Baby Booties for Henry

Hello! I have a pair of nautical baby booties to share with you today. These are made with Papertrey's Baby Booties dies and Patches dies. I wanted to make them a bit nautical because my soon to be born grandson Henry's room is decorated in a nautical theme. I found some booties on Pinterest with a fairly easy looking sailboat pattern, so I tried to reproduce it on my booties. Not totally successful at it - the sailboats are a bit different, but let's just chalk that up to "handmade".

I had a heck of a time stitching these together for some reason. Must be a bit dyslexic today. I have a sneaky feeling that I have two right shoes, but Baby's feet are just going to have to adjust. :) Henry is due to be born the end of September/early October. Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by today!

Papertrey Make-it-Monday #171: Pop Up Die Cuts

Hello! I am stopping by with a quick card for this week's Make-it-Monday over on Nicole Heady's blog here. This week Betsy Veldman showed us how to partially cut our dies. She had a beautiful example of this over on Nicole's blog. I chose to use the Leaf Prints dies and stamps for my card. I chose two different leaves and partially cut them on my card front.

 I then used the corresponding stamps to stamp over the die cuts. I backed the die cut card front with some Dear Jane script paper for interest. I then sponged on some Distress ink to add some color and then wet everything down with water to soften it.

 I love the result! Thanks for stopping by!

My First Pair of Papertrey Baby Booties!

 Hello! I wanted to share my first pair of Papertrey Baby Booties with you! I hesitated the month these dies came out (I think it was April), and before I could make up my mind, they were out of stock. It has taken a really long time to get them back in stock. Time for me to drool over everyone else's gorgeous booties. A month or so ago, I went ahead and ordered the Baby Bootie Patches and the Baby Bootie Detail dies, for fear that they would be OOS when the main Baby Bootie dies came in. So FINALLY, last week I got an email from PTI (I had signed up for the new "Notify Me"), letting me know that the main Baby Bootie dies had come in. I ordered them immediately, and waited. They arrived in the mail this weekend while I was away (of course). But I pulled them out today to play. I have been thinking about doing some silk embroidery on the front of the pretty eyelet oval ever since I'd seen these dies.

 I'm just a beginner at silk embroidery, so don't look too closely! I did all the embroidery on the oval before attaching it to the shoe so all the backside messiness was concealed. :)

 I had quite the time trying to stitch the sole to the upper part. I had read about the discrepancy of the number of holes on each of these dies, so I think I was probably over-thinking it. I made a few mistakes, and had to un-stitch some of it. I'm still not too sure I got them right, but at this point I am satisfied with them.

These are just so dang cute! I don't know if I can give them away - I think they will be my "test" pair and sit on my desk for future inspiration. I can't wait to try out some other silk embroidery patterns on another pair! I need to come up with something for my new baby grandson coming in October. :) What do you think of these?

Papertrey Make-it-Monday #169: Vellum Overlays

Hello! I have a quick card to share for Danielle's Make-it-Monday using vellum overlays on your card. I pulled out my awesome Doodlie-Doo set, did a bunch of coloring (makes me feel like a kid again!), and then made a vellum tag using Tag Sale #5 as the overlay. I embossed one of the Doodlie- Doo images and sentiments on the tag using white Filagree embossing powder. Tied it up with a sparkly blue ribbon. The coloring took a long time - the rest was done in minutes!

Do you use vellum on your cards often? I usually struggle to use it on a card - not sure why. Maybe this challenge with help me to pull it out more often. Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Seasonal Stitching die fun

Hello! I wanted to share a couple projects I have made using the Papertrey Seasonal Stitching dies. I used the Sand dollar die to decorate a coin purse, along with dies from Flipping out and the Uppercase alphabet.

 I also used the Seasonal Stitching Ladybug to make a hair clip for my granddaughter.

 Here she is modeling it. :):)

I was surprised yesterday when I was babysitting my granddaughters and I went through her hair bow drawer to see how many clips I have made her with the Clever Barrette dies! Here she is posing beside a Hairbow hanger I made her with all her clips attached!

Have you made any coin purses or hair clips lately? Hope you are having a great day!

Papertrey June Blog Hop

Hello! Today is the Papertrey June blog hop and I actually had time to participate this month! Yippee! The challenge this month was to use one of two color schemes with happy summer colors, and one of three sketches. You can read more about it on Nicole's blog here.
This was our inspiration photo - isn't it just so happy??

I chose to work with this color scheme and this sketch:

 

 
Here is my interpretation of the challenge. 
I used several of the Framed Out dies, several popped up for dimension. The sentiment is also from the Framed Out series. To finish it off, I added some faux bakers twine from the No Strings Attached set. Just can't stop using that set!

Have fun hopping! Susan :)

A Couple Cards to Share

Hello! I wanted to share a couple cards I made today with new PTI sets I just got int he mail. I've held off getting Doodlie-Doo for a long time, but after seeing so many fantastic cards made with this set, I finally caved it! I don't have the dies yet- waiting for them to come back in stock. What a fun set! I don't think you could go wrong with this set. I also used my new No Strings Attached set on the corners. I love the dimension these give! I used Nicole's trick to add a shadow with a T1 Copic marker to the strings to give them dimension. It really made a difference!

 And this card uses the new Cats Meow set. Soooo cute! And I'm a cat lover - so this will be used alot. This card is for my granddaughter. I especially love the little paw prints in the set! So fun in the background! I colored this kitty to look like one of our kitties.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you are having fun stamping too!