Papertrey February Blog Hop Challenge

Hi there!  Today is blog hop day for Papertrey Ink.  If you'd like to see what everyone has created, you can check out the links on Nichole's blog.  This month's challenge was to create an interactive card.  This one took me all morning to create, but I think it was worth the effort! 

Here's the front of the card:

As you can see, I alluded to the fun to come inside!  Here's another look with a peek at the inside.

Ok, now for the fun...open it up and this is what you see...

Fun right???  To make the pop up part of this card, I made slits in the white cardstock that allowed me to fold it forward...similar to PTI's new die that came out last month.  I wish you could see this card in motion, because the flowers move a little when you open it.  They are mounted on acetate strips of paper which are then mounted on the back of the pink birthday sign.  This allows them to move a little more freely.  Here's a closer look...

Thanks for stopping by!  I'd love to hear your comments!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Kraft, White, Sweet Blush, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Blueberry Sky, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse, and Dark Chocolate (whew!!)

Stamps: PTI's Background Basics: Medallions, Movers and Shakers Sentiments, and Happy Day

Ink: PTI's Raspberry Fizz, Classic Kraft and Smokey Shadow

Dies: PTI's Mat Stack 5, Layerz Mat Stack 5, Happy Day, Turning a New Leaf, Block Alphabet Die Collection, Beautiful Blooms II #1 and #3



PTI Make it Monday - Glittered Buttons

Hi friends!  How are you?  It's been a few days since I last posted...sorry about that.  We've just been plugging along around here.  Luckily the weather has been nice lately and the boys have gotten to get outside to play and burn off some of their pent up energy!  I have to tell you about Brady though...he's my middle kiddo.  Bray has had several milestones lately...he has learned to ride his two wheel bike, he has learned to read, and he just today lost his very first tooth!  He's so excited about the tooth fairy coming to visit HIM instead of his big brother!  He also said the funniest thing the other day.  My husband asked him what the Golden Rule was...his response..."Flush and wash!"  How funny is that kid???

Ok, on to some crafty stuff.  This week's Make it Monday challenge on Nichole Heady's blog is to glitter up some buttons and add them to your project.  I have to admit, when I started this card I really had no idea where it was going or where it would end up, but I'm pretty pleased with the final product.  I'm loving the happy colors...time for spring! 

In her MIM video, Ashley Cannon Newell used some silvery Prisma glitter on her buttons (really pretty), but I decided to use some black Martha Stewart glitter I had on hand.  I thought the dark buttons made more of an impact on this card.

Thanks so much for visiting!  Stay tuned for my PTI blog hop post tomorrow!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores, Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart, Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, Kraft and White

Stamps: PTI's Happy Day and Mat Stack 5 Collection

Ink: PTI's Smokey Shadow and Hawaiian Shores and SU's Glorious Green

Dies: Happy Day, Turning a New Leaf, and Beautiful Blooms II #3

Other: Buttons from stash and black Martha Stewart Glitter

Interactive Cards #5

Last one!!  This is interactive card #5.  Quite a while ago, I watched a tutorial on youtube explaining how to make a card like this one.  I even wrote down most of the directions.  However, I can't seem to find the original video I watched.  So....I found a similar one by splitcoaststampers.  You can find it here.

I'm pretty satisfied with how this one turned out...it was pretty early in the evening when I made this one.  My Brady-Joe is 6 and the kiddos in his class are all turning 6 this year, so I'm sure I'll need another 6 year old card sometime soon! 

I like this card because like the first one, it stands up when you open it.  Yep...I like this one.

Thanks again for sticking with me through the past ten days of PTI's 5th Anniversary Festivities.  It's been really fun and I have really gotten some of my creative juices flowing! 

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, Simply Chartruese, Lemon Tart, Dark Chocolate and Pure Poppy, and patterned paper from Lime Twist

Stamps: PTI's Happy Day, Background Basics: Chevron, and Half and Half

Ink: PTI's Snow White and Palette's Noir Black

Dies: PTI's Half and Half, Layers Mat Stack 3, By the Numbers, Seeing Stars and Sweet As Can Be

Interactive Cards #4

Here comes interactive card #4!  This one is a waterfall card for a boy.  I demonstrated the technique on how to construct a card like this on this post.  It is so fun to pull down the tab at the bottom and see the little squares flip by!

My only problem with making these waterfall cards is deciding what to put on the little squares.  If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them! 

Thanks for visiting...again!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Spring Rain, Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart, Simply Chartreuse, Hawiian Shores, and Orange Zest, and patterned paper from Lime Twist

Stamps: PTI's Half and Half, Tag-its #s 10 and 6, Birthdays By the Numbers, and Star Prints

Ink: PTI's Pure Poppy, Snow White, and Hawaiian Shores, and Palette Noir Black

Other: Rhinestone

Interactive Cards #3

Ok, here's interactive card #3.  The interactive part of this one is probably my favorite of the 5, but I'll get to that in a moment.  The front of the card is really simple, and to be honest...unfinished.  As I said in my last post, I was sort of rushing to get a lot of entries completed for the challenge on Nichole's blog, so I sacrificed some details.  I think I'll probably at least go back and add a ribbon to the tag.

Now for the inside.  I watched this great video on youtube that explained how to make these cute little balloons that waved in the middle of a card, and I thought, "Hmmmm, I think I'll do that with letters."  This is how it turned out!  Pretty cute huh?  Take a look at the video for all the details on how to construct the card.

Thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Spring Rain, White, Kraft, Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Lemon Tart, Simply Chartreuse, and Raspberry Fizz, patterned paper from Lime Twist, and clear acetate

Stamps: PTI's Think Big Favorites #2, and Star Prints

Ink: PTI's Hawaiian Shores and Spring Moss

Dies: PTI's Seeing Stars, Tag Sale #5, and Block Alphabet Die Collection

Interactive Cards #2

Ok, so this is my second interactive card for the day.  This one features a technique I demonstrated in this post.

I decided to go with a boyish theme because I'm always needing boy cards with three little guys running around here.  I thought a pop-up birthday cake card would be fun.  I'm not completely satisfied with this one yet...I was really rushing to get a bunch of cards done for Nichole's challenge, and I sacrificed some details in the process.  I may go back and add some "frilly" stuff to jazz it up, but for now this is what it is.

Thanks for looking!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Enchanted Evening, Spring Rain, Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, White and Lemon Tart and patterned papers from Lime Twists's Fly a Kite

Stamps: PTI's Tag-its #10

Ink: PTI's Enchanted Evening

Dies: PTI's Seeing Stars

Interactive Cards #1

Hi everyone!  I'm so sorry friends, but I was WAY too tired to post the specifics about all 5 cards I put together last night!  So tonight, my goal is to update you on how I created each of these 5 little guys (this post and the next 4).  The reason for this creative explosion was yesterday's contest on Nichole Heady's blog.  We were challenged to come up with interactive cards for a chance to win some amazing prizes which included a $500 PTI gift card!  Wellllll....you know me and my PTI, I just HAD to participate and get in as many entries as possible!  I can now however, deliver the unforunate news that I was NOT the winner.  **sniff sniff**  I'm coping though!

So this first card was made using a technique I found on a great youtube video.  For all the mechanical instructions I highly suggest taking a peek at the footage. 

I love how this card slides out and can actually stand on its own once it's finished.  Pretty clever! 

Thanks so much for visiting...stay tuned for the next one!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Dark Chocolate, Ocean Tides, Berry Sorbet, and Aqua Mist and patterned paper from The Paper Studio

Stamps: PTI's Rosie Posie, Think Big Favorites #12, and Background Basics: Text Style

Ink: PTI's Fresh Snow, Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate, and Aqua Mist

Dies: PTI's Rosie Posie and a random heart punch I had (to make the "pull" spot at the bottom of the card)

Other:  Glittery "rhinestone"

Butterflies...but no leaves...

Hi 'yall.  Ok, so I kind of goofed on this one.  You may recall on my last post that the challenge on Nichole Heady's blog today is to incorporate both butterflies AND leaves into a card design.  Welllllll....I kinda forgot the leaves on this one.  This was actually the first card I made for this challenge and I just completely forgot about the leaves.  Oh well, hopefully it's cuteness will make up for it! ;)

Here it is:

Pretty cute, hunh? 

Thanks for visiting again!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Kraft, White, Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, and Simply Chartreuse and Lime Twist Fly a Kite patterned paper

Stamps: PTI's Signature Greetings (really...do I use much else these days?)

Ink: PTI's Berry Sorbet

Dies: PTI's Butterfly and Signature Series Butterfly

Butterflies and Leaves

Hi friends!  Today on Nichole Heady's blog we are challenged to come up with a card that incorporates both butterflies and leaves.  Here's my creation:

Ok, so I know it may not be the most PC thing to do, but I have to say...I LOVE this card!  I love the colors, the layout, the patterns.  I just really. love. it.

Thanks for visiting!  More to come...

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Kraft, Hawaiian Shores, Lemon Tart, and Simply Chartreuse

Stamps: PTI's Mehndi Medallion and Mat Stack 5 Collection

Ink: Versamark and Palette Noir Black

Dies: PTI's Layers Mat Stack 4, Turning a New Leaf, Butterfly

Heart Day #4

Hi 'yall!  This will be my last post for tonight.  Time for me to hit the hay!  This card features the new Heart Border Die by PTI.

I decided to use a little patterned paper for some pizazz tonight.  Shakin' it up 'ya know!!  Can you tell I'm getting tired? :)

Thanks for visiting again today!  Stay tuned for what's to come tomorrow!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Sweet Blush and Smoky Shadow and Stella & Rose Hazel Papers

Stamps: PTI's Signature Greetings

Ink: Versamark

Dies: PTI's Quatrefoil and Heart Border Die

Other: White Embossing Powder

Heart Day #3

Hi again!  I wanted to post some stuff earlier, but we decided to watch "Marley & Me" tonight...can you say saaaaadddd???  Seriously...blubbering!  Anyway, I finally got around to making this card for the challenge today. 

It's a heart made from hearts!  Hearts generally aren't my thing, but I think this one's ok.

Thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz and Aqua Mist

Stamps: PTI's Think Big Favorites #11

Ink: Versamark

Dies: PTI's Heart Border Die

Other: White Embossing Powder

Heart Day #2

Hi again!  Here's my second card with hearts for today. 

This one is super simple, and to be honest, not my fav.  Oh well, sometimes you just don't hit the mark you know!

Anyway, thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, White and Smoky Shadow

Stamps: PTI's Background Basics: Retro

Ink: PTI's Pure Poppy and Versamark

Dies: PTI's Block Alphabet Die Collection and  Spellbinder's Circles and Scalloped Circles

Cricut: Heart from Plantin Schoolbook

Other: White Embossing Powder, Rhinestone

Heart Day!

Hi yall!  Today's challenge on Nichole Heady's blog is to post projects with hearts on them.  A few weekends ago I got to spend a whole afternoon/night at Archivers with my good friend Betsy, and I made a few V-day cards.  I haven't gotten a chance to post a couple of them yet, but you will see them today as they have hearts on them! 

Here's the first:

This one features a new tool I purchased at Archivers called the Sew Ribbon tool.  It allows you to punch slits into your paper to feed ribbon through.  There are different tools with different patterns.  This one, scallop, makes the ribbon look like semi-circles going across the card. 

Here's another look:

Thanks for visiting...more to come!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Kraft, White and Pure Poppy

Stamps: PTI's Think Big Favorites #11 and Background Basics: Houndstooth

Ink: PTI's Pure Poppy and Versamark

Dies: PTI's Half and Half

Other: Red ribbon, white embossing powder, and Sew Ribbon Scallop

PTI Sketch #1

Hi again!  This just might have to be my last card of the night...it's after midnight and I'm fading fast!  I have to say though...I have had the MOST fun tonight!  I have thoroughly enjoyed creating off of the great sketches provided by the PTI team.  This card was inspired by this sketch:

Here's my take:

I love the colors on this one and I'm so glad that I got to use my newest impression plate!  I hadn't had an opportunity to use it before.  Love it!

Thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:Paper: PTI's White, Dark Chocolate, and Aqua Mist

Stamps: PTI's Rosie Posie and Think Big Favorites #12

Ink: PTI's Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss and Dark Chocolate

Dies: PTI's Rosie Posie, Tag Sale #5, and Layerz Mat Stack #1

Other: PTI's Giga Guidelines 1 Impression Plate

PTI Sketch #5

Hi again!  So, I'm totally loving this whole sketch thing!  It really takes a lot of guesswork out of putting a card together, and it allows you to focus on other things like color and which stamps/die cuts to use instead of having to think about EVERYTHING all at one time!  So, here's the inspiration sketch I worked from this time:

And here's my take:

I was originally going to go with a yellow and grey color story, but it just didn't feel right once I got started with it, so I switched to blue and I really love it!  This may be one of my favorite cards yet!

Thanks for visiting again...I'm still going strong, so hopefully I'll get one or two more out tonight!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's White, Spring Rain, Soft Stone, and Smoky Shadow

Stamps: PTI's Rosie Posie, Mat Stack 5 Collection, and Signature Greetings (told you it was my fav!)

Ink: PTI's Berry Sorbet, Studio G grey (found in the dollar bin at Michaels), and Palette's Noir Black

Dies: PTI's Rosie Posie, and Mat Stack 5

Other: Buttons from my stash

PTI Sketch #4

Hi friends!  TGIF!!  I'm so glad that tomorrow is Saturday and I get to sleep in!  Which will be a good thing because I plan to be up pretty late tonight participating in the challenge over on Nichole Heady's blog.  Day 6 of PTI's 5th Anniversary celebration presents us with a challenge to make a card based on one of five sketches.  I'm hoping to participate in all 5, but we'll see how far I get! 

My first card is based on sketch #4:

Here's my take:

I'm loving this color combo!  I decided to try something outside of my normal color box and it feels really good! 

Thanks for visiting, and stay tuned for more...

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Ocean Tides, Aqua Mist, Kraft, White, and Simply Chartreuse

Stamps: PTI's Rosie Posie and Signature Greetings (my fav!)

Ink: PTI's Aqua Mist and Classic Kraft

Dies: PTI's Quatrefoil

Other: Buttons

Pinterest Inspiration #3

Hi again friends!  This is my last Pinterest inspiration project for today.  Here's the photo I started with:

and here's what I came up with:

The words Baby Girl were printed from my computer.  I think this will be perfect for the boutique. 

Thanks for visiting...again!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Vintage Cream and Sweet Blush

Stamps: PTI's Background Basics: Retro

Ink: Palette's Noir Black

Dies: PTI's Butterfly

Pinterest Inspiration #2

Hello again friends!  Here's my second Pinterest inspiration card.  I started with this photo from Pinterest:

and I came up with this...

I used an oval shape and traced around it on the cardstock to make the "strings".  I think it's pretty cute!

Thanks for visiting again!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's White, Raspberry Fizz, and Hibisus Burst

Stamps: Background Basics: Houndstooth, Holiday Photo Finishers, Think Big Favorites #11, and Signature Greetings

Ink: PTI's Raspberry Fizz and Pure Poppy

Dies: PTI's Happy Day

Other: Rhinestones



Pinterest Inspiration #1

Hi friends!  Today's challenge on Nichole Heady's blog is to find a picture on Pinterest and use that as inspiration for a new project.  I have completed several, but I'll be posting them individually. 

For my first project, this was my inspiration photo:

I loved the colors of the fabric here.  They make me think of some wall paper that was in my grandmother's house.  Here's the card I made from this great photo:

This card was so fun to make!  I love stamping my own backgrounds and seeing them come to life right before me! 

Before I leave you, I must ask for some prayers.  My husband has been looking for a new job for such a long time (he has never been unemployed, but the company he works for is awful to their employees).  Anyway, we think he has a pretty solid lead on a new one.  If you have any extra prayers left at the end of the day, I'd really appreciate it if you could send one up for us!

Thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart, Vintage Cream, and White

Stamps: PTI's Beatiful Blooms, Happy Day, and Holiday Photo Finishers

Ink: PTI's Enchanged Evening, Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, and Classic Kraft

Dies: PTI's Half & Half and Happy Day

Other: Pearls

PTI Color Challenge

Hi friends!  Well....it was an exciting day over on Nichole Heady's blog today!  Lots of fun announcements about what's to come this year including new PTI gear and patterned papers!  Tons of fun!! 

Today's challenge was a color challenge.  Each of the DT members gave an example of their fav color combo and we were challenge to create a card inspired by our favorite of the examples.  I chose Danielle Flanders.  Here's her fav color combo:



Here's what I came up with:

As has been my M.O. lately, I wanted to go clean and simple.  I used all four of Danielle's favorite colors and I love how they pop off of the card! 

I hope I did justice to Danielle's inspiration!  Thanks Danielle!

And thank YOU for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI White, Hawaiian Shores, Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, and Summer Sunrise

Stamps: PTI Signature Greetings

Ink: PTI Pure Poppy

Dies: PTI Turning a New Leaf and Bloom Builders #3

Other: Rhinestones

PTI Make it Monday

Hi everyone!  It's late, so I'm going to make this short.  Today's project was made for PTI's Make it Monday which challenged us to use "Double Sided Stamped Die Cuts" on our projects.  I decided to use two cuts made with one of the Half & Half dies.  After stamping both sides of the cuts, I sort of "folded" them over to form a butterfly shape.  I hope this qualifies for the challenge! 

Thanks for visiting!

Kate

INGREDIENTS:

Paper: PTI's Kraft, White, Aqua Mist, and Berry Sorbet

Stamps: PTI's Background Basics: Text Style, Holiday Photo Finishers, Dot Spot, and Happy Day

Ink: PTI's Canyon Clay, Dark Chocolate, and Hawaiian Shores

Dies: PTI's Half and Half

Other: Brown pearls