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 :)

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Sept. 2012

I can't believe I almost forgot about the blog hop! Thank goodness I saw Joyce post about it and I had enough time to play along tonight. So this month's theme was packaging. I had some apple butter I made after our apple picking trip a couple of weekends back, so I decided to dress up the jar for my packaging project. The fabric I had stashed away, then I tied the Canyon Clay ribbon knowing I wanted to go for a fall look. I used my Trendy Tree Tops for the first time! (Jen, I know you'll be proud!) and my Houndstooth, which I contemplated selling, but am not glad I didn't! The sentiment is from one of PTI's tiny tags sets. The tag die is PTI and the felt in the rolled flower is, too. The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye, and the ink is from SU. The felt flower itself is from the set of flowers that Gerry made me for my birthday :) Now off to check out what everyone else made for the blog hop!

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop August 2012

This month's challenge was Autumn textiles, which I loved! Using different patterns and textures with an Autumn flair. This is what I came up with using a lot of my new goodies:

Here are the inspiration photos:

So I went after the colors with the grey, orange, and blue. Then for my texture, I used a SU Sizzix impression plate on kraft at the bottom, houndstooth from a My Mind's Eye paper pack, and PTI felt for the sentiment and the flower.

That beautiful rolled flower? Made for me by my good friend Gerry who made me a bunch of them in PTI felt and packaged them up all cute for part of my birthday gift :)

The Polaroid frame die is from PTI. I didn't order it last month and boy did I regret it! So I'm really glad it was available this month when I ordered :)

I like how this turned out, bold, and definitely with a fall feel. Make sure to head on over to Nichole's blog to see what everyone created with this challenge! I hope you're all having a fun weekend. We are camping in Salisbury Beach, MA. It is different this time because we had to bring our cat with us too! He had surgery this week, and he requires a lot of medication, so we had to bring him along. We woke up in the middle of the night and the inside of our camper smelled like a sewer because of his litter, and having a nocturnal cat in a small camper with two humans and two dogs...let me just say it has been a unique experience!

Papertrey Ink July 2012 Blog Hop

Hello Friends! I'm glad that I was able to whip together a card last night to join in on this month's Blog Hop Festivities. I am so jealous that I missed all the Stamp-a-Faire fun that I knew I couldn't miss out on today. Here is my card:

These are the colors that were our inspiration for this month's hop:

Everything I used is from PTI except the pearls which are Recollections from Michaels.

Notice the strategically place pearls in the sentiment?? Great for covering up an ink smudge! And you thought I put them there intentionally ;)

Sorry for such a quick post today. I'm actually at work finishing up my post (shhh!!!) so that it can be part of the blog hop. I look forward to checking out everyone's creations later on!

May 2012 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

I was not able to participate in last month's blog hop since I was on vacation, and I definitely missed it! Here is my card for the month of May:

 This is the inspiration photo that we were given to work with this month:

I took the colors and the patterns into consideration on my card. I used the new On the Farm set and dies, also the Edgers that look like file folders, and twine from the Twinery.

The chicken wire is from Background Basics Farm and Barn.

I thought this sentiment was appropriate since there are "many" animals on the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope that today is the start to a wonderful holiday weekend for you :)

PTI March 2012 Blog Hop

Hi everyone, I'm here with a bright and cheery card to play along with PTI's March Blog Hop!

Here's the inspiration photo that we were given this month:

I was most inspired by the striped bag in the bottom right of the photo. I decided to make my card base just like it, complete with folded over "flap" that has a pinked border. I was also inspired by the aqua mist polka dot paper in the lining of the box, and the big aqua mist bows on some of the bags. And finally, the sweets in the photo, hence why I chose the sentiment I did ;)

Everything on the card is PTI except for the pearls which are Recollections from Michaels. Now off to see what everyone else created for the hop :)

PTI February Blog Hop & cQc #125

This month's PTI blog hop challenge was to make an interactive card, and boy was I excited since my release package came in just in time! I used the Movers and Shakers Spinners die and the Scrambled Eggs set and die to create this little card for my niece or nephew (haven't decided which one yet, hehe).

I took advantage of using this great color combination from Colour Q. You can check out the challenge yourself, here.

Check out what this bunny does...he moves!!

All of the cardstock is PTI. The patterned grey paper is from SU. The fence punch is from Martha Stewart. The ribbon is Canyon Clay from PTI. I got the sentiments to go along the path like that by bending them on my clear block before stamping.

The only thing missing was a cute cottontail! Which unfortunately I only had pink and it just didn't look right. Now off to check out all the other blog hop cards, thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend :)

PTI January 2012 Blog Hop

For PTI's Blog Hop this month, they issued this challenge:

"This month, in honor of the new year, we are challenging you to pick your favorite project from 2011 and share it with all of us! To take it a step further, you are also challenged to create a second card that is inspired by the favorite project you select. Your new version of an old favorite could carry over the color scheme, the layout or the stamp sets."

The card that I chose I originally made in October for a Make It Monday challenge. To see the original blog post, click here.

I used my brand new release package (that just arrived yesterday) to create a this card with Simply Jane:

I love this sentiment...I love this set, actually. I've always loved any Jane Austen movies and books, so when I saw that PTI came out with this set, it went in my cart, with the dies, and the matching paper, too!

I used the same layered mats and frames technique on this card as the original, and stamped the polka dots (PTI) and woodgrain (SU) the same, as well. The girls are cut with the matching dies.

Isn't it awesome that this paper is actually text from Pride and Prejudice?? The twine is from the Twinery. All cardstock is PTI.

This was a really fun blog hop to participate in, it was such a great idea to go back and find a card you really liked from 2011 and recreate it for 2012!