This month's PTI Blog Hop challenge is to use black for a project background. Black looks stunning under pops of color or layered with white. If you would like to check things out for yourself, you can find out all about it here.
I recently had the time to try out Besty Veldman's great tutorial to achieve a chalkboard art look with our stamps. It was so much fun, that I knew I wanted to try it out again. What better subject for a chalkboard-look project than a card for my DD's awesome teacher! As a bonus - I'll have that end-of-the-year thank you all done and ready to go. :)
When PTI came out with their Teach & Inspire set, I knew it would go straight into my cart! The sentiment included is the motto for my DD's school. I LOVE that!
Here's a close-up of that great chalkboard-look technique in action:
And the inside sentiment:
Other than the twine, thread, white pencil, Copic markers, and Versamark ink, all supplies are from PTI.
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Hello! I decided to participate in a couple of challenges this week. First off is Waltzingmouse Blog Party. I've never participated before, but thought this month's challenge was too sweet to pass up! The theme is LOVE and the challenge was to make a project using WMS stamps that showcase your idea of love. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the details here.
The second challenge is Papertrey Ink's Make-It-Monday. With tips from Dawn McVey, she shows us ways to package up our projects that won't fit the standard A2 envelope. It's PTI's 100th MIM, so if you would like to check it out, you can find the details here.
For this challenge, my idea of love is a little gift for my DD's teacher. What better way to show your love for your teacher than with a little gift of health and well-being! :) With all those flu germs spreading like crazy, I decided to put an idea from Erin Lincoln to good use and make my DD's teacher a hand sanitizer cozy. With a little help from my mom (and the internet), she taught me how to crochet ... well, just enough to learn how to make this cozy! haha!
I put my stitching skills to test (they could use a little practice) on decorating my felt cutouts. My DD's teacher's favorite colors are black, red, and white, so that was my color palette. Perfect for a Valentine's gift, no?
I couldn't give a gift without wrapping it up just a little special, right? hehe
I used Betsy Veldman's great instructions for getting the chalkboard look to make a super cute tag. I love how it turned out!
Wrap it all up in a glassine bag and we have ourselves a sweet little handmade gift:
I sure do hope she likes it. :)
Stamps: WMS Fancy Flourishes and Compact Sentiment
Dies: PTI Notched Flowers, Lovely Layers, Limitless Layers Hearts, and Half & Half.
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White, PTI Black
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This week Papertrey Ink has a tutorial and challenge hosted by Betsy Veldman. She has shown us a technique to create an amazing chalkboard look on our projects. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the info here.
I decided to change my focus this year and get back to scrapbooking. To do this I will be utilizing the Project Life pocket pages. So, if I can stick to the plan, you should be seeing fewer cards and many more PL pocket inserts on the blog this year!
I used Betsy's awesome technique to make my first album insert:
FYI - I found that my kids' crayola white pencil didn't do the job. I had to dig into my stash of art supplies from my high school years to get a Berol brand and it worked great! Bonus - I had two white pencils in that stash!
Supplies: Versamark ink, white colored pencil, Studio Calico stamp set, and all the rest of the supplies are from PTI.
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This week Papertrey Ink has a tutorial and challenge hosted by Heather. She has shown us how to easily layer die cuts and add glitter for just the right amount of sparkle and glitz for our projects. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the info here.
I decided to take advantage of this week's challenge to make the project I was working on extra special. I can't say I would have ever made an entire tag covered in glitter if it weren't for Heather's tutorial, but oh, do I ever like the results! Take a look and let me know what you think ...
I made a thank-you card set for my daughter's teacher. She loves cooking, but I don't have any cooking-themed stamp sets. So, I went for the cutest alternative ... Gingerbread Lane. I just love that set!
I made a set of cards based off of a design I had made earlier. Pretty much a CASEing of this house design done by the ever so talented, Danielle.
I chose Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Vintage Cream, and Dark Chocolate for my color scheme.
A closer look at the cards:
A closer look at a gingerbread house:
Some embellished envelopes to coordinate:
Lastly, I packaged the set up in glassine bags, tied with twine, and layered with doilies and the challenge, all-over glittered, tag.
Doesn't it look like it is sugar-coated? I love that!
Just about all the supplies are from PTI.
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PTI Make It Monday #94: Detail Glitter Technique
This week Papertrey Ink has a tutorial and challenge hosted by Erin Lincoln. She has shown us how to get small precision glittered accents on our stamped images for just the right amount of sparkle. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the info here.
Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger: Shimmer & Shine
I was so inspired by the color scheme and holiday elegance of the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger: Shimmer & Shine. I decided that a wine bottle tag would be the perfect project to shimmer up and make it shine!
The tag is cut out of Stampers Select White card stock, and heat embossed in clear with the BB: Wrought Iron stamp set to give it a shiny, frilly background to mimic the scroll-work of the silver platter in the Trigger photo. I rolled some flowers out of Rustic Cream card stock and used Erin's technique to glitter the edges. Inspired by the rough texture of the platter surface, a few glittered die cut leaves were added to accent the flowers.
The sentiment was stamped in gold ink to reflect the color of the ornaments. A few clear rhinestones, inspired by the glass flowers sitting in the platter, were added to accent the sentiment.
I cannot wait to give this for a hostess gift over the holidays!
All that sparkle just makes me happy. :)
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This week Papertrey Ink has a tutorial and challenge hosted by Erin Lincoln. She has shown us how to get small precision glittered accents on our stamped images for just the right amount of sparkle. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the info here.
Tis the season for holiday gifting.
I really don't enjoy cooking or baking. I really just don't. Despite this fact, I managed to make 13 dozen iced buttermilk cookies to gift to teachers, bus drivers, and neighbors last year. I figured I would do my best to repeat the gesture this year. :)
I decided to dress-up some plain window coffee bags and make matching tags to gift my cookies in. I came up with a couple of different designs and liked them both so much that I thought I would use the snowflake design this year and save the poinsettia design for next year. LOL!
However, to make things more complicated, we have a new bus driver to add to the mix ... a male bus driver. Sooooo, I purchased the In the Meadow stamp set and created a masculine tag to adorn his bag of cookies. :)
Erin's precision glitter technique lent itself beautifully to these little tags. I used a Quickie Glue pen and glitter to highlight details on the snowflakes, veins on the poinsettia, and snow-topped hills on the meadow tag. The technique created just a touch of sparkle to make the tags look festive without over-doing it.
The snowflake tag:
The bags and tags together:
The poinsettia set:
Close-up of that sparkly poinsettia:
A look at the back of the tag:
The bag is stamped with poinsettias from Year of Flowers Collection stamp set:
The masculine meadow tag:
Close-up of the snow-topped hills:
So, what do you think? Do you have a favorite set? I really do like them all!
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This week Papertrey Ink has a tutorial and challenge hosted by Erin Lincoln. She has shown us how to get small precision glittered accents on our stamped images for just the right amount of sparkle. If you would like to check it out for yourself, you can find all the info here.
This week I had a need for a sympathy card and Erin's tutorial was just what I needed to make a nice card extra special. I used a Quickie Glue pen to outline the hearts in the center of the butterflies. It created just a touch of sparkle to make the card look more elegant, but not so much sparkle to prevent the glitter from ruling over the design. It was the perfect touch to add to my sympathy card. Thanks, Erin!
A close-up of those glitter-outlined hearts:
On the inside of the card, I added some shine with a Gelly Roll clear pen. I do declare that I like the results done with Erin's technique and the Prisma glitter so much better!
Supplies (all PTI unless noted):
Paper: Stampers Select White, Melon Berry
Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #10
Ink: Soft Stone, Sweet Blush, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy
Other: Quickie Glue Pen, Prisma glitter, Gelly Roll clear pen
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