Just Us Girls 82 Resist Embossing.....{birthday wishes}

Just Us Girls are challenging you to RESIST EMBOSSING....oh wait, not to actually resist the act of embossing ;)  Check out the technique on this {TUTORIAL} at split coast grab your heat gun and let's go!


I also drew inspiration from the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday 12 challenge, the Card Patterns Sketch #112, the Colour Q color #82 challenge and the butterfly challenge happening in The Shabby Tea Room.  I love the way all of these challenges played so nicely together!




For the JUGs emboss resist challenge, I stamped a Papertrey Ink flower over newsprint paper from SU! using Versamark Ink and clear embossing powder to seal the deal.  I sponged on baja-esce blues and pear-esce green to make the flower pop out of the ink.  I have to say that embossing and I are usually like oil and water but I was quite happy with the way this turned out.  Thanks, Andrea, for challenging me to bring out the embossing powder!



The Papertrey Ink pen lined edge was done using an avocado colored marker to match the avocado stamped sentiment from PTI's Faux Ribbon set.  The flower stem is also from Faux Ribbon set.


For tons of emboss resist inspiration please visit the rest of the Just Us Girls team along with Guest Designer, Teresa Kline.  We bid a fond farewell to Teresa after a month of inspired designs for the Just Us Girls blog.  It was a honor to work with you!

Pam Imholz

Maria Levine

Andrea Matthews

Kathryn Berthiaume

Elise Durenberger

And thanks so much for stopping by here!
 

Paper:  Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink, Webster's Pages

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU!

Punch: Martha Stewart

Dies: Spellbinders

Ribbon and button: Papertrey Ink

With a {button} cherry on top!

Howdy friends!  Thanks to the challenges over at Card Patterns and Wee Memories I was inspired to break open my package of American Crafts Detail stickers aptly called "CAKE" for a fun birthday card.

What a super cute sketch, right?  I love the large focal point and that scalloped bottom edge.

 I decided to use baker's twine to wrap up that luscious bright orange ribbon...all those swirly layers remind me of fancy frosting on a cake.  I also used twine to accent the red button I adhered to the top of the cupcake.  i am so enamored with the baker's twine craze as of late....just check out the rainbow of colors in the Wee Memories challenge graphic..  *sigh*...that just makes me smile.


Wee Memories is giving a Twinery sampler pack away this week so if you need a rainbow of twine colors like I *need* them, you will want to check out their challenge!  ;)


Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card!  Have a sugar sweet day!

Paper: American Crafts, vintage sheet music and Papertrey Ink
Bling: Want2Scrap
Dies: Spellbinders (scallop circle) and Papertrey (medium scalloped edge)
Craft Supply:  twine, buttons, ribbon

Just Us Girls 42 and Card Patterns 72

Hello happy papercrafters!  It's time for another Just Us Girls challenge.  This week is hosted by Andrea and she has a wonderful color challenge for us!  I am also using the Card Patterns sketch 72 this week.

 Fun colors huh?  Here's the sketch...

Add those two together and a little paper from October Afternoon and Sassafrass and I made this:

Ooooh!  Do you not just love the bling from Want 2 Scrap inked up with alcohol ink plus a cutie die cut heart from the Girls Paperie???  Bling and the Girls Paperie are a match made in HEAVEN!  The paper streamer was adhered to the back of the heart die cut and then the whole thing popped up on foam tape.  Also, if you look closely, I have a zig zag stitch around the outside edge of my card.  Hallelujah!  My sewing wizard mama came over and "fixed" my sewing machine in literally one look...this ding dong was missing a thread hook when I threaded my bobbin each time!!! Doh!  Thank you MOM!  She made my day!

I hope you get a chance to make a little something this week with the Just Us Girls colors and also one very important thing......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR JUGS GIRL

MARIA

If you get a chance this week, stop by Maria's blog and say happy birthday!  Also, along with the Jugs girls listed in my side bar, please be sure to stop by at Debbie Marcinkiewicz.  She is our fabulous guest designer for JulY!

Thanks so much for stopping by my corner of the blog world today!  Have a goodie!

Supplies: Paper: October Afternoon, Sassafrass

Ink: Ranger

Bling: Want to scrap

Punch: SU!

Die CUt: Girls Paperie

Craft Supplies: Flowers, ribbon, button, embroidery floss, paper streamer

PTI Blog Hop {fall challenge} and Card Patterns #29

Hey friends! Just got done cleaning up a fabulous dinner for my sweetie's birthday. Whew doggies! It was sooo yummy...even yummier because my sweet MIL made it! :) I sat down to take a little blog break and realized I missed the blog hop window for Papertrey. Oh well, there was still plenty of inspiration so I figured, what the heck? and made a card!


I decided to gather additional inspiration from this card sketch from Card Patterns #29:

the sketch:

my card:

I rotated the sketch 90 degrees to the left and then went to town with some luscious fall ribbon, a vintage button, twine, gems and a couple of my favorite Papertrey products: bitty dot paper, Damask Designs and Fancy Flourish stamps.

Check out the :BLING: bLiNg Bling! I just love these golden craft gems. It reminds me of when the sun glints off of the leaves when they turn all of those golden-orange colors. OOOOooh I can't wait for fall to get here with the gorgeous bright blue days, crisp morning air and, best of all, cozy clothing and a fire or two in the woodstove. Bring on the fall!

Thanks for hopping by. I really appreciate that you share you day with me!

Supplies:
Paper: Papertrey Ink and Georgia Pacific
Stamps: Damask Designs and Fancy Flourish by Papertrey
Ink: SU!
Craft Supplies: gems, vintage button, hemp twine and ribbon

Card Patterns #26 ...the {gift card} inspires the holder

OoooH gift cards! I LOVE them...to give or receive, I love a gift card, especially if it's a cute design. Thanks to the sketch challenge over at Card Patterns, it was time to put a starbucks gift card I had been saving for inspiration to work for today's project....a gift card holder!

THIS

plus THIS:
EQUALS =

Eeek! It's a gift card holder but wait, there's more... you see, I wanted it to be able to hold some surprises so I used the sketch to inspire some interactive layers. Yay! That's FUN!

The stars are a disguise for the VELCRO tab (love velcro for an inexpensive closure).

Lookey here at all the little alcoves where I will tuck a message or another gift card or a photo or...well, you get the idea ;) The starbucks gift card is slid into the pocket I made with the cardboard adhered to the kraft cardstock using a strong liquid glue...scotch tacky adhesive.

Here it is re-belted but left spread open to show off some of the layers separately. Aside from the fun way to open and close this card, I am LOVING the distressed and painted cardboard (I warned you I would be using this again in {this post}), the vintage book print (upside down since what it says is not relevant here) and the silhouetted stars and sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Isn't that swirly font on the sentiment totally fun?!

OK, peeps! I'm out of here for now. Thanks for stopping by today...now go out there and make it YOUR day!

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink and vintage book print

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU and Memories

Punch: CM

Other: acrylic paint, velcro, paper piercer

Card Patterns #24 and Moxie bag lady...{Brand New}

Just in time! I had to join in on the card patterns sketch again this week and was inspired by the Moxie Bag Lady challenge too! The Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie collection was perfect for some paper patchwork. So perfect in fact that you almost can't tell that I cut all those 1x1 inch squares and individually sewed them on my paper quilted piece! Oh well. LOL!

the inspirations:

my project:

I wanted to fit both the "Brand New" label and the cutie chick as the accent element so I flipped the sketch to a horizontal orientation. And then LOTS of stitching and pinking sheers! FUN!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Supplies:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket and Papertrey Ink

felt trim: Cosmo Cricket

ribbon: Papertrey Ink

Other: sewing machine

Card Patterns Sketch 26 and KWerner Color Inspiration

Whew! It's a two-fer! I haven't done that in a long time! WEll it just so happens there were tons of great challenges I wanted to do this week and hubs is out in the wilderness tonight so I am just cranking out crafty, I figured, why not? Dishes can wait. LOL! So this card came together using the colors from Kristina Werner and the sketch from Card Patterns. I ended up with some fun results.
OK, so these aren't really baby card colors but I think I made it work anyway? The vintage-y lace edge on the sketch and many other elements in the sketch meant I had room for the SIX colors in Kristina's challenge. I also had this awesome 3-D star template from Kelleigh Ratlaff (she's linked on my side bar) that I wanted to try out. My plan was to use half of the template and make a 3-D element on a card...it worked! I will SO do this again!

Check that star out! Some ink really set off the raised and recessed edges and the embossed and glittered swirls using a Papertrey stamp set (Fancy Flourishes) really give this card some tactile qualities. Adding some celery ink to the celery cardstock also added a vintage-y depth to the background and, of course, good ol swiss dots to the rescue.

OK, I think I am done posting tonight. Sorry for the onslaught of posts today but I had *deadlines*! LOL These challenges were the perfect fun for the end of a challenging but satisfying week. Y'all know what I mean, sometimes you just gotta say, "what the craft" and make something just for the joy of it. Thanks for visiting!

Card Patterns Sketch 26 Bonus Sketch {Flutter bys}

Oh my fluttering butterflies! I am joining in on the Card Patterns sketch challenge for the very first time! I just discovered this sight (I know, where have I been?!) and it has wonderful challenges to get your creativity going! Here is my entry for the bonus sketch posted on the site and shown below.

the challenge:

my project:I love the way the butterflies are flitting everywhere...it's like peering into a secret world through a round window! ...........Or maybe I have been breathing a little too deeply near my adhesives ;) Either way, this card makes me smile and smiles are always welcome.

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your time with me here.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Bazzill, Georgia Pacific and unknown (lime w/ dots)

Punches: Martha Stewert

Die cutters: cricut (scallop circle) and coluzzle (circle)

Other: button and ribbon