Praying for you

One of the women at our church is having surgery today and I'm going to send her this card to let her know that we are praying for a quick recovery. I'm using the Pretty Palette #47 color challenge: pink/aqua/rose/gray and the challenge today from Papertrey Ink (they are celebrating their 5th anniversary and have challenges and prizes each day) to use butterflies & leaves. The Stampin' Sisters In Christ challenge is to create a "happy" card. I think this will brighten the recipient's day, so it's definitely happy.
All products are Papertrey Ink (except the French Script I stamped on the leaves and the butterfly): Mat Stack 2 die and stamp set, leaf die, butterfly die and the sentiment from "Damask Designs"

Love for little girls

I have three little girls, so I had to create 3 packages for Valentine's Day. When I saw these $1 mailboxes at Target, I knew they were perfect. They are going to love playing with the mailboxes afterwards. This red one is for my oldest. Red and green (and white to think of it) are her favorite colors. The Pixie Cottage #107 challenge is to use red and lots of it. I'm also using today's Papertrey Ink Challenge (part of their 5th anniversary party going on) to use hearts and the Delightful Sketches challenge to show love.

Here's a close-up of the flower and the leaves with "heart" berry clusters. The leaves and border die are both fom PTI.

The next picture shows the mailbox I created for my middle daughter. Her fav. color is pink and she has a stuffed monkey that is her constant companion. Isn't this little pink guy cute? He is from Verve's "To the Moon" set.

This last picture shows all three mailboxes ready to go.

Sketch challenge #2

Because I love Papertrey Ink's products and so want to win today's challenge (and who doesn't?), I made two cards (see my previous post for the other card). This card uses the sketch #2 from the sketch challenge which is part of PTI's 5th anniversary festivites. Both stamps are from Damask Designs by PTI and the border punch is fiskars. A little hand stitching and a row of pierced holes on either side of the sentiment strip finish it off.

Fancy love

Today starts the sneek peaks for Papertrey Ink's new release. As part of their 5th anniversary festivities today's challenge is to create a project based on one of the 5 sketches they have provided. I chose sketch #4 and had something completely different in mind when I chose it. : ) I used my new favorite color combo (at least for Valentine's Day): dark pink, light blue and brown. I die cut PTI's Mat Stack 2 from the center of my blue layer and stamped an image from the Mat Stack 2 set in the center, then stamped the sentiment (from PTI's Damask Designs). I also used PTI's button die to cut the two "buttons" that I topped with pearls.

Treeheart

Today, I ventured (briefly) into the world of pinterest and found this card to use as inspiration. Papertrey Ink is celebrating their 5th anniversary this month and today's challenge (as part of the festivites) was to find inspiration on pinterest and create a project from that. I'm also entering the For Fun challenge: Love, and the Creative Inspirations #149 challenge: Lots of love.

I used the layout from the inspiration card and also used a tree image, but that was because I had planned on using the tree before I found a layout to use. If you read my previous post, you will recognize both the image and the color combo. I really enjoyed using both and wanted to use them again. The medallion stamp is from "Mehndi Medallion", tree is from "Through the Trees" and the sentiment is from "Damask Designs" all by PTI. The little hearts are a trio from Verve's "To the Moon". A little ribbon from SU! and some twine and a button finish it up. It took longer to find an image than to create the card!

You make my heart smile

The above picture is the inspiration photo for this week's Stampin' Sisterhood #9 challenge. So many possibilities. For my card, I latched onto the single tree right away and that bright pink color, too. But I also loved the blue so I had to add that in. I used the Seems A Little Sketchy sketch, though I simplified it quite a bit.

The tree is created by stamping the trunk (from PTI's "Through the Trees") brown and then stamping the little trio of heart "leaves" (from Verve's "To the Moon") in rose red ink from SU! On the both the pink and sblue layer I used "Mehndi Medallion" from PTI. The "You" is from PTI's "Damask Designs" and the rest of the sentiment is from Rubbernecker stamps. It has a "You" with is, but it was too big and didn't fit the layout of this card.

Simple Christmas

Yeah! I think I counted 13 Christmas cards finished already and it's only mid-February. Maybe I will accomplish my goal of having all Christmas cards ready to go by the beginning of December this year. At least I have a good head start. This card uses the Mojo Monday #227 sketch, the Crimbo Crackers (all Christmas cards for this one) #8 challenge to create a card without any people or animals, and the Crafty Hazlenut's Christmas Challenge #58 to use die cuts. I went very simple on this, four papers by DCWV (and they are all scraps), one die cut: labels 4 from spellbinders, and one stamp from Verve's "Richly Blessed" set, and a little bit of lace ribbon.