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

Double Challenge

First of all, I'm very sad to see that Caardvarks is doing their last challenge. I haven't had a chance to participate in one of the challenges yet but always enjoyed looking at what others created for it. I decided to go with blue for my monochromatic card since I love the color and I'm trying to do more masculine cards.

I used sketch 93 from the CardPatterns sketch blog.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Butterfly Dreams, WMS Vintage Circles

Cardstock: PTI Enchanted Evening, PTI Blueberry Sky, PTI White

Happy Thanksgiving

We're getting ready for the big day here in our household. I've done the grocery shopping, prepared lists and have made some cute pumpkins. I saw the idea on Aly Dosdall's blog - Scrap Your Story.

I used a bunch of different scraps of orange paper to make the 4", 5" & 6" circles, green cardstock hand cut for the leaves and a brown grocery bag for the stems.

I think they look really cute next to the nutcracker I bought on clearance at the end of last year. Love that little guy and I'm so glad I finally get to use him. He sat in a box at the top of my closet all year long just waiting to come out!

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!!