Book Cards

Welcome to another 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday, I'm honored to say that this week I contributed the sketch for the challenge.  I had a few book themed cards to make for a commission, so I used the sketch a few extra times while trying to finish up the order.  I also used this week's CAS-ual Fridays "Opposites Attact" colors and Lily Pad Cards "Flower Challenge."  Go and hop along and see how the rest of the 365 Cards gal and put the sketch to work, Dana, Wendi, Rose, Jenny and Annie.

I used the Embellish challenge colors for this one.  And check back on my blog tomorrow, I've got something fun to share, with a giveaway :)

Mateirals: Hero Arts Retro Tullips, PTI Mat Stack 4 sentiment, PTI Mat Stack 3 dies, PTI double sided banner die, PTI kraft, cream and simply chartreuse card stock, vellum, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress ink festive berries and shabby shutters

Book cards: PTI All Booked Up, PTI Mat Stack 4 sentiment, PTI Mat Stack 3 dies, PTI double sided banner die, Coredinations card stock, PTI kraft card stock, PTI All Booked Up impression plate, water color pencils, glitter pen, Versafine black ink, vellum, Fiskars chevron border punch, EK Success 1 3/4th inch circle punch

life is good wine label

Happy Wednesday everyone, life is good!  I've made this wine label for the last of my work promotion-- fun to come up with crafty ways to rent more rooms (especially when it's pouring rain outside).  Me, being me... I've combined a few challenges.  I had an extra one of Karen's digital The Craft's Meow flowers printed out on the Hero Arts Earth Designer paper from this project, so I used up those scraps (Moxie Fab Challenge) and part of the other sheets (stamped with the Paper Smooches hexagons for the Cards challenge).  I added the woodgrain background so I could make another project for The Craft's Meow birthday celebration challenge (use photo below for inspiration).  And then I found inspiration from Virginia's recent post about using a coffee filter and added one to this tag for another natural layer for the Moxie Fab World "Household Items" Challenge.  And for one last challenge I wanted to play along with the Lily Pad flower challenge.  And the official word on the bride's reaction to the gift bags, "guest bags looks so amazing, you really outdid yourself."  Many thanks to my blogland cheering squad and the in real life friends I recruited to help assemble.

Materials: The Craft's Meow digital flower, Paper Smooches Hexagon, SRM sticker, American Crafts buttons, Hero Arts pearls, PTI double sided banner die, PTI edgers die, Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder, May Arts natural string and Organic Cotton with natural Stripes ribbon, coffee filter, Tattered Angels black mist, Smooch Vanilla ice spritz, PTI kraft card stock, Hero Arts Earth Designer patterend paper, glitter pen, Versafine black ink

love you and journal

Today's card was inspired by two different challenges, Virigina's Lily Pad Cards and Jen's Runway Inspired Challenge.  The CAS girl in me thinks perhaps I shouldn't of combined the two-- since the fun rainbow letters might've stood out more on all white... but oh well, live and learn.  I used my Making Memories Eyelet tool took to create the the "strings" and I think that's good use of a smaller hole punch for the Moxie Fab World punches challenge.

And the next project doesn't currently have a challenge agenda, it's actually the prize for a contest.  My friend Kim Culbertson is launching a book next week and she's having a contest on figment.com.  I posted the first one here, the second one here and today I'm showing you the third homemade journal.

Materials: Heart stamps from stash, PTI Tiny Tags heart, PTI letters die, May Arts natural fiber string, Stamendous white embossing powder, Tim Holtz fired brick distress ink, Smooch Cherry Ice spritz, white card stock, Coredinations card stock, Making Memories Eyelet punch

Beautiful Things: Basic Grey chipboard butterfly, PTI Postmarked, Crate Paper border stickers, PTI Mat Stack 2 die, PTI In Bloom, vellum, Authentique Blissful patterened paper, black card stock, Versafine black ink, PTI alphabet die, Tattered Angels black mist, Moondance white ink, Smooch Vanilla Ice spritz, May Arts natural fiber string

Wine labels and CAS flashback

More wine labels, I know, I know, but I'm half way through my order...  the first wine label uses a fun chipboard flower from a Basic Grey kit for the CAS-ual Fridays and Lily Pad Cards challenges.

 

And this fun label is for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge and Lawnscaping birthday challenge. I made this wine label for the Paper Smooches challenges and when I embossed the sentiments the first time I melted the red one on the bottom, so I did it again and got it right.  Since I have a very messy desk the "damaged" one was still floating around, so I chopped off the bottom and made another label.  

This card is for the Flashback Friday, post your first CAS card.  This was one of the first cards I blogged.  I should pull out that punch again...  Happy Monday everyone!

Materials: Gracias Hostess label: PTI Gracias Vases sentiment, Unity stitching stamp, Basic Grey Olivia chipboard, Little Yellow Bicycle tape, PTI kraft card stock, black card stock, Coredinations card stock, Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder, Tattered Angels black mist, PTI limitless layers 1 3/4th inch die, EK Success corner rounder


Celebrate label: Paper Smooches sentiment sampler, Unity birthday cake, PTI white card stock, vellum, Twinery twine, Tatttered Angels black mist, Tim Holtz distress inks: faded jeans, tumbled glass, shabby shutters, evergreen bough, mustard seed, ripe persimmons, Making Memories Eyelets, Stampendous clear embossing powder, Spellbinders circle die, Spellbinders Label Eight, PTI edgers die, Versafine black ink


Today is your day: Hero Arts sentiment, Paper Source punch, Stampin Up designer paper and red card stock, Fiskars rotary cutter with scallop cutter, Versacolor red ink

3 sketch cards

So I took the weekend off and had some r&r, but as a result of several days of no crafting I sorted went off the deep end when I got home (and a few new PTI goodies were sitting at my door, so...).  I went for the sketch challenges and found inspiration in three different ones.

This sketch is from Lily Pad Cards and now that I look at the sketch I realized that I don't have a sentiment.  Oops.  I was playing with the new PTI letter dies and made a whole bunch of personalized cards, but can't post all of them because the other friends might spy them on here.  I'm guessing my friend Lydia is too busy to find her card here...

This simple little card is a multi-challenge number.  The sketch for Skipping Stones, color for CR84FN and owls for Wee Memories "Woodland Animals".

And since I was trying to get organized to post the Skipping Stones Design card before the deadline, I sorta got distracted by this week's sketch.  I used some of the fabulous Paper Source paper I've used on this and this card.  And on a note of thanks, I wrote up a nice little post on my work blog to say thanks to my community who has made our free vegetable cart so successful this year, click here to read about the feel good little project.

Materials: Lyd Card: PTI Happy Trails, PTI alphabet die, Cosmo Cricket patterned paper, PTI kraft card stock, black card stock, score pal, Versafine black ink

4U Owl Card: Studio G owl, Life Style Crafts dragonfly alphabet die, Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder, PTI kraft and chocolate chip card stock, Tim Holtz Kraft core card stock, white gel pen, Bic brown markers, yellow colored pencils, Versafine black ink

Happy Birthday: Skipping Stones Design Grunge birthday sentiment, Paper Source paper, PTI kraft card stock, water color paper, black card stock, vellum, colored pencils, Versafine black ink

more Christmas tags

So yesterday I posted 2 cute little tags and obviously I had them on my mind because I sat down last night and made 5 more.  And being the challenge happy girl that I am a few of them work for a few challenges.

This tag uses some more of the burlap I got from the local coffee shop, so I'll add it to the Lily Pad Cards texture challenge.

This one uses the Hero Arts "Write Your Own Cling" so it'll work for the HA month long holiday wrap/tag challenge.

This one will work for Just Add Ink's "Tag or Bookmark Challenge".

This one uses the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

This one uses the WPlus9 set I won last month and since it's only one layer I'm going to enter it in the "One Layer Wednesday" tag challenge.  And since the Ribbon Carousel is having an anything goes challenge any of these tags would work with their May Arts burlap string.

Materials: PTI Tag It Sale #1, Coredinations Card stock, PTI kraft card stock, burlap, PTI Tag It #9, PTI Limitless Layers 1 3/4th inch die, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Versafine Black ink, Tim Holtz Distress Ink fired brick, May Arts burlap string, PTI Holiday Photo Finishers and die, Hero Arts Write Your Own, Tim Holtz Gathered twigs distress inks, Stampendous clear embossing powder, Hero Arts Classic Fabric cling, Stampendous white embossing powder, Waltzingmouse Stamps Frame It sentiment, white gel pen, WPlus9 Christmas Wishes, PTI impression plate

coffee and cookies

So this week's Play Date Cafe colors are kraft, flesh and cadet blue and since Ms. Literal girl over here saw coffee cups on the photo I thought "duh, gotta make another coffee card".  I shared these coffee projects with the local coffee shop (who's coffee was being decorated) and they kindly offered me some burlap sacks for my next project.  So I thought it'd be fun to use a piece of the sack for some added texture (Moxie Fab World "Textured to Perfection" and Lily Pad Cards "A Texture Challenge").  I had to recruit some help from my friend to sew the sack and ribbon onto the card as I don't have a sewing machine, but it worked out well.  Obviously I had the CAS-ual Friday sketch in the back of my mind from yesterday's card, while my take isn't exact (be proud girls), it kinda works if you flip and rotate it?)

Materials: PTI Warm Happiness Too, Paper Smooches Warm Concoctions, burlap sack, ribbon from Karen, PTI kraft card stock, Coredinations card stock, Versafine black ink, water color pencils, PTI Warm Happiness die

PTI October Blog Hop

Welcome to another PTI Blog Hop, this month's inspiration is the photo below.  I chose a literal take on the photo (surprise!) and used three pumpkins and inspiration from the woodgrain fabric on the larger pumpkin.  I also used the current Lily Pad Cards sketch.

Materials: PTI Daily Designs pumpkin, SRM sticker, Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder, PTI Mat Stack 1 dies, May Arts natural fiber string, Tim Holtz distress ink wild honey and ripe persimmons, cream card stock and water color paper

7th birthday and some photos of my craft room

This card is for my niece, who's birthday was yesterday, oops, guess it's going to be late since I made it this afternoon.  I used the same Lily Pad "Lucy Love Lines" sketch that I did on the last card, but added this week's fabulous CR84FN colors and added a tiny bit of bling for the CAS-ual Friday "Bring the Bling" challenge, my rhinestones aren't that shiny and the glitter doesn't really sparkle in this photo, so sorry ladies, it's as much bling as I'll probably get...

So I went to a paper buffet at my local Ben Franklin yesterday and came home with these goodies,

24 sheets of patterned paper for a mere $4.00 (and then I used my gift card that I'd bought for 20% off), so a serious steal.  But then I realized that I have a lot of fabulous paper (most of it fairly dated, but who's keeping track?) and figured perhaps I should organize it a bit better... so I dumped it all out on the floor in the living room at some ridiculously early hour this morning.

And then I put them away in my new craft room.   And then my mother surprised me with the very cool piece of art that she then hung on my wall, it's made out of tile!  She picked up at the garden tour she was on this afternoon.  Fabulous.  

Materials: PTI By The Numbers die, PTI Big Birthday Wishes, Hero Arts Write Your Own, PTI kraft card stock, Core'dinations Sugar & Spice purple card stock, Recollections adhesive rhinestones, white gel pen, Martha Stewart Onyx glitter, Fiskars corner rounder, Versafine black ink, purple color pencil