PTI Anniversary Day 6

My first card for todays competition uses this sketch
Lots of PTI goodies used, Beautiful Blooms stamps, the Heart Border Die across the top, and photo finish strips die with sentiment from Mega Mixed Messages. The card will be for my friends daughter, leaving my childrens school today, starting at another school after the half term holidays. I wanted to wish her good luck at her new school.

I was also inspired by Nicole's use of Frilly Flowers in her card designs for the background.

PTI Day 2, Part 3

OK, this is it for Day 2 challenge - mostly as I must get one and do the housework, hopefully I'll be able to do something for Day 3 Challenge.

This was done the the adorable little chick image, fillable frames (a favourite series that I really enjoyed collecting and using) and a favor die - another die that has seen lots of use.



This time I thought a bit more about showing the dimension on the front, so took a slightly angled photo too :o)

And this is the photo of the card in my previous post, to show the dimension.

PTI Anniversary Challenge Day 2, part 2

Here's the second card I made for the pti challenge - quite a quick one, with the image from Heather Nichols - I love the birdie image, and have the Little Bitty Bird set and dies. Anyway, this card uses the Bitty Background Blocks, and the Button Card Collection die and aqua mist ink. You can't really see from the photo, but the squares are all dimensional, and I cut the inner Square out on the printed image and raised that too.

PTI Anniversary Challenge Day 2

Its day 2 of PTI's anniversary release, and the challenge for today is to make a card using the free download of images, and of course, pti product. I printed them out, and cut them all out - the intention to make lots of entries. So far, and unexpectedly yellow, this is all I have managed - just ran out of time. Hopefully I'll get to play more later. Yellow is hardly a colour I use at all, but I took my cue from the little bee, used the limitless layers dies, and flourishes stamp set. Hopefully I'll be back later with more entries.

A clean and simple card

This card was inspired by one of the PTI design team - can't remember who (maybe Dawn McVey?). It doesn't photo very well. And I'm not sure if my card is too clean and simple - perhaps I'll have another go. Anyway, fits the Passion for Papertrey challenge, though I may try and make another card to enter.

Shiny things

First of all, hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. I kept meaning to blog a few cards I'd made - I even won a competition and got some yummy goodies to play with, with a Christmas card I'd made. But, what can I say, shopping, wrapping, planning, working and I just didn't feel crafty. Pretty much most of the cards I sent were made way back in October. I'd had big crafty ideas. But they didn't happen. There's always next Christmas. Perhaps if I start now?

Anyway, 'shiny things' - we spent weeks, no months trying to get our children to tidy their rooms - threats of withdrawing presents, and reducing gifts didn't work. Not really. The middle child was not interested in tidying. Eventually it was done. With much effort. But yesterday, it all came down to a shiny thing. Hubby was looking for a pen. He found a pen. It wouldn't write. But in the process of clicking it in and out he discovered it had a secret life. It lit up. This is not a new pen, its been in his work bag for a while. The middle son coveted the pen. It lit up after all. He cleaned the floor, he even hoovered. The bedroom is tidy (well, of sorts). And all for a pen, that doesn't write. But the pen does light up. If only I'd known before Christmas. Shiny things huh?

Challenge time!

I haven't posted for a while, but I have been busy. I did a craft fair - my first - not as successfully as I would have liked, but sold a little of everything (cards, mini cards, gift tags and jewellery). So, wasn't a complete loss. Anyway, what it does mean is all the Christmas cards I'd made will pretty much cover me for the cards I need to send out, and at least I won't be making tags at 10.30pm on Christmas eve, as the presents are all wrapped.

The card I'm posting today is one inspired by an earlier card I'd made, and my entry into the Passion for Papertrey challenge (peach, green and brown colours), and the CAS-ual Fridays challenge (off the edge). The photography is horrible - just couldn't get the lighting right, but I needed to get the card into the post - the dear lady that it is for turned 100 years old today.

Anyway, peach coloured chipboard numbers - just some that I had, the remainder of the supplies are SU - very vanilla cardstock, certainly celery ink and ribbon, soft suede ink - so I fit the colour challenge, with a PTI die, hanging over the edge of the card - the CAS-ual challenge.

All done in a rush, Friday night, following a chance phone call with my mother, so I could get it into the post Saturday morning on my way to work.