Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

Blog Hop

How happy does this party look!

How could you not make a happy holiday card from this inspiration.

Here's my take:

I was inspired by the pink paper decorations, colorful twine, and cute star plates.

Supplies

Snowflake Medallion Die

Snow Globe mini stamp set

I noticed washi tape in the photo too so I had to try a card with some: 

Supplies

Snowflake Medallion Die

Snow Globe mini stamp set

Stars Impression Plate

Have a very merry day after Christmas and a happy hop!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #269

 EMBOSSED + OUTLINED BACKGROUNDS

In my Christmas letter I said that my current hobby is waving at my craft supplies while passing to take care of kids =) Found a little time to play this week to try Betsy's neat technique.

I played with 'Rustic Wreath' -embossed it, colored around it and a little in it, added some red berries with fabric puffy paint and a sentiment!

Supplies

Rustic Wreath

Snow Globe mini set die

Christmas Cheer

Had to try a snowflake:

Supplies

Snowflake Medley

Christmas Cheer

Have a wonderful weekend!

I'm hosting a light party tonight so better get busy.

Noelle

Papertrey October Blog Hop Challenge

OCTOBER 2016 BLOG HOP

I found one day to make a few cards! Excited to play along and get to make fall cards.

Here was our inspiration photo:

My cards:

I found some gold music note vellum that went well with the inspiration photo.

I dry embossed some woodgrain and sewed on some red seed beads for a berry look.

I dry embossed some woodgrain and layered the thanks for a shadow look.

It was fun to ink up some new sets!

Sets used:

Give Thanks

Stylized Autumn

Big Basics Thanks die

Quilted Winter

Thanks for stopping by. I will try to find time to return the look. I was in a wedding last weekend and throwing a 40th anniversary and 60th birthday party this weekend!

Have a great hop,

Noelle 

Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge

Blog Hop

Check out this festive inspiration photo!

I wish I had time to make 20 more cards from this photos inspiration. We are enjoying more guests again this weekend, but I snuck in this card:

I put a black and white pattern paper on a kraft cardstock card. Cut leaves from the cute Stylized Autumn set and added some glitter to the lighter one. My sentiment was cut and stamped from the Christmas Cheer set. Last I added some mini cones and some twine.

The mini cones are from an alder tree. I had collected a few of them while I was in college studying Landscape Architecture. I had thought they were so cute and would look great on cards...they do don't they =)

Have a super hop today!

I'm excited to see your festive creations!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #261

USING FLORALS ON A MASCULINE PROJECT 

What a great challenge! We could all use tips on making masculine cards =)

I thought wheat would be a good plant to use on a masculine card.

I ink blended with the new Saffron Spice color for the bottom corner and also my birthday swoosh.

Supplies:

PTI Inks

Give Thanks

Swoosh

Have a great weekend!

Noelle

CREATE ALONG WITH US

CREATE ALONG WITH US: 

SEPTEMBER 2016

We have guests this weekend, so I snuck in a quick card while they were napping =)

There were too many beautiful projects to not play along.

I was inspired by Maile's lovely card :

I was also inspired by the new Shine set. So I found my Shakers and Sprinkles set and made this card:

Ok got to go host,

Have a great day!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #260

 FROM BLACK AND WHITE TO COLOR

Thank you for the fun idea Danielle! I was having fun working on my card when my crafting buddies saw and had to try it too! It's a great technique for kids to try:  

'Artist' chose fall colors and made two cards:

'Squeaky' made a colorful window card:

I only had about two stamp set I could color in! I'll be on the look our for more. I did get a few Copic markers for my birthday and it was fun to play with them:

Supplies:

Fancy That

Doodle feather set

Lots to do today, so I got to run. Have a great weekend!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #259

OMBRÉ CLUSTER STAMPING

Dawn had a lovey and inspiring challenge this week! I had to try it. I am putting 'craft' time on the schedule...worked out this week but we haven't started school yet =) It could be 'art class' right?

I was excited to ink up my new sets! We had some great friends bring us meals after our Little Mister was born and I need some thank you cards for them:

Supplies:

PTI Inks

What the Doodle Feather

Give Thanks

Sequins

I had a blast stamping and inking in ombre! Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day,

Noelle

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

AUGUST 2016 BLOG HOP

Here was our inspiration picture:

It was an interesting combination of colors.

I wasn't sure if I could pull them off =) I gave my self a short 'before the kids wake up' window and was able to put a tag together:

I colored some embossing paste pink and made some stripes with a stencil. Next I cut out a tag.

Then added a 'Canyon Clay' colored 'too cute' fox, brown leaves, a little sentiment tag, and last a ribbon!

Supplies:

Tag #4 die

Phrase Play #7

Stylized Autumn

PTI Inks

Now to stay awake the rest of the day...I may have to learn to like coffee =)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a Happy Hop!

Noelle

Create Along With Us

August 

Create Along With Us

With all the lovely fall inspiration this was a fun challenge!

I was drawn to Dawn's sweet layout of this card:

And then of course inspired by Kay's new sweet fox set!

Supplies:

Wee Folk kit

Pretty Petals Mini

Mini Blooms

Graceful Greetings

Quilted Winter tag die

PTI Inks

Because of the great inspiration this card flew together...now why didn't I make multiples? =)

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #257

SENTIMENT STRIP GROUNDING

Lexi's video was so good of me! Sometimes I have these elements and I stare at them for a day trying to figure out what to do with them to make them into a card. It doesn't have to be hard does it =)

While the girls are camping with Nana and Papa and the little man sleeps mommy gets to play!

This one has a little ABC background spot.

Supplies:

Desktop Design

Simply Framed

One Big Happy

PTI Inks

Our little man =)
Thanks for stopping by!
Noelle

Welcome

Welcome Little One

Our wonderful surprise and blessing arrived Saturday morning.

Welcome to our family Levi!

SAF Remix

Challenge: to rework a card you weren't happy with from Stamp-a-faire.

I choose 

COLOR BLOCKING WITH LEXI DALY

I like how the stamping and inking turned out, but as a card is was lacking:

My reworked card has stitching details, twine, a banner and a sentiment! Now it is ready to send to someone!

I also enjoyed 

WATERCOLOR LIKE A MASTER WITH KAY MILLER

so much that I made four more in these two styles:

Thanks for the fun challenge PTI - I was a little bummed that I didn't have a July baby...hopefully this week now! Your challenge gave me a happy lift. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Noelle

SAF 2016: Gilded in Gold

Time to add a little gold bling:

To go with my ink blended leaf and sentiment I added a gold leaf and tiny gold dots.

Supplies:

Phrase play #7

Quilted Winter tag die

PTI Inks

Only three more challenges to go...but it's time for a nap. I sure had a blast joining in all I could =)

Take care,

Noelle

SAF 2016: Impressionism

Since I lack a large flower set in my collection I tried an impressionism butterfly:

Supplies:

Life is Beautiful set

PTI Inks

Have a good one,

Noelle

SAF 2016: Farewell

This is not our official farewell, I hope to squeeze in a few more cards today. But here are my craft buddies 'Squeaky' and 'Artsy.' God has taught me to be more patient and to be better at sharing by giving me these sweet girls. And I have two more little ones (well one still in the belly) that may join us when they are older...we will need a bigger table =)

Thank you Papertrey Ink for such a fun event!

SAF 2016: Color Blocking

What a great challenge to practice your masking and ink blending! I was surprised when I pulled it off and didn't have some big 'oops' somewhere =) Here's a little Andy Warhol inspired barn card:

I was a little chicken and left some white space instead of coloring it in. But I thought it also helped the barns pop =)

Supplies:

Petite Places barn stamp set

PTI inks

Happy Monday,

Noelle