February Papertrey Pages

Our challenge this month was to help celebrate Papertrey's Birthday/Anniversary by making Birthday or Anniversary pages, and use a Papertrey birthday set if you could.


Now, during all of the February festivities there were challenges I would like to have participated in, but couldn't. I decided to try and get some of those inspiring ideas in these pages.
Look familiar? One of the new challenges from Papertrey will happen every Monday- make It Monday's, to be exact. MIM #1 was to use sentiments all lined up- well, just go see it here. I wasn't able to participate in the challenge, but the idea was rumbling around in my brain!

There are sentiments from 9 different sets on the page, lol. I used a 4 x 4 acrylic block, so it fit on a 12 x 12 sheet perfectly.

Here it is not quite done. I filled in with some small sentiments, and had to go in with a black pen and darken up some of the missing letters.

I made 2, of course. Here they are as my pages!!


'Wes is one' is cut with the Cricut Cartridge Base Camp and glittery paper- it sure is fun!!

Remember the glitter challenge? How about glitter icicles? I didn't use Scor-Tape, I bought a Xyron machine and ran punched out icicles through for sticky, and used Martha Stewart snow glitter.

The journaling spot is done with a plastic template thing that you sponge ink over- the bottom portion is blank so the DD can fill in whatever she wants.

The birthday hats are made with the Cricute cartridge Birthday Bash and 2009 Bitty Polka Dots. The penguins are done with Create a Critter. The tiny blue glitter letters are Making Memories.

There is a ton going on in these pages, so if you have questions, just ask, lol!!

Papertrey February Blog Hop!

So how is everyone on this rainy, snowy, sleety, ucky day?

But then, a great day to create, lol!!!

This months challenge was to use scallops- and I got my new Papertrey items yesterday (came USPS, thank goodness!) so I had lots of new scallopy looking things to choose from!








Used the medium scallop border die, plus a die from the new Doily Details collection. Cut two doileys apart and put the pieces between the scallops. Then stamped a small image from Simply Stationery in the scallop portion.

See the center image? That's from Simply Stationery, stamped in Spring Rain- isn't it a great fit?? The center doily is layered on some of the new Pacific Vineyard paper, then raised on dimentionals. The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages.




Spring Rain Swiss Dots finishes it off!

Make It Mondays- Glitter and Scor-Tape

This week the challenge has to do with glitter and score-tape; you can see the MIM video by Dawn McVey here

Yes, it's baby card day, so the challenge this week was to use glitter on a baby card, lol... not something I like to do, since the cards are going in and out of the envelopes multiple times during the baby's hospital stay, and also sits on a clipboard under lots of chart papers. Not an ideal environment for glitter. But then, a challenge is a challenge, lol!

I chose to use 1/8th inch tape, and just did stripes of pink glitter. Added some ribbons (hey MaryK, there is the sweet pink bears you sent me!!). Various ribbons made more 'stripes'.

The card base is pink shimmer cardstock, it's a beautiful pink color, I don't often reach for it- but it seemed ideal for a glitter card!

That's Mat Stack 2, cut with the die, then stamped in Memento Angel Pink. The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages. I sponged on Versamark and added glitter to the edges. Very pretty IRL!

LOL, ok, here's the out-take! I've often wondered how many not so good cards the DT's crank out before they get one that is worthy of publication??

Sooo.... the glitter frame is not a bad thing, but golly, that bear looks downright creepy!!!!

The medallion

Hope you can see the wonderful color in this card! The background layer is with alcohol inks, but the SU medallion was stamped with all kinds of inks just sitting on the table. Gold around the edges of the PTI Stamper's Select. Sentiment came from Papertrey's Year of Flowers Daffodils. Tons of paper layers make for a visually stimulating but quiet lead up to the medallion.

Papertrey's Make It Monday~

Papertrey has a new method of issuing challenges- but I know you know that!


Last Monday, the challenge was to use a vellum strip. You know, vellum is not so easy to work with; it doesn't absorb ink well, and you can see through it.

My card is made with Papertrey's Stamper's Select, Blueberry Sky, and the Spring Rain paper from the bitty Stars collection. Each of those is cut with the smaller Edger's #1 die, then sponged with both Chamomile and Chai ink.


Papertrey sells two kinds of vellum, I used the linen here. It has a visible little square pattern to it. I stamped my sentiment with Stazon ink, and the rest of the forum was correct- it dried fairly quickly and isn't going to smear- I hope!

The image was stamped with Fresh Snow, then outlined with a Versamark pen, similar to how Nichole outlined with a Copic- I just wanted a softer version. I distressed the edges of each layer a bit, then applied a silk bow in a blue that is close enough. The little star over the wee babe has a teensy bit of glitter on it just for fun~

Enjoy!

Why I hate ordering on line, and why I hate UPS (today, anyway)

Anger is generally a worthless emotion, I try not to do it. Unfortunately, sometimes I fall into severe frustration instead, which is nomore helpful than anger.

I was too sick to order Monday night, but felt well enough to sit at the computer Tuesday am to do a PTI release order...yay for tummy for giving me a short break!!!

Can you weep with me?


I know my PTI order won't be here fast, it comes USPS and they won't deliver on the weekend, and won't deliver to the house anyway.

I did, though, want to reorganize this weekend. I ordered 8.5 x 11 ziplock bags to put the cardstock in, instead of leaving it in the flimsier plastic covers. Scheduled for UPS delivery Wednesday.

I ordered 50 calendar cases, I'm behind putting sets in cases, and have more sets on the way! Scheduled for UPS delivery Friday.

Ordered 2 of the cubbies for my copics, and plan a big marker purge this weekend... can't wait! Scheduled for delivery thursday.

So where am I on this Friday evening??

1. Have not even had a PTI shipping notice yet. It might come without one. The mail driver will putthe box in his car, drive to the mailbox, leave me a note that I can come to the PO once he gets back to the PO, except that is after closing hours. It's crazy, I tell you! He won't take the time to come the house.


2. Checked Wednesday delivery. Was an emergency, has gone back to the UPS hub, they will send me a postcard and I can go pick it up (30 minutes away) once I recieve the postcard. Ok, no bags... can't reorganize paper. This just means they didn't want to take the time to drive to the house. If the post card comes on Tuesday, I might be able to get the by Friday.


3. Calendar cases? Found them propped on the mailbox half a mile away... yay!! Guess he didn't want to drive down to the house


4. Cubbies? Says they were delivered to 'customer man', same as the calendar cases says. Must have been left at the mailbox at the same time... ah, no, not there, no cubbies. No lie, I drove down there having already been there, and stared at the mailbox again, lol. Just in case I didn't notice a huge box on top, or in the snow.


5. I wanna know how you guys call your local shipping hub, anyway. I call the 800 number, get a nice lady in Texas (remember, I'm in Maine and I just wanna talk to the dang driver!!) who says, ah gee, sorry, call the shipper and they'll start a claim. I bet I won't have cubbies for a month, unless I want to order 2 more, pay for them, and have them shipped USPS.


Going to go hide my head under the pillows now. Blah and double blah.

Kaleb's Birthday Banner

Kaleb likes to stamp and make scenes. We have some knight and castle stamps for him to create with. He usually uses the back of the SU big paper pad to create his pictures on. I decided to make him a Birthday card using his stamps.

It started as a Birthday Card. It ended up in a frame. The castle, henchmen, and Templar knights are red rubber stamps. The trees and banners with alphabet are all Papertrey. Background is colored with Prisma pencils. Cut a series of curves from cardstock, then sponged on some blue ink for sky over the edge of the paper, making pretty white fluffy clouds. King and Queen, dragon and little frog with a crown are stickers.

He turned ten, he was very impressed.