Runway Inspired

Hey all, hope those of you that have spring break this week are enjoying yourselves. We just got back from Central Oregon where we spent some great family time. Today I have a card to share with you that was inspired by the latest challenge over on the Runway Inspired challenge blog.

The background was made by "smooshing" some watered down distress inks onto a piece of watercolor paper.  Once it was dried I directly stamped the red butterfly onto the watercolor paper.

For the 'hugs' sentiment I cut it out three times in dark grey and adhered those together to give it some dimension. Then to kick it up a notch I cut the bottom half of the word out of a sheet of coral card stock and then adhered a cherry red iridescent glitter to it.

The aqua butterfly and brad  that are in the center of the stamped butterfly are from an older My Mind's Eye collection.

This is the image that was the inspiration for the challenge...

(source: vogue.co.uk)

Products:

Inks: Distress Inks (Tumbled Glass, Black Soot, Festive Berries) Versafine (Onyx Black)

Stamps: Papertrey Ink (Beautiful Butterflies, Big Hugs)

Dies: Papertrey Ink (Big Hugs)

Brad: My Mind's Eye (Follow Your Heart)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tonya

A brand new look!!!

I'm so excited! The look of my blog has been so outdated for so long! Check it out…brand new and updated!!!! I've dusted off the place and hope to get back to posting projects on a much more consistent basis!

I have a list a mile long of things that need to be shared with you all. Thought I would start doing so today with a card.  A couple of months ago I sustained a minor injury while playing tennis. One of my sweet tennis friends came over to visit with me, brought some wine, showed some rehab stuff, and commiserated with me. Fortunately I was only out for a few weeks and am back and playing! Made this card to thank her for her thoughtfulness!

Started with a blank piece of watercolor paper and painted on some orange, yellow and pink. Stamped the feather with a grey ink.

Heat embossed the gold specks on the feather.

I die cut the sentiment out of watercolor paper and painted the same colors as the background only using an ombrè effect here. The sentiment was also die cut out of some pink card stock and then the two were layered together slightly offsetting them for some added dimension.

Topped it all off with a scattering of sequins and enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Fall is in the air

Not sure about where you all are, but here in the Pacific Northwest fall has definitely made it's appearance. The air is chillier, the leaves are beautiful with their colors, and the rain has made itself known again.

Today I have a trio of cards to share with you These were all made for My Mind's Eye using a variety of collections. They haven't had a fall themed collection in a while, so for this assignment I had to pull pieces from some different collections. I love doing this!

This first one was made using primarily Indie Chic (paper and button), used my Scor Tape for the stripes of glitter, the wood frame is from Studio Calico, and the rest is from Papertrey Ink (felt, die, and that gorgeous script stamp).

For this next one I put my Silhouette and lots of MME decorative tape to use.

This next uses Indie Chic again. I die cut two leaves out of the paper and backed the negative space with contrasting paper, then I cut a third leaf out of felt and adhered the positive piece to the front of my card. 'Falling' was cut with my Silhouette.

Happy fall to you all!!!

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop Challenge

               

Welcome to the PTI June blog hop. Today's challenge was to add a touch of gold to your project. LOVE gold, so I jumped in with both feet on this one!

I added some gold in three different places. The most obvious of them is the strip of gold glitter that sits atop the strip of washi tape. The second and third areas are a bit easier to see in the close up. I used my gold ink dauber to add splash in the center of my flower (it's much more shimmery IRL). The third spot is just a wee touch in the twine that ties the button, it's white with a gold thread running through it.

Supplies:

PTI: Limitless Layers Square Dies, Embroidered Blooms and Ruby Rose Stamp Sets, Harvest Gold and Hibiscus Inks

My Mind's Eye: Chevron Paper and Washi Tape, both from Find Your Wings & Fly: Sky's the Limit

Color Challenge

I found that I had a little extra time on my hands today so I decided to participate in a color challenge that Papertrey Ink was hosting today. They are celebrating their six year anniversary and have been having some fun challenges. You can find them here on Nichole's blog.

This was the inspiration piece that I chose to use for my card.

I opted to make a rather clean and simple card, since I had limited time to get it done and picture taken before daylight was no longer. 

I started with the Square Prints stamp and die set. Underneath my line of squares is a wide strip of Scor-Tape and blue glitter.

...and yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, those are some VERY vintage square brads that I used to separate each of the squares. Gotta say they were just the touch that I was looking for!

I have some Valentine items to share with you tomorrow. See you then!

Simple Stories December Daily Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome. So glad that you are joining us today for the Simple Stories December Daily blog hop. This is my first year doing a December Daily and using Simple Stories' Handmade Holiday is going to make it SO easy...and lovely too!

For my base I used a Brown 6x8 Sn@p! binder. Here is my cover...

I cut a large snowflake using my Cameo and used it as a mask in conjunction with Mr. Huey's White and a tad bit of Mr. Huey's Gold.

I can't wait until the first of December to start taking photos so that I can fill up all of the divided page pockets. I have finished up quite a few of my page dividers...

More action from my Cameo here to make the ornaments...

This next page is my favorite part so far, well, okay it's a close second to my cover. I used some Papertrey Ink Damask Snowflake Dies on the Dictionary paper, then inked the edges of the snowflakes up and then glittered the heck out of them...LOVE how they turned out!

and a close up...

It is going to be so much fun filling this album up the rest of the way through the month of December and what a cherished memory this will be! 

Make sure you stop by the rest of the Simple Stories' design team blogs to see their awesome albums too!

Simple Stories - Blog: www.simplestories.com

               Cari Locken - Blog: www.myandmythoughts.blogspot.com

           Donna Januzzi - Blog: www.donnajanuzzi.blogspot.com

Emily Lanham - Blog: www.createserendipity.net

   Gail Lindner - Blog: www.gaillindner.typepad.com

                  Guiseppa Gubler - Blog: www.guiseppagubler.blogspot.com

Jill Cornell - Blog: www.jillcornell.blogspot.com

             Kelli Rabideau - Blog: www.kelliesdesigns.blogspot.com

                 Rebecca Keppel - Blog: http://www.myclutteredcorner.com

                    Shellye McDaniel - Blog: www.paperedcottage.blogspot.com

                                     Tonya Dirk - Blog: www.creativit-tonya.blogspot.com  <---you are="are" here="here" p="p">

              Yuki Shimida - Blog: http://lovetodaybyluvbear.typepad.jp

All papers, binders, and stickers are from the Handmade Holiday line by Simple Stories!!!

A Love Like No Other...

Hi peeps! I'm here today to share with you a card and a layout that I made for the My Mind's Eye September challenge called "Make it Work". This challenge was to make a layout and then use the remnants from the layout  or coordinating products to make a card.

I started with the photos, after I printed them out I knew right away that I wanted to use the Lost & Found 2 line.

Then the matching card...

For both of these projects I pulled out some of my Papertrey Ink dies and put them to use! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Mother's Day

Hope all of you mom's have an absolutely fabulous day. Thought this would be the perfect day to share the card that I made for my mom...of course I can freely post this here because she was a bad girl and opened her card yesterday!!! Tsk Tsk! She received it in the mail and couldn't wait until the actual day to open it!

Enjoy today!!!

Clear Scraps card

Today I have a Clear Scraps project to share with you. I started with the Restoration line from Crate Paper and the Clear Scraps Decorative Frames. Using one of the decorative frames, I trimmed off two of the ends and used these ends as a way to draw your eye to the focal point of the card. Using Timber Brown Stazon ink I stamped a flourish at the point of each the Clear Scrap pieces and lightly inked around the edges with the same ink.

Thanks for stopping by. We finally have a little sun, so hopefully we'll get some baseball in this week!

Other products used:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Markers: Copic

Bling: Mark Richards

Seam Binding: Hand dyed 

Ribbon: Vintage Findings from AMillionMemories.com

Make It Monday...

I haven't been able to get a card done for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge done in a few weeks. I couldn't pass this one up. This week was all about ink blending. So, I grabbed my Distress Inks and my PTI Delightful Doilies stamp set and went to "work".  I started out by heat embossing the doilies with Versamark onto my white cardstock. Then I blended my Distress inks over the top. Lastly stamped over the top of it all with a text stamp. Lastly, I wiped my embossed doilies off with a baby wipe to get rid of the extra ink and to make them nice and white again.

Then since I had the stamps out already I decided to make a similar card with a completely different look. Used Jenni Bowlin inks for this one (except the purple, because she doesn't have a purple :( )

 The sentiment on this one is from Scattered Showers.

Hope you are all enjoying a fabulous weekend!

I could sure use some sun...

I think that is why I just can't get enough of this line from My Mind's Eye. I think I have officially used up every last bit of it that I had. It has done nothing but rain, rain, rain and rain a bit more here. I am over it. Spring seriously couldn't come fast enough for me.

Sit back and get ready...lots of cards to share with you in this post. Here we go...

Products: Star die Spellbinder's, metal clip Tim Holtz, Stamp Papertrey Ink, Metal studs Basic Grey

My daughter had a case for these owls...I can't wait to sneak it in her lunch soon.

Products: Floss DMC, Dies Spellbinders, Glitter stickers Sassafrass, Tree branch hand cut

Products: Glitter tape Scor-Tape, Stamps Studio G

Check out the doily on this next one. That is cut using a die from Papertrey Ink. Such amazing detail huh? I will be using the heck out of this one!

Products: Ribbon American Crafts, Die and Stamps Papertrey Ink, Ink Jenni Bowlin, Pearl Prima

Products: Felt and stamp: Papertrey Ink, Brad Bo Bunny, Jewels Doodlebug Inc., Floss DMC

and the last one for you today...the ribbon isn't this bright in person, but dang it is BRIGHT here! ack!

Products: Stamps and Dies Papertrey Ink, Doily from craft store (you can't tell the difference between this doily and my die cut one above can you?)

The good news??? I'll be seeing sun soon. Next week is the Spellbinder's Design Team retreat in Arizona...ahh life is good, and to make it even better I'm heading down a few days earlier with my daughter and we'll be spending some time with my parents and staying a little later to spend more time with them. My daughter will be staying with them the whole time I am with Spellbinder's. Oofta, she'll be getting so spoiled and loving every minute of it!

I should have one more post for you this weekend before I leave. See you then!