My Time to Create Template Challenge #05 and SPCC#11...sweet picnic

Happy Saturday Friends! It's time for another challenge with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create Challenge team. It's template time! Time to make something with one of Lauren's My Timeless Templates offered at Papertrey Ink....there are even two freebies so give em a try if you haven't already. And, I'm also using color inspiration from the fabulous Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Challenge blog. Have you seen this one yet? Always amazing eye candy over there!

the challenges:

my project:

The template challenge is two fold this week....use a template AND make it school themed. So this little basket called Pack a Picnic has been transformed with green galore cardstock from Stampin Up and stamps from Stampin UP and Papertrey Ink. This is the perfect shade of green for those snappy granny smith apples! Might as well start off on the right foot with your teacher and bring him or her an apple in a super fun container!

I added the brown to the outer edge of the stamped apple by first inking it up with green galore and then rolling the stamp edges into the brown ink. A very time honored stamping technique that never fails to impress me!

The fun part about 3-D projects is that they show well from every angle! I used a stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the row of small apple stamps and the "basket grid" is the grid stamp from Papertrey's Guidelines set. The handles are strung onto the button floss that is then threaded through the side of the basket and taped to the inside. I think the buttons really give it a little something special. :)

Are you ready for some amazing inspiration from the design team? Check them out:

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kendra Wisenbaker
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Jen Tapler
Odette
Lisa Kind
Tamara Harder

Don't forget that Lauren will be picking her fave five to highlight this week. You will find the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog so hook us up oh crafty ones. We can't wait to see what you are making! Thanks so much for coming by this week!

Supplies:

• Template: Lauren Meader
• Paper: SU! and Georgia Pacific
• Stamps: SU!, Papertrey Ink and Provo Craft
• Ink: Colorbox and SU!
• Punch: SU!
• Other craft supply: embroidery floss, brad, buttons, gingham ribbon

Hey COACH, what do you think of this purse?

Happy tuesday friends! Today's post is all about a special friend and the gift box that turned into a purse. Do you think COACH would like a paper purse designer? Hey COACH, I'm available *wink*

My very good friend and partner in craft had a birthday a little over a week ago. Elise is an honest to goodness artist of many mediums, a wonderful mom, a responsible steward of many critters on the family ranch, a true friend to those around her and well I could go on but she's gonna totally be blushing at my gushing already! :) If you want to check her out, you can find her at Mamacow Creations. I encourage you to visit her :)

From this angle, you can see a tiny bit of that freebie jewelry department box poking out. I started with the idea to decorate the box and before I knew it, I was sketching out a template, measuring and cutting! Pretty fun! The lavender moon cardstock was custom stamped by me using Papertrey Ink's Guidelines, Guidelines 2 and Damask Designs stamp sets. All of the houndstooth embossing on the chocolate cardstock is from a Cuttlebug A2 embosser. Lovin it!

And what purse is complete without a handle? This one is simply decorated using satin ribbon and Fabric tac for adhesive. I adhered strips of lavender moon paper to the edges of the box to dress it up a little.

A close up of the vintage look a like button and silk flower. The buttons are in a nice sized bag at Michaels and look very realistic.

Here is the purse opened up. The closure is a thin but STRONG magnet by Basic Grey on the underside of the half circle flap. These babies are the best at holding things together. A simple piece of chocolate bitty dot paper from PTI to cover the top of the box.

More chocolate paper to decorate and serve as a hinge to the box. I had to cut away the backside of the lid in order to make it hinge up like this. The bracelet is wired to a piece of lavender moon cardstock.

The teeny little card to match the purse uses mostly the same materials and adding in a border punch from SU! and the Sizzix daisy die. More hand stitching with embroidery floss.

This shows the flower dimension and the coordinating stamp inside the card.

On the centers of these stamped images on both the purse and the card are liquid pearls. Love that stuff!

And not to be forgotten...the backside of the purse has cute details too.

Thanks for stopping by! I love fun gift presentation and would love to see if you have a project link to share. Please leave it in the comments so I can come and be inspired by you :)

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Lavendar Moon and Dark Chocolate

Patterned Paper: PApertrey Ink Bitty Dots

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Guidelines, Guidelines 2, and Damask Designs

Ink: SU! Chocolate CHip

Embosser: Cuttlebug Houndstooth

Magnet: Basic Grey

Daisy Die: Sizzix

Border Punch: SU!

Other: ribbon, buttons, and embroidery floss

A happy birthday wish

This happy birthday card was made especially for Karen! Fellow retreater, fellow PTI lover and fellow blogger here at Time Crafted. I hope you go visit her blog...she's been up to some yummy goodness with cupcake stamps and crystal effects! My friend Karen is such a sweetie, I thought that these sweet treat ice cream cones would be just the thing to help celebrate her February birthday!It was super fun to combine some excellent stamps sets, ribbon and cardstock from Papertrey Ink in colors that remind me of rainbow sherbet. I always loved getting that when I was a kid. And of course, a little glitter just so Karen would know it was from me ;)

And a close up shot of the ribbon tied with a button and some twistel trick. This is a new technique to me and I just love the way it looks. Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Guidelines, Around and About Sentiments, and Love Songs
Paper: Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz and lemon tart, CM Orange
Ribbon: Papertrey Ink saddle stitch raspberry fizz
Ink: SU!
Scallop Punch Martha Stewert
Other: Stickles by ranger, button, twistel, zig writer

Happy January PTI Blog Hop

Happy blog hop everyone! Thanks for visiting my blog :)

For the birthday card theme I have come up with a couple things. First up the cupcake card!

Using stamps from the Love Songs set, I created a cupcake with the stack of heart cookies stamp and hand drawing the cupcake "wrapper" with a Zig writer. The candles are also from Love songs and I think is meant to be the spoon handle that pokes out of the ice cream. Also from PTI, the raspberry fizz paper. The punched scallop edge is from Martha Stewart, the white pen is a Signo gel pen and the cute orange ribbon is from the $1 bin at Michaels, and of course a little Stickles to the hearts, the flames and the wrapper.

The next two cards are cakes made from ribbon scraps. I can't bear to toss any piece of ribbon unless it is sooo small. I keep a clear zip bag full of ribbon pieces too small to wrap around my ribbon card storage system and from time to time, will pull them out and make "cakes".

The above card uses PTI Ocean Tides cardstock and the Guidelines set for the stamped yellow background. The cake plate is from a SU! set and the celebrate stamp is a studio G stamp. Silver glitter dresses this cake up a little.

This card uses the PTI Raspberry Fizz cardstock, Love Songs cookie tray as a cake plate, and the polka dot basics for the background. THe MS scallop punch again, redline tape to hold the strip of orange glitter, prima paper flower and a clear gem that has been colored with alcohol inks to take on an orangey hue. In case anyone is wondering, I use either the Scotch quick dry glue or Aleene's tacky glue to adhere the ribbons to a separate piece of cardstock and then I cut it out in cake form to even up the sides of the cake. All ink is SU! classic.

With all of these cute cards, how about a way to dress up a gift card? I thought Lauren's Purse-onality Clutch would be a great way to make a gift card more exciting. I based my packaging on the cute flower themed gift card I got at target.
The flowers are peeking through a window I cut in the front of Lauren's template and covered with the acetate I peeled from a new PTI stamp set. Never waste good acetate I say ;)

Here is the template before adhering the sides. I stamped the sides with different patterns using a sticky note to mask the areas that were not to be stamped. I used Polka Dot Basics and Guidelines and a little sun mini stamp from my collection. The stamped flowers to the right of the window are the motifs from Guidelines and the flower stems are the balloon string from Love Songs. I LOVED the flowers I got from turning the motif a little and using light/dark shades of ink! The yellow cardstock scalloped edge was made using the SU! scallop punch. I also ran my ink pad down the edge of the flap and purse sides to mess it up a little.
Above is a shot into the purse. I attached a cardstock tab and wrote pull on it so the recipient wouldn't miss that the gift card was meant to be taken out and used! Also tucked a mini emery board and mini nail polish trio from the target dollar area.

Some gold glitter to dress things up, a scallop punch tag from SU! and also large yellow eyelets on either side of the box to put the ribbon handle through. The butterfly punches are from MS and I colored some details on them with a white Signo pen and then put iridescent stickles over the top. Very cool effect IRL. Finally, a little reminder of an old tip but still a useful one...my ribbon for the handle was a light baby pink but I easily fixed that by running this dollar section ribbon over my dye ink pad.

Well that's it for today. Thanks for visiting my birthday blog hop post!!