Stacy's Paper Crafts

Winter Seasonal Thank You's

Yesterday I sat down to create a few wintery thank you cards. It just so happens that this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is to create a thank you card.

This first card isn't exactly CAS, but I love how it turned out! The largest snowflake is made out of chipboard, and the small ones were punched out of cardstock using a Martha Stewart snowflake punch.

I painted all of them using Diamond Stickles and added some mini rhinestones to the centers. Then I added a little distress ink around the edges of the snowflakes, patterned paper, & card base.

I couldn't resist creating a gingerbread card :) I ♥ gingerbread men! I'm planning to create a bunch of paperclay gingerbread men ornaments for my Christmas tree next year.

The images was colored with colored pencils and blended with baby oil. Quick & easy!

My last card features and adorable penguin image from Red Rubber Designs, and the best thing about it is that it was only $1.00 :) Cuddly Penguin

Thanks for looking!

 

Make it Monday #90

This weeks Make It Monday challenge is to create a focal point using stamps and dies. I've been on a thank you card kick since I've been back to crafting. Must be the season :)

Don't look too closely to the background! LOL I'm still trying to figure out how to line up the houndstooth stamp.

Thanks for looking :)

Supplies:  PTI stamps: Think Big Favorits #2, Say It With Style, Background Basics Houndstooth, PTI white cardstock, Bazzill red cardstock, die cut felt flower, black button, mini rhinestone, Quickuts alpahbet die cuts, archival black ink.

You're so thoughtful

Hi All! Today I'm sharing a card that I created for this weeks    CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.

LOVE this sketch! This is one I'm definitely going to revisit. I used ink, cardstock, a sentiment stamp, a tiny flower stamp, foam tape, and some mini rhinestones to create this CAS card.

Hope you're having a great Thursday... where did the week go??

Thanks for looking :)

You Are Appreciated

I'm on a roll today. My mojo has made it back to my desk, yay! I started working on a canvas, although I think it's going to be one of those projects that I'm really going to take my time with. So far I've painted over it 3 times! I haven't found the "right" look I'm going for. The good thing about painting over it so many times is that it's given the canvas great texture. I just need to decide what I want to do with it. I'm so inspired lately by Christy Tomlinson's canvas art. She's too cool :) I would love to take a class taught by her!

Anyway, I set my canvas aside to dry and decided to work on my Christmas cards tonight, but my 6x6 pad of Simple Stories Summer Fresh paper  was just begging to be used. It's been sitting on my scrap table for a couple of months now. 

I love the bright cheery colors and patterns in this collection! I stamped the sentiment using L'Amore Red Palete ink... love that red. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Word Salad stamp set. Thanks for visiting :)

 

Many Thanks

Finally... a card to share :)

Supplies: Paper: PTI cardstock, Basic Grey patterned paper, Die Cuts: PTI & Nestabilities, Stamps: Word Salad by Paper Smooches, & Cheveron Backdrops background from Lawn Fawn, Other: thread, Momento Ink, eyelet, glitter

 

Hope your week is off to a great start! 

 

I think it might be safe to say...

Winter is over. It was a little disappointing to not get enough snow to have a good snowball fight or go sledding... maybe next year we'll get pounded! LOL 

So now that Winter is pretty much over and done with I can think about Spring! It's one of my favorite seasons. I created this springy thank you card using PTI stamps, cardstock, ink, some ribbon, button, & scrappers floss. I love the pop of color against the white card base. Thanks for looking! 

 

 

Stamps: PTI, Paper: Making Memories PP, Bazzill & PTI CS, other: button & floss, black ink

Hi :) it's been awhile. Summer has kept me busy & away from crafting. My mojo must be on vacation too because I haven't see it in awhile. I don't anticipate updating my blog much until school starts again at the end of August, but I'm hoping my mojo will return before then.

I spent some time browsing the new CHA releases and there are several products on my wish list. Simple Stories has a few collections coming out, I really love the addition of the 6x6 paper packs they're releasing. Happy Day and 25 Days of Christmas are definitely on my wish list. 

Fancy Pants has some cute stuff too Fancy Pants CHA. Lilly Bee is a new to me company, love what I've seen so far! You can see lot's of CHA sneek peeks here. 

A Masculine Thank You Card

Hi All! Hope you've been enjoying this warmer weather. Our summer vacation started a couple of weeks ago. I always make it a point to send Tim's main teachers a thank you card at the end of the year to thank them for their hard work. Sadly I often forget to thank the other staff members who offer support to the teachers & also the students.

This year I had several opportunities to interact with several "support" staff members including our school principal who happens to be a guy :) Can you believe I did not have a single card that would be appropriate for a man??? I whipped up something really quickly but didn't get a chance to photograph it. It was a nice reminder of why I like to have several cards on hand for those moments when I don't have time to create a card.

Which brings this little card into play. I like to keep my masculine cards pretty simple, so I chose two patterned paper scraps, PTI sentiment, a little distress ink, & some foam tape to create this CAS card. 

Thanks for looking!

PTI Make It Monday #13

Can you believe it??? I have a Make It Monday card to share... on MONDAY! :)

This weeks challenge is to use a selective embossing technique using a solid die to mask an area on your embossed cardstock to prevent it from becoming embossed when you run it through your embossing machine. You can check out the video tutorial that Erin created here.

Supplies: PTI Stamps: Modern Basics & Fillable Frames #10, & Studio G, Paper: PTI & PaperSource, Other: Momento & Versamagic ink, floral embellie, button, & embroidery floss. Fillable Frames #10 die, Cuttlebug embossing folder. 

This is such a cool technique, I'm sure I'll be using it often! I down own any PTI embossing folders so I used a Cuttlebug polka dot embossing folder with PTI's Fillable Frame Die #10.  

 

Did you know that you can use your embossing folders just like the PTI embossing plates! Instead of closing your folder to emboss you just leave it open, place your die on the right side of folder with the cutting edge facing up, place your cardstock on top of the die, and then lay your Nestabilities embossing mat on top. If you're using a Cuttlebug machine you'll use the same "sandwich" you would normally use to emboss... A plate on bottom, B plate, embossing folder with embossing mat, and then B plate on top.

I wanted the smooth un-embossed area on the edge of the cardstock so I aligned my die to the left inner edge of the folder then I placed the cardstock on top of the die, moving it a little to the right of the die. then placed the embossing mat on top of the cardstock. Then I placed B plate on top. Hope this helps!

 

 I really love the way the border stamp for the die looks with the embossing. I stamped the card base with a stamp from Modern Basics and then added some foam dots to the embossed panel. I think it took me about 10 minutes to complete this card. So quick & easy but lovely :) Thanks for looking!  

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 :)

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 :)

CS129

Happy Saturday! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. It's been pretty quite around here. I spent some time in my craft room today creating. Although it's getting to the point where I'll need to spend some time cleaning it so that I can actually find stuff. I nearly threw a fit because I couldn't find my PTI Text Background stamp set. I looked for it for about an hour... please don't ask me if I looked RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE! LOL Yea... it was here on my desk. I'll have to bite my tongue the next time I mutter those very words to my DS or DH! LOL

Anyway just wanted to share one of the cards I whipped up using  Sketch 129.  Thanks for looking :)

CPS 206

Have you seen this weeks sketch over at CPS? It's a goodie :)

 
I really like positioning of the circle on this sketch & I love these flowers on this background paper... Basic Grey of course :) I'm enjoying the sunshine here today, hope you're enjoying some nice weather too. 

Thanks for looking! 

 

PTI Make It Mondays Challenge

 

Whew! I made it just in time to share my creation for PTI's Make It Monday challenge.  The challenge was to create something using a vellum sentiment strip. I didn't have any vellum so I had to run out to get a sheet from Michaels. I'm definitely going to add some to my shopping cart the next time I order from PTI. The quality of their vellum seems soooooo much better compared to the vellum that I used!

 
Anyway here's my card. I really, really, really wanted to use red ink for the couch because I love my red couch :)  but I resisted and chose a color that I don't use often. It's PTI's Ripe Avocado & it's  such a luscious green. It's definitely one of my favorite greens. I used the On My Couch stamp set & die for the focal images on this card. I stamped the pillows, cut them out, and propped them up using pop dots. Then I used a sliver of Basic Grey patterned paper underneath the vellum sentiment strip. It kinda looks like a pretty area rug doesn't it? I really wished I had some Ripe Avocado twine to add to the top portion of the card.  If you know of a manufacturer who makes a twine that matches let me know! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

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!