Damask Inspiration from Moxie Fab World

I was totally inspired by the Damask Post on Moxie Fab world. Oodles of fun and inspiration. So I ended up doing two cards for this,

1. I did a simple Holiday card using the PTI Damask Designs Stamp set. I stamped the Sweet Blush cardstock with the border image and then just layered it with some ribbon and the sentiment on the PTI Fillable Frames Die. This card was inspired by the pink and brown Damask Prints bag in the post.

2. I was really impressed by the very first Yellow damask photo in the Moxie Fab world post and just could not get that out of my mind, so I used the Card Patterns Sketch #87 to create this Friendship card. I kind of liked how this turned out as well. I used the Chair-ished stamp set with this card. I created my own border using one of the single images from the PTI Damask designs stamp set. I just loved the Yellow Damask background with the chair, although I used a brown chair in my card :)

Here is the card patterns sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Damask Designs, PTI Chair-ished stamp sets
Paper - PTI Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz, Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Harvest Gold, White CS
Ink - PTI Dark Chocolate, Memento Black, PTI Raspberry Fizz
Other - PTI Raspberry Fizz and Dark Chocolate Ribbon, PTI Vintage Buttons, Nestabilities, SU Punch

Altered Notepads for Christmas Gifts

I wanted to share some of the Notepads that I have been doing as Christmas gifts for some of my friend's daughter's :) I need to do one Masculine also for my friend's son. Had forgotten about it.

I used the Junior Legal Pad from Staples and got it cut into half. It has been so much fun doing these :)



Some tips from my side,

1) I attached the notebook to the cardstock using scortape (or any double sided tape). It felt easier for me to put the scoretape on the card stock and then attach the notepad than the other way. :)

2) It was easier to get a few notepad fronts done as designing is only involved there. Then you can mass assemble the notepads because then you just have to score and attach :)

3) I cut my Card stock to 8x5 1/4. And to make the scoring easier, I put it on scorpal and scored it at 2.5 and then turned it around and again scored it at 2.5. This gave me a perfect 1/4 inch spine.

Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Take a Note, PTI Damask Designs
Ink - PTI Raspberry Fizz, PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI Scarlett Jewel
Paper - PTI DP, BG Eskimo Kisses DP, PTI Kraft, Ocean Tides, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz, White CS
Other - PTI Ribbon, PTI Buttons, Circle Punches, Generic Gemstones.

PTI 2009 Swap - Round 3

PTI Swap round 3 for this year includes backgrounds and full cards. I had signed up for two spots in backgrounds and one spot in cards.

Here is my card for the swap. Inspired by the background swap, I used the Basic Backgrounds Retro to create a background for my swap card and used the bird houses from Bird wathing set. I colored the bird houses with copics and cut them out with Nestabilities Label 1 dies. Kept the card simple. I used the Vintage Cream CS from PTI and I just love how the colored image looks on this CS.





Here is my card,



Also wanted to share the two cards that I did with the backgrounds that I created for this swap.

Card using the Birthday background,



Card using the Damask Designs Background,



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Bird Watching, PTI Background Basics Retro, PTI Guidelines 2, PTI Mixed Messages, PTI Damask Designs, Stubbies from Stamps by Judith
Paper - PTI Guidelines CS, PTI Kraft, PTI Stampers White, PTI Melon Berry CS, PTI Vintage Cream CS
Ink - PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI Melon Berry, PTI Raspberry Fizz
Other - Nestabilities Label 1 Dies,

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #8

Dawn has posted the latest Raspberry Suite Color Challenge and Yummy colors too. Here is my card for that challenge. Kept it Simple.

I stamped the smaller of the Damask Designs in Dark Chocolate on the Rasp Fizz CS and used it as background. The bigger Damask image stamped in Rasp Fizz Ink on the New Vintage Cream CS and cut out with Labels 1 Nestabilities Die made the central image and the Sentiment was stamped on Kraft CS and matted on Dark Chocolate CS.



Here is the Challenge,



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Damask Designs
Paper - PTI Raspberry Fizz, Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Kraft CS
Ink - PTI Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz Ink
Other - SU Oval Punchs, Label 1 Nestabilities Die