Another set of cards

When I brought this set of thank you cards to church this morning to give them to my pastor, I showed them to my friend, Val. She really liked them and asked if I could make a set to give to her SIL for her birthday. So I figured I'd keep the same idea as the first set, but change the colours of the patterned paper I used.

So, again using this idea by Betsy Veldman (to attach strips of patterned paper to a sheet of 8.5x11 cardstock and then cut it apart to make four cards) and this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures, I made two cards this evening.

Here's the first one:


I used PTI cardstock (vintage cream, stamper's select white), stamps (Turning a New Leaf, Happy Trails (sentiment)) & dies (Mat Stack #5 & Turning a New Leaf). I also used Crate, My Mind's Eye, Bo Bunny & Fancy Pants patterned paper.

And here's the second card:


I used PTI cardstock (vintage cream), stamps (Leaf Prints, Happy Trails (sentiment)) & dies (Mat Stack #5 & Leaf Prints). I also used Crate, Fancy Pants, Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye and American Crafts patterned paper.

Thanks for looking!

Fabulous.

I wanted to see if I could create a layout for this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures. It was actually a little tricky, because of the size of the papers for trying to run them through my Cuttlebug.

So I had to get a little creative. Nothing wrong with that!

Here's what I made:


I used Papertrey cardstock (leaf green, kraft and soft stone), stamps (Wonderful Words), impression plate (Woodgrain) and dies (Half & Half & Seeing Stars.)

Pretty simple, but I'm happy with it.

Thanks for looking!

A card and a layout

I made the following card for this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures , as well as for Vannessa's Papertrey Princess Challenge: to make either a "hot" or "cold" colour card.

I decided to go with hot. ;)

I decided to make a card for my daughter, just a little something to tell her how delightful and fabulous I think she is, thinking specifically of something that happened yesterday...

Here's the story:

I had gotten a thank you card from my pastor for translating the sermon for a congolese pastor who came to visit our church several weeks ago. When I showed the card to Sage, she exclaimed: “That’s a Christmas card!” because, well, it was, complete with pine bough and gold bow.

Well, last night, I was making a set of thank you cards and showed them to Sage. She asked who they were for and I said “Pastor Konrad.” To which she immediately said: “Because of the Christmas thank you card?”

LOL! We are so in sync, I love it!

Then she topped it off by adding: “If someone gave me a Christmas card for my birthday, I’d kill them!” (Which sounds terribly harsh, but your facial expression and the way you said it was just absolutely priceless!)

So here's the card:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (hibiscus burst, stamper's select white and kraft), stamps (Wonderful Words) and dies (Mat Stack #5 & Hanging Out.) I also used Crate patterned paper.

And then, as I was thinking about it, I thought: "Sage now has a card to remember this by..... but I want to remember it, too. I'd better make a layout."

So, I did. :)

I used the left over Mat stack that was punched out of the hisbiscus burst cardstock for the card and the "you are fabulous banner that I messed up on the one side, but it worked to trim it down.


I used all the same product, except I added the PTI Summer Sunrise cardstock.

Thanks for looking!

A set of thank you cards

Today I want to share part of a set of thank you cards that I made for a friend.

I was inspired by this idea by Betsy Veldman to attach strips of patterned paper to a sheet of 8.5x11 cardstock and then cut it apart to make four cards. I also used this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures for all of them.

Here is the first card:


Again, I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (stamper's select white, soft stone), stamps (Leaf Prints & Happy Trails (sentiment)) and dies (Mat Stack & Leaf Prints).
The patterned paper for all of cards are strips of Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye, Bo Bunny & Stampin' Up! that were in my scrap accordion folder and the buttons are from my stash.

And the second card in the set:


Again, I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (stamper's select white, soft stone), stamps (Leaf Prints & Happy Trails (sentiment)) and dies (Mat Stack & Leaf Prints).

And the third card in the set:


Again, I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (stamper's select white, soft stone), stamps (Leaf Prints & Botanical Silhouettes (sentiment)) and dies (Mat Stack & Leaf Prints).

And the fourth card in the set:


Again, I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (stamper's select white, soft stone), stamps (Leaf Prints & Botanical Silhouettes (sentiment)), twine and dies (Mat Stack & Leaf Prints).

Thanks for looking!

Guess who turned nine today...

Here are nine hints:

#1. He was an adorable baby!


#2. He loves going for bike rides.


3. He loves dressing up.


4. He is a great big brother to Sage.


5. He loves dinosaurs (& dinosaur jammies!)


6. He is a great little brother to Austin.


7. He can do a front flip on a trampoline.


8. He was nominated for an award when he tested for his green belt at taekwondo last night.


9. He is just so very wonderful.


That's right, it's Jonah! :)

And here's the birthday card that I made for him, using this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures.


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (soft stone, orange zest and hawaiian shores), stamps (boy basics: game on) and dies (mat stack #1 & seeing stars.)

Thanks for looking!

MIM #25 -- attempt #2

Here's my second attempt at this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures.

In continuing with my "birthday theme" I made this card for Austin's best friend, Soren, who turned 12 yesterday:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (vintage cream), stamps (Boy Basics: Game On & Simple Circles) & dies (seeing stars). I also used My Mind's Eye patterned paper.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #25 -- attempt #1

*I'm editing this post to add that I think this is the ugliest card that I ever made! I wasn't happy with it when I was done and I only posted it in the hopes that I would win that week's MIM (which, obviously is a random draw! LOL!

I'm linking up this card for my friend, Suzanne's Ugliest Card Blog Hop -- such a fun idea for April Fools!

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Here's my first attempt at this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink: Decreasing Apertures.

I had never tried this technique before and found it quite fun.

It's a busy weekend birthday-wise for us this weekend, so I've made a few birthday cards. Here's the first one, which I will be giving to my taekwondo instructor today. (I meant to give it to her last night at our colour belt promotion test, but I forgot-- that seems to happen to me a lot. I love making cards but forget to hand them out!)

I used PTI cardstock (stamper's select white), stamps (text style I, Tranquility Trinity & Communique Sentiments) & die (mat stack #5). I also used a Tim Holtz Alterations die, Prima Flowers, Fancy Pants and My Mind's Eye patterned paper and My Mind's Eye brads.

Thanks for looking!

10 projects in 10 days-- Day 10

For my last "10 projects in 10 days" post, I'm going to end off my little series with something a little different, but super fun nonetheless.

First some background information...

A couple of weeks ago, we were shopping in the city. We were at a toy store in the mall and Sage wanted to show me something that she would like. It was a carrying case for her Zhu-Zhu pets (toy hamsters that make noise and roll around) that looked like a house. The cost was almost $20, I think, but I just said what I usually say when she asks me for things like that: "You can make something like that." This comment got me out of having to buy her the Zhu Zhu village in Spring-- she came home and attached some boxes together to make her own. She's also made her own clothes for them. I love that she is so creative!

Well, she'd remmebered my comment from a couple of weeks ago and decided this week that we should work on it. So, we asked Austin for the shoebox his new runners came in and got to work.

Here's what we made:


This is the front of the shoebox, which was orange. We added a strip of PTI Smokey Shadow cardstock to cover the logo and added some windows and a door. The patterned paper for the door is SU! and we added a little gem for the doorknob.

Here's the inside of the box. We used chipboard for the floors and wall and covered the walls with patterned paper. Because the Zhu Zhu pets are fairly large, I didn't think making furniture would work so well, so we just made it two dimensional and atttached it to the walls. Here are some close ups...

The living room. The patterned paper is Crate and I made the couch with my trimmer, corner rounder and circle punch. I used some pop dots for added dimension.

I cut the frame for the photo with a PTI mat stack #1 die and the image in the middle is from Free Pretty Things for You. Sage also wanted them to have a TV, so made a flat screem out of PTI black and grey cardstock and edged it with PTI fresh snow ink.

The patterned paper in the kitchen is Fancy Pants. The fridge and stove are made with PTI black and white cardstock. I stamped the dials on the stove with a PTI stamp from the Grunge Me set.

I had so much fun making this room! The patterned paper is Fancy Pants. The dresser and bed are decorated with PTI Sweet Love stamps (& I used the same colour ink for all of them-- I'm not sure why they look like different colours in the photo) and I made the vase of flowers with the new PTI Iconic Images set.

In the upstairs bedroom, the patterned paper is Crate and Cosmo Cricket (the wood grain). I made the bookshelf with my Studio Calico stamp.

And that's it.

Thanks so much for stopping by to have a look!

10 projects in 10 days-- Day 9

I'm a little late today. We had Jonah's birthday party here this afternoon. We ended up going to the Manitou pool and had such fabulous weather-- praise God! We'd been praying all week when we saw the forecast was for thundershowers! We ended up having them this morning before 7am instead!

I wanted to share a layout I made of our trip to the Como Zoo last summer. It's a two pager-- quite rare for me, I know, but my zoo layouts are almost always two pagers because I take so many photos of the different animals.

This one came together really easily, with a little inspiration from two different sketches from the June Page Maps.


I used my "new-to me" typewriter to type out the journaling.



And I am loving my Half and Half stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink!

I also used Bazzill cardstock, Bo Bunny and The Girl's Paperie patterned paper, October Afternoon alphabet stickers and my Quickutz Classic Alphabet dies.

Thanks for looking!

10 projects in 10 days-- Day 8

My project today is a layout that I made for this week's challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles, which was to scrap about something that made you laugh.

I decided to scrapbook some funny group photos that I took with extended family when they were all out for a visit at the end of June.

To make my layout, I used a sketch from the Elle's Studio blog:



I used Lily Bee patterned paper and letter stickers, Scenic Route chipboard letters, Papertrey Ink stamps (Delightful Doilies & Postmarks) and my Postmarks die.

Thanks for looking!

10 projects in 10 days-- Day 7

For today's project, I'm sharing a layout that I made about a month ago and for some strange reason, forgot to post, which is funny, because it's actually one of my favourites...

I had won a package of October Afternoon Rocket Age products and was inspired by this quote from one of our favourite children's books to make this layout.


In addition to the October Afternoon products, I used PTI cardstock, Wonderful Words stamps and dies & Webster's Pages red letter stickers.


I selectively stamped some of the words/letters from the Wonderful Words stamps to create the smaller stamped words.

Thanks for looking!

For Sale: stamps, dies and embossing folders

Even though I'm loving stamping on my projects more than ever before, I have some stamps, dies and embossing folders in my stash that just aren't getting the love and attention they deserve. So, I've decided to sell them. I posted pictures of each of the sets below, along with the price. Shipping is extra.

Studio Calico, $3:



SEI, $3:


My Mind's Eye, $3:

Stampin' Up!, $8:


Stampin' Up!, $8:


Stampin' Up!, $8:


Stampin' Up!, $8:


A mixed set, $8:

Tim Holtz Embossing folders, $8 for both:


Cuttlebug dies, new in package, $8:


Cuttlebug dies, new in package, $8:


If you are interested in any of these sets, please email me at pennercl@mts.net.
Thanks so much!

10 projects in 10 days-- Day 6

I have a layout to share for Day 6:

I've been scrapping my photos from our trip to Minneapolis last summer and had to scrap this gem of a photo. Jonah always makes me laugh!

I used American Crafts cardstock, PTI cardstock (sweet blush), Girl's Paperie patterned paper, Sassafras Lass letter stickers, PTI Half & Half die, PTI stamp sets (PostMarks, Journaling lines) and Basic Grey buttons.


Thanks for looking!