PTI Bitty Dot Sketch Challenge

Where does the time really go? I think about posting my cards here almost everyday but I never get down to doing it. There's always something else that needs to be done. Here's some cards to share.



This card is my contribution for a monthly card swap. Love the color of the paper! Everytime I look at this card, it always makes me smile.

Cardstock: PaperTrey Lemon Tart and Summer Sunrise
Ribbon: PaperTrey Summer Sunrise Twill
Others: Judykins Glaze, Stickles, Copic Markers



This is one of my favorite cards. Love PTI ribbon and paper!
Cut cardstock as how you would do with a normal card. This card is 5.5 inches by 8inches. Fold it in half. Using sticky tape, I taped the side where the opening of the card is and the bottom. Measure patterned paper on the front, adhere to cardstock. Using a 1 1/4circle punch, I positioned the punch towards the middle of the card before punching it out. I stamped my sentiment on a piece of cardstock before using my rectangle nestibilities to cut it out. Layer it with 2 pieces of cardstock. Using a strip of ribbon, I wrapped it around the middle of the card, ending behind the sentiment. Adhere. This is to hide the ends of the ribbon. Cut another piece of cardstock, punch a hole in the middle of it, tie a ribbon and the card is done.

Stamps: PaperTrey Birthday Sentiments
Cardstock: PaperTrey Berry Sorbet, Soft Blush.
Patterned Paper: PaperTrey 6X6 patterned paper pads
Others: Ribbon; PTI, Nestibilities



This was the first card I made using my scor-pal. Love it! It really makes it so easy to score paper! I've used it for other things since then, but sadly, I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave them away. Do you know that USPS now charge $0.20 on top of normal postage to send cards in a clear envie?! One of the cards I sent in a clear envie got returned to me with a note about additional postage.

Stamps: Owl set ; CC Designs (All That Scraps)
Cardstock: SU! Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
Others: Brads by Pink Hedgehog brads share

Look out in a couple of days for the new SU! colors. Just got the new SU color papers in! Wasn't sure if the ink pads were worth getting, so i hold it off for now. But I think I'm gonna have to get Kiwi Kiss for sure. It's a great color!

A-Muse-A-Palooza Challenge

I have a card to share today. It's one that i made for Amuse Palooza challenge host by Taylor VanBruggen. The challenge was to create a card with an Amuse stamp and it has to have some bling on it. On saturday i had some time so i decided to play along and make something. In the last Secret girlfriend swap that i joined over at SCS, my secret sis sent me a whole box of goodies and in it was an Amuse stamp, spring chick by elzybells. So it was perfect to use for this challenge.



It took some time to put the little rhinstones on each scalloped area of the square. They don't have adhesive on the back of them, so i used my quickie glue pen to adhere them. The rhinestones were bought from Taylored Expressions called Tiny Twinkles. She doesn't have any more in stock, but i think she might get somemore soon. Image is colored with copics. I love my copics. They make coloring images so easy and look so good! I'm really happy how this card turned out. It's such a cheery color. Hope this card made you smile!

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics, Spring chick by Elzybells
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise, Brilliance Black
Paper: GP White, PTI Summer Sunrise
Accessories: Square Nestibilities, ribbons from ROBOM(Ribbons and bows oh my!), copics

I do have to try to post more often. I have so many pictures of cards i've made, but never got around to editing it and posting. This one was made for Mother's Day. I love this set by PaperTrey, Garden of Life. It is such a versatile set and because it's clear, it's easy to line the images up.

Stamps: PTI Garden of Life, PTI Beautiful Bloom
Cardstock: PTI Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, White CS
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise, SU Certainly Celery
Embellishments: PTI Lemon Tart Satin Ribbon, glitter

This is another card i did with the penguin image. He's so perfect for summer! As i finished up the last card, i spied a bottle of sand out of the corner of my eye. It was in a corner among all my craft stuff. About a year ago, we were on a beach somewhere in the north shore where turtles come up to sun and i had taken some sand from the beach to use on a card someday. Well, this is the day! LOL.. I used terrifically tacky tape on the edges of the patterned paper. I love that tape. That's the best thing to use if you want a permanent bond. Have a wonderful week!

May's Card

I'm the host for May in the monthly card swap i'm in. I chose this penguin stamp which i got from ATS. Isn't he cute? And that paper is from ATS too. Stamp is by imaginisce and paper by Flair Design.



Card base is SU! Barely Banana, image is layered with SU! Close to Cocoa, image is colored with copics. I love copics! They make coloring so much easier and i love the vibrant colors they come in. Patterned paper is sponged with brilliance brown ink to give some contrast with the card base.

I had extra images which I've colored and i've just got a great idea in my head! Gonna go try it out now. I'll let you know how it went. Sometimes ideas in the head looks better than when you actually put it to paper. Til then, Thanks for looking!

Monthly Card Swap

Each month, a designated person sends 5 other people in their group a set of images, patterned paper. And each of us makes a card with the given images and patterned paper and sent it to the rest of the group. This is my April card.



Cardstock used is PTI sweet blush and berry sorbet paper and SU chocolate chip.