Some card kit cards

I have three cards to share today for the Crafty Peeps Card Kit Club. This month, our kits were prepared and sent out by Jennifer Ellefson. She chose some masculine colours and elements, so I made three masculine cards.

My first card uses all elements from the kit, with the exception of the wooden word embellishment and the blue button (those were from my stash.)

I asked my kids if any of them wanted me to make a father's day card for them to give to their dad. Austin said I could, so I used the orange elements from the kit, along with the stamped frame, which I added some twine and button to, before adhering it with dimensional adhesive.

And last.y, I made this card, using the medallion die Jen included, as well as the pretty stamped herringbone background she sent. The craft cardstock was mine, as well as the Crate Paper journaling card. The sentiment was a sticker that Jen has put on my bag of goodies. I peeled it off carefully and added it to the medallion she sent.

This kit club has been so fun! Thanks again, Jen, for the wonderful kit you put together!

I'm also linking up these cards for this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Masculine/Father's Day cards.

Thanks for looking!

A couple more flagged borders

I have a couple more projects that I made using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Flagged Borders that I want to share today.

The first is a layout that I made using this Page Maps sketch:

I looked through my photos, but couldn't find any the right size that were vertical, so I decided to rotate the sketch 90 degrees. I used some American Crafts cardstock and Crate Paper patterned paper and slide frames. 

I loved how perfectly the first photo of Jonah & Sage fit in the little slide frame! You can also see my journaling here, which I decided to just have on the one side.

For my title, I diecut some Lemon Tart cardstock using my Papertrey Ink Modern Alphabet dies. It's hard to tell in the photo, but I stamped the letters using the sunset image from my new WMS My Island set.

I stamped the same WMS image on another piece of Lemon Tart cardstock and then stamped over it with this image from Mama Elephant's Wanderlust stamp set.

I created my flagged border along the side of my photos by diecutting the Crate Paper patterned paper with my Double-ended Banner die and my Get a Handle On It banner die. I stamped the confetti image from PTI's Birthday Style set twice, in lemon tart and classic kraft.

I repeated the confetti stamp near my title, which I created using Fancy Pants alphabet stickers.

Next, I made a card for the 10 minute craft dash #19:

The challenge was the colour combination on the photo's flagged banners, Here's the card I made, using some Crate Paper patterned paper (again, I know.)

I used the same dies as on my layout to created my banners and a stamp from PTI's Birthday Style. And the best news.... I succeeded in making it it less than 10 minutes-- on my first try! Woohoo!

Here's my time:

Thanks for looking!

Things that make me happy

I want to share a layout that I made for the June Challenge on the My Mind's Eye Blog, which was to use the following photo as inspiration for a project.

I felt like there was a lot going on with this... design, colours and elements that we could include, so I did my best to include as many as I could into my layout.

I used American Crafts cardstock as my base and added some My Mind's Eye patterned paper. I was mindful to include some dark grey and white stripes and florals, as well as the colours suggested (although I chose more of a coral colour and a red, rather than the orange colour, of which I had little in my MME stash.)

I also took the basic design of the first part-- the grid-- and made a blocked design on my layout, putting my photo in the space of the large photo at the top.

For my title, I used PTI's Wonderful Words: Additions (stamps and die), along with my new Get a Handle on It die to make the flagged banners. Because I layered two of these for my title, I thought I'd enter this for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Flagged Borders.

And, with the inspiration photo including a bike, I had to include a bike using my new Pedal Pusher stamps and dies. The square above the bike includes part of a MME journaling card that I trimmed off and added to the patterned paper background. I stamped on it with my date stamp to give a time frame to my journaling.

And along the bottom, I made a little vellum pocket in which I tucked my journaling: a list of things I've enjoyed over the past week. On the front I stamped a flourish from PTI's Modern Wood Mats and "inside" from Movers and Shakers Sentiments. I folded a piece of PTI white cardstock and wrote on the front and back. Here's a glimpse at the back. Sorry for not sharing the front, too.... but it contains some good news that I got this week that I can't share quite yet. ;)

Thanks for looking!

Create: Sketches -- Sketch #2

As I mentioned in this post, I'm challenging myself to create a layout and a card using each sketch in the Create: Sketches book from Northridge Publishing. So, today, I'm sharing the projects I made using Sketch 2.

So, firstly, here's the layout I made using the sketch. I was mostly inspired by the borders along the top and bottom of the page. I decided to switch the long banner they had along the top of the page to a smaller flag banner, for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Flagged Borders.

I used American Crafts cardstock and mostly Crate Paper patterned paper (the yellow and white chevron right under the title is MME).  I used my PTI double-ended banner die and get a handle on it banner die to diecut my flags. On the third flag, I stamped a sentiment from Waltzingmouse's My Island stamp set.

My title was stamped onto my layout using Ali Edwards' Incred stamp set by Technique Tuesday. I used a little Tim Holtz paper clip.

Here's a close-up of my journaling:

I used two more stamps from the WMS My Island set to create this embellishment, which I slipped under a Crate Paper slide frame.

And while I had my Crate Paper goodies still out on my table, I made a card using the sketch. Again, I focused on the borders along the top and bottom and made another flagged border using the same supplies as above. I stamped the sentiment from PTI's Movers & Shakers sentiments and added a few MME enamel dots to finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

A little encouragement

I was working on Monday in Sage's class (what a treat!) A woman from my church was also subbing in the class as a learning assistant. I love this woman! She is just wonderful! I've had the privilege to attend a couple of conferences with her and have so enjoyed travelling with her.

As we were chatting, she shared that she was wondering if she should stop teaching Sunday School to the preschoolers at our church, saying that she didn't feel she was good enough. I was shocked! She has taught all three of my kids and I've been thrilled that she has done so. So, I spoke some words of encouragement to her (which she said she appreciated.)

But sometimes, a card is in order...

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock and stamps -- I combined a sentiment from Movers and Shakers Sentiments and We Go Together-- and die (edger's #3). I used some Crate Paper (floral) and My Mind's Eye (chevron). And the feather was made by stamping a Clearly Besotted Fancy Feather stamp over the CP floral patterned paper and heat embossing it with white embossing powder and fussy cutting it out.

I'm looking forward to giving it to her at church this Sunday....

I'm linking this up for this week's Trigger Tuesday at Moxie Fab World: All Sweetness and light.

Thanks for looking!

One sketch, two layouts

Today, I have a couple of layouts to share that I made using a sketch at Page Maps. It's for a challenge where we were encouraged to make either a boy or a girl layout with the sketch.

So, here's the sketch:

And here are the two layouts I made with it, using Fancy Pants patterned paper.... and photos of my best girl. ;)

The first layout uses patterned paper from the Park Bench collection.

I used my PTI Edger's #3 die to diecut some Fancy Pants patterned paper. On this, I stamped a sentiment from Mama Elephant's Smitten stamp set.

 

In the challenge blog post, Stephanie was saying how it's a challenge sometimes to find something to replace the flowers in the sketch (especially for boy layouts!) but for my first layout, I just had to fussy cut some flowers from that gorgeous patterned paper! I stamped some leaves using PTI's Turning a New Leaf stamps directly onto the background....

.... and using the diecuts here.

I added some MME enamel dots as well as some decorative brads (the yellow ones are Teresa Collins from She Said), the blue one is Basic Grey and black one is MME.

I journaled on a Becky Higgins PL journaling card. I cut out my title on my Silhouette using Fancy Pants patterned paper (I love how FP put coordinating solid colours on the backs of their patterned paper!)

And for my second layout, I used Trendsetter patterned paper and stickers. Oh, and I flipped the sketch.

I told Sage that I hadn't scrapbooked a list of her "favourites" in a while, so she agreed to write it out for me. We numbered the list using Fancy Pants number stickers. Isn't her printing sweet?

And since, she had "riding her bike" and "dogs" on her list, I decided to switch out the flowers on the sketch for a bicycle with a puppy in the basket (I used my new PTI Pedal Pusher stamps and dies to make it, and I added a couple of MME brads to the wheels.)

The love sticker below the bike is also FP, as is the "her" alphabet stickers. For Faves, I diecut some FP patterned paper (the navy on the back of one of the sheets), using my PTI Headline Alphabet dies.

Thanks for looking!

Birds of a Feather

Today, I'm sharing a card that I made for the latest Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World: Feather Weather.

I love the white feather on the grey background and the gold beads wrapped around it. So I decided to incorporate these into my card.

I started with some Echo Park patterned paper. On the reverse side of the striped patterned paper was polka dots. I stamped the large feather from Clearly Besotted's Fancy Feathers set onto it in Versamark and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I cut it out by hand and adhered it to my card. I added a sentiment from the CB set, as well as some twine and buttons (both PTI). I mounted the patterned paper panel to some PTI rustic white cardstock using dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking!

Such a cutie

Today, I'm sharing a layout that I made for this month's Pages With Papertrey Challenge, which is to stamp on something other than cardstock. This could mean stamping on patterned paper, vellum, cork, chipboard, etc.

For my layout, I decided to stamp on some Scenic Route chipboard letters that I've had forever! I think I bought three packs of these when they first came out!

For my layout, I used My Mind's Eye patterned paper & enamel dots, as well as some American Crafts letter stickers (for the "such a").

I stamped on my chipboard letters using a Mama Elephant stamp (I know it's not PTI-- sorry!-- but this stamp matched the patterned paper so perfectly!) and versamark ink, which I heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I love how this turned out!

I did use some PTI cardstock (summer sunrise & pure poppy), along with the banner die from Get a Handle on It. The sentiment stamp is Mama Elephant, too.

If you choose to play along with this month's challenge, please link your layout either here in the comment section on my blog, or here in the Papertrey Ink Forum.

Thanks for looking!

May Creative Weekly, part 3

I have one more project to share for the May Creative Weekly Challenge on the Crate Paper Blog: Summer Splash. Once again, I used some of Crate's newest line: The Pier.

I decided to switch my Photo Tray for summer... I filled each opening with either a black and white photo from last summer or some Crate Paper patterned paper.

I cut my title on my Silhouette from Crate Paper patterned paper and mounted it right on the frame.

For the first opening, I layered a Crate Paper slide frame over a tag and added a PTI button and twine. The little popsicles were cut from some Crate patterned paper. For the second opening, I layered a Freckled Fawn wooden embellishment over a Crate journaling card. The photo is one of Jonah & Sage playing on the new play structure at Sage's school.

In the top opening, I stamped on a Crate Paper tag with a sentiment from PTI's Fabulous Frames. To the tag, I added a PTI button, twine and a Flair badge. Below that, I added a slide frame to my photo (one of my favourites from last summer, taken at our beach).

In the bottom corner, I stamped on a Crate tag with a CTMH stamp and added another PTI button, twine and Flair button.

Again, I added a slide frame (I love these!) to my photo of Austin & Sage at the Corn & Apple Festival  and in my last opening, I stamped "sunshine" from one of the Framed Out #3 stamp sets by PTI. I again added some PTI twine and a button. I also added a few MME enamel dots.

Thanks for looking!

May Creative Weekly, part 2

In my kitchen, I have a shelf. On this shelf, I like to display a project in a frame. For the last couple of years, it's been a Bible verse printed on some MME patterned paper.

However, I'm longing for summer. On Tuesday, I decided to change up some of the decor in our house. I took away most of the candles and other knick knacks and put out some summer themed items. And, I was inspired to change what was in the frame.

I printed up some favourite photos from a trip to the beach last summer (you might have noticed them on this layout here). But I love them so much, I decided that I'd love to have them on display for the season.

I decided to use some of Crate's newest line: The Pier and create something for the May Creative Weekly Challenge on the Crate Paper Blog: Summer Splash.

Here's what I came up with, using Crate Paper patterned paper and slide frames.

I layered the frames over all three of my photos. That blue matches the blue I have in my kitchen-- I love it!

For my journaling, I took some lyrics from my new favourite song: Every Good Thing by The Afters. I created my title and cut it out with my Silhouette Portrait, using that yummy Crate Paper woodgrain patterned paper. I'm so glad I bought two sheets of that right away!

I added a few banners I made diecutting some words on the Crate Paper patterned paper with my PTI double-ended banner die, which I embellished a little with MME enamel dots. (Wouldn't it be great if Crate started making these to coordinate with their lines? I'd love to have some in this green, that blue and off white, that soft yellow....)

I should mention that the "this" banner is from Elle's Studio, which I cut down to fit on my layout.

And here's how it looks on my shelf....

I wasn't even thinking about the wall colour when I chose the background paper, but look how well it coordinates! Love that!

Thanks for looking!