August 2013 PTI Blog Hop

 

I think I may have just gotten my stamping spirit back! When we got back from camping today I went in to work on my 12 Kits cards (knocked out 5!) and then I still felt like stamping! So I decided to play along with this month's PTI blog hop. I can't even tell you the last time I played along with it, so this is pretty exciting ;)

 

One of my close friends just had her husband go on Hospice and it has been really tough for her, so I used this challenge to create a card for her. She loves dragonflies and butterflies so I knew I wanted to start there. I used this color combo/sketch:

 

 

I used PTI's Beautiful Butterflies and Background Basics Tin Types. The circle dies are from Nestabilities. The eyelet bling is from Joann, and the other bling is Recollections. The ink is from Stampin' Up. It was a lot of fun to play in the blog hop again. Now if I can just get my act together and actually post some of the cards I've been making you'll see that I think I'm out of my crafting funk! Thanks for stopping by :)

Paper Smooches Sparks Trend Watch April 2013

 

The trend watch for this month was butterflies, so of course I first thought to use "Flap Happy!" Then I used "Bold Blooms," and "We Connect." The "love" is also one of the PS dies that I got in my most recent order. The cardstock and button are from PTI and the twine is from the Twinery. There is a week to play along with this challenge, so why don't you give it a shot? Check it out here.

 

 

And now you can go check out what all the other talented members of the DT created!

 

Ashley Marcu - www.cherryhilldesign.blogspot.com

Lori Tecler - http://inkingaloud.blogspot.com/

Nina Yang - http://waffleflower.com/

Savannah O’Gwynn - http://www.savannahland2.blogspot.com/

Freshly Made Sketches #24

My sister's birthday is coming up on the 18th and her favorite color is orange, so I broke out the PTI Canyon Clay cardstock and created this card for her:

Here is the sketch I used from this week's Freshly Made Sketches:

The butterflies are from PTI's new Beautiful Butterflies, the mat is Mat Stack 3 and Layerz 3 from PTI. The patterned paper is from a DCWV patterned paper pack.

I also stamped PTI's Mehndi Medallion on the Canyon Clay band.

This is the other card I created on Wednesday night when Suzanne was over :) On another note, I feel completely back to normal now, thank goodness!

The Paper Players Challenge #84

Suzanne came over last night after a long hiatus from our Wednesday night crafting nights and it was so nice to have her here! I made two challenge cards with PTI's new Beautiful Butterflies while she was here, and this is the first one for an anniversary that I created:

I used this sketch from this week's Paper Players Challenge:

The sentiment wouldn't fit on my little label, so I got out the large PTI Christmas label die and used the stamp set, too.

The patterned paper is all from a DCWV paper pack, and the cardstock is all from PTI. The twine is from the Twinery. The mini red pearls are from Q & Co.

I'm glad that I used the red and blues because this is also for a man, and I didn't want to make it too girly, so I think that he'll be okay with the blue butterfly, lol. I'll put the other card that I made while she was here up in a couple of days. In other news, we finally got snow over night that stuck! Did you?