Best Wishes!

Quick little card I made up the other day. Patterned paper by echo park, hawaiian shores cardstock, PTI butterfly die, fillable frame, rick rack die, and fillable frame die. A'muse bling. Thanks for stopping in!

With Gratitude

I have been on a patterned paper kick lately. I bought this particular paper well over two years ago and then hoarded it because I loved it so. Now its time to use it up! Today we have mat stack 3 (PTI) stamped with colorbox lime pastel using a stamp from All Booked Up. Inside the mat die I have an image from Round and Round. I double inked the bird to get the color variation. I used a sentiment from Round and Round as well. Its stamped in versamagic turquoise gem. The base is made from Simply Chartreuse cardstock and is tied with Hawaiian shores ribbon. Thanks for stopping by!

More Scraps

Hey there! I have another scrappy card for you today. It looks alot like this one. I have been trying to save and use my scraps. Sometimes the layouts come easy... other times, not so much. Today's card has 5 different patterned papers, white gel pen (signo white broad... LOVE this pen), buttons, fillable frame stamps. Everything came from my stash. I just chopped it up and glued it together! Thanks for coming by today.

Vellum Butterflies

Good Morning! I have some more vellum butterflies today. I have gotten a few questions about these little guys so I thought I would give you some tips in making them. Here's what I do:
1. First I use PTI Vellum. You may think there is not a big difference, but there is. This is the thickest vellum I have ever encountered... in fact its too thick for some projects, but for butterflies its perfect.
2. I use my PTI butterfly die to die cut the vellum. I usually do a whole bunch at one time to save and use later.
3. I stamp my die cuts with the butterflies from PTI's butterfly dream. I use chalk inks, specifically the ones by Versamagic. The color lays down beautifully, it does not smear, and it dries very quick. I have used Palette inks but I find they are too watery and smear easily.
4. I add coordinating jewels. These jewels are teeny tiny. I got some from A'muse and some from Hero arts. They are itsy bitsy.
5. Attaching the butterfly to the card is a little tricky. First I fold up the wings. Then I spread Tombow liquid glue (in the white bottle with the green lid) on the the vellum under the jewels. I wait a few seconds and then stick it down. The glue is very strong and once dry the butterflies do not fall off.
For these two cards I used all PTI products (except ink and jewels). I used Kraft for the bases, one card has a side fold, the other a top fold. I used guidelines paper on the bases. I trimmed it with plum pudding twill. I used to fillable frame 5 to make the die cut, stamp the border, and the sentiment. Doesn't that ink match great? Its chalk ink by Versamagic in the color purple hydrangea.

Cheers to You

Another little scrappy card. I am still working on using up all those scraps...I wish I could id the paper for you but its all from my stash. The only one I know is the little bitty dot paper at the top. Thats Bitty Dot by Papertrey ink. The cardstock base is Raspberry Fizz by PTI. I used Fillable Frame die and stamp at the top. The sentiment and drink is from Day at the Beach (PTI). I rounded the corners with my Corner Chomper. I cant believe I waited so long to buy it. Its awesome! Thanks for stopping by today!
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Another Scrappy Card

Here's another card utilizing my huge stash of patterned paper. All supplies except for the paper are by PTI. PP is anyone's guess. LOL. The stamp set is PTI Day at the Beach. I had forgotten how much I love those little drink stamps.
I took a copic class yesterday at a local LSS. I went with a new friend that I met online. It was a good time but I was really disappointed in the class. The instructor was lovely, however it was a very easy beginner class full of tips I already knew how to do. I really think the level of the class should be on the flyer. Because the instructor is well known I expected the class to be at a more advanced level. It also cost 45 dollars and I did not feel it was worth it at all. We did not complete any cards. We made one small book to showcase the tips. The actual instruction took only about 30 minutes of the 2 hours. Anyway that may have been my first and last class. All I keep thinking about is I could have had two PTI stamp sets for the cost of that class. Ah well, live and learn. I hope you are all having a great Saturday.

Another Patterned Paper Scrappy Card

Good Morning! I have another patterned paper scrappy card for you today. This one is a little more involved. I have four little strips of paper here. Two of them I edged with my ek success scalloped punch. I took a fifth piece of paper and die cut it with fillable fram 5 (PTI) and then stamped it with the coordinating stamp, butterfly (PTI Butterfly Dreams) and sentiment (Fillable Frame 1). All in Versamagic Turquoise Gem ink. I added three PTI buttons and some faux stitching on the side. Easy Peasy! Thanks for coming by! Today I am taking a Copic Class at a LSS. I hope I learn some new tricks, I will let you know how it goes tomorrow.

Lets Use Up That Patterned Paper Stash!

If you are anything like me you have a ton of patterned paper. What makes it worse for me is that I used to scrapbook so I have tons of 12x12 patterned paper and even though I havent made a proper scrapbook page in like 3 years I keep buying the paper! Whats wrong with me? Its a disease. Well a few days ago I decided to start making a dent in that paper. I also decided I needed to come up with some easy to make cards for a little card class I am hosting. Here's what I came up with. Fun, summery cards with matching lined envies. Now the bad news (or good news) is I managed to make 8 cards and 8 matching envies and I only used 3 sheets of pp! And I still had plenty left over for more! Ack! On the other hand I am really pleased with the cards. I would love to tell you where I got the pp but its all from my stash and much of it is really old! The base is a half sheet of hawaiian shores cardstock. I then cut the pp into strips 3.75 tall and 1.5 wide. I laid them side by side, overlapping just a bit. I covered the top with some cute raspberry fizz rick rack (cut with my PTI rick rack die) and then added a sentiment/focal point using fillable frame 5 and die. The flipflops are from PTI day at the beach.
Here's another, same basic process, different colors. Dont you love the lined envies? Its the PTI envie die folks... oh how I love it!!! On this card the sentiment is also from PTI day at the beach.
Thanks for coming by! Now go use those scraps!