My PTI colour sketch

Hi there everyone! If you are reading this, thanks for checking back with me! I have a major reorganizing of my crafting space going on and it is taking every ounce of patience to "do it right"! I did however feel that I had earned some play time and I was able to make this card for the sketch "challenge" over at Papertrey Ink. The sketch is to the left here and my card follows. We were to use the colours associated with our online names that Nichole had assigned colours to certain blocks of letters. My colours were Kraft, Ocean Tides, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss and Vintage Cream. I like how it turned out and it didn't take me very long to put it together (maybe because I can see where certain items in my room are now!) and I wanted to keep it pretty simple. Hope you like it!

In a few days I may post some of my very frightful "before" pics of my room. I will have to work up the courage for that one, but with each day that I have been working on the space, I am slowly feeling some hope for a tidy and organized space! All of this has been happening with the inspiration and support from my friend Yvonne and her wonderful, beautiful and super organized crafting room. She will be coming over in a week and a half to help me put the finishing touches on everything. Thanks Yvonne!!!
All paper products, buttons and sentiment are from Papertrey Ink!

Have a great night/day wherever you may be...

cheers!

chriss

rRedHeartChallenge for Caarvarks!

Hello everyone! I had time to do a quick challenge this afternoon. It is for the Caarvarks Red Heart challenge here. It is a very, very simple card, but I think the colours make it clssic and attractive. I layered some red hearts onto a kraft lotus flower that I punched out with a MS punch and then layered that onto another MS lattice heart that I punched out. The borders are all MS and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink "Everyday button bits" that I stamped in black ink also from PTI onto a kraft piece of card stock and then used a Spellbinder fancy label to cut out. I added 2 red rhinestones to the label (after I took the photo!) You can see a wee peek of a rhinestone in the second photo. The cream and black paper is from K and CO 8 X 8.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

Buttons and seeds (beads that is!)

Hello everyone! I have been trying to make some birthday cards (some are overdue) to mail out to friends and family. I made this one and added a few to my ETSY shop. This card was created with a sketch from the 2sketches4you blog sketch #44 that I thoroughly had fun with. It's a great sketch, very versatile and I love the colour combo that I used from this Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday paper and the Ocean Tides from Papertrey Ink. The image is another adorable Baby Button Bits from PTI, not just for babies right?

I stamped the image with PTI black ink and used a square Nestability die and then outline embossed with the tan mat in my CuttleBug and cut out a larger square in the Ocean Tides to later layer under the cream square. I coloured the little "petals" with my Ice Ocean Copic marker #BG72. I think it is a perfect match to this PTI colour. I added cream and Ocean Tides buttons to the stamped image and I actually sewed them to the cream panel with a matching embroidery floss. I stamped a part of the button bits image (the leaves) onto the same CC dp and cut the leaves out and added to the leaf part on the stamped image. I added a little piercing to the top left and bottom right corners of the panel. I then backed the
cream square onto the Ocean Tides with my dimensional foam.

The CC pattern paper was cut to the regular size card, but I then cut off a 1/4 " strip that I adhered to the bottom inside of the card. I used a MS border punch on the front of the ivory card base to make a scalloped edge and then I glued the pattern paper to the card front so that the shortened size of this paper front just lets the scallop edge just peek out at the bottom. I made another cream scallop border and layered it onto an Ocean Tides wide MS border and added these to the card front.

The square was then added to the front and positioned so that just partial scallops are seen directly under the square. I love how the button treatment on the bottom of the card turned out. I threaded the individual buttons and tied the embroidery floss and snipped, leaving just the tiniest "tails" except for on the central blue button which I snipped quite close after tying a knot. I added some crystal effects to the button top and then I placed individual seed beads in a circular pattern following the button rim.

That's it for this one, all from a sketch and some amazing paper!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Cheers to a good week-end,

Chriss

Card Patterns Sketch 48 Pink Hugs & Kisses

Here we go with another sketch challenge for Card Patterns Sketch # 48. I loved using this sketch, and I made two very simple cards. I used Basic Grey's Bittersweet again, one card with pinks, the other with pinks and browns. I let the papers do the talkin'

On the chocolate brown one I used my precious little Lockhart Valentine cupcake. It was coloured with Copics and then the pink hearts were glazed for some dimension. I love the pink and brown together. The pink card uses one of my Martha hearts that I punched out and embroidered with a matching pink embroidery floss. The little rhinestones on both of the cards are from my stash and the sentiment is from a SU set "Circle of Friendship".

Thanks for taking a peek!

Look who's new ~ My first PTI Blog hop.

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great week-end! I have been busy with gardening and some cards. I wanted to make a baby card using my new Baby Button Bits that I bought from PaperTrey ink from the last release. I had a hard time selecting which image to feature for Papertrey Ink's blog hop tonight, because I adore them all! Anyway, I knew I wanted to make a card or announcement for a baby girl, so I went with the cutest baby bee stamp ever. I stamped the image twice because I wanted to layer the wings for dimension. They are coloured with a Copic marker and I went over the "veins" with a sparkly light plum gel pen. I cut out the image using my long rectangular Spellbinder die and layered the wings with dimensional foam. The Papertrey button (lavender Moon) has a piece of the new Papertrey 1/4" wide silk ribbon. Luscious! The white panel with image is layered onto a slightly larger PTI bitty dot paper and the card stock was placed through the CB with a Quickutz embossing folder (Retro Diamonds) to create some texture for the front of the card. The inside

of the card has a little special treatment that I created with a stamp from the Background Basics Diamonds set. I stamped in a pale plum ink that I had (I don't have the PTI lavender moon yet!) and

then placed a fancy tags label with another

length of the silk ribbon that I threaded through the label. I added two tiny pale purple rhinestones onto a couple of the white daisy shapes that I punched out and cut from a MS border punch. The bitty dot paper was stamped on with the "look who's new" sentiment from the same Baby Button Bits set in gray. The flap of the white envelope got a treatment too! I used the same border punch and the same stamp from the inside of the card. I am happy with the way it turned out! Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday Martini Drink

There is another challenge going on over at Impression Obsession to make a card any shape, other than a rectangle, using I.O. stamps. I needed a birthday card for a friend and thought this Birthday Martini drink stamp was a perfect fit for her! After deciding on the stamp, I selected some fun papers to work with from the DCWV Citrus mat stack. I stamped the image in SU basic gray ink and coloured with my Copic markers. The shape I decided to make my card is the largest Octagon from the Spellbinders large octagon nestabilities set. I placed it over the folded white card stock base with one edge of the octagon die not touching the card stock fold. I layered and adhered a floral pattern strip and another green pindot strip(I used a MS border punch on the green)over a larger piece of the green and cut out the same size octagon from the green paper with tiny white pindots on it for the card front. I then embellished the border punched flower centers with these orange rhinestones from Kaiser. They add a nice sparkle and pick up the orange in the floral pattern paper. I cut another smaller octagon for placement under the top of the glass and then attached a new silk 1/4" ribbon from PaperTrey Ink across the front of the card. The whole panel was attached to the card base and I finally added the martini to the card with dimensional foam for some added dimension. This was a really fun card for me to work on! Thanks for looking~cheers!~chriss

Mojo122

My Mojo sketch on a Tuesday!

I was so inspired by this paper from My Mind's Eye, I just love the colours in it!

I punched out a few hearts from the paper and glued them onto the narrow panel and punched out some smaller ones from the teal Bazzill card stock and arranged for some movement.

I had the idea to use these strung seed beads in place of the stem that the (hearts or petals?) are attached by, so I used some crystal effects to adhere. I stamped the sentiment and punched out with the small SU oval punch and placed behind the metal HP hardware. I added 2 K & CO. rhinestones in the same aqua/teal colour as the Bazzil and then placed it over the larger panel with some dimensional foam. There is a strand of the beads and a strand of embroidery thread wrapped around the bottom of the narrow panel. Hope you like these colours too! Thanks for a great sketch Julie!