Like yesterday’s blog hop, it’s been awhile since I participated in the CPS Sketch challenge. This week’s sketch reminded me that I had a couple packages of the American Craft Flairs that I hadn’t used. I still have some scraps of AC “Dear Lizzy” papers as well so I decided to get busy tonight and get a card made for this week’s sketch.
Here’s my take on it:
Everything is by American Crafts except the pink mat paper from my scraps file and the ribbon from my stash.
Tonight is the monthly Blog Hop sponsored by Papertrey Ink. I missed the last two so I was glad to be able to participate in this one. It also gave me an opportunity to get out some of my new die cuts and the beautiful felt that Papertrey has begun to sell.
And here’s my take on the challenge:
Cardstock: Ripe Avocado & Vintage Cream (PTI); patterned paper: DeLovely (Cosmo Cricket); stamps: Blooming Button Bits (PTI); dies: Beautiful Blooms 3 & Rickrack (PTI); felt: Raspberry Fizz & Vintage Cream; rhinestones: KaiserCraft; ink: Raspberry Fizz (PTI).
I finally got the Copics I needed to finish this card from the class I took several weeks ago using Copic markers with Prisma colored pencils. This is my favorite of the three we made that day, and the only one we didn’t have time to finish coloring. I wish I knew a little boy to send it to!
Since I didn’t choose the papers for this card, I can’t credit the manufacturers for any of the card elements.
We’ve finished all the “must do” items on our list before Sarah and Adam arrive tonight. They fly into Buffalo at 11:10 tonight. I hope they’re on time since Tracy and I were wide awade at 5:00 this morning. It’s only 8:00 their time so they’ll be chipper! 🙂
After exercise class this morning I got to work on three cards that needed to be made. The first is for my BIL & SIL’s anniversary tomorrow. Since they’ll be here for the family party on Thursday I’ll give it to them then. I saw the punched heart technique in a magazine I was browsing through at Barnes & Noble when we were keeping warm there on Saturday night, so I can’t give credit for it. The mat on the focal panel is actually green, but came out really dark in this photo.
Card base: Impress; patterned paper: Scenic Route and unknown scrap; sentiment: Saavy Stamps; heart gem: A Muse
The next is a sympathy card; the message is on the inside.
Cardstock: Select White and Sweet Blush Papertrey Ink; embossed cardstock: Creative Imaginations; flower dies: Papertrey Ink; pearls: Michael’s; silk ribbon purchased from Ellen Huston
Yesterday I got an early birthday gift from my friend, Mary, when we went out to lunch. It’s this beautiful berry bowl. I have nothing like it and navy blue, red, and yellow are my happy colors.
I had lots of fun making this thank you card for her.
Cardstock: Bo-Bunny & PTI New Leaf; patterned paper: Bitty Dots PTI; label and chipboard: Cosmo Cricket “Garden Variety;” alpha stickers: October Afternoon.
Here’s the inside of the card:
Patterned paper strip: Cosmo Cricket; alpha stickers: Adorn It.
A question for anyone who has a Typepad account. In my draft, all the images in this post are centered, but none of them are in the published version. Any ideas why?
Before our power went off yesterday, I got two cards made
for the Moxie Fab “Three Cheers for Chairs” challenge. For the first card, I debossed the chair to create the dotted
pattern and then colored it with Prisma colored pencils. I’ve wanted to try
this ever since I got the stamp nearly a year ago.
Cardstock: Lemon Tart
by PTI; patterned paper: October
Afternoon “Thrift Shop,” button twine: PTI; distress ink: PTI; stamp: Memory Box; ribbon: Paper Source; scalloped
punch: PTI; flower from stash.
The next card is for friends of ours who are celebrating
their anniversary this week. It gave me a chance to use my new “Chair-ished”
stamps from Papertrey that arrived last week.
Cardstock: True Black & Vintage Cream PTI; patterned paper: Lush MME; stamps: Chair-ished PTI; computer-generated sentiment, heart from stash.
Happy Mother’s Day from wintery Rochester! Yesterday a cold
front blew through taking with it our power and pulling down limbs and branches
all over the city. We still didn’t have power this morning and the RG&E’s
estimate was maybe by midnight tonight. Last night we ate dinner Buffalo Wild Wings,
and then headed over to Barnes & Noble. We hung out there until 9:30 when
we finally came home. Thanks to our camping lanterns we could read
in bed until we got sleepy.
This morning we woke up to SNOW!!!! I have to admit it put
me in a pretty unhappy mood. I really hate being cold (the house was down to
58° before we left for brunch), and I still have a lot on my “to do” list before Sarah and Adam get
here—all of which requires electricity. Ah, well.
Here’s the Mother’s Day card I made for my mother-in-law:
Cardstock: Dark Chocolate PTI; patterned papers: Jillibean and October Afternoon; stamps: Just Rite and Papertrey Ink; ribbon: Pure Poppy PTI; Spellbinder’s Oval Nestability & Standard Tags
With Tracy’s sister, Jill, and her family, we took Ellie & Bill to brunch today. As we were leaving the street, an RG&E man told us it would be tomorrow before we’d be back online. Jill and Tom have a generator, however, and Tom was headed our way with it, when suddenly we had lights—and most importantly, heat! It was an unexpected and great Mother’s Day gift. Hope your day has been filled with happiness and family.
We’re madly trying to finish up some household and major cleaning projects before Sarah and Adam come next Tuesday. Yesterday the plumber was here for three hours and made some much needed (and overdue) repairs to both bathrooms. We couldn’t find appropriate fixtures for a 80 year old house in the city, so our plumber recommended a supply store in Livonia. The owner was very knowledgeable and we got the porcelain handles we wanted. On our way home, we stopped at the garden and got a lot of work done there. I cultivated the whole plot while Tracy weeded and mulched the paths around our plot. It still needs work before we can get plants in, but it looks a lot more like a garden than it did. Tracy’s working on washing windows, painting the medicine cabinet doors, and I’m in the midst of cleaning.
Thank goodness for our battery-operated Black & Decker cultivator. It would have been a lot harder with a spade!
After working on some projects at home, Nancy and I went to Image City to see a new photography show and out to lunch. When I got back, I had time to make two cards, one for a friend who has just had major foot surgery (artificial joint replacement) and one for a young friend of ours who’s birthday is Tuesday.
Stamp: Lockhart Stamps & Papertrey Vintage Picnic Sentiments; patterned paper: A Muse & scraps; Copic markers
Stamps: Paptertrey Ink Enjoy the Ride & A Little Argyle; cardstock from scrap files; buttons: PTI & stash.
This was my first attempt to use both Enjoy the Ride and A Little Argyle. I love both sets, but would have redone some of this if I had had time. It’s going to take a bit more practice than I’m used to having to do.
Saturday my friend and I drove to Buffalo to take a class on using Copic markers with Prisma colored pencils. I’ve been using Copics for about a year now after taking a Copic Certification class last February. I’ve had Prisma pencils for years. It never occurred to me to put the two together. The instructor was quite knowledgeable, but had a tendency to want to “do it for you.” Nonetheless I learned quite a bit. We completed two of three cards she had planned, and I have most of the coloring done for the third, but am waiting for an order with new Copic markers to arrive before I finish it. The images the instructor chose are very different from the stamps I use and own, but they were great practice vehicles.
I have no idea who the manufacturer of this stamp is. If anyone knows, please leave a comment.
I actually really like this image. I changed the ribbon on the card when I got home. These are October Afternoon papers, but again, I don’t know who makes the image. I was quite pleased with how these came out. The basic coloring was done with Copic markers. Then we added very small highlights with the Prisma pencils and blended them with Gamsol.
Yesterday I tried this technique on one of my new Papertrey Ink stamps, Delightful Dahlia. I think over time, I will get better at this and will enjoy blending these two mediums together in an image.
Cardstock: PTI Spring Rain, Select White; Cuttlebug embossing folder: Swiss Dots; sentiment: PTI Mega Mixed Messages; ribbon: Offray; ink: Brilliance.
Patterned paper: A Muse; Quickutz embossing folder: Vine Label; sentiment: PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Becky Oehlers has been posting some great card recipes on her blog for quite some time. I’ve downloaded all her pdf.s, but this is the first time I’ve played along. Here’s the recipe:
And here’s my take on it. I love these new October Afternoon papers from their new line “Thrift Shop.”
Cardstock: Colormates; patterned Paper: October Afternoon; flower: unknown scraps; sentiment: Stampendous; brad: Sassafrass Lass; ribbon from stash
A friend and I are off to Buffalo to a class at Buffalo Stamps & Stuff on using Copic markers with Prisma colored pencils. It should be lots of fun.
Today is Adam’s 30th birthday. Have a fabulous day!
Here’s the birthday card I sent him. It’s a close copy of one I made for Matt’s graduation last year and a lift from one I think I saw on Heather Nichol’s blog.
All the materials are from Papertrey Ink except the buttons which came from my stash.
The big brown truck pulled up in front of our house this afternoon and left two copies of the new Papercraft magazine (May/June). Inside is my first published card. Interestingly, I did not submit it. It was one of three cards I created for a Moxie Fab challenge. Several months afterwards, I received an email from Cath Edvalson asking if I still had the card. Fortunately, I did, and here it is published. Quite exciting, actually, even though being published wasn’t one of the things on my “To Do” list.
And here is a card for a challenge on Kim Kesti’s blog, another sketch from the Go To Sketch magazine. This was a really quick card, but I like it a lot.
Cardstock: red and black from scrap file, PTI Kraft; patterned paper: Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage 6X6 pad; sentiment: Savvy stamps; flowers from stash; brad: Making Memories; Cuttlebug embossing folder; I drew the lines on the sentiment strip with the new “no bleed” Sharpie marker.
It’s been surprisingly difficult to get back in the groove with crafting. The last couple of nights, though, I’ve been up late watching the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball championships and have finished several projects as I watched. The first two are for this week’s CPS challenge.
Here’s the sketch:
And my interpretations:
Cardstock: PTI Hawaiian Shores & Select White; patterned paper: PTI Green Boutique; Cuttlebug embossing folder; AC Dear Lizzy crocheted flowers; silk ribbon from Ellen Huston; pearl: Michael’s; stick pin unknown.
Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy & Vintage Cream; patterned papers: October Afternoon Thrift Shop; ribbon from stash; AC Dear Lizzy crocheted flowers; sentiment: A Muse; Nestabilities: long rectangles.
Now a card from a sketch in the newly released Go To Sketches by Papercrafts. The sketch I used is on p.142. I’ll be using this publication regularly. So many great sketches and interpretations.
AC Dear Lizzy patterned papers and phrase sticker; ribbon: Michaels; cardstock: BoBunny
This card is a lift from Debbie Olsen, one of the very best in the industry. My friend is a wonderful seamstress so this seemed like a great choice for her birthday card.
Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy & Vintage Cream; patterned papers: Cosmo Cricket “Material Girl;” twill: PTI Vintage Cream; buttons: PTI; safety pin from stash.
One of my good friends celebrates her birthday while we’re away. We’re having dinner with her soon after we return. One of her gifts (she doesn’t read my blog) is the set of cards in this post (which due to user error did not post in the correct order). I made a gift box for it, and wrapped her other gift in a piece of the patterned paper.
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink “Ocean Tides” & “Vintage Cream,” patterned paper: Papertrey Ink “Tea Leaves,” ribbon: Papertrey Ink “Ocean Tides” satin.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you, and Happy Birthday to Tracy! Here’s his card:
New Papertrey stamp, “Luck of the Irish,” and Hero Arts sentiment. Jillibean patterned paper and New Leaf (PTI) cardstock and black twill (PTI). The inside sentiment says, “You’re my pot of gold.” Truly.
So here’s my Weekly Gratitude a few days early:
I thought I’d share a couple of Scrap-Mart projects that have gone up on their blog recently. The first is a layout I did for the Friday challenges.
The patterned papers are all new American Craft papers from the Dear Lizzie and Letterbox lines. I love both lines. The white Thickers are also American Craft. The embellishments are all from my stash: Prima flowers, Papertrey Vintage buttons and Amuse Creative Candy pearls.
And a card using the same papers:
It’s a little busier than my usual card, but it’s just the card for a friend of mine whose birthday is in April.
And one more with the Dear Lizzie papers:
The stamped sentiment is also from a Dear Lizzie stamp set. This one was lots of fun to make.
And now for a set of cards I made with the new Just Rite stamp set “Seeds of Kindness.” Also for a friend’s birthday in April.
Each sentiment is different and the colors of each patterned paper differs. Both the cardstock and the patterned paper are from Papertrey Ink. The ribbons are all from Paper Source.