Snowflakes, Candle and Candycanes

Here's a fun project inspired by Melissa Philip's video at Papertrey Ink Make It Monday#182. Check it out HERE I made a Christmas Jar to hold candycanes or it works great as a votive holder as well. I used Annie Sloan chalk paint stamped with PTI Holiday Tree snowflakes in white and silver. I die cut the snowflake out of a stick vinyl and painted overtop. Removed the vinyl and embossed a white snowflake in center. The candycanes show through the unpainted glass very nicely. Top rim is Deco Tex snow. Turned out pretty cute!!

Negative Cover Plate #2

Here's a second go at the Make It Monday #177 "Using Cover Plate Negatives". Again I used the PTI Twist coverplate to lay the diamond shapes and the little gold inbetween shapes. Great way to lay a perfect line of shapes to a card. A very clean and simple card which I don't often make.

Cover Plate Negative Technique

It's a cool rainy end of the week so it's been fun getting into my papers and doing a little organizing and getting a card done for the Make it Monday #177 Using Cover Plate Negatives I used Papertrey's white cardstock, burlap twine and the Twist cover plate (love this plate) for my card. After I had my piece cut out and negative glued down, it looked quilted so I just thought "baby card" which I need in my collection. The teddy bear is from a long ago retired SU stamp set. Probably one of my very first stamp purchases.

Diamond Wallpaper Stamping Make it Monday 174

This is my card for the challenge at PTI Make It Monday I used PTI Vintage Labels to create the Wallpaper background for my card. I colored in between the lines with a yellow marker although it is hard to see it. Stamped with SU Night of Navy and cardstock. I embossed the yellow CS with a Darice embossing folder and cut the bottom of the pink with a PTI scalloped edge die. I made a paper flower by cutting then wetting and scrunching the paper. Added a few pearls etc. 

 

Papertrey Ink July Bloghop

 Here's the inspiration photo from the July 2014 Bloghop

And here's my card!! I used banners (actually it's the hats) from PTI It's a Celebration, sentiment from Butterfly Kisses. Envelope top from Strawberry Patch. Bird is punched with SU punch. Some of the same paper as my previous card. Now to check go out the rest of the creativity on the hop!!

No Outline Watercolor #173

It's certainly been awhile since my last post!! Whew, summer time busy. This technique/challenge  looked so fun I just knew I wanted to try it. It looks lots easier than it actually is. This was my third attempt. I want to try more of this for sure. My stamp is the big strawberry from PTI Strawberry Patch. I used ink refills by SU. To keep my dots on the strawberries I used my versamark pen and a bit of clear embossing powder to keep the ink from seeping into them. It worked quite well. Added PTI jute twine and a little wooden butterfly. 

Using Paper Scraps

This is my entry for the challenge at Make It Monday#162 I realized after the fact that mine isn't exactly a pie chart and yet still stems out of the middle. Hope it's ok. I did use up lots of small scrap pieces that I thought coordinated nicely. I used the Feather Finery stamp set and die. Tied it up with a bit of finely woven burlap like fabric and twine and button. Before I glued it together I sponged the center line to give it a feather spine.