You Rock

I'm in love with this card. Sorry. I just am. Is that okay to say about my own stuff? I love all the white, I love the texture, I love the stars, I love the colors.



This one started out as a "mojo starter." I wanted to make something but I needed something to get me going. I grabbed my A Little Argyle stamp set and Pure Poppy ink and started covering a piece of white cardstock. Wow, talk about making your eyes cross. All that red argyle against white paper. Stunning, but a little less please. So, I went back over the argyle with Text Style and Antique Linen ink. It softened it just right. Then I decided to cut stars out of the background pattern I just made. Then the card just spiraled from there, my "mojo starter" did just what I wanted it to - it led me right into this card.

It's going to be hard giving this one away. Do you ever get that way about some of your cards? This one is going to have to be saved for someone very special. *wink*

Supplies:
Stamps: A Little Argyle, Text Style, Grunge Me (all PTI)
Ink: Pure Poppy (PTI), Antique Linen (Ranger)
PP: Lime Twist (MME)
Other: button, felt, dies (all PTI), corner rounder, texture folder (Cuttlebug/Provo Craft), Scor-Pal for the scored border

Teacher cards

These are the cards I made for my kids' teachers this year. They do not open but rather they have pockets on the front to hold the gift card and the note from the kids. I had a lot of fun with this one and really like the design of it. I want to try it again with a different theme - wedding perhaps?



Here's the note my DD tucked behind the red flap. The lines are stamped from the Library Ledger set.


And here's one my DS did.



Hope you liked it!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: the Boyfriend (Cosmo Cricket), cork (unknown)
Stamps: Library Ledger, Cupcake Collection, Big and Bold Wishes (all from PTI)
Other: eyelets, twine, corner rounder

Absolutely Fabulous!

I'm turning 40 this year and so are most of my high school and college girlfriends. I made several cards in this same design because I just loved how feminine and frilly and flirty it turned out. I'm getting a lot of use out of the "40 and Fabulous" type sentiments... ;)



Supplies:
Stamps: Fancy Flourishes, Everyday Classics (PTI)
Dies: scallop edge (PTI)
Other: Dark Chocolate grosgrain ribbon (PTI), pink bling
PP: there's a little bit of everything - some My Mind's Eye, some PTI, some misc from my stash...
CS: Vintage Cream (PTI)

PTI June Blog Hop

The challenge for the June Papertrey Ink Blog Hop is to use the lovely photo above to inspire a card creation. My card took a rather literal interpretation.



I used Text Style to create strands of rainbow colors on the background. I then punched a few squares and stamped the word "you" on them. I purposefully did not stamp them in the middle of the square to give it more of a fun and carefree feeling. It's quite hard to see but I filled in the Outline Alphabet with black glitter. It can be seen in person but my camera just wasn't able to capture it. That's it - easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Have fun on the rest of your hop!

Supplies:
Stamps: Wonderful Words Additions, Outline Alphabet, Text Style (all from PTI)
Other: black glitter (Martha Stewart), square punch

Mother's Day

Here's the card I made for my mom for Mother's Day. I don't have any specific sentiments that say "Happy Mother's Day" so I made do with this sentiment from Everyday Button Bits..."Sending a smile across the miles." Since we live about four hours apart I thought that would work.

Please just ignore my little goof of embossing powder. Not sure what happened but I chose to leave it as is. For some reason I kind of liked the little imperfection. I know, kind of weird.



I'm not sure if you can tell but the whole layer of Aqua Mist is popped up on top of the Simply Chartreuse; it adds a little depth to the card.

Supplies:
CS: Aqua Mist and Simply Chartreuse (PTI)
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits, Butterfly Dreams, Text Style (PTI)
Dies: Butterfly (PTI)
Other: embossing powder and ribbon from my stash

Girly, You Rock!

*tap, tap, tap* Is this thing on? Hello? Anyone out there? I'm back in the groove of crafting and blogging and wanted to share a few things I've made lately. This gift card holder we made for our summer nanny. What college kid wouldn't enjoy an iTunes card, right? :)





Supplies:
Stamps: Background Basics: Retro, Signature Greetings, Text Style, Butterfly Dreams (all from PTI)
Die: SU! Bigz die for the butterfly
Pocket: Bazzill (pre-made)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I have several more things I want to post so I just need to get going on the uploading, editing, and creating blogposts.

CKU 2005

In 2005 I attended CKU (Creating Keepsakes University) in Minneapolis with some girlfriends. It was a great experience - fantastic classes, great shopping, fun events and contests, and new friends. But the ultimate of the whole experience was when my name was called as the winner of the page contest. Seriously? I was dumbfounded. And then I couldn't stop smiling. It really was awesome. And the big pink box full of prizes was incredible - I'm pretty sure I still have some of the product left there was so much.



I made a mini album of my whole CKU experience but I still had some of these pictures so I threw together this page to include in my All About Me album.



I stamped my journaling lines using the Mini Scrapbook Series: Library Ledger. I took this close-up of the journaling so you could see how it's ever so slight but just enough so that I keep my writing straight. I also used the same stamp set to stamp "Apr 2005" next to my title.

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time.