It's Always Been You

It's time for my wedding anniversary (19 years - wow) so I needed to make a card for my hubby.
This card just happens to fit in with CAS-ual Friday's #119 Challenge: Embossing and  Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge .

The sentiment on the heart is embossed with black detail embossing powder - the sentiment was perfect for this!

Ingredients: MFT Lovey-Dovey Sentiments; PTI LL: Hearts, Chevron Cover Plate; My Mind's Eye Love Me pattern paper

Merry Christmas to All

It's time for another Make it Monday from PTI.  This week's MIM #138 is Inlaid Die Cuts by Betsy Veldman. I love this one! I decided to make a Christmas card to add to my stash but I plan on trying this technique for other holidays/occasions.

It's a little hard to tell from the pic but I used PTI's white shimmer card stock for the main panel.  I also stamped the word "merry" a with background stamp in Versamark Frost which you can't see at all here. (I use my iPad to take pics.)

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow (dies), Wonderful Words: Holiday stamps and dies, BB: Retro, shimmer card stock; Doodlebug Home for the Holidays pattern paper (tree)

Wreath Card for Festive Friday Challenge

It's time for the Festive Friday Challenge and Challenge #20 is an Element Challenge! The element for this time is wreaths!

I used WPlus9's awesome Woodland Wreath stamp set to create my card and covering the wreath in yummy clear glitter for a snowy effect.

Ingredients: WPlus9 Woodland Wreaths; MFT Joy Photo Card Frame; PTI Pure Poppy Felt; Basic Grey Aspen Frost pattern paper; Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter - Clear Rock Candy

Ghost Pins for SSS Wednesday Halloween Challenge

This week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Halloween or Halloween Colors. Since I made all my Halloween cards already, I got creative and used my dies to make cute Halloween Ghostie pins to wear! I created a sandwich to make the felt sturdy so there is a piece of card stock between the 2 pieces of felt. For the back I cut holes thru the felt to push the edges of the pin back thru to hold it more securely.

Ingredients: PTI Felt, Ghostly Greetings (die); Wiggle Eyes, Pin Back

PTI October Blog Hop

It's blog hop time with Papertrey Ink and this month we are making tag sets!! Yeah!

I put together a set of 5 tags featuring PTI's In the Meadow dies and Stylish Sentiments: Holidays.

My tags use a technique Laura Bassen did here.  The snowman was the hardest for me because of the die layout but this was a fun technique I must try on a card (maybe a whole set!) soon! I also sprayed these with Calico Shine but it's a little hard to see.

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow (dies), Stylish Sentiments: Holidays, Tag Sale Dies #1, #3, #4 and #5; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper; MS Twine; Studio Calico Mr. Huey's Calico Shine Spray Mist

Tags & Bags - CAS-Fridays Challenge #118

The current CAS-Fridays challenge is to create a bag with a tag so I made a festive little parcel for gift-giving.

Ingredients: Large glassine bag (PTI); PTI Tremendous Tags, In the Meadow (tree, snowflakes); MFT Joy Photo Card frame (used negative); Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler; MS Twine; Misc chevron washi tape

Halloween Treat Boxes

I just adore My Favorite Things' Paper Bag Treat Box die and Peek-a-Boo Die-namics so I am using both for my little halloween treat boxes for my co-workers.  They were very easy and fast to put together.

For the bags with the spider web, I added some vellum to the inside for stability.  I'll put some candy inside a little baggie in each with a to/from tag.

Ingredients: MFT Paper Bag Treat Box Die-Namics, Peek-a-Boo Die-namics; PTI Halloween Prints pattern paper