Bonkers for Banners

I've been lovin' all the banners on papers and projects in the last few months. I had been looking at a banner stamp set at Pink Persimmon for quite awhile. When I revisited the site a last month, they were releasing two tiny banner sets. So I decided it was time to load my cart and make a purchase.
For my inaugural use of these stamps, I made a card for my friends and former co-workers in the English department who head back to school today while I'll be headed to my Pilates and Zumba classes.  Can you see the huge grin on my face!

I started with the image from Little Red Wagon. which I colored with Copics and Prismacolor pencils. I was Dick and Jane primer kid, so I have an affinity for this stamp set. In addition, teaching different English classes with the various text books and novels, one often feels like a wagon is necessary to cart books home at night.  Our department does use a shopping cart abandoned in the school parking lot to transport textbooks from the storage area to the classroom. Those in public education must be creative and resourceful! :) I stamped the mini alpha banner stamps, cut, and glued them to baker's twine. Then I realized the upper left corner was bare. So I added a sun, actually the flower image from PTI's 2010 anniversary set. I had intended to swag the banners, but by the time I got to the point of attaching the them, I was ready to finish this card and went the easy and quick way with straight lines.
More pennants inside!

After stamping and cutting the pennants, I stamped the letters. After attaching them, I drew the lines to create the banner, leaving just enough space to squeeze in a signature.

By the way, can you guess what the school's colors are? :)
Have a good one.
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Supplies:
Stamps: Little Red Wagon, Banner (small),Carnival Alphabet(small), Mini Banner Alpha (Pink Persimmon); Round and Round (PTI)
Ink: Pure Poppy (PTI), Memento Black Tuxedo(Tsukineko)
Paper: Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Other: Baker's twine(Martha Stewart), Copics

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge

Hey everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start. I've a quick post this morning. The latest Timeless Tuesday Challenge hosted by Dee Jackson on the Flourishes blog is  a limited supply challenge. " The limit? NO Embellishments. What does this mean? It means that we let the image we use speak for itself. We CAN use ink, stamps, paper, punches, die cuts, and coloring tools. We cannot add rhinestones, prima flowers, buttons, pearls, ribbons, brads, etc."

I stamped the lilac in Rich Cocoa, cut with a Nestabilities die,and colored with Prismacolor pencils. I inked the edges with Versamark ink to bring out the deckled edging. I mounted the image on an embossed panel, again highlighting the embossing with Versamark.
Be sure to check out Flourishes blog later this week for the August release.
Thanks for stopping by,

Supplies:
Stamps: Lilac, Falling Leaves-sentiment (Flourishes)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko)
Paper: Kraft(PTI)

Papertrey Peeps Challenge #13

Have I mentioned before how lucky I am to be part of the Papertrey Peeps. These girls are so amazingly creative! Every visit to their blogs makes my eyes pop and jaw drop. Thanks girlies, for all the beauty, fun, inspriration, and kindness!
 Carol  has issued a fun challenge on the Papertrey Peeps Blog to use Mary Englebreit as our inspiration. I always check out the Mary Englebreit dollar bins at Michaels and have some really cute notepads to use as shopping lists  However,I am not sure how Ed feels as he is walking through the grocery store with his bright, happy and CUTE grocery list. Hee-hee.

I made a couple of tags trying to capture Mary's style. I went through my PTI stamps first looking for images that reminded me of M. E. The most obvious stamp to me was a stamp from Everyday Buttons Bits. Mary and cherries--yep!  So this was the beginning of the first tag.

After cutting the tag with my Cricut, stamping the image and cutting it with Nestablities, I headed to the jumbled ribbon drawer where I discovered the ribbon I had forgotten. Yes, that is ribbon from the Mary Englebreit dollar bin at Michaels. Woo hoo! Love it when I make a discovery, even if I feel kind of foolish because I my memory has failed me once again.
The beginning of this next tag was an image from this year's PTI anniversary set with a paper base of Raspberry Fizz and Plum Pudding Bitty Dot Basics.

I stamped the flowers in Raspberry Fizz ink. The black and white borders are a stamp from a Crafty Secrets Halloween set that I trimmed after stamping, and the stamped border on the Aqua Mist is from Fanciful Flourishes (Flourishes).

A couple of happy tags to brighten some kraft gift bags!


Supplies:
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits, Round and Round 2010 Anniversary Set(PTI); Fancy Flourishes (Flourishes); Halloween Fun (Crafty Secrets)
Ink: New Leaf, Rapsberry Fizz (PTI); Black Tuxedo (Memento)
Paper: Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Bitty Dot Basics in True Black and Plum Pudding(PTI); gingham (Paper Studio)
Other: Tags, Bags, Boxes (Provocraft); Nestabilities; Aqua Mist, Summer Sunrise grosgrain ribbon(PTI); Mary Englebreit ribbon (Michaels)

Seeds of Friendship

A few weeks ago Silke Ledlow was having a blog giveaway, and  much to my delight and surprise I was the lucky winner. I got to choose a stamp set from Flourishes release. I chose Seeds of  Friendship -- the perfect stamp set to complement my love of flowers and love of vintage. When I saw the first peaks of this set, I thought it was such a clever idea to be able to create vintage seed packets. I was thrilled when my set arrived, but Silke didn't just send the stamp set; she included another precious stamp, some sweet Prima flowers, and some silver and gold bling. THANK YOU, Silke for your generous gift!! Opening the envelope was Christmas in July!
For my first card using Seeds of Friendship, I chose the small image from Sweet Peas, because I didn't want to look for some post-it notes or take the time to mask. I know, lazy Mazy!

The soft colors of sweets peas were great for the vintage look of the card. I kept my coloring of the packet detail to a minimum, coloring only the word "seeds" with Copics V91 and V95. For  the sweet peas I used V000, V91,R81,R83, G21,G24,G28. I cut both sides of strip of green patterned paper with a border punch to create some paper lace. Some brown twine and a button are simple embellishments for this simple design.
 Have a good one!


Supplies:
Stamps: Seeds of Friendship, Sweet Peas (Flourishes)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsusinko), Lavender Moon (PTI)
Paper: Vintage Cream Lavender Moon (PTI), green pp (K and Co), lavender pp (My Mind's Eye)
Other: Chocolate Baker's Twine, Vintage Lavender Moon Button (PTI); Fiskars border punch

Berry Sweet, Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 77

With this post I met one of my goals for July--to participate the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge each week. The last challenge of July, hosted by Emily Keaton, is to use pins on the card. This gave me chance to pull out my beading supplies and make a couple of pins for my card.
First the card.

After cutting kraft cs with the library pocket die, I stamped the image from Strawberries with Black Tuxedo ink and colored it with Copics. Then I stamped the libary card in London Fog ink on. I rounded the corners with the Corner Chomper. Then I stamped the sentiment and strawberry which I also colored with Copics. I cut a tag from patterned paper and stitched onto more patterned paper from the Fly a Kite line. The green gingham rick rack trim was cut with PTI's die. I added some seam binding ribbon and my pins. As I was going through my beads I found two red ones that were shaped similar to strawberries,  so I topped each off with a green bead cap and I carried the strawberry theme through the pins.

Be sure to check out Flourishes Blog for the details on the new monthly challenge Bringing Back Beautiful
Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Supplies:
Stamps: Strawberries(Flourishes), Library Card(PTI)
Ink: Black Tuxedo, London Fog(Memento)
Paper: Kraft, Vintage Cream(PTI);Fly a Kite(October Afternoon)
Other: Rickrack die, Library pocket die(PTI), seam binding ribbon(Simple Treasures)

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 76 and Peeps Challenge 7

Once again, I am posting my card for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge on the last day. The host for this challenge is Barbara Anders who chose this photo from A Creative Mint as our inspiration .

Oh, how I wish I was talented enough to capture the beauty of those roses with my coloring. I'd like to blame my poor attempt on not having the right color of Copic markers, but in truth the fault lies in the user not the materials.  The photo is has a fresh simplicity to it, so I tried to keep my card design simple.

I chose the summer wreath from Flourishes A Wreath for All Seasons stamp set as the focal point.  I stamped it in Rich Cocoa (Memento) ink.  I used these Copics for the roses: R30,R32, R35 and RV10, RV11, RV13. I used YG91, YG93,YG95, and YG97 for the greens. I also used RV000, RV91, and RV95.  The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages (PTI). The patterned papers are from Webster Pages' Petite Pad Lullaby Lane and Life's Portrait. I chose the striped for the freshness displayed in the photo, and the design of the bottom piece mirrors the design on the scrap of paper attached to the jar in the photo. I added the white ribbon and the buttons to give some to balance the card; otherwise it seemed a little top heavy. The final touch-- a tiny butterfly.

Since the inspiration photo is from A Creative Mint , this also counts for Papertrey Peeps Challenge which for some reason I never completed. Now I am only behind one Peeps Challenge--another goal for the week.  You can check out the Papertrey Peeps Challenges by clicking on the button on the side. 

As always thanks for taking the time to stop by,

PTI Blog Hop-Using Office Supplies

Welcome to my stop on the hop with the following challenge:
"For this month's blog hop we are focusing on office supplies! We want to see you incorporate all of those fun desk drawer fillers into your paper crafting projects. This can include paper clips, binder clips, rubber bands, file folders, staples, binder rings, adhesive labels, post-it notes, index cards or whatever else you can dream up. Reinvent these basic office staples to be hip and trendy additions to your projects! "

My friends and former coworkers are headed back to school in a couple of weeks, so I made a card for the fantastic staff at the high school where I taught for 30 years.

My card layout was inspired by a  birthday card by Nichole Heady seen in this post. The front of my card includes a cork strip serving as the mount for the message and some of the new items from July's release.  Some staples and a paper clip from my school supplies add a touch of the office.

Inside the ticket sentiment is from Autumn Abundance and the stars from Limitless Labels.


Enjoy the hop!


Supplies:
Stamps:Just the Ticket , Mini Scrapbook Series:Library Ledger, Limitless Labels, Take Note, Autumn Abundance(PTI); A+ stamp(Michaels)
Ink: Lady Bug(Memento), Peacock(ColorBox Pigment)
Paper: Kraft, Spring Rain, Bitty Box Basics(PTI)
Other: Spiral Notebook Page die, Just the Ticket border die,rickrack die (PTI); star punch(Fiskars),cork(Quickutz)