Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary Day 1

Hello! Today is day 1 of Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary festivities! We were asked to pick one of the designers favorite cards and make our own based on inspiration from their cards. I chose the card(s) Betsy picked as her favorite. I remember when she posted those originally, and always loved them and had been wanted to recreate them, anyway! So, this is what I did with her cards in mind:

I think I may have gotten a little carried away with my stamping. lol.

Supplies: (All Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted)
Paper: Vintage Cream, Beautiful Blooms pp
Stamps: Big and Bold Wishes, Say it With Style, Tiny Tags, Modern Wood Mats, Mat Stack 4 Collection, Peaceful Garden, Botanical Silhouettes
Ink: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores
Other: Pure Poppy button and Twine

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I'm off to see what everyone else did today with this challenge!

Love You

Hey there! Happy Friday! Just stopping in to share a card I made a couple weeks ago and never got around to posting, yet. I actually saw the layout used by a few different people, so it may have been from a sketch challenge or something, originally. Anyway, I liked it and needed some Valentine inspo, and came up with this:

I have trouble with truly CAS cards, and just *had* to add more, so I added the banner using the little stamps from Love & Marriage. I also added some glitter for a little something extra. Here is a close-up of that:

Supplies: (all Papertrey Ink, unless otherwise stated)
Paper: Stampers Select, Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz
Stamps: Love and Marriage, Say it with Style, BB: Text Style
Dies: Hearts
Other: Sweet Blush button, 1/4" silk ribbon, Doodlebug Valentine twine, Prisma glitter

That's all for now! Hoping to have a crafty weekend and getting excited to participate in all the anniversary festivities starting on Sunday!!! Are you excited??

a card and a CASE

Look at me two days in a row! hee hee! I wanted to share a couple cards today. This first one I made a couple weeks ago for my co-worker and friend after she made some delicious cuppy cakes for me and my husband. If I still had it, I would totally retake the picture in the sunlight, but I don't and this is the best I can get the picture after playing around in some editing program. I will definitely be taking all my photos outside from now on...a world of difference! Anyway, my friend's favorite color is purple, so I knew I wanted to use some lovely Royal Velvet. At the time I had just picked up the new Turning A New Leaf die that was released, and since I didn't have the stamp set I picked that up as well. And I think it has been my favorite stamp set so far! I don't know what took me so long to get it! It is so versatile! So, you will be seeing a lot of this stamp set and die for a while, just warning you now! lol. The leaves were die cut from the Royal Velvet cardstock, then I heat embossed them with clear embossing powder, I think you can see a little shine on the leaves.

The next card I wanted to share today is a complete and total CASE! It is so completely copied right from the magazine, that I didn't think it deserved it's own post. But, I love this card and wanted to share. I have had the magazine for a while, and I've always absolutely loved this particular card that was made by the lovely and talented Jessica Witty. Love. That. Jess. So, I was flipping through that old magazine a couple weeks ago, and it jumped out at me again! This time even more so, because now I had the Turning A New Leaf stamp set, and I could actually make this card now!

I wish I could show you the original. It was in A Card A Day, I believe. It's more like a book than a magazine, I guess. Anyway, the only think that I changed was the 3 little dots of circles, she had used more of a splatter looking stamp from Green Thumb, and I don't have that set, so I chose something I thought was similar, which was the little dotty circles from Dot Spot. I don't usually like to completely copy someone else's card like this, but sometimes my mojo runs a little dry, and I need to make something, and I see a card that I like so much, and I just happen to have everything needed to made said card, and you have a replica such as this! I actually like the card so much I gave it to my sister-in-law for her birthday!


Thanks so much for stopping by and reading my rambles! :)
Jessica

Masculine Birthday

Hello, Blog friends! I am glad I never publicly proclaimed my New Year's Resolution this year was to update my blog more! Well, I can always try sticking to that again starting in May, right?

On Sunday it was my sister-in-law and her son's birthday. Our Nephew, Sam, turned 17, and I made the following card for him!

I was pretty happy with how it turned out! He really enjoyed the card, too, which really made me feel good! He kept touching it and asking me how I made the background, and telling me he kept the cards I'd made him in the passed, and that he was going to hang it up on the wall in his room! Now, how sweet is that!?

All the supplies are Papertrey Ink, except the patterned paper I used to mat the focal point. The paper is October Afternoon, Seaside, and it looks like wood that has been painted grey. I also cut that out by hand, by tracing the Mat Stack 4 die on the back of the paper, and cutting slightly around it. The card base is Soft Stone, and stamped the Newsprint background in Versamark, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I recently acquired some beautiful wood buttons that Papertrey Ink used to sell prior to my discovering them. I was asking about them one day on the messageboards, and the sweet and talented Nadine, was so kind and offered to send me some from her stash! Let me just say how genuinely nice the ladies (and Ted) are on the Papertrey Ink Messageboards! So, I really contemplated about adding a few of those buttons to embellish this card, I really thought they looked so cool with the patterned paper, and the rocking chair, and would really tie together the whole rustic wood theme. But, oh I just could not make myself use one of those precious wood buttons, even though she did send me a very generous amount, and would've had plenty left! That's awful, isn't it!? Please tell me you can relate!

Supplies: (all supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted)

Paper: Soft Stone cardstock, October Afternoon patterned

Stamps: Background Basics, Newsprint; Chair-ished; Say It With Style

Ink: Versamark, Dark Chocolate,  Smokey Shadow, Chai and Chamomile vintage inks

Other: Clear embossing powder, Rustic Cream button twine, Mat Stack 4 die

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a Fabulous day!

Jess