A Little Bit of Everything Me

Another great colour challenge at ColourQ this week. I couldn't wait to make a card as soon as I saw them!


For this card, I used PTI's Hibiscus Burst, Enchanted Evening, Simply Chartreuse, and Ocean Tides inks with the rainbow graphic from the Up, Up, and Away set. I had intended to make stacked colors of the rainbow but it was too short to do anything like that. I added the hearts from Heart-2-Heart #3 with foam dots and of course my go-to banner die. I also grounded the panel on a bit of bitty dot Enchanted Evening patterned paper.

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Its Blog Hop time again! This month's photo inspiration and color combination completely screams summer.I had a little bit of trouble with this one because the colors are so many colors and I really wantes to use them all.


I used one of my flower fusion sets and stamped some of the flower and die cut the others. I finally also inked up the Turning a New Leaf set. I also used some of the new Melon Berry gingham patterned paper. Seems like I am usually drawn to the bit dot and striped so glad I could use this gingham in a different way.

The colors also inspired me to make a second card using my most-loved Double Ended Banner dies. I used the leafy patterns of Simply Chartreuse and Summer Sunrise along with the other colors and created a panel of banners. I embossed the sentiment from one of the Think Big Favorites in white.


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Stamp-A-Faire is officially over. I still have many videos to catch up on and lots of gallery entries to check out. It was a great day spent alone doing exactly what I wanted to do - heaven. I didn't keep up on the forum as much as I would have liked and I didn't get to ALL the challenges.


Thanks to all at Papertrey Ink for giving me an excuse to have a day to myself and for continually inspiring me. Hope you'll do it again next year!

Challenge is to create a card set using components showcased in one of the tutorials provided below or develop your own design.

I made a set of cards using Jessica Witty's tutorial but instead of butterflies, I used stars with the Super Stars set with Pure Poppy, Soft Stone, and Enchanted Evening inks. I will definitely go back to this embossing technique again!





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I haven't scrapbooked at all lately, not since Lain's Feb LOAD challenge. I'm taking Lisa Day's Sketch Class Round 2 at Big Picture Classes this month in an effort to jump-start my scrapbooking mojo. I loved her first class years ago.

Here's my take on her first sketch:



Instead of the mosaic of patterned paper on the bottom, I put a collage of photos on the bottom and my title and journaling on the top.

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Bonus lesson in last week's class were ways to use your stamps with the die combos that are so popular now. For my card, I used PTI Beautiful butterflies. This is a GREAT and surprisingly easy technique that makes a card look so sophisticated and unique.



I especially love that the card still fits in an A2 envelope. So pretty right? Gotta try this technique with my other dies too.

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Just wanted to share a card I made for the Stretch Your Stamps Day 7 Floral Stamps lesson using floral stamps in a nested background. I used an outline flower from PTI All About You and embossed most of the flowers in white and one in green. My colors were inspired by this week's ColourQ challenge. I added the sentiment on a kraft die cut banner.



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The challenge is to pick one of the ribbon techniques on the post and utilize it in a project of your own. You can re-create an exact replica of the designer's project or reinterpret it in your own way.

I chose Erin Lincoln's technique which features ribbon backed die cuts using twill ribbon. I have a TON of ribbon that I have accumulated over the years. For this card I used some bright Doodlebug twill ribbon along with PTI's Super Stars stamps and dies.


Hope you are having a great time at Stamp A Faire today and thanks for stopping by!

Challenge is to only use these supplies:
STAMPS: Natural Beauties only (or another floral set as a substitute if needed)
PAPER: Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse
RIBBON: Hawaiian Shores Bitty Dot
BUTTONS: Simply Chartreuse

You can use as many or as few as you like and any inks you prefer. You may also add in dies, twine or glitter if you desire.


Limited supplies is both refreshing and frustrating. I don't have to spend a whole lot of time rummaging through all my supplies looking for the perfect 'something'. I wanted to make a kraft fence but obviously couldn't. I don't have those ribbon or buttons specified so I left them out. Don't have Natural Beauties yet either so I substituted Happy Hydrangeas because Rosie Posie doesn't have any sentiments. I added Harvest Gold ink and the banner from the Fabulous Frames die collection. I kept it pretty simple.

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Here's a second card I made from the Day 8 lesson at Stretch Your Stamps. I was inspired by Julie Ebersole's card showing masking for a one-layer card. I made the gorgeous background using PTI's Happy Hexagon set. I honestly have loved every card make with this set.

Colors were again inspired by the Play Date Cafechallenge this week. Love the soft feel to this card.


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Here's a card I made from an idea in the Stretch Your Stamps online card class. The idea is to use the label as a gift card holder. Here I used one of my Half & Half dies from PTI and added the sentiment on a Christmas Label. Perfect for the gift card from Cold Stone creamery. The card is held in place by two foam dots.


Colors are inspired by this week's challenge at Play Date Cafe #141.


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Well, its finally Stamp-A-Faire at Papertrey Ink.

Nichole Heady shared a video on her blog with the morning warm-up card. My take below uses the same colors but I changed the card base to Orange Zest instead. I don't have the new Natural Beauties set she used so I used the big flower from Rosie Posie. Can you believe its the ONLY PTI floral set I have other than the Flower Fusion series and Happy Hydrangeas? I know, unbelievable!

Loved her technique of scoring the vellum and using scor-tape. Great idea because you can sort of see the adhesive but it looks like it's supposed to be there!


Hope you are having a great time playing along at Stamp-A-Faire too! Thanks for stopping by!

Here's my card for colourQ this week.


I used PTI's Botanical Silhouettes along with their striped Simple Chartreuse patterned paper.

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....for PTI's Stamp A Faire event tomorrow. Made some cards to get warmed up, cleaned my space, and prepped the kids for some Daddy-Daughter special time. Haven't done a solo crafting day in YEARS so I'm excited.

Here were Sydney's rolls -


I was very excited she rolled Happy Hexagons because I hadn't yet inked up that set. Challenge for her card was that I had to use Happy Hexagons, Half & Half AND Fillable Frames 9 or 10. That's a LOT of stuff for one card.

Here's my third card:


I was thrilled with the result and had a great time playing with the colors, patterns, and PTI's coverplate makes it SO EASY. But notice anything? First thing Sydney noticed was that I didn't follow the sketch. YIKES! I was so excited about how pretty the hexagons were turning out, I forgot the sketch part.

So back to the drawing board I went because my follow-the-rules daughter wouldn't let it go! Here's my second attempt:


I reduced my Half & Half use to the little '& Wish Big' sentiment on one circle. Otherwise, there would be WAY too much going on. Love this too. Thanks for stopping by!

Next up was Sabrina's card.


She rolled layout #3 which I found to be a bit more challenging. She loved the results but that's probably because she's 6, likes everything I make, and probably didn't want to hurt my feelings. Honestly, I think its ok, probably could be tweaked to be better but with Stamp-A-Faire tomorrow, I don't have the time.


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I haven't been playing along with PTI's Make It Monday challenges for a few weeks because summer has just been crazy. But Erin Lincoln's MIM challenge this week looked like it could be a lot of fun. So I got my girls together and decided they would help me pick some of the supplies to go on my challenge list and they'd get to roll the die for an entire card I'd make. They loved it and I'm actually going to simplify the challenge worksheet so we can make some cards together. They are, after all, only 8 and 6 and some of those sketch layouts were even hard to put together for me!

Anyway, here's my sheet -


Sierra's rolls -


First card I made was Sierra's. Her roll got the pretty Heart-2-Heart#3 set she picked out. Love the colors and the texture the impression plate (red piece) gave to the card.


She loved it. Thanks for looking! Two more cards to go!

I have so many stamps that I figured I had everything I needed for the Stretch Your Stamps class at onlinecardclasses.com. I really didn't want to buy anything special for the class. So when the Day 3 lesson was published I dug out my alphabet stamps and was disappointed to find I only had a few and they were all small letters, nothing like the big bold ones used in class.


I used PTI's fresh alphabet set to make a background but again, the letters are so small and dainty the background did not have a striking impact. So I used the letter 'D' to make this design and cut them apart to make these card elements. What resulted was not planned at all but its cute enough I suppose. Colors were inspired by this week's color challenge at Paper Players but I didn't post this card in time to enter.

I also used the same alpha set to personalize these two cards I made for our friends 4 yr birthday this week. They are twins so I thought personalizing them would make them a touch more special.



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