Jolly June

ETA: Natalie liked it!! :) She chose my card as one of the 3 winners!!!!! WOOHOO!!! Go here to check out the other winners, and while you are there you should stay & check out her blog- it is so yummy! AND she's having another fun comment-to-win contest- Hurry over & tell her I sentcha! :D
Natalie (aka the scrap doctor) has a challenge going on for June- since she's in the southern hemisphere, she's heading into winter... seems we're still pretty close to it here in the Pacific Northwest too! Ha!
Anyway, she wanted us to do a project of our liking that incorporated yellow. I can do that. I also happen to know she's as in love with the banner craze as I am- so I added that too. :)

There's a bit of everything here! American Crafts 'dear lizzy' stamps, October afternoon stamps (doily), inkadinkadoo (typewriter font), prima yellow flower, crocheted flower (me), truly vintage yellow button (grandma's). Ink is pti aqua mist & smokey shadow, versamark yellow, pti chamomile tea ink around the edges.

So, I didn't take into consideration the time difference. I was thinking I had another day to get this posted, but alas there are only a few more hours before this challenge is over!! So I apologize for the pics, but it is veeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy late and dark here!!! :)

And because I thought butterflies would make Natalie think of summer... here's a couple of pics from our butterfly release last Saturday! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Head over to the Scrap Doctor's blog & check out her talent- it's quite amazing!!! :)

EBTKS sketch challenge #17

Today is the last day to enter the challenge over at EBTKS.... Even though I've had this card done for almost a week, I hadn't taken a pic! :)
Pretty much all PTI here....

Head over to EBTKS to see what everyone has done with this sketch! A Lawn Fawn gift certificate is up for grabs!!! ;)

June PTI Blog Hop

"This month we thought it would be fun to focus on COLOR! We want to see your favorite Papertrey color schemes put to work."

A favorite color combo of mine, particularly for masculine cards, is:
Ocean Tides
Spring Moss
Smokey Shadow

And here's what I did with that combo this time around!


I used the woodgrain embossing plate on the ocean tides cardstock. Versamark on the spring moss for the dots- focal image & dots from the wonderful anniversary set Round & Round. Sentiment from Men of Life.

A little edge distressing on the green strip & a Happy Father's Day on the inside! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by- enjoy the hopping!! Go here to see the list of participants!

They don't all work out...

The way you picture them in your head. I can't be alone on this.
This one was to be a congratulations card to my in-laws for purchasing another boat. (My husband has been a boater since he was about 3 years old- our daughter has him beat at 4 months.) So I really wanted to use that sentiment. You're going to need to squint. Yep, it's tiny. But still, I stuck with it.
Then I wanted colors that would be appropriate. Check.
Thought text on brown wrapping paper would be cool. Probably would be if I'd used a darker ink....

I probably should have kept this one to myself- but I gave it to them & they liked it. So putting it here isn't any worse, right? (that's rhetorical!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Father's Day!

Hello all! Hope everyone has enjoyed a wonderful Father's day!!! :)
The weather here has been unseasonably cold & wet- really seems like October, but the trees are all green!
This is the card I made for my Dad- he is so great & I am grateful every day that he and my Mom are a part of our lives. He's a wonderful Papa to Hadley too- she adores him!

Mostly PTI here. Ripe avacado & vintage cream cardstock. Throught the trees & Men of life stamps. Woodgrain embossing plate. The ink is versafine vintage sepia, SU! garden green & PTI spring moss. Twine is May Arts & die cut with nestabilities.

And a huge Thank you to the gals at EBTKS for choosing my card as a Domestic Diva! :) They've got a new sketch challenge going right now- plenty of time for everyone to play!
Thank you so much for stopping by- I'd love to know what you think!
Go over to EBTKS and play along with the current sketch challenge! :)

Better late than never....

Every year we (Hadley & I) take some pics around her birthday- our own little photo shoot, if you will. Now, this isn't the final shoot, because we also ALWAYS incorporate balloons (ie 5 balloons for her 5th birthday). You'll see- there are no balloons in these pics. So we are not done, but I thought this year we'd have 2 mini sessions- so I don't burn her out!!! :)
I love how her little foot is a bit out of her shoe on this one:

This next one is one of my faves....

I am:

I think I may have mentioned how much I love this little person?! :)

A Moxie EBTKS Challenge!

I had to have a little more fun with fabric! The deadline for the Moxie Fab World challenge is tomorrow (6/7/10)- so get busy!

There's also a new EBTKS challenge- using nailpolish! Those girls really keep us thinking outside of the box!

So here's what I've come up with to combine the challenges:

Cardstock is PTI (kraft/spring moss). Stamps PTI Through the trees & BB: text style. Ink is Versafine brown, SU! garden green, PTI spring moss & chai tea (inside of card is versafine brown & PTI pure poppy). The fabric is some muslin & machine stitching to adhere/enhance.

This card will be for my daughter's preschool teacher. Words cannot express the blessing she has been in her/our lives....

Now don't laugh too hard at the mess! You can see I tried to just drop nailpolish on a stamped image- but that went dreadfully wrong! It spread much too far & soaked into the fabric too much.... So I tried dropping it onto a ziploc & letting it dry, then prying them up & gluing them on individually. The things we do for creativity. *giggle*

The 'fruit' is OPI 'quarter of a cent-cherry'! The names always crack me up!!!

Now head over to Moxie Fab & EBTKS and see what fun everyone is having! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

My very own Tiny Dancer...

Hadley just finished her second session of ballet/jazz with the parks & rec dept. We had the most wonderful instructor- very disciplined & sweet with the girls. It was amazing how much she learned in such a short time! :)
So we made a little card for her teacher & gave her some sweet smelling perennials (dianthus).

Cardstock is PTI(sweet blush & white), PP is Jenni Bowlin 4x4. Image is from My Cute Stamps' Tea party set- stamped with PTI smokey shadow & watercolored with ink. Cut with nesties- and tiny pearls in the flowers in her hair.

I had made this tiny paper flower forever ago, but never had the right project to put it on. If I'd been more on the ball I would've made a couple more.... May Arts silk ribbon.
And here's a few pics of the dancer....

at the barre

and with Ms. Stephanie. What a great experience it was!

Papercrafts Go-To-Sketch #3

I'm just under the wire for participating in Paper Crafts Go-To-Sketch Challenge #3- the deadline is tonight!
I had seen these images in the American Crafts Dear Lizzy stamp set- and thought they would be great for this challenge! (as if I needed an excuse- I was already in love!)
Cardstock is PTI spring rain, ink is PTI vintage cream & pure poppy. Flower is prima, crocheted flower by moi, & button truly vintage- from a jar that was my grandma's....

I apologize for the pics- it has been raining forEVER.

Thanks so much for stopping by! And I know you're thinking it- what? no fabric?! *giggle*

Flying a Moxie Fabric Kite

Well it's not like I didn't warn you.... Yes, yet another Moxie Fab Fun with Fabric card!
My daughter was a little sick, so we had some serious couch/tv time this week- which included Mary Poppins of course (after all, she's practically perfect!). So after listening to 'Let's go fly a kite' several times...well, you get the idea. :)

Cardstock is PTI, pp is My Mind's Eye. The stamp is from Practicing Creativity's Look Up set, inked with PTI spring moss. And the fabric...oh the fabric! It's Basic Grey!!! How awesome is that? I sewed it to some cardstock & filled it with some poly-fil. Handstitched the tail with May Arts twine (after machine sewing it with the matching pale pink thread only to decide it didn't show up enough!). Embroidery floss from my stash.

Head over to Moxie Fab to see what others are doing with felt! (I promise there ARE others- it's not just a zillion links back to me! Ha!)
Thanks so much for stopping by- I'd really love to hear what you think! (and I totally apologize if you too have 'let's go fly a kite' in your head- at least it's a cheery song!)

Embellish with Butterflies

I know. You're shocked I've made something without fabric. Don't worry, I've got another one up my sleeve! *giggle*
In the meantime, the fabulously talented Charlene Austin had posted her creation for this embellish challenge. I had intentions of using this for the PTI blog hop, but came up with something else for that. But with those colors AND butterflies, well how could I resist?
Here's what I came up with:

PTI spring moss & kraft cardstock, butterfly dreams & fancy fluorishes stamps, butterfly die. Brilliance black ink & May Arts black twine.

Head over to the Embellish blog- you have until Thursday night to participate!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

More Moxie Fabric

Can you believe it? ANOTHER fabric card for Moxie Fab World's Fun With Fabric Challenge.
I fused some fabric to interfacing & die cut it with my cuttlebug. Lots of hearts layered into a fabric flower. I added a pearl & some clear seed beads to the center.

I was going for a 'leaf' effect with the ribbon- what do you think?

I made pleats to acentuate the flower & just sewed it down. Used my Grandma's pinking shears to trim the extra fabric.

Thanks so much for stopping by- I would love to hear your thoughts! Then don't forget to head over to Moxie Fab to see what fun creations everyone is making with fabric!

PTI blog hoppin' with felt

It's that time again! :) This month's challenge was to use felt. I don't have any PTI felt (yet), so this is from Joann's cut with nesties. I embossed the label after stamping with BB:tin types in versafine sepia ink.

Chalked the inside of the label for a little more definition. Tea inks around the edges & a little brown pearl for the eye.

Even did the inside of this one! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by- I'd love to hear what you think! And Happy Hopping!!! :)
You can go here to see a list of the participants....

Moxie Fabric Butterfly

I know. THREE posts in one day. I'll give you a second to recover from the disbelief...! :)
I'm going crazy with fabric-and it's all Cath's fault!
I used my PTI butterfly diecut & stamped under the cutout with PTI text in chai ink. Stitched around the border (and the butterfly- but don't look too closely at that!) & added some May Arts silk ribbon.

Go check out what kind of fun everyone else is having with fabric at Moxie Fab World! Thanks so much for stopping by- I'd love to hear what you think!