We bought the one year old a couple of our favorite board books by Sandra Boynton and then I made her this cute little onesie. 
I then cut a label from my Label one dies and added on the cherry leaves and scarlet jewel buttons. Same studio G sentiment. I added some scarlet jewel satin ribbon to the bag and then glued on the label. The card was made in the same fashion except the sentiment is from PTI's Everyday Button Bits.
Card details: I used Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy cardstock and ribbon. The gingerbread man and sentiment is from Waltzingmouse stamps. He is stamped in PTI dark chocolate on Kraft. The white is PTI fresh snow, the red is pure poppy. The pp is from my stash and bought so long ago I have no idea where it is from. The snowflakes are from PTI's rustic snowflake.
Ruffled Ribbon seems to be in lately, doesn't it? I made mine with PTI grosgrain. I took a couple pieces of embroidery thread and ran a running stitch through the top of the ribbon. Pull to ruffle. I hate to sew on paper so I stuck it down with sticky tape. All materials are PTI. I used dimensionals to pop up the pp. Colored the flowers with copics. I like it, alot.
Here is a set I rarely use. There aren't many babies popping out around me lately! It is such a cute set though. My friend Stacey just had her shower for her third baby, who is due very soon! I made this little gift bag for the shower gift. Sorry for the bad picture... the one that had the card in it looked even worse! Anyway the bag was super easy to make. I picked up a plain kraft gift bag at Target. It was 50 cents. I adhered a strip of spring rain cardstock, some spring rain gingham ribbon. Before adhering I punched the top of the cs with my trusty fiskars punch. Next I added three ovals of pti linen vellum. I stamped the three animals on various pti patterned paper and cut them out. I glued them to the vellum and stamped the sayings underneath. I then glued the ovals to the bag. The whole project took me maybe 15 minutes. Looks pretty good for a 50cent bag, right?
Isn't this guy the cutest thing ever? I got this stamp (Its all one stamp) from My Favorite Things. It is the first stamp I have purchased from that company. I really like it... especially the size. It was so much fun to color. I colored with my copics and then mounted up everything on PTI's spring moss and scarlet jewel. The ribbon is scarlet jewel satin. Stamp and sentiment are from MFT. Thanks for popping by! I am off to the gym.... hope I come back in one piece!
Here we have one of the single cards. Same materials as those above with the addition of some prima flowers and a PTI dark chocolate button.
This is what the insides look like. I lined them so she wouldn't have to go find a gel pen to write.
Made this with the left overs from Dawn's last color challenge. It uses the stamp sets, Beyond Borders and Bird Watching. Cardstock and ink in cream, scarlet jewel, plum pudding, and raspberry fizz. Its for my hubs. We are celebrating 14 years of wedded bliss today. 14 years! How can that be?? I got married at 22, which apparently is very young, according to everyone around me. We met in college, lived in the same dorm. Started dating after a month or so... dated for a year... got engaged and the rest is history! I have the best husband out there. He is so neat and tidy, way better wife than me, LOL. He is also the best dad around. I chose well. Thanks for stopping by and listening to me go on and on!
Hello there! I have a little plain jane card for you today... she is not fancy but I like her anyway. The card base is melon berry. The strip of green is spring moss. They are stamped with beyond basics borders in their coordinating ink. Add a couple of matching buttons and some lovely twine and you have yourself a card.
This first one is made with Basic Grey and DCWV paper. I've got some MM ribbon and some cute PTI and Doodlebug buttons. Stamps are from MM.
This paper is from ???. I got it out of my stash. The accent paper is DCWV and PTI cardstock. Stamps from MM. Ribbon from PTI. Buttons from PTI and Doodlebug.
This background paper is from Rusty Pickle (they are smart enough to print their name on the back! haha!) Accents by DCWV, cardstock by PTI. Ribbon and buttons by PTI. Other ribbon from Michaels. Thanks for Looking!
First up the card. I made this last week when I had out Beyond Basics Borders to work on Dawn's color challenge. Everything here is from PTI. Colors are Cream, Kraft, Melon Berry, and Spring Moss. Little different then my norm, but I like how it turned out. If you like to read about me being tortured at the gym, read on! If not, have a great day and thanks for stopping by.
I can't believe she is 9 and starting the 4th grade on Monday! If ever there was a mini me it is this girl. Sometimes I look at her and I feel like I am looking at myself. Of course she does many things much better than I did at that age. She is also much more kind to her little brother than I ever was! Currently she is obsessed with American Girls, Hannah Montana, and Taylor Swift. We celebrated with a sleepover in which no one slept, including me! At least I dont have to do another until next year. Happy birthday baby girl!
The last in my frenzy of wise owl projects. This one uses both Wise Owl and Vintage Picnic. The patterned paper is Urban Prairie by Basic Grey. Cardbase is Aqua Mist cs from PTI. Hibiscus burst twill tied around the top. I dont know about this guys eyes. I rarely use these eyes because I think it makes wise owl look a little strung out, maybe he has had too much coffee.
After the Papertrey Princess challenge the other day I had Wise Owl sitting out on my craft table. (Let it be known I rarely put anything away- just ask my husband.) I couldnt resist using him to create a few more cards. Wise Owl truly is one of my favorite sets. I also wanted to use up some of this basic grey Urban Prairie patterned paper. Somehow I bought both the 6x6 and 12x12 pads. This paper is from the 6x6 pad.
Here is my card, I used a couple of different sets. Everything you see here is from PTI. The cardstock is scarlet jewel, raspberry fizz, plum pudding, and vintage cream. I stamped the fizz pieces with the leaves from Beyond Basics Borders in Scarlet Jewel. I stamped the cream with the same leaves in Plum Pudding. The little branch is in Scarlet Jewel on Cream. The birds are stamped in fizz and plum on their respective cardstocks. I cut them out and popped them up with pop dots. The ribbon is Plum Pudding satin. Sentiment is from Beyond Basics Borders.
I made this right before I left for St. Louis. Kept meaning to post it but then I would make something else and it would get pushed to the side. The main stamp is from Penny Black's clear stamps. The sentiment is from PTI's Vintage Picnic sentiments. I colored the image with my trusty copics and then cut it out with a Nesties Label 1 die. The patterned paper is by MM and the CS is by PTI (Spring Rain). Thanks for stopping by!
This is for the papertrey princess blog challenge over at Serendipity.
This is me (in the hat) with my friend Amy. We were so happy to make it to St. Louis. Neither of us are seasoned travelers! We navigated two airports, a bus, two shuttles, and two airlines as well as the St. Louis Metrolink.
Group picture of all of us. Taken by some guy who claimed to be a photographer. It did turn out rather nice, so maybe he wasn't lying. I am in the center looking like the shortie of the group but really Edie (pink roses) is shorter than me. I met all these lovely ladies on the internet... its a story that sounds so silly. We met on a message board when we were pregnant with our year 2000 babies. That would be my daughter, who is now 9. We are from all over the country.... Connecticut, New York, Maine, California, and Iowa. There are 2 girls missing from our little group, they couldn't make it out to St. Louis.
Me and two of the girlies in St. Louis, I am on the right.
Well I guess I had one more card in me before vacation! I could not resist Dawn's color challenge this morning! The colors she chose were: spring moss, white, pure poppy, and berry sorbet. My card is made with all PTI product with the exception of the ricrack which is from MM. The shapes and letters were cut on my cricut (never use that poor thing, it was so dusty) from the All Mixed Up cartridge. Stamp set is Polka Dot basics. Did you know you could mix those dots together like that? Me either, until today! Love it! I will see you all in a week, thanks for stopping by!
I can not even tell you how much I love the new In Bloom set by PTI. If you love to color this is the set for you. I stamped the flower three times and then colored the different sections and cut them out. I stacked them up using pop dots. I made the patterned paper by stamping the small leaf and flower in enchanted evening. I stamped the larger leaves on kraft and colored them with my copics. The sentiment is stamped in Fresh Snow and is from the Everday Button Bits set. All materials except for the rhinestones are PTI. Rhinestones are from Basic Grey.
This is the last of the cards I made from the text paper that I put together for PTI's blog hop. The background paper was made from stamping a bunch of different sentiments for the Birthday Basics set. The embossed sentiment is also from Birthday Basics. The flowers are from Everyday Button Basics. I used some little primas and buttons for the flower portion. Small Basic Grey rhinestones are under the sentiment. Thanks for stopping by!
In this first card I used New Leaf as the base. I mounted my homemade background paper on a piece of Enchanted Evening. I stamped the balloon strings from Bitty Button Basics in black noir on my background paper. Next I added buttons from my PTI vintage button collection. I added in three strips of twill in Enchanted Evening, Scarlet Jewel, and New Leaf.
For my second card I stamped the largest flower from In Bloom on white. I colored with my copics (the only time consuming part), I stamped the leaves on white and colored those. I cut out both and glued them down. I added a ribbon in scarlet jewel twill. I stamped a verse from Birthday Basics in Ripe Avocado on a scrap of Spring Moss. I also stamped a small leaf from In Bloom. The whole thing is mounted on a Scarlet Jewel base. Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you will come by again soon!
The big brown truck came yesterday and delivered my goodies! YAY! First up we have a wonderful new set called, In Bloom! Love this. So easy to color, so easy to cut out! Here I stamped on white in scarlet jewel, colored with copics, and cut it out. I mounted it on Kraft that I had stamped with leaves from the same set. Stamped in Avocado and colored with copics. The whole thing is on a scarlet base with a scarlet ribbon. Hope you like it! Top picture shows a more true color, got a little overzealous editing the bottom one.
I was so in love with the original I had to make a few more. This one uses Spring Rain, new Leaf, and Lemon Tart cardstock. For the ink though I used palette viridian leaf, a variegated blue pad I have had forever (not sure who the maker is) and palette paris lights. I didn't use the matching inks because I feel that new leaf ink is way too piney and doesnt match the cardstock, lemon tart is too light (can barely see it!), and spring rain doesn't show at all. These inks have been the only time I have been unhappy with PTI quality. The dark inks are mostly fine (the green just being to piney in my opinion), the light inks are so light they disappear. PTI is reformulating the light inks... I will wait for reviews before I buy. Also PTI would have refunded or exchanged the inks, but to me its too much trouble for a 6 dollar ink pad, kwim? 
Made this a few days ago. A combination of tea for two and everday basics. I used Scarlet Jewel ink and paper and buttons. I also used hibiscus buttons and my copics to add a little pink to the mix. 
Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! I have a long day ahead of me... I have to go pick up my daughter from her grandparents (3 hour drive). It would not be so bad except I have to bring along my little guy who hates the car. Should make for a long trip.