MIM #17 -- attempt #6

Here's my sixth attempt at this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass, as well as being a layout I made for several challenges at the MSS June online crop :


Here's a close up of the tag I made with the cracked glass technique:


I used Bazzill cardstock, Pink Paislee chipboard letters, patterned paper, packaging and die cuts, & PTI cardstock, twine & buttons. To create the tag, I used Papertrey Ink stamps from the Tag It's #4 set.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #17 -- attempt #5

Here's my fifth attempt at this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass:


This one is very similar to my attempt #4 , but for a reason. I'd stamped the image from Attempt #4 onto white cardstock and while it was cooling from the UTEE, I used my woodgrain impression plate & Mat Stack #1 die on a piece of white cardstock. However, when the UTEE was cooled and cracked, it looked more cream in colour, so I impressed a piece of cream cardstock instead. Not wanting to waste the white cardstock I'd impressed, I decided to make a fifth attempt at the MIM challenge.

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock: Raspberry Fizz & white cardstock, Woodgrain impression plate, Mat Stack #1 die and stamp & my Beautiful Blooms II die and stamps from Tag it's #3.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #17 -- attempt #4

Here's my fourth attempt at this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass:


This one is very similar to my attempt #5, but for a reason. I'd stamped the butterfly onto white cardstock and while it was cooling from the UTEE, I used my woodgrain impression plate & Mat Stack #1 die on a piece of white cardstock. However, when the UTEE was cooled and cracked, it looked more cream in colour, so I impressed a piece of cream cardstock instead. Not wanting to waste the white cardstock I'd impressed, I decided to make a fifth attempt at the MIM challenge.

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock: Raspberry Fizz & Vintage Cream cardstock, Woodgrain impression plate, Mat Stack #1 die and stamp & a sentiment from the Botanical Silhouettes stamps set. The butterfly stamps is SU!

Thanks for looking!

Five for Friday

1. We've had lots of cool, rainy weather lately. But on Wednesday, we saw the sun! And, it was my day off, too, so I made the most of it and worked in my yard.


I'm currently downsizing my perennial beds and have been busy transplanting what I want to keep, putting down some landscaping fabric and adding woodchips. The kids and I went to the town yard Wednesday and filled eight garbage bags full of wood chips. I spread them out that evening and still need more! Hopefully, I can get this project finished for/on the weekend...
I took these pictures yesterday morning, before the clouds arrived.

2. I posted another Spring Sketch on the MSS blog today.

For this week, I chose the Crate May 2011 edition sketch and made this layout with it:



I used Crate and American Crafts patterned paper, American Crafts thickers and Basic Grey & PTI buttons and the Papertrey Ink Simple Circles stamp set.

3. We're having our monthly online crop this weekend at MSS and here are some layouts that I've made to go with challenges I'm posting...

This layout is for my challenge to create a layout with a two word title:

I used Bazzill cardstock, Crate patterned paper, Pink Paislee letter stickers, Basic Grey & PTI buttons, the Papertrey Ink Simple Circles stamp set and a My Mind's Eye brad.

4. This layout's challenge is to create a layout using complementary colours :


I used Bazzill cardstock, Echo Park & My Mind's Eye patterned paper, a MME sticker, a MME key, Creative Cafe stamps ("a" & "good"), My Favorite Things die & stamps ("I'm so Grateful for you"), Papertrey Ink felt, PTI twine and PTI Beautiful Blooms II dies. The word "brother" was made with my Quickutz Classic alphabet dies.

5. And this challenge is to be inspired by a layout you've made to make a card..

The other evening, I had lots of fun getting out my new Wonderful Words dies and stamps (I swear I was almost giddy as I cut out my first word!) I made this layout, using a favourite photo of one of my favourite people:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock, a PTI Wonderful Words die and stamp, my PTI Woodgrain impression plate, & a PTI button. The patterned paper, brads and die cut (adore) is all My Mind's Eye. I tucked the journaling behind the photo and attached it to the MME die cut to pull out and read.

After making the layout and seeing the patterned paper scraps lying there, I decided to "lift" myself and make a card:


I used My Mind's Eye patterned paper and Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words die and stamp & Woodgrain impression plate.

Happy Friday, everyone!
Thanks for looking!

Scrapping Everyday Miracles Blog Hop

Welcome to the Scrapping Everyday Miracles Blog Hop!

When I first heard about the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog, I thought that it was a great idea-- offering challenges to scrapbook the everyday miracles in our lives. My faith is very important to me and it's something I definitely want to share with others, especially my children. Providing prompts to scrap the little things that make up our faith, turn our attention to God or give chances to thank or praise Him-- it's very cool. AND, if that wasn't enough, there's also a scrap technique to go with each one. I'm so excited to be a part of this design team-- I think it's going to be great!

I wanted to share a layout I created. It's titled, appropriately enough, "Everyday Miracles."






I used Inspired Blueprints Sketch #74, My Mind's Eye patterned paper, Papertrey Ink cardstock, Woodgrain Impression plate, buttons, twine and stamp sets (Text Style I, Botanical Silhouettes and Beautiful Blessings-- that quote is just so perfect!) The alphas I used are Pink Paislee and the "everyday" is a Creative Cafe stamp that I heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Here's how the hop works:
All you have to do is visit each of the DT's blogs for inspiration, become a follower and leave a comment. There are RAKS to win along the way and if you leave a comment at each blog you could win our grand prize!!!

There are tons of chances to win!
Our Grand Prize is sponsored by Sweet Peach Crop Shop ....


You can check out the Kick off post on the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog for the DT line up.

Next up in the Blog Hop is Roulien.

You have until Sunday June 5th @11:59pm PST to post your comments at Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog as well as commenting on each DT members blog. Winners will be announced Tuesday....

Don't forget to come back Monday for our First Challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

MIM #17-- attempt #2

Here's my second attempt at this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock, the Mat Stack #4 die & Botanical Silhouettes stamps.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #17 -- attempt #3

Here's my third attempt at this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock, Fancy Flourishes and Botanical Silhouettes stamp sets & Mat Stack #5 die. The buttons were from my stash.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #17-- attempt #1

When I first saw this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Cracked Glass, I thought I wouldn't be able to play along, because I don't have any UTEE. But then my friend, Mandy, sent me an email saying that I could have some of hers (she knows how much I've enjoyed playing along with the MIMs!)

So, here's my first attempt, keeping in mind that this technique is completely new to me:


I used Papertrey Ink cardstock, dies from Mat Stack #1 & #5, Fancy Flourishes stamps, the sentiment is from the Botanical Silhouettes stamp set and I used my woodgrain impression plate. The butterfly stamp is SU!

Thanks for looking!

MIM #16-- attempt #3

Here is the third card that I made this afternoon for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #16: Sympathy cards, again using my new PTI Wildflower Garden stamp set. (You can see the first card I made here and my second card here.)


I also used PTI cardstock & twine and did some more masking. The sentiment is from the Think Big Favorites #3 stamp set. The background stamp is from Text Styles I.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #16-- attempt #2

Here is the second card that I made this afternoon for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #16: Sympathy cards, again using my new PTI Wildflower Garden stamp set. (You can see the first card I made here.)


I also used PTI cardstock and did quite a bit of masking. The sentiment is from the Botanical Silhouettes stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

MIM #16-- attempt #1

It's a little late in the game, but I decided to make some cards this afternoon for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #16: Sympathy cards.

Here's the first one that I made, using my new PTI Wildflower Garden stamp set:


I also used PTI cardstock, twine & button. The sentiment stamp is also PTI, from their Think Big Favourites #3 set.

Thanks for looking!

Five for Friday

1. I took a couple of days off this week. On Wednesday, I drove down to the States with my friend, Susan, to pick up our Papertrey Ink order. Then I spent the last two days reorganizing my stamps using this system. I love how it turned out and am looking forward to using it.



2. I also pulled out all of my inks and organized them into colour groups to restamp them into my book.




I left some spaces to add some new inks (not that I really need any.... ;) )


The second page in this photo is a print out of this Colour Swatch from Papertrey Ink. It's a nice reference for putting colours together.

3. I babysat in the morning for friends' 17-month old. Jonah asked me before he left for school if I knew how to change a diaper. I said: "Well, let's do the math... I had three babies who all wore diapers until they were over 3. With an average of 4 to 5 diaper changes a day, I think it's safe to say that I have changed over 15000 diapers!" That made his eyes go big! Ha!

4. I should have been working in my garden this week, while it was sunny, instead of organizing my scrap goodies (see #1 & #2) and now it's raining.... oh well... what can you do? ;)

5. I posted a Spring Sketch layout on the MSS blog today using Inspired Blueprints Sketch #73:


I decided to rotate the sketch to use it for my layout. I used My Mind's Eye & The Girl's Paperie patterned paper, Papertrey Ink dies, Studio Calico, PTI, SU!, AL & Hero Arts stamps, Basic Grey alphabet stickers & SU! build a brads.



Thanks for looking!

Playing along with the...

This month's theme is flowers, which suited me just fine, because I got the 2010 anniversary set: Botanical Silhouettes on Sunday.

I decided to make some thank you cards for my Sunday school volunteers & I managed to get five done last night.

For all the the cards, I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (pure poppy, ocean tides and dark chocolate), twine, buttons, the anniversary stamp set and a stamp BB: Text Style I set. I also used Bazzill cardstock (kraft) and some Fancy Pants patterned paper.






On this one, I added some clear Smooch to the centre of the flowers.




I painted some Smooch over top of the blooms on this one, too.


And had some fun with masking on this one.

Thanks for looking!

My stamp & dies books

Several weeks ago, inspired by this post, I made a couple of books to help me keep track of my stamp & dies inventory. I thought I'd share them with you, today.

The books are basically the same... They are both 6"x5.5" made with plain white cardstock and chipboard covers, attached together with a binder ring.

For my stamp book, at the front, I have a list of my inks (note, I'm expecting an order of new ink and once I get it, I want to redo this list, in the order of the rainbow.)




The following pages contain all of my stamps, stamped into it with black ink. I have my sentiments stamps sets...


And my images...


I find that this book really helps me when I'm looking for a certain stamp, or just basically reminds me of what I have.

For my dies book, I have my alphabet dies...




...my shaped dies & punches...




... my embossing folders...


... and my impression plates.


Again, this helps me to keep track of what I have. On each page of the book, I've labeled what everything is.

Another cool thing that I can do with these books is use them together, to see what stamps fit with which dies...

For instance, I was thinking of using the top image of my SU! Bliss set...


And wondered if it would fit on my Mat Stack #5 die.


So I took the page with my die and layered it over my stamped image, like this.


And could see how well it would fit.



Thanks for looking!