Walking In A Winter Wonderland

This is my last Christmas item to post!  I made this for my friends who have a house in the mountains and when I think of deer, I think of them.  I used Spring Rain for the card base and stamped it with snowflakes, adding a dab of Stickles to some of the centers.  The tree is made with Spring Moss cardstock and I ran it through the woodgrain impression plate.  I made the snow by tearing white paper, then added glitter to the edges.  The deer and birds were diecut; the deer are backed with coasters and mounted on foam tape.  I added the sentiment (on foam tape), dew drops and twine. 

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI In The Meadow
• Paper:  PTI Spring Rain, Spring Moss, Pure Poppy; Bazzill
• Tools:  PTI In The Meadow Silhouettes Dies, Woodgrain Impression Plate; Tag Trio Nestabilities
• Other:  Twine, Dew Drops, Martha Stewart Glitter, Stickles, PTI Coasters
• Card Size:  5.25" x 5.25"

Christmas Doodad

This is the doodad I made for Christmas using Hershey nuggets; I made 6 different kinds.  I wrapped the nuggets with patterned paper instead of stamping address labels (like I've done in the past), which really gives you a much wider selection to choose from.  The nuggets were placed in cellophane pretzel bags with a cardstock backing and tied with ribbon.  I added the tags with twine and a couple of jingle bells.

Project Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Tiny Treats: Christmas
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, Autumn Rose, Pinefeather, Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy, Avocado
• Tools:  Standard & Scalloped Circle Nestabilities
• Other:  Ribbon, Copics, Bells, Hershey Nuggets, Pretzel Bags
• Size:  2.0" x 8.5" (includes bag)

Seasons Greetings

I made this card for my parents' mail carrier; I always try to make her something "postage" related. I used white for the card base and layered it with green and the postage pattern paper.  I cut the tag from Tag Sale 5, made the hill of snow from ripping white paper and stamped the snowflakes. The sledder (you can see I used this die a lot too!) was made with a diecut and backed with coaster for support.  I added gold Stickles to the snowflake centers and glitter along the edge of the snow and the bottom of the sled.  Next steps were adding the pompom, ribbon, bells and twine.  The tag is mounted on foam tape.  To bring all the gold on the card together, I put Anita's stickers on the corners.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Signature Christmas, Shape Up Snowman Accessories
• Paper:  PTI Scarlet Jewel, Bazzill, DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Tag Sale 5, In The Meadow Silhouettes Die
• Other:  Anita's Stickers, Bells, Ribbon, Twine, Pompom, Stickles, Martha Stewart Glitter, PTI Coaster
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

Cocoa Snowman

I made this for a friend of mine who's a cocoa drinker.  I used a tea tin purchased from PTI and wrapped blue pattern paper around the bottom and on the lid.  I diecut the snowman, stamped the face, coloring the nose and cheeks.  I stamped the cocoa cup, colored it, cut it out and adhered to to the snowman's body with foam tape.  I bent the arms to make it look like the snowman is holding the cup (an idea I got from Nichole's blog) and stamped "hot cocoa mix" (who knew I had this stamp? lol) on the bottom.  I added the twine and typed up the directions on the computer and put them on the back of the can.  The can is filled with a bag of Starbucks cocoa mix - I also included a mug, ceramic spoon, mini marshmallows and cinnamon sticks.  A cute gift to make and to give.

Project Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Shape Up Snowman Accessories, Everyday Treats, Tremendous Treats: Christmas
• Paper:  DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Shape Up Snowman Die
• Other:  Tea Tin, Copics, Chalk, Twine
• Size:  2.5" x 6.0"

Snowflakes Sparkle...

I think one of the best PTI purchases I made this year was the In The Meadow stamp set and matching dies.  What a wonderful set with so many options!  This is the Christmas card I made for my parents.  I used Spring Rain for the card base and stamped it with snowflakes, adding silver Stickles to each one.  I made the drifts of snow by ripping paper and outlined them with glitter.  I diecut the trees, ran them through the Cuttlebug using PTI's Woodgrain Impression Plate and sprayed them with pearl Glimmer Mist.  The sledder is diecut twice, once with Blueberry Sky cardstock and once with coaster for support.  I added the pompom to the hat, dew drops to the sentiment and a bit of twine.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI In The Meadow, Shape Up Snowman Accessories
• Paper:  PTI Spring Rain, Spring Moss, Blueberry Sky
• Tools:  PTI Woodgrain Impression Plate, In The Meadow Silhouettes Die Collection, Tag Trio Nestabilities
• Other:  PTI Coaster, Twine, Stickles, Martha Stewart Glitter, Pompom, Dew Drops
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

Merry Christmas!

This is the Christmas card I sent out to family and friends.  I used kraft for the card base and rounded the bottom corners.  Instead of using just one background paper, I picked out a striped and dotted patterned paper and adhered them to the kraft.  I diecut a Postage nestability in Vintage Cream, edging around it in tea dye ink.  I diecut the stockings and stamped them with a brick red ink, added Stickles to the fur and mounted them on foam tape.  I punched the branches and glued them together to create the garland.  I added the sentiment and wrapped a light brown yarn around the bottom.  Merry Christmas!

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Love Lives Here: Holiday, Year of Flowers:  Poinsettia
• Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream, DCWV, The Paper Company
• Tools:  Postage Nestabilities, PTI Love Lives Here: Holiday Die Collection, Corner Rounder, Martha Stewart Branch Punch
• Other:  Yarn, Stickles
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Christmas Tags - Part 2

These are the other 4 tags I made.  You can see I really did get a lot of use from Tag Sale 5!  The tags were so much fun to make!  I can't wait until next year to start making more.......(did I really just say that?)  lol

Project Details:

Ornament

• Stamps:  PTI Tremendous Treats: Christmas, Holiday Button Bits
• Paper:  PTI Enchanted Evening, Ripe Avocado, DCWV
• Tools:  Standard & Scalloped Circle Nestabilities, PTI Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Copics, Glitter Pen, Ribbon
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Merry Christmas

• Stamps:  PTI Stylish Sentiments:  Holiday
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, Pinefeather
• Tools:  PTI Holiday Words Die, Holly Jolly Die, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Ribbon, Glimmer Mist, Gems
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Tree

• Stamps:  PTI Holiday Button Bits
• Paper:  PTI Pure Poppy; Heidi Grace
• Tools:  PTI Love Lives Here: Holiday, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Ribbon, Stickles, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, PTI Coaster
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Snowman

• Stamps:  PTI Tremendous Treats:  Christmas, Snowman Accessories
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, Scarlet Jewel, Pinefeather
• Tools:  PTI Shape Up Series: Snowman, Tag Sale 5, EK Success Snowflake Punch
• Other:  Stickles, Ribbon, Copics, Chalk
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4

Baby's First Christmas

My friend Debbie asked me to make her a card for her first grandchild, Hadley.  I was looking on Splitcoaststamper's Gallery and saw a card with this baby stamp on it - and I just had to have it! I contacted the woman (thank you Linda!) who posted the card and she was kind enough to tell me she bought the stamp from Pink Gem Designs - and I immediately purchased the stamp.  Thank goodness it was a digital stamp, so I was able to get it right away. lol

I used pink for the card base and topped it with a paisley patterned paper.  The stamp is colored with Copics; I added stitching around the stocking (copied from Linda's card), pearl pen to the bow and tinsel glitter to the fur around the stocking and hat.  I also added a little pink chalk to highlight her cheeks.  The image is mounted on foam tape for dimension.  Isn't she adorable?

Hadley was cut from my PTI alphabet dies and mounted on foam tape. I added the two snowflakes in the corners with a pink gem in the middle.  My last step was to add the ribbon and the hat pin, made with silver balls, pearls and crystals.   

Card Details:

• Stamps:  Pink Gem Designs
• Paper:  DCWV
• Tools:  Standard & Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities, PTI Alphabet Dies
• Other:  Copics, Hat Pin, Foam Snowflakes, Gems, Silver Balls, Pearls, Crystals, Ribbon, Tinsel Glitter, Pearl Pen, Chalk
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

Christmas Tags - Part 1

I mentioned before how much I like my new PTI Tag Sale 5 - I'm sure you can see that I've used it quite a bit!  Here are some of the Christmas tags I made with it. If the tag doesn't say "to and from" on the front, I stamped it on the back.

Project Details:

Snowman Tag

• Stamps:  PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection, Made of Snow, Snowman Accessories
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, DCWV
• Tools:  PTI In The Meadow Silhouettes, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Stickles, Twine, Ribbon
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Music

• Stamps:  PTI Background Basics:  Music, Stylish Sentiments: Holiday
• Paper:  PTI Pinefeather, Vintage Cream
• Tools:  Deckled Rectangle Nestabilities, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Gold Balls, Ribbon
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4

Sledder

• Stamps:  PTI Holiday Button Bits, Made of Snow
• Paper:  PTI Spring Rain, Enchanted Evening
• Tools:  PTI In The Meadow Silhouettes Die, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  Stickles, Glitter, PTI Coaster, Pompom, Ribbon
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Gift

• Stamps:  PTI Fillable Frames #9
• Paper:  PTI Autumn Rose, DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Make A Wish Die Collection, Tag Sale 5
• Other:  PTI Coaster, Gems, Stickles, Ribbon
• Size:  2" x 3-3/4"

Happy Hanukkah!

Back in July when the Tranquility Trilogy stamp set was released, Nichole made a beautiful Hanukkah with it, and I knew I was going to make one too!  I used Enchanted Evening for the card base and rounded the corners.  I cut out the triangles and stamped them with a design, overlapped them to form the Star of David,  placing silver balls on each point.  The star was adhered with pop up dots to a piece of white cardstock, with score lines on the top and bottom of the sentiment (which I made on the computer).  I added the silver cording as the final step.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Tranquility Trilogy
• Paper:  PTI Enchanted Evening, Blueberry Sky, Stamper's Select White
• Tools:  PTI Two Triangles Dies, Corner Rounder
• Other:  Silver Balls, Cording
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Merry Christmas

I know many non-crafters don't realize the time and many steps that go into making some cards.  This card was really fun to make, but included a lot of steps.  So I thought I'd just list them to show what it took to make just one card.  This is my favorite Christmas card I made this year!

1. Pick out the paper(s) to use - sometimes this can take a while......
2. Cut and score the card base (Kraft paper); round corners on bottom
3. Cut striped pattern paper; round corners; adhere to card base
4. Cut diecuts:  snowman, hat, hat trim, arms, mittens, holly, merry, snowflakes (14 pieces)
5. Edge snowman in tea dye ink, stamp face, buttons and Christmas; stamp snowflake on mittens
6. Color nose with Copic, add pink chalk to cheeks
7. Edge all Scarlet Jewel and Pinefeather diecuts with white ink
8. Assemble snowman and adhere to card
9. Glue tinsel glitter to bottom of snowman
10. Attach twine to merry and mittens
11. Adhere snowflakes with glue dots
12. Adhere crystals to holly

And there you have it.....a simple 12 step card. 

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Snowman Accessories, Wonderful Words: Holiday
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, Scarlet Jewel, Pinefeather; DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Shape Up Series: Snowman Die, Wonderful Words: Holiday Die, EK Success Snowflake Punch, Corner Rounder
• Other:  Chalk, Twine, Martha Stewart Tinsel Glitter, Crystals, Copics
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Happy Birthday To You!

One of my recent favorite purchases from PTI has been Tag Sale 5 - I really used it a lot this month (I'll post Christmas tags I made with it later in the week).  When I saw a card on Melissa Bickford's blog using this tag, I knew I wanted to make a similar card.  I used white for the card base and topped it with solid pink and then a patterned flower pink paper.  I stamped the flower and sentiment on the tag, edged around it with light pink and adhered it to the doily with pop up dots.  I added a gem to the flower center and outlined the flower with glitter.  The last steps were adding the ribbon and twine.  Happy Birthday Sue-z!

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Flower Fusion #9, Flower Fusion #6
• Paper:  DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Tag Sale #5, Corner Rounder
• Other:  Doily, Ribbon, Glitter, Twine, Gem
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Merry Christmas from Dallas

No, not the city, the dog! lol  Someone asked me to make them a Christmas card from their dog....so she showed me a picture of her dog and it sort of looked like this stamp.  She also wanted his name, Dallas, on the front of the card, along with a gold star.  I used Kraft for the card base and topped it with the red/white polka dot paper.  I stamped the dog on Vintage Cream and put it on a layer of green.  I added the stars, cut with gold foil paper and mounted on coasters; I wanted them to look like they were tumbling down the card.  I cut "Dallas" using my new PTI alphabet die and added the gold cording on the spine.  The card looked a little empty so I added two colors of green branches to make it look more festive.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Stylish Sentiments: Holiday, 2008 Holiday Tag Collection; Inkadinkadoo Dogs
• Paper:  PTI Kraft, Vintage Cream; DCWV
• Tools:  PTI Alphabet Die, Star Nestabilities, Deckled Rectangles Nestabilities, Martha Stewart Branch Punch
• Other:  PTI Coasters, Gold Cording, Ribbon
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

I Didn't Forget Your Birthday

I don't often make belated birthday cards, but this stamp set was too cute to pass up!  I used pink/blue for the card base, topped with a festive polka dot paper.  I stamped the chicks and colored them with Copics.  The sentiment is stamped on a tea label die and edged with pink/blue ink.  I added a little glitter under their feet and wrapped plain twine around the card and tied it in a bow.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  Taylored Expressions Belated Birthday - Stand Out
• Paper:  DCWV
• Tools:  Deckled Rectangle Nestabilities, PTI Tea Label Die
• Other:  Martha Stewart Glitter, Twine, Copics
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Welcome Baby Boy

I've had this card for a while so time to post it!  I think this teddy bear from Taylored Expressions is so darn cute and have used it quite a bit.  I used Spring Rain for the card base and used some Stampin' Up pattern paper that matched perfectly!  The bear is colored with Copics and mounted on square diecuts.  I added a couple tags I edged with blue ink, blue gems, ribbon and twine.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  Taylored Expressions Beary Special, PTI  Limitless Labels
• Paper:  PTI Spring Rain, Stampin' Up
• Tools:  Standard Square Nestabilities, Corner Rounder, PTI Tiny Tags Die
• Other:  Gems, Twine, Ribbon, Copics
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

1st Birthday

A friend asked me to make a card for a first birthday. I used light green for the card base and topped it with 2 different patterned papers from the Nana's Kids DCWV stack.  The train and the striped paper seemed to coordinate so well together!  I used my new PTI alphabet die to cut out Hudson's name, numbers dies to cut  the "one" and adhered both to the card with pop-up dots.  The blue strip was made using card edgers and I added the stars.  I stamped the sentiment on a die cut and added the twine as the final step.  I thought this turned out really cute!

Card Details:

• Stamps:  Fillable Frames #1
• Paper:  Nana's Kids (DCWV)
• Tools:  PTI Alphabet Dies, Card Edgers #1, By The Numbers Dies, Long Scalloped Nestabilities
• Other:  Adhesive Stars, Twine, Pop Up Dots
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

Happy Birthday - 60th

I used Harvest Gold for the card base and all of the other patterned paper is from Stampin' Up.  The sunflower vase is colored with Copics and mounted on nestabilities; the larger shape was backed with coaster for support and raised higher than the card.  This gives the card some added dimension and it's no longer your normal A2 size card.  The two strips with the sentiment were made with edgeabilities; I tied ribbon around the strips and added the sentiment that was made on the computer.  The 60 is from a sizzlet tied with twine, and I added the two gold designs in the upper corners.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Autumn Abundance
• Paper:  PTI Harvest Gold, Stampin' Up
• Tools:  Classic Scallop Edgeabilities, Labels Twenty Two Nestabilities, Tiny Tags Die, Sizzlet Numbers
• Other:  Twine, Ribbon, Anita's Stickers, Copics, PTI Coasters
• Card Size:  5.5" x 5.5"

Thank You

Another card where I made my own patterned paper.  I used Berry Sorbet for the card base, rounding the bottom corners.  I stamped the leaves onto white cardstock and added the flowers - stamped in rocket red gold ink, which gives them a bit of an iridescent look of red and gold mixed.  The thank you is stamped and cut out with oval nestabilities; I added a strip of coordinating ribbon to finish the card.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Turning A New Leaf, Botanical Silhouettes, Communique Curves
• Paper:  PTI Berry Sorbet, Stamper's Select White
• Tools:  Standard & Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Corner Rounder
• Other:  PTI Berry Sorbet Ribbon
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Happy Birthday To You!

This card uses a new series from PTI called "cover plates" - this is the Quatrefoil Cover Plate.  I just love this design and expect to get a lot of use from it.  I used Spring Moss for the card base and then topped it with the quatrefoil die also cut in Spring Moss.  I colored the flowers with Copics and added silver micro beads to the centers.  I cut a strip of Sweet Blush and stamped the sentiment.  It's been a long time since I put a bow on a card and I think it looks perfect!

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI In Bloom, Flower Fusion #9
• Paper:  PTI Spring Moss, Sweet Blush
• Tools:  PTI Cover Plate: Quatrefoil Die
• Other:  Copics, Sweet Blush Satin Ribbon, Martha Stewart Micro Beads
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"

Take A Moment To Remember.....

This idea is from a PTI Make It Monday (#35) showing us how to create washi tape.  I have to admit, I never heard of this type of tape until I saw it on Nichole's blog.  The technique uses double sided tape, layered with tissue paper and then stamped with any design/image you choose. For this card I decided to make the card base white and I edged around it with a bit of orange ink.  I used one inch Scor-Tape to create my tape and stamped it with polka dots in yellow, red and orange.  I rounded the corners at the bottom of the card, stamped the sentiment and added the twine.

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Polka Dot Basics, Harvest Berries
• Paper:  PTI Stamper's Select White
• Tools:  Corner Rounder
• Other:  Twine, Scor-Tape, Tissue Paper
• Card Size:  4.25" x 5.5"