PTI 7 year Anniversary Card #2

Hello again fellow crafters! Here is another card for the Papertrey Ink Anniversary celebration today using the Free Printable images! This time, I used Heather Nichol's design image, which does not need a whole lot more added to it, it is such a great design just by itself!

I used The Paper Studios A2 Medium Polka Dots embossing folder on the front, and added a piece of black cardstock behind Heather's design image to try and make it pop a little more. I added a little glitter to the hearts, and that's it! This card came together super fast!

Thanks for stopping by again!

Papertrey Ink 7 year Anniversary!

Wow! Can you believe all the amazing things going on over at Papertrey Ink this month?! They are celebrating their 7th Anniversary, and this month's release is filled with tons of new products and give-aways! The design team has created such wonderful inspiration projects, as well as everyone participating out there in blog land, I can't keep up with all the entries that keep getting added!

Today Nichole has posted the 2014 Free Printables PDF, and it has some amazing Digital images designed by the PTI Design team. Today the challenge over on Nichole's Blog is to create a project using one of the images!

I used Erin Lincoln's "Love You" Image for my card. I really liked the colors she chose as well as the plaid design. I cut out each letter individually and popped it up on the bottom of my card with some dimensionals. I also used the PTI Framed Out #11 Stamp set and the inside of my card includes a sentiment from the Happy Hearts Stamp set.

I am trying to get some Etsy orders shipped out by tomorrow, I still have 4 big orders that I am working on, and I should really be doing that right now, but I am dying to just continue playing along with the challenges so far, I can't wait to create another card with some of the other images! Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!

MFT Card Sketch 161

Good evening fellow crafters! How are you all doing? I certainly hope you all have had a great weekend, have had plenty of rest, and are ready to jump-start your way into another week that will surely zoom right past us all! The last few days have been sort of a blur, had a bit of a family emergency to deal with, won't go into detail about it here, but lets just say that God gives us all second chances for a reason, and we should all be grateful for the lives we have and are able to live every day.

Today I wanted to share with you real quick a Valentines Day card I made for the My Favorite Things Cards Sketch #161.

I used a White Cardstock base for my card, and added some Valentine Paper that I've had left over for a few years now. The digi image is from Whimsie Doodles digital images store, isn't she adorable?! They have some of the cutest digital stamps, I just love how easy digital stamps are! I added the wrong shade of gray to her "Cupid" wings, so I tried to tone it down a bit with some glitter. The banner die cut is from Papertrey Ink's Notched Hearts Banner Die collection. The stamped Happy Valentine's Day round sentiment and heart are from My Favorite Things Lollipop Additions: Love stamp set. I only own the Lollipop stamp sets and matching die sets for the Lollipop series through My Favorite Things, but would love to invest in some more of their products soon! I love all the dies they have available!

I need to catch up on some Etsy orders, then get some rest to start my work week. Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you all enjoy the rest of your week!

Papertrey Ink MIM #150

Good afternoon fellow crafters! Can you believe it is already the last day of January?! The month has just disappeared! I am so happy it is Friday though, I am beyond ready for the weekend!

This week over at Papertrey Ink, Melissa Phillips has challenged us to make a window screen card. I didn't think I would have time to participate in the challenge this week, but I did have some extra time this morning to whip up this 4x4 square Valentine's Day Card!

This is the first time I used the PTI Polka Dot Parade #11 Stamp Set and the little Owl is just too cute! I used the Harlequin Harlequin Cover Plate die for my "window screen" and placed that on top of some scrap Valentine Paper. I colored my tree branch and leaves using American Crafts Stamp markers, and stamped my owl with Stampin Up ink colors. I used the Limitless Layers 2¼" Circle dies, and a Recollections. Valentines cling stamp from Michaels for the red hearts.

I also wanted to share with you this card I made for the January Blog hop but didn't get to post in time :( I used the Cupid's Arrow stamp Set for this card along with a Hero Arts Valentine sentiment.

I have to be at work in 45 minutes and still need to get ready, so I will see you all next time. Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Valentine's Card Set

Good evening fellow crafters, are you ready for the weekend? I know I sure am! I have a few orders to finish up for my Etsy Shop, but other than that, I cannot wait to relax tomorrow, hang out with the kiddos and family and just be lazy!

I have been busy creating lots of fun projects for Valentine's Day. It is definitely my favorite time of year to make cards, treats, and favors. My absolute favorite is finding new ways to make Kids Classroom Valentine Cards. Back in September, Papertrey Ink released the Instant Photo Pull Out die set, and Nicole and the Design Team showed us all some fabulous and creative ways to make Holiday cards with the die set here. I couldn't wait to get my hands on this die set, but not to make Holiday photo cards. As soon as I saw the set, I knew immediately that I wanted it to make Kids Valentines Day cards!

I made this Valentines Card set using red cardstock. I used both Papertrey Ink's Tiny and Tremendous Treats: Valentines stamp sets, along with the Framed Out #11 stamp set. The "Pull Here" stamp is from the Movers and Shakers" Sentiments stamp set. I die cut the Tremendous Treats images from Kraft cardstock, stamped them in, and only colored in the little hearts. I cannot tell you how much I love these cards! I think there might even be room inside each little "envelope" for some kind of small, flat Valentine candy, maybe a candy bar?

I am already working on more of these little cards in other colors. Aren't they just too cute?! Anywho, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, have a great night and thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #146

Good evening fellow crafters, hope you are all having a fabulous Monday! Feeling a little sad as it comes to an end because it is just one more day closer until the new year :( Can't believe it is over, truly feels like this year was the fastest one yet. Christmas just passed and it didn't even feel like Christmas to me. The girls however are enjoying their Winter vacation and are staying plenty busy with all their new goodies!

My latest Papertrey Ink haul came in on Christmas Eve day, which was a treat for me! I couldn't wait to get all these new products in hand, this month's release features so many new Valentine stamp and die sets, and they are just wonderful! I have been keeping myself busy when I am not working, definitely been staying up a little later than usual!

For the last Make it Monday Challenge of the year, Ashley Cannon Newell is challenging us to use up some scraps to create some angled backgrounds on our projects. I really wanted to make a Valentine's Card, I was so tired of making Christmas cards to be truly honest! I used some scrap paper I had left over from last year and started my "angled card". I used a Kraft cardstock base along with Basic White and Real Red cardstock. I used the Cupid's Arrow stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I used one of the banner dies from Papertrey Ink's Notched Heart's Banner Die set. Here is the background before I added the banner die to my card:

I stamped my images and "happy valentines day" sentiment onto the banner die and adhered it to the front of the card. I am okay with how the card turned out, although, I think it might be a little bit too busy. I am thinking for my next card (if I have time to do one before the week is over) I will alternate some plain cardstock with the patterned paper.

It is getting a bit late, going to spend a little time with the kiddos before heading off to bed tonight. In case I don't get to post again before the new year, I truly wish you all the best of luck and love in the New Year, and may it bring you happiness, peace, health and wealth! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Valentine's Bracelets and Treat Cards

Good afternoon everyone! Hope you are all having a fabulous Valentines Day! I had originally posted this as a challenge entry for Papertrey Ink, but took my entry out because someone noted that I didn't use a Papertrey Ink product, which I guess I wasn't even thinking about at the time :/ Owell, I will still share my projects with you anyways!









I made these using 4mm Swarovski Crystal beads in Light Rose and Crystal, along with a sterling silver "I Love You" charm. I used Crystazzi Pearls in matching colors on both bracelets. I love how these came out, perfect little bracelets for charming little girls! I had originally made these cute little bracelets to add to my Etsy shop, but made extra just for my daughters for Valentines Day.

I also wanted to share with you the Valentines Day cards we made this year. I also sold a TON of these on my Etsy shop. It took a while to assemble these because there are so many parts to them, but once I got the flow of things, I created assembly lines to put them together quickly. Stampin Up had their Heart Treat Cups on clearance last month at $0.59 for a box of 12 heart cups. I ordered 600 treat cups, since they are not making them anymore :( They still have the round treat cups, but I think the heart ones are just a lot cuter! The images are from the Sweetheart Stamp set also from Stampin Up.











I used the Movers and Shapers die set and Stamp set from Papertrey Ink to create the tab, as well as the Tremendous Treats Valentine Set for the "be my Valentine". Each cup holds 12 chocolate M&M's.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

PTI Make it Monday #100!

Good evening fellow crafters! How have you all been? It has been a while since I have posted, and I love posting after I've created something that I am really excited and happy about! Today is Papertrey Ink's 100th Make it Monday video! How awesome is that! I've watched all the videos but I certainly wish I had participated in more of the challenges!

This week the challenge is about packaging for cards with over-sized embellishments, you know, the kind that won't fit into a standard envelope. I cannot wait to see what everyone comes up with. The size of my card is usually the first thing I consider when making a card, and I try to steer clear of a lot of embellishments because I know they won't fit into the envelope. I would have never thought to create a package instead!

I had a blast making this set. I am in love with this card and the package I created with it. I cannot wait to give this card away with the packaging! I found this card via Pinterest and I just fell in love with the design. I love love love the Kraft and white cardstock together, its beautiful. I just knew I wanted to create a Valentine's Day card with this same card design!

I started with a standard brown paper bag and Valentine's paper from the Paper Studios' All Seasons II pack. I cut off about 1½" on the top of the bag and punched a border. I made the accordion fold flower with the same paper and embellished that with some punched accents, embossed dots, the Papertrey Ink banner die, and some rhinestones. I added a Happy Valentines Day sentiment from Hero Arts on the same banner die cut to finish off the packaging.





The card is standard A2 size, made with a white card base and Kraft cardstock. I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart #3 stamp set(designed by Melissa Bickford. The Heart-2-Heart stamp series is adorable!) for the stamped hearts. I used dimensionals to pop them up onto the card. I added some white dash lines along the edges and circles, just like Nikki did with her card. I added more of the patterned paper, and again used the PTI banner die to add the sentiment. The "I love you" is a $1 stamp from Michaels that I found last year. I added more rhinestones and then completed the inside of the card!











I think my favorite part of this set is how well the red, Kraft, and white all go together. I am going to have to make a couple more sets because I just love this one, I don't know if I want to give it away! I am working on many more Valentine's Day projects, I will share some more soon! Check out some of my Valentine's products in my Etsy shop!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!

PTI Make it Monday #76 - Second try!

Hello fellow crafters, I sure hope you are all having a great weekend so far and are getting lots and lots of time to yourselves for crafting! I worked 10 days in a row so I could have myself a 4 day weekend for the youngest daughter's 6th birthday! It's amazing how fast time goes by! She is often here next to me when I'm in my craft room, she will not let me throw away ANY scraps, she hoards them all because she just KNOWS she will have a use for them one day! Her older sister and I made her a Tangled birthday banner and she worked on her birthday card early in the morning.





Here is the birthday girl with her sister and the birthday cake yesterday:



So after the mini birthday celebration I decided to give this weeks Make It Monday challenge another go. I wanted to try the bleach stamping this time with some rubber stamps instead of the clear stamps to see if the image would come up a little better. I like this card a whole lot more than the first attempt. I was browsing through Lisa Johnson's website and she did the bleaching technique back in January. I loved her "I love You" card here and wanted to do something similar with the teal and the red.

I used 2 rubber stamps that I found earlier this February in the Michaels $1 bin. I used the Heart-2-Heart #3 stamp set from Papertrey Ink and some Martha Stewart twine. I stamped the heart image onto some teal cardstock with the bleach, then went back and added a few red heart accents. I really love the teal, red, and kraft together.







I'm going to take a little break from crafting right now, my craft space is a total disaster right now. Usually now matter how messy it is, I can still find everything I need. But the past few days the girls and I have been doing some crafting and now everything is just everywhere! Time for a cleanup! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Last entry :)

Ok, so here is my last entry for today, I created this card with the inspiration from this card here by Nichole Heady.







Another standard sized card using various colored cardstock and more valentines pattern paper from the Target Dollar spot. I used the Tremendous Treats Valentines set, the PTI 3 Heart Die Set and Banner die. The buttons are from Walmart. I used the bunny image and colored it with my prismacolor markers, cut it out, and popped up onto embossed heart.

Thanks for stopping by today guys, have a great weekend and good luck!!!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Post #3!

HeeHee, if I had known we could do more than one entry on these contests earlier, I would have posted a lot more entries!

Here is my 3rd entry for todays Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest:

This is a set of 5 Valentine Cards that I made using PAINT SAMPLES! I got this idea from Kerry Buckley, I made my cards bigger and used more gradient colors. I got my samples from Walmart, punched out several hearts, and adhered them to a standard A2 card base with dimensionals. I added the "be my valentine" sentiment from the Tremendous Treats Valentine Stamp set.











This is such a great idea to get matching colors for any kind of punch outs for cards, I also made Butterfly Bookmarks with the technique. Anywho, gonna make one last Valentine Card today for the contest, and also to give to my Mother In Law for Valentines from my kiddos. See you soon!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Post 2!!!

Okay, so for my second entry to the Papertrey Ink Day 7 contest, these are my Valentines Top Note Die Boxes that I will be giving out to my co-workers this year! I also sold a few sets on my etsy! I always loved the look of the Top note die box, but never knew how to put them together. I found this great tutorial here at the Sunset house. Super easy to follow and I was able to put them together in no time!













I followed the tutorial for the boxes, then used Stampin Up's Top Note die, and cut 2 each of the color cardstock and 1 of the patterned paper for each box. To layer the pattern paper on top of the cardstock top note die, cut around the perforated edge on the patterned paper, and this will allow you to make a perfect layer.

The tricky part was lining up the top note dies to match on top and bottom, but once you get the hang out it, they are easy and fast to mass produce! I added a scallop circle color cardstock die cut and a white circle die cut, then used the Tremendous treats stamp set to add the images and "be my valentine" sentiment. I added some shredded paper inside each box along with some chocolate hearts. You can fit a lot of stuff inside these little boxes! For christmas, I used them as jewelry boxes! I love making them!

Good luck everyone!