Doggone Cute

Hi there! I hope your not sick of pink and Valentine's day yet! Its so funny because normally I am so not a Valentine's card maker! Everyone I know will be getting one this year! LOL! Today's card uses both PTI Simple Valentine and Tiny Treats. The border was stamped in fresh snow using SV. The white was also stamped using SV in Hibiscus. Tiny treats was stamped in Hibiscus on white. The little dog was colored with my copics. Hibiscus grosgrain was used for the bow. This card feels very girly to me. I have been working on my blog hop project. At first I thought I would be out of town, taking a girls trip to Vegas this weekend but I will be back in time, yay! I have a couple more Valentines for you this week, as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine Notebook

I was looking at my Christmas notebooks and decided I needed a Valentine one. So I made this one up using Hibiscus cardstock and Simple Valentine paper from PTI. I used stamps from Tiny Treats, Simple Valentine, and Take Note. A little grosgrain pure poppy ribbon and buttons finish it off. Thanks for stopping by!

Tiny Treats and Randomness

Hi there!  I just wanted to take a minute and say, Thanks!  I have gotten so many nice compliments in the last week.  You guys are the best.  I swear the comments make my day, as I say on my comment box, yes I am that pathetic.  LOL!  Seriously I read a lot of blogs and I know it takes a little extra to leave some love, so thank you all and of course I will pay it forward.   

Today I have the last of my Tiny Treats- White Series.  This one is a little different thanks to the little cut out heart.  I backed it with some lovely grosgrain ribbon.  I used my background basics, hearts to make the little red outline hearts.  I had some scraps of paper left from other cards so I added those and then topped it off with my little happy valentine's day heart.  I hope you like it and thanks so much for stopping by!

Off topic:  Do you watch The Bachelor?  OMG its my guilty pleasure, its such a stupid show and yet its like a train wreck, I cant look away.  I am watching it right now and as I watch I just think to myself are there really this many crazy, insecure, bizarre women out there?  Why do they all feel they are in love with this guy after three days?  Honestly they would marry someone they met three days ago in a haze of media craziness?  And then he is kissing all of them and they all act shocked about it?  Haven't they seen the show before?  Anyway feel free to discuss in comments if you watch, I would love to hear your thoughts!

Simple Valentine Love

I stepped away from the Tiny Treats long enough to make this card using Simple Valentine. My favorite part of this set are the long stamps, especially the circle and heart chain. I love it! One the base I used fresh snow and hibiscus ink to build my pattern. The hearts are not a long stamp, the white hearts are one stamp and the open pink heart is another stamp. I punched two hearts out of simple valentine paper and then backed them with pure poppy and hibiscus card. I outlined the card in stickles and added some little buttons in pure poppy and hibiscus. I embossed love you on the front of each heart. Thanks for stopping by!

Tiny Treats--> The White Series

Hi! I am back with more tiny treats! I just can't put that set down. Not to mention I need about 30 V-Day cards for the teachers at work. I am almost at my goal. Then I will need a new project because I love these little stamps.

Supplies: Stamps: PTI- Tiny Treats, Background Basics Heart
PP: PTI Simple Valentine. Cardstock: PTI white Ribbon: Pure Poppy grosgrain

A Birthday/ Valentine Treat

Hi! I made this cute little pizza box for a friends birthday. Its made from a piece of Hibiscus Cardstock. I added a piece of Simple Valentine pp to the top. Next came some hibiscus grosgrain ribbon and white scalloped circle stamped with Tiny Treats.
On the inside I combined the Tiny Treats cupcake with the solid label from Limitless Labels. You cant really see it but each label says birthday girl. I wrapped them around some yummy Hershey nuggets.
Last we have the little card I made to go with it. Its a 3x3 card. The same scalloped circle stamped with the same tiny treats stamps. A strip of simple valentine paper and a cute little button with a heidi grace gel heart. Simple and fun! Thanks for stopping by!

The Last of the Tiny Treats

They all pretty much have the same layout. I just love how easy it is to put together a card with this set. These cards are just under 4 inches square. I am going to give them out to the staff at school. I need to make about 13 more. Of course now that work is back in full swing its much harder to craft. I have to go to the gym, and then I have a couple of kids to feed and care for so crafting is usually saved for the weekend.

All supplies on both cards are from PTI except for the gel hearts, those are Heidi Grace. I found them at Big Lots quite a while ago. Thanks for stopping by!

Tiny Treats + Simple Valentine

Good Morning! Today I have for you some more tiny treats (that cute little frog) mixed with lots of Simple Valentine (both paper and stamps). Everything is mounted up on Kraft cardstock. The only non PTI component is the tiny Heidi Grace gel heart. Thanks for stopping by!

Tiny Treats 2

Good morning! It is Monday and I am having a hard time getting back into the routine. Luckily I have Mondays off. Its part of the benefit of being a science teacher... a more flexible schedule. Of course with that comes the downfall of being expendable, hence being laid off each year. In any case no work on Mondays but my kiddos have to be at school so Monday is always like a trial in my efforts to get back on schedule. I pried myself out of bed this morning. I will be heading to the gym after dropping the kids and then I have a list of chores to get done. Most of them should have been done yesterday but I had a lazy Sunday. Ok, on to the cards:Today I have two more tiny treats cards. These are made on PTI pure poppy cardstock. I stamped the backgrounds with Background Basics Hearts. Love that tiny heart. I added some Simple Valentine pp and some hibiscus twill. The little animals and backgrounds are stamped on stampers white and colored with copics. Some buttons and Heidi Grace hearts round out the mix. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Tiny Treats

I thought I would show you the mess on my craft table! See that tiny 4 inch clean section- yeah thats where I work! I cant help it I am a slob. Everytime I clean it up, I turn around and mess it up again. As you can see I have quite a few of these little cards. So fun and easy to make. I have close ups of all of them and will probably put them up through out the week. Of course I go back to work this week so we will see how I do time management wise.This first little guy is so cute! The frog is my favorite image from this set, PTI's Tiny Treats. There are so many cute sentiments and images, its hard to choose just one. The background is Hibiscus Card stamped with PTI's Background Basics- Hearts in Fresh Snow ink. I have a strip of Simple Valentine PP. The frog image is stamped in black while the label image is in Hibiscus. I cut it out with my spellbinder scallops. The little gel heart I got at big lots awhile back, its by Heidi Grace I believe. The frog is colored with my trusty copics. Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine's Day Scrap Challenge

Nichole Heady of Papertrey Ink issued a challege to use your scraps! You can see the challenge here. Now scraps is something I have plenty of... especially V-Day scraps as I have spent the last day and a half making V-Day cards (I will have them up sometime this week). For this challenge I used all Papertrey products.

The border was created using PTIs Simple Valentine stamped with Fresh Snow on Kraft. I made the panel by weaving left over strips of patterned paper from Simple Valentine. I attached it to a scrap cardstock base and glued the whole thing down. Red grosgrain is wrapped around the bottom. The cute little scalloped circle was a left over from some Valentines using Tiny Treats: Valentine. The dino is colored with copics. The sentiment on the bottom of the card is from Simple Valentine.

Another Friends Card

I cant decide if I like this one or the blue one better. What do you think? I did this one first. Same sets as yesterday (Friends til the End and Retro backgrounds) but different colors, different sentiment. Todays colors are summer sunrise and kraft cardstock, orange zest and chocolate ink and loads of copic markers. Thanks for stopping by!

Finally! Something New!

I got some new stamp sets for Christmas. My mommy gives the best gifts! One of the sets was PTI's Friends Til the End. I have coveted this set since it debuted but I have never been able to move it off the wish list. Now its mine! Coloring these flowers is so fun and relaxing. Its also time consuming. The cutting out part I could totally do without! But aside from that this set is AMAZING! Great sentiments too. The background uses another set I got for Christmas, PTI's Retro backgrounds. I stamped it on craft in Aquamist, some perly purple and deep aqua (dew drop brand). The cardbase is Aquamist. The flowers are stamped on Stampers select white and colored with Copic markers. The leaves are stamped in ripe avocado on spring moss cardstock. Thanks for stopping by! Have a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my internet friends. I love that you all stop by my blog and share ideas with me. Stamping and blogging has led to so many happy things in my life. Much love from my house to yours.

Teacher Gifts

Edited to Add:  I am entering those little pizza boxes in Ted's boxing day challenge.  A fun little challenge with a great prize.  Go here for all the deets.

I started off with three mini composition books.  I saw them first on Poppy Paperie (link in side bar).  The actual book was sent to me by a sweet PTI Forum member, Sueann.  I covered them in PTI bitty box paper in spring rain and sweet blush.  I stamped them with the notes stamp from PTI Take Note and the little snowflake from Holiday Treats.  I made the snowman using PTI's Made of Snow.  Its stamped on white and cut out and glued to the cover.  I ran twill through the notebook to hold the pen.

Next they all got nugget filled pizza boxes.  This particular box was made with spring rain and sweet blush card.  I stamped the interior and exterior with Polka Dot Basics.  The labels were done with Holiday Treats.  The only non PTI stamp is the lovely label frame from Waltzingmouse stamps.
If I am not back on before Christmas I wish you a happy one!  Thanks for stopping by!

Card Set (Aqua and Chocolate Returns!)

This is part of a set that I made as a Christmas present. Its a four card set. The other two cards were shown in the first aqua and chocolate installment. Todays cards use aqua mist, vanilla, and dark chocolate. Images here are from turning a new leaf, polka dot basics, vintage lables, and mixed messages. All PTI.
This card used Polka dot basics, Tea for Two, Everyday Classics and Waltizingmouse Stamps, Off Beat Backgrounds (plaid). Its in front of the Timeless Template that I am packaging it in.

The timeless template (Keeping Tabs). I used WM Off Beat Backgrounds and PTI Vintage labels. I have cleaned off my craft table and will hopefully be back with something else in the next day or two. Thanks for stopping by!

Long Time, No Write

Wow I have just been swamped this season, how about you? I spent most of yesterday baking cookies... always fun but very time consuming. We made six different kinds. I spent Friday night overindulging and Saturday paying the price, LOL. I should know better. I spent some time last night crafting but it was too late and too dark to take pictures. As soon as I have light I plan on some photographs. My kids still have school until Wednesday so I am volunteering in their classes today. Tomorrow I have a movie day with some girlfriends from work. Wednesday I will probably be going crazy, LOL! I hope to be back later today or tomorrow with some new crafty stuff. Thanks for your patience!

Sick

So its been quiet here on the old blog. I am sick. Not a in bed, can't move illness- actually that might be preferable because at least I would stay down and get better. No I have one of those sap all your energy, keep you coughing all night, sore throat, feel icky colds. So I stop and rest and then at the first sign of energy I jump up and try to do all that needs doing and then find myself back at square one or slightly less than square one. I am trying to take it easy but its December for crying out loud, there are a million things that need doing. sigh. So the blog probably won't have any new goodness until the weekend. Sorry. :(

Wise Owl Hangin in New Leaf

Oh I just love PTI's Wise Owl, one of the cutest sets ever! Here is birthday card featuring wise owl and Turning a New Leaf. I used a kraft base, the leaves are all ripe avocado. The sentiment is from Giga Guidelines. I stamped the owl on a scrap piece of cream, colored and cut him out. I have a little piece of twill tied around the base. Thats it!
I hope your Monday is starting off a little better than mine. I am so grouchy, most likely because I can't have breakfast. I am a breakfast eater. I cant have breakfast because I have a blood draw this morning and it needs to be a fasting blood draw. I have to do this every three months since I have diabetes (type 1). The information helps them see how I am doing with managing the disease and how my pump is working, etc. Its been ten years but I can not get used to these blood draws. My arm veins wont even cooperate anymore, they take it out of my hand now. And it HURTS! Ok I am done whining now! Thanks for stopping by

Peace, Love, and Ornaments

I had to post this one because after I made it, I didn't like it. I almost tossed it. The set is PTI's tree trimming trio. Anyway I put it aside and then a few days ago a coworker asked to buy a couple of Christmas cards for her mom. She didnt know what she wanted so I told her I would bring in a couple and let her pick. This one was stuck in with the others and she LOVED it. I could not believe it. LOL. So anyway this little card is on its way to my coworker's mother's place. At least it will get some love.