Sweet Birthday Wishes....PTI MIM

Hello Friends,
Had some time to play along with Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #317 "Using Outline Images" this afternoon.  Stephanie Gold shows a fun stamping technique over on their blog. Thanks Stephanie! This was such a fun stamping technique!

Here is my card using "Strawberry Patch" and "Strawberry Patch Sentiments":

Sorry about the photo quality....it is soooo dark and rainy here in Seattle this afternoon but I wanted to get this posted instead of waiting until tomorrow morning to get good light.
Hope you play along!
Jill

Celebrate....Make it Monday #215: Bringing the inside out

Danielle is up for the Make it Monday video this week over at Nichole's Blog for Papertrey Ink.  I love her idea of bringing the inside of the card out!  And since it is summer I am finding a little more crafty time so that I can play along!  Yay!

I wanted to ink up my new "Hooray" stamp set (designed by Lizzie Jones!) and use my new "celebrate" word die from Heather's "Good Times" die set.  I cut the word die 3 times and stacked them for some dimension.  I finished the card with some stacked sequins. The flower shaped sequins are from Paper Sweeties.  They are so fun!

It is completely overcast here in Seattle this morning so my picture quality is sad....hoping to retake if the weather improves.

I have to run!  I hope you take a peek at all of the wonderful cards everyone has already made.
So inspiring!
:) Jill 

Make it Monday #150 - Window Screen Cards...

Hello Everyone,
Do you ever fall in love with a card at first sight and HAVE TO CASE IT!!!! ?

Well I fell in love with this week's Make it Monday video and the cards that Melissa Phillips made and I just had to try CASEing them...

I used stamps from Papertrey Ink and Paper Sweeties as some of the products Melissa used I do not have in my crafty stash at this time.

Here are my cards:

The tiny feathers sticking out as leaves behind my flower are from a Cheery Lynn Designs Feather die set that comes with a tiny ink well!  Thought they worked great here!  The floral paper is from Iralamija's shop on ETSY. 

And a couple details shots:
I added glossy accents and glitter to the "screen" on this card because of a glue mistake but I love how it looks:

 On these two I turned the "screen" portion in the opposite direction so I could bring the focus on the diamonds in the center of the heart:

Melissa thanks for inspiring me!  I have a ton more ideas buzzing in my head but I already stole all the time I can this morning and am off to some appointments with my son...

Thanks for taking a look!  I cannot wait to go and look at everyone's cards for this MIM!
Hugs,
Jill

Make It Monday #130: Using Heat N' Bond to Make Fabric Die Cuts

Happy Weekend!  It is Saturday today and I have been playing last night and this morning at using Heat N' Bond to make fabric die cuts so I could participate in the Make it Monday Challenge #130 over at Nichole Heady's Blog "Capture the Moment" for Papertrey Ink.

I had my lovely tea-stained fabric all ready to be used from Stamp-A-Faire thanks to a lovely tutorial I watched from Melissa Phillips.  I made several different die cuts with the fabric and ended up using a cupcake die cut on the front of a card to make a birthday ensemble.  Here is what I came up with:

The tea-stained fabric was die-cut and then attached to the card base made with Papertrey Ink's Shape-Up Series Cupcake Die Collection.  I then added some book-paper roses, paper and crocheted doily pieces, some leaves, buttons, floss, diecut border and a tag to finish it off. 

Next I worked on altering a burlap bag and making a small envelope to hold either a pair of earrings or a gift card for one of my sisters birthdays in the coming months. 

I used a lot of the same items and also created a double-layered tag with a flower button, floss bow, and key charms on the floss strands to decorate them up a bit.  The base layer is some lovely cream colored felt which I diecut with a scalloped rectangle die.

And finally to insert in the bag the little envelope:

Well that is it for me for crafting today.  It has been a busy week and we are off to the school picnic this evening at a local park to welcome everyone back to school.  Tim made it through the first 1/2 week of 3rd Grade and so did I!  :) LOL!  Here are some pictures of his first day taken on our front porch right before we left Wednesday morning:

He surely is the light of my life and I am so proud of him!!!!  I forgot to make him his first day of school card for his lunch box so I ran downstairs and made this in less than a minute...you can tell too...but it is the thought that counts!  :)

Thanks for visiting my little blog!  Happy Crafting and Back-to-School time!
Hugs,
Jill

Hi Sweetie!

Edited to add:  In re-reading my post this morning 7-10-13, I discovered that a paragraph regarding PTI's Make it Monday challenge was missing for some reason.  I am adding it back in.
Hello Friends,
My little one has been down with a horrible flu or possibly sick from something he ate for the past 48 hours.  He is finally feeling a bit better tonight and I whipped up this little card and envelope for a couple of challenges while trying to tackle the mountain of towels and sheets in my laundry room that have accumulated the last two days.

I needed something bright and cheerful and easy and decided to play along with The Shabby Tea Room's Week #174 - Cherry Pie challenge. Here is the inspiration photo:

 

 This week Tracey is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Cherry Pie' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that we who choose to play along create a card or project inspired by the photo using RED, WHITE (or CREAM), AQUA AND TWINE and/or BURLAP!

 I used some hemp twine to sew the cherry stems on my focal point.  And I made the cherries out of coaster board from PTI with a layer of red gingham die cuts so they would stand up more.  The stamps are Fruit Fusion: Cherries by Melissa Bickford for Papertrey Ink.  I just love this sweet little set and was so happy to have the Tea Room inspiration to cause me to pull them out!

I chose to stamp my sentiment on a piece of velvet ribbon from Michael's.  The ribbon is photographing darker than in real life for some reason. It actually matches the aqua gingham paper quite nicely in reality.  I tried adjusting the photo and re-taking it but could not get it to show differently.  Perhaps the brown ink of the sentiment is making it show differently.


I am also linking up to Nichole Heady's blog Capture the Moment for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #124.  This week Melissa Phillips posted a lovely video about decorating our envelopes.  I decided to try it with this card using some dry embossing and some leftover die cuts created while making my card design: 

 I also created a little gift label for the person I am giving this card to.

Thanks for taking a look at my card and envelope.
Hugs,
Jill

Supplies:
Stamps:  PTI: Fruit Fusion: Cherries with matching die
Cardstock:  PTI - white
Paper:  Digital gingham pastels - pink and aqua; Digital gingham brights - red.  Digital Floral paper
Ink: Memento Lady Bug, PTI Hawaiian Shores, Chalk ink - brown
Other:  Lil Inker stitched circle dies; coaster board - PTI; small doily dies; oval die: PTI; edge punch - EK success?; embossing folder: Anna Griffin; pop dots; tombow glue; hemp twine - Michael's. trendy twine; and pin.