CAS75: Over the Edge

Whoop. Two posts in one day. Something must be heading in the right direction in terms of my stamping inspirations.

I hadn't even thought about tackling challenges yet, but something just sparked when I saw the challenge for this week. So here goes my clean and simple card for CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #75. This time, we are meant to make a card that has an element going over the edge...

So... a very simple card from me, because I cannot be stuffed and it fits in with CAS! I used Friends 'Til the End set and let it go over the edge of the card at the bottom and to the left. I actually snipped off about a centimetre or so at the bottom and to the left so it stands evenly with the back of the card.

Thanks for coming around! Will have more cards up soon :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

Stamp: [PTI] Friends 'Til the End

Ink: [PTI] Dark Chocolate, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise; [Adirondack] Ginger

Paper: [PTI] Rustic Cream

Other: [PTI] Friends 'Til the End die collection; foam tape; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua); [Tim Holtz] Ink blending tool

Make It Monday #52 - Part 2

Hi everyone! Back again as promised! Here's the second card I made last night for this week's MIM :)

 It's rather weird having an umbrella that's folded and getting blown away. Steph tells me it might be suitable for Melbourne. I think I might send this to a friend in Wellington, our capital city. It's famous for being windy (my friend says it's a city where traffic lights sway from side to side in the wind haha).

Sorry about the shocking quality yet again. It's Aqua Mist base with my last little piece of white cardstock T_T

 

Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for coming by!

 

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Scattered Showers, Tiny Tags I, Tiny Tags II

INK: [PTI] Aqua Mist; [SU!] Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze
PAPER: [PTI] Stamper's Select White, Aqua Mist

OTHER: [PTI] Scattered Showers die collection, Mat Stack #4 die, Tiny Tags die collection, Edgers #3 die, Diamonds impression plate; baker's twine (blue); glitter; foam tape

Make It Monday #52

Hello everyone.

 

I couldn't participate in the PTI 5th Anniversary Day 2 challenge due to lack of a printer, so I went and played along with the new Make It Monday!

 It was quite a challenge as it was difficult to find a die cut that would work with the technique of stamping both sides. But then, I thought, why bother stamping with matching stamp set? So I went and did something slightly different.

I did make 2 cards today but I will only share 1 for now, because bed is calling out my name!!!
 

Anyway, I made a die cut of Turning a New Leaf and then folded half of it and then stamped on either side with Text Style I background set.

Ok, past midnight and I should be in bed! Thanks for coming by! I'll share the otherone tomorrow when I get back from GirlGuiding! :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Thank You, Background Basics: Text Style
INK: [PTI] Fresh Snow; [SU!] Early Espresso
PAPER: [PTI] Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Kraft
OTHER: [PTI] Polka Dot Ribbon (Melon Berry), Mat Stack #5 die, Turning a New Leaf die collection, Woodgrain Impression Plate

PTI 5th Anniversary Day 1

Hi everyone. A super duper quick post so I can submit my card for Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary Day 1 challenge.

It's a bit difficult stamping at the mo as I'm away from home. Everything's in a box jumbled up, I have a tiny desk and the chair is all prickly and uncomfortable.

Anyway, I made a very quick card, which hardly looks anything like Erin's inspirational project with hair ties. Really, the only thing it has in common is the frame.

And apologies. I didn't bring my camera with me to Cromwell, so you will have to put up with shocking shots off my cheap phone. It's really really shocking quality. I'm going to make up with some nice photos from my trip today as well (see next post).

Anyway, card first before time runs out!

It's Aqua Mist base with Ocean Tides mat frame. You have to use your imagination a little bit with this shocking camera. I also misted it a bit over the clouds for a bit of shimmer.

Thanks for coming. I'll do another post of Lake Wanaka summer goodness shortly!

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Fly Away
INK: [SU!] Early Espresso, Not Quite Navy
PAPER: [PTI] Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White, Ocean Tides
OTHER: [PTI] Diamonds impression plate, Clouds die collection, Fly Away die collection; [Studio Calico] Mister Huey's Color Mists (Calico Shine)

Make It Monday #46

Hello hello!

  

It's another day in Christchurch and Mother Nature is still rock'n rollin'. Not too bad today though. Nothing 'major' since the 5.1 magnitude wake up call at 6:30am. There's still the odd little shakes, but nothing we're not used to ;)

  

Today, I was out seeing an old friend at the park. Malls were surprisingly not so packed - I suspect yesterday's shake ups have freaked a few shoppers out.

  

Anyway, I've tackled the Make It Monday at last! I really don't do well with tags, but I gave it a crack.

So this week's challenge was to turn any die into a folded tag. It's more or less the same theory as the Shape Up series dies.

  

I went back to using my Front & Center die. I really don't use that die enough and I just find it a little big for my head to get around. I don't do so well with large spaces - hence I've held off scrapbooking.

 

I've kept this one very simple. And I cut the Front & Center die cuts smaller so I didn't have a large area to decorate. I just stamped it with Polka Dot Basic II and added a tag. Simple as.

  

   

And you might be surprised that this simple thing took me forever to do.

 

Thanks for coming by.

 

Merry Christmas to you all, and hope that you get a well deserved break and family time :)

 

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Polka Dot Basics II, Everyday Button Bits
INK: [PTI] Fresh Snow; [Memento] Tuxedo Black; [SU!] Calypso Coral
PAPER: [PTI] Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Vintage Cream
OTHER: [PTI] Front & Center die, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles die collection; button; [Celebrate!] satin ribbon (cream); baker's twine (orange); [American Crafts] ribbon; [Copic] Sketch Marker (Y38)

Make It Monday #42

  Hi everyone! I'm joining in this week's PTI Make It Monday challenge!

 This week, we are making backgrounds using our sentiment stamps. You can give a 'layered' look by stamping on scratch paper different number of times before onto your cardstock - this makes your images lighter in shade and when you overlap each other, they start to look more layered.

 

So here's the card I made. I did use my scratch paper to lighten the ink to different 'dilutions' you might call it, but I purposefully didn't overlap each sentiment. I've always loved this sort of sentiment backgrounds where sentiments/words/letters face all directions randomly ;)

 

 

Big Birthday Wishes is a great set for making this sort of backgrounds, because it contains fonts of varying sizes. I only used the SU! Old Olive ink pad to make this background. I really enjoyed fitting bits together, and love the way it turned out. I will have to use it more often :)

 

I topped off with a ribbon and the By the Numbers die cut.

 

Thanks for coming around :)

 

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
STAMP: [PTI] Big Birthday Wishes

INK: [SU!] Old Olive

PAPER: [PTI] Stamper's Select White, Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse

OTHER: [PTI] Edgers #3 die collection, By the Numbers die collection; [Celebrate] satin ribbon; foam squares

CAS-Friday 29 & Damask Designs

Hi everyone! Another quick post. I've been trying to do some more challenges now, but class has started and I'm just trying to sort out my time a bit. I did manage to make a card for this week's CAS-Friday challenge I've been meaning to make.

  

This week's challenge was a sketch challenge. I have to admit this is the first time I'm making a card based on a sketch. And you'll see one of my fav techniques of blending ink into the YOF: Carnations set. I had to stamp the outlines over twice because the blending smudged it. It was a little tricky to line them up given it's quite a detailed image.

 

  

 The next card is just an extra. I was experimenting with my new Damask Designs set.

  

 

 I'm off to the gym now. Thanks for coming around :)

 

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

{Celebrate Today}

STAMP: [PTI] Year of Flowers: Carnations, Fancy Flourishes, A Little Argyle, Cupcakes Collection

INK: [PTI] Spring Moss; [SU!] Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Early Espresso
PAPER: [PTI] Stamper's Select White, Spring Moss

OTHER: [Tim Holtz] Inkssentials Blending Tool; foam tape; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua)

 

{Happy Birthday to You}

STAMP: [PTI] Damask Designs

INK: [PTI] Aqua Mist; [SU!] Melon Mambo
PAPER : [PTI] Raspberry Fizz, Stamper's Select White

OTHER: [PTI] Mat Stack #4 die; [Celebrate] satin ribbon

MIM & CAS-Friday Challenges Part 2

Ok, a dual post it is to cover both the Make-It-Monday & CAS-Friday Challenge!

 

 

First, the second CAS-Friday challenge card. I went a little polka dot-happy with this card. I just didn't know what to do after I cut out the Mat Stack #4 die cut. Somehow it worked out ok. I do love my polka dots ;)

 

 And the second Make-It-Monday card. It's actually the first one. I just didn't post it first :P

  This one was more experimental than anything - again using windows and PTI stamp set packaging box plastic. Just remember that Prisma Glitter will stick to the plastic with all that static!!! I thought I'd be clever and use my heat tool to blow the excess off. Well, think again. It only warped the plastic. Now I have a wrinkly card. And I managed to miscalculate and had double sided tape stick out onto card base, so had to chop off at the sides (hence there is no blue bits to the left or right) :'(

 

 

 A close-up view of the windows. I used the In the Meadow set. I'm quite happy how the glitter and stamped glue went together. I'm just not happy with the warped card! lol.

 

 

 

Did I mention I got my Take Three die at last? I forgot to order last time and had to buy off Denise. Now I really want those sets too.

 

Anyhow, enough rambling from me! Thanks for popping around again! :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

{Mat Stack Tag Card}

STAMP: [PTI] Polka Dot Basics II, Tremendous Treats: Christmas; Think Big Favorites #8

INK: [PTI] Fresh Snow, Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo; [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark; The Essential Glue Pad

PAPER: [PTI] Dark Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse, Pure Poppy

OTHER: [PTI] Mat Stack #4 die; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua); [Kaisercraft] rhinestones; [Celebrate] satin ribbon; [American Crafts] ribbon

{Glittered Windows Card}

STAMP: [PTI] Think Big Favorites #8, In the Meadow

INK: [PTI] Aqua Mist; The Essential Glue Pad

PAPER: [PTI] Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White

OTHER: [PTI] stamp set packaging box, Tin Types impression plate, Take Three die; [Palette] Prisma Glitter; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua)

Make It Monday #41: Christmas Ornament Card

Hello! I'm in the mood for playing along for challenges! So here's something for Papertrey Ink's latest Make It Monday!

 This week, we have to bring out Essential Glue Pad out and stamp and image with it, and finish off with something fine and... in my case, SPARKLY!

The only thing fine I have is Prisma Glitter, so I had little choice, but I did have this great idea to make a Christmas ornament/bauble. And those of you who know me, know I love to make windows too. So I grabbed out the plastic container PTI stamps come wrapped up in ;)

 

I used Fancy Flourishes to decorate the 'ornament'. I'm sure I've seen an ornament that looked just like this in real life. I just wish I had gold glitter. It would have been perfect.

This is what the card overlay was looking like halfway through. I stamped with the glue pad on the plastic and applied glitter. Now, Prisma glitter sticks to the plastic due to static, so once the glue had dried off, I had to go and run my finger across to try and remove as much excess off as possible. I also double layered up the glitter so that I didn't have glitter falling behind either.

 Hope you liked the card! I've got another MIM card and CAS-Friday cards to share later to check back again! Thank you for coming :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Fancy Flourishes, Think Big Favorites #8

INK: Versamark, The Essential Glue Pad, [SU!] Early Espresso

PAPER: [PTI] Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse
OTHER: [PTI] stamp set packaging container; [DMC] Precious Metal Effects embroidery floss (E677); [Palette] Prisma Glitter; [Spellbinders] Nestabilities: Standard Circles Large; [American Crafts] ribbon

CAS-Friday #28 Challenge Part 2

Back for more for CAS-Friday #28 challenge!
  

 
I'm really not a tag person. I could never seem to get it right. I tried this time though. But I think I may have over done it slightly.
 
Anyway, I was dying to overlay the scalloped edges so here's a card. I actually made another card for a friend's birthday but I can't show it to you until she gets the card (so it won't be for a while!).
 

 I love the gradient look with the colours layered on. And like I said before, I have no tag dies (yet) so this time I did a makeshift one using the Half & Half die. I think it worked rather well. I was sitting here cursing myself for not having a Berry Sorbet/Melon Berry ink pad though! I would have loved it if I could have stamped the Fancy Flourishes in those colours! lol

Anyway, I'm going to go join the remainder of the PTI release party!

Thank you for coming by!

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Wonderful Words: Holiday, Fancy Flourishes, Polka Dot Basics II
INK: [PTI] Spring Moss; [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark
PAPER: [PTI] Vintage Cream, Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, Simply Chartreuse
OTHER: [PTI] Half & Half die, Scalloped border die (medium), Wonderful Words: Holiday die collection, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles Collection; [DMC] Precious Metal Effects embroidery floss (E677); foam squares

CAS-Friday Challenge #28 with Front & Centre

Hi everyone! I've been a bit quiet the last few days so time for some update! I've been out catching up with my friends. Yesterday I had one over at my place and introduced stamping to her ;) We had fun, but I managed to take a good chunk/fillet of my left index finger with my craft knife :'( It's still oozing blood after 15hrs of pressure bandaids (I wasn't going to apply manual pressure for 15hrs lol). It's slowed down (bleeding wise), but I'll have another check later. But it really sucks.

Anyway, I thought I'd make a bag using my Front & Centre die at last. I've only made a card out of it and it was about time I used it for what it was originally intended for! I gave it to my friend to take her Christmas chocolate and the card she made inside.

 

Btw, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone by adding in a tag to play along with this week's CAS-Friday Challenge!

 

 

I was stuck for a while as I don't deal with big spaces so well. I tend to work in smaller areas (i.e. cards) - hence I never started scrapbooking... yet. I will soon ;)

   

I stamped over the Berry Sorbet base with Sheet Music background in Versamark. Added some snowflakes and Tremendous treats.

  

 

I don't have any tag dies, so I just had to make with whatever I had. I used the Edgers #3 die to round the end of the tag. Here's a close up view. I heat embosssed the sentiment just to show my friend what it is lol

 

It's a little hard trying to type without your index finger so I'll stop it here. but thank you for coming again! :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Tremendous Treats: Christmas, Think Big Favorites #8, Tag Its #8

INK: [PTI] Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo; [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark

PAPER: [PTI] Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, Vintage Cream

OTHER: [PTI] Front & Centre die, Damask Snowflakes die collection, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles Collection, Edgers #3 die, rustic jute button twine; [Faber-Castell] Watercolour Pencils; block bottom bag; glitter

Make It Monday #40 Part 3

Hi! Back for more Make It Monday fun! I know I posted a few hours ago, but I just made a card and I just had to share it... now lol

I got the idea of using the Damask Snowflakes dies from Baseret's post here. It's very clever and I just had to use it to make some more Christmas cards! And why not chuck in some patterned paper in the back to play with MIM again? Hehe. I love my break lol

I'm really feeling the blues at the moment. I have phased off the Melon Berry and moved onto Aqua Mist & Hawaiian Shores. Haha.

I'm really thrilled how this card turned out! And I decided to go back to my less-pretty glitter for less mess (lol). And tremendous treats is just a charm. I stamped the bird on a white cardstock, coloured it in and cut around it. And on it goes on top of the patterned paper!

A close up view on the glitter & birdie :)

Now, I'm really done blogging for the day (haha). Will get ready to go see my friend ;)

And before I forget, can I please do a big shoutout that I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the lovely comments I always get. I have a hard time flicking through to everyone's blogs but I appreciate them :) Thank you <3

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Tremendous Treats: Christmas

INK: [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark

PAPER: [PTI] Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores; [American Crafts] Blue Skies

OTHER: [PTI] Damask Snowflakes die collection, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles Collection; [DMC] Pearlescent Effects embroidery floss (E747); foam tape; [Faber-Castell] Watercolour Pencils; glitter

Make It Monday #40

Hi everyone! A quick post before I dash off to the gym :)

Thought I'd play along with this week's Make It Monday challenge. This is a card I made last night. And I finally grabbed out my patterned paper lot. I hardly use them these days since I have stamps to play with! But I do have a fair bit so I should probably start using them...

I kept it simple and I am just loving Melon Berry this week. My hand just keeps reaching out for that pack!

Sorry, we have rainy/cloudy days forecasted all week so I haven't got very good daylight for great photos :(

I'm loving the October release goodies from PTI. Can you tell? I'll make a few more cards later and make another few for MIM, but a quick coffee and I'm off to the gym. And today's my Spring cleaning day. My wardrobe could really use one haha

Thanks for comin' by!

PS - the patterned paper I used for the reverse applique is from My Mind's Eye, and it's my fav patterened paper <3

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Wonderful Words: Holiday
INK: [SU!] Early Espresso
PAPER: [PTI] Vintage Cream, Melon Berry, Simply Chartreuse; [My Mind's Eye] Lost & Found Christmas "Tinsel" Glittered Paper

OTHER: [PTI] Wonderful Words: Holiday die collection, Holly Jolly die collection, Pure Poppy button; foam tape; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua)

Inspired By & More CAS-Friday

This post is a bit about cards inspired by others. And one of the cards is another entry for the CAS-Friday Challenge #27. Yeah, I'm really playing along with these challenges this week! :)

I'm totally in the mood for acorns today! So Autumn Acorns set it is!

Here's my first card. This one was inspired by a card Nichole Heady made for the August 2011 release - click here to see Nichole's card.

I wanted to make it a bit fun and colourful. And polka dot clear heat embossing over Hawaiian Shores cardbase seemed like a good idea. I stuck out the white cardstock with acorns to the side for a bit of kick (the truth is... the Hawaiian Shores cardstock was a left over bit and was a bit smaller haha). I finished off with some rhinestones on the acorns.

 The second card was inspired by this card I came across on Pinterest. I love Pinterest. I now not only save my favourite cards onto my harddrive but can also pin them to share them with the world how awesome they are ;)

So anyway, my card doesn't look much like the project that inspired me. But it certainly made me grab out the Autumn Acorns set. It's a bit of a shame that I don't have much use for half the sentiments in that set.

 So there you are. Two cards of completely different styles, but both using Autumn Acorns set. I love that set. It's just coming to end of Spring in New Zealand and acorns are not due until Feb/March next year, but I just love how cute acorns are!

Thanks for the visit! :D

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

{nut'n better than a Friend like you}

STAMP: [PTI] Autumn Acorns, Polka Dot Basics II

INK: [SU!] Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party, Early Espresso; [Versamark] watermark stamp pad

PAPER: [PTI] Hawaiian Shores, Stamper's Select White
OTHER: [Filigree] embossing powder (clear); [Kaisercraft] rhinestones; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua); foam tape

{Thank you}

STAMP: [PTI] Autumn Acorns

INK: [SU!] Early Espresso, Wild Wasabi, Old Olive, Certainly Celery; [PTI] Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo

PAPER: [PTI] Rustic Cream
OTHER: [PTI] Autumn Acorns die set, Woodgrain impression plate, Simply Chartreuse button, rustic jute button twine; [Celebrate] satin ribbon; foam tape; [K&Company] adhesive dots

CAS-Friday Challenge: Happy Clouds & Rainbow

Hello everyone! I told you I'd be back soon! Hehe.

  

Joyce has kindly reminded me in a comment to my previous post that I should go look at the CAS-Friday Challenge! I had been holding it back due to exams and then I forgot about it (lol). So thanks Joyce for the reminder!

   

I thought I'd join in on the CAS-Friday Challenge fun a bit more now that I have more time for a bit. So this week's is all about going outside the box. Literally. You have to make a card where things stick outside the card base!

  

 

So here's a card I made for it. It's a happy card too!

  

The whole "go crazy with clouds" has been in my mind for a long time. I just never got around to it because when I received the die from PTI, it was defective :( So it took another month or a bit more before I could get my replacement (sucks living outside the US).

 

Initially I was going to make a baby card with the clouds, but today, I just thought, "Let's make a rainbow". Must be what my friends call the "post-exam glow" that's making me like this hehe

 

   

The rainbow was made using lots of Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles (standard and large) sets. And I did go a little crazy with the clouds and foam tapes. Haha. I just wanted to add some depths to them.

    

A close-up view to show you all the magic foam squares and tapes add to this card. And I finished it off with a little cute sentiment from Tiny Treats: Birthday set. I was hoping there was "up up and away" but I didn't see one (I thought there was...). 

    

Also, I chopped a centimetre off the bottom of the card base only at the front so I could have the clouds as the base when it's made to stand. I think I should do this more often!

   

 

Anyway, I think I'll stop rambling on. Thanks for coming over again!

  

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

All from PTI unless otherwise stated. 

STAMP: Tiny Treats: Birthday

INK: [SU!] Real Red

PAPER: Kraft, Stamper's Select White, Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Enchanted Evening

OTHER: Clouds die set, [Spellbinders] Nestabilities Standard & Large Circles sets