PTI Challenge Day 5- Take 2

Here's my inspiration for this second project:



I needed a tag for a baby shower gift for a baby shower that's coming up in a few weeks. The mommy has requested books instead of cards, but I still needed to make a tag to purty up the package!!

Here's my take on it:

The baby's room is going to be a pretty combination of pink, light gray, and white, and I'm going to make a pretty wall hanging with the baby's name on it, and I have also been commissioned to make a banner for the baby shower. This tag matches all of these!! It's not really that visible in the photo, but the white square has a really pretty shabby chic print stamped on it. It's most visible in the bottom photo. The text was done with the cutest little font set... Avery Elle's Lovely Letters. I loved the white on gray of the initial inspiration photo, and the tiny roses and lace... swoon! Those were the elements I tried to capture in my tag project. What do you think?

Back soon for installment 3! :) (Tolja I was busy today!!)

Supplies:
Dies: PTI Wine Bottle Tag, LL: Squares; MFT Royal Roses
Stamps:Maya Road Doilie border; Flourishes Vintage Wallpaper background stamp, Thinking of You; Avery Elle Lovely Letters
Card Stock: Avery Elle Fog; PTI White, Raspberry Fizz Bitty Dot PP, Sweet Blush Bitty Dot PP; pink shimmer card stock from Hobby Lobby
Ink: PTI Raspberry Fizz, Sweet Blush, Fresh Snow; Memento Tuxedo Black
Miscellaneous: vintage lace trim, Sweet Blush buttons, Jillibean Soup gray and white twine

PTI Anniversary Challenge- Day 5

 Hi! I've been a busy little bee today... Cranked out 4 projects today, and they were all pretty darn detailed! The challenge today is to create some kind of wrap, tag, or gift packaging and decorate it inspired with a photo from Pinterest.

Here is my inspiration photo.

I used one of the PTI tins to make my version of the project. I promised a different color combination than my usual shabby chic combo of pink and some sort of blue, so here's some yellow and gray for you to feast your eyes on!

Project 1 of 4! Back momentarily!

Supplies:
Card stock: PTI Harvest Gold, Flourishes Daffodil, Avery Elle Fog, TC Carolina Breeze, shimmer vellum from Hobby Lobby
Dies: PTI MS4, LL:Circle; Lifestyle Crafts doily and doily border, Spellbinders rose
Stamps: MS4, 2011 Holiday Tags
Miscellaneous: Zing! Mustard, Flourishes Daffodil seam binding, Soft Stone buttons

Inspired by Melissa...

A friend asked me to make a Valentine for her 13 year old daughter to give her friend for a Valentine gift exchange. I figured this would be a good opportunity to get another entry in for the PTI Anniversary Day 1 challenge, this time inspired by Melissa Phillips.

I chose the project on the top left from which to work. I loved the stamped panel on the right coupled with the big flowers. My friend wanted a sentiment on the card, so I just shifted the flowers off to the side. 








I was also inspired by this photo from Pinterest:

I know, I know, it's aqua and pink again, but I changed it up a little with the charcoal and the chevron! I used a lot of different stamp sets on this one, from various companies. I think they all worked pretty well together! The sentiment on the front is computer generated, printed onto MFT Cotton Candy card stock. Everything was popped up on the card front to add plenty of dimension, since she's hand-delivering this.

I promise, my next offering will be a different color combo. I had leftovers that were waiting to be used up on my desk, but I promise, something different is coming! And NO Rosie Posie. I think I'm in a Rosie Posie rut... No more! Thanks for putting up with my color rut! :)

Supplies:
Stamps: PTI- Rosie Posie, Chevron, Pretty Peonies (frame); Market Street Stamps Doily; Avery Elle Lots of Love
Dies: Rosie Posie (PTI), Spellbinders Matting Basics
Card stock: PTI White; Avery Elle Fog, Sea Glass; MFT Cotton Candy
Ink: PTI-Fresh Snow, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Aqua Mist

Double Dipping...

Hi again!

I'm double dipping for two different challenges: the PTI Anniversary Day 2 challenge and the CARDS Blog inspiration sketch challenge.

The PTI portion of the challenge came from this freebie download:

The CARDS portion of the challenge looked like this:

Here was my take on both:

I love that Dark Chocolate, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse combination. In order to remain in keeping with the square CARDS inspiration sketch, I made a 4x4 card. I did some heat embossing on the Spellbinders Labels 1  die cut, put the printed graphic on a die cut doily, pop dotted the whole thing, and voila! Not a ton of stamping, but that's okay sometimes.

Thanks for checking out the fruits of my craft nook!

Supplies:
Card Stock: PTI Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse, Dark Chocolate, White
Stamps: PTI Vintage Labels
Ink: Versamark, PTI Fresh Snow
Dies: Spellbinders Labels 1, Lifestyle Crafts doily die
Miscellaneous: Zing! Embossing Powder in teal, freebie PTI graphic

And so it begins...

The Papertrey Ink 6th anniversary festivities have begun!

For the first challenge, we were asked to choose a project from amongst the favorites of the DT. I chose to work from one of Dawn McVey's cards.

I decided to use the middle project on the left side. Something about the layout really appealed to me. I needed to make a valentine for my mom, and this is what I came up with:

I used Turning a New Leaf instead of Harvest Berries (since I don't own that one), Rosie Posie instead of Natural Beauties (because you can never have too much Rosie Posie), and the hexagon border from Rosie Posie instead of the polka dots. I'm sure you're getting sick of my aqua/pink/white color scheme by now, but I'm definitely not. I used Avery Elle Sea Glass CS for the base and MFT Cotton Candy CS for the pink accents. The Sea Glass is a really pretty shade of pale, pale aqua. It's got a bit more blue in it than Aqua Mist, and it's a bit paler. I really love it!! The Cotton Candy is a medium pink, in between Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry Fizz. I've been exploring other avenues for CS to try to fill some holes in my PTI color spectrum, and I'm really pleased with everything I've gotten for the most part.

The valentine stamps are from Avery Elle's Lots of Love set. I thought it was whimsical and fun, plus it has a few sentiments on it that are just perfect for my cute hubby!! I can't wait to make his valentine, but I won't be able to show it till after Vday, since he reads my blog. :) The little heart trio was so cute that I just had to include it on the card, so I thought of it as little sprays of berries amongst a bouquet of garden roses, and the fact that they are hearts ties in that pesky "Valentine's Day" theme.

Thanks for checking out my project!!! I'd love it if you decided to become a follower. :)

Supplies:
Card Stock: PTI White, Avery Elle Sea Glass, MFT Cotton Candy
Ink: Ocean Tides, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Aqua Mist
Stamps: PTI Rosie Posie, Turning a New Leaf; Avery Elle Lots of Love
Dies: PTI Rosie Posie, Spellbinders Matting Basics, Lifestyle Crafts lacy border
Miscellaneous: Copics for shading

Another MIM post!

Sheesh. I'm ridiculous. Four posts in one day?

Well, I saved the worst for last. This one is my least favorite of all of the projects I've done in the last couple of days. I used the herringbone background stamp on the favor it poppers box to comply with the regulations of the MIM, as well as the Sweet Life and the new Everyday Photo Finishers. I'm not sure what I will put in this or to whom I will give it, but it did give me some practice putting the box together!

Supplies:
Card stock: PTI Spring Rain, white
Stamps: the Sweet Life, BB: Herringbone, Everyday Photo Finishers
Dies: Favor it box-Poppers, the Sweet Life, Photo Finishers
Miscellaneous: ribbon from my stash.

Lilacs...

Oh, spring.

We have a lilac bush in our backyard that smells divine when the lilacs are in bloom.

Right now, however, it looks like a pile of sticks.

So I thought, for the birthday card for my BFF, I'd make a pretty lilac card with my Flourishes Lilac stamp set. (Lilacs also happen to be her favorite flower.) I covered the focal panel with the large lilac image from the stamp set, colored in the images, and then took the lilac titles from the stamp set and stamped them in Fine Linen, to further create that vintage feel. 

I tried to create something feminine, lacy, and vintage-y.

I did something a little different with the panel behind the lilacs... I embossed a white lace pattern with white embossing powder on a piece of PTI Vintage Cream card stock. Then I took the PTI Tea Dye Duo and did a bit of emboss-resist, to make it look like a piece of vintage lace.

I embellished the side with a lavender seam-binding bow and some lacy border cut from a Lifestyle Crafts border strip die.

The interior was finished with a sentiment from PTI's 2012 Birthday Tags and Flourishes' Lace Borders set, to tie in the "feminine" theme. I am really loving this pretty jade-ish green and Winter Wisteria color combination.

Well, thanks for stopping by!! I'm off to work on some more vintage-y cards for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge! :)

Supplies:
Card stock: PTI Winter Wisteria, Vintage Cream; Flourishes Color Made Easy Pistachio
Stamps: Flourishes' Lilac stamp set, Antique Lace background stamp, and Lace Edges stamp set; PTI Happy for You and 2012 Birthday Tags
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, PTI Winter Wisteria, Fine Linen, and New Leaf, PTI Tea Dye Duo
Dies: Spellbinders Matting Basics, Lifestyle Crafts border strip (came with a set, so it doesn't have its own name)
Miscellaneous: Flourishes Crocus seam binding, twine from PTI, Winter Wisteria button from PTI