mr & mrs wine bottle tag

Shall we just rename my card blog "Homemade Wine Labels by Erin"?  Here's another cute one... (click here for yesterday's fabulous label). This week's PTI Make It Monday has a super easy technique to use a comb to give your stamps a bit more texture.  PTI Rosie Posie is such a great stamp, so with the addition of a PTI Tiny Tags sentiment, some May Arts chevron twill and silk, presto!  I embossed the wine bottle label with the PTI Sunrise Impression Plate (backside with the vertical lines) to add a bit more texture (hard to see in this photo).  And since Moxie Fab World is having a tag challenge, this is perfect for that one.  Ribbon Carousel Blog is having a "celebration" challenge.  Happy Monday all...  better stop procrastinating and get to work.

And the wine bottle is from one of my favorite vineyards in New Zealand, Rippon, above are some photos of the vineyard from our trip last month.

love

Greetings.... playing along with the Wplus9 Mood Board.  Spring is in the air over here, check out my work blog post with some fun spring flowers.  Today's card uses the Wplus9 Folkart Florals die and Pretty Patches Christmas sentiment.  I used a Maya Road background stamp with some Zing embossing powder and hand cut the branch out of a embossed scrap of brown card stock.  The bird is a scrap from an Artful Delight card kit from last year and the ribbon is May Arts woven burlap and burlap string, all on Wplus9 Oatmeal card stock.  Right, now back to work!   Ribbon Carousel is celebrating spring on their blog challenge this month, and I love the sounds of all the birds chirping in the spring with the pretty blooms.

May Arts Christmas Hop

Welcome to the May Arts Christmas blog hop, the ribbonistas are helping you get inspired for the holidays.  You should've come from Virginia's blog, if you get lost along the way feel free to pop back to May Arts.  I've decided to make a tag, because if I was organizd I'd have a whole stash of these ready for any occasions (I'm not that organized, but I can always dream right?).

Here's the final tag, and I wrapped the present in brown packaging paper and used May Arts White Sheer with Diagonal Stripes ribbon to wrap the package.  But let's back up a few steps and I'll show you how easy this to put together in a few steps.

Start by gathering a few supplies (see below for complete list).  Die cut out the tag and double sided banner and ink the tag with the Hero Arts newspaper print background stamp.

Next up, ink up the Hero Arts/Basic Gray Poinsettia & Berries flower, heat emboss with white embossing powder and then add distress inks.  Spritz with perfect pearls and cut out.

Assemble tag, adding flower, double sided banner and SRM sentiment, plus a few rhinestones.  Cut a 6 inch piece of the May Arts sheer ribbon and then tie a bow around ribbon with May Arts natural burlap string.  And you're done!  

Next up on the hop is Jenifer, go check out her blog Scapbooking-N-More to see what she's created.  And of course there are prizes, comment along the hop all this week for your chance to win fabulous May Arts ribbon.  I'm also adding this to the Ribbon Carousel holiday challenge, b/c you know me and challenges...

And... because I love May Arts ribbon, I've also got another fun project up on the MA blog today, check out my cool snowman and a few other Christmas projects. 

Materials: May Arts sheer diagonal ribbon, May Arts burlap string, Hero Arts newspaper print background stamp, Hero Arts/Basic Gray Berries and Poinsettia, SRM sticker, PTI Tag It Sale and double sided banner die, PTI kraft card stock, Tim Holtz distress inks festive berries, fired brick and gathered twigs, Stampendous white embossing powder, Recollections black rhinestones, Perfect pearls

many thanks

Simon Says Stamp Challenge is about thanks, and I'm so excited I got this new die, yippee...  Playing with Faber Castell gelatos, always fun to give a bit of a water color feel.

And my second thank you card is for the ScrapFIT crew, I don't think I have room in my google reader for another challenge, but these colors just happened to be perfect for one of the thank you cards I just made.  And have I already said how much I love being on the May Arts team?  The velvet corduroy is seriously fabulous... and I took the silk and dyed it with distress stain...  love, love, love...  So I'm going to play along with the Ribbon Carousel crew, their monthly challenge is "thanks" and must have ribbon.

Materials: First Card: Simon Says Memory Box die, Waltzingmouse Frame It sentiment, Faber Castell gelatos, bling, PTI rustic white card stock, Versafine black ink, water

Second card: Hero Arts background, PTI Pretty Peonies frame stamp and die, May Arts ribbon, Lil Inker stitched frame die, PTI kraft and dark chocolate card stock, Tim Holtz distress ink gathered twigs, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress stain antique linen

Happy Mother's Day

Hello fabulous blogland!  I've been going through withdrawal from my little crafty blog world addiction, funny how international vacations put a damper on hours of internet surfing and crafting. But, why not come back with a card that works for 4 challenges?  I've made a Mother's Day for my husband, wanted to make a masculine Mother's Day card, as he's the only boy out of 4 kids.  I have used this week's Play Date Cafe colors as my color inspiration and rotated the Skipping Stones Sketch.  I used paper scraps for this week's Make it Monday challenge and the Ribbon Carousel challenge is to use the sentiment Mother's Day in your card, and I've got some fabulous May Arts ribbon on the tag (thanks Jen).

And for those of you who keep asking for more Africa photos... here's a little video I put together from one of the game parks we visited in Botswana.

 

Valentine's Day Card

 

A CAS Valentine's Day card, I used this week's Make It Monday technique and added a heart for the PTI Anniversary challenge.  The Lawnscaping photo served as a great source of inspiration, despite my lack of Lawn Fawn stamps.  And Ribbon Carousel is having an anything goes challenge, so since I've used a long piece of Twinery twine, I'll add this to their challenge too.  I just did a fun Valentine's post on my work blog-- on all the local goodies you could buy for your sweetie, check out the yummy treat below.

Materials: Impress lace border stamp, Penny Black heart, Waltzing Mouse Stamps Very Vintage Labels 1, PTI Tiny Tags 1 & 2, PTI cream card stock, vellum, Tim Holtz distress inks festive berries, Stampendous white & clear  embossing powder, Spellbinders Nestbilities Label 1 die, PTI Tiny Tags die, Twinery twine 

Super Sunday thanks and wine label

Happy Sunday!  It's time for another 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday.  I used the clear blocking technique to add the background.  I was inspired by Lucy's Cards Inspiration Day #1.  And since I've added a little twine to the card I'm going to enter it in the Ribbon Carousel "Anything Goes" challenge.

Next up, another wine label!  For those of you who follow my blog you'll know that I'm a bit behind on my order to make a dozen wine labels.  Oops.  

And being challenge happy girl, I've used this week's ColourQ colors and the Unity Sketch Challenge. I pulled out the 2011 KOTM  Small Things matter most and I can't believe I hadn't inked any of the stamps I used on this label...  And since last Sunday I posted about a giveaway on my work Facebook page, I'm happy to report that the giveaway is still going... if you win the gift certificate for the bottle of wine you can always give it to me, I'll send you a pretty wine label as a thank you :)

Materials: Thanks card: PTI Gracias Vases, PTI Mat Stack 4, Hero Arts inks: soft lilac, soft blossom, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress inks fired brick, ripe persimmons, shabby shutters, mustard seed, PTI white card stock, Twinery charcoal twine

Wine Labels: Unity April KOTM Small Things matter most, PTI Soft stone card stock, Coredinations card stock, Smooch Cheery Ice spritz, PTI edgers die and Limitless Layers 1 3/4th inch die, Spellbinders Nestabilities Label One, Tim Holtz Distress Ink fired brick and worn lipstick, Versafine black ink, EK Success corner rounder

warm winter wishes

So I won a set of stamps from The Greeting Farm the other week through the Ribbon Carousel's challenge and so last night I decided to ink up my new set Tea-rrific.  I wanted to play along with their challenge blog as a thanks, the TGF Farm Fresh Challenge this week is buttons, twine and kraft.  My buttons are kinda hiding, but I used the PTI die to cut them out of the coordinating Cosmo Cricket paper I used.  And since the Ribbon Carousel's current challenge is twine I added some Twinery cappuccino twine to the card.  And lastly (challenge junkie over here), added some fun texture- both with a recycled coffee take out holder and the PTI impression plate for the Lawnscaping "Texture" challenge.  Thanks for looking... hope everyone else is surfing the pre-Christmas rush.

I took this photo last week while enjoying a cup of tea at work, and thought I'd include it here b/c I'm taking card photos at work again...  shows you that my time management skills are a bit off at the moment.  I took the photo for this blog post and now I'm realizing that I forgot to include it.... oops.  Well, you crafty folks can enjoy the photo :)

Materials: The Greeting Farm Tea-rrifc, Lawn Fawn Winter Fox sentiment, Spellbinders Labels One, PTI button die, PTI impression plate, Cosmo Cricket Odds and Ends patterned paper, Twinery cappuccino twine, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress stain antique linen, PTI kraft card stock

7th birthday, thank you set and a gift tag

This 7th birthday card was commissioned, I sent the client a link to this card and when I went to recreate it I ended up with the card above...  so much for CASEing myself.  I used the Embellish colors for their current challenge "use banners".  Paper Issues is having a number challenge and this cute card is perfect for that challenge.

I have to mail 7 of these little boxes to my nieces and nephews and I thought it would be fun to make tags with a photo on them (b/c I seriously have no time to do these sort of things!).  I used a Waltzingmouse Stamp on the back for their holiday tag challenge.  And since I've used a bit of twine I'm going to enter it in the Ribbon Carousel challenge.

And last but not least, I'm still trying to mass produce for Christmas gifts, so I've made another card set using the new Hero Arts newspaper tulip stamp.  Susan's One Layer Wednesday challenge this week is about something peaceful, and I love the idea of sitting in the grass looking at flowers....

Wishing you all a good day... back to my monster to do list over here....

Materials: 7th birthday card: Hero Arts Flower Box Cling, PTI Tag Its #10, PTI Big Birthday Wishes, Unity Bit of Burlap, PTI By the Numbers die, PTI Limitless Layers 1 3/4th inch die, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress ink antique linen, water color pencils, PTI kraft and chocolate chip card stock, Coredinations Sugar and Spice purple card stock

Tag: PTI Tag Sale #5, photo, Coredinations card stock, PTI Tag It #9,  Watlzingmouse Stamps Very Vintage Label One, Twinery Maraschino twine, Versafine black ink

Card Set: Hero Arts Newspaper Tulip, PTI Happy Trails sentiment, Versafine black ink, Tim Holtz distress inks fired brick and evergreen bough, Stampendous clear embossing powder, PTI kraft card stock

Snowmen and women

Pull out your hat and mittens, it's a bit cold over here in blogland.  The snowmen (and woman) are out in force for today's post.  I sold this card and got another order for the "same" card (which I seriously can't ever do) so I decided to go a challenge hopping to find inspiration and ended up with the Craft's Meow sketch and the Ribbon Carousel's color challenge (red/kraft/brown and some sort of ribbon).

And then I decided since I had the fun Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends out that I'd use them for my tag order (which was 2 boys and 2 girls), so with some help from some fun paper and a few more challenges, I made some tags.

This one works for the Waltzingmouse tag challenge. 

 

This one was inspired by the Moxie Fab World Get Inspired by the Kitchen challenge.

And last, but not least, I had so much fun with the Lawn Fawn/May Arts week that I decided to use this fabulous May Arts ribbon with this tag.  I've also played along with the CAS-ual Friday tic-tac-toe challenge and done scallops-polka dots and pink (I know, be proud!).

Materials: Warm Winter Wishes card: The Craft's Meow Vintage Snowflakes, Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, PTI kraft and chocolate chip card stock, Coredinations red card stock, patterned snowflake paper from stash, Cosmo Cricket paper, Twinery cappuccino twine, Spellbinders Nestablilities Label 1 and circle die, Versafine black ink, silver ink, Stampendous white embossing powder


Tags:Grey/Blue hat: PTI Tag Sale #1 die, Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, Waltzingmouse Very Vintage Labels One, Waltzingmouse Pint Sized Heroes, Authentique Journey paper, Twinery Stone twine, Versafine black ink, PTI white and kraft card stock


Pink Hat: PTI Tag Sale #5, Lawn Fawn making Frosty Friends, Authentique Free Bird paper, vellum, PTI white and kraft card stock, Twinery twine, Versafine black ink


Yellow hat: PTI Tag Sale #1, Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, The Craft's Meow Vintage Snowflakes, My Favorite Things scallop die, Authentique Blissful paper, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist paper, Tim Holtz distress ink shabby shutters, Versafine black ink, ribbon from stash, staple


Pink ear muffs: PTI Tag Sale #1, Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, Waltzingmouse Big Bloom, My Mind's Eye scallop die, Stampin Up Designer paper, Versafine black ink, silver ink, vellum, May Arts ribbon

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

tags

A super quick post as I have other things I should be doing (read children in bath tub), but I was inspired by the Hero Arts November Challenge of "Holiday Wrapping and Tags" and pulled out the HA Cling Classic Fabric and heat embossed it in white, drool... LOVE the way it looks.  One classic tag and another for my brother, because he seems to always have a take out coffee in his hand.  And since the Ribbon Carousel is having an anything goes challenge this week I'll add these to their challenge.

Materials: Be Merry Tag, Hero Arts Classic Fabric cling, PTI Tag It #9, PTI Tag Sale #1 die, PTI Limitless Circles 1 3/34th inch, Fiskars 1 3 /4th inch circle punch, Versafine Black ink, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Fired Brick, PTI kraft card stock, Stampendous white embossing powder, May Arts ribbon


Coffee tag: Paper Smooches Hot Concoctions, Hero Arts Classic Fabric Cling, PTI Holiday Photo Finisher Label, PTI Tag Sale #1 die, PTI Holiday Photo Finisher die, Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder, Cosmo Cricket patterned paper, PTI kraft card stock, Versafine black ink, Stampendous white embossing powder, May Arts burlap string