Papertrey Ink Engagement card

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a good weekend and carving out a little craft time for yourself. I have been spending a lot of time with my (teacher) daughter over the summer holidays and I shall miss her when she goes back to school next week, but once we hit September it is definitely time to look forward to autumn and I really love it before it gets too cold. I have a big birthday coming up in September and I think I would rather ignore it but it seems my daughter has other plans so there will be some kind of gathering to celebrate/commiserate with me.

I have seen other people enter some gorgeous cards into the CAS-ual Fridays challenges and I thought I would play along for the first time this week.

We were asked to use Kraft and text on a card and I came up with this one

I cut a panel of kraft cardstock and embossed the scroll designs from Papertrey Ink Boutique Borders Birthday in white. I die cut 2 butterflies with  the Love Lives Here dies and stamped them with the Bitty Background stamps in Hawaiian Shores ink, before curling the edges of the butterflies to give a bit of dimension. I popped little red hearts into the the centres of the butterflies and added glossy accents to give them some shine (doesn't show up so well in this photo). Next I stamped and embossed the sentiments from PTI Just a Kiss with Zing embossing powder. I finally used a canvas texture plate on the panel before adhering the butterflies. I added a couple of strips of striped paper to the edges of the panel and raised it with pop dots on the base card.

As this was a card for my daughter to give one of her friends who had just got engaged, I made an envelope liner and stamped it with the butterfly stamp to make it a little special.

I am also entering this into the Cute Card Thursdays challenge which is 'things with wings' and Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge which is 'anything goes'.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol .

Papertrey Ink Christmas card

Hello everyone and a very special warm welcome to Sue who is a recent new follower. Today is the Papertrey Ink Blog hop and this time Nichole gave us a number of sketches and colours to make a card with. I chose this one

and then panicked about what I should do with such a lot of strong colours! I was about to give up when I remembered some advice from the Summer Camp Card Class which is to use colours in small amounts so I came up with this Christmas Card to add to my stash:-

I die cut scalloped circles and used a motif from Peace, Love and Joy around the perimeter in enchanted evening, plum pudding, royal velvet, Hawaiian shores and simply chartreuse. I cut another circle and stamped the warm winter wishes sentiment, embossed it in white and raised it on a pop dot. The large sentiment from Think Big Favorites 21 was stamped in royal velvet and I added a bow from Birthday Style with a Christmas stocking charm suspended on some crochet thread. This panel was impressed with the canvas plate and attached to the base card with a trim of stripey paper which I cut on a diagonal to give an echo of candy cane patterns.

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Blog Hop for Marybeth

Hello everyone, 

Today we are saying Belated Happy Birthday to Marybeth from Marybeth's Time for Paper.  I was delighted when Joyce and Cathy (who kindly organised the blog hop) asked if I would like to join in because I get to join everyone in showing Marybeth some love and much deserved appreciation. I found Marybeth when I took part in my first Blog Hop and loved the card she showed. Since then I have been a regular visitor to her site and really like the variety of inspiring projects she shares. Marybeth has been sweet enough to encourage me in my card making endeavours, and I always smile when I see her name attached to a comment on my blog. Marybeth's birthday was actually earlier this month but we are hoping  that this "little" hop will make today special for her too.

I hope you had a lovely birthday, and that you have a great day today, Marybeth. I decided to make a card for you with Papertrey Ink materials because I first came across you on their site. Well that's enough from me - rush off and see the goodies from everyone else.

Joyce
Cathy

Ally

Bev

Bonnie

Carol J.

Carol S. You are here.

Christina

Darnell

Helen

Jeanne

Jill

Kara

Kelly

Kim

Lisa

Nancy

Renee

Sharron

Sue

Tracey

Vickie

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x

Lily of the Valley Christmas card

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a good weekend so far. We are going to a wedding tomorrow but have a quiet day for a change today, so I made a card for the new Festive Friday challenge. The theme this week is to make a card with a children's theme and I inked up my new little bunny stocking stamp from Lily of the Valley stamps for it. I also used the colours for this week's theme at the Winter Wonderland challenge which is to use red and green and I hope my pastel greens count.

I stamped and coloured the cute bunny stocking using Copic markers and added some glitter to the white parts. I then cut a circle shape around it, inked the edges and placed it on a pale green scalloped mat. For the background I cut a square of pale green card and stamped it with a star background stamp. I made a couple of tiny tags for the sentiment

I stamped one with a little snowman and this is partly hidden by the top tag so that an exploring child can get a surprise.

The scalloped mat was placed on pop dots to give a little dimension, and a little red bow finished it off.

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey Ink Wedding Card

Hello everyone and especially to Ella and Connie, who are very welcome new blog friends this week. We had a lovely weekend seeing friends and family but I finally got to do a little crafting yesterday because there are a couple of weddings coming up that I wanted to make cards for. This card is for a couple who are getting married in Montana, USA and sadly, the cost of getting there was too much for our budget at present, so this card will be tucked into the suitcase of a friend who is going. The wedding is taking place on a ranch (home of the bride) and will be a very rustic affair, so I thought I would bring a smile with a card that features wedding bells as they won't be able hear any from the ranch.

This uses the Christmas set Bells and Boughs from Papertrey Ink, and I tumbled the pastel coloured bells down one side, added the sentiment and a tiny tag with a heart cut out, and then matted it onto hibiscus burst card. This panel is raised on pop dots for a little dimension, and I finished it off with a tiny heart and gem and, because you can't, have a wedding card without a little bling somewhere, I dotted a little glitter on the base of the bells.

I wanted to make the envelope a bit special so I lined the envelope and stamped the liner with some coordinating bell stamps. 

Job done!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

One Stop Craft Challenge - use pastel colours

CAS on Sunday - Tag it

Little Claire Challenge - Wedding or Anniversary

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Candy cane Christmas card

Hello everyone, and an especially warm welcome to Nancy and Joan who are new followers this week.

I've just popped on to share another card for the Festive Friday element challenge, which this week is to use candy canes. As I love candy canes, I made another card before putting the Papertrey Ink Candy Cane Christmas set away, and came up with this one:-

I cobbled together a hanging bauble by stamping on a punched circle and added a bauble hanger from a Sizzix die, all mounted onto one of the Limitless Layers Circle dies. I stamped the candy canes to make a border and used gold mirror card as a mat. The sentiments are embossed with gold embossing powder but it hasn't shown up too well in the photo. Just a short post today because we have been out all afternoon at a retirement party and youngest son is coming for tea, so I have to get my skates on!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink, Peace Love and Joy Christmas card.

Hello everyone,

I am still having withdrawal symptoms from the Summer Card Camp but I sat down today to join in the challenge over at Festive Friday which this week is to use candy canes. I wanted to make a card with non traditional colours and came up with this

I used Papertrey Ink Candy Cane Christmas stamps and Peace Love and Joy. I added some gems and embroidery thread to finish it off. I tried doing a multicoloured sentiment and I'm quite pleased with the result.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x