Baby girl card

The first thing I bought when I found out I was having a baby girl ( almost 3 years ago!! Eek!! ) was a pair or ruffle bottom tights. They are my absolute favourite!

So when I came across a card on Pinterest with a ruffle bottom I kicked myself for not thinking of it sooner. And them figured out how to easiest create the look.

I used PTI's onesie die and cut the top off.
Some ruffled ribbon- mine happened to be elastic, so I backed the piece with chipboard so it won't bend and bow.

Doilies, pink polka-dots and ruffled bottoms. That's what little girls are made of!

Fabric card fronts

Amber at Damasklove made some awesome fabric stationery and I had to give it a try.

I laid down some fabric on a card front that had been covered in scor tape. Trimmed the fabric and ran some liquid glue around the outside. When dry, I had to cut it down as I used the green Tombow that dries tacky- whoops!!
So I re ran a but of regular glue around the edge. Used PTI's Stiched Sentiments and a sentiment from WMS fancy phrases

Some SU pleated ribbon that is not baby blue as shows up, but a beautiful dusty aqua seemed appropriate.

The nice thing about this technique is that the stamped parts sink into the adhesive a little more than the rest, giving it almost a letterpress texture! Beautiful!

Have a great weekend!

Wedding card

This card = labour of love !

Lots of punched branches, lots of glue and sticky fingers, lots of snipping with scissors and a whole lot of love.

Special wedding card for a special couple. Used some hoarded products ( silver edged notecards, blue shimmer cardstock ) and I lived! Imagine that!!

Monday mood board at Wplus9

I love the colours Dawn posted on her mood board this week - http://www.stampawaywithme.blogspot.com. As soon as I saw the colours I pulled out my clay and silicone molds and made a ton of little embellishments - I'll be well stocked in these colours lol!

So I made a beautiful card and realized that it didn't have any Wplus9 products on it!! Kids were still sleeping so I had a chance to make a second- phew!

I used Wplus9 Chantilly Trim and their scalloped die on the bottom of the first (second ;) card. I also made a bouquet out on one of the elements from that set with a bit of masking. Some clay flowers and a little ribbon bow. Messed up some stamping and covered with a banner.

The second card uses a fun Kraft chipboard price I picked up at Michaels. Some MME patterned paper ( ummm, for some reason it rang up for a penny. I may or may not have gotten a few more packs!) and ruffled ribbon from SU. Another big crush!! Sentiment is from PTI's half and half

Thanks for looking!!

Best laid plans

We all fell sick here last week and so I did not get to complete any more of the PTI anniversary challenges. Even worse - I didn't win the year of free stamp!! Oh well

I wanted to show the card I made hubby did valentines day cause it was really fun to make!! Used lots of PTI dies on it..email me with any questions!!
thanks!

PTI YOF card

Ok that post tittle will only make sense to PTI fans lol!
Ahhhh Friday night. Kids in bed, a little glass of fruity wine and some crafty time- pretty close to perfect!!

This card was inspired by some beautiful wallpaper, and Kara's recent watercolor stationery.

I stamped and embossed YOF carnation into some textured cream stock. Water coloured the label with worn lipstick distress ink and outlined it with my signo uniball gold pen. Some little embelishments, and a sentiment from YOF violets.

This was a lot of fun to make. Thanks for the cool technique Kara!!!

PTI Challenge #1 take 3

Lots of fun creating this one !
I was inspired by Maile and her use of white space which is really intimidating to me..but I compromised by using lots of white lace ribbon instead.
One pop of colour, some shimmer cardstock ( something else that reminds me of Maile) and a little pearl button later- all done!

I think I've started a real lavender moon kick. I almost never use this colour, and this grosgrain is the only ribbon colour I have in it, but its really crept up on me. I'll definitely be using it more often!

More Festivities

I caught a few more minutes to make a card on the busiest day of the week in our household...yeah me!!

I used Heathers printable to make a name day card. It's a celebration that's very common in orthodox Christian faiths. It's a celebration of the feast day of the saint you were named after. Back in the old days in the village, seldom did anyone remember the date you were born ( hence no b-day's) but they knew when the feast days were so you got to have a celebration at least. History lesson over lol!

Back to the card, oh my gosh I'm in love!! I would buy this stamp in an instant!

PTI blog hop

Not a lot of time today ( just happy I had time to make the card!) So here's a few things I learned.

1. I hate the Fiskars swivel fingertip knife. A lot. It may or may not be residing in my garbage can.

2. There's something funky about my red embossing powder. Even with the embossing buddy it left a red film of powder on the paper that was hard to get off.

3. I love ruffled ribbon.

4. That shower stamp from Scattered Showers is my most used stamp EVER! It needs a good cleaning as I can barely get it to stick to my block...

Thanks ! Have fun hopping!!

MIM #98 with Papertreyink

Oh my goodness I'm in love!! Blogging from my phone in the middle of the night while nursing a newborn is the easiest thing ever!!

Here's a card I scraped up very quickly ( cause my crafting time is that limited lol!!)

I placed some grey lace washi over the yellow chevron paper- should have placed it closer together now that I look. This is my favourite way of changing pattern paper and I'm going I use it more frequently!
I used the blackboard technique and made a little frame with wooden paper from Michaels.
Stamp and ribbon is SU. Card stock and ink is PTI.

Shower

Whoops !! Sorry for the absence, but I'm back at work and in the real world after my maternity leave.....and stamping time is hard to come by !

I'm actually sacrificing sleep to stamp. And I LOVE my sleep so that is a real indicator of how calm this hobby makes me !

Anywhoo...on to the card.

Had to create a shower card for a customer. This card uses some MME lost and found paper..it is SUCH a pretty line. I rarely use this much pattern paper- or this little stamping!- on a card but it felt right.

Rose Red and Kraft - my new favourite colour combo !!

I emphasized the ribbon around the dummy's waist with some glitter and an i-rock pearl. Paper was stamped with an SU punch, and ribbon is SU kraft seam binding.

Stamps in the upper corner are PTI scattered showers.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day !

One....or Eleven

I was asked to make a card for a little girls first birthday, and told that they had bought her a tea-set.

I thought it would make a great theme for a card...till I remembered I don't have any teacup stamps. So I purchased a digital image from SU and used it in their MDS software.

First I re sized it and repeated it for a background. I printed that onto some MME Lost and found patterned paper. Then sized them larger for the focal point

Then I thought about some teacup cupcakes I had seen floating around blogland...and the rest of the card just went along!!

Felt is PTI, the frame is and embossing folder from SU that I ran through a few times to make it smaller. Ribbon is SU seam binding.

When I showed my hubby the card he says to me......

So who's turning 11 ??

!!!!

The greatest cards...

Are the ones you make for the people you love.....when good, happy, deserving things come their way

This card was made for a cousin of mine for a very obvious congratulatory occasion.

Kraft layer was embossed with an SU embossing folder, and sponged with some white ink to emphasize the embossing.

Dies are PTI, stamps are PTI Congrats all ways and Mat stack 1, and WMS Flourishes scallops and dots.

Ribbon is some MS decorative tape I've had F-O-R-E-V-E-R !!

Flower is from my clay flower making spree this summer.

Thanks for looking !!

Bookmarks...

It may sound silly, but one thing I was looking forward to as my little guys started school was baking treats for his class on special occasions.

Sadly...there is a no treat policy at his school and I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do (lip glosses and pencils from the dollar store ??)

So a few weeks ago when Joyce sent me a beautiful Owl bookmark I was saved ! Totally cased her design, and thankfully crafty friends had the Owl Punch from SU and PTI's bookmark die for me to borrow...

These were done surprisingly quickly. I sent the circle and pinking circle from Limitless layers through my big shot together.. and instead of gluing the itty bitty eye centres I used a white gel pen.

Also, I cut the strips of paper to an approximate length before punching them out to conserve paper and avoid a bunch of punched out shapes I didn't need.

Vasili loved them, his classmates and teacher loved them, and he loooooved handing them out on the playground !!

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger - Partial to Teal

Hello Blogland and thanks for joining me today for Moxie Fabs Tuesday Trigger...the prettiest trigger ever ! I love love love teal, snap it up in any variation, from any manufacturer. This card was made with Paper Source's peacock - LOVE- and the lace border was stamped with WMS"s Victorian Fripperie.

The flower was made with some Maya Road ruffled ribbon, and the little rose in the middle was made to match by myself with polymer clay. Black base is PTI, as is the merci.

And, JUST for fun, I thought I'd show you some more teal and black fabyness! This is my new camera bag from Jo Totes (thanks hubs!!).

It's made to fit a SLR, and while I'm sure I will use it for that, because it has customizable inserts, I thought it would make a fabulous, organized, mommy-of-two-on-the-go bag!

Look at that interior in all it's organized glory !!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving is a special weekend around here (Canadian thanksgiving weekend that is!).

We celebrate our wedding anniversary, as well as our sons birthday (he was born on our one year wedding anniversary...down to the hour !)

So I guess I should say we celebrate my sons birthday..and only remember our anniversary in passing!

This is the bright and cheery card I made for hubby. Used some cool pp from AC, the Amy Tangerine line. Card stock is Amuse, Stamps and die cuts are PTI.

Some random rick rack to kinda represent guitar strings...and a fun wood grain guitar.

Off to be thankful for my many blessings.....don't forget to count yours!!

Kids Cards

Hello I'm back today with a couple of kids cards. Really quick and really simple - but that doesn't mean not just as special!

Both these cards are for 2 year olds....don't want to spend TOO much time and effort for something that may be .... accidentally ....destroyed.

So, I like to keep some special little touches that kids might appreciate on hand - namely stickers.

On the girl card I used PTI paper and some MME stickers....even on sale these buggers aren't cheap!!

I used Edgers 3 to make a little hill, coloured some alpha stickers pink and used a PTI tiny tag on the ribbon. The most time consuming thing about this card was remembering how to set the eyelet with my crop-a-dile! Don't use it often enough!!

Next a cute little monster card. I used various MME papers from lime twist line (fly a kit I believe) to make little patterned scallops.

Cut a Mat stack out of PTI Hawaiian shores, and matted a scallop circle of Terracotta Tile.

More cute little stickers..and a grosgrain ribbon.

So a couple of little kid cards that were quick and easy..going to a couple of my favourite littles !!