Papertrey Sketch Challenge

Papertrey's 6th anniversary festivities are well under way over at Nicole's blog.  I'm glad that today I finally had a chance to make a couple of cards for one of the challenges.  Today's challenge is a fun one -- to create a card based on one of the sketches on today's blog post.   This card is based on Sketch #1. 

Stamps:  Peaceful Garden
Inks:  Canyon Clay, Terracotta Tile, Summer Sunrise
Paper:  Kraft, Melon Berry

The Other Box and Card Set

I mentioned in my last post that I had 2 friends who had birthdays this week.   This is the box and card set that I made for the other friend.  I'll admit that this card is not very bulky -- just one layer of dimensional adhesive under the panel and 3 rhinestones, but I really liked the look of the glassine bag on the back of the box.  Like I said in my earlier post, this method could handle a card with a lot more bulk.  The card design came directly from this card by Maile Belles. 

Here is the card tucked in place on the back of the box:

Colors used:  Enchanted Evening (PTI), Rustic White (PTI), Onyx Black (Versafine), Copic markers
Stamps used:  Quilled Elegance

Thanks for looking!

Another Make It Monday

It's fun to have the chance to make a couple more entries for Make It Monday this week.  I'm making the most of a long weekend.  This weekend, I had the chance to celebrate the birthdays of a couple of special friends.  This is the card/box set I made for one of them.  (In the box, by the way, are the most AMAZING brownies.   You can find the recipe for them here from the Pioneer Woman.   Go look, but I promise you'll be hungry.) 
My solution for the card here would work for cards with much more bulky embellishments than I have here.  It was even more of a solution, in this case, because I needed a place for the card.  So here's the solution:

I trimmed a glassine bag to fit the back of the gift box.  I attached the bag to the box with strips of Scor Tape.  (Do me a favor and pretend that I didn't forget to make sure the bag's seam was facing the back -- duh!)    It really like the way the coordinating card still shows through the bag. 

Stamps used:  Rosie Posie, Fabulous Frames, Quilled Elegance (LOVE that font!)
Colors used:  Berry Sorbet (PTI), Pure Poppy (PTI), Onyx Black (Versafine)
The box is one of my very favorite Sillhouette cut files.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make It Monday #100

The Make It Monday challenge this week over at Papertrey is to package cards that have oversized embellishments.    I'll have to admit that I stayed very close to Dawn's sample for this one, and even patterned my card after another card that she made lately that I loved.  The glassine bag is nice for this project not only because the button and ribbon at the top of the card are bulky, but also because it's a nicer wrapping for the gift card inside than a simple envelope would be.  Hopefully, our niece will enjoy opening this gift!

Here's the card that's tucked inside.  Like I said, this is very much like the one in this post by Dawn McVey.  She's a genius.  :) 

Stamps used:  Quilled Elegance (just got it in the mail today!!!)
Ink/Paper colors used:  Island Indigo (SU), Concord Crush (SU), Raspberry Fizz (PTI), Lucky Limeade (SU)

Thanks for looking!

Camp Farewell

What a weekend!  Other than my (very sleepy) time at church this morning and the mandatory Sunday afternoon nap (what?  you have one of those, don't you?), I've spent this entire weekend crafting.  Papertrey gave us and our supplies quite a workout this weekend.  It was a lot of fun.  It'll take me all next week to go back and read everything that I skimmed.  And it'll take the next year to go through and see what the other "campers" created.  I've peeked at a few in the InLinkz lists, and really want to go spend more time hopping through blogs.  Here is the shot of everything I made yesterday -- except the mess, I'll spare you that scene.  And the cute little baby card that I left out for some reason.

Oh, look!  You do get to see a little of the mess, after all!   The things I made today are pictured in my other posts from today, but I forgot to take a shot of them to add to this post.  I think that the next time I participate in a Papertrey event like this, I'm going to hire a photographer and a read-me-what's-going-on-in-the-forum person (I'm sure there's a better title for that).  And I'll need someone to clean up for me after it's all over.  Ugh!  My desk is in a shambles.  Many thanks to Nicole and Heather and Dawn and Danielle and Ashley and Jessica and Betsy and Erin and Melissa and Maile and Michelle!   Boy, I hope I didn't leave anyone out -- they all did a lot of work for this and even videotaped themselves for us.  It was especially fun to encounter them on the forum every now and then when I'd come up for air. 

It was a great weekend, but now I can go to bed knowing that I've earned all of my 2012 Stamp-a-faire badges.  Whew!

DIY -- Homemade Embellishment Challenge

Today it was fun to sit down and make a few little embellishments.  I chose to model my embellishments after Heather's felt badges.  I forgot to take a picture of the embellishments before I put them on tags, so you just get the "finished" look. 

I think these will be cute to attach to gift bags -- or even to make into cards!

Camp Card Challenge

All of the card set examples from the design team were so nice.  I'll probably go back and make more of them in the future.  But I was most intrigued by Danielle's little set made with the Half & Half dies.  These would be quick little sets to make for teacher gifts.  I'm thinking that they'd be a cute little set of Christmas tags/ gift inserts to give as a Secret Santa gift.    I'd also like to make some as inserts for birthday gifts -- especially for kids' birthdays. 

Here's my set:

I used Spring Rain card stock and Blueberry Sky ink.  The tags are really different shades of cream, but my wonderful photography made them look yellow.