This is one of the cards I made for the Papercrafts Sketch Submission - not sure if I can call it a reject cause I forgot to submit it by the deadline!!!! So I am not sure it that counts as a reject?!?!?!? Oh well it won't be published but I like how it turned out! I used Papertrey Inks dot patterned paper and punched out two different size circles in each color and layered them popping some up which is hard to see in the photo. I then die cut the banner also from pti and stamped the long sentiment which is from Hero Arts.

 Ah Trigger Tuesday - I missed you last week! It was just too busy! This week was too but I found some time last night after cleaning and inspired cause I had a nice clean workspace!

This week's Trigger was A Study in Blue

My high school colors were Royal Blue and white and I think I overdosed on them in HS cause now I am not a big fan! I decided to go with shades of blue for an icy, snowy card.

I used Papertrey Ink's Peace be Still to stamp the medium and large snowflakes on the blue panels in Stampin Up's Whisper White - I need a new white ink pad! Any suggestions? I then embossed them with clear EP cause that's all I had GRRRR my youngest likes to play in EP and glitter and such! I need some new EP as well. I then dumped dazzling diamonds on it for some sparkle! I added a bit of ribbon around the panels. 

I stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy then used the smallest snowflake to make a border. Thanks for looking!
This also fits the Flourishes Warm Winter Wishes challenge!

It's Blog Hop time again!

Here is this month's challenge: "There is always a lot of focus on Christmas in our industry this time of year, as that is what the majority of the population celebrates. However, this month's blog hop is dedicated to those that celebrate winter holidays other than Christmas. Create a project that celebrates Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or some other winter holiday as we embrace everyone's beliefs in a celebration of diversity through paper crafting."

 I wanted to make a Happy New Year card but quickly realized I don't have any New Year's stamps.....oh Nichole - can you work on that please?

So I already had this idea in my head and just went with it. It is a generic wintery card that could be given to anyone for any winter holiday. I got the idea from a Paper Crafts magazine to layer the punched strips of paper, and I love how it turned out - though you don't wanna know how many extra strips I had to make cause they weren't straight enough and I had to rip them off and re-do them! When those ATG guns say permanent - they mean it! I used two patterned papers from one of PTI's first patterned paper collections Everyday Blessings when it was still 6x6! I also used Aqua Mist and Ocean Tides cardstock and patterned them. To finish off the look I used some White Grosgrain ribbon from CTMH to attach a little tag (blue marvy punch) that I inked with Ocean Tides and stamped Peace Be Still on with Ocean Tides.

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 This is why I love CKC! I come back so inspired! I have been a card making fool lately! I made this card for the Technique Tuesday Challenge on SCS Wordy Words - I used the sentiment to create the patterned background. I also used Card Patterns Sketch 86. This card is for my Secret Pal at school for her birthday cause her whole classroom is FROGS! How cute! The set is Technique Tuesday Ribbit. I just love their little bitty sets! Great price and great way to add to your collection. I am so excited Technique Tuesday is a member company on SCS now! They have great challenges! I have had a love affair with them for awhile now, haven taken both a card and scrapbooking class by them at CKC. Easily the very best class for the money! Anyway enough enabling for the moment. The stamped background is New Leaf cs with New Leaf ink. The three panels behind the image I stamped with the little fly image from the set in Smokey Shadow! I used my Nesties Labels One to cut out the white for my image and sentiment - I even added a little lilly pad for Mr. Froggy to sit on! I matted it on a larger Nesties Label One cut out of Smokey Shadow and added some light gray satin ribbon behind it from my stash! Thanks for looking!

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*

Tessa

..................is his Daddy of course! This layout captures that idea for my hubby and our youngest son, Blake. I wanted pics of Andrew and Blake with him in uniform but Blake doesn't like it cause daddy is HARD (the vest, the radio, the gun, you get the idea) So I took these pics one night after Andrew got off work but he still had his SJPD uniform turtleneck on. I just love how it turned out! I hand stamped the title using Headline Alpha and my stamp -a-ma-jig - if you haven't ever tried one you really should! And have someone who knows what they are doing show you - I love it cause now I can stamp perfect titles!!!!! The journaling is also stamped but it is using Papertrey Ink's Simple Alphabet. I just love their stamps! And paper and ribbon and ink! This is using SU's I'm here Boy simply scrappin kit and a Janurary sketch from Page Maps. Oh and here is a close up of the journaling. It also shows the doodleing around the letters and on the blue stars that I did for some details. Thanks for looking

Hee hee hee that title is a mouthful! Can you tell I like alliteration and playing with word sounds?! It's a kindergarten thing I guess. Today is Father's Day - have you talked to YOUR dad? I called mine and sent a card but mom hadn't let him open it yet! We went out to breakfast at Crackerbarrel with Andrews parents. It was nice despite my allergy problems acting up again today! I made 4 cards and with the exception of my dad's which had to be mailed, I made them all last night! Nothing like the last minute Tessa! Oh well the turned out nicely.

This is it release night! I don't think I will make it till midnight (which is only 11 here but still). I am just too tired. So here is my final card for this month. Next month will be even more exciting! This is a baby card using the set Just Hatched. I made it for my REAL LIFE friend and fellow teacher Shelly. She is due in June with her 3rd, a boy this time! She has two girls. I am so excited! Blake will have a buddy. I am going to use an egg box to make the rest of part of her gift which is boy scrap stuff cause she doesn't have any! FUN! That will have to be next months release! So on to the card. The base is SU soft sky. I stamped the bird in the circle from the set in soft sky to make a patterned looking paper. The focal image is one of the ovals I just masked off the rest of the words leaving Little One - I wanted Welcome to put on their but I don't have a welcome!!!!! I guess I could have made it using Simple Alphabet - hmmmmmm might have to try that. Anyways, I stamped it in Pallet burnt umber - I just love pallet inks - on soft sky and the used my pink marvy oval punch to punch it out. I punched a SU choc chip scalloped oval out with the purple marvy scalloped oval punch. The wide chocolate grosgrain is behind the ovals with the choc chip one put down on that then the soft sky ribbon on top the choc chip ribbon and oval. I tied it at the edge of oval and focal image is popped up on demensionals. Down in the corner is sentiment Blessed New Baby. Which he of course will be with all of his aunts at school! We are baby crazy people I tell ya. The sponging around the edges with choc chip ink was an afterthought. Not crazy about it and would have moved focal image down had I planned it - BUT it was to try and hide a boo boo where my card brushed up against the open burnt umber inkpad! I usually would have tried to move it but I used mono multi on this card and let me tell you once it's set - it's not movin! Thanks for looking and let me know what you buy tonight! I am definitely getting Father Knows Best and Pond life, and of course ribbon, and ink and cardstock!

Getting this one in under the wire! Where oh where does the time go?! Too much going on today! Em over at stamping bella had free shipping this weekend so I coordinated a group of us to meet the minimum for that and I am placing a TAC order this month - gotta love double hostess benies - so I was finishing up that. Plus I had to do all the normal household Sunday stuff! And I had to go get Kaden cause it was his weekend at his donors! Anyways.........this post is a little different! My collegue Anitra is getting married in September. They are trying to save money here and there and I offered to help with the programs, invitations, favors whatever. So they decided to do cookies in cello bags with the first letter of their last name on it and then pink ribbon to tie them closed and a little tag - that's where I come in. I made up these to show her the options. I used Borders and Corners Monogram Edition with a variety of sentiments from B&C Monograms, Out on a Limb, Mixed Messages and one from MFT Essential Sentiments. So she can choose. I punched them all out and mounted on different sizes of pretty in pink cardstock. I think I need the blue marvy scallop punch too! Oh well. This will give her an idea of what we can do. Might have to throw some black in there too not sure. Oh well thanks for looking. Oh and COMMENT which one YOU like best!

Ooooh have you seen this months ribbon? How about the patterned paper? Today Nichole has Paper Pieces sketches for using patterned paper. I love sketches! So I whipped up several cards for my stash I am giving to my mom for Mother's Day using the sketches! So EASY! That's what I am sharing with you today! The base is spring moss , then a strip of the flowered pinks patterned paper, and then another strip of a pretty patterned paper and then a strip of SU twill - yes I tried twill again - still have trouble adhering it! I stamped the Birthday sentiment from mixed messages on it using Pallet noir ink. Didn't show up as well as I would have liked. Maybe Nichole will come out with some white or ivory twill for us! Cause the topnotch twill takes ink GREAT! I only have 3 strips and hers had 4 cause I made mine wider. Thanks for looking! Check back tomorrow for more PTI!

So this is a little late................ better late than never right. I was having computer issues! Sorry! This is my day 2 of my own little PTI release! This card features Out on a Limb. I debated about getting this set as I already had Take a Bough and they are so similar. But what really sold me was the sentiments in this set. It has beautiful sentiments. This card's sentiment is Every day is a Gift! I love that. I wish I could think like that every day! Anyways, the base is PTI stampers select - more to the border in a sec! The main image is stamped using pallet burnt umber then all the flowers and leaves I did using the INDIVIDUAL leaf and flower image. That is one of the reasons I LOVE Papertrey stamps. The versatility is endless. So I stamped the flowers in both sweet blush and berry sorbet and then the little outline leaf in spring moss. I made it really full of flowers like the dogwood trees here in spring. I can't wait for the dogwoods to bloom! This set with the pink flowers always reminds me of dogwoods! But I digress. The sentiment is up in the corner in spring moss. I also added some sparkle to the flowers by using my spica gelly roll stardust pen in the center and a line down each leaf. The image is matted in SU's choc chip which is the same color as Pallet's burnt umber - YAY! The border is the same colors and I just stamped before putting on the matted image. It even goes onto the back of the card a little. I've had this idea in my head for awhile and wasn't sure how it would turn out - but I LOVE it!!!! The ribbon is PTI satin ribbon in berry sorbet which is just yummmy! It is afixed to this card with about a half dozen large glue dots and several small ones as well. I am anal about getting the bow just so! Thanks for looking! Oh and since I know my friends are going to be fighting over this card - leave me a comment on this POST and I will draw to see who I send the card to! TFL! Come back for more tomorrow.

Papertrey Ink Countdown! Bedinning the 10th of every month Nichole Heady over on her blog begins the countdown to the 15th and the release of the latest Papertrey Ink stamps, and now paper, ribbon and ink as well! Check out the link in my sidebar. Seriously Nichole is one of the most talented people ever! And nothing is that complicated it's just ingenious! So I am doing a little countdown of my own for the release this month! I will have a PTI card every day until the release! Today's card is one I did a while back for Taylor VanBruggen's cupcake sketch challenge using PIF images from the set It's a Celebration. I added to the images with my Sakura stardust gelly roll pen for a little shimmer! The sentiment is from Border's and Corners Monogram Edition along with the frame around it - stamped in Berry Sorbet. I used all PTI perfect match cardstock in Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, and Spring Moss. The ribbon is PTI's satin ribbon in Berry Sorbet. I am such a sucker for things that match perfectly - which they do IRL - not so much on my computer screen.

Thanks for looking! Check back tomorrow for more PTI!