Basket of Wishes

Well I just can't believe how fast this week is going. It's time for a Color Throwdown Challenge. Boy those girls are throwing some amazing colors at us. I'm new to this challenge site and for me they really are a challenge! This week's colors are...

I was also inspired by the Lemonade papers from Basic Grey, the floral paisley one, in particular so I started with that and here's my basket full of get well wishes. (When I was working on this I forgot that this was a Bella sponsored challenge - had I remembered I would have used one of my Bella's.) I needed a get well card so I used one of PTI's Vintage Picnic baskets as my focal image. I filled it with some daisies (although I'm not sure I've ever seen cranberry daisies unless they were Gerbers...) I had fun with this just mixing patterns and copic colors as close as I could get them. Matted with the Labels One nestie.

Here is a close up of the picnic basket - since I wanted an upbeat, cheerful card I went for fun, funky and wild colors on the image - even threw in a bit of paper piecing to pull in the paisley print to the liner for the basket.

I didn't have any Pomegranate so I used GinaK's new Cranberry Tart instead. Thanks for a fun challenge girls!

PTI Blog Hop

It's Blog Hope time again with PTI. This month the theme was FALL - colors or images or textures or fabrics. I chose to make a gift box using Tucked Away Template. I am so in love with these templates and this one is super snap to do up. I filled it with assorted mini chocolates (in fall wrappers of course.)


Then I made a quick and simple tri fold card to go with it.

The card uses the new Autumn Abundance paper from PTI and Vintage Picnic stamp set. I actually suffered a wee bit of "buyers remorse" when I first ordered Vintage Picnic thinking "What will I ever do with that set?" Well - I use it ALL the time - it's got so many great images and sentiments - I can use it year round.

No time for more details cause I'm rushing to get this posted. These last two days have been CRAZY because school started Monday.

Here's the inside of the foldup card -->

Hostess Thank You set

I recently attended a party and wanted a hostess thank you gift to take with me. I know that this couple loves to entertain so here is what I came up with - a drink mix and two bottles of seasonings to make dips. Now for all the deets...

I started with a bucket of Chocolatini Mix from Tastefully Simple. I covered the bucket with some SU! Chocolate DP, added a scalloped edge, some ribbon, a flower with button center and a tag. I also decorated the TOP of the bucket with some more DP and a focal image from Vintage Picnic. I then made and decorated (to match) the Pack a Picnic template to hold two bottles of Tastefully Simple dip mixes. I made a card to match and had a wonderful gift set to take to the party.

You can see the tops of the boxes here -->

Here are the sequential project pics.... the bucket ---the bucket covered --- and the contents of Pack-A-Picnic gift box.



And finally, the matching card.


I only wish I had some chocolate pearls instead of white for the card. The gift was a HUGE SUCCESS - everyone loved it. I believe it was because of the way it was all packaged up - not just in a gift bag. THANKS Lauren for the fabulous templates!!!

Floral Thanks

Just a quick post - I got some new goodies today and just had to play a little. First off I got one of the embossing folders from SU! I liked that it embosses only part of the card front - and it was flowers so how could I resist?! Then I finally got my Labels 4 Nesties... I have wanted this set for a while and it's been out of stock in my usual shopping places. It's even prettier than I thought!

I sponged the Spring Moss nestie layer with Vintage Cream (while it was still in the nestie die) for a softer look, then sponged the ivory nestie layer (in the die) with Spring Moss ink. Makes it sorta look like there are 4 layers going on. I stamped the image and sentiment (from Vintage Picnic) colored the tiny flowers with Copics and the image part was done. For the card, I embossed the ivory layer with the new SU! embossing folder THEN I embossed a triangular piece of ivory with Swiss dots for the corner - a snippet of Spring Moss dotted swiss ribbon to cover the seam, and a few buttons for dimension and I was done.

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your weekend. (Remember to come play along with the My Time to Create Sketch Challenge tomorrow, Saturday!!!)

Vintage Picnic

Wow I finally had a chance to ink up my new Vintage Picnic set from PaperTrey Ink and BOY oh BOY do I love it!!! (Even more than I thought I would.)

I made up a few quick cards - following the same general layout but with different baskets etc. Thought I would share a couple with you - I used the embossing with Nesties technique - I tried a single nestie emboss first on the tulip card and then colored my images with Copics. That took the most time for me since there was a fair amount of detail work to do on the basket but they all turned out pretty cute I thought. I read one tip from someone at PTI that said to stamp the TOPPER first THEN stamp the basket - it was easier to line up and I would agree with that completely.


I used the same embossing technique but with TWO nesties on the wishing you well card. I forgot to "ground" my basket on this one when I colored it - some folks like to ground their images - others don't. I try to do it when I remember to ;-)

I will be reaching for this set over and over since the versatility and combinations are so varied.


There are some small images included in the set also - I used one for the inside on the Happy Harvest card I made and changed this one up by using the Labels 1 nestie.



Thanks for looking - hope you enjoy.