PTI 8th Anniversary

It's one of my favorite times of the year - eleven days of celebrating Papertrey Ink's Anniversary!  I've made two cards for the challenges so far.  You can get all the details of the celebration if you head over to Nichole's Blog.
The first challenge was to select a color and a sketch recipe to use to create a project.  Here's the combination I chose:

I wanted to use one of my first stamp sets that I purchased when I first found PTI, so I pulled out Wishing You.  I'd still love to have dies for this set - just in case anyone at PTI is listening!  ;)

You can see my second card if you click here.

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

 

Paper Dolls Challenge #32

This card is for the Paper Dolls Challenge #32, issued by Amy.  She challenged us to create a project with these requirements:

The Challenge

1.  Embossing

2.  Use any floral image from PTI

3.  Spring colors

 

"Any floral image from PTI" - sounds easy, right?  No!  That choice is very, very difficult.  There are way too many great floral images, and I only have a few of them.  I don't even own any of the Year of Flowers sets.  Every time I see a project done with them, I turn my head quickly to avert my eyes so as not to be tempted to order all 12 sets at once.  

The spring part of Amy's challenge made me think of tulips, and the obvious choice for that was one of my favorite sets, "Wishing You."  I also included the challenge this week for Make It Monday - to apply glitter using scor-tape.  I created a frame around the edges of the green mat to add some sparkle to the card. 

 

Here's my card:

I started by stamping and embossing the tulip leaves with VersaMark and Zing powder on Vintage Cream  cardstock.  Then I ran the mat through my Big Shot with the Canvas Impression plate.  I used my new favorite edger punch on the sides.  The glitter border is on a piece of Simply Chartreuse cardstock.  I chose some happy, spring colors for the tulips, stamped them, cut them out and popped them up.  After adding a butterfly, I was finished.  

Here's the inside:

 

And since I've learned how to do close-up views pretty well, you get to see this one too!  It really shows the canvas impression plate.

 

Thanks for looking today and visiting My Happy Place.  To play along with this Dolls challenge, click here and have a ton of fun!

 

All Papertrey Ink Supplies (unless noted otherwise):

Stamps:  Wishing You, Make a Wish

Ink:  Orangerie, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow, Wisteria (Color Box), Versamark

Paper:  Vintage Cream, Simply Chartreuse, Bitty Dot Basics

Tools:  Canvas impression plate, Bracket Edger Punch (EK Success), Butterfly punch (Martha Stewart)

Other:  Zing embossing powder, Hero Arts prisma glitter, 1/4-inch scor tape, rhinestones

PTI Anniversary - Day 1

Wow!  Did you see Nichole Heady's post this morning?  Before you click over and read it, grab some Kleenex.  You'll need it to wipe away the tears as you read how she feels about each of her team members.  Wow.  I'm so glad I shop at a company that values relationships.  Such a good feeling.

In celebrating Papertrey Ink's 4th Anniversary, Nichole went through each of her DT's blogs and picked her favorite project from their blogs for 2010.  Then she had them do the same thing.  So much inspiration in one place is a very, wonderful thing.  THEN - she challenged us to do the same thing - find our favorite PTI project of the year.  

At the end of December, I visited a blog from a forum member.  She was participating in a Top 10 of 2010 contest and picked her favorite projects to highlight.  I thought it was a great idea, and did the same thing.  You can see my post here.  Boy, am I glad I did that because it made finding a PTI project that I loved very easy this morning.  I just had to decide which card to use from that post. 

Here's the one I came up with:

Original Post is here.

I chose this one because so many of my forum friends have been looking out their windows at snow on the ground since Christmas.  I know they are longing for Spring to arrive, so I thought I'd give them a little bit today.  I made this card last summer when I posted "Seven Days of Wishing You."  I made 7 cards with this awesome set by Melissa Bickford.  I want everyone to love it as much as I do. 

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!  Have fun seeing everyone's favorites!

A Week with Wishing You - Day 7

Here it is!  My final day of celebrating Wishing You, one of my first and favorite stamp sets from Papertrey Ink designed by Melissa Bickford. If you haven't put this in your cart yet, then perhaps you should go on over to Melissa's blog here and scroll down a bit to see some projects she did when the set was released. Also, Nichole did a fabulous job introducing the set in her countdown post  here.  Both of those links are so inspiring.

My only wish for Wishing You is that Melissa comes out with an additions to it, perhaps with outlines of the tulips so that we can color them in or paper piece them.  That would add even more versatility to this set.  I would also love to see a few of the sentiments enlarged.  {sigh} Love them.

Here's my card I made for today.  Then I'll show you a few others I've made in the past.

I tried to go girly-vintage on this one, which is way out of my comfort zone!  It was fun, but it made me a little nervous.  Perhaps experimenting with this style would do me some good.

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Vintage Cream, Sweet Blush, 2008 Bitty Dot Basics

Ink:Tea Dye Duo

Buttons:  Sweet Blush, White/Cream mix

Other Supplies: Hero Arts Soft Blossom Ink, random pink ribbon, pink thread

Here are the seven cards together!

My goal for this Week of Wishing You and the previous Week of Flower Garden was to use only that stamp set and not combine it with other sets.  I wanted to highlight how wonderful each set was on its own.  (With the exception of Day 3 of Wishing You, I managed to do this.)  This set, however, is so versatile it will play along with other sets as well.  Here are two cards that I have made recently combining a few PTI sets.

With Background Basics-Tin Type.  Details here.

With the sun from Scattered Showers Additions. Details here.

And here is the first card I ever made with this set.  In fact, I made a large set of these for a friend, and the design was CASEd from Lisa Johnson.  Details here. 

Thanks so much for sticking with me this week and leaving so many nice, positive comments!  I'm thinking about Scattered Showers or Every Day Button Bits next.  So maybe I'll get busy on that - AFTER I clean my poor, neglected house!

A Week with Wishing You - Day 6

As promised, Pure Poppy is center stage again today.  I combined the two larger tulip images from Wishing You on this card today.  They fit perfectly into the Spellbinders Labels 1 die. 

I've seen a lot of you use your ribbon in such creative ways, that I thought I would give it a try.  This is the saddle stitch ribbon pulled together to make it ruffle a bit.  I'll have to go back to some of the blog posts I've bookmarked to find other ways to use the ribbon.  This was fun.

I have one more day to share my love for this set designed by Melissa Bickford!  Hope you can come back!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Stampers Select White, Pure Poppy

Ink: New Leaf, Pure Poppy, True Black

Ribbon:  Pure Poppy Saddle Stitch

Other Supplies: Yellow Rhinestones, Spellbinders

A Week with Wishing You - Day 5

How about Clean and Simple today?  Sometimes these cards are the hardest for me to do.  I admit, I'm not very successful at adding a lot of embellishments like Melissa Phillips or Betsey Veldman, but sometimes the CAS cards just look a little undone.  I worked past that for this card today. 

Enchanted Evening is right up there with Pure Poppy in my favorite PTI colors.  Wow! Do you have this color?  I used one of the medallion shaped images on this one as the focal point.  There is a second one in the set that is just as pretty as this one.  Melissa Bickford really thought through the sentiments and packed Wishing You with all occasion messages!  I don't know anyone that is getting married anytime soon, but I'll have a card for the wedding when it does happen!  I could have easily used the "Wishing You Comfort" sentiment and created a sympathy card, but I needed a happy moment!

I'll be back tomorrow with more Pure Poppy!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Stampers Select White, Enchanted Evening

Ink: Enchanted Evening

Ribbon:  Enchanted Evening Twill Tape

Other Supplies: Versamark, Zing White Embossing Powder, Spellbinders

A Week with Wishing You - Day 4

Kraft - I love kraft.  And I love just about any color stamped on kraft, especially white.  Today's card is focusing on the medium sized tulip and stem images from Wishing You, a Papertrey Ink set designed by Melissa Bickford.  I carried white tulips in my wedding, so I had to make at least one card with that in mind!

Notice that the center of this tulip is a little bit different than the larger one from two days ago.  This one has a strip of square blocks on it instead of the polka dots.  The bottom white strip is covered with Scor Tape and sprinkled with prisma glitter.  I'm not sure you can see that in this picture.  Again, Melissa has so many versatile sentiments in this set.  She thought of everything!

See you tomorrow!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Stampers Select White, New Leaf

Ink: New Leaf, Fresh Snow, Summer Sunrise

Ribbon: New Leaf Satin

Tools:  Scor Tape

Other Supplies: Kraft, Spellbinders dies, Hero Arts Prisma Glitter

A Week with Wishing You - Day 3

Happy 4th of July!  I hope you are having a day filled with family, celebration, ice cream, hot dogs and fireworks!  I'll be having all of those things today!

Today's card is all about Pure Poppy.  I love, love, LOVE it!  And you can't make a card using Wishing You without using pure poppy!  In fact, there will be another card later this week using pure poppy again!

Here is today's:

I used a sentiment as a background builder, stamped in True Black.  I added a Fillable Frame to surround the focal point this time.  Don't you just love that "Wish" sentiment.  Melissa Bickford was very clever with that one!  It may have been the image that sold me on the whole set when she released it. 

I'll be back with more tomorrow - kraft - in fact.  I can't stay away from it!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You, Fillable Frame #1

Paper:  Pure Poppy, Stampers Select White

Ink: True Black, Pure Poppy, New Leaf

Tools:  Fillable Frame #1 Die

Ribbon:  Pure Poppy Saddle Stitch

Other Supplies: Kaiser Rhinestones

A Week with Wishing You - Day 2

I'm having so much fun working with one of my first and favorite stamps sets from Papertrey Ink!  Today I am focusing on the large tulip and stem images from Wishing You, designed by Melissa Bickford.

I did something a little different this time and designed a card that was 4"x8".  This is for the Paper Dolls challenge that Annika issued for us.  You can get all the details here. 

I inked the edges at the top with Hawaiian Shores and the bottoms with New Leaf  to resemble the sky and grass.  The tulips are super easy to cut out, and I gave them some dimension by securing them with pop dots!  Tomorrow is Day 3!  Come back and see me!


Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Vintage Cream, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst

Ink: New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, Summer Sunrise, Orangerie

Tools:  Eyelet Lace Border Die

Other Supplies: Sakura Stardust Pen, Kaiser rhinestones

A Week with Wishing You - Day 1

Wishing You - the stamp set that started my crazy addiction/obsession/loyalty to Papertrey Ink.  Designed by Melissa Bickford, this set is full of beautiful images and sentiments for just about every occasion.  It was released in March of 2009, just after I first discovered PTI and I couldn't wait to get it!  It was the first set from PTI that I put in my cart, and I haven't looked back since!  I get very excited any time that I see Melissa has a new set coming out - it pretty much means that I'm a goner for the month.

Several different sizes of tulips are available in this set, along with 2 oval shaped images, stems with leaves, a dragonfly and  clusters of tulips.  You can see Melissa's highlights of this set when it was released if you click here and scroll down a bit.  And here you can see Nichole's countdown post when the set was highlighted on her blog.

On this first card of my Week with Wishing You I'm highlighting the cluster of tulips, along with two of the small "free" tulips.

As you can see, this set works well to build your own background if you want.  You can also use the images as a focal point, as I'll do tomorrow.  Come back then!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You

Paper:  Stampers Select, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Orange Zest

Ink: Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Orange Zest, Hibiscus Burst

Tools:  Rick Rack Die

Other Supplies: Sakura Stardust Pen

Poppy Seed Challenge #1 (2nd post for today!)

Lisa Johnson has created her first in a series of challenges on her blog.  You can see the requirements above and full details here.  I love challenges and Lisa has made this one an easy one with just 3 requirements.  That left it open to all sorts of things!  Here's my card for it:

Supplies: (all Papertrey Ink unless noted)

Cardstock:  Stampers Select white, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss

Patterened Paper: Bitty Dot Basics in Spring Moss

Ink:  Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, Versamark

Stamps: Wishing You, Scattered Shower Additions
PTI's medium scallop die

Not PTI:  clear embossing powder from, rhinestones, Sakura Stardust pen

It's been awhile

I have been trying to get some cards started for some challenges, but I haven't been able to. I need to be more organized about it. My main goal is to win something. I'm lucky most of the challenges are random number drawings. Otherwise, I'd never win. Some of the cards that some of these women make are absolutely magnificent.

I recently bought some new supplies from a new favorite company, Paper Trey Ink. Wow. I loved everything I got and have put it to good use.

The top 2 pictures are a set of cards that I made for my friend Wendy. Her sister is terminally ill and I made them for her so she could write notes to loved ones. Wendy has done a lot for me this semester at school, so I wanted to do something for her. I totally copied the design from this designer, but it was easy to make several of them all at once. The inside has a little bunch of tulips in the corner. Those stamps are part of my new supplies, the Wishing You set. I love the tulips. You can click on the images to zoom in. Don't look too carefully, though.

The second set is a couple of other cards using a different stamp set I got, called Flower Garden. I'm really having fun with it. I have something in mind to make with them, but I just can't seem to put it together. It's in my head where most of my scrapbooking gets done.

I'm on a quest for the perfect butterfly set. I think I've found it here. Wow!