Colour Me #1...

Hello friends!!  Happy New Year and welcome to the very first Colour Me challenge... YAY!!!   I'm so excited to be a part of the design team for this fun new challenge!  All the details can be found here on the Colour Me blog.   Each month we will be joined by a guest designer and this month's guest is the super talented Lesley Croghan!  Now... on to my card.

As this is the first challenge of the month you will have one color plus neutrals to work with to create your project.  For my card I decided to use this week's color of Island Indigo along with white and grey.  The stamps I used are from the Precious Remembrance Shop set DIY.  I inked up the feather image from the set in Island Indigo and did some generational stamping to create a monochromatic look.  The large word "learn" was stamped using grey ink (SU!'s Smoky Slate) and then the sentiment "something new every day" was overstamped using Island Indigo.  The little smudge image at the top was stamped by first inking up the image, stamping off on scrap paper and then stamping on my cardstock.  I finished off the card with some white sequins.  

Thanks for stopping by... please check out the projects created by my fellow teamies Tara, Hayley, Sam, Katie, Brenda and January guest designer, Lesley.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SU! Smoky Slate; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Ink:  SU! Island Indigo & Smoky Slate; Sequins:  Ellen Hutson

so grateful...

Hello friends!!   Spent part of my New Years Eve making a little card for the current PTI Make It Monday:  Angled Backgrounds.   I don't think I have made a card quite as busy or bright as this one in a very long time and it made me a bit nervous putting it together.  However, once it was done I was really pleased with how it turned out.

After I decided on what patterned paper to use (Webster's Pages Family Traditions line... LOVE!!) I had to figure out what stamps to use and finally settled on my very neglected PTI Lovely Layers set.  I had inked up one of the stamps, but I don't think I have ever made anything with the set!   I die cut all the images and then stamped them using Hero Arts chalk inks (Poppy, Punch. Splash and Latte) and Memento inks (Pear Tart).   I cut strips of the patterned papers and then adhered them to a cardstock base.  As a base for my floral image I die cut some white cardstock using the PTI notebook die.  After arranging all the pieces, but not adhering them, I stamped the sentiment in black ink.  Once that was done I adhered all the pieces into place and then added the finished piece to the patterned paper piece.   My angled background is a bit hap hazard, but I like it!

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Patterned Paper:  Webster's Pages; Inks: Hero Arts & Memento; Stamps:  PTI; Dies:  PTI

penny black blog take over...

Hello friends!!  This week the Penny Black Stamp Squad is taking over the Penny Black blog and sharing some fun projects to take you into the new year!  Today I have taken over the Penny Black blog and I'm sharing a card that I made using Penny Black's fabulous stickers and a technique that is very similar to paper piecing.  You can find the post here. Here on my blog I'm sharing a bonus card I made.  I also explain how I made the cards.   Here is my bonus card:

To make each card I started by picking out which stickers I wanted to use.  I chose to use stickers from the Scented Garden and Fresh Fields.   I adhered the stickers (two of each design) to some thin cardstock (printer paper would work, as well) and then proceeded to trim out portions of each sticker.  Adhering the stickers to thin cardstock gives them a bit more support and makes them easier to trim out.  Once I had trimmed out everything I adhered each piece using foam dimensionals. I finished off this card by stamping the Penny Black background image Retro Pattern (40-086) on red cardstock using red ink, adhered it to a cream cardstock base and then added my beefed up sticker to the center.  Some twine tied in a bow finished things off.  I included a photo to show the dimension that is achieved by layering sticker images in this way. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, Penny Black red; Sticker:  Penny Black; Stamps:  Penny Black; Ink:  Memento Lady Bug; Twine:  May Arts

pti december blog hop...

Hello friends!!  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  I know my boys did and mine wasn't too bad, either.  Playing along with the PTI December blog hop, as well as the current PTI Make It Monday... ala carte.    There were so many fun MIM challenges to choose from, but I decided to have a go at creating a flocked look with dimensional paste, MIM #113.    Working with the dimensional paste was fun, but a bit frustrating... don't even want to say how much cardstock I ruined before I got a piece worth using, lol!

 

I die cut some Rustic White cardstock  using the largest Tipped Top die and then a second one from SU!'s Smoky Slate cardstock.  I created a stencil using the Circles cover plate and a piece of  solid chipboard.  Once that was done I used a small offset spatula to apply the fiber paste.  I removed the stencil and let the piece dry.  The large leaf image from the Harvest Berries set was stamped using Smoky Slate ink and then the berries were added using SU!'s Melon Mambo ink.  The sentiment is from the Boutique Borders:  Thank You set.  I cut three lengths of PTI's cream button twine and tied it round the piece.  The Smoky Slate piece was adhered to the kraft card base and then the Rustic White piece was adhered using foam dimensionals.   Pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft & rustic white; SU! smoky slate; Stamps: PTI Harvest Berries & Boutique Borders:  Thank You; Inks:  SU! Smoky Slate & Melon Mambo, Memento Tuxedo Black; Golden Fiber Paste; PTI Rustic Cream button twine; PTI Tipped Top die, Circles cover plate

tis the season...

Hello friends!!  Merry Christmas!!  Just popping in with a little post to let you know that the Colour Me design team have posted some holiday cards on the Colour Me blog using the following colors: 

 

 I just happened to have received a bundle of Glitz Design products from their Hello, Christmas line and the floral image I used had all the necessary colors!!   The sentiment is from the Avery Elle set
"Winter Wreath".  My card is very loosely based on the current sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.  Please make sure you check out what the other design team members created using the colors!

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI kraft; white; Stamps:  Avery Elle; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Embellishment:  Glitz Design

CCC #76... let's celebrate!

Hello friends!!    It is Tuesday (and Christmas Eve!) and that means time for a brand new CASology cue word.  This post is bittersweet for me because it is my last post as a design team member for CASology.  I still remember receiving the private message from Melissa asking me to join her new endeavor called "CASology".  I was surprised and honored that she wanted me to be on her design team!  The last 18 months (yes... it has been 18 months!) have been fill with lots of fun and fabulous cue words.  It has been a joy to work with Melissa and everyone on the CASology team and I will miss being a part of that amazingly talented group... sniff, sniff!  Thank you to everyone who left me lovely comments each week (even on my not so great cards... and there were quite a few!).  I appreciated receiving each and everyone of them!  So that was the bitter part, now on to the sweet... the new cue word!  This challenge will run for two weeks so you will have plenty of time to get your "party" on with this one!  Yep... the cue word is party!   All the details can be found here and we are joined this week by guest designer, Kara!

Months ago I purchase a party hat border die from MFT, but had never used it and so this week's cue was the perfect time to break it in.  I die cut some fun dotty paper from BasicGrey (Shine On) using the die.  A bit more of the paper was used underneath the sentiment to create a cohesive look.  The layout for the card is based on Mojo Monday sketch #324.  I think this is a sketch I may hang onto as it is perfect for clean and simple cards, as well as more complex cards.  The sentiment is from the MFT set Birthday Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by...I cannot wait to see where this week's cue word "knit" takes you!  In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Tracey and guest designer, Kara.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; white; PP:  BasicGrey; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Die:  My Favorite Things; enamel dots:  Stampin Up!