A trio of baby cards

I wanted to share a trio of baby cards that I made using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Paper-Piecing.

For all three cards, I used Teresa Collins patterned paper and PTI's Tremendous Treats: Birthday stamp set.

For my first card, I used the PTI Hexagons cover plate to diecut my cardstock and patterned paper. I layered my paper-pieced elephant and balloons on a Half & Half diecut. The sentiment is selectively inked from the Simple Sentiments stamp set.

I used some leftover hexagons to make my next card. This time I paper pieced the little chick and added a sentiment from PTI's On the Farm, stamped on a double-ended banner diecut. A couple of My Mind's Eye decorative brads finish it off.

And lastly, a baby card using the same little elephant, but this time for a baby girl, layered on a couple of Limitless Layers: Oval diecuts.

I cut the "J" from a piece of My Mind's Eye patterned paper, thinking it would be a neat way to personalize the baby's card by using her first initial.

Thanks for looking!

A little rainy day crafting

Well, it's been raining here since Friday. So, yesterday, Sage & I decided to make some cards using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Paper-Piecing.

Now, I need to say that because I don't colour, I don't have a lot of stamps that work well for paper-piecing. I have the new PTI Fox set, Friends Til the End and Tremendous Treats: Birthday.

So, Sage chose the fox set, along with some October Afternoon and Crate Paper patterned paper.

I helped her a little (she was getting frustrated with the cutting. I kept saying: "some people find cutting relaxing," but she was having a hard time believing it! LOL! She was happy with the end result, but didn't want to start a second card. ;)

And, I chose Friends Til the End. I used some My Mind's Eye patterned paper, a TBF #12 stamp and my Heart Border die. I also used my Beautiful Blooms II #2 die & Lovely Layers die to diecut some PTI felt. I finished it off with a raspberry fizz button and PTI twine.

I'm also linking my card up for this week's challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog: Flower Power.

Thanks for looking!

Right on Target

I was really inspired by this week's Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World:

So, I decided to make some thank you cards for my kids' teachers. Originally, I thought I'd make 8 or so cards, but these ended up being so finicky that I stopped at three.

Here's what I did.... For the background, I stamped my WMS woodgrain stamp onto PTI soft stone cardstock, using CTMH slate ink. For my targets, I created a cut file in Silhouette and cut out eight different ones (one of each eight colours I used: hibiscus burst, hawaiian shores, limeade ice, aqua mist, orange zest, pure poppy, harvest gold (all PTI) and a Bazzill purple. While these were still on my Silhouette cutting mat, I stamped them with the WMS woodgrain stamp in soft stone. Then I cut out some white circles. On these I stamped some woodgrain images (also from my WMS set), so I could leave some "blanks" when building my targets. Then I started adhering the pieces from the outside in. I also cut out some vellum pieces to adhere over three sections of the target.

For my sentiment, I diecut some cardstock with my PTI double-ended banner die. On this, I stamped an arrow from Mama Elephant's On Target and over that, I stamped my sentiment, from PTI's Happy Trails.

Here are the two other cards, using the same techniques, but different coloured cardstock for the mat and sentiment banner.

This is definitely the most cardstock I've ever used for three cards! LOL!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Friday

This week has been a busy one! I've worked almost every day. Also, Jonah was in the Grade 5 Musical production of the Jungle Book yesterday afternoon (I got to take the Grade 3 class I was subbing in to go and watch) and last night. I'm looking forward to a long weekend.... even if the forecast is for rain. I'll just spend most of it in my craft area. ;)

I have a card to share today. I'm linking it up for this week's challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog: Flower Power.

I used Echo Park patterned paper and gorgeous chipboard flower. I inked the edges of the patterned paper and of the PTI stamper's select white cardstock. I added some PTI buttons and twine, as well as the stamped sentiment from Harvest Berries, in Enchanted Evening ink.

Thanks for looking!

PWP Sketch #21

Well, it's May 15th, which means it's time for me to post another sketch for Pages With Papertrey.

Here's the sketch I designed this month:

And here's the layout I made, using My Mind's Eye patterned paper. I also used PTI's Birthday Style stamps  and Beautiful Blooms II & Tag Sale #3 dies.

The flower embellishment was one that hung on the banner we'd decorated Sage's party with. It was too pretty to throw out, so I decided to use it on my layout.

If you create a layout using this sketch, I'd love to see it! Please link it up either here in the comments or here on the PTI forum.

Thanks for looking!

Mother's Day Recap

I had a pretty good Mother's Day yesterday. After church, we went for lunch at my SIL's. After lunch, we took the kids to the nearby school and played switch against the brick wall, which was a lot of fun. We came home and relaxed a bit and then went for a walk after supper. We finished off the day by watching a DVD while snuggling on the couch and then reading a chapter of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief together.

I told the kids that the best Mother's Day gift for me would be some photos of them.... here's what I got...

These were taken in our backyard before church. And these next two were taken on our front steps after church.

And here is the card that Sage made me. She's always so thoughtful when making cards because she'll take the likes of the recipient into consideration. She wanted to add a bike because she knows how much I enjoy my bike, so she used my Hero Arts wooden stamp (she'd actually stamped it right onto the white cardstock at first, but being not used to wooden stamps (I'm not a huge fan of them either!), it smudged. I showed her how she could save her card by stamping onto the patterned paper and layering it over top.) The stamp and die she used are Lil Inkers from last month's release (I'd won these-- aren't they great?) She also asked me what colours I'd like.

I told the kids that they were my best Mother's Day gift ever. (Of course, I wouldn't have turned down a pedicure or this fabulous new stamp set and coordinating dies!)

Thanks for looking!

Happy Mother's Day

Just wanting to wish a happy Mother's Day to all of my wonderful friends!

I was actually on Mother's Day, fourteen years ago, that Austin was born. The best Mother's Day present ever!

I have a card to share today.... it's a birthday card that I made for my mom's boyfriend. He has the same birthday as Austin and they came over yesterday for supper.

I stamped the background with PTI's World Map, after having inked it with Enchanted Evening and Aqua Mist ink. I created the sentiment piece by diecutting a strip of cardstock with one half of Mat Stack 5 and stamping a sentiment from SS:Birthdays, as well as the arrow stamp from Destination. I also stamped the little plane from Destination and cut it out by hand and adhered it with a pop dot.

I'm also linking this up for this week's Simon Says Stamps Challenge: Things with Wings.

Thanks for looking!