Rainbow card set for teachers

My son's last day of pre-K was a couple of weeks ago (sniff, sniff), and I made a colorful but simple set of cards for each of his teachers.

All of the cards use the pencil image from Papertrey Ink's Happy Trails.  Three of the cards have the sentiment "just a note" from Ribbon Tails.

Cardstock:  WPlus9 Design Studio (White), Stampin' Up! (Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango)

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink (Happy Trails, Ribbon Tails)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango)

Tools:  Papertrey Ink (Double Ended Banner die, Linen & Canvas impression plate), corner rounder

The other three cards use the "thank you" sentiment from Papertrey's Vintage Picnic.  I added texture to each card base with the Linen & Canvas impression plate.

Cardstock:  WPlus9 Design Studio (White), Stampin' Up! (Not Quite Navy, Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry)

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink (Happy Trails, Vintage Picnic)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Not Quite Navy, Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry)

Tools:  Papertrey Ink (Double Ended Banner die, Linen & Canvas impression plate), corner rounder

I wrapped the stack of cards and envelopes with some baker's twine and slipped them into a kraft bag, which went into a gift basket with flowers picked out by my little guy.

Here's a closer look at the tag, made with Papertrey's Tag Sale #3 die and Vintage Picnic.

Cardstock:  WPlus9 Design Studio (White), Stampin' Up! (Concord Crush)

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink (Vintage Picnic)

Ink:  Memento (Tuxedo Black), Copic markers

Tool:  Papertrey Ink (Tag Sale #3 die)

Other:  The Twinery (baker's twine)

My daughter is still in school until June 26, so I may be doing another set of cards for her teacher later this month.  I'll be sure to share if I do.

Thanks for visiting today!

Iron Craft Challenge!

Hi everyone!  I have such a fun post to share with you today.  A couple of weeks ago I got the sweetest email from a fellow crafter, Chaitali, of Cuts Crops and Creativity.  She explained that she's a big fan of the show Iron Chef and had an idea to create a crafting challenge inspired by it.  You can read all about it and see the first Iron Craft guest HERE.

Now, while I'm blushing at the thought of being called a "celebrity" crafter, I was completely honored to be asked to participate in what will become a weekly feature on Chaitali's blog.  Ready to see our challenge "ingredients"?

For this week's Iron Craft challenge, we used this color board from Design Seeds and stamps from Papertrey Ink's Happy Trails.

These colors definitely have a masculine vibe to me, and I've been wanting to make a simple set of notecards that would be appropriate for the men in our lives.  Think teachers, coaches, and co-workers.  For a set like this, it's best to keep things flat for mailing and no-frills.

Each card is stamped with one of my all-time favorite borders from PTI's Background Basics:  Retro in two shades of brown and two shades of blue onto an Oatmeal card base.  Then I simply added a sentiment and one or more accent images from Happy Trails.

Cardstock:  WPlus9 Design Studio (Oatmeal)

Stamps:  Papertrey Ink (Happy Trails, Background Basics:  Retro)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze), ColorBox (Dune)

I can't wait to see what Chaitali created for the Iron Craft challenge, and I hope you'll pay her a visit, too!  Many thanks to her for including me this week!

Have a great start to your week, and thanks for stopping by!

Card Creations Volume 10--publication share

ETA:  This card was featured in the Moxie Fab World as part of The Postage Challenge!

Hi friends!  It's been quiet around here!  Sorry I've been absent for a few days, but I was hard at work on a gardening project over the weekend, and I haven't been able to find my crafty mojo since.

Never fear--I have a project to share today that was just published in Paper Crafts' special issue, Card Creations Volume 10 (on sale now!).  I haven't been able to find a copy for myself just yet, but I can't wait to drool over the pages.

My submission was inspired by a poster I saw in a catalog and features a current trend--typography.  You can find the supplies and instructions in this special issue of Paper Crafts!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you're having a great week!

CAS-ual Fridays #36

Hello there!  Just a quick post tonight before the challenge ends at CAS-ual Fridays.  What a fun theme this week--use only black and white in celebration of Penguin Awareness Day!

Have you checked out the gallery for this week's challenge?  Holy cow!  There were over 230 entries when I last visited, and there are so many amazing creations.  But hey, I finished this card so I might as well throw my hat in the ring!

I wanted to do some sort of silhouette in a negative space, so I pulled out PTI's Happy Trails and die cut the dragonfly from black cardstock.  I punched a 2 inch circle in a wide strip of black cardstock to make a window, then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.  I balanced it out with three dots of white Enamel Accents on the other side of the frame.

The space behind the silhouette was looking a little plain, so I added a piece of white cardstock debossed with the Cane Print impression plate.

All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless noted

Cardstock:  True Black, White

Stamp:  Happy Trails

Ink:  Versamark (Tsukineko)

Tools:  Cane Print impression plate, Happy Trails die, circle punch (Marvy Uchida)

Accessories:  Enamel Accents (Ranger), white embossing powder (Filigree)

Thanks for joining me tonight!  I'll be back soon with a new CASE Study challenge!

For a star teacher

Hooray for Friday!  I can't wait to get my weekend started, how about you?

I have a card to share with you today that I submitted to the latest Paper Crafts call, but it wasn't picked up.  No worries, though, because I really love how this turned out and can't wait to give it to my daughter's teacher for all of her hard work!

I started with a Harvest Gold card base which I stamped repeatedly with the pencil from PTI's Happy Trails.  I colored each of the erasers with a Copic marker, then stamped the sentiment above the border.

I used PTI's star dies to make a star frame from Berry Sorbet cardstock, added a bit of turquoise baker's twine, and popped it up with foam tape, trimming the right edge flush with the card base.

For inside of the frame, I die cut another star from Harvest Gold cardstock, stamped it with ledger lines from Scrapbook Series:  Library Ledger in Versamark, and heat embossed the lines with clear powder.  The tiny sentiment was stamped by selectively inking two different sentiments from Tiny Tags.

All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless noted

Cardstock:  Harvest Gold, Berry Sorbet

Stamps:  Happy Trails, Scrapbook Series:  Library Ledger, Tiny Tags

Ink:  Black (Inkadinkadoo), Versamark (Tsukineko), Copic marker

Tools:  star dies

Accessories:  clear embossing powder (Stampendous), Caribbean baker's twine (The Twinery)

I hope you're having a fantastic Friday, even if it is the 13th!  Thanks for stopping by!