10-minute One Layer Card

I made this card for my nephew who celebrates his first birthday on Wednesday!  I sent his gift last week via Amazon.com.  I realized when I woke up this morning that I needed to mail his card today so that he got it on time.  I already had this card in mind when I received my new stamp set called Fly Away, so I got to work.  I also wanted to keep this one layer so I could play along in Kristina Werner's OLC challenge.  I love one layer cards!

I wanted to have the little airplane flying over the rocks because they remind me of the Granite Dells in AZ (where I used to call home and where my nephew lives).  I stamped the rock ledge from Stampscapes three times across the bottom of the card base.  Then I sponged the clouds on using a little template I created with the SU scallop circle punch. 

Here's my template.

I just taped two scallops together

and sponge over them.

I left some white space for my airplane and banner.  Now, I hope Becky Oehlers doesn't mind, but I stamped the banner upside down because I wanted it flying up over the rock formation in this direction.  I just curved the little birthday sentiment on my block to fit the upside down banner.  I think it works this way too.

I sponged a bit more sky around the airplane and then colored it in using my prismacolor pencils and baby oil.  The sentiment is stamped in Pure Poppy.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Stamps:  Fly Away (Papertrey Ink), Ledge (Stampscapes)

Paper:  Stampers Select White (PTI)

Ink:  sepia (memories), tuxedo black (memento: tsukineko), pearlescent sky blue (brilliance: tsukineko), pure poppy (PTI)

Accessories:  sponged, su scallop circle punch, prismacolor pencils (crimson red, true blue), baby oil, blending stump, black sharpie for banner cord

For the Twins

I love Papertrey's new set called Enjoy the Ride.  This car image is adorable -- love the coordinating die.  I really like the variety of sentiments for the little license plate and the beautiful larger sentiments.  Okay, enough gushing. 

These cards are for my sweet niece and nephew who turn six next month.  I cannot believe that they are going to be that old already.  When they were born, their daddy had just left for a one year deployment to Afghanistan.  This year he's in Iraq.  We all wish he could be home to celebrate with them, but such is the life of a soldier.

I kept the same layout for both cards, just changing the color scheme and embellishments.  After I stamped the black nestie shape with Vintage Labels, I drew the road on by hand using a ruler and a white gelly roll pen.  I heat embossed both cars with clear EP although you can't tell from the photos.

For the boy card, I used Spring Rain cardstock and some patterned paper from the Father Knows Best line. 
I also added two loopy brads with rustic jute twine tied on them.  I colored the windshield of this car and the headlights with a C1 cool gray Copic to show some shading and reflection.






For the girl card, I used a base of Lavender Moon cardstock and some patterned paper from the Guidelines line. I used purple loopy brads tied with some white CTMH fibers and pink embroidery floss.  I also had to add a few pink rhinestones to the brads and next to the sentiment.  I colored the headlights with my clearstar gelly roll pen for more sparkle.

All products from Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise.

Stamps:  enjoy the ride, vintage labels
Paper:  white, spring rain, lavender moon, father knows best pp, guidelines pp
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Memories white, pink & french blue pigment (stampabilities), plum pudding, goldrush (CTMH)
Accessories:  loopy brads (?), white fibers (CTMH), DMC embroidery floss, gelly roll pens, copic marker, rustic jute twine, pink rhinestones (paper studio), corner rounder, labels one (spellbinders), clear EP

Mother

Here's a simple CAS card using the Swiss Dots embossing folder and some sentiments from Papertrey Ink.  The "Mother" sentiment is from Women of Life and the "blessed, wonderful, loved" stamps can be found in Heartfelt Basics. 

After I embossed the lower part of the card with the folder, I used my scor-pal to add two score lines in order to frame the sentiments.  I then finished it off with a few blue rhinestones and some melon berry satin ribbon.

This is for a challenge from a fellow PTI addict fan.  Ted has a great Mother of a challenge on his blog.  It is to create a card for a woman in your life.  Here are his restrictions:  no flowers or floral buttons, floral images, floral embossing, etc. and do not use the colors: pink, mauve, lavender, or purple.  Go check it out!  The challenge closes April 23rd at 3 pm PST.



All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise

Stamps:  Women of Life, Heartfelt Basics
Paper:  Stampers Select White
Ink:  Groovy Guava (SU)
Accessories:  swiss dots embossing folder (provocraft), scor-pal, rhinestones (paper studio), melon berry satin ribbon, corner rounder

Practicing...

Stripes and French Knots.

I thought I'd throw together a card using scraps and these bridal flowers I bought from Michael's long ago.  I didn't have a specific idea in mind for my card.  I just wanted to practice two things.

I wanted to try my hand at stamping some stripes using the frame stamp in Luck of the Irish.  Nichole Heady showed us how to do it on this post.  She's a creative genius!  I stamped my stripes in Berry Sorbet and Raspberry Fizz.  So quick and simple! 

Here's Nichole's example: 

I also wanted to take a shot at adding some french knots to my card.  Maile Belles made a great tutorial that I followed.  It's really simple, but adds a great touch.  I sewed the flowers directly onto the berry sorbet strip using embroidery floss.

Once I had both of these done, I punched the large scallops and took the little strip that is left and adhered it across the top.  I still had no idea what I wanted the card to look like, but I decided to add the scrap of green paper and then two new leaf buttons.  I mounted it on a berry sorbet card base and decided it would make a good any occasion card.




All supplies Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise.

Stamps:  Luck of the Irish
Paper:  Berry Sorbet, Stamper's Select White & unkown green scrap
Ink:  Berry Sorbet, Raspberry Fizz
Accessories:  bridal flowers (Michael's), DMC 742 embroidery floss, New Leaf buttons, embossed curves border punch (EK success)

Asian Fusion

Good morning all!  It's a lovely Saturday morning here in my part of the world.  Here's a card I made using Papertrey's Asian Fusion set.  I love this set and haven't used it nearly enough.  In fact, I stamped the vase and sentiment on the Top Note cut out last month and then it just sat on my stamp table.  I finally finished it up yesterday.

I started by cutting a piece of linen vellum cardstock with the Top Note die from SU.  I stamped the outline vase, stems and sentiment in black, then stamped the vase again on my Green Tea Leaves pp.  I stamped the stems in Hawaiian Shores ink onto a scrap of the linen vellum and then carefully cut around the vase and stems.

When I put those onto the card I thought it needed something else, so I used the two largest Blossom Two nestabilites to cut out a pretty Hawaiian Shores felt flower that I mounted under the vase and stems.  I also used my regular hole punch for the three felt dots on the right side of the card.  I couldn't throw out the felt scrap without getting every use out of it.

For the final touches I colored the center of the flowers with a red glitter gelly roll pen and added red rhinestones to the centers of the felt dots.  I'm happy with how this turned out.  What do you think?





All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise.

Stamps:  asian fusion
Paper:  unknown red textured cs, linen vellum, green tea leaves pp
Ink:  hawaiian shores, Memento tuxedo black
Accessories:  blossom two nesties (spellbinders), hawaiian shores felt, Top Note die (SU), hole punch, rhinestones, gelly roll pen, pop dots

You Make Me Smile

Here's a quick card I made while trying to use up older, forgotten supplies.  The cardstock and patterned paper are from Martha Stewart.  I picked them up at Michael's two years ago and they've been sitting around collecting dust.  I stitched the pp onto True Black cs with my sewing machine, then sponged the edges with Groovy Guava ink.  Attached it to the base and added ribbon, sentiment and pearls.  The sentiment is from Papertrey's Signature Greetings.






Stamps: Signature Greetings (Papertrey Ink)
Paper:  Putty cardstock, Botanical print Glacial Stream pp (MS),  true black cs (Papertrey Ink)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Groovy Guava (SU)
Accessories:  ribbon (unknown), pearls, sewing machine

Happy Easter, Happy Spring

I'm finally using my new stamp sets Egg Hunt and Background Basics: Tin Types.  I won these stamp sets from Papertrey's anniversary celebration in February.  It took a few weeks for them to get here and then it took me a while to open them and ink them up.  They are both such great sets.  I can see using the Tin Types on so many different cards.

I thought I'd add some fun texture to the card so I cut a piece of olive felt from Hobby Lobby with my scalloped long rectangles nestabilities.  I trimmed it to fit the card base then wrapped it with some white fibers from CTMH and green fibers I picked up ages ago.  I think the rest of the card speaks for itself :)




All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise

Stamps:  Egg Hunt, Background Basics: Tin Types
Paper:  stampers select white
Ink:  Sunflower (CTMH), Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores 
Accessories:  long rect nesties (spellbinders), white fibers (CTMH), green fibers (unknown), egg die

Wedding Day

I made this card for a very special couple who are getting married today!  They are so in love and it's delightful to witness their joy.  Their wedding colors are olive and lilac so I incorporated those colors into this card. 

I cut the layers using my Labels 1 Nestabilities.  On my white layer I stamped the leaf from Beautiful Blooms in Spring Moss and then shaded the edges of the leaves with my one and only Copic marker (C1 cool gray).  I love the subtle shadow effect it creates.   I stamped the verse from SU in Plum Pudding and then inked the edges with the inkpad.  Looped some satin Spring Moss ribbon underneath and added three  Moss rhinestones to finish it off.

Stamps:  Beautiful Blooms (PTI), Elegant Inspirations (SU)
Paper:  Plum Pudding, White (PTI), olive scrap
Ink:  Plum Pudding, Spring Moss (PTI)
Accessories:  satin Spring Moss ribbon (PTI), kaiser rhinestones, copic C1, pop dots, glue dots, Labels 1 Nesties

Wired

This blog hop is all about using buttons on your creations.  I created a funky birthday card using Shapes by Design, Lavender Moon buttons and wire.

I told you it was funky.  I don't love it, but it will be fun for a child's birthday.  I stamped the open circles from Shapes by Design five times across the white cs in the new Hawaiian Shores ink.  Then I stamped the three large open circles in black.  I threaded wire through my buttons so that they fit into the large black circles. 

The buttons needed something else so I sparkled them up by adding glue to the rims and sprinkling with glitter. Then I decided I wanted to add more wire so I wrapped wire around a Sharpie pen then flattened it out and adhered it to the top of the image panel.

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise

Stamps:  Shapes by Design
Paper:  Hawaiian Shores, white, black
Ink:  Hawaiian Shores, Tuxedo Black (memento)
Accessories:  lavender moon buttons, wire, mono multi glue, glitter (martha stewart), corner rounder

Violet Thanks

I just love the new Year of Flowers: Violets set from Papertrey.  Not much to say on this card. It's pretty straightforward. 

I was inspired by this card from Debbie Olson.  I inked the blossoms in Vineyard Berry (CTMH) and the leaves in Ripe Avocado.  I colored the centers with a gold gelly roll glitter pen and adhered a few gold half pearls to the centers.





All Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise

Stamps:  year of flowers: violets
Paper:  scarlet jewel, stampers select white, true black
Ink:  vineyard berry (CTMH), black (memento), ripe avocado
Accessories:  gold gelly roll pen, gold half pearls, paper piercer

Luck of the Irish

 

Here's a quick card using Papertrey's new Luck of the Irish stamp set and this week's Fall-to Layout from the clean&simple blog.  I chose to use various shades of green from PTI.  The shamrocks were punched out with my 1 1/4" circle punch.  I added a little detail to the card base by scoring a few lines with my Scor-Pal.  The sentiment is embossed in white.




All Papertrey Ink except accessories

Stamps:  Luck of the Irish
Paper:  True Black, white
Ink:  Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, New Leaf, versamark (tsukineko)
Accessories:  1 1/4' circle punch, white EP, Scor-Pal

Compose a Card 6

Here's my card for Becky's latest Compose a Card challenge.  I didn't have any Soft Stone so I improvised with a light gray cardstock I had in my stash.  I decided to keep it very simple using In Bloom. 

I stamped the Enchanted Evening base with a leaf image using Versmark Dazzle frost ink.  I found this cute odd-shaped button in my Enchanted Evening button jar.  Don't you love it?  Everything else is pretty straightforward.  I'm just glad we actually had some sunshine so I could take the picture outside.



Stamps:  In Bloom (PTI)
Paper:  Enchanted Evening (PTI), light gray unknown
Ink:  Indian Corn Blue (CTMH), versamark, versamark dazzle frost
Accessories:  white EP, ribbon from Michael's, vintage button (PTI), corner rounder

Remember Revisited

I've received several comments about the stamp set called Remember since I posted the Yellow Poppies card in the post below.  Many people were not too familiar with the set.  It was designed by Lisa Johnson and released by Papertrey Ink in August 2008.  I thought I'd post a few of the cards I've created using this set.  They are all in my Splitcoast Stampers Gallery.  Click on the title links for more information.

First up:  Red Hot Poppies

Next is Black Magic Poppies.  This one uses the chalkboard technique.

Lastly, Pure Poppy, a quick CAS card using a classic color combo.

For even more inspiration visit Lisa Johnson's blog to see all her countdown posts for Remember.  You'll be blown away.

Now, if you don't already own this set head over to Papertrey Ink and put it into your shopping cart!


Happy Stamping,





click on the title names of each card to see supplies used

Yellow Poppies

Lisa Johnson started a new challenge series on her blog.  You can find this week's challenge here.  As you can see she gave us three "seeds" to use on our cards:

1. Crystals
2. A flower stamp
3. Light Yellow

This was such a fun challenge!  I used one of my very favorite stamp sets from Papertrey -- Remember.  This is a must have set.  I LOVE the poppy images Lisa included.  I also used FTL #80 from the clean & simple blog for my layout.

The solid part of the flowers are stamped with Buttercup ink (CTMH).  The outlines are stamped in Orange Zest.  I used Ripe Avocado for the stems and leaf outlines and Spring Moss for the solid leaves.  This sheet of patterned paper from Polka Dot Parade coordinated perfectly with my stamped image.  I finished it off with Orange Zest twill tape ribbon and rhinestones.




All products Papertrey Ink unless stated otherwise

Stamps:  Remember
Paper:  ripe avocado, white, lemon tart, polka dot parade pp
Ink:  Buttercup (CTMH), orange zest, ripe avocado, spring moss
Accessories: orange zest twill tape, rhinestones (paper studio), apron lace punch (fiskars), corner rounder