Mara's Papertrey Princesses Challenge

Popping in with my first Papertrey Princesses challenge post.  Mara challenged the group to use punches on a card, layout or project.  With so many great dies out there I tend to use my punches less and less and was thrilled to pull out a cute little heart punch for this project. 
I was planning to have Timothy here for several days and I wanted to put together a sweet little treat for him - a treat that would have just a little bit of chocolate or cookie or trail mix or something... I wasn't quite sure exactly what I wanted.  I was looking around at Target and found a jar of s'mores trail mix, and it looked like something that he would love.  I thought it was pretty expensive though, and I wasn't crazy about the pecans in it either, so I put together my own little s'mores mix.  I bought bags of Teddy Grahams and mini chocolate chips and got out some super mini marshmallows that I had ordered on the internet.  They are so cute and perfect for this treat.  Putting this together was super easy and much, much cheaper, too! 

I had to make something cute for my little sweetie's fun treat so I cut a wrap from this Accucut die and stamped it with a teddy bear from Papertrey Ink's Baby Button Bits stamp set.  Instead of using buttons I used hearts punched from red cardstock.  I love how they look!

 I filled a cello bag with my s'mores mix and tied the wrap with a polka dotted ribbon!

Timothy loved the crackers and couldn't get to the marshmallows quick enough but wasn't at all interested in the chocolate chips.  It was a shame that I had to help him out with that! 

Thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments!

Two Fun Finds

For me, spring cannot come fast enough!  Thinking about spring makes me think about our gardening, and right now we're having a blast designing this year's gardens.  Yes, I said "gardens".  We always have a vegetable garden and often an herb garden, and this year we plan to add a butterfly garden and a garden of sorts to attract more birds to our yard.  My herb garden is done in containers, and I keep it close to the kitchen door so that when I'm cooking and need one herb or another all I have to do is pop out the door and snip it off.  Last year I moved my cherry tomoatoes and lettuce there too, and it was awesome!  I can taste those sweet cherry tomatoes already!

I am incredibly lucky to be married to one awesome green thumb!  My hubby can grow anything and often plants some interesting "things" for fun.  I want him to have fun, but this year my goal is to be somewhat more purposeful, and I'm working on putting together a list of what I'd like to have in the pantry and in the freezer by the end of the growing season.  I'm looking forward to planting what we'll need and some things for fun!  This is only my second year at this, and I learned a lot last year but still have so much to learn - at least I'm no longer afraid of the pressure cooker!

I'd also like to keep track of the amount of produce we harvest this year.  I've been looking for a vintage scale to help with that, and I found this handsome guy on Etsy.  I love him, and he looks awesome in my dining room.  I can't wait to put him to work!

I also found this adorable monkey face candy at our local candy shoppe named The Confectionary.  Isn't it just so cute?  And the taste is amazingly unique...banana and licorice!

Of course I had to buy a few and make some fun treats using the monkey in Papertrey Ink's Tiny Treats: Birthday stamp set.  I colored the monkey accents with my Copic markers and layered them with the pinking circle die from PTI's Limitless Layers.  I packaged two monkey face candies in a small cello bag and snuck them into an ADORABLE package made using the lunch box note die in Dark Chocolate CS.  I used the Woodgrain impression plate to bring some texture to the package and some Vintage Cream ink to break up the darkness of the brown.  The packages are tied closed with some yellow twine.  I love this twine and the tiny splash of color that it brings to these little goodies!

I thought that these little packages would like great in a wooden berry box, and I think I was right! What a fun presentation!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for you sweet comments! 



Tag and Frame Challenge

I just had a few minutes to create something for this challenge, so I thought I'd make tags to coordinate with these cards.  I just can't say how much I love October Afternoon paper!

Thanks for visiting and for your sweet comments!  Have a great evening!

Today's Make It Monday Challenge

I so love that we're able to enter each day for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge, and the more I enter the bigger the chance I'll have to win the elusive $250 PTI gift certificate.  There a tons of entries, but a girl can dream, can't she? 
I wanted to do something bright and fun to congratulate a friend, and I thought this was perfect!  I've never been a huge fan of butterflies, but I'm working on being open to new images (as well as colors!).  Actually, I don't know of any other image that would work on this card.

I'll be back this weekend with all of the supply lists that I haven't had an opportunity to put together.

Thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments.



Needed to Repost!

Papertrey Ink has issued a Color Challenge as part of their fourth anniversary celebrations.  This challenge includes making a card or project using the favorite color scheme of one of the Design Team members. 
I often take it pretty safe with colors and use a lot of my own favorites.  This has been a great exercise in opening up to color, just what I needed!  This is the color swatch (yeah, a freebie!) to be used. 

I often take it pretty safe with color and use a lot of my own favorites. This has been a great exercise in opening up to color - just what I needed!  This palette is definitely outside of my color comfort zone, but I like it!

Don't forget to check out today's first post for another Color Challenge card...actually, it's a double challenge because it's a Make It Monday card, too!

More PTI Challenges!

Popping by the add some more Papertrey Ink challenge cards.  The anniversary party continues, and it's AMAZING!!
This is my second Make It Monday card, and it doubles as a Color Challenge.  Love it...just can't get enough of this cupcake die.  To-die-for (pun intended)!!

I have been spending every spare minute stamping so that I can be ready for several days of posts.  Timothy will be here for a few days, and I KNOW that I won't find my way to the crafty room very often, or if ever, while he's here.  Wouldn't miss a minute of the time I have available to spend with him, though!

I will get back here this weekend with supply lists updates for everything that I've missed.

Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your sweet comments!

Make It Monday - Go to Sentiment Card

The Papertrey Ink anniversary festivities continue, and for Day 3 the challenge was to to make a card using combined sentiments.  What a fun idea!!  Here's mine!

I used this Accucut die as the base of the card and used sentiments from a LOT of PTI stamp sets.
Here's the list:
Blooming Button Bits
Enjoy the Ride
Say It With Style
Love Lives Here
Favor It Wedding
Year of Flowers:  Roses
2010 Love Tags
Wedding Day
Birds of a Feather  (Whew, I'm tired just typing all of that out!)
I layered the black base with Sweet Blush CS stamped with the many (splendored) sentiments in SU! Blushing Bride classic ink.  The focal point flower also sentiment stamped and was then layered using 2 1/2" Limitless Layers dies.  Kaiser rhinestones were used to add some bling to the center.  My favorite satin ribbon holds it all together. 
I will definitely be using this sentiment technique again!
Have a great day!

Welcome to the World - His and Hers

I've looked around this crafty room of mine and realized that I have LOT of paper scraps.  There are big scraps and little scraps.  Thin scraps and wides scraps.  Plain scraps and patterened scraps.  LOTS of scraps, so many that it's almost craziness, and I've dedicated the rest of this month to getting rid of them.    What I haven't used by the end of February will be gone...donated or recycled, but gone! 

These cards were made with October Afternoon and Papertrey Ink scraps.  I used PTI Night, Night Moon stamps set and Fillable Frames #5 stamp set and die for the sentiment.  I love how they turned out!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Beth's Stamp

Alli's Stamp

Nichole's Stamp

Tiffany's Stamp

Melissa's Stamp

Maile's Stamp

Lisa's Stamp

Heather's Stamp

Dawn's Stamp

This is the first of nine (yes, NINE) posts in hope of winning the honor of developing a stamp set with Nichole Heady for production through Papertrey Ink!  WOW!  What a dream come true!  All supply info will be added in later.  I just want to get these posts in and linked up for the chance to win! 

Matchy, Matchy...Again!

Just popping in to share another tag and card set made using Papertrey Ink's Shape Up Series Cupcake die.  This time I've used SU! Pacific Blue CS (which I think is the most awesome blue ever!) and October Afternoon's new Campfire paper pad.

I love how bright and fun this is!  I liked these papers so much that I put together a card that will go in the mail to my darling grandson.  He is, indeed, my sunshine!

This card is also a sneak peak for some fun things that I have to share over the next few days. 

I hope you'll be back!

Supplies:

(All supplies are PTI unless otherwise noted)

Stamps: Fillable Frames

Paper: Kraft, Pure Poppy, Fine Linen, Rustic White; SU! Pacific Point; October Afternoon (Campfire) PP

Ink: Pure Poppy; SU! Pacific Point
Accessories: Fine Linen and Dark Chocolate Vintage Buttons, Baker's Twine, Shape Up Series Cupcake die, Double End Banner die, Pure Poppy Twill, By the Numbers and Polka Dot Impression Plates; SU! Corner Rounder and Star Punches