Polka Dot Thanks

These aren't the most exciting cards, but I really like them. I'm trying to use up some old pp I have so I can justify buying more :) I was also trying to use up some scraps for the frames and was able to fit two different ones on the tiny sheet I had left. Love when that happens!

Pallenge #15

I want to apologize to my fellow PALs as I've been kinda absent lately! I have every intention of doing challenges, but life tends to get in the way. Well, that and the craft shows I've been getting ready for! I have my third one coming up on the 25th. I'll do a post of a few of the items I've been working on!

Anyway, on to the Pallenge. Diane challenged us to use four different colors: Plum Pudding, Hawaiian Shores, Melon Berry and Simply Chartreuse. Only problem is that I don't have any Simply Chartreuse. So I had to make do with Spring Rain. Don't shoot me! :)

Thanks for a great challenge, Diane!

Circles

Earlier this month, Diane posted an awesome card using a circle punch and fun paper. I told her I was going to case it, and I did. TWICE! These both went off to special friends who helped me celebrate my birthday :)

Now that i look at the second card, I think it needs a ribbon, but oh well! :)

I love how so many different sentiments fit in those fillable frames even if they aren't meant for them!

Thanks for sharing such a great card, Diane! :)

Happily Ever Challenged #8

It's been awhile since I've had time to play along with Ted's Happily Ever Challenged, so I was pumped when I saw it the night I was just getting ready for an evening of crafting! Our challenge was to tune into Old Glory and use red, white and blue in our projects.

I wound up making a card for a local serviceman who is over in Afghanistan right now to thank him for his service. The base is Enchanted Evening with a mat of Stamper's Select White. I added a pp on top which looks a lot more red in person. There's a fun pattern on it, which I couldn't get to turn out well in the pictures :(

I used Star Prints to stamp onto Enchanted Evening and popped it up on dimensionals. The Thank You comes from Star Prints as well.

Thanks for a great challenge, Ted!

Pallenge #9

Nadine has challenged us PALS to use our patterned paper! I've done a card specifically for the challenge, but haven't taken pictures. This one fits the bill, so I've decided to link this one up first :)

Before I got my PTI Anniversary set, I was looking through the gallery at all the Design Teams projects using Round and Round. I found one by Mish that I really loved. Since I didn't have my set yet, I decided to CASE it to the best of my abilities!


My base is Rustic Cream with some Tea Dye Duo sponged on the edges. I used My Minds Eye patterned papers. The strip of white I stamped with Polka Dot Basics in Plum Pudding and then used the wee bitty dot in the center. I kinda like how they're not all equal...some are off to the right, some are off to the left in the center of the circles.

I then stamped the flowers from Everyday Button Bits in Spring Moss and used my 1 3/4" circle punch. The buttons are Plum Pudding, Spring Moss, and Aqua Mist.


I finished it off with a Spring Moss twill ribbon. I did get my Anniversary set in a purchase I made earlier this month, so it's seen ink, I just haven't had time to take pictures! I always like trying to figure out a way to make a card without the same stamps...gets my mind working! :)

Supplies (all PTI unless noted):

Paper - Rustic Cream, Stampers Select White, My Mind's Eye Patterned Paper

Ink - Plum Pudding, Spring Moss

Stamps - Everyday Button Bits, Polka Dot Basics

Other - Spring Moss, Plum Pudding, Aqua Mist Vintage Buttons, Spring Moss Twill Ribbon, 1 3/4" circle punch, Fiskars threading water punch

Dot Spot Thanks

Wow...just realized it had been a week since I blogged last! Sorry about that! I've been busy with getting a few orders done, making Thank You notes, making a wedding gift, and getting ready for my very FIRST craft show!! Yup, I'm doing it! :) I'll share the details later on it...first, though, I have a fun, easy thank you I made up.


This was so much fun to do. I made a couple of them and then decided to make a set of 6 to sell at the craft show. I think I did 8 in the time it normally takes me to do one card! Mass production at its finest :)

I stamped Dot Spot in Fresh Snow ink on Kraft cardstock. The thank you and brackets are from Beyond Basic Borders stamped in Plum Pudding on Lavender Moon cardstock. I finished it off with a Plum Pudding button and Rustic Jute twine.

Thanks for peeping in today! I hope you have a fabulous Monday! :)

Supplies (all PTI):

Paper - Kraft, Lavender Moon

Ink - Fresh Snow, Plum Pudding

Stamps - Dot Spot, Beyond Basic Borders

Other - Plum Pudding Vintage Button, Rustic Jute twine, corner rounder

4x4 thanks

I made this card awhile ago, just never posted it to the blog. I started out with a 4x4 white base, which is a rarity for me for some reason.

I went the simplistic route and just stamped the leaf from Beyond Basic Borders in Ripe Avocado and the sentiment in Dark Chocolate over top. I folded the ribbon and adhered it with some glue dots at each fold. The end has my favorite buttons...the wooden vintage ones! (I really hope PTI can get these back...I keep using them sparingly which is hard!)

Hope you have a terrific Wednesday! One day closer to the weekend. YAY! :)

Supplies (all PTI):

Paper - White, Dark Chocolate

Ink - Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate

Stamps - Beyond Basic Borders

Other - Spring Moss Twill Ribbon, Wood Vintage Button, twine

thank you

I've been busy stocking up on thank you cards the past few weeks. Lexi's turning 2 at the end of the month and we're having a birthday party for her. I figure if I can get the thank you cards made ahead of time, then they'll get out in the mail much quicker!

I'm loving using the frame from Fillable Frames #1. Seems when all else fails, I can use that one! The Raspberry Fizz flowers actually have Aqua Mist centers, although it's hard to tell in the picture. I liked adding the rhinestone to the Aqua Mist one to make it a little girly.

Supplies (all PTI):
Paper - White, Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz

Ink - Aqua Mist, Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz

Stamps - Fillable Frames #1, Little Lady, Beyond Basic Borders

Other - Kaisercraft Rhinestone, Dark Chocolate Bitty Dots Ribbon

Poppy Seed Challenge #2

I had some time to participate in Lisa Johnson's Poppy Seed Challenge over the weekend. She challenged us to use one button, polka dots and light moss.

For my card, I used a base of Ripe Avocado and added a layer of Turning a New Leaf. I liked how the patterned paper had white dots in the middle of the flowers, so on the third layer of Spring Moss, I stamped Polka Dot Basics in Vintage Cream.

I cut out a circle and added a Dark Chocolate button with some embroidery thread tied on. The thanks is stamped on in Dark Chocolate.

Supplies (all PTI):

Paper - Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Turning A New Leaf

Ink - Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Tea Dye Duo

Stamps - Polka Dot Basics, Mega Mixed Messages

Other - 1 3/4" circle punch, Dark Chocolate Vintage Button, Ecru Embroidery Thread

Thanks a Bunch!

I had a lot of fun doing this one! I finally was able to get Everyday Button Bits, so I was super excited to break it out! I love any excuse to use those buttons (and any excuse to buy more!). I don't have much else to say (I know, amazing, huh?), so that'll be it for this one!

Supplies (all PTI unless noted):

Paper - Summer Sunrise, Stampers Select White, Melon Berry, DCWV dp

Ink - Ripe Avocado, True Black

Stamps - Everyday Button Bits, Studio G Alphabet

Other - Vintage buttons: Summer Sunrise, Melon Berry, Plum Pudding, Scarlet Jewel; cricut, Marvy Corner Rounder

Dawn's Color Challenge #14

Once again this week I was able to participate in Dawn's weekly color challenge. This one wasn't too hard for me as I LOVE all these colors! Notice the buttons in her inspiration photo? Yummy, huh? The Plum Pudding ones will be released on the 15th through Papertrey Ink.



I FINALLY was able to get my new-to-me sewing machine out and put it to some use! I had to read the instructions on how to get everything started, but I was able to put some fun stitching on this one! I also made a fun faux flower, although I should've put some leaves on it somehow. Oops. :( I did use a Scarlet Jewel button for the centerpiece.

I think it took longer to set up the bobbin and get everything threaded than it did to make this card! ha!

Supplies: (All PTI unless noted)

Paper - Raspberry Fizz, Plum Pudding, Scarlet Jewel, Vintage Cream

Ink - Vintage Cream

Stamps - Mega Mixed Messages

Other - Scarlet Jewel Vintage Button, Rustic Jute Button Twine, Cream Thread, Sewing Machine

The End

I've finally reached the end of my stash of Thank you cards! Now the goal is to keep up with making and posting new ones! Wish me luck. LOL I've found that I need some new stamps. I keep using the same ones over and over again. Now if only my bank account would magically gain some moola, I'd be able to get some!



I used one of my Stamp It! Cards mags as inspiration for this one. I think it was a Mother's Day card originally. I love the Ripe Avocado/Spring Moss with the True Black saddle stitched ribbon. Seems so classy!

Since this is my last thank you, I want to thank once again all the awesome girls in my life who think enough about me to go in on the cricut. You ladies are AWESOME and I love each and every one of you!!! I am truly blessed to have you all in my life (and so are my husband and daughter). You are amazing and I love you. Thanks again Rhiannon, Steph, Colleen, Emily, Trisha, April, Jodi, Adrienne, Liz, Angie, Crystal and Danica!!!!!!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Paper - Kraft, Spring Moss, White

Ink - True Black, Ripe Avocado

Stamps - Inkadinkado Doodle Flowers, Star Prints

Other - True Black Saddle Stitched Ribbon

Ab Fab

With having 12 girls go in on one gift, you know there has to be a ringleader who started the whole thing and got everything together. Rhiannon was the one who thought of the idea to get me a cricut and sent out the emails and everything. I think she's Absolutely FABULOUS :) And of course, I had to tell her so!! Her favorite color is pink, so I made sure the card had a ton of pink on it. (though, I don't think many of her cards from me are lacking in the pink department!)



I was able to use another sketch, this one is TECC #73. It took me a bit to figure it out since I wanted to make sure you could see every layer just enough.

Thanks again, R, for being so fabulous!! Love you!

Supplies:

Paper - PTI Dark chocolate, Sweet Blush, Rasberry Fizz; Taylored Expressions Birthday Girl DP

Stamps - PTI Mega Mixed Messages

Ink - PTI Rasberry Fizz

Other - Taylored Expressions pink twill

Super Star

I got tired of saying thank you....so I told my girlfriend, Steph, that she was a Super Star instead! This has a combination of my favorite things right now....the text style stamp, stars, and scarlett jewel. Mmm.... The funny thing is that I saw a blog post the other day by one of my favorite stampers and she had used twine the same way I had. I hadn't seen it done like this before! I thought it looked silly 1 time around, so I did 5 times :)



I used the sketch for TECC #72 for this one. I flipped it up and down, so I didn't have the room for the half moon shape, but I got everything else in there :)

Supplies: (All PTI unless noted)

Paper - Dark Chocolate, Scarlett Jewel, White, Kraft, Rustic Cream

Ink - Scarlett Jewel

Stamps - Background Basics: Text Styles, Star Prints

Other - Twine, Fiskars XL Star Punch

Thanks a bunch

Getting tired of my cards yet? At least it's one way for me to post every day! LOL I actually remember who this one went to....I made it specifically for Danica. It's bright and fun and sunshine-y just like she is :) I did another long one (8 1/2 x 3 1/2) and just one layer.



The flowers are actually a 2 in scallop punch that I cut down at each indent and then fanned the cuts to make it look like petals. The stems are part of a flower from Inkadinkado Doodle Flowers that I just masked the flower and stamped the stem and then cut it out. I thought the buttons were a fun centerpiece!

Supplies: (All PTI unless noted)

Paper - Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, Sweet Blush, White

Ink - Ripe Avocado, Berry Sorbet

Stamps - Inkadinkadoo Doodle Flower, Unknown Alphabet

Other - 2 in Scalloped punch, Berry Sorbet Vintage Buttons

Button Thanks

I keep using this same dp from Paper Studio that I got at Hobby Lobby. I just love the colors in it and that it goes with so much of my cardstock I already own. I finally pulled out some buttons again for this one. Buttons always add a fun 3d element to a card. And I think they're a great way to add a splash of color!



I love Papertrey Inks buttons. They come in a huge pack and all of them are different. The best part is they match the paper, inks, and ribbon. I'm falling in love with them! Crazy huh? LOL I guess you have to be a scrapper to understand :wink:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Paper - Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Paper Studio dp

Ink - Berry Sorbet

Stamps - Background Basics: Text Style, Star Prints

Other - Vintage Buttons Wood and Berry Sorbet, Marvy Corner Rounder

Many Thanks

I liked the look of the last card I did so much that I used pretty much the same idea and did the rectangle of kraft instead of the six flowers. :)



I love doing all lowercase letters that aren't in a straight line. Gives it some character!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Paper - Plum Pudding, Spring Moss, Dark chocolate, Kraft

Ink - Studio G Purple, Ripe Avocado

Stamps - Inkadinkado Doodle Flower, Unknown Alphabet

Other - Taylored Expressions Purple Twill