Happy Birthday card

Here's a fun Happy Birthday card, using a paper flower medallion on the front. I really like making these paper flowers, they are fun, and add interesting element to your cards.  The card is just a PTI Pure Poppy cardstock with Beautiful Blooms pattern paper.  The stamped sentiments come from the Big Birthday Wishes and Birthday Bash Sentiments stamp sets.

Here is the inside of the card, using the same elements.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great day!

Danny's 1st Birthday Invites

This invitation goes back to February, when Danny turned one! I cant believe that I didn't write this post until now.  I embossed the card front with the PTI By The Numbers Impression Plate.  I wanted to keep the design simple as I had several of these to make, so, I just used the Mat Stack 3 die and matching stamp set to create the focal point. The number 1 is cut using the Numbers dies, and the sentiments come from the Big Birthday Wishes stamp set. The edged circle is cut from a Limitless Layers die. I then tied orange bakers twine around the card to finish it off.

The inside of the invitation is computer printed.  The caterpillar comes from the Way to Go, Kiddo stamp set and is colored with Copic markers. 

 

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful, safe weekend.

Papertrey Ink April Blog Hop Challenge

Hey everyone, its the 25th, and that means its the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge!  This month's challenge gets you creating for the men in your life:

The Challenge:

This month's blog hop is dedicated to all the boys and men in our lives! Now's your chance to create Father's Day projects, boy birthday cards and more to build up your stash! Focus on masculine color schemes, fresh pattern combinations, understated embellishments and unique uses of images you may already have in your stash!

Here's my card for the challenge, its a sweet little boy birthday card.  I just love this little turtle from the Tiny Treats: Birthday stamp set.  (I secretly hope that PTI turns this turtle into it's own Boy Basics stamp set!!) I used PTI white cardstock as the card base.  The squares are punched from Basic Grey Hello Luscious pattern papers.  The turtle is stamped onto a Spellbinders: Lattice Rectangles die cut, and I sponged the edges with Memento: Pear Tart ink. I colored the turtle with Copic markers, and then used glossy accents on its shell, to make it shiny.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day and enjoy the hop!!

Hi There

Hi There, Paper Maniacs! Here's a fun card made using the new Basic Grey- Hello Luscious papers, along with Websters Pages Spring Market papers and Hero Arts stamps. I stamped the large house stamp onto the Spring Market papers two times: once on the cream colored sheet and once on the red polka dotted sheet. I cut the roof off the red sheet and adhered it to the house. I colored all the accents on the house with Copic markers. The Hello Luscious paper is the hills- I liked how this pattern resembled rolling hills, so I cut out a strip, rounding the hills, and adhered to the bottom of the white card base. Then, I adhered the house. I then stippled blue ink around all the leftover white space, to resemble the sky. The potted plant images also come from the Hero Arts stamp set. Thanks for stopping by today. There is just a few more days left of the amazing April sale, so be sure to check it out.

I wish all of you a wonderful holiday weekend.

A Happy Hello

Here is a super-simple CAS card for you today.  Its a Kraft card base, and I stamped the big flowers from the PTI stamp set, Sending You, right onto the card.   I love these flower stamps from this set.  Its fun to make 2-toned flowers and scatter them all over the card. I colored clear gems with coordinating Copic markers and placed them in the center of the flowers. I stamped the angled label from Label Basics and then placed the sentiment, also from the Sending You stamp set.  

Have a wonderful day! 

Celebrate Today

I am loving the Circa 1934 papers from Cosmo Cricket.  I have had them in my stash for a while, but havent used them until now.  They are so vintag-y and sweet. Here, I used them paired with Kraft cardstock and a Pure Poppy doily die cut.  I punched 6 squares again, and arranged them into a rectangle (this is an easy way to add some dimension to a rather simple card, and also anchors your focal elements.) I scalloped the edge of the pattern paper layer on this card. The yellow lace is from Websters Pages. The doily die cut is from PTI (doily details die collection) and the circle frame and sentiment are from Tag Its 2.   

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a great day! 

Big Birthday Wishes

 Here is a quick and easy birthday card, that does not take alot of time to put together. I simply punched out 6 squares of Circa 1934 (Cosmo Cricket) papers and arranged them as a rectangle on the card front.  I then die cut a doily image (PTI- doily details dies) as the focal point for the card.  I layered a circle, stamped with Tag Its 1 and a sentiment from Birthday Bash Sentiments, and ran a length of  red Websters Pages ribbon underneath. I used the red pearls on the top and bottom to "anchor" the elements to the card.   

Hope you have a great day.

Bright Floral Wishes

I had fun making this bright, colorful card.  The Sending You stamp set from PTI, ROCKS!! It has multiple floral images that you can layer with different colors to make awesome flower backgrounds for your cards. The flowers could also serve as focal images too. The sentiment also comes from the Sending You stamp set.  The Label and Frame is from the Label Basics set, and I used the matching die to cut the frame. I used pink bakers twine on the label and stickles (glitter glue) to accent the flower centers.

Have a wonderful day!!

Happy Spring!

Hello Paper Maniacs, is anyone getting Spring Fever yet?? I know I sure am.  The weather is starting to get real nice in NJ and I hope it stays this way.  I am done with the dreaded winter already.  So, in honor of spring, I made this card with some cuuuuuuute new Echo Park paper (Springtime) and an adorable Stampavie Stamp.  Patti has tons of new CHA releases arriving at the Paper Maniac Store everyday, stop on by and check it out. 

Have a wonderful day! 

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!

Happy Birthday Collage

Hello everyone, here is another "go-to sentiment" style card.  I LOVE how easy it is to make these kinds of cards.  Its fun to pick out all the different styled sentiments and then match up different inks to make a really fun card.  For this card, I stayed with 2 shades of green and brown.  The frame and image come from the PTI Tiny Treats Birthday set, and the frame is cut with the Mat Stack 5 die.  All of the birthday sentiments come from the following PTI kits:  Birthday Bash Sentiments, Say it with Style, Up Up and Away, Simple Sentiments, Make a Wish and Tiny Treats: Birthday. 

Have a great day!!

Have a Wonderful Day

 

Here's a fun springy card made with the new Flower Fusion 1 set from PTI.  This is such a fun set, and it even has a matching flower die.  Hello? Felt flowers, anyone??  eeeep. The frame is made from the Mat Stack 4 die (I punched the inside out and used it on another card.) I love being able to do that, instead of throwing the frame part away, which is what I used to do, out of habit.  I just placed some 3D foam on the back of the frame piece to pop it up a bit.  FUN!!

Here is a close up of the frame:

The sentiment comes from the Flower Fusion 1 set as well.  The flowers are cut with the matching die, using PTI felt (Harvest Gold, Raspberry Fizz and Terracotta Tile).  The grass is a strip of MemoryBox Minuet pattern paper. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a Wonderful Day!!

Sparkliest Butterfly

Hey Paper Maniacs! Hope you are all having a great weekend so far! I was happy that I grabbed some time to play with some new Memory Box papers and an awesome new Memory Box butterfly stamp. The stamped image is fun to color and glitter up. :-) The pattern papers are from the Minuet collection, look at that- it even matches the stamp. The lace accent is from Hero Arts.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

It's Birthday Time

Here is another fun sentiment collage- I just love making these kind of cards.  The tutorial is part of the Make It Monday series over on Paper Trey Ink's blog.  Click HERE for the "Go To Sentiment Card" tutorial. This is just a plain white card front, with various PTI birthday sentiments stamped in different Memento Inks across the bottom half.  The shaped piece is PTI Mat Stack 5 and the stamped images come from the Tiny Treats Birthday set.  I used orange zest buttons and orange baker's twine (divine twine).  

Thanks for stopping by!!

Birthday Wishes

Hello Paper Maniacs and Happy Saturday.  Hope you all had a great week.  All my lovies have been struggling with another round of sickness this week- and I'm blaming this terrible winter.  We had a small taste of spring last week, and poof, its gone and now its freezing again.  So, in honor of spring, I wanted to make a bright, floral card.  I used the awesome new Memory Box Brioche papers and a sentiment from Kanban Stamps Love Hearts set.  The lace is new Hero Arts adhesive lace found in the store.  I made the floral medallion, and Paper Maniac will be sharing that tutorial with you real soon.  Enjoy your weekend and stay warm and healthy. 

Forever and a Day

In honor of Valentine's Day, here is one more LOVE card.  It was a very simple card to make, basically a red base, with a strip of pattern paper, and a blue sentiment strip.  The flower medallion was super fun to make as well.  (Tutorial coming soon)

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day!!   

With All My Heart

Happy Saturday Paper Maniacs!

Hope you all had a wonderful week, and not too much snow, ice or rain wherever your location. We have been clobbered with snow lately, and I'm really getting sick of it, anyone else?? lol. I am ready for spring!!

Heres a fun Valentine's/Love card made using the awesome Bo Bunny Crush papers that Patti carries in the store. I added a sticker for the sentiment, from the Echo Park Be Mine paper pack. The card is also decorated with some lace trim. The cardstock is Memory Box- Dove Gray.

Enjoy your weekend and Stay Warm!!

Be Mine, Valentine

Here is a pretty simple Valentine's card to make.  It's just black cardstock with 3 hearts cut from the PTI Heart prints dies.  The sentiment comes from the 2010 Love Tags stamp set, and is stamped in Fresh Snow ink.  The hearts have Hawaiian Shores buttons with white silk bows tied on them.  Easy Peasy!

Have a GREAT day!!

Hello LOVE Birds

Hello everyone, its been a while since I have blogged!! Everyone in my house has been sick for the last 2 weeks!! We all caught that nasty stomach flu and then we all shared the same head cold. YUCK! Not to mention, all the snow days from school have kept us pretty busy as well. Yep, I guess you could say that I am DONE with winter.  I hope Mr. Groundhog does not see his shadow tomorrow. :-)

Here is a simple card I made using the PTI stamp set called Little Bittty Bird.  This has become one of my all-time favorite stamp sets, because I can pretty much use it on any kind of card- sooooo versatile!  I used the matching birdie dies with Pure Poppy felt (PTI).  I colored the tree in with Copic markers.  The green strip of pattern paper comes from the PTI Distressed Dots paper pad, and is tied with white silk ribbon. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a wonderful day!!

It's Pumpkin Time

I have been having alot of fun using up some of my fall/halloween/thanksgiving stamps lately.  Usually, fall passes right by, for me, and I don't get the chance to create some FUN fall/halloween cards. 

Not this year!!  :-)

I used the PTI Stamp Sets: Friendship Jar and Friendship Jar Fall Fillers to make this eeeeeasy CAS card.  I just used a PTI White cardstock base, stamped the images right onto the cardstock and colored with Copic markers. 

I finished the card with photo corners (punched from the photo corners punch from SU!) made from Echo Park Halloween paper, and the label is punched from the PTI Friendship Jar label die on Orange Zest cardstock....and there you have it!!

Here is a close-up of the pumpkin pops! 

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!

Leave No Words Unspoken

 

Hello friends!! Here is a fun CAS card I made using Verve's new release called, Dream Big.  I love the HUGE flowers in this set and the awesome sentiments included as well.  This sentiment is quite important to me: "Leave No Words Unspoken."  

That is how I try to live my life, leaving no words unspoken.  My family and friends KNOW how much I love, enjoy and adore them, and how thankful I am, that they are a part of my life.  It also works the other way- if I'm uncomfortable or disagree with something, I leave no words unspoken.  Otherwise.....thats what we call BAGGAGE, and with two kids to carry, now, I don't have room for any extra bags.  :-) 

So, very easy today, I stamped the flower stems in Memento Cottage Ivy ink, right onto the white cardstock.  Then, I inked the flowers with memento dandelion ink, and rolled the edges in a darker ink, tangelo (orange), used here.  I then placed some PTI buttons as flower centers, tied with bakers twine. The orange border is cut from the eyelet border die from PTI and the sentiment is stamped onto a Spellbinders Labels 14 die and sponged with dandelion ink. 

Thanks for stoppping by, have a wonderful day!!