Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

I'm back again for second go at this months Blog Hop

This month it is all about wrapping it up.  Whether you are preparing early for the holidays or have an upcoming birthday or two, have fun experimenting with fabric & felt packaging ideas.  Use any of our Favor It dies with felt and a little hot glue gun action or stitching.  Use a pretty piece of fabric like you would wrapping paper and make a custom tag to coordinate with it.  Not into sewing or gluing?  Wrap a kitchen towel or cloth napkin around a special bottle of wine and top it off with a hand-stamped gift label.  Or rip a strip of fabric to use in place of ribbon and finish it with a pretty handmade gift card.  There are so many different things to try, you will love experimenting to see what you can come up with!  We look forward to seeing your projects!


I have had some pretty dotted green felt in my stash for a while and wondered what to do with it so Nichole's idea of using felt with a favor it die struck a chord and I decided to have a go. I only have one favor it die so choice was easy but cutting the thick felt was not and I had to go in with scissors to finish it off.

The felt did not hold its shape well, so I cut another shape out of white card and stuck it to the back of the felt to give it some structure.

I stuck it together, attached some dotty red ribbon, added a tag made with the Tranquillity Trilogy dies, and stamped and embossed it with a polka dot background stamp.

 I finished off with a little tag stamped with a sentiment from Christmas Lights.

That is all from me today because I am off for dinner and to see Sister Act at the theatre tonight and like Cinderella, I have to do some cleaning before I go to the ball. I look forward to getting a cup of tea and settling down to look through all the lovely entries tomorrow.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

Today is the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop and this time Nichole gave us this challenge:-

This month it is all about wrapping it up.  Whether you are preparing early for the holidays or have an upcoming birthday or two, have fun experimenting with fabric & felt packaging ideas.  Use any of our Favor It dies with felt and a little hot glue gun action or stitching.  Use a pretty piece of fabric like you would wrapping paper and make a custom tag to coordinate with it.  Not into sewing or gluing?  Wrap a kitchen towel or cloth napkin around a special bottle of wine and top it off with a hand-stamped gift label.  Or rip a strip of fabric to use in place of ribbon and finish it with a pretty handmade gift card.  There are so many different things to try, you will love experimenting to see what you can come up with!  We look forward to seeing your projects!

I decided to make up a gift package for a friend who likes cooking and wrap a cookbook in a pretty tea towel. Not very original but the best I could come up with

I used the mat stack labels to make a pretty  tag using new leaf ink and dark chocolate card

and then wrapped it up and tied it with coordinating ribbon. I attached a vintage fruit reamer to give a clue as to what is inside.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the hop.

Hugs

Carol x

Baby card

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to Lorraine who is jumping on board as a new follower this week. I have seen a lot of beautiful white cards around blogland this week and discovered that many of them were for the current Casology challenge which ends in an hour so I am rushing to get this on before it closes. The card was made for the current LIM challenge which is to take three previous challenges as inspiration. I came up with this card

and used week 15 Embossing (Dry and heat embossing used)
               week 68 Baby or child
               week 69 Not a square.

I used a gorgeous Hero Arts background stamp for the clear embossed background panel and the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder for the top panel.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Christmas poinsettia card

Hello everyone,

Just a quick post today to show the card I made for this weeks challenge at LIM, which is to use ovals on a card. I made a clean simple Christmas card using some PTI dies and Penny Black poinsettia and holly stamps which I grouped together on a central oval die cut. This was then coloured in and I went round the edge with some red ink, before mounting it onto a fancy oval shape, and then onto the card. A few gems in the centres of the flowers finished it off.

I'm following the Online Card Class 'Kick Start' at the moment and the first days are all about organising your supplies and knowing what you have. Well I'm now in a complete muddle with supplies all over the place and a purge pile which is growing by the minute! I keep telling myself it will be worth it in the end - but I'm not convinced right now!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink birthday card

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a good weekend and are refreshed for another week. I was thrilled to have this pink and brown card showcased over at Less is More this week and would like to thank Mandi and Chrissie for their kindness. I have a fondness for pink and brown together and made this card a while ago but didn't get round to posting it.

click to enlarge

I used a textured embossing panel for the large pink background but experimented a bit with the small circle and one of those anywhere hole punches that you have to hammer to get the hole. For this I just pressed it without hammering and it gave little embossed circles, and I then stitched the butterfly onto it. The LIM challenge this week is to use ovals and I hope to get time to play along at some point this week. I've got to dash now because it is my birthday on Wednesday and a friend is giving me an early birthday treat of a manicure followed by afternoon tea at Ness Gardens, so this lucky girl needs to jump into the shower..

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Hugs
Carol x

Silhouette Cameo birthday card

Hello everyone, and a warm welcome to Gina who is a new follower this week.

I found a new challenge blog for the Silhouette Cameo called the Cameo Spotlight  and I thought I would give it a try so that I will get to know my Cam a bit better. The challenge this week is to blue, beige and sage green colours, and this is what I came up with

I cut everything but the stars on the Cam and was thrilled with the base card cut because that is pretty thick pearlised card and all the little holes were perfect.

This is how it looks closed. The blue I used looks a bit greyer in real life but hey ho!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey ink fabulous day card

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to Jackie who is a new follower this week.

I hope you are enjoying some good weather as summer starts to fade. We have a had a lovely week in Manchester but the forecast is for a change next week so we have been taking advantage of it and therefore I have not had as much crafting time as I would like.

I'd like to thank Mandi and Chrissie over at  Less is More  for showcasing my 321 card - it is such a thrill when something I've made gets picked!! But it's down to earth with a bump because this week is the dreaded one layer card challenge and we are asked to use foliage in some way. After my usual struggle I came up with this little card

I simply embossed the foliage in white and then coloured the leaves with a few tone on tone Copic markers. Sorry the photo is not very good - the leaves look better in real life. I'm not entirely happy with it but as I can't think of anything else this will have to do. 

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

 Carol x

PS A couple of people were asking what I used to get the rounded corners on the square apertures on the 321 card. I used a die from Papertrey Ink called the Take Three die.

Papertrey Ink Halloween tree

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to Patricia and Lianne who are new followers this week. There are spooky goings on over at Papertrey Ink this week, and although it seems a little early to be thinking of Halloween, I thought I'd join in. We are asked to create a Halloween project but as we don't send Halloween cards in England, I thought I'd make up some trick or treat boxes. We get increasing numbers of children calling each year as Halloween gets more popular around here and the little ones look really cute in their scary costumes, so it will be good to be prepared.

I used the Favor it Box 5 die to make black boxes out of textured card and cut labels with the Happy Day die and scalloped and plain circles

I used a little flourish stamp from Happy Days and a set of Halloween stamps that were a kind gift from Margaret last year and mixed them up to produce a set of labels,

which I then attached to the treat boxes along with some ribbon.

 I then hung the boxes onto a tree that I last used for hanging Easter eggs, and dressed it up as a ghostly tree for Halloween

Do go and have a look at all the great projects on Nichole's blog if you have time. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Superstar birthday card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Susanne and Trish who are new followers this week. Thank you for taking the trouble and I really hope you find something to interest you here on your visits. How the weeks fly by and I can't believe Saturday has come round so quickly with another challenge over at LIM. This week we are asked to use brown and pink on a card and this really pleases me because I think these two colours look great together. Here is the card I came up with

It is difficult to see on the photo but I used a textured brown card and pearlised pink card. I embossed the pink strip with a star embossing folder and stamped the star patterns on the pink card with tricolour Tiramisu Brilliance pigment ink because that dries well on pearl card. I matted them onto brown star die cuts and mixed and matched some sentiments to draw the eye across the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good weekend.

Hugs
Carol x