Father's Day chef

Good morning!  It's been a little quiet on the blog front here, but I finally got a little time to make a couple of masculine cards.  I used a Flourishes stamp from the Mix n Match set (perfect for the chef Dad) and some papers from the Pyrus collection by Basic Grey.  I stamped the chef tools onto Papertrey Ink's vintage cream cs and coloured with Copic markers and a Zig silver pen, cut out.  The mug was stamped onto a PTI coaster board and coloured with Copics, stamped with the #1 Dad and cut out with my tonic scissors...I love these and use them for all of my "fussy cutting".  I used dimensional foam behind the cup and adhered to a Labels Eighteen cut from the BG paper.  I had some embroidery floss and tied around the front of the card before placing the image on the card front.

For the next masculine birthday card, I used Papertrey Ink's Through the Trees stamp and used the rock and roll technique on the trunk with two inks and also on the leafy top  but adding some dabs of the darker ink.  The ribbon is Stampin' Up's seam binding and the button is from PTI.  The green border die is a new one from MemoryBox.  Thanks for taking a peek, I hope to get some more cards loaded this afternoon ... :)

Chriss

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!

Special friend tea card/ a 2 challenge card!

My second post today, I know, I will try to be more regular, but this was one challenge that I could not pass up!   It was issued on Nichole Heady's "Capture the Moment" blog (owner of Papertrey Ink stamps) and it really spoke to me.  There are several photo's that the designer team each used as inspiration to create something.  Nichole passed on the challenge to her readers, so here is mine!  I chose Heather's photo (love the greens and blues and the little cup of tea) and created a card with the best little teapot image set and sentiments that I have seen.  My colours are a little darker than the inspiration piece, but I love these richer tones.  I was able to use the cute "Tea for Two" set released in April from Papertrey INK and the Itty Bitty Dots 8" X 8" paper pack.  Lovely colours in the package!  I also paired it with another paper pack I have had for a little while from SEI, "Black Orchid"  For this card, I stamped the teapot onto the SEI paper that has a hint of a mini diamond bg on the paper.  It reminded me of an enameled teapot.  I have been hoarding this May Arts ribbon for a very long time and actually did use it on a Mother's Day card in a previous post, but today I layered 3 strands of MS baker's twine (another hoarded product)in the center of the tiny spring green daisies.  Although I love this ribbon's design, I do find the green a little, well, green.  The green isn't so bad with the added twine imho ;)   I also used the twine with a few buttons that I had in my stash (not a trendy crafter's button stash, just some buttons that have fallen off of clothes over the last 30 years and I think the turquoise one was from a shirt in the early 80's, geesh I am such a hoarder)  Well, here's the card.  I also used a sketch layout from Jen del Muro's blog i{heart}to stamp SFYTT  Hope you like it.  I had such a fun time creating this!

~recipe~

stamps Papertrey Ink

paper Papertrey Ink Itty Bitty Dots, SEI Black Orchid

ink SU basic gray

access. buttons, MS baker's twine, CB Swiss Dots, May Arts ribbon

Ch{{rs!  chriss