Nichole Heady Cased Card

The following card is cased from Nichole Heady. Her company, Papertrey Ink, released the stamp set "Home Made" back in November 2009 and I have taken her card from here and made one of my own. Thanks Nichole for the inspiration!!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Home Made (PTI)
Ink: Groovy Guava (SU); Chocolate Chip (SU)
Paper: Groovy Guava (SU); White (PTI); Wild Wasabi (SU)
Accessories: Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug, Summer Sunrise Vintage Buttons (PTI); hemp; pop dots; leaf punch (Martha Stewart)

Damask Designs

Well as everyone is back to work after the Christmas Holidays I still have today off and don't return to work till tomorrow (Tuesday), so I have been holed up in my Katerfly Creations Studio trying to keep my stash of cards up to date. Over the last couple of days I have been playing around with Dawn McVey's Damask Designs from Papertrey Ink.

First I have "Jot this down....I love you". I was just playing around with one of the individual Damask stamps and stamped it randomly around the card front using Versamark, Chocolate Chip Ink (SU), and Fresh Snow Pigment Ink (PTI). At first I didn't like how the layering looked, but now as I look at the card the damask shapes layered look like a Chrysanthemum. The sentiment reads "Jot this down" from Papertrey's Take Note stamp set, and "I love you" from the Damask stamp set.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Damask Designs (PTI); Take Note (PTI)
Ink: Versamark; Fresh Snow Pigment Ink (PTI); Chocolate Chip (SU)
Paper: Ocean Tides (PTI); Chocolate Chip )SU); Rustic Cream (PTI); White (PTI)
Accessories: Scalloped Edge Punch (SU); EK Success - 2" Large Scalloped Circle Punch; EK Success - 1 3/4" Large Circle Punch; Ocean Tides Saddle Stitch Ribbon (PTI)


Second we have "A Damask Birthday". This card uses the largest individual Damask image. I built my main panel, added some saddle stitch ribbon and a sentiment. Voila!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Damask Designs (PTI)
Ink: True Black (PTI)
Paper: Balck (SU); White (PTI)
Accessories: Black Saddles Stitch Ribbon (from Micheal's)

Thirdly we have another Damask Birthday.


Ingredients:
Stamps: Damask Designs (PTI)
Ink: True Black (PTI)
Paper: Scarlet Jewel (PTI); White (PTI); Black (SU)
Accessories: Scarlet Jewel Swiss Dot Ribbon (PTI); Scarlet Jewel Vintage Buttons (PTI); Scalloped Edge Punch (SU)

Happy 2010!!!!

Happy New Years everyone. I hope you are well rested and ready for another year. As we move into a new decade I wish you all health and happiness!!!! Our New Years was uneventful. We rented a few movies (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and All About Steve). We also ordered in Chinese....a family tradition. Except my DH made me call back and add more to our order. When it arrived it looked as if we had enough for 12 people. Oh well leftovers are always good. We then relaxed...my DH fell asleep on the couch and we kinda rang in the New Year. We don't live in a timezone that has a major city party. So when we changed the channel to see the ball drop in New York (at our 11pm) we had already missed it. My parents called to say Happy News when their timezone hit 2010 and then we watched the repeat of Toronto's ball drop for our time zone. Nothing very exciting.

So now that it is the new year lets start focusing on our next holiday, Valentines. I whipped together two, non conventional, cards today.

"Cute As a Button"


Ingredients: "Cute As a Button"
Stamps: Loads of Love (SU)
Paper: Plum Pudding (PTI); Rustic Cream Cardstock (PTI)
Ink: Plum Pudding (PTI); Pale Plum (SU)
Accessories: Giga Square scalloped punch (MARVY); Vintage Plum Pudding Buttons (PTI); embroidery floss; Plum Pudding Ribbon (PTI); Circle Embossing Folder; Cuttlebug


"You Float my Boat"

(circle to represent a porthole)

Ingredients: "You Float my Boat"

Stamps: Men of LIfe (PTI)

Paper: Real Red (SU); Bashful Blue (SU); White Cardstock (PTI)

Ink: Real Red (SU); Bashful Blue (SU);

Accessories: Hemp; pop dots; Giga Circle Punch (MARVY); embroidery floss

A 2010 start on Christmas Cards

Well I am back today with a Christmas card that I made using scraps. I made a total of 10, each slightly different based on scraps I had on hand.


The Happy Holiday sentiment with ribbon is what I put inside each of the cards.

Ingredients:
Stamps: PTI Signature Christmas;PTI Holiday Treats
Paper: Scraps
Ink: PTI Ocean Tides, Versamark
Accessories: Super Jumbo (yellow) Marvy Snowflake punch; 1 3/4" circle punch; PTI Ocean Tides Vintage Buttons; PTI Ocean Tides Saddle Stitch Ribbon

Spoiler Alert To Family--Christmas Gifts Below!

It's that time of the month where Papertrey Ink challenges their customers to participate in the Blog Hop. This month the Blog Hop asks us to share our Christmas cards, gifts, and packaging ideas. Unfortunately I didn't receive my Papertrey Ink Package yet that had tons of packaging and gift ideas inside (nugget tins, tea tins, take note pads, etc) so I thought I would share with you what I have started on. The post is a little long today, but please enjoy.

First of all lets start with my Holiday Inspiration Table. I take all my Christmas themed stamps, paper, and embellishments and lay it all out so I can see what I have. It helps sparks inspiration and reminds me of all the items I have.

This basket contains nuggets (finally found some here in town); peppermint patties, snack bags, plastic card boxes, candy canes, recipe book, and PTI holiday stamps. Underneath is a huge package of paper, along with more holiday paper behind the basket.
Here you can see my other stamps; a Santa bag filled with kraft gift bags to decorate; vintage buttons; jingle bells; PTI ribbon; punches; and tons of holiday embellishments I found at Micheal's.

Now onto some gifts:
Snowmen Peppermint Patties

I took my scallop punch and punched out white scallops for both the front and back of each peppermint patty. I used my single hole punch to create the black coal buttons and the eyes. The hat is punched using SU 1 1/4" square punch and the word window punch. I then drew on the nose and mouth using copics. The punch art idea came from various people who shared on Splitcoaststampers, so thank you.
I then took the little snowmen and placed two in a small glassine bag from PTI. I then wrapped some PTI Enchanted Evening Ribbon around the bag, added a top note die topper in Enchanted Evening which was stamped in Fresh Snow (PTI) using a snowflake stamp set from SU. To finish it off I added a tag (sentiment To: From: comes from PTI's Halloween Tag set), and a marvy extra jumbo (yellow) snowflake punch with a Enchanted Evening Vintage Button, and a little Noel sentiment, stamped onto a punched marvy extra jumbo scallop square, from Dawn McVeys handwritten Signature Christmas set.
Here they are all packaged up!

Now onto some hot chocolate & other drink gifts:

As I posted the other day I made Trendy Tubes Hot Chocolate gifts. You can find the post here. These are individual gifts but I plan on using PTI's Tea Tin to create a family version along with some other treats to eat and drink on a cold Northern Canadian winter's day! All the treat ideas will be packaged up into a nice basket. If you also look at the post below this one you will see a PTI plastic card box that I have decorated. I have placed some drink items inside.

Now onto reusing PTI Stamp boxes:

I have a soon to be SIL whom I have just met. The two of us went to Sweet Flour in Toronto where you can create your own cookie and have it baked in front of you. Now my brother is Vegan so can't eat this sweet delicious treat, so I have put together a Hot Chocolate, Peppermint Patty, Gift Certificate package. I am reusing a PTI Stamp box to put together this package.

To create the Gingerbread Peppermint patty I used my scallop punch again, and just added some small circles to create the arms and legs. The sugarcoating is created using a white ballpoint pen. Added some hole punched red circles for buttons and a small ribbon as a bow. The box is wrapped in dark chocolate paper which has been stamped using a gingerbread stamp in Fresh Snow Ink (PTI). Ribbon was then wrapped around the box and jingle bells were added to the bow.
On the right of the above picture is a Gingerbread man created from the Top Note Die, marvy oval punch (blue), 3/4" circle punch, and the 1 1/4" circle punch cut in half to create the eye lids. The gingerbread man's edges were inked with Fresh Snow to make it look like icing. Then on the back of the gingerbread man I die cut another top note die, but cut it in half. I adhered just the edges so that it becomes a little pocket and the gift certificate to Sweet Flour will fit inside.

Here are two other Top Note Die Gift Certificate holders I made. Another gingerbread one and a snowman.

Do you see the gift that is illuminated???? Alot of people are making these these days. It is simply a glass cube (this one is repurposed from a lady's house here in town, but you can buy them at your local hardware store). You tie ribbon around it, tie a bow and decorate, drill a hole into the back side, and feed a small set of Christmas lights into the back. Neat huh???
Here is what I haven't gotten to. My to do list:

1. Nugget Tins

2. Alter Tea Tin into Family Hot Chocolate Package

3. Pillow Box gift certficate holders

4. Note Books

5. Christmas Crackers (heres last years picture) This year the items inside wont be cheesy

6. Still need to decorate my kraft pages.

Stay tuned for views of all of these, plus my Christmas Cards. I am not posting my cards here as I did not use any PTI supplies on them (as I made them last year).

Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Packaging Ideas

Here is a sneak peak at two ways I am gift wrapping this year. All my gifts have to be mailed and shipped quite a distance, as both our parents and the rest of our family live across Canada. With that being said most of the gifts are small, so I want the packaging to be chic so that they forget how small the gift is they are opening.

You can also see in this picture my colour scheme for this Christmas....Enchated Evening, Scarlet Jewel, and Vintage Cream (all PTI).

Gift Box
The first gift idea uses a plastic card box (PTI) to place the gift items inside. I can't tell you what is inside as my family reads my blog; however there is tons of room to put something to take the chill off a winter's evening ;) I simply added ribbon, snowflakes and an image panel.


Ingredients:
Stamps: Warm happiness (PTI), Signature Christmas (PTI)
Ink: Enchanted Evening (PTI), Scarlet Jewel (PTI)
Paper: Enchanted Evening (PTI), Vintage Cream (PTI),
Accessories: Marvy Circle Punches (GIGA & MEGA), Enchanted Evening Ribbon (PTI), Marvy Snowflake punch (extra jumbo), Martha Stewart Glitter.

Stocking Gift Bag
This is a template by Lauren Meader. They can be purchased here. It is perfect for chocolates, candy, or small items like a pair of socks ;). I simply followed the template directions, added some stitching, and done!

Ingredients:

Stamps: Guide Lines (PTI)

Ink: Enchanted Evening (PTI), Scarlet Jewel (PTI), Fresh Snow (PTI)

Paper: Enchanted Evening (PTI), Vintage Cream (PTI)

Accessories: Template (PTI); Embroidery Floss, needle, pop dots

Christmas Ideas

Here is a simple Christmas idea. Fill some Trendy Tubes with Hot Chocolate, add some fancy ribbon, a label and a tag. Voila a simple Christmas idea in 5 mins.

Yes that is snow in the background, and yes it is only October 11, 2009!!!!!!!

I'm still working on some more Christmas ideas. When they are finished I will share them.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Ingredients:

Stamps: PTI Holiday Treats

Ink: Enchanted Evening and Scarlett Jewel (PTI)

Paper: Vintage White (PTI)

Accessories: Enchanted Evening Satin Ribbon (PTI), Extra Jumbo Scalloped Punch (Marvy), embroidery floss

World Card Making Day

Since it is World Card Making Day I thought I better get into the scrapbooking room and make something. I just haven't had the time lately, and I am currently trying to get over this awful cold. I know I haven't posted anything recently, but I do have many projects on the go.

List of things on the go:
-Sip & Stir Christmas Packages
-Christmas Recipe Book
-Christmas Gift Card Holders using Top Note Die from SU
-2010 Calendars
-Snowmen Peppermint Patties
-and the list goes on and on......

I swear once I have time to complete some of these projects I will post them. In the mean time here is a card I whipped up today.

Here is a card I made for my brother's B-day. The chipboard bird and fancy DSP is from an Asian Paper Store he took me to last summer. I wanted the card to be simple and masculine. Colours are PTI Enchanted Evening, SU Basic Black, and SU Going Gray. Sentiment is from PTI's Mega Mixed Messages.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!, or so it seems on everyones blogs. Papertrey Ink is having it's monthly countdown to their stamp release date of September 15th, and this month it's everything Christmas. I already have my Christmas cards done, and kinda know what I'm doing for gifts, so I thought I would spend today whipping up some cards to go on my gifts this year.

My colour inspiration came from this DSP paper I have had for a while now. We R Memory Keepers: Christmas-Holly

I started by cuting my 8 1/2 x 11" paper into 3" strips. I then randomly stamped various images creating my own DSP onto SU Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery and Rose Red cardstock.

I then cut out tags from Kraft cardstock that was 3" x 4 " and adheared the different strips of DSP I made. I then added some sentiments and some ribbon, and voila.......Christmas card tags; Finished and Done!

Ingredients:
Stamps: SU Little Holiday Wishes; SU To You and Yours; SU The Snowflake Spot; PTI Holiday Treats; PTI Polka Dots II; PTI Guidelines; PTI 2009 Halloween Tags; Holiday Time-Holiday Treats (Walmart)

Paper: SU Bashful Blue; SU Certainly Celery; SU Rose Red; SU Kraft; We R Memory Keepers DSP "Christmas-Holly"

Ink: SU Bashful Blue; SU Certainly Celery; SU Rose Red; SU Always Artichoke; SU Chocolate Chip; PTI Fresh Snow

Accessoreis: Ribbon; Buttons; Punches; Pop Dots

Getting Back To Nature

Since it is the long weekend (Labour Day in Canada) I have been busy in the scrap room today. I finished my Halloween Cards that I posted yesterday. I am working on making punched turkeys for a number recognition activity for my Kindergarten students (turkeys have a number on their belly, they have to add that number of feathers), and I am trying to get together some cards to donate to my Catholic Women's League Bazaar in October.



So here are two more cards I've made:



"Turtle Me Pink!"

Ingredients:
Stamps: PTI Pond Life; PTI Polka Dots; PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Paper: SU Pink Passion; SU Whisper White; SU Wild Wasabi
Ink: SU Rose Red; SU Chocolate Chip; SU Bashful Blue; SU Blush Blossom; SU Chalks (old olive, bashful blue)
Accessories: Ribbon; button; embroidery floss; EZ Success punch


Now on to "Happy Hunting":

Ingredients:
Stamps: SU Nature Silhouettes; SU Backwoods

Paper: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Always Artichoke; SU Whisper White

Ink: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Always Artickoke; Copics

Copics used: E33, E35, G99; YG67; C-5, E47; Colourless Blender

Witches; Ghosts and Pumpkins Galore

I decided to finally ink up my new PTI order and create some halloween cards.

Ingredients "BOO":

Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI Summer Sunrise; PTI True Black; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: SU Only Orange; Basic Black
Accessories: Black grosgrain ribbon; PTI Vintage Button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Fright Night":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise; black; SU Only Orange
Accessories: Saddle Stitch ribbon; PTI Vintage button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Black Cat":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds; PTI Polka Dots II
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White
Ink: PTI Plum Pudding; black
Accessories: PTI Plum Pudding Satin Ribbon; PTI Vintage buttons; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Creeping by":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI True Black; PTI Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise; black
Accessories: Ribbon; PTI Vintage button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch


Ingredients "Le Fantome":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: Black
Accessories: PTI Summer Sunrise swiss dot ribbon; button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Since I had PTI's Halloween Tags out on my desk I dedided to use up some scraps and create 18 tags for my students. I will use these tags on their halloween treats this year.