Stacy's Paper Crafts

CPS 256 & Art Journaling

Happy Sunday!

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend... minus DLS time! While I appreciate the extra sunlight, I'm a little off today with the time shift, but I'm hoping to have a productive day somehow! LOL 

It probably didn't help that I stayed up really late last night playing in my craft room :) I decided to work on a card for this week's CPS Sketch Challenge.

I used some paper from the Awesome collection by Simple Stories... which is pretty darn awesome! :) Love the earthy tones and fun patterns in this collection. 

I also rotated the sketch to create this masculine birthday card. The sentiment is from PTI's Modern Basics stamp set. I used a lot of pop dots, ink, and edge distressing to add some texture to this card. I think I may have to stock up on a couple more sheets of this lovely paper! 

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Last week I finally put the bones of an art journal together using an old composition notebook. It's something I've been wanting to do for awhile now. I love the freedom that art journaling allows! Here's a great tutorial that I used... Art Journal Tutorial. I've got all the pages Gesso'ed... is that a real word? LOL This week I'm going to add some paint and texture and then figure out what to do with it next. 

Do you Art Journal? Who inspires you? Do you have a favorite tip or trick I could borrow from you?

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Butterflies and leaves

Hi All! It's Monday... again! Hopefully your week is off to a great start! Today I want to share a card I made for today's PTI Anniversary celebration challenge. Butterflies and Leaves is the theme for today's challenge.  I randomly stamped one of the stamps from Text Style II using versamark ink on the Spring Rain card base. I used wire to create the antennae for the butterfly die  cut and propped it up using foam dots. I found these tiny pearl dots, I can't recall where, probably ACMoore or Joanns, but I placed them around the leaves. One my neighbors has a holly looking shrub that has these little bitty red berries blooming. Our weather has been so strange here lately, I don't think they usually bloom at this time of year! They are confused! LOL But that's where I got the inspiration to use the tiny pearls. Thanks for looking! 

PTI products used:

Stamps- Butteryfly Dreams, Text Style II, Turning a New Leaf, & Flower Fusion #9

Other Products- Butterfly Die, wire,  tiny pearls, Stampers Select White cardstock, Spring Rain cardstock & Ink, & Momento black & Versamark Ink

Make It Monday

Hi ya'll!  Yep, I'm back :) 

It rained pretty much most of the weekend here so I spent some time in my craft room. I sorted through things, updated my wish lists, and did some blog hopping.

I also had an interesting conversation with my son. He asked me why I had a scrap room "since I don't scrap any more." So NOT fair for him to call me out like that! LOL But it's true, I haven't scrapped in awhile, so I'm going to be working on that. 

Today I'm going to share a card with you that I created for PaperTrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge. This weeks challenge is to create a background pattern using stamps that aren't necessarily background stamp images. 

For my card I used the area rug from On My Couch Additions.I inked the stamp using black ink staggering the image on each line and then inked the edges. LOVE how this turned out. It kinda reminds me of a Basic Grey pattern :) This was a fun challenge, a great way to look at your stamps a little differently. Hope you'll get a chance to play along too. Thanks for looking!

I'm still here... sort of

My crafting has taken a back seat to some other priorities right now, but I'm still here. Sketching, writing down ideas for projects I'd like to create. Summer vacay officially starts in one week for us. My son is beyond thrilled about that  :) 

I have however been making lot's of mini 2x2 cards. This one is my fave :) The cupcake image is by Hero Arts, and the sentiment is from PTI's Mixed Messages.

I used a Spica glitter pen and glossy accents to highlight the frosting. I colored the rest of the image using Copic markers and added a mini button to give the card a little dimension. 

Thanks for looking today!

PTI Blog Hop

Hey All! Hope you had a great Easter! 

This month's PTI Blog Hop is all about the boys! The last time I checked there were 115 participants so if you're looking for ideas for masculine cards you'll find tons of inspiration here!

I created a birthday card using PTI's Make a Wish die, love them! They make creating birthday cards & tags in a jiffy super easy! I used some paper scraps from a card I created last week to die cut the present. The sentiment is from Father Knows Best stamp set. 

I also used lot's of foam adhesive & a little button to add some depth to this card. Thanks for looking! Don't forget to check out the other 100+ masculine card ideas. I'm sure you'll find yourself book marking a card or two to scraplift later!  Hop this way :)

Spring Break

Hi all! We're celebrating Spring Break this week so things have been quite here on the blog. Tim is spending the next few days with his Grandparents which means more play time for me! Yay! Ok well I'm supposed to be doing some studying and spring cleaning but I'll get to that eventually :)

Last night I pulled out this lovely double sided patterned paper by Fancy Pants, from the It's the Little Things Collection. I SOOOOOO LOVE this. The floral pattern is different from what I'd normally choose but I love the text side... and it turns out I really  like the floral pattern too! 

For some reason I always reach for "real life" colors when using floral stamps but I didn't like the green ink for the stem paired with the colors in the patterned paper so I decided to use black ink. LOVE this! In fact I like it so much I'm going to try using some other non traditional colors with my other flower stamps. 

Thanks for visiting, hope you all are having a great week :)

It's your day!

Happy Friday everyone!

I'm sitting here looking over my to do list for today. I'm hoping to get some crafting in... especially with Modern Basics! I just can't say it enough how much I love these two stamp sets :)

 

Supplies: Stamps: PTI Modern Basics & Think Big Favorites #2, Paper: PTI white CS & Bazzill Basic Brown CS, Ink: PTI & Palette, Other: Brown ribbon & mini button

I found some teeny tiny buttons in my stash that I paired with the floral image, isn't it cute? I love this sentiment too because it's kind of like an "all occasion" celebration card... you could use it for birthdays, graduations, Mother's Day, ect. 

Have you heard the news??? Two Peas in a Bucket is expanding it's focus on stamping & cardmaking!! They are hosting a month long cardmaking series that begins today. It looks like the website hasn't been updated yet but I'm looking forward to it. TP's was one of the first online forums I joined way back in 2002 when I first began creating cards with my scrapbooking scraps. 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

I heart Modern Basics

I treated myself to some new stamps this month :) I really needed Maile's newest set. I was SOLD on this set after seeing Maile's creations using it, even before seeing the set in it's entirety... which almost never happens! 

You'll be seeing a LOT of cards & layouts using this set, I love it! :) Thanks for looking, have a great weekend! 

A Big Thank You

Hi all!

I am seriously loving PTI's idea to "supersize" some of their popular sentiments. This month's Think Big Favorites #2  is definitely one of my favorites, and it's only $5.00!

I went digging through my patterned paper stash to find a sheet of paper that wasn't Basic Grey to use. Lately I've been reaching for my Basic Grey or Echo Park, so I wanted to use something else. I don't have a huge stash, but because I always reach for my favorites I often forget what else I have tucked away. I found a few sheets of double sided patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Rough & Tough paper collection... actually I found a lot of MME's patterned paper that I forgot that I purchased! PTI's Ripe Avocado ink works so well with it. 

This size sentiment makes it so easy to whip up a bunch of cards in one sitting...

I think my mojo is back, yay! Thanks for looking :)

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Isn't this a great sketch? I whipped up a bunch of CAS cards using this layout today and made a tiny dent in my patterned paper scrap pile too :)

Have you seen the newest Basic Grey collections? My LSS just got some in but I've been good. I didn't buy any.. YET! LOL I'm going to be scrappin' and stampin' up a storm this next week so I can justify buying more paper :) Thanks for visiting today!

 

Make it Monday: Distressing

Hi all! I'm loving these "back to basics" challenges PTI has been having. This weeks challenge is distressing, which is a fave of mine. Edge distressing & paper tearing are two techniques I used to use a lot for masculine cards but this time I decided to use it on a "girly" birthday card :)

I added some stitching to the focal image and then used my edge distresser on the edges. 

Supplies: PTI Stamps: Life & Butterfly Dreams, Paper: PTI, Basic Grey, & Bazzill, Other: Button & scrappers floss, stitching,PTI & Momento inks. 

Thanks for looking! 

Food intolerances suck!

Last week I was miserable. I'm still feeling kinda crappy but I'm hoping this week will be better. We went out to eat last Saturday. Something we rarely do anymore because I have some food intolerances that cause neurological & gastro problems and we recently found out that my son is allergic to wheat. I don't eat meat and DH & DS love meat so finding a restaurant that can offer something for all of us has been a challenge lately. I heard about a local restaurant that has an awesome gluten free menu with vegetarian & meat entrees & a kitchen staff that understands Celiac Disease & food allergies & intolerances in general so we went to try them out.

The food was really good, the kitchen staff was knowledgeable about cross contamination which I am sooooooo sensitive to. The food was amazing, but half way through my meal I ran out of gluten free soy sauce and asked our server for some extra but she brought me the regular kind :( Uggg!!!!  I knew instantly that it was regular and unfortunately for me one little taste is all it takes to trigger symptoms that last up to 3 to 4 weeks. I was kinda annoyed because the food was kinda expensive too. But on a positive note, we all enjoyed the food. So we might eat there again, it's nice to have someone else do the cooking sometimes. I'll just have to be a little neurotic about asking for what I need. I hate to be that way but it's not worth being sick for a month... and I'm a great tipper to make up for it! :) 

Needless to say I didn't do any crafting last week. The brain fog & migraines are the worst and it makes it hard to think! Luckily it's a little better this morning. The sun is shining which always makes for a good day :)

I have to do some catch up with cleaning & errands this week but I sat down to create something to share with you all. Isn't purple glitter fun :) One of the Make it Monday challenges PTI hosted recently was to use sticky tape to create a glitter strip on a project. I love glitter but don't use it often enough, and I totally forgot how easy it is to use glitter on a project using sticky tape. I added this huge floral embellishment by Prima flowers to use as a focal point. 

Thanks for looking :)

Paper Flowers

 Happy Tuesday! Hope you're having a great day! Today I was browsing some of the cards & layouts I've created recently and realized how much I LOVE red. So I wanted to challenge myself to use some colors I don't use often this week.

I actually really love purple but I don't create with it often... but when I do I always seem to pair it with flowers! I'm not sure what's up with that LOL! Anyway I created these flowers using scalloped circle nestabilities circles. I embossed them using an embossing folder, cut them out using the nesties, and then crumbled them up before layering them. I used a flower punch for the smallest flower. Thanks for looking!

Supplies: Stamps:Verve, Purple Onion Designs, Inkadinkado, Ink: Palette & TH's distress ink, Other: Scalloped circle nesties, buttons & scrappers floss.

Happy Friday!

 

Just wanted to pop in to share this card with you all. PTI has had some great challenges this week! I don't have a lot of  sets but the ones I do have I don't use often enough. My crafting budget is very small so I always have a never ending wishlist. I'm hoping that they'll have a month of releases that I'll hate so that I can at least make a tiny dent in my wishlist. So far it hasn't happened! LOL

 
Thanks for looking!

Canvas Stars

A few months ago I won a give-a-way hosted by Jillibean Soup. I won a few packs of canvas star shapes & some sugar picks... super fun stuff that I hadn't had a chance to play with until today.

 

I made this card for my little BIG brother's birthday next month. I call him my little BIG brother because he's a year younger than I am but almost a foot taller than me. Which I think is completely unfair :)

 
Luckily I have some inks that are pretty close matches to the colors on the canvas, I used them with some PTI & TAC background stamps to create the patterned paper. 

Thanks for looking!