CAS-ual Friday's Mostly Monochromatic

Hello,

Today i have a card for CAS-ual Friday's challenge. The challenge is to use a monochromatic (3 colors) plus 1 color (brown). To add to my Christmas stash i decided to make a Christmas card.

I was actually was going to use different stamps, squares actually, but when i tried to add them to my card with the ribbon and bow, my card just wasn't big enough. So instead i used the string of lights. I stamped the cord in brown ink. Then for the lights i used a dark and a lighter greenish/blue ink. To get the 3rd (lightest color) i stamped it off once before stamping my card.

I tied a brown and silver bow across the top. I stamped the sentiment sending holiday joy in brown also. Last i added some liquid pearl to the middle of each light.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Holiday Lights
Ink: Studio G, Color Box
Ribbon: Unknown
Liquid Pearl: Ranger (i think)
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Rustic White

Papertrey Ink's September Blog Hop

Hello,

Welcome to Papertrey Ink's September Blog Hop! This month there is another photo for inspiration:

I really like the lines in this picture. To me it was kind of retro, especially with the gold doors. So used the these lines as my inspiration.

For my card i used double sided tape and my craft mat to lay down the the lines. Then i used red glitter on the outer rectangle and green on the inner rectangle.

Next i used the Christmas Label Stamp set and die. I used the die with pattern paper and stamped the matching label in a red ink. I stamped Holly Jolly in green with fun below it in black ink.

To spruce up the label i added stickles glitter around the oval the label makes with clear glitter and with green make to dots at each end. Last i adhered it to the card with pop up dots!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Rustic White

Stamps: Christmas Label

Die: Christmas Label

Ink: Studio G

Pattern Paper: Unknown

Glitter: Art Institute, Stickles







Make It Monday # 31 - Make a Background

Hello,

Today i have a card i made for PTI's Make It Monday. This is a birthday card for a coworker who's birthday is this week. The MIM challenge is to use a regular stamp as a background. I used 2 stamp's from the same set.

I started with a purple pattern paper and stamped the background with purple ink. Then i punched a border along the bottom edge. Next i punched some holes at the top left corner and along the right side. I also distressed the edges with ink.

Next i cut a die shape from card stock and stamped a border in the shape. In a very light purple i stamped Happy Birthday. Next i used PTI's new Bloom Builders #3. I added a white button to the middle and adhered it to the top corner of the die cut. Then i added a few rhinestone and last adhered this to the card with pop up dots.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Garden Variety, Fillable Frames #4
Dies: Papertrey Ink: Fillable Frames #4, Bloom Builders #3
Ink: Studio G
Cardstock: PTI's Rustic White, Coredinations
Twine: http://www.etsy.com/shop/swanandshears
Button: Unknown
Rhinestones: Recolections

Make It Monday - Thank You's

Hello,

Whew what a week!! Classes started this week, plus i had to finish a wedding gift, go to the wedding and at work we went paperless this week. I am so glad i get a day off tomorrow!

Today i have 2 cards, both thank you cards. The 1st one is for PTI's Make it Monday. The second is for a coworker who donated tickets for a silent action we have been having at work to raise money for breast cancer. The 1st card is for the coworkers mother who also donated tickets.

I used the marigold from Year of Flowers Collection, stamping them in brown ink on rustic cream cardstock. I colored them colored pencils and distressed the edges. Then i matted this on dark orange paper and sewed around the edge with brown thread. I wrapped twine around this and adhered it with a button. I stamped thanks three times on a tiny tag.

Next i adhered the rectangle to a autumn pattern paper with pop up dots. Then i adhere this to my card base.

For my next card i cut the guitar out of red, black, blue, green and orange cardstock. I used versamark and iridescent embossing powder on the black guitar. Then i stamped a modern red rectangle and stamped thanks inside. Next i used a couple different stamps to make the background, using white ink on black cardstock. I added a strip of pattern paper with sheet music.

I adhered the guitars over the sheet music with pop up dots and add the sentiment to the bottom right.

Have a great holiday!!

Dana

Supplies:
Marigold Card
Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Year of Flowers Collection, Mixed Messages
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Rustic Cream
Ink: Studio G
Colored Pencils: Various
Twine: http://www.etsy.com/shop/swanandshears
Buttons: Unknown
Pattern Paper: Unknown
Tag Punch: Martha Stewart

Guitars Card
Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Boys Basic Rock On (and die), Grunge Me
Ink: Memento
Pattern Paper: Unknown
Cardstock: Papertery Ink, Rustic Cream

Make It Monday & a Card

Hi,

Today i have two cards, one is this weeks Make it Monday and the other i made for this months PTI blog hop, but ..... With work and classes starting tomorrow (Yikes!) i forgot to get the post ready. I already had plans Thursday night and couldn;t get it up in time, so i've added the card below today's MIM. So today's post is a little long! :)

The MIM challenge this week is to color free style. I experimented with a few different stamps and markers. I ended up with some prismacolor markers and a spider web stamp from PTI Halloween Tags.  I used orange, green and purple to color the spider web.

I used a little spider from another stamp in the set, and cut him out. I added thin black ribbon to the circle for the spider to 'hang' from. The the top of the circle i added  a tiny bow. I adhered the spider on a pop up dot at the end of the ribbon.

I made the cardbase from black cardstock and added a white faux stitching around the front. Next i adhered the circle on pop up dots. I did this 6 times to make a card set, but forgot a card when i took the pics! :)

My next card i intended for the August PTI blog hop. I really liked the dark pink in the photo. I used some pink cardstock and stamped the strawberry in versamark ink and embossed them. Next i added Stickles to each strawberry. Above this i stamped a twinkle background in green on white cardstock.

I added a strip of green ribbon across the card and stamped 'are so sweet' in black ink. I wanted to do something different then the traditional bow. From a length i of ribbon i made 3 loops. I used a stapler to secure. Then i made another 3 loops with another piece of ribbon.  I used the stapler to secure both sides together and used a small piece of ribbon to wrap around the middle. Then i added a big matching button to the middle and topped it off with a chipboard U.

Have a great day!!

Dana

Supplies:
MIM
Stamps: Papertrey Ink, 2009 Halloween Tags
Die: Spellbinders
Ribbon: Offray
Makers: Prismacolor
Ink: Stazon

August Blog Hop
Stamps: Papertrey Ink,  Fruit Fusion: Berry, Background Basics, Twinkle, Wonderful Words Additions
Ribbon: Offray
Ink: Versamark, Studio G
Embossing Powder: Unknown
Chipboard: Unknown
Glitter: Stickles

CAS-ual Fridays - Embossing

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Today i have a card for CAS-ual Friday's Challenge. This weeks challenge is embossing ... any kind of embossing. I went with dry embossing. I used an wood grain embossing folder on brown card stock. Then i used brown ink to add a little distressing to the embossing.

I stamped some cute little acorns in brown. For the acorn cap i used a bronze ink, then added brown on top. These little acorns are so cute!!. I layered the top acorn with a pop up dot and added a brown rhinestone.

I then used a flag to for the sentiment: nut'n better then a friend like you. Behind the acorn and sentiment i added a brown sparkly ribbon to run horizontally across the card. I then layered this embossed rectangle with pop up dots on a cardbase.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Autumn Acorns.
Dies: Papertrey Ink, Autumn Acorns
Embossing folder: Wood grain, The Paper Studio
Ink: Studio G, Color box
Ribbon: American Crafts
Rhinestone: Unknown

PTI's Make it Monday - Glitter Die Border

Hello,

Today i have a card i made for PTI's Make it Monday. The technique is to make a glitter border with a die. The die i used was one of PTI's tags. I lightly traced around the die and did the glitter border in a white glitter.

I die cut the tag and stamped the snowflake squares. I used 2 different inks, because i didn;t have the green/blue color that matches the pattern paper. Then i stamped the sentiment from the same set in a dark grey.

For the top of the tag i used twine to make a 'loop bow'. I folded the twine back and forth, kind of like a zig zag, but holding one end as i coiled the twine. Then holding one end of the loops tight i flattened the other ends in the middle to see if i had enough loops to get a flower shape. When i was happy with it, i used the extra twine to wrap around the end that i was holding. I threaded this through the hole the tag has. To help flatten the flower i added a snowflake brad through the middle of the flower. The brad was too blue, so i inked some green over it to get the green/blue color.

Last i wrapped some twine along one side and adhered the tag on pop up dots. Flower does hid the glitter border a bit at that side, but you can still see it along the top and bottom of the tag.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Supplies:
Papertrey Ink: Tag Die, Take Three: Winter, Rustic White Cardstock
Glitter: Art Institute
Pattern paper: Unknown

Twine: http://www.etsy.com/shop/swanandshears

Brad: Unknown