October PTI Blog Hop + WMC #73

Happy Tuesday everyone!  It's time for the October Papertrey Blog hop.  Here is the inspiration photo for this hop:

Aren't those fabric pumpkins adorable?  I kept the pumpkin theme and the colors and came up with this card.

A couple of pieces of Fall colored patterned paper and a cute pumpkin image and this came together in no time.  I'll keep it short so you can keep hopping along.

I'm also entering this into the Wee Memories Free for All challenge for this week.

Blessings,




All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps: 2009 Autumn Tags, First Fruits
Paper:  Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, First Fruits pp, 2008 & 2009 Bitty Dot pp
Ink:   Orange Zest, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate
Other:  Ripe Avocado buttons, Melon Berry button, DMC floss, Apron Lace punch (fiskars)

CAS-ual Fridays 17

The challenge for the week at CAS-ual Fridays is to use stickers.  Wouldn't you know it, just last Thursday I was cleaning out my room and found nine packs of stickers that I bought when I first started making cards.  Nine packs of anything unused is a ton for me so I told myself that I would put them to use.  I never use stickers, but I was going to force myself to do it.  And then ... the very next day, CAS-ual Fridays challenges us to use stickers!!  YIPPEE!!!  This may be the only card I make using stickers, but at least I used five of them :)

I made this card for some friends who are about to have their first babies -- TWINS!  They are having a girl and a boy so I made sure to incorporate pink and blue.  For the sentiment I masked off the word "bundle" on the Congrats stamp and then added "Blessings" from a different set.  I used my scor-pal to add an embossed frame around the card front and pierced a few holes for more visual interest.






All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Polka Dot Basics II, First Fruits, Signature Greetings
Paper:   Stampers Select White
Ink:   Summer Sky, Tuxedo Black (memento), Pretty in Pink (SU!)
Other:  baby stickers (Frances Meyer), Scor-pal, paper piercer

February 2011 PTI Blog Hop

Hi all welcome to another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.  The theme this month is scallops!  We can use scallops of any kind on our project.  I immediately thought of the small scallop strip in First Fruits.  I've used it exactly once on a card and loved the results, so I needed to break that out again.  Here it is stamped in a trio of colors.

Don't you love those unique scallops?  They were really easy to quickly cut around too.  I layered them on top of each other and curled up the ends a bit for dimension.

I'm finally putting those number dies to use as well.  I cut out the 40 from polka dot stamped vellum and Hawaiian Shores cardstock and glued them together.  Popped that up on a Mat Stack 1 die cut and added a few buttons.

I used this week's Curtain Call Color Challenge, Act 70, for my color inspiration.

All Supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  First Fruits, Mat Stack 1, Big Birthday Wishes
Paper:  Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores, vellum
Ink:  Spring Moss, Breeze (CTMH), Orange (Kaleidacolor autumn leaves)
Accessories:  Mat Stack 1 die, hawaiian shores buttons, numbers dies,, orange zest twill ribbon, cutterbee scissors 

MIM 2 -- Vellum Sentiment

This week's challenge for Make It Monday was to use a vellum sentiment strip on our card.  I love stamping and embossing on vellum so I chose to do both.

I ran a piece of vellum through my cuttlebug with the In Bloom impression plate.  LOVE that look!  I thought it would look neat through a Mat Stack 3 window.  I stamped an image from First Fruits around the window in versamark.

For the sentiment, I heat embossed a frame image from the Mat Stack 3 collection.  I then stamped the "happy birthday" sentiment from Birthday Basics in the center.  The strip is popped up on mini-pop dots.  They are tiny enough to be hidden under the embossing.






All supplies Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps:  Mat Stack 3, First Fruits, Birthday Basics
Paper:  Scarlet Jewel, vellum
Ink:  Versamark, black (memento)
Accessories:  Mat Stack 3 die, In Bloom impression plate, stain ribbon(?), Garnet EP (stampendous!), mini pop dots

Make It Monday #1

Here's my first entry for the very first Make it Monday challenge:  Go-To Sentiment.  I'm going to love these challenges!

• I masked off the white panel with a negative cut out of the Mat Stack 4 die.
• Sponged blue inside the masked space
• Stamped sentiments while still masked
• Colored rhinestones with R35 to match Berry Sorbet

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless stated

Stamps:  Giga Guidelines, Mat Stack 3 collection, First Fruits, Heartfelt Basics
Paper:  Spring Rain, Berry Sorbet, White
Ink:  Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss, black (memento), summer sky (memento)
Accessories:  Mat Stack 4 die, rick rack border die, rhinestones (paper studio), corner rounder

Origami Bookmark

I decided to use the Papertrey challenge today, which was to make an origami project, to make my girls a simple Valentine's bookmark.  This was so quick and easy.  I followed this tutorial from the Origami Club website.

This uses half a sheet of the 8 x 8 patterned paper.  I chose to use a sheet from Raspberry Fizz Mix.  I stamped the "love" from Mixed Messages and the "you" from First Fruits on the heart then inked the edges with raspberry fizz ink.  I then added the swirls from Remember in black ink. 

I wanted to keep the bookmark flat so they could actually use it in their books.  I resisted the urge to add a cute bow with some yummy PTI ribbon.  Instead I punched the bottom of the bookmark with a scalloped border punch to dress it up a bit.  I love how the point of the heart can hook over the edge of the page to mark your place in the book.





Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz mix paper
Stamps:  Mixed Messages, Remember, First Fruits (all PTI)
Ink:  black, raspberry fizz (PTI)
Accessories:  gelly roll pens, Fiskars threading water punch