PAPERTREY INK COMFORT FOOD BIRTHDAY CARD

As usual I was in a mad rush to create a birthday card for a very dear friend.  And it had to be a guy card! Thankfully he loves ice cream and it was a perfect opportunity to try out the Comfort Food set from PTI.  Stamped with Palette inks (and maybe one Stampin Up) on Neenah solar white.  I cut an insert on black card stock and attached the stamped image underneath.  Then just the Simon Says Tilted Banner set and Tilted Banner die.  A few enamel dots and it was done!

PAPERTREY INK MOTHER'S DAY CARD WITH PEARL EX AND PERFECT PEARLS

PAPERTREY INK ROSIE POSIE 

DETAIL OF PEARL EX AND PERFECT PEARLS

PAPERTREY INK BOUTIQUE BORDERS: MOTHER. COMBINED GOLD INK PAD OVER COLOR INK PAD AND I LOVE THE LOOK!

INSIDE OF CARD  WITH ALL MY HEART

I haven't used my perfect pearls in AGES (decades?) anyhoo, after watching Nichole Heady using perfect pearls I decided to have a go at them for this special card.  I spritzed the card stock( Bazill pink) with Mr. Huey calico shine and also the white wood grained paper.  I stamped the die cut images with Versamark and then applied the pearl ex and perfect pearl colors with a soft brush.  Blending is fun and the colors really do stand out on the dark papers.  All in all, I am pretty happy with the way this card turned out.  Hubby's birthday tomorrow and will post his card AFTER he gets it.  Happy Mother's Day!

SUPPLIES:

Ranger Archival stamp pad olive
Palette hybrid stamp pad violet
Spellbinders Petite Scallop Die
Gold card stock stash (might be creative memories)

ROSES- MY BEWITCHED ROSE IN BLOOM

One of my favorite roses, great color shape and smell!  First blooms are always huge!

STAMP STORAGE AND THANK YOU TO JENNIFER MCGUIRE!

 I’m resigned to the fact that my own tiny craft room will always be in a state of flux, since I’m forever experimenting with new and clever ways to sort all this STUFF and cram it in somewhere.  I'm not really complaining- well maybe I am- I actually HAVE a room but  I will be forever thankful to Jennifer McGuire and her stamp storage post!

Here is what I do;

1. Clear stamps in CD cases and some in Stampin Up plastic stamp boxes

2. Unmounted rubber background just stacked up 

3. Wood mounted stamps are in old DMC yarn storage drawers (from my defunct needlepoint store)

4. Clings are in four large binders

I am sure you can see that there are a number of problems with this.  The stamps are all over the place, the clings in the binders I never remember to use (I need everything visually accessible) and putting stamps into the CD cases is tedious.

What Jennifer McGuire has done is to put all her stamps into envelopes that she can flip through.  I was INSPIRED.  I love the idea of just flipping through the envelopes as that's how I store my dies and it really works for me. See this post.Die Storage. I decided to buy a couple Avery Elle stamp envelopes and see how they really work. I AM IN LOVE, LOVE, LOVE with these things.  I cut cheap white cardstock for a background in each envelope and labelled the front of the envelope with my P-touch (everything I have is labelled with P-Touch and I should by stock in the company).  In two seconds the stamps were transferred into their new home and ready to flip through.  I am waiting for the refrigerator box Fridge Binz - Amazon Prime that Jennifer recommends and then I will transfer the clings from the binders into the envelopes.  The stamps that already in the CD cases I will leave but maybe move all the sentiment stamps to the new system.  

These envelopes works for all clear stamps including Papertrey Ink (just stick the enclosed label right onto the acetate) and this is so FAST and EASY.  I've had four PTI sets still sitting in their boxes because I haven't had time to put them in CD cases and it took longer to get them out of their boxes than it did to get them into the new envelopes. And let's talk about how reasonably priced these are.  3 for $1.00.  Can't do better than this.

SUPERFAST (for me) BIRTHDAY CARD

Saturday baby party at four pm.  Got home at 3 and of course, no card! Run and buy one, silly me, way to easy.  What can I do really fast (not much) but let's give it a whirl.  Whoots stamp, easy peasy coloring, Kraft card, with pink Bazzill background, quick  die cut, pearls, googly eyes and OMG, I was done in 20 minutes in full panic mode.

Love those Whoots stamps- especially with googly eyes with lashes

YARNHARLOT BLOG

So I've had a head cold and a sore throat and swollen glands which has reduced me to a state of infantile grouchiness. In addition to the above miseries I started to read a new Harlan Cobin mystery, Six Years,before I went to sleep last night and it was calling to me in my dreams. When my husband woke me with an errant elbow to my head, I figured it was time to get up (1:30 am) and read (till 5:30am) when I finished the darn book. Now I am foggy headed and abusing my iPad and listening to watching Maria Sharapova in the Miami quarterfinals. Unable to move from the sofa, still in my bathrobe and fuzzy slippers I was doing a search for a knitting technique when I came upon this blog, Yarn Harlot http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/. written by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.
I am sure many, most? of you knitters out there may be familiar with her but I mostly read paper crafting blogs and paleo food blogs. In addition to her blog she has a number of books on Amazon. Even if you don't knit you should read this blog. This woman is extremely funny and made me laugh out loud and generally took me out of my crankiness. If I had more of a voice today, I would be reading it outloud to my husband but I can't and I refuse to relinquish my iPad to him. She started the blog in 2004, and that's where I started reading. Oh dear, this may keep me up another night. Maybe I better nap.

PAPERTREYINK SUNFLOWER BOUQUET BIRTHDAY CARD

I think this was one of my favorite cards this year.  Very bright and cheerful for a very dear friend whose birthday was last September.  

STAMPS USED PTI SUNFLOWER BOUQUET, MODERN WOOD MATS, JUST THE TICKET DIE AND STAMP, SIMPLE SENTIMENTS
COPICS YG21,YG23, G12, G24,G46,Y21,Y35,G21,YR09,Y04,YR04,BG70-72-75; E42-42-44-89
INKS HERO ARTS CUP O JOE, WET CEMENT
DIES SPELLBINDERS SIMPLE CIRCLES
PAPERS
EMBELLISHMENTS
TOOLS: BIG SHOT, MARTHA STEWART SCOREBOARD, MR. HUEY WHITE SPRAY