Papertrey challenges - two in one

Hello there! Papertrey Ink is celebrating their 4th anniversary this week, and boy, do they celebrate in style! They have had some of the most fabulous prizes - things like $700 worth of stamps, $250 PTI gift certificate, designing a stamp set with Nicole Heady, going to stamp for a day with Nicole! OMG - how fun would that be! - anyway, two of the latest challenges are met by this card of mine. The Make it Monday challenge was to create a sentiments card using similar sentiments from different PTI stamp sets - it really surprised me how many "friend" stamps I had! Today's challenge was to use one of the color schemes used by the design team in their cards today. I picked the color scheme by Erin Lincoln  here:

I just love these colors together! I used "friend" sentiments from 13 different PTI stamp sets! Here's my card for both challenges:

I used vintage cream, ocean tides, dark chocolate PTI cardstock, fresh snow, ripe avocado, and dark chocolate ink, 1/4" white/cream silk ribbon from PTI, the Love Lives Here butterfly die, and "friends" sentiments from 13 different PTI stamp sets. Hope you like it!

PTI Sentiments Card challenge

I was thinking about the sentiments card challenge from PTI on the Make it Monday technique, and realized that I had a card like that in my stash. It doesn't use alot of different sets, but it uses the sentiment from the Matt Stack 2 collection over and over. I'm not sure if it qualifys or not, but here goes anyway.

I used PTI white and kraft cardstock, It's Official patterned paper, dark chocolate and fresh snow ink, Matt Stack 3 die and Matt Stack 2 stamp set, and bakers twine. Thanks for looking!

PTI rocks!

It's Papertrey Ink's 4th celebration this week, and the first one I've really been involved in. I just started PTI about a year ago and have become thoroughly addicted to their products. They seem to be the only stamps I ever reach for anymore. Anyway, Papertrey is having some awesome anniversary challenges and prizes this week. Yesterday was a prize package of PTI goodies worth over $700 - and a girl that lives within a half hours of me actually won! Isn't that cool? In today's post on Nicole's blog here, She gave us a free download of PTI digital tags made by each of the stamp designers. She challenged us to use at least one of them on a card. The big prize for today is a chance to work with Nicole to actually design the stamp set of our dreams! I have no idea what mine would be if I won, but it's definitely got me thinking.  All the tags are beautiful, but this one by Alli Miles especially caught my vintage eye. So here's my card - vintaged up as usual. Hope you enjoy it!

I used PTI products: Matt Stack 4, rustic cream and berry sorbet cardstock, Limitless layers dies, the tag by Alli Miles, and the sentiment from Fillable Frames (not sure which set). I also used a paper doily from Michaels, wrinkle ribbon I died, copic markers, and some patterned paper by DCWV - Nana's Nursery.

Valentines Day cards

Hello! This evening I've been working on my Valentine's Day cards for the kids and Lucas. I haven't started on Anthony's yet - waiting on inspiration for that. Here's what I came up with for the others.

For Lucas - trying not to get too mushy for an 8 year old boy - he's our new grandson. I used PTI stamp sets Fly Away and All around sentiments.

This is Davids' card - hope it's not too kiddish for a 27 year old...  I had to cut to back cover off the PTI bitty dots paper pack to get the red. I used PTI stamp set Tiny Treats Valentine, Spellbinders dies, and PTI baker's twine as well.

Both the girls got this card - Kelly & Jon because they are in the process of buying their first home, and Katie & Jon because they are celebrating their first Valentines Day as husband & wife. I used the PTI stamp set Love Lives Here, October Afternoon paper, and PTI bakers twine.

PTI Edger #1 die

Hello! I was curious how a square would look when edged on all four sides with the new PTI edger #1 die. I started out with a 4 1/4" square and then edged each side with the die - I really like the results! I can see using this as a mat on the front of a card.

Paper is a digi paper from the Tiny Princess Collection at digichick.com. ISN'T IT SWEET?

WMS case card challenge

Hello! WMS is having a party! They are making cards using all kinds of Spellbinders products, including their new Grand Calibur machines (I'm so jealous!). After all the DT showed their projects, Claire is having a case challenge, where we were to case one of the DT's projects and make our own version of it.

I chose to case Sandi's card here. I made mine more of a vintage card, distressing everything in sight. One of the things I liked about Sandi's cards was the stitching - you can never have too much stitching on a card! I also loved the offset of the middle square and the wrinkle ribbon. So here's my version - hope you enjoy!

Supplies I used were: PTI white and kraft cardstock, October Afternoon thrift shop paper, classic circles and scalloped circle nestabilities, WMS stamp sets Vintage Circles and Say It With Style, and some homemade wrinkle ribbon and KaiserCraft Pearls. Also used PTI terracotta ink, Versafine black ink, and Ranger Antique Linen ink.

Papertrey January Blog hop

Hello! I am participating in Papertrey Ink's January blog hop. It's been quite a while since I've done this, but the challenge to ink up a set I haven't used in a long time, was such a great challenge. Especially considering that one of my goals in 2011 is to use what I already have on hand instead of buying and buying more.


Here's the challenge: With the new year comes a clean slate along with many resolutions.  This month's blog hop challenge involves you challenging yourself to use a Papertrey stamp set that has yet to see ink or even one that might be collecting a little dust!  Go through your stash and see what little used treasure it might hold. 

I used the set Made of Snow for my card. I've never made a card from this set before, and with the weather tomorrow calling for 5+ inches of snow in our area, I thought it appropriate to break out this set. I used PTI rustic cream cardstock, torn PTI white cardstock for the snow hills, made my snowman using the Made of Snow stamp set, colored the scene with copics, and added some flower soft to the hills, trees and snowman. The sentiment is from the set also, stamped on a double ended banner by PTI. Hope you enjoy the blog hop!