Moxie Fab Tag Challenge? Yes, Please!

I have this attraction to tags. I'm not sure what it is. But I LOVE them. 

And so, I make them.

Maybe they remind me of gift giving, or receiving. Maybe they are a simple way to tell someone how special they are.

 When Moxie Fab World had a gift tag challenge, I was all in! I just needed to find the time to create. (This month can get really hectic with flower and vegetable garden planting and end of the school year festivities.) 

But, I found the time and you can too!

Just hurry! You have until June 3 at midnight.

 http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/05/350-cards-gifts-week-gift-tag-challenge.html

Thanks for looking!

Carolanne

May 2013 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Yay! It's that time again for the chance to see all the creative things everyone can come up with using Papertrey Ink (and other crafting)products, a challenge, and their own imagination.

This month the challenge was to use some Papertrey Ink floral stamps, dies, etc (there are so many lovely ones) and a color scheme to come up with your own one of a kind creation. I chose the yellow color scheme although I like them all.

Here's what I came up with. My card included more paper piecing because I am

still in love with the technique that Melissa Phillips featured on this week's Make It Monday. 

If you haven't seen it, go here:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/05/make-it-monday-117.html

I made the flower with paper punches using a technique similar to the how-to I wrote about here:

http://carolannecreates.blogspot.com/2013/02/another-pillow-box-for-make-it-monday.html

To see everyone else's beautiful ideas and blogs (and maybe make something for yourself) go to:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/05/may-2013-blog-hop-.html

Thanks for hopping by!

Carolanne

Supplies Used:

Stamps- PTI Ruby Rose, Stampibilities Composer's Dream, PTI Mini Blooms (sentiment)

Dies- PTI Frilly Flowers (for book paper behind flower) 

Punches- Paper Shapers, EK Success

 Paper- My Mind's Eye, book paper

glitter glue

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #117: Paper Piecing

 This weeks PTI Make It Monday featured a tutorial from another one of my favorite designers... Melissa Phillips http://lilybeanpaperie.typepad.com OH MY! Her blog is beautiful!

I watched her video and was immediately inspired. She showed us how to take stamps, stamp them on various papers, cut out and piece them together. It took me a little while to get it together this week but this is what I came up with. This technique reminds me of a lovely quilt. 

AND I got to use the wonderful new Pedal Pusher stamps!

I decided to keep the card going. Kind of like riding on a path. 

I never get tired of the PTI Banners.

This card is going to friends from our church who are moving. We are going to really miss them, but the road they are taking is where they are supposed to be...

                         

To view the tutorial and try this technique for yourself, go to:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/05/make-it-monday-117.html

Thanks for looking!

Carolanne

Supplies:

Stamps- PTI Pedal Pusher, Banner Builder, Birthday Style, Hero Arts-Large Artsy Circle, Stampendous (sentiment)

Dies-PTI Tiny Tags

Paper-My Mind's Eye, Scandia-Jul-gdc studios, K&C Company

Inks-Memento

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #116: Adding Texture to Stamps

Hello everyone! This week's PTI Make It Monday featured Betsy Veldman showing us how to add texture to our stamping. Betsy comes up with the most beautiful and unique ideas. I adore her creations  and I LOVE texture. 

This challenge, for me, however, was a little daunting. I felt like I just didn't get the technique down as well as I would have liked... But, I guess "practice will make perfect" and I don't think it is supposed to be "perfect":-)...hopefully! 

 Betsy showed us how to take a solid stamp, ink it, "swipe it", (using the teeth of a comb to give the result some texture) and then stamp it on paper. When I tried it, I thought the result reminded me of Mexican tile. 

                                     

So I decided to make 3 more "tiles" 

to form a pattern.

“The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.”

― Lauren Oliver

To try this technique for yourself and participate, go to:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/05/make-it-monday-116.html

Thanks for stopping by!

Carolanne

Supplies Used:

Stamps- PTI Lovely Layers, Cutting Garden (sentiment) 

Dies- Lovely Layers

Punches- Marvy Uchida (square), Fiskers (bottom trim)

Inks-Memento, Versafine, Ranger-Tim Holtz 

It's Tea(Tin) Time

I love the rain we've been having. I think my little birdies like it too. Not only does it give me an excuse to bird watch and drink tea, but it is making everything bloom!

I say all this to tell you the idea I had this week for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #115 challenge...

Heather Nichols Challenged us to use impression plates on something else besides paper to create our own one of a kind project. 

So...

 I die cut aluminum foil 

using the PTI Matt Stack #3 die.

 Then I cut more foil using the PTI Friendship Jar Die

but just kept the lid. (I'll save the jar for another project)

(FYI-  On all die cuts, I adhered cardstock to the back of the foil to give it more weight)

After I embossed and inked my Matt # 3 die cut, I cut off the bottom...

to come up with this...

So now I hope you see how the rain and tea idea collided with the MIM embossed foil which led me to making a tea tin.

Go make something for yourself and look at all the unique ideas:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/05/make-it-monday-115.html

Thanks for looking!

Carolanne

Supplies Used:

Stamps- PTI Tea For Two, Tea For Two Additions, PTI Simple Sunflower

Dies- PTI Matt Stack #3, PTI Friendship Jar, PTI Simple Sunflower, Tea For Two 

Punch- Flower-EK Success

Paper-My Mind's Eye

Inks- Memento, Versafine

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger

I have never participated in a Moxie Fab challenge until I saw this Tuesday Trigger...

 So pink. And floral. And delicious. Just lovely. I could not resist.

Must create.

Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and then browse a while...

http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/04/tuesday-trigger-pretty-little-petits.html

Some other quotes on kindness:

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” 
― Mother Teresa

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 
― Mark Twain

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” 
― Aesop

Thanks for visiting today!

Carolanne