A few more projects...

I got two more cards completed last night, for the the Homemade Embellishments Challenge at Stamp-a-Faire. This first one was for Dawn's layered butterfly technique:

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (raspberry fizz), stamps (think big favourites), button, twine & dies (beautiful butterflies, half & half, love lives here.) For the largest butterfly, I cut it out by hand. The patterned paper is Echo Park.

For this next card, I used Danielle's "make your own washi tape" technique:

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (aqua mist), patterned paper (aqua mist), stamps (think big favourites), buttons & twine. The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye.

Then, last night, I was thinking of a way I could use all of the badges. Originally, I'd thought it would be fun to use them on layouts, but they coordinate so well together, I decided to make a mini-book with them, on the theme of what I love about summer. I used PTI cardstock (aqua mist, rustic white), patterned paper (aqua mist) & dies (modern alphabet, heart prints, fabulous frames).

For the cover, I used Erin's ribbon technique & Danielle's "make your own washi tape" technique.


For the book, my plan is to print and add photos on the left-hand side of each of the pages that will correspond with what's on the right hand side.

For this page, I used Heather's make your own stitched embellishments technique, with vintage cream felt and a little house I cut from some Pink Paislee patterned paper.

Again, I used Heather's make your own stitched embellishments technique, with aqua mist felt and a stamp from Tremendous Treats birthday.

Again, I used Heather's make your own stitched embellishments technique, with aqua mist felt and a stamp from Road Trip.

And, once more, I used Heather's make your own stitched embellishments technique, with simply chartreuse felt and seeing stars die cut from aqua mist patterned paper.


What a great way to house all of these sweet little badges!


Thanks again to Nichole & the DT for putting on such a fabulous event!

Thanks for looking!

I did it!

I earned all of my Stamp-a-faire badges this weekend!

This afternoon, after getting home from Cameron's uncle's birthday party, Sage & I headed into the basement to make bracelets for the Beaded Friendship Bracelet Challenge.

I took this photo of Sage attempting to roll her diecut and then asked if she'd take one of me. This is what she took:

LOL! I had her take another one... this time including my head. :)

And if you think this project was really easy, just ask Sage. She found rolling the diecuts a little challenging.

Here are my beads, drying after being coated with clear nail polish.

And  our finished bracelets:

This one is Sage's:

And here's mine:

It was a fun project to do together! Nancy, from the PTI forums, had sent me the diecuts (thanks again, Nancy!) But we're thinking of getting the dies this fall to make more.

And for my last badge, I made a card set for my friend, Mary for the Card Set Challenge. I used PTI rustic white cardstock and the stamp sets: Lace Bouquet and Beautiful Blessings.

And I packaged them in one of the boxes my PTI stamps came in, wrapping some Offray ribbon around the top and adding a tag.

Here's a close-up of the tag, using one of Ashley's techniques from the Homemade Embellishments Challenge. I added some hand-stitching with some baker's twine. The sentiment stamp is from Fillable Frames #8.

Thanks for looking!

A few more badges earned

I wanted to share a few more projects that I completed to earn my badges this weekend...

The first project I want to share took me a long time to make yesterday. It was for the mini-book challenge
and I really need to remember the next time I tackle a mini-book that it takes me a long time to make them.

It was originally going to have more pages, but I ended up shortening it. I used Ashley's envelope mini-book tutorial, but made it with cardstock pages instead of envelopes. How I adhered it together was the same though...

I used PTI cardstock (rustic white), stamps (the sweet life, shutterbug special, fabulous frames, strawberry sentiments simply you, lovely layers), twine, button and dies (fabulous frames, the sweet life, modern alphabet, modern numbers). The patterned paper is mostly Crate Paper, found in my scraps.

Here's the cover:

I stamped these flowers using PTI ink: canyon clay, stamped off, then harvest gold and then canyon clay, full strength.

For these roses, I used PTI ink: ocean tides, stamped off, then aqua mist and then ocean tides , full strength. The leaves were stamped with spring moss ink. For the top one, I stamped off first, but for the bottom, I stamped full strength both times.... and was quite pleased with the results!

I told Austin that on his page, I put the saying "You and I just click." He looked puzzled. "What do you mean, click?" he asked. "Like a mouse?" Ah, yes, the computer generation! LOL!

For the flowers on Jonah's page, I used PTI ink: aqua mist, stamped off, then aqua mist full strength and then Hawaiian Shores. I love my new Modern Alphabet dies--- you'll be seeing them a lot on my future projects!

For Sage's roses, I used PTI ink: sweet blush, hibiscus burst and raspberry fizz.

And for my final page... look how wonderfully the middle size bloom from lovely layers fits in the fabulous frames frame!

This afternoon, after lunch, I watched Nichole's video for the Tie-Dye Techniques. Since I don't have any copics or shaving cream, I went with the Dye Ink technique and made this card:

I used PTI cardstock (stamper's select white, aqua mist, simply chartreuse), buttons, twine, and half & half stamps and dies.

We were invited to Cameron's uncle's 80th birthday, so I made the above card in mind for him, but I also thought using Shutterbug Special could be cool (who knows... maybe he used to have a camera like that!), so I used Ashley's homemade stitched embellishment ideas for the Homemade Embellishments challenge and stitched on my tag that I made with using the end half of the Tag Sale #5 die.

I used PTI cardstock (rustic white, hawaiian shores), stamps (shutterbug special, tremendous treats birthday) and dies (shutterbug special). The patterned paper is Echo Park (text) and Pink Paislee (suns).


I added the little pull out diecut with a little surprise on it...

I let Cameron choose which card to give. He liked the camera, but was worried they wouldn't see the small print to pull out the "photo", so we gave them the tie-dye card instead.

Well, I'm off to make some friendship bracelets with Sage...

Thanks for looking!

Conservation challenge

Well, the good news is I picked up my PTI goodies this morning, so I was able to assemble my stamp sets and create some projects using them.

The bad news is that my friend, Susan, wasn't feeling well, so she never came over to stamp with me.

I spent the afternoon, after putting away my stamps & dies, working on two challenges. I decided to tackle the conservation challenge and earned my badge...

... by making a card using only the following supplies:

STAMPS: Natural Beauties only (we were allowed to substitute, if needed, so I used my new The Sweet Life set-- which, by the way, is fabulous!)
PAPER: Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse
RIBBON: Hawaiian Shores Bitty Dot (I didn't have any of this, so I substituted some ribbon from my stash)
BUTTONS: Simply Chartreuse
We were also allowed to use dies, so I used my The Sweet Life dies, as well as my Simple Stripes impression plate.

I used PTI cardstock (stamper's select white, aqua mist), stamps (the sweet life), button, twine, impression plate (simple stripes) and dies (the sweet life).

I'm not sure if it works to link this project for the ribbon challenge, too, because I used Dawn's bow tying technique on this card (this time completely on my own, with no help from Sage!)

The other project that I worked on was the mini-book challenge.... which took me forever! I finally finished it this evening, but it's too dark to take photos, so I'll post it tomorrow.

Thanks for looking!

The first couple of challenges

I wanted to share what I've made so far for Stamp-a-faire at Papertrey Ink....

Here's the card that I made for Nichole's make & take:

I used PTI cardstock (rustic white, raspberry fizz, vellum), stamps (all about you, happy hydrangeas), buttons and button twine. The baker's twine is My Mind's Eye.

And then, for my first badge...

I created two projects using ribbon. For my first one, I used Melissa's knotted ribbon technique.

I used PTI cardstock (raspberry fizz, sweet blush), stamps (all about you), dies (beautiful blooms II #2). The patterned paper is Bazzill, the ribbon is Offray & the decorative brad is My Mind's Eye.

And then, I used Dawn's technique for making a ribbon bow (but I ended up getting a little help from Sage, who put her finger down on the ribbon for me.)

I used PTI cardstock (stamper's select white), stamps (modern wood mats), buttons, twine & dies (happy day). The patterned paper is Teresa Collins, the ribbon is from Dollarama & the title diecut is My Mind's Eye. Oh and the little bicycle stamp is Hero Arts.


Here's are a few close-ups:

Thanks for looking!