My Crafty Week

I played along with several of the PTI Anniversary challenges this week.  Here goes...

I made this card for the PTI Day 4 Floral Challenge and was inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #258.  I'll also enter it at Seize the Birthday, without the toppings option.  I used Sweet Spring--and old set but one of my favorites.  Masked the center image to add more flowers on either side and colored with Copic markers.

My next card is for the PTI Transformation Tuesday challenge on Day 3.  I started with a card I made a while ago--I wasn't happy with it and never posted or sent it.  It seemed a little 'blah' to me.

Original Card

This card was one layer.  I cut the front to a 4 by 5 1/4 size, inlaid the die cut in a darker shade of green, and added one more hand cut piece of the sentiment.

Transformed Card

I am much happier with the new design.  I am also entering this card at CAS on Friday #126: Dies.

My next 2 cards were inspired by the PTI Retirement Challenge from Day 5.  It looks like they are retiring most of the Boy Basics stamps, so I pulled mine out and made a couple of valentines.

I used Boy Basic Frog Hop and Heart Squared to create this valentine.  After stamping the frame of hearts, I cut it out, stacked it 3 high, and then inlaid the stack back into the negative space.  The partial frog is peeking into the window and the full frog is stuck on top.

 I am also entering this card at CAS-ual Fridays #192: Hearts, Inkspirational #154: Aperture, and AAA Cards #108: All You Need is Love.

Another Valentine using a soon-to-be-retired stamp, Hello Foxy.  I am entering this card at Cupcake Inspirations #439: Love, Happy Little Stampers February CAS challenge: Hearts, and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: It Must Be Love.

Last up is my 3rd Valentine with the same design.  I had to make them similar as they are going to 3 sisters and they like getting the same things.

I am entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #278: Holiday, Happy Little Stampers February Anything Goes with Dies challenge, and Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Love is in the Air.

That's it for me today.  I hope to have some more for tomorrow.

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CASology Week #184: Valentine

This is my second post for today.  If you are looking for my ColourQ post,  please click here.

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.  This week, our cue word is Valentine.  With Valentines Day right around the corner, now is a great time to get any last minute Valentine cards made and into the mail.

I decided to go uber CAS this week, with a simple frame of red hearts surrounding my sentiment.  I'm thinking this might be the one that I give to DH this year.

I am going to enter this card in a few other challenges, as there are a lot this week for Valentine's Day:  Just Us Girls #329, CAS on Sunday #76, Simon Says Wednesday: Have a Heart, The Card Concept #48, and AAA Cards #57: Love.

Now, it's your turn.  How does Valentine inspire you?  I hope you play along this week. Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

We are sponsored this week by Uniko Studio.

Ardyth

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona

Melissa

Sherrie

Tracey

Guest Designer: Lindsey

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PTI January 2014 Blog Hop

I will be the first to admit that I went a little crazy with this month's PTI blog hop.  I love pink, and once I got started I just couldn't stop.  Everything looks better in pink....

First up is my favorite of all my cards.  I did some color blocking, similar to this card here, but all in pink.  I started with Raspberry Fizz in the middle, then Hibiscus Burst on either side, and then SU Pretty in Pink on either end.  The sentiment is from Happy Hearts. ETA:  CAS-ual Fridays color blocking challenge is still on, so I will enter this card over there.

This card uses the same pink papers, cut with the Rainbow Stripes dies and a sentiment from Stylish Sentiments Birthday.  I cased this from one of the DT release projects, but can't find the link at the moment.

My dear friend Kim was nice enough to send me some die cuts of the Love die (that I did not buy), and I just added a sentiment from Wonderful Words Love and a few die cut hearts from Love Lives Here.

I used this week's CAS(E) this Sketch for my next card.  The stamps are from Hearts Squared and I added a tiny little die cut grey heart from Love Lives Here.

One of the sentiments in Happy Hearts just screamed 'BABY' to me, so I made two baby girl cards.  I think I will use this sentiment either on the inside or outside of every baby card I make.  I just love it.  The first card uses hearts from Happy Hearts, stamped in Memento Angel Pink.  The second card uses Happy Hexagons stamps and dies and the Stars Impression Plate.

It can't be a pink-fest without a flower, right?  I used Friends 'Till the End and some grey washi tape on this next card.  I borrowed this layout from Deanna.

Finally, I have two cards using some pink washi tape.  I am trying to use some of my tapes, rather than just keep buying them.  The design is a modification from this post.  I added an additional strip of tape on the card base.  The sentiments on these cards are from Mini Blooms and Bigger Blooms.

That's it for me for now.  I'll be back later with a pink themed card set that I haven't yet had a chance to write up.

Thanks for Visiting---& Think Pink