Dare to be Different

It has been months since I posted but I have been quite busy and now I have plenty of things to show you. Just have to finish photographing them. But here are a few projects to whet your whistle.

This one is a four card set with various phrases using a Verve stamp set. I love how versatile the sentiments are! I used Authentique patterned papers and Papertrey Ink cardstock, inks and dies. What do you think? I am not going to chat long about these - just put them out there for you to see.

A gift for baby

A friend of mine at church is having a baby. Their new little bundle is supposed to be a girl and she is due ANY DAY now! Thank goodness because she has got to be miserable in this heat. Here in Germany we do not have AC so on those couple of weeks a year when the weather gets HOT - we are sweltering and just trying to stay cool.

Anyway, on to the gift I made for her. First off the packaging is a PTI box that they send their stamp sets in. I wrapped it with some patterned paper and finished it off with Sweet Blush ribbon and some old organza. I added a tag out of PTI Pastels patterned paper and a white doily {heart my cuttlebug and PTI dies}. And again I added a strip of patterned paper to the tag.

I made a set of 12 Thank You cards for her and packaged them up in one of my PTI boxes. The card base is impressed with the Parisian Doily, then I added a Doily Details die cut (made 4 of each design). In the center of the Doily Detail die cut I added a punched circle stamped with Tag It's vine circle and little flower bouquet. Finally I stamped thank you in the center of it all and stamped 1/2 the vine circle and the little flower bouquet on the envelope so that it all coordinates.

Using the Parisian Doily and Tag Sale Dies again I made a Welcome Baby card. Not sure if I like it or not. May go back and redo it. I used a sentiment from Round and Round stamp set and another Tag Its circle (this time the lacy one) and added some coordinating buttons and another strip of patterned paper to tie the card with the gift packaging. For the final step I added wrinkled ribbon and spritzed with Black Cherry glimmer mist (this is the step I am not sure I like).

That is all for now! Hope you enjoyed it.

Thank You Cards - CASEd

Today, I am posting some thank you cards I made. I based them on Betsy Veldman's card found here - the last sample. I kept pretty close to her card except that I added the little swatch of patterned paper at the bottom of the card. And I chose a bright patterned paper for the top. I also used 2 different sentiment stamps than she did. I made these in a rainbow of colors.

I found it nice and relaxing to just copy her work and change it up a tad.

All supplies used are Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Another order and some bookmarks.

The same friend who ordered the Thanksgiving cards also ordered some notepads for a ladies retreat she was going on. This is what I came up with. I tried to create each one different but along the same theme so they will still look unified if laid out on a table together. All supplies used were from papertreyink - from the patterned paper to the actual notepads and the stamps used.

I thought they turned out pretty cute with the addition of the rhinestones and ribbon tying it shut. What do you think?

Another friend asked me to help her make some bookmarks for her MOPS group. We wanted something bright and cheery. So we used some patterned paper I had in my HUGE (hoarded) stash. NOTE TO SELF: use patterned paper don't just love it and look at it. We also used some glimmer mist glitter sprays, felt flowers we made and some wrinkled seam binding that I dyed myself. Turned out fun don't you think?

If you see something you like or would like to place an order just leave me a comment and we can decide on the what and hows.

Thanks for looking!

A Thanksgiving Order

Recently a friend asked me to make some Thanksgiving cards for her. I really enjoyed making these cards. I used PTI Wreath for All Seasons for the main image. I stamped it in Terracotta Tile and Summer Sunrise. The sentiment came from Waltzingmouse - Teeny Trees stamp set. I wrapped the image with Terracotta Tile satin ribbon. I used my Woodgrain Impression Plate on the base layer of Terracotta. As a final step I added a die cut made using Banner Borders and then spritzed the cards with Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels.

I also lined the envelopes using the Autumn Abundance paper pad from Papertreyink.

for the banner borders I used either Dark Chocolate cardstock or Scarlet Jewel.

Finally

I finally had time to get some crafting done. Not only done but photographed and on the blog as well. Blogger has been acting up for me and my internet connection here in this little German village is quite slow (can take literally hours for photos to upload). So it has been a little disheartening to even TRY to blog about my crafting time. But here, AT LAST, is proof that I have gotten some things done. I also have some partially done crafts sitting on my table waiting patiently to be finished and photographed. Hopefully, I will be blogging on a regular basis again soon! Enjoy and let me know what you think...

Little gift tags I helped a friend make for her daughter's teachers' gifts.  We used PTI Tag Sale die, Love Lives Here butterfly Die, Double-Ended Banner Die, and Tiny Tags Die & Stamp set.  Other stamps used were WaltzingMouse - Musical Backgrounds, Text background & Frame it stamp sets. 

Not sure why Blogger keeps rotating my photos.  At any rate here is a shot of all three king-sized Hershey bars and their decorative wraps.  Also used Martha Stewart doilies...

I have been making bits and bobs of crafty things so that when the time comes I can throw a card or gift together.  I had made the little tag previously and it took just a moment to throw this card together.  {again frustrated with the rotation but after loading three separate times and all are rotated I stopped trying}

Another one of those little Bits & Bobs - All PTI products used here:  Wonderful Words dies, Love Lives Here Dies, Spiral die and Happy Trails stamp set and one of my many impression plates.

Wonderful Words dies and Additions Stamp set {love how versatile this set is) and another lovely Love Lives Here butterfly as well as another Tag Sale die.

Can you tell I am loving the Wonderful Words dies & Additions stamp set?  Keep it out on my desk (obviously I also keep Love Lives Here dies out as well.)  Websters Pages ribbon and PTI Spiral Die again.

A friend of mine asked me to make her daughter's piano teacher a card.  Here is what I came up with.  I really really like it!  What do you think?  PTI supplies are Botanical Silhouettes and Tiny Tags stamp sets, WM Musical Backgrounds, PTI Sweet Symphony patterned paper, Berry Sorbet and Kraft cardstock, Martha Stewart Doily again, SU! taffeta ribbon, PTI Envelope & tiny tags die.

Wonderful Words and Love Lives Here AGAIN as well as the Canvas IP!

Wow - long time no POST

I can't believe it has been over 2 months since I have posted. Way way too long.

Today I was playing with the shaving cream technique. I only have a couple of pigment ink reinkers (which don't work very well for this technique) so I decided to try to use my glimmer mists. Worked beautifully... I just opened up the spray bottles and added some drops to the shaving cream and I spritzed a little onto the shaving cream. I love how this turned out. I am working on a swap so I needed 8 cards. I used PTI's Rustic White as the base for the shaving cream and Melon Berry as my card base. I used the 2010 Anniversary set (Botanical-Silhouettes) from Papertreyink as my stamp set and Dark Chocolate and Melon Berry ink for the flower silouettes.

Here is the finished product.  What do you think?