PTI Inspiration Piece

Word!

Lol, I don't know why that cracks me up, it just does. I like saying it sometimes. Like now, WORD!

So today was a total scrappy day. Had tons of fun in my room with the boys downstairs scrapping until the sun came out and it was trampoline time.

When I woke up, I found an email  from PTI and had to use the new egg die I got for Easter. I cut out some canvas pieces from Tim Holtz (adhesive backed which I love) and then embossed one of them and sprayed with some TA. Stamps are Sweet Stamp Shop and so is this fun button. I love big buttons:):):)  oh ..Burlap string is from PTI, as well.  I barely have any of this left!

Based on this inspiration piece:

Have a great week!!!!!

Gettin' Picky!

Brian's Uncle sent us some of their photos from our Phillies weekend and I instantly fell in love with this photo of owen and I at the fountain in Philly. It's the fountain with the LOVE piece of art work is that is famous around the world.

Owen would not put this Philly Phanatic down all weekend. He went everywhere with us, it was so cute. He even tucked him in his own part of the bed. It just melted my heart because I always wanted to be the Philly Phanatic when I was growing up. It's on my Bucket List ;)

So the challenge over at the Get Picky Challenge Blog was to use a this awesome quote from Diane Ackerman. As soon as I read it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do and that I was going to use this photo.

I was drawn to this quote because Brian and I have chosen to try and travel as much as we can with the boys. Less money spent on the house, redoing the floors...stuff like that...and want to take this time and take the boys to as many places we can as they are getting older now and learning to appreciate it. I know growing up, I can't remember projects my parents did or the cares we drove. I remember trips to the lake, to Germany, to Florida....and that is what we want for our boys, too.

Here is my take. I used Core'dinations Black Magic and Echo Park goodies. I also used the Cracked Glass Technique over at the Papertrey Ink blog this week on the chipboard hand.

Here is the scoring detail on the black magic Core! I LOVE this CARDSTOCK!

So I printed the quote right on the Echo Park journaling card. And hid it under the photo. I couldn't fit the credits on the front so that is on the back.

Here is a detail of the journaling card behind the photo and the cracked glass detail on the chipboard. I also use the leaf dies from Papertrey Ink under the vintage button in the upper right hand corner.

Some Cards on Friday

Happy Friday!

I have been a busy beaver this week. Work. Work. Work! But I managed to squeeze in some time over the weekend before a wedding to scrap some cards.

This first card is for the Papertrey Ink weekly challenge to use re--inkers in a creative way. I used two Tim Holtz re-inkers (Copper and Walnut Ink) and a Stampin' Up! one (green).

The car is a Papertrey Ink die. How cute is it??? I added some pearls. Cardstock is a combo of Core Chocolate Box and Core Pearls (yellow). I love this new cardstock!

Patterned Paper is Simple Stories from the Scrapdango Spice Kit.

This is an interactive card that I had a lot of fun with. These super cute envelopes come in the kit and they are FUN!

Patterned Paper is Simple Stories from the Scrapdango Spice Kit.

LOVE this May Arts ribbon that came with the kit, too!

This is for my Card challenge over at Scrapdango this month....to create a ribbon.

TWO in a ROW!

Well fall off your horse and call me a monkey. I BLOGGED TWO DAYS IN A ROW! go ellen...go ellen...it's your birthday...not really...

haha..okay..can you tell that i am a bit fried??? well, those of you who know me know that is how i normally am {sigh}

so....guess what???? i have another Papertrey Ink project!!! Note to self: beat down Joyce for enabling me!

Today's challenge is to create a tag with a frame on it. So this is my take......I ordered these spools on ebay over the holidays and i am finally using them! I layered some Creative Imaginations flowers from Creative Cafe and some buttons. Stamps are Papertrey Ink. Oh and the twine is the from the Twinery.

The scale of the tag looks a bit off in this photo, probably because of my perspective. Shooting up was the only way I didn't have any shadows.

Here is a close up...I braided some of the twine....

And then a close up of the frame and stamping. I stamped some of the buttons on a scrap piece of cardstock and then cut them out and layered them with zapdots.

PaperTrey Ink

Sooooooooooooooo.....my good friend Joyce, aka ashjoy, has been telling me and telling me about PaperTrey Ink and I am so glad I took her advice...I love the stamps...the dies {swooooon} so cool! If you know me stamping and die cuts are in my blood, LOL :):):)

So this week they have some cool challenges going on so make sure you check them out!

Here is my take on today's challenge to use buttons in an innovative way so I used the Jar and Lid die with some Paptertrey Ink buttons.....and stamps :)

Wanna come play??? :):):)