Paper Trey Ink Blog Hop

I finally got a chance to participate in my first blog hop! Yay! Well, in the past 45 minutes I've made Eli supper, the rest of us supper, a card, taken pics, tried to edit them (unsuccessfully, lol) and upload and blog, whew!!! Oh well, at least I managed a post for today! Hope everyone has fun at the hop tonight!!



My Lemon totally photographed green, yuck! I'll try to fix it later once the little ones' are in bed. TFL!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White, Lemon Tart, Kraft
Ink: PTI Lemon Tart, Smokey Shadow, Fresh Snow
Stamps: PTI Fancy Flourishes, Star Prints, Polka Dot Basics
Other: PTI Melon Berry Vintage Button, Melon Berry Satin Ribbon, PTI Rustic Cream Button Twine, Diamond Stickles, Pebbles Inc. Lemon Shimmer Chalk

Vellum Woes

Another quickie for tonight. After losing or throwing away so many pieces of scrap paper, I told myself that whenever I cut into some patterned paper I would use it all up in one sitting. So far, so good.



This is just a little, fill the stash card, but I think it's cute. Let me say though, that I went through so many tries stamping on the vellum! What the heck am I doing wrong? I stamped with versamark which I thought was good for pretty much any medium. After so many smudged attempts I finally gave up and just went with this, lol.

After loving all the cute little flowers on Niki's cards lately, I hit Michael's yesterday for some yarn to whip some up. We'll see how it goes, it's been forever since I crocheted!! Now to find a good pattern to follow online. Pardon my photos today, it's been pouring rain all day. Hopefully we'll be done with all this wet before the long weekend!

PTI Designing Women Challenge

Finally managed to find a few minutes to create something for our first challenge. Peggy's challenge was to create a card using at least one animal and two different designer papers. For the life of me I could not find an animal stamp?!? Instead I found these cute little digital stamps online and couldn't resist. I really love how whimsical the designs are.



I finally got a chance to try my new copics and although it looks like my son did it, lol, I loved colouring him in! Definitely need more practice but boy it's fun! My two patterned papers are Basic Grey, Urban Prairie. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Little Steps

So, here goes! I've finally set up a little spot on the web to keep track of all my crafty creations. I sure hope I'm able to maintain this, not only for the fact of posting things, but just because if I'm posting I must be creating! And lately, it sure feels that there is precious little time to do much of that at all! I've always loved all things crafty but I've especially spent most creative energy in the last few years on scrapbooking, both paper and digi. Since out littlest man was born last July, time has just been really scarce. A few months ago I figured I would start card making as it would still give me the "paper fix" I need in a shorter time. Ha! I think it must be the perfectionist in me, but it takes me forever to create anything! I want to try and create and post at least one new project each week. Keep your fingers crossed!!

I have a few things I've done in the last couple of weeks (told you I was slow, lol!) This first one is a little set of mini cards with matching envelopes I made for one of Noah's teachers. I packaged them up in Lauren's Captured Card Case template. Love how easy these templates are, even for me!



This next one was actually a quick one I put together the day I received my Life set from PTI. I just love the flowers in this set, so whimsical. I added some glitter to the edges and it's so pretty IRL.



This last one is another little set of cards just for me, lol. I just love the happy colours, so bright & cheerful and not the type of colours I usually go for. Not that I'm not a bright & cheerful person, :), but I generally favor more of the earthy tones.



That's all for me for now. PTI is having a great contest challenge this weekend and I so hope I get time to play. See ya later!

ps
Pardon my photography skills, lol! I just got a new DSLR (Happy early Mom's Day!) and I'm still learning how to use it. Like Katy said, I think I've taken more pics in the last week than I have in the past year!!