Dress Form Card

Today's card is one I made for my MIL's birthday later this week.  She loves to sew! 
I don't.  I like paper a lot, but fabric....mmm, not so much.  Unless it's for a card!  She even has a dress form in her sewing room. 

I was showing her on the PTI website their die of a dress form, with a stamp set to match, and she just loved it.  Coincidentally, she just recently bought a Big Shot, so now she can diecut to her heart's content!  So I ordered her the set and die, along with another die, for her birthday this week.  I just got that shipment, and I opened up her die and used it for her card!  Here it is:

Cardstock is PTI (Aqua Mist, Vintage Cream).  DP is Making Memories.  Stamps are PTI (Signature Greetings).  Dies are also PTI (Signature Series: Dress Form; Banner Borders).  Ribbon is Hug Snug Seam Binding (black), pearls are Mark Richards.  The little skirt is made from a paper doily bought at Hobby Lobby in the cake-making section.

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My final Twisted Card...

Hello!  Happy Saturday!  It is so warm and beautiful here in the Denver area today, FINALLY.  Geesh, it always seems like winter will never go away!  I kept waiting for the nice weather, I mean, HELLO, it's SPRING!  We would get warm days, but they were ruined by the crazy high winds.  Not good!  So today was 75 degrees, partly cloudy, so fantastic.  I stayed outside as much as possible!  I might even have a teeny little sunburn on one arm from sitting facing one direction while watching a soccer game (my daughter's, and yes they won!).

Today's card is my final card for the Twisted Sketches blogsite.  I love Anam and her beautiful sketches, but it's time for me to be done, and I hope you keep coming to my blog!  I promise to try and post more often...

The twist for this sketch was "fun", and here's my take:

I kept it really clean and simple here.  The green and white is something I've been thinking about and "strategerizing" in my head for a while now.  I've been longing for warm weather and green leaves, something that's been missing for a while, so this clean color mix reminds me of leaves and sunshine and blossoming plants.  While it may be getting warm, there's no green yet.  Darn!

My ink colors were CTMH (Topiary,  Pear) and my plain old white cardstock.  Stamps are Papertrey (Leaf Prints) as were the dies (Leaf Prints, Limitless Layers 2.5" Collection) and a circle punch by EK Success (2").  The sentiment was printed out on my computer and cut with another Papertrey die (Double-ended Banners).  Gems are Hero Arts. 

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Twisted Card #49

Hello, welcome back!  Today's card is a birthday card that is already gone from my house.  I thought this sketch would make a great birthday card, and my daughter needed a card for a party today, so I made it, photographed it, and now it's being enjoyed by a nine-year-old.  Hopefully she doesn't toss it too soon! 

The twist for today's sketch is "spring", which I incorporated by using spring colors.  Man, I can't wait for spring!  This last week in Colorado has actually been rather warm, in the 60's, but it IS March, which is usually a very crazy month for us weather-wise.  But the trees are already starting to show little buds, which makes me so happy!  Okay, tangent over...here's the card:



Hardly any stamping here, just the sentiment.  I played off the colors in the strip of patterned paper (from Basic Grey's "Lemonade" line), which I die cut with the PTI medium scallop border die.  The felt (PTI Simply Chartreuse) was die cut with the PTI eyelet lace border die.  Ribbon is Offray.  The doilies are Martha Stewart, and the buttons are from my stash.  The sentiment is PTI (Communique Curves Sentiments) stamped in CTMH Black ink.  The felt ice cream cone is also from the Basic Grey Lemonade line.  Cardstock base is CTMH (Pink Carnation).

Come on over to Twisted Sketches today, submit your card and play along!

Welcome Little One

Today I have a baby card for you, since I am attending a baby shower this weekend, I thought I had better get going on the card!  This is a CASE of Lea Lawson's card here, I changed the colors and stamps, and held on to the cute layout. 




I used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink (Bitty Baby Blessings), stamped in CTMH chocolate ink.  The little elephant is stamped in chocolate, then colored in with a CTMH Breeze marker, then glittered.  Normally my favorite thing to do with this onesie stamp is to paper-piece it, but that just didn't seem right on this card.

Patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye (Wild Asparagus line).  Felt, ribbon and cardstock are from Papertrey (Vintage Cream felt, Aqua Mist cardstock and grosgrain ribbon).  Glitter is Stampendous.

I'm going to go slack on the couch for the rest of the afternoon now, I have a bit of a cold that needs to be nursed.  I'm gonna drink orange juice and snuggle with my tissue box while watching shows I recorded last week.  Happy Wednesday!

Twisted Card 47

Hello everyone....happy Saturday!  Today's card is for Twisted Cards #47, over at Twisted Sketches.  The sketch this week is a great one, and the twist is "distress".  I totally almost spelled that "distresssss"....but I digress.

So I made this card, feeling very "white on white" while doing so, got it all finished and photographed, and ready to send off before I realized....I didn't incorporate the twist!  Ack!  It was all polished and pretty, with absolutely nothing distressed about it.  So I went back in and frayed the edges of my ribbon, which I really wound up  liking because it added another layer of texture to this extremely monochromatic card.  Don't the words "texture" and "monochromatic" sound all artsy?  Lol.  Then I got to re-photograph and re-edit the whole thing.  Good times.

Anyway, my point is that these twists are pretty easy to incorporate in a card you may already be making, it's just another way to think "outside the box" and change things up a bit.



Cardstock is CTMH (White Daisy).  Yep, all of it.  I ran that bottom layer through my Big Shot with a Cuttlebug embossing folder (Provo Craft, yes I'm too lazy to look up the name of the folder.  But I will if you really want me to).  Butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch.  Bling is Mark Richards.  Stamp is Papertrey (Wedding Day), ink is CTMH (Black).  Ribbon is Hug Snug seam binding.

Make It Monday #2

I created a card for this week's Make It Mondays over at Papertrey, and I did it completely by accident!  I colored an image, made a card, added a vellum sentiment strip...and then realized I could submit it to MIM.  What a coincidence!

So here it is:



Why, oh why, is this at an angle? 

Cardstock is CTMH (Sorbet) , Neenah (Solar White) and Papertrey (Spring Moss).  Vellum is by The Paper Company.  Ink is PTI (Ripe Avocado) and Memento (Tuxedo Black).  Colored with my Copics.  The stamps are PTI (Friendship Jar Fillers; Communique Sentiments).  Dies are PTI (Limitless Layers 2 1/2 " Circles).

Don't you just love that font?  That's one of my favorite sentiment sets ever...I'll be using it forever.  Hey PTI,  I would like all sentiments from now to be in this font, K?  Thanks.
Glad we straightened that out.

Valentine Swap

I just had to pop on here and show off what I received from my Valentine Swap partner, Denise.  Look at all this beauty!!



And that's not all, folks.  Here's what was inside this precious tote:



What a spoiled little chickie I am today!  That's some wonderful PTI felt, and satin ribbon (in the beautiful melon berry color), and TWO Ghirardelli milk chocolate bars.  All covered in one of my fave paper lines of all time, Early Bird (Cosmo Cricket)!

Thanks again, Denise!

Buttons, buttons....

You know it's anniversary time over at Papertrey Ink.....when everyone in blogland suddenly starts blogging a LOT more frequently, so we can participate in all the cool contests!

Honestly, I'm a little embarrassed by this card.  
It's old.
Really, really old.
Like, I made it a couple of years ago.  *blush*

I made this along with some others for a swap, and this one is the one I was left with.  I thought it was really cute (at the time) and creative.  I have since learned so much more, and (hopefully) make much more polished cards and projects.

But I wanted to participate in this contest SO. BADLY.  so I am sticking this card up here for all to see.  I will hold my chin up high.  IT'S PAJAMAS, YA'LL!  You know, like Christmas pajamas?  The buttons are part of the little outfit. 

OK, I still think it's a cute idea, even if I could have done it better.  Here it is:

It's a little wraparound pocket card.  Here's a pic with the little insert pulled out:

See the little scalloped edging?  Done with....yes, you guessed it....scissors.  Oh man, do I have such better tools now.  And I love the little candy in the pocket, so cute. 

I must admit, I made this so long ago I'm not sure who everything is by.  I know the cardstock is CTMH (that's where most of my CS comes from).  I *think* the patterned paper is a Bo-Bunny line.  Doesn't it look like something they would make?  I'm gonna stick with that.

Buttons were from my stash.  I bought the cutie little candy in a pack of sticker embellishments at my local LSS.  I think they're Jolee's.  Stamp was CTMH (I don't even have this set anymore!) as was the ink.

So there's my little "Christmas in February" for you all.  Enjoy!

Twisted Card #45

Today's card was a little "quickie" that I whipped up for the Twisted Card #45 sketch.  Super-easy to make this little guy...

Ya gotta love those coordinated sets of stuff that scrapbooking companies make.  Just about everything on here is from the Basic Grey "Nook & Pantry" line....

Cheater cheater, that's me.

Cardstock is CTMH (Colonial White, Autumn Terracotta).  Patterned Paper and felt are Basic Grey.  Stamps are PTI (On My Couch).  Ink is  CTMH (Black).  Done.

Valentine's Package

I mentioned before that I would post the rest of the Valentine's package I sent off to my swap partner (see the card below!), so I'm FINALLY getting around to it!  Here's a pic of the whole ensemble, then some close-ups of the little packages:

I had sooooo... much fun making this package!  I love red and white together, and it's great paired with Kraft!  The pink just makes it a leeeeeetle more soft and feminine, and valentine-y.  LOVE.

The little flat box held some mini-cards with matching envelopes.  I didn't take pictures, but that's okay.  It's all good.  The other box was made with one of the PTI's Timeless Templates  (by Lauren Meader), and it held some Ghirardelli caramel chocolate squares.  Also no pictures, but you all know what those look like!

Ah, another Saturday...nothing super-fun planned today, just working on the basement and gearing up for the Superbowl!  Love me some football....but I gotta admit, mocking the commercials is the best part.  Gonna have some yummy food and slack for the afternoon.  Bliss!  Looking forward to tomorrow!