Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Mother's Day card with PTI felt

I have been wanting to play around with my PTI felt some more so I thought I would use it to make a flower this time. I used a Sizzix die to cut the circles, used some hot glue to hold it together, added glitter and now I have a BIG flower. It kinda turned out larger than I anticipated. LOL! In retrospect I wish I had put the glitter on the edges of each "petal" rather in the middle but oh well.....Mom will like it anyway!


I also used Distressed Stripes from PTI to make the plaid paper, added a glittery Raspberry Fizz button and a sentiment from Delightful Dahlia.

Thanks for looking!

Sherry

Monday, April 19, 2010

Card from scraps

Just a quick post with a card I made using a bunch of scraps I had left over from a scrapbook page I did. Figured I would whip out a card rather than put them in the scrap pile.... never to be seen again.




The paper is from Making Memories, the pink polka dot is fabric paper from American Crafts. The sentiment is from Fillable Frames 1 from PTI and the flower was made using a new Tim Holtz die.

Thanks for looking!

Sherry

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Becky's Compose a Card Challenge #9

Life has just gotten away from me the past few weeks....hate when that happens!  I have missed the past 2 challenges so I am really glad I was able to get a card done for this week. I hope to go back and do the 2 I missed as I challenged myself to do them all.  Here is Becky's challenge and inspiration picture for this week:


I have been dying to use some Cosmo Cricket Material Girl papers on something so I pulled those out to get me started on my colors scheme. I cut my card using my Cricut, used a Nestability and everything else is PTI.  Here is what I came up with...sorry for the glare. I am still working on getting the right lighting down in my dungeon.



Thanks so much for looking......I really appreciate it!

Sherry

Saturday, March 6, 2010

PTI felt and button embellishments

Last week I saw this post by Kristen on the PTI message board. I thought these embellies were darling and wanted to try my hand at them. I cut the NEW PTI black felt with my Big Kick and an old Sizzix die into circles, found some PTI buttons, raided my floss stash for some matching colors and did these while watching tv one night. It was so fun and easy! I added a blanket stitch to the edges.....haven't done THAT stitch in a looong time. It took me a while to get used to it again. I am pretty happy with the way they turned out...




Thanks for looking....and thanks Kristen for the link!

Sherry

"Compose a Card" challenge number 6

I picked up a new border punch at Michael's yesterday and I wanted to play with it so I figured  I might as well work it into my challenge card for this week. After looking at it, it reminded me of PTI's Dot Spot set so 2 elements of the card were decided fairly easily! Here are the challenge details for this week:



Aren't those colors pretty together? And I love embossing so this was a fun card to play with!

Here is my take on the challenge:



I am sooo enjoying these challenges.....guess I should send some cards instead of hoarding them though huh?!? 

Thanks for looking!

Sherry

Supplies: ( all Papertry Ink unless stated)

Cardstock: Enchanted Evening, Soft Stone
Ribbon: Enchanted Evening
Button: Enchanted Evening
Stamps: Dot Spot, Fillable Frames #1
Ink: Versamark
Border Punch: EK Success
And White Filagree embossing powder

Sunday, February 28, 2010

"Compose a Card" Challenge

I finally got my card done for this week's challenge. I actually did two since everything was out. I just changed a few details so they are slightly different. Here are the challenge details for this week:

 





I love these colors and love all things polka dot so this was a really fun one to work with!! Thanks again Becky! Here are the two cards I came up with....

 


Both are pretty simple.....that seems to be my norm. I have been waiting for Everyday Button Bits to be in stock for weeks now so I was very excited to see it last weekend. It arrived Friday and I could not wait to ink it up...love those cherries! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

 Sherry
Supplies (all Papertrey Ink unless noted) :

Cardstock: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy
Pattern paper: Bitty Dot Basics Pure Poppy
Ink: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy
Buttons: Pure Poppy
Stamps: Polka Dot Basics II, Background Basics: Tin Type, Vintage Labels, Everyday Button Bits
Border punches: Martha Stewart, EK Success
Diecut: Label One Nestabilities by Spellbinders




Sunday, February 21, 2010

Becky's "Compose a Card" challenge 4

I am so glad I was able to get another card done this week for Becky's challenge. It is great to be storing up a variety of cards for future use! Here are the details for this week's card:




I REALLY loved  this color combo and pretty much stayed true to her design.  I did not have a negative stamp (guess I need to fix that!) so I just stamped on black cardstock with Fresh Snow ink. I made the flower following Dawn McVey's tutorial here. I used regular printer paper, stamped it with Text Style II and then went over the pieces with Smokey Shadow ink. I also used some Ripe Avocado ribbon to make leaves.





Thanks so much for looking!

Sherry

All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless indicated.

Stamps: Background Basics: Tin Types, Giga Guidelines, Background Basics: Text Style II
Cardstock: True Black, Stamper's Select White, Ripe Avocado
Ribbon and button: Ripe Acocado
Pearls: Basic Grey

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

More challenge cards

Papertrey Ink is continuing with their third anniversary celebration this week and WOW...the new products are awesome!! There have been lots of challenges posted and I am very far behind so..... I took some time today to do a few cards and fulfill a few challenge requirements. Better late than never right?!?

First, I combined 2 challenges in one card....the Emboss Resist challenge from here and the favorite color palette challenge from here. I used Erin's colors and I just love them together!



Here is what I came up with...(all supplies from PTI)



The image (PTI, Through the Trees) was embossed with clear embossing powder on Snow White cardstock (PTI). I then used a Distress ink pad (Tim Holtz) and a paper towel to apply the ink over the embossed image. Too fun!!

The next card was in response to the Paint by number challenge here. I used this color palette because my user name on the PTI forum starts with "B".



And here is the sketch we were given...



I played around with this one for a LONG time.....I just kept rearranging where I wanted each color. I wasn't at all sure I was ever going to be able to make them all work together. BUT, I think it turned out to be my favorite of the day! Again, all supplies from Papertrey except the Prima flower...




And last but not least, I did Becky Oehler's Challenge number 3 for this week (I still have to do last week's yet!). I think this one still needs a little "somethin, somethin" but am not sure what.......I am open to suggestions! All supplies by PTI.....



And on a side note....everyone should try the challenges on Becky's blog. She posts them every Tuesday along with a video and instructions. They are so easy to do! I have always considered myself "card challenged" so image how thrilled I was when Becky chose my card from Week 1 as one of her top three! Thanks again Becky!!

Well, hopefully you made it to the end of this long post. I have two more challenge cards to do before I am caught up. Perhaps I can do them tonight while we watch American Idol.

Thanks for stopping by...

Sherry

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Celebration

It is day two of the Papertrey Ink third anniversary celebration! Today Nichole challenged everyone to make a birthday card using a digital image designed by one of the 2010 stamp design team. It was a hard decision but I chose to use Heather Nichol's image because I just love cupcakes. Here is what I came up with....




The blues actually do match IRL...I have such bad lighting in my scraproom .

Thanks for looking!

Sherry

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Challenge card

WOW....I can't believe it has been over three months since I updated this blog! The holidays always seem to throw me off. I am going to try to be better this year.

I made a card in response to this challenge. I used the exact colors and dimensions Becky used and just changed up the stamped image. I am hoping to participate in her challenge every week.






Supplies: All by Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Giga Guidelines, Big and Bold Wishes, Polka Dot Basics II
Cardstock: Melon Berry, Vintage Cream, Kraft
Ribbon: Melon Berry
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Melon Berry


Thanks for looking!

Sherry