PTI's November Blog Hop

Good Morning!

Welcome to PapertreyInk's November Blog Hop!

What's the challenge?

Create a Paper House

Nichole even gave us a template to use,

which I did use to make my Christmas cottage.

The days are rather busy this time of year, my family is already here for Thanksgiving (19 in the house!), and it didn't help to have the flu last week (no I didn't get a flu shot, next year it's on my to do list!. Does it really help?) I had big plans to let loose with this challenge. But life interfered, and I only did this one. But she won't be lonely.

I collect paper houses and bottle brush trees, and over the years set them into a village at Christmastime.

 

My little candy cane house fits right in!

Maybe next year I'll do some more. The possibilities are endless, and Pinterest has some wonderful inspiration. Look up Putz House. You'll be in a wonderland of sugar plum goodness!

PTI picket fence die

PTI cardstocks

PTI Candy Cane Prints

gesso, mica, tiny bottle brush tree, wooden snowflake.

I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with.

These hops are always full of great inspiration!

Catch all the fun on Nichole's blog

JUGS #216

It's a photo challenge at the JUGS blog this week!

My inspiration comes from the retro look together with colors dots and stockings, only I substituted skates!

These are On Ice stamp and die sets from PTI.

In the photo, there's a roll of twine in red and white. I added the twine as laces on the skates

Poms on the ends.

Lots of dp, love to do layers, especially at Christmas.

Lots of dots in the photo too! (Round shaped ornaments)

Hope you'll take some time this busy Thanksgiving week to play along!

Here's the link:

Just Us Girls #216 - Photo Inspiration

Waltzingmouse Nov. PJ Party

Welcome to Waltzingmouse Nov. PJ Party!

4 Challenges and a Bedtime Story
Challenge 1 is a Thank You themed card

Folk Art Medallion stamp set

PTI cardstocks

Challenge 2
Pick a card, any card, so long as it's Christmas
(A hint was given to do an interactive card. )

A step card created with Nordic Winter and Holiday Ornaments

PTI cardstocks

Challenge 3

Tag, You're It!

Christmas tag shaker embossed in gold

4th Challenge

Time to Deck Those Halls Again!

My 'decoration' is for a wine bottle, something I give as gifts at Christmas.

I know it's a bit of a fudge, but they need decorating too!

Wine tag PTI stamped with

Waltzingmouse Pinstripe background 

Holiday Ornaments embossed in white.

Come join the fun tonight, pjs required dress!

...Welcome to the November Pajama Party!

MIM 141

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Make It Monday and it's time to bring out the glitter!

Heather Nichols shows us how to make it stick!

With Vintage Ornaments stamps and dies,

first inked and then with the heat and stick embossing powder, Heather made it a breeze.

She warned of overcooking (which I have done), but knowing when to stop makes it easy.

Even applied a strip on the bottom.

PTI's Candy Cane Prints, & Crate Paper's Bundled Up

Come and play on Nichole's blog here:

Make It Monday #141: Adding Glitter with Heat and Stick Embossing Powder

Can't wait to do this again, Thank's Heather!

Merry Monday #84

Good Monday Morning!

So excited to say I was selected to be the guest designer for this week's Merry Monday!

The challenge is use a tree and some bling.

Always Playing with Paper is the blog where the Merry Monday challenge can be found.

Love playing with this theme, and love that with their creative challenges, I've done enough Christmas cards to be done!

This is a great group of talented designers who have given me inspiration each and every time I've played along.

My card is a shaker window (bling) with the tree on the inside.

PTI's In the Meadow stamps and dies

Stampendous Winter Wonderland embossing powder.

Here's the inside.

And the window, which houses the shaker fun.

Designer Paper is Webster's Pages, Dear Santa.

PTI Ocean Tides cardstock

The funfetti is a mix of stuff from my stash.

Come join the fun at Merry Monday, runs all week. You just could be the next guest designer!

Just Us Girls Colour Challenge

Good Saturday afternoon!

Don't you want to hug that cute poochie's neck?

Lovin' these rustic colors!

I'm 'guest designer' over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog all the month of November!

This week, it's a color challenge.

Red, Kraft, and Brown.

The stags head is a woodblock stamp by Rubberstamp Ave.

Oval die: PTI Limitless Layer, Ovals

Ribbon is handdyed seam binding.

Christmas Games paper by Echo Park.

Winterflake Corner die by Memory Box.

Tiny Tags: PTI

Rustic White, Kraft cardstock: PTI

PTI Inks: Dark Chocolate, Chai tea stain

Come join the fun on the JUG'S blog, and get a Christmas card done too!

Just Us Girls #215 - Colour Challenge

MM # 83 Stripes, Red, Chocolate & Stars or Hearts

This week's Merry Monday focuses us on the colors: Red, and Chocolate, with stripes, and either

 stars or hearts.

Chocolate means bring on the gingerbread man from PTI's Holiday Button Bits.

Isn't this the dreamiest cupboard? 

I love all things traditional, seasoned with a bit of kitsch, and always red and white.

Mr. Gingerbread Man is holding a peppermint candy Memory Box die cut. 

Banner includes hearts from PTI's Gingerbread Lane cut from red felt.

PTI tag sale die cut from Pure Poppy card stock.

Background paper is Webster's Pages: Silent Night. I thought the Birch trees look stripish.

There's a brown die cut snowflake from PTI, glittered with coarse glitter, behind the tag.

Layers make me happy. 

Dimension with foam dots, some Baker's twine, and red and white snowflake ribbon.

Play along through Sunday on the Always Playing with Paper website.

MIM #140 Ink Pad Designs

Ashley shows us how to use our ink pads to design our cards

 on this week's Makeit Monday.

Totally fun and colorful way to be creative with the stamp pads.

Needed a few cards for Thanksgiving, so I made 2 cards for the challenge.

Cut a window in my Rustic Cream card stock with Limitless Layers oval, ran it through the Cuddlebug again with the Woodgrain embosser (both PTI), and then came the fun.

Using Canyon Clay inkad, I swiped it over the card stock. Really brought out the grain of the wood.

Spritzed it with water, to tone down just a bit.

Basket of Blessings copper embossed and selectively bleached. (Remember that tutorial?)

Autumn Acorn leaves and PTI twine.

2nd card used Basket of Blessings again (it was handy, and I love that basket!)

This time embossed in gold, and again used bleach.

(It was handy too!)

The sentiment was clear embossed before I applied the ink pad. I also spritzed it with water.

I think it looks like marble!

Sentiment is also from Basket of Blessings. I used my gold gel pent hilight the T and B.

Rustic Cream cardbase.

If you'd like to join the fun, find Ashley's tutorial here on Nichole's blog:

Make It Monday #140: Ink Pad Designs

Festive Friday #21, Merry Monday #82

Quick Post for a couple of Christmas challenges I love playing

Merry Monday was a color challenge with a twist, circles.

and:

Festive Friday's challenge asked us to use the same colors.

Red, White and Aqua!

Added some new papers and fun tools to my stash (oh what fun!)

Crate Paper: Bundled Up, and Sakura Jelly Role Pen.

PTI: Tremendous Treats: Holiday, Tag Sale die.

Red and White embossing powder

Aqua Mist cardstock: PTI

FFC21 - Colour Challenge…

Jugs 214 Create a bg of words

Hi all!

Hope you're having a great weekend.

I have a card made for the Just Us Girls Challenge blog, 

which asks us to use a word background on our cards.

I'm excited to say I was chosen to be their guest designer for the month of November!

You  could have knocked me over when I got the email from Vicki Dutcher, one of the designers 

of the 'JUGS' blog.

Here's the challenge photo:

So happy I could use PTI's new stamp set, Background Basics: Christmas Joy.

It's just full of Christmas words. Pretty good background for a Christmas card!

Can't seem to get enough of Two Feet Deep, another set from PTI.

The Pinecone swag was created with Peaceful Pinecones.

Tiny Tags die and Lil Inkers bow and stitching dies.

This is a fun challenge blog with some talented designers leading the way.

Check it all out here:

Just Us Girls #214 - Technique Challenge
And be sure to check out my blog each Saturday to catch this 'guest designer's' take on
the week's challenge!

Curtain Call Welcome Home

Good Thursday Morning.

I wanted to play along with the Curtain Call Challenge: Welcome Home

I took the wonderful photo literally and created my impression of this wreath.

such a lovely wreath hanging on a weathered door!

So artistic. 

Using the stamp, A Wreath for all Seasons (PTI), I stamped the stick wreath first in Kraft and then in Brown. Then I selectively stamped the sticks only to increase the width of the wreath. 

Next embossed the wreath stamp in ivory.

Then I applied red and purple dots to look like the berries in the photo.

I took a piece of natural sponge, and stamped tufts of mossy where I liked them,

in several powders, ivory and greens.

I know it seems like a lot of work, but fun it was!

Kind of artsy?

Next I accented in red and purple stickles.

Matted in Royal Velvet card stock, then in Rustic Cream.

I had this unused silver paper that I ran through a wood grained embossing folder, inked it up a bit, 

stamped the Merry in Royal Velvet, and the Christmas in Pine.

Card base is Aqua Mist

Hope you enjoyed my long winded explanation. 

Oh yes, the stitching is Lil Inkers square die.

Catch the challenge that runs through Sunday, here:

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Welcome Home

MIM #139 Stamped Square Frames

Dawn McVey shows us how to use our stamps to create frames.

My frame was created using Dawn's Boutique Borders: Thinking of You.

A square layered die cut the window, revealing the Santa from Santa Stationary.

Snowflake Medley

 and Confetti Garland dies

Glittered Merry from Modern Alphabet

Red German Glass Glitter

Santa's face is glittered up bit too, but hard to see in the photo.

PTI cardstocks and inks

Copic pens

So many cool ideas on Nichole's blog!

You can see all the wonderful stamped frames here:

Make It Monday #139: Stamped Square Frames

Cards for Cath

I'm so glad someone suggested making cards for Cath.

After all, it's what we all do, for each other, for all occasions, especially on Tuesdays.

At least we used to.

Cath would play a tune and we would dance.

She certainly has an eye to pick a trigger! 

Her smile, her wit, her kind words, we all will miss the daily inspiration.

Cath, here's another card,  for you.

 I wish you all the best. 

And I know you will be filling your time with many wonderful projects and endeavors.

Please don't be a stranger. 

It was through you we all met and appreciated each other.

Moxie Fab World certainly has some big shoes to fill!

Thank You Cath for all you've done to make the blog world a fabulous place to be! 

A Moxie Fab place to be!

You will be missed!

Cards for Cath