Wishing You a Fabulous Day

After a few silent months, I was happy with the results on this one. I love the Signature Series stamps Dawn McVey has designed. Although this card was not accepted for a magazine submission, I am proud of myself for finally submitting something. I am going to continue to submit cards- you never know unless you try right??

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White- PTI
Stamps: Signature Series: Dress Form- PTI
Ink: Studio G & Martha Stewart
Ribbon: Chocolate Brown- Target
Tools: Signature Series: Dress Form Die; Corner Chomper, glue dots, Bow Easy

Spaghetti Sauce and Olive Jars...

I saw this project somewhere and I cannot remember which website it was. My 8 year old, Alex, walked in when I was working on this project and decided to make one of his own. I used the spaghetti sauce jar and he used an olive jar. All you need is tissue paper (we used red, orange and yellow), some punches and glue dots. Oh yes, and a tealight. Super easy and it's the kind of Halloween decoration that you can give as a gift. It took us about 15-30 minutes to make these. I love that Alex's witch is stirring her brew on the moon. He layered the tissue to look like a sunset, but it also reminds me of candy corn.

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop- White, Melon Berry & Ripe Avocado

Today I am participating in my first Blog Hop with PTI. The theme was to focus on COLOR. I decided to stay with a pretty clean and simple scheme. I used their Moroccan Motifs impression plate to emboss the white strip, then cut out just one of the "lines" of Motifs. The card is basic A2 size but I used a smaller white panel (4x5 1/4) to stamp and color the Lily of the Valley. After coloring it in, I used a craft knife to cut just around a few of the flowers and the leaves so it would over the embossed strip. I sponged Melon Berry ink onto the strip and around the smaller panel to add some color. The inside of the card says "Thinking of You Always".

Supplies:

Cardstock: PTI- Stamper's Select White

Stamps: PTI- Lily of the Valley

Ink: PTI- Melon Berry, Ripe Avocado

Other: PTI- Moroccan Motifs Impression Plate, Copics

You Mean the World To Me

I have always wanted to have silhouettes of my family done...so I ended up making them myself. I wanted to give my husband something different this year too. So, after about 100 self-timed shots of  myself (yes, kind of difficult to take pictures of myself and so that it is obvious I have my hand under my belly), trying to make the boys laugh, and then deciding which photos would make the best profile, I got to work. It really didn't take that long in the end to complete. Finished, it is in an 11x14 size photo frame. I could have put in Matt's silhouette as well, but decided not to risk him asking WHYYYY he had to take a smiling side profile shot. Instead I CASE'd a card I saw on Nichole Heady's blog for the last opening. After I stamped the trees, I used markers to fill in the leaves and a q-tip to color in the hills.
The boys and I chose our favorite colors for the panels each of our silhouettes was on, then we signed our names and ages (I also added in how many weeks pregnant I was at the time). I think after the baby is born I am going to have to come up with something, but not quite sure yet what I want to do. One of the best things I liked about this is that I already had everything but the frame on hand and it was started and completed in just a few hours.

Supplies:
Mat board: Martha Stewart (found on clearance at KMart over 1 year ago for 60 cents!! Don't you love when you find something like that??)
Glass Frame: Canopy
Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Masculine Motifs, Fresh Alphabet
Ink: Palette- Noir Black, PTI- Simply Chartreuse, Enchanted Evening
Cardstock: PTI- Hawaiian Shores, Rustic Cream; Stampin' Up!- Riding Hood Red, Tangerine Tango; the teal cardstock is from Hobby Lobby
Other: White gel pen, Copics, Su! Markers, PTI Rustic Jute twine

Enjoy the Ride

Stamps: Enjoy the Ride- PTI; Travel World- TPC Studio
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand- SU!; Noir Black- Palette; Tea Dye Duo- PTI;
Vintage Photo- Ranger
Paper: Stamper's Select White- PTI
Other: Copics, Enjoy the Ride Die- PTI