MIM #149: Glitter Embellishments

It's Monday, and that means Make It Monday at PapertreyInk.

Heather Nichols demonstrates how to embellish a die cut with different

colors and sizes of glitter.

I wanted to create a Valentine and use the new Framed Love Die.

Anything larger than MS's fine glitter would take away from the lovely script, so I stuck with 

the fine.

The framed love is backed with vellum, and was almost impossible to keep stray sprinkles from straying. Part of the 'fun' with using glitter!

Background Basics: Medallion stamped in Raspberry Fizz and Orange Zest.

Martha Stewart glitters: Onyx, Hemitite, Purple Saphire, Antique Silver, and Crystal.

Frame: Tourmaline

Heart dies from Cupid's Arrow and and The Best is Yet to be.

Make It Monday #149: Glitter Embellishments

Fusion #2

There are some new challenges out there that offer some great inspiration.

Fusion is one that I wanted to try.

The challenge is use either the sketch or the photo 

or both.

I think I had both in mind when I created my card.

For the bouquet photo I used Memory Box's Brea Ornament and Aubrey Bloom Set

layered onto Lil Inkers Stitched Cover.

Double Ended Banner die

Beautiful Blessings sentiment

and card stocks all PTI.

You'll find the challenge here:

Fusion #2

Merry Monday #91 Snowman

The Theme at Merry Monday this week is snowmen (or snow people)

Loving NOT putting my Christmas supplies away!

Used PTI's Shape Up Series: Snowman and Limitless Layers Circle (to make him a shaker, a must for a grandma of 11!),

and Shape up Snowman Accessories stamp set.

He was cut so it formed a card.

Accessories cut in felt and some scrap wool for his scarf.

Accented with crystal Stickles and colored wood snowflakes.

Still time to play!

Merry Monday #91 {Snowman or Snow People}

Paper Sweeties January Release Rewind

Welcome to the Paper Sweeties January Release Rewind!

It's been a baking frenzy at Paper Sweeties. 

If you love cupcakes, birthday sentiments and baking images, you'll love everything

in this January release!

Freshed Baked has this image of a birthday cake, which I've pieced and mounted on 

a wire hand formed stand.

 The strawberry image is from another newly released set, Cupcakes & Sprinkles.

Sentiment from Stand Add on 6 and sweet posie from Sending Sweet Thoughts.

Besides the card, here's some ideas for using these adorable sets.

A tag for a birthday present

And what's a party without straws!

You're gonna want to see the other designers' release rewind.

Find their creations with the new stamp sets here:

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir (that's me!)

Tammy Hobbs

The Card Concept 1

Hi friends!

I'm so excited to share a new challenge blog with you

called The Card Concept.

It's a bi-weekly challenge blog with 

several very talented designers to inspire (VERY talented!),

and this is their very1st challenge!

Here's the challenge photo:

It's as simple as using the photo's colors

and choosing one of 6 style themes.

I'm a layering girl, so when I saw one of the styles was Clean and Layering,

I was in!

I quickly connected to Kay and Kerin with their lovely layered samples.

My card features Lil Inkers Stitched cover plate layered over a pink pattern paper, all over 

PTI's Melon Berry cardstock.

And then more layers!

Happy Birthday medallion: PTI 2012 Birthday Tags

Ink: PTI Smokey Shadow

Cork border: Spellbinders Nestibilities Labels 4

Bigger Blooms &Turning a New Leaf dies: PTI

I'm absolutely smitten with the new Lunette and Oriel Butterfly dies from Memory Box!

I spritzed the wings with some Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst 'Teeth Chattering Teal'

for a bit of shimmer.

Had some fun layering the clear embossed posies around.

Added some Stickles to the centers of a few of them.

Sorry about the long post, but I couldn't take a bad picture today.

How often does that happen?!?!?!

Be sure to visit The Card Concept, and see what style you would create.

Challenge 1 - Colours (Jan. 8)

There's a PS!

I'm awed by the challen'gees' 

Wow there are some gorgeous entries!

PPS, Possible Classy & Elegant? Hard to decide.
Thanks Cathy for clarifying a bit!

Paper Sweeties Release Party

Hi everyone! 

And welcome to the Paper Sweeties January Release Party!

Today is the day you can order all the sweet yummies

you've seen featured on the design team's blogs.

There's a new outfit for Emma (or for any other of the sweeties!),

Sweetie Pie is the name of the stamp set, 

and includes her shirt, leggins, and apron all of which I paper pieced. 

Her shoes are a stamp as well.

The cupcakes are fussy cut from another new set,  Stand Add-on 6.

(Are you smellin' a theme here?)

Sweeties Stand is pieced as well.

Do you see the cupcake stands? They're the top of Abigail's jumper turned upside down and

stamped in black ink.

Birds and Branch from Happy Summer.

You can see all of January's new releases here:

Dream … Create … Shop!                            

Meanwhile check out all the other PS teamies' projects!

Amber Kroening

Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir (that's me!)

Tammy Hobbs

Paper Sweeties Jan. Release Countdown

Day 2 of the Paper Sweeties January Release and it's the 

Countdown!

Cupcakes and Sprinkles is the set I'm showcasing today.

The sweet medallion is paper pieced, in Berry Sorbet card stock (PTI), and then 

the cupcakes and the banner are fussy cut in white card stock. All are embossed in black, 

before copic colored and frosted in petal pink liquid pearls.

I used PS Borders to created the green strip down the card.

Paper Sweeties Seam Binding with pink and black twine form the bow.

I used the Border Stamp Set to create the background. 

It's a wonderful set with 6 borders.

This set, Cupcake and Sprinkles, along with 3 others and a matching set of dies will be available tomorrow, Jan. 15th.

Did you know Paper Sweeties offers FREE digitals?

Find them here: complimentary digital image

Use them to create a card for the January challenge and be eligible to win $20. 

 in the PS Boutique!

For some reason I'm craving cupcakes, so I'm off to bake!

Be sure to check back tomorrow for 'Release Day'.

Meanwhile these other PS Designers have some projects for you to see.

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

MIM #148 Generation Stamping with Line Images & Multiple Colors

MIM #148 with Dawn demonstrating generation stamping with simple line stamp images

Meadow Greens stampset (love the fern images!)

Popped up bottom image, didn't like the dark 1st stamped dandelion so covered it with another

softer look, and like the way it looks shadowed. Happy accident!

Sending this off to an aunt that broke her hip, and isn't healing well.

I added some Wink of Stella to the centers, but it's hard to see the shimmer.

PTI card stocks and Inks.

Make It Monday #148: Generation Stamping with Line Images & Multiple Colors

Paper Sweeties January Release

Can you feel the excitement? 

This is Sneek Peek day at Paper Sweeties!

There are some new stamp sets,  and, thrilled to say some dies too!

Sending Sweet Thoughts is full of sweet images, and has dies to boot!

Had to play around with piecing the cupcake.

In the stamp set there is also a line of tiny cupcakes that I used for the background.

Don't you just love that sentiment?

I used some die cuts to decorate straws for my granddaughters

for the next time they visit.

There's even a place to write names!

Hope you enjoyed your 'peek' at Paper Sweeties January release which will be available for 

purchase on the 15th.

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team's projects.

Amber Kroening

Annette Allen
Annette Witherspoon
 Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties
Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr
Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir (that's me!)

Tammy Hobbs

And be sure to come back tomorrow for a look at another stamp set available on the 15th.

Merry Monday #90

Happy Sunday to you all!

Did you know Merry Monday, has it's own blog now?

To get a head start on Christmas cards visit here:

Merry Monday #90 {Ribbon or Twine}

While visiting Marybeth's blog,

I was reminded that Merry Monday was challenging again, one of my fav's last year.

Had all my Christmas cards done and ready, with a few to spare!

(Marcia, had to do insides too!)

This week's challenge,

to use ribbon or twine on a Christmas card.

Waltzingmouse's 2011 Holiday Ornaments

Rouge Zing Embossing Powder, Black Superior EP.

Ribbon and twine weave from stash.

Gotta hurry and post this, 

hope you're having a warmer weekend!

Just a  quick PS, tomorrow is a sneak peek of Paper Sweeties Jan. release, 

which officially takes place on the 15th. 

Come see some of the new product (complete with dies!)

showcased here. Officially launching my DT status. So excited to be representing

this delightful company!

See you tomorrow!

CAS challenge Week 77: Bubbly

I've never entered a challenge over at CASology before,

but our friend Joyce joined their design team, 

and I thought, why not?

Finally broke down and ordered the Lil Inkers Stitched circles, and was glad for a change to 

use them. Perfect for the Bubbly challenge.

Now to keep it CAS! (Not easy for me!)

PTI's Year of Flowers: Rose was stamped and watercolored with reinkers.

I paper pieced a portion of the pedals for a bit of dimension,

arranged a few 'bubbles', and spotted a few sequins.

There's still time to join in, the challenge runs through Sunday!

MIM #147

It's so nice to have a day to craft and Saturday had nothing planned.
Great time to start Valentine's cards

and use the new stamp and die sets from PTI.

This card features the Hearts Cover Plate.

The multi-layer image is from Cupid's Arrow,

layered over die cut Limitless Layers hearts.
Our challenge is to layer with a single stamp.

I stamped and paper pieced 3 stamps and layered them onto the heart die.

I also added twine to the bow, and glossy accents to the center heart,

bow, and 2 hearts.

While organizing my paper stash, I found this leftover piece, I have no idea where it's from,

but I liked the random glossy flowers.

Back to the craft room!

Make it Monday #147: Multi-layer Images from a Single Stamp

MIM #147

Make it Monday this week features Betsy Veldman

showing us how to created multi-layered images from a single stamp set.

Great excuse to use one of the sets I am most excited about, Stitched with Love.

Any set with a sewing theme has my name on it, and this one is no exception!

Filled with sewing images, buttons, and even a spool, it also has sentiments for 

many occasions, including 'Thanks Sew Much', just what I needed for after Christmas thank you notes.

I did a set of 4 mini-notes to simulate redwork embroidery.

All stamps and dies are from Stitched with Love. Only the needle is fussy cut.

I borrowed an idea from Dawn's samples of this stamp set and added another layer 

from the Limitless layers die collection.

The 2 stamped images on the left are thread stamped horizontally and then vertically to created a

gingham look.

There are 2 of each style for a total of 4 in the set, but I know I'll be doing 

4 more.

The spools of thread are labels for the envelopes, which have stitched lines for addressing 

from Sew Simply Borders.

Rustic White Cardstock, and envelopes

Red Poppy and Dark Chocolate Inks

Red Poppy felt

One of the things I love about PTI stamp sets is the 

included 'made for you…' phrase.

I always initial the back of handmade cards and this sweet phrase lets the recipient 

know they are special.

Does this project look like fun?

Come watch Betsy's video here, on Nichole's blog:

Make it Monday #147: Multi-layer Images from a Single Stamp

MIM #146

Just back from a wonderful family vacation and couldn't wait to play along with PTI, 

and Ashley, challenging us to make angled backgrounds!

Her tutorial is here:

Make It Monday #146: Angled Backgrounds

And here is my card.

I angled my scraps of paper on a Tipped Top Die, 

then added a double layer of 'Happy' and 'birthday, all from PTI.

as are the card stocks. 

The larger stars are also from the TT die, the little stars from Super star border.

I actually think this will mail without extra postage,

yeah!

The challenge runs through Sunday,

come check out what everyone has done. So many great ideas!