Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

This is my first time participating in the PTI Blog Hop and I couldn't be more excited about it! This month's challenge was to use our favorite Papertrey Ink color scheme, this was an easy decision for me and I knew exactly what I wanted to use when I read the challenge. The color scheme I selected is: Kraft, Enchanted Evening, Hawaiian Shores, and Fresh Snow. These colors are my absolute favorite and I think they look absolutely perfect together!

Every inch of this card is PTI and I am really happy with how it turned out. I'd love to hear what you think!

Supplies all PTI:

Cardstock: Kraft, Hawaiian Shores, Enchanted Evening

Stamps: Fillable Frames #4, Enjoy The Ride, A Little Argyle, Round & Round

Ink: Enchanted Evening, Fresh Snow

Other: Linen & Canvas Impression Plate, Fillable Frames #4 die, Enjoy The Ride die, Enchanted Evening Copic Trio, T1 Copic marker, Rustic Cream twine

I'm still around!

Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted and I'm sorry about that! I really have been creating I just haven't been updating (shame on me!) and there is one card I can't share yet because I'm participating in a Spring/Easter swap on the PTI forum and I have to make sure Ted gets it first before I share.

I also decided to open an Etsy store after talking to my mother-in-law since she is convinced people would actually buy what I create. I don't have high hopes and my prices are low, I don't expect to make a fortune off of selling what I make but it'd be nice to have some extra money to go towards my month PTI purchases. If you'd like to check it out you can click here.

Here's one of the cards I made today, it is available in my Etsy shop as most of the things I make will be.

Supplies (All Papertrey Ink):

Cardstock: Plum Pudding, Vintage Cream, Lavender Moon

Patterned Paper: Guidelines

Stamps: Year of the Flowers: Violets, Big & Bold Wishes, Background Basics: Tin Types

Ink: Plum Pudding, True Black

Other: Threading Water border punch (Fiskars), Clear Rhinestones, Vintage Cream satin ribbon, Lavender Moon button

Karen's Doodles Challenge

Karen's Doodles started her challenge blogs this week and I am super excited because her images are just too darn adorable! The first challenge for the USA section of her challenge blog is a sketch challenge. I'd love to hear what you think of my take on the challenge!

Supplies (All PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding

Patterned Paper: Guidelines

Stamps: Little Helping Hands (Karen's Doodles - digital), Mega Mixed Messages, Take Note

Ink: Plum Pudding

Other: Cuttlebug (Provocraft), Swiss Dots embossing folder (Provocraft), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, 2" scalloped circle punch (EK Success), 1 3/4 circle punch (EK Success)

Happily Ever Challenged

I am so excited to finally get to take part in one of Ted's challenges! For his fourth edition of Happily Ever Challenged we are to make an Easter card and incorporate the word craft in it anyhow we'd like. I've incorporated craft the following way: C - colored pencils, R - red, A - aqua mist, F - fresh snow, T - teal. I'd love to hear what you think! As a side note, I don't know if you can tell by the pictures but there are two score lines underneath the Easter Wishes stamp.

Supplies (All PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Aqua Mist, Teal (from stash)

Stamp: Bunny Boy (Karen's Doodles), Mega Mixed Messages

Ink: Fresh Snow

Other: Cuttlebug (Provocraft), Swiss Dots embossing folder (Provocraft), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, Aqua Mist buttons, White buttons

Invitations decided!

After stressing for a couple of weeks about what I was going to do for invitations for my son's 2nd birthday in May I have finally decided on which one to mass produce as of last night! I'd love to hear what you think about them, please do not hesitate to leave constructive criticism as I have only been making cards for less than a year. I was super excited to buy a cuttlebug yesterday since I have wanted one for more months than I can count and am happy with my first result in using it.

Supplies (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening

Stamp: Tiger Fun (digital - Karen's Doodles)

Ink: None *gasp*

Other: Cuttlebug (Provocraft), Argyle embossing folder (Provocraft), Computer (for sentiment), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, Swan flocking powder (Martha Stewart)

Poppy Seed Challenge

I participated in Lisa Johnson's first ever Poppy Seed Challenge and am pretty satisfied with how it turned out. We had to use a flower stamp, light yellow, and crystals or rhinestones. I'm building up my stash of cards and am planning on sending this out to my best friend for her birthday. I'd love to know what you think!

Supplies (All PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms, Birthday Basics, All a Flutter (MTME)

Ink: Spring Rain, Aqua Mist

Other: Prima Flower, Aqua Mist button, Lemon Tart satin ribbon, clear rhinestones (Kaiser)

Doodle Dragon Challenge #3

I'm back with another card for Doodle Dragon Studios! The challenge for #3 is to use black, red, and white as well as any Doodle Dragon image we desired, it's my goal to be able to participate in all of Dustin's challenges because I absolutely love his images and would love to be able to win some of them. My husband asked me to make a card for his grandfather's birthday and I thought that was a great excuse to play along with the challenge. I'd love to hear what you think!

Supplies (All PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: True Black, Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select White

Stamps: Cupcake Monkey (Dustin Pike - digital), Polka Dot Basics II, Birthday Basics

Ink: Versamark, True Black

Other: True Black Swiss Dot Ribbon (I used the reverse side), 2" scalloped circle punch (EK Success), 1 3/4 circle punch (EK Success), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits

I'm also entering this card in these other challenges:

Little Paper Shop

Crafty Cardmakers

Incy Wincy Designs

Beautiful Blooms

I received my largest PTI order that I've ever placed on Monday and I haven't had a chance to play until today so I've only been able to make one card so far but I'm happy with how it turned out and would love to know what you think! I appreciate constructive criticism and actually welcome it. Thanks for looking!

Supplies (all PTI unless stated):

Cardstock: Smokey Shadow, Melon Berry, Stampers Select White

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms, Birthday Basics

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Sweet Blush, Lemon Tart

Other: Threading Water punch (Fiskars), Vintage Cream satin ribbon

Doodle Dragon Challenge #2

My son's birthday is at the end of May and I am already starting to think of ideas for what to do for his birthday invitations. I decided that I would definitely be using the Party Giraffe by Dustin Pike and thought it'd be fun to play with his 2nd challenge and use the sketch provided as a possible idea for party invitations. Here's my take on the challenge:

Supplies:

Cardstock: blue (DCWV), Teal (from stash), Lemon Tart (PTI), White (from stash)

Patterned Paper: Gaga for Gingham (MTME)

Stamp: Party Giraffe (Dustin Pike) - digital

Other: Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, Scalloped scissors (Fiskars), Cricut Expression, SCAL, Star brads (Craft Essentials), Computer (sentiment)

JUGS challenge

This is my second post for today so scroll down to see the first please! I am so excited to enter my first JUGS challenge! This week is a template challenge and I was super excited to play along with the Shutt-erfly template from My Time Made Easy. Lauren is like my hero, her designs amaze me and I always know that each one I purchase is going to have so many uses. Here's my take on this challenge, hope you like it!

Supplies

Cardstock: Enchanted Evening (PTI)

Patterned Paper: Winter Wonderland (Summertime Designs)

Other: Shutt-erfly Template (MTME), Fresh Snow satin ribbon (PTI), Rhinestones (Kaiser crafts), Clear glitter gelly roll pen (Sakura), Pretty Pieces (MTME), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, Cricut Expression, SCAL

Easel card

I found a tutorial for the easel card and thought it was such a cute design that I had to try it myself. My husband's aunt's birthday is on Tuesday so I made her this card for her birthday. I'd love to hear what you think.



Supplies:

Cardstock: Plum Pudding (PTI), lavender (from stash)

Patterned Paper: Joann's

Stamps: Fall Flowers (Fred She Said) - digital, All A Flutter (MTME), Mega Mixed Messages (PTI)

Ink: True Black (PTI)

Other: Ribbon (Michael's), Apron Lace Punch (Fiskars), Prismacolor Pencils, Odorless mineral spirits

Two for you today

I have two cards to share today, the first one is a baby boy card and the second one is the valentine for my husband this year. I'm really happy with how they both turned out and would love to hear what you think. I finally was able to get my hands on blending stumps and odorless mineral spirits yesterday so I could actually use my Prismacolor pencils that I bought months ago. These two cards are my first attempts at using them so keep in mind I am definitely still learning how to use them.



Supplies (all PTI unless stated):
Cardstock: Enchanted Evening, Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart, White (from my stash)
Patterned Paper: Joann's

Stamp: Sailboat (Dustin Pike) - digital
Other: Cricut Expression, New Arrival Cartridge (Provocraft), Apron lace punch (Fiskars), Fresh Snow satin ribbon, Prismacolor Pencils

I also found out after creating my valentine that Dustin has opened up a challenge blog as well and guess what? The first challenge was to create a Valentine's card using one of his images. SCORE. I'm excited to get to participate in this challenge - especially since my card was already made :)

Supplies (all PTI unless stated):
Cardstock: Scarlet Jewel, White (from my stash)
Patterned Paper: Throw Me A Line (My Time Made Easy), Pure Poppy bitty dot basics

Stamps: Heart Bear (Dustin Pike) - digital, Mega Mixed Messages, Heartfelt Basics

Ink: Scarlet Jewel, True Black
Other: Dimensionals, Prismacolor Pencils, Apron Lace Punch (Fiskars)

Friendship

I'm really trying to get myself to make time so that I can start building up my stash of cards so I settled down last night after putting my son to bed and started to work on a card when I realized what I really wanted to work on was a card for my best friend. She's been my best friend for over 20 years and is currently serving in the Navy so she's been out of state the last few years and we rarely get to see each other. I wanted to make sure she knew that even though she's all the way across the country I still think about her all the time so this card is for her.

Don't mind the shadow at the bottom of the inside. The sentiment is computer generated everything else is Papertrey Ink unless otherwise stated.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon, White (from my stash)

Patterned Paper: Joann's

Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages

Ink: Plum Pudding

Other: Darling Daisies (MTME), cricut expression, cream button, rhinestones

Mojo Monday

I played along with this week's Mojo Monday sketch and have to say it was so fun, there were a lot of elements this week and I had a fun time seeing what I could come up with. I hope you like it!

Supplies all PTI unless noted.

Cardstock: Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, White (from my stash)

Patterned Paper: Throw Me A Line (My Time Made Easy)

Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages, Take Note (accent image next to sentiment)

Ink: Fresh Snow

Other: Fiskars border punch, rhinestones, cricut, Fresh Snow satin ribbon.

First post & color challenge entry

I think it's only fitting that my first blog post be my entry into Dawn McVey's color challenge considering I have stalked her blog for the past year and love her style. I've never participated in any challenges before and I've never uploaded my cards before either but it's a new year and I want to start doing things I haven't done before. I do want to say though, that I've only been card making for about 6 months so I am definitely still learning but I would love your feedback whether it's good or bad. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies all PTI unless otherwise noted.

Paper: Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart, Cream (from my stash), Aqua Mist bitty dot

Stamp: Mega Mixed Messages

Ink: Versamark

Other: My Time Made Easy Pretty Pieces (butterfly), Cricut