PTI June Blog Hop!

This month's PTI Blog Hop is to simply be inspired by the following photo:

Well, I had to play with the new stamp set that came with my Stamp-a-Faire bag! It's such a fun floral set to play with, you can really get a lot of different looks depending on the stamps & color combos you use. For this card, I chose to stick to two colors for stamping: Harvest Gold & New Leaf.

I'm really loving this card! It was super fun & I love all the elements inspired by the photo. I used 2 different ribbons inspired by the fabric element, one for the New Leaf border and the bitty dot to roll for a handmade flower. I was also inspired by the ruffles, so I created that effect by layering the two different bottom edges and curling the ends up a bit so the look like layers of ruffle.

To finish off the flower, I broke two sewing pins and stuck them through the button holes into the foam dot underneath. I stamped the sentiment & placed the flower on the pointed Half & Half die that an extremely sweet fellow PTI fan offered to me when she got dies in her SAF bag & already had them- THANK YOU! As you can see, I couldn't wait to use it! :)

Thanks for stoppin everyone & have fun hoppin!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: PB&J

Hello! This weeks Paper Smooches Sparks challenge was a color challenge: PB&J! Basically, red, light purple, yellow & cream.

I just got my new Paper Smooches stamps for July this week (LOVE the stamp club=early playtime!).

I knew exactly what I wanted to do!

I won't share anymore info on the stamps other than this sneak peak since they will be released in a week! :) BUT- they are all fab!

I used wood patterned paper (MME) to put along the bottom for hard wood flooring & the super cool red vacuum is chasing three dust bunnies! LOVE!

Now, I think anyone having a crummy day would get a giggle out of receiving this card, don't you?

Hugs- Kelly

PTI Make It Monday #71: Bordered Sentiments

PTI's Make It Monday #71: Bordered Sentiments challenge was to use masking to keep a space clear for your card's sentiment. I knew the stamps & colors I wanted to do right away! When taking out my ink colors, I noticed that I had Mister Huey's mists in exactly the same colors! With a fun bright animal card like this, some paint splatters are the perfect addition... I think!

I absolutely love the effect here! It's so fun and bright and perfect for my youngest's 7th birthday coming in just 2 weeks! I can't believe he's going to be 7! He will totally love this!

To get the paint splatters, I just took the sprayers off the paints, wiped them off a bit against the inside top of the bottle (like with nail polish when doing your nails), than flicked the paint off the hollow tube part by pushing it off the top of the bottle.

Thanks for stopping! I'm really loving everyone's projects!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge, take 2!

Ok, as I was putting away my things from my last card I saw these great black/cream hexagon stickers from Jenni Bowlin & had to do another card! I mean, you don't need colors to use lots of pattern, right!?

Love it! And sooo quick!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Prints are Charming

This weeks Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge is a trend watch challenge: Prints are Charming.

Prints, prints, prints!!! They are everywhere! From tons of great patterned papers, to making your own with background stamps. Chevron, stripes, dots...anything goes!

For my take on this challenge I had a great idea for a card to give my daughter after her dance recital tonight. I always get her a little gift and make her a card for her hard work all year. This year is especially special because she earns her 5 year pin at dance!

Shelby is super into all the cool patterned nail transfers that are out now to have animal print, halloween, polka dot, ect nails. I thought, well, I can do the same thing with patterned papers and Kim's great stamps!

I love how it turned out and I know Shelby will get a great kick out of it! 

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

PTI Monday Challenge!

This weeks Papertrey MIM challenge is to use some inspiration items, turned into sketches, for your design. There are several to choose from so I'm hoping to do more of them as the week goes on.

For now, I choose this one:

For Nicole's card, she did a folded effect that I definately want to do as well, but first I had to do a card using the first thing that came into my mind after seeing this, a starburst.

I used 2 yellow patterned papers to make first a triangle, than a starburst pattern. For the image panel I stamped images from "On the Farm". I stamped the grass/hills twice to fill up more space (in Simply Chartruese & Ripe Avacado), than stamped the checkered border in Pure Poppy along the bottom. The farm was stamped in black and the cow in Dark Chocolate.

The sentiment was stamped in Dark chocolate after stamping the checkered border again in Lemon Tart. The small circle from On the Farm was stamped on a die cut using the Ad Sence dies, than two small strips of denim ribbon were added.

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop

This month's PTI blog hop challenge was to use the above photo as inspiration. Colors, patterns, textures...you name it! 

I often use this color combo as well as lots of others using black & white with one color to pop so I had lots of ideas in my head for this one! I ended up designing several cards, but had to make a new one yesterday when my May order arrived. I decided to do a pattern using True Black & Simply Chartreause with the new On The Farm set animals.

For the checkered border & Howdy stamps I stamped first in the Chartreause than stamped again a tiny bit over and down in the black. I left it as basically a one layer card because even though it's simple in the layers, the patterns very busy and fills up the space with activity! I just loved all the little animals from this set and I hope I showed a little bit more of an unconventional way to use them to get as much use out of them as possible! 

Can't wait to go see all the great inspiration from the other PTI crew! Enjoy!

Hugs- Kelly