Having fun with new Papertrey stamps

I've been having fun playing with my new Papertrey Ink stamps and dies the last few days! Being a quilter, I am just thrilled to be able to make "fabric" swatches and buttons for my cards, as well as pretty felt flowers and pins. That, added to the fact that I'm going to be a new grandma in August, has me creating all kinds of pink and blue things. Such fun! Here are a few of my latest creations.

 My felt flowers, made with Button Boutique stamp set and Beautiful Blooms 2 die 3, and my own felt.

 This felt flower also used the little Bitty Background stamp for the gingham square.

 A baby card using Bitty Background gingham square, and pinked die, Button Boutique and Night, Night Moon stamp sets, and a tiny tags from the new Tiny tags stamp set.

 I also discovered the new Background Basics gingham stamp - the smaller gingham - is the same size gingham as the Bitty Backgrounds stamp. So I stamped Fillable Frames 5 diecut in pink and the sentiment from I/O Baby in blue.
Hope you enjoy! I sure did enjoy making them! 

Hydrangea image

This is a freebie digi image, I think from sqigglefly.com. Enjoy!

PTI Make it Monday February 14

The Make It Monday technique on the video over on Nicole's blog was how to make, score, and apply a vellum sentiment strip to a card. I've always admired the cards she's done with this technique and was glad to finally give it a try. That part was easy, the coloring of the marbles took forever. I couldn't decide whether to apply a clear coat over the marbles - went back and forth about it - but in the end decided not to, since I like a vintage look better. Usually when I see marbles at an antiques store, they are kind of dull - all the shine long gone due to hours and hours of memory making when playing with them. I think I'd rather have the dull, non-shiny marbles with memories, than some new shiny ones that were kept in pristine condition, never played with - what about you?

Anyway, here's my answer to this week's challenge. I used cream cardstock, the jar, lid, sentiments and marbles from Friendship Jar and the first fillers set, PTI twine, distressed dots paper, and some antique buttons in my stash. Hope you enjoy!

PTI BIG Challenge

Today's Papertrey 4th anniversary challenge was to design a card with something BIG on it, in honor of the new stamp set Think Big Favorites coming out by Papertrey on February 15th. These BIG sentiments will be released a couple every month this year as small $5 sets. What a great resource for a card when you want to get it done quick. Puts the sentiment at center stage.
It took me awhile to come up with what I would do for this challenge, since I obviously don't have them in my possession yet, but I was up in my sewing room and came across this BIG layered flower I had made at a Make & Take at a scrapbook show near me a couple years ago. I can't remember the company that came up with these flowers, but it was a set of dies and stamps that went together. The fun part is adding all the bling to each layer!

I used the PTI By the Numbers impression plate on the pink cardstock background, a die cut from Filliable Frames #1, and stamps from Big Birthday Wishes. Hope you enjoy!

PTI Tag Challenge

Hello! Today's PTI 4th anniversary challenge is to create a tag that incorporates a frame. Here's a cheery tag to brighten up someone's day.

I used PTI melon berry, white, and rustic cream cardstock, stamp sets All about Uou, Fillable frame #4, and Signature Greetings, as well as the FF#4 die, and banner borders die and Spellbinders #10 dies. Hope you enjoy!

My PTI stamp index

I print the web images off the PTI website for each stamp set I own, then print them 2 to a page - 8 1/2 x 11 landscape. Then I cut the paper in half, punch holes to fit my little binder, and file them alphabetically. It's a great resource to just sit and look through. I've often found myself picking a stamp set out of it that I haven't used in a while and pulling it out of my storage box to make a card with. For me, if I can't "see" it, I forget I have it. So this is a good reminder. I make the image as big as I can for the half page, so the sentiments are easy to see. I can flip through this little book and find sentiments, images I'm specifically looking for instead of having to pull out each cd case and look through it. Here's a picture of the little binder.

Papertrey Button project challenge

Hello! Today is the first day of the official Papertrey February countdown! And the products are fabulous! A wonderful button card and button making set, cute little flowers, dainty doilies, newsy background, little baby backgrounds - and tons of new dies! What a day! You should go to Nicole's blog and see all the awesome creations the design team came up with! The challenge for today was to use buttons in a unique way on a project. I looked through my PTI stamp sets, thinking and thinking, and finally came up with this card. At our family reunions, we always love to play Bingo. And you use whatever you can find for the little markers for the squares. Why not buttons? I had these antique white buttons in my stash (being a quilter), and thought they'd work perfect on the Bingo card in the It's Official stamp set. So here it is - enjoy!

I used the PTI It's Official stamp set, the notebook die, the ticket die, paper from Library Ledger patterned paper, black Versamark ink, chocolate baker's twine, kraft cardstock, and old antique buttons.