Little Thank Yous

At around 11:30pm tonight I had an idea for a set of little 3x3 "Thank You" cards. Rather than doing the sensible thing and writing down my idea to work on tomorrow, I did the very insensible thing and went ahead and made them tonight. I also took pictures and now I am blogging about said cards. I am definitely going to be paying for this in 5 hours when my kids are up and ready to start the day!

This set of 4 little cards are, I think, perfect for a little girl's birthday thank you notes. Or, they would also be cute for thanking friends and family for sweet little baby gifts. What do you think?

I distressed the 3 sides of the card like Lisa Johnson did in the Make it Monday Challenge this week. I also picked soft pastels and butterflies, a spring theme to go along with the Papertrey Peeps March Petite challenge.

I love the way they look all together!

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Papertrey Dolls & Make it Monday Challenges

I don't have a lot of time this week. Instead of "I only have ten minutes," I really only have 5 minutes! It took me all week to make the card below. And, it just so happens to qualify for 2 challenges this week. Edit: I may have over-impressed some of you. I meant that I made the card in three or four 5 minute segments. The cupcake in 5 minutes, the matting in 5 minutes, etc. I wish I could knock out a card in 5 minutes! lol

To qualify for the Make it Monday Challenge, the project had to use the distress technique. Read more about it here along with the video. So, I distressed the edges of the pink focal point. It is hard to tell in the wide shot, so for proof, here is a close up.

I am also playing along with the fabulous Papertrey Dolls group with their "P-T-I" challenge. The idea is to make a project that includes something that starts with "P", "T", and "I". Fun, huh?

So, for "P", I went with Paper Piecing and Polka dots.
"T" is chocolate baker's Twine, Tiny Treats: Valentines (sentiment) and Tea die duo
"I" is for Impression of mat stack 4.

And, here is a close up of the Paper Pieced cupcake:

Okay, my 5 minutes are up! Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Posse March Challenge

I am sooooo excited to post my first challenge for the Papertrey Posse group I just became a part of! I was invited last month to be part of this fabulous group of women from the PTI forum. There are monthly challenges with a mini challenge thrown in for good measure.

The challenge this month was given to us by Becky who wanted us to use a frame on your project. Here is a link with all the details. I love Becky's card! It was a real inspiration to me.

The mini challenge was to create a spring card.

I combined both challenges and came up with this:

As spring-y as my card is, it is currently snowing as I look out the winter. *sigh*

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Make it Monday-Fun Foam Card 2

I'm back again with another card for the Make It Monday Fun Foam challenge.

This time I used the Mat Stack 3 die to cut the foam. Then, I embossed the foam frame with an embossing folder.

Here is a close up of the stamped image I got from the homemade stamp.

Kind of like my own mat stack frame stamp! Unfortunately I don't have any of PTI's impression plates, so I'm not sure if this same technique would work with those.

I used the same green glitter fun foam that I used in my last post for the little shamrock embellishment that was made from 3 die cut hearts.

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Make It Monday-Fun Foam

I haven't had a chance to update my blog....or even make any projects....lately, but when I saw the new Make It Monday challenge, I had to schedule in some time in my craft area.

My baby is going to be 2 on the 9th of this month. How fast time flies! Seems like just a couple weeks ago I brought him home from the hospital, not a couple years!

Dashton March 2009

Dashton March 2011


Here is the birthday card that I made for him using the Fun Foam technique.

I used the foam to make die cut number stamps with PTI's By the Numbers dies. Then, I cut the "2" with some really fun glittered green (Dash's favorite color) fun foam. I just loved the vellum sentiments from Make it Monday a couple weeks back, so I included that technique, too.

Here is a picture of the number stamps that I created.

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Make It Monday

Papertrey has a fun challenge for this Make It Monday. Nichole has challenged us to stamp our sentiment on vellum. See the details and Nichole's video here.

My youngest's two year birthday is coming up in March. He is obsessed with balls. LOVES them. Goes crazy when he sees them. Even sleeps with them. So, when I asked if he wanted his birthday theme to be monkeys (what I wanted it to be), he said, "No. Balls."

And so a ball theme birthday party it is. The first thing I thought was, "I have to get me that "Have A Ball" stamp set from PTI!"

This is what I came up with for the party invitations:

Oh boy, was there a LOT of masking going on in this card! I used Simple Alphabet for the sentiment and the idea was to make the letters mimic a bouncing ball. Originally I wanted to keep it one layer, but when I saw the Make It Monday challenge, I thought the vellum would be a nice touch. Love how the vellum sentiment strip can be feminine or masculine.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Are you feeling the love??? I sure am! Look what my WONDERFUL husband got me for Valentine's Day.

I know most women wouldn't want a sewing machine for Valentine's Day, but this is EXACTLY what I wanted. I am so (haha! no pun intended) in love with all of the lovely stitching on cards that's so popular right now. Now I will be able to attempt it, too.

I have a confession to make.....I have no idea how to use a sewing machine. None. Never used one before. So... this should be interesting. But, I had to upgrade from hand stitching. My first attempt of stitching on a card for an earlier PTI anniversary tag challenge did not turn out too well.

Oh, one more thing....my WONDERFUL husband also got me a Papertrey gift certificate to add to my order for tonight. Love.him. Happy dance!

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