here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream, SU kraft, Basic Grey Cuurio patterned paper and chipboard element

Ink - PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - postage stamp, black lace

Yet another notebook

Can you bear looking at yet another notebook? This is a grocery list notebook I made for my friend Pattie. Now I'm running out of people to make them for. Hmm, I don't have one yet!

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

Hello

Here is a simple card which features Cosmo Cricket's Circa 1934 papers - love the colours and patterns of this collection:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream, Cosmo Cricket circa 1934 patterned paper
Stamps - PTI mega  mixed messages
Ink - Versafine onyx black, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories -Cosmo Cricket circa 1934 chipboard sticker, sewing machine

Scrapbook layouts - heritage

One of the things we did in Vienna was to go to the cemetery where members of my Dad's family are buried. I have been there before, but now that I've been doing some family research, I know much more about the families concerned.  For this layout I made my own 'background' by printing off a map of part of the cemetery:

For these black and white photos of  my Mum's side of the family I used mainly black/white with a touch of gold to accent. The white mat for journalling on the right hand page ended up such a strange shape in order to cover up some mistakes (oops):

Cards for OWH

I've been making some more cards for OWH. Some with sentiments and some without. Here are a couple of examples:

For this card, I made a gathered paper flower using instructions from Kristina Werner which you can find here.

Supplies
Grey/yellow card
Paper - PTI vintage cream cardstock, SU so saffron cardstock,  6 x 6 patterned paper
Accessories - SU so saffron grosgrain, Kaisercraft pearls, flower, scallop scissors, foam tape

You're on my mind
Paper - PTI vintage cream cardstock, SU summer picnic designer series paper
Stamps - PTI Blooming button bits (sentiment)
Ink - Versafine onyx black, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - PTI medium scallop die, eyelet lace border die, SU so saffron grosgrain, green button, glue dots, foam tape, SVG tag file, cricut

PTI Make it Mondays challenge #1

Papertrey Ink have started a new weekly challenge called 'Make it Mondays'. The first challenge which you'll find here is to create a go-to sentiment card. I've had a crazy week at work, so many things I had to get done -including making several sympathy cards :( - but I've finally got time to make and post my card.  Here's what I came up with:

I decided to use a sentiment 'block' (not sure what else to call it) as the focal point. I arranged all  the sentiments on my card, then picked them up with an acrylic block so I could stamp them at once. One didn't fit so I stamped it separately using red ink:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white,pure poppy, SU 6 x6 paper pack
Stamps - PTI Birthday Bash Sentiments, Mega Mixed Messages, Asian Fusion
Ink - Versafine onyx black, Memento lady bug
Accessories -red rhinestones, foam tape, sewing machine

Embellish color trends challenge with hearts

Check out this colour challenge over at Embellish magazine. The challenge is to use the colours pink, red, chartreuse and blue and hearts in a project.  Here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream,Crate Paper 'Restoration' patterned paper
Accessories - sewing machine, PTI hawaiian shores buttons, printed sentiment, foam mounting tape, black embroidery thread

With sympathy

A friend of my mother's commissioned me to make a sympathy card for her. The recipient is a woman who is a card maker so I wanted to make something really special.  I decided to use soft muted colours instead of grey/purple which is what I've tended to use before. Here's what I came up with:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's vintage cream,Basic Grey Curio patterned paper
Stamps - PTI Mega Mixed Messages (sentimennt)
Ink - SU cholcolate chip, PTI vintage tea dye duo
Accessories - Curio layered pop sticker, vintage lace, sewing machine, paper doily, wrinkle ribbon, glitter button, embroidery thread, foam tape, glue dots

Favourite Papertrey project

Papertrey Ink have a contest running - choose your favourite project from 2010 which features one or more of their products.  Here is a card I made for one of the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenges which uses PTI's victorian lace border die. Love the colours and how this turned out:

 

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

Vintage peace on earth

Here is another vintage Christmas card I made a while ago.  This one features micro beads on the focal image. It's the first (and probably last) time I've tried using micro beads. I'm not sure that I really like the look - seems a bit blurry to me. Maybe I'll just stick to crackle effects from now on!

Supplies
Paper - PTI vintage cream cardstock, green and gold card from stash, DCWV Mariposa patterned paper stack
Accessories - Kathleen Green collage sheet, micro beads, Kaisercraft rhinestones, Fundamentals petites alphabet stickers, foam mounting tape, sewing machine

Banner birthday

I've made a few banner cards recently. Here's one I made for the daughter of friends who just turned 13.  The banners were cut using this Pennant Banner SVG file from A Perfect Presentation:

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white, plum pudding, lavender moon
Stamps - PTI banner builder
Ink - Versafine onyx black, PTI plum pudding pigment ink, lavender moon dye ink
Accessories - Perfect presentation SVG file, cricut, foam tape.