Madison Avenue

Another Friends 'Til the End with the Kit

Happy Friday!!!  Just wanted to quickly post my last variation on the card I created for the Friends 'Til The End card kit, this is actually the first card I made then had other ideas and ended up liking the one I shared during the countdown best (see it here).  Anyhow, for this one I stamped each panel with its corresponding ink color, you could also use Versamark ink to achieve this look.  The sentiment panel is Raspberry Fizz on Vintage Cream and punched out with a scalloped rectangle punch from Marvy.  I added the little "forever" tag at the last minute, just tucking it under the button with a little glue.

 

Supplies: Stamps - Friends 'Til the End (PTI), Ink - Raspberry Fizz, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, Paper - Vintage Cream, Raspberry Fizz, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, Other - Dark Chocolate Satin Ribbon, Buttons (SU!), Scalloped Rectangle Punch (Marvy)

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  It is sunny here for a little bit before the next storm so I plan to enjoy it a bit this afternoon with the kids!!

Simply Amazing

So there's this girl I know who inspires me, encourages me, and just makes me happy.  Her name is Nichole and she is to put it "simply" - AMAZING!  Her talent astounds me and her generous, warm nature fills me with happiness.  And don't you all think she has done a marvelous job building and nurturing a business we can all be proud to shop at and support?  Papertrey Ink is such a family and I am privileged to be a part of it and to call Nichole my friend.  Nichole went to great lengths this month to make sure everybody felt like they shared a part of Papertrey with her projects (which are consistently jaw droppingly gorgeous) to her wonderful giveaways.  So thank you Nichole for making Papertrey such a wonderful place to be and for welcoming me into your "family" with a big smile and hug!

I made this card to thank Nichole for her dedication to Papertrey and to us, the design team (not to mention the customers).  I used the fabulous stamp set she designed, Friends 'Til the End for those lovely flowers (stamped in Spring Rain on Vintage Cream cardstock) and one of her sentiments - "Simply Amazing" - from the Handwritten Notes set.  Don't you just LOVE that button, it is a Melon Berry button from the new release - love that flower shape:)!!

 

So take a moment today to let someone who inspires you and makes you feel happy that you appreciate them, you will be glad you did!!!

 

Supplies:  Stamps - Friends 'Til the End, Handwritten Notes; Ink - Spring Rain, Melon Berry, Spring Moss; Cardstock - Kraft, Vintage Cream, Spring Rain, Spring Moss, Vellum; Other - Melon Berry Vintage Button (PTI); Spring Rain (PTI); Scallop Edge Punch (SU!), Slot Punch (SU!), Corner Rounder (EK Success), Embroidery Floss

Hope you all have a fabulous Thursday!  Check out the design team links on my sidebar for other "Nichole" cards today - and make her one yourself if you feel so inclined!!!  {{HUGS}} to all:)!

Variation on Friends 'Til the End

When I designed my card for last month's Friends 'Til The End card, I made a couple of different variations on the same theme.  Thought I would share the first one today.  Instead of stamping the flowers in Vintage Cream on the different colors of cardstock, I stamped the flowers in Raspberry Fizz, Dark Chocolate, and Ripe Avocado on Vintage Cream cardstock.  All of the products used in this card can be found in the Friends 'Til The End card kit from Papertrey, well except the buttons, they were from my stash. 

 

Here is a close up of the tag, which I rubbed a bit of Vintage Cream ink on the edges and a little over the front.

I hope you are all having a wonderful Wednesday, sorry this is so short, I have stuff to do and already my morning has gotten away from me!!  Be back tomorrow with a special card I made for someone I admire greatly:)!

Retro Tags

Just a quick card to welcome you to the new week ahead.  Doesn't Monday always feel like a chance to start over?  Like if you had a bad week previously or jumped off the diet or didn't exercise as planned - all of those things that we procrastinate about - well Monday is a chance to start over right?  Welcome to a new week, one filled with rain, school, work, giggling, crafting, laundry, dishes, Legos, chocolate, and most of all love for us...how about you, what fills your week ahead? 

I combined theTags for Spring set with Background Basics: Retro and Little Lady to create this super easy card for you all.  I love the color combo - Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, and True Black.  This is probably my favorite tag in the set - at least right now - I can't wait to create more stuff with it.  I messed the Stickles in the flower centers up just a bit, but you get the idea right??? 

   

I really like the sentiment, so good for so many occasions and isn't the Fresh Snow ink coverage on black outstanding!!!???  I used a cute red button and some "Aqua Mist" embroidery floss.  Did I tell you all that I took all the PTI colors and went to our local hardware store where they have a million colors of embroidery floss and matched them all up!  It only cost me like $8 and I have all kinds of matchy fun:)!!

  

Supplies:

Stamps:  Tags for Spring, Background Basics: Retro, Little Lady, Borders and Corners Circle

Ink:  Fresh Snow, Aqua Mist, True Black, Pure Poppy

Cardstock:  True Black, SS White, Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist

Other:  Red Button, Embroidery Floss, Scalloped Circle Punch (Pink), Regular Circle Punch (Blue) (Marvy), Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, True Black Twill (PTI)

So enjoy the week ahead, thanks for stopping by!  One more thing, I sure hope you all have something as cute as this little bug in your life cause he is such a constant joy to us!  

 

PTI Sponsored CPS Sketch

Papertrey has partnered with Card Positioning Systems (CPS) again this week and there is a fabulous sketch to play with.  Those CPS designers made some beautiful cards with the Tags for Spring and Background Basics: Retro this week, go check them out!!

My take on the challenge utilizes a little scrap I had sitting around that was stamped with the With Sympathy flourish in Vintage Cream on Kraft cardstock.  I added Ocean Tides over the top and punched some small flowers from Raspberry Fizz cardstock with a little EK Success flower punch.  I just had to sift through the lovely Vintage Cream and White button mix to find all those bitty buttons for the flower centers.  I ran the Ocean Tides background piece through my Cuttlebug using the Houndstooth embossing folder and then distressed it a bit and sewed it on my cardfront.  The sentiment is from Quilters Samper Sentiments and stamped on Raspberry Fizz cardstock.  I added that little scalloped border at the last minute, I though the card needed just a little something extra!!

 

Here is a close up of the sentiment with that big brown button, I cannot wait for Papertrey to release Dark Chocolate buttons but for now I got this from my stash!!  I tied it with coordinating colors of embroidery floss, cute cute!

 

Supplies:

Stamps:  With Sympathy, Quilters Sampler Sentiments (PTI)

Ink:  Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream, Raspberry Fizz, Ocean Tides (PTI)

Cardstock:  Vintage Cream, Raspberry Fizz, Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Ocean Tides (PTI)

Other:  Vintage Cream Buttons (PTI), Houndstooth Embossing Folder (Provo Craft), Corner Rounder (EK Success), Small Flower Punch (EK Success), Sewing Machine, Threading Water Border Punch (Fiskars)

A few other Design Team members have tried their hand at the sketch with some fabulous results!!!

Nichole

Betsy

Becky

Okay, that's it for today, enjoy your Sunday!  I have a messy house to clean:)!!

Scrappy Little Birthday

Happy Friday, I hope you have all enjoyed your day and continue to have a good weekend!  I wanted to share another quick card I made with this month's release and the super wonderful new set Background Basics - Retro.  I just took some paper strips of the Men of Life patterned paper and layered on the Spring Rain cardbase, then created my little tag with Nestabilities (circle and labes 1 dies).  I also used the Birthday Basics and Fresh Alphabet for my sentiment and yep, that is a New Leaf button from PTI!The twill is Fresh Snow and was stamped with a couple of background elements before adhering to the card.  I really like using little scraps of twill on my cards lately, I just think it adds a little something!

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Background Basics - Retro, Fresh Alphabet, Birthday Basics
Ink: Spring Moss, Spring Rain, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate
Cardstock: Men of Life Patterned Paper, Dark Chocolate, SS White, Spring Moss, Spring Rain
Other: New Leaf Vintage Button, Embroidery Floss, Fresh Snow Twill, Labels 1, Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Star Die (Provo Craft)

Thanks for stopping by!  See ya next week!!

 

Papertrey Release #3

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  I will share more Papertrey Release samples today, this time using the fun new set Handwritten Notes.  It was so much fun to be a part of this set and to see what everyone else came up with, I have already made quite a few cards with some of the other girls' sentiments, they are all so fun!  I contributed two, ones that are a bit different but meaningful to me.  The first is "Listen to the whispers of your heart..." and it really just came to me when thinking about Madison, I like to think she is with me all the time and I just have to pay close attention to my heart to "hear" and feel her.  Anyhow, I liked it and I hope you do too!  Here is the card I came up with for it, using With Sympathy, I embossed the swirl image on Aqua Mist cardstock and punched out two hearts with the large heart punch.  This card is kind of busy but I really like how it all came together and I love this color combo (it is a favorite of Betsy's)!

 

The other sentiment is "Sprinkles of happy thoughts"...which was inspired by my sister.  We were going through a little bit of a stressful time a few months back and my sister sent me an email and that is what she wrote...sending you sprinkles of happy thoughts, I just thought is was really cute.  I couldn't think of a better image than a cupcake to go with that sentiment so I used one of the cute cupcakes fromIt's a Celebration and created this simple colorful card.

   

That's it for today!  A few more projects to share from the release then on to new stuff, I made a lot of extras this month and can't wait to share them with you all!!!

Papertrey Release #2

Good Monday Morning all!  Hoping lots of you are enjoying a nice day off and if not I hope you have a good day anyway!  Thought I would share another couple of cards I made for this release, this time using Damask Designs by the fabulous new designer Dawn McVey.  I love this set, it is so pretty and can be used for a variety of different styles.  I made two cards with this one, both very simple using both the long background stamps and the individual damask stamps as well as the sentiments.  First one uses Spring Rain, Fresh Snow and True Black, I really like how it turned out and it was so easy!  I may have to do more of these in different colors!

 

The second one uses a "technique" I like to use to make backgrounds a little less crisp while adding a little depth.  I inked up the stamp with Dark Chocolate ink, then kinda blotted some of it away with a balled up piece of saran wrap.  I made the tag with an oval Nestability and stamped one of the individual damask shapes in Sweet Blush ink to create a pattern.

 

Hope you are having a great day!  Be back to share more in the next few days!!   

Papertrey Release #1

Whew, that was a great (and tiring) two weeks!!!  I can't even imagine how Nichole feels, she puts so much time, energy, and heart into everything she does!  I know she has been staying up late every single night and starting early every morning, how she does it I do not know!  I do appreciate her though and am so happy to be a part of Papertrey for another wonderful year!

The sets this month are just wonderful, aren't they?  I seriously love them all and I find myself reaching for them over and over and not just for "assignments"!  I will just share a couple of cards tonight and more in the coming days, don't want to overwhelm you;)!  This one uses a few of the new releases and is maybe my favorite card I made this month.  I used Background Basics - Retro, Beyond Basic Borders, and Tags for Spring in this card - all wonderful sets!  The first layer I made was the Summer Sunrise layer, I scored it into a grid pattern, masked each little square, then stamped each of the retro designs in Background Basics Retro in the squares.  Then I cut it out, roughed up the edges a little, and sponged some Spring Moss around the edges.  I placed it on a piece of Polka Dot Parade patterned paper cut with the largest Labels 1 die from Spellbinders which I also sponged with Spring Moss ink.  I made the focal point next, stamping the tree image from Beyond Basic Borders with Ripe Avocado ink, then the grid pattern from Background Basics Retro over that, and adding the little "hello" sentiment stamped in Ocean Tides on a snip of Summer Sunrise cardstock.  After mounting it all on a 4.25x4.25 cardbase in Ripe Avocado, I added the little button and bird from the Tags for Spring set.  Do you like how I tied the floss through the button (yes it is a PTI button)?  I took all my Papertrey colors to the store and picked out floss to match each one, this one uses three colors, Ocean Tides, Ripe Avocado, and Summer Sunrise to tie it. 

 

One more tonight, using Journaling Lines and Beyond Border Basics and some yummy Melon Berry buttons.  I stamped the branch image from Beyond Border Basics in Ripe Avocado, then added small Melon Berry buttons for all the "berries" on the branch, finally added the sentiment in Melon Berry ink.  I chose to make a cool grid for the background using the dotted lines from Journaling Lines, this is such a fabulous stamp with so many possibilities!  The ribbon is the super cute new Melon Berry Bitty Dots Ribbon which I love!!!  I also stamped the scalloped border stamp in Fresh Snow ink on the Kraft cardbase, it is such a cool stamp, I love everything scalloped. 

 

Okay, that's it for now, but I will be posting more over the next few days so check back often:)!!  Have a great day!

Happy Valentine's Day

Quick post to wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day spent with people you love!  We are enjoying a day with family and lots of snow!!  It just keeps coming down and it is really really pretty but I know I will be sick of it soon:)!!! 

Here is another card made with scraps from the Cherise patterned paper (retired) collection from SU! andHeart Prints from PTI.  I used Pure Poppy ribbon and Vintage Cream cardstock, cut the little sentiment panel out with rectangular scalloped nestabilities.  The hearts are punched with the large heart punch and adhered with foam tape.

 

Supplies:

Stamps:  Heart Prints (PTI)

Ink:  Pure Poppy (PTI)

Paper:  Cherise Patterned Paper (SU!), Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy (PTI)

Other:  Pure Poppy Grosgrain Ribbon (PTI), Heart Punch (EK Success), Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Scalloped Edge Punch (SU!), Button

Have a good day and thanks for stopping by!  I will start sharing my Papertrey projects for the month tomorrow so make sure to check back in with me!