Packing up my stamps today. :(

We are in the process of moving back to the states after three wonderful years in Sicily. They are coming on Monday to do our big shipment so along with it goes all my craft goodies. It will take about three months to get to us so I will be on hiatus until after I get my stuff back and reorganized. See you this summer!

Rejected!

I submitted two cards to the most recent call from Paper Crafts magazine. I am very happy to say that one was picked up!! Here is my rejected card using sketch #10.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters in the 'Burbs, PTI Up, Up & Away, PTI Boards & Beams

Cardstock: Neenah Classic Solar White, PTI Dark Chocolate

Other: Transparency, Copic markers, Embossing powder

Make It Monday #1

I'm so excited for the new Make It Monday feature over at PTI. I had a lot of fun digging through my stamps looking for birthday sentiments for this Go-To Sentiment card.

Supplies (all PTI unless noted):

Stamps: Round & Round, MS1 Collection, Up, Up & Away, All About You, Fancy Flourishes, SU Word Play

Cardstock: White, Raspberry Fizz

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Green at Heart

Other: ZipperStop Grosgrain Ribbon

WMS CASE Competition

Claire is having a fun contest over on the WMS blog to CASE a card from the 3 days of Spellbinder fun this past weekend. I had a hard time picking just one card so I took inspiration from all three of these:

I used the design layout from Laurie, the big flower from Lisa, and dry embossing from Claire.

I didn't use any stamps on the front so I had to do some on the inside.

Supplies:

Stamps: WMS Very Vintage Labels No. 1, PTI Round & Round, PTI Fillable Frames #7

Cardstock: PTI White

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Green at Heart

Other: Cuttlebug Build A Flower Tag Team dies

PTI January Blog Hop

January Challenge: With the new year comes a clean slate along

with many resolutions. This month's blog hop challenge involves

you challenging yourself to use a Papertrey stamp set that has yet

to see ink or even one that might be collecting a little dust!

Go through your stash and see what little used treasure it

might hold. 2011 is the year where what's old is new again!

I've used my Friendship Jar stamp set and both of the holiday companion sets but I've never touched the original fillers. For the patterned paper background, I used the packaging from the Basic Grey Blush paper collection. It worked out perfectly for this patchwork background following this sketch - WMS Sketch Challenge.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Friendship Jar and Fillers

Cardstock: PTI Dark Chocolate and Ocean Tides

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Blush

Lawnscaping Challenge #2

The Lawnscaping challenge this time was to CASE one of Kelly's cards. I've had this mini card set saved in my favorites since the first time I saw them on the Lawn Fawn blog - LOVE them!

I decided to use my newest Lawn Fawn stamp set to make some mini cards like this. Don't know what I'm going to do with them yet but I think they will make cute gift tags.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters in the 'Burbs, PTI TT: Valentine

Cardstock: PTI Kraft

Papertrey Playhouse Challenge #8

It was my turn to host over at the Papertrey Playhouse blog. The challenge I came up with is to make a Valentine’s Day or love card for someone special in your life but the catch is to not use the usual colors. No pink or red for my husband, only blue!

Now that I see the card on the screen it needs something in the left corner above the airplane - think I'll add a cloud or two there. I used lots of different PTI stamp sets to make this Valentine's Day card. The sketch for this card is the Clean & Simple 124 sketch.

Supplies ( all PTI):

Stamps: Fly Away, Mat Stack 1 Collection, BB: Hearts, YOF: Larkspurs, TT: Valentine

Cardstock: Blueberry Sky, White, Kraft

Papertrey Playhouse Challenge #7

Challenge: Create a stamped background using a background stamp or creating your own background with individual stamps.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Fruitful, PTI Friendship Jar

Cardstock: PTI White

Lawnscaping Challenge #1

I'm so excited that Lawn Fawn now has a challenge site since I love their stamps. I created this Winter Bunny card for next Christmas (always nice to get a head start on cards). Doesn't show up very well on the photo but I used flocking for the snow to give it some texture.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Winter Bunny, PTI Tiny Treats: Christmas

Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy, PTI White

Other: Copics, unknown patterned paper, flocking