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

Welcome first day of summer!!!

My kids are out of school, the boys are gone to North Dakota, Natasha and I are enjoying girls' week, and the One Doubles tennis season is in full swing....all of which means one thing, it must be summer!!!

Since today is the first day of summer I thought this would be the perfect day to share my latest Simple Stories layout and card with you.

Both of the following projects feature the I {Heart} Summer collection...my FAVORITE Simple Stories line to date!

and a card...

Crafting mayhem is about ready to start in my household as brand spankin' new CHA products are starting to arrive. This means having to create lots of things under pressure. Up first is Simple Stories, and let me just say that if you are a fan of Simple Stories you will NOT be disappointed with their new releases!!!!! I don't know much yet about My Mind's Eye, what wee bit I know has me intrigued!

Hope you are all enjoying long, sunny, carefree summer days!!!!!!

Case Study Challenge #142

Hi all! Hope that you had a great 3 day weekend. We went out of town and I had a little bit of down time. I was in the mood to make a card that I didn't have to put a whole lot of thought into. When I feel like this I will often turn to a sketch or a challenge blog. The hard part of the work (at least for me) is already done.

This weekend I turned to the CASE Study challenge blog, their current challenge is #142

The above card is the inspiration piece by Maile Belles.

Here is what I made based on the above card...

I opted to stray from the large flower because I had this sentiment stamp that I really wanted to use.

Products: Stamps-Papertrey Ink

Ink- Papertrey Ink, Ranger Distress

Dies: Papertrey Ink, Spellbinders

Paper-My Mind's Eye, Papertrey Ink

Glitter-Martha Stewart

American Crafts

Hi all! Though I would pop in today share with you my projects from my guest designer gig. In April I was contacted by American Crafts, they asked if I would be interested in being their guest designer in May. I was asked to make three layouts, a card, and an altered project using only what they sent me in the box. EVERYTHING had to feature flowers. In some respects this was a super easy task and in others I had to really put my creativity to work! I always enjoy a good challenge!

Here is what I came up with...

The layouts...

The card...

The altered item...

Thank you so much American Crafts for having me, it was truly a delight for me!

Hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and a special thank you to all of our veterans and service men/ladies!

Pinspiration

Last week on the My Mind's Eye blog some of the designers were asked to choose a project from the MME Pinterest Inspiration board.

HERE is the layout that I chose to work off of.  I used Melissa's clean and simple layout basically as a sketch and then just added a few things here and there.

The above picture shows the little tiny die cut stars that I added to the stitched vapor trail of my rocket. It also shows how I backed my cutout title work with glitter.

I used a glitter pen to outline three of the stars on the background page to add a little bit more visual interest.

All products for this layout (minus the glitter and glitter pen) are from the Boy Crazy line.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card trio

Good Monday to you all! I have a little card trio to share with you today! These were all made using the My Mind's Eye Collectable Notable collection! Such fun and happy colors!

The above card was based on the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you all have a great week!

Speechless

Yes, I admittedly was a little bit at a loss for words when I opened an email from Paige Evans. Getting an email from her isn't all that rare as I am fortunate to have some success with getting projects picked up for the Northridge Publishings magazines. However, this email was of a different nature. Something that I NEVER would have expected to see. She had on her American Crafts hat when she sent this email asking me if I would be their guest designer this month!!!!

So head on over to the American Crafts blog and check it out....just click below...

AMERICAN CRAFTS BLOG

Here's a little peek of one of my projects...it is flower week over there, so all of my projects had to feature flowers!

Thanks Paige and American Crafts, it truly was such an honor!