Christmas in July

Say it with Christmas is the theme of Annabelle's stamps challenge. Their challenge do not require for us to use their stamps, but I wanted to. But I only have one of their stamp sets - Love Birds. I picked a few images from that set and combined it with a Holiday sentiment from PTI's Mailbox greetings and I love how this card turned out.

I used the bird house and bird from the Annabelle Love Birds stamp set and I also used the tiny branch from that stamp set next to the sentiments and I think they are just way too cute. I know this is probably bit away from main stream holiday cards, but I am doing more of these kind of holiday cards lately. I also like when I use a Non Holiday stamp set for a holiday cards.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Annabelle Love Birds, PTI Mail box greetings.
Ink - memento Black, Memento Teal Zeal, PTI Pure Poppy, Memento Bamboo Leaves
Paper- PTI Aqua Mist, White, Pure Poppy and Rustic White Cardstock
Other - PTI Little Bitty Bird Additions Die

Got Buttons?

Reveals have started over at PTI...OMG!! So much cool stuff...More details on Nichole's blog. The challenge for today was to create a project/card that utilizes buttons in a creative way. I could not think of out of the box for this one, kept it simple.

I used the PTI Eyelet Lace border die and cut it out with some Simple Chartreuse CS. Then I added some buttons in the eyelet holes :) The button on the flower was kind of unique shaped almost like a brad.
I created the sentiment panel for Thinking of you inspired by the Make it Monday Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Vintage Picnic Sentiments, PTI Mailbox Greetings, PTI Year of Flowers: Lily of the Valley, PTI Anniversary Stamp set Simple Things.
Paper - PTI Simple Chartreuse, Sweet Blush, Hawaiian Shores and Vintage Cream CS, PTI Pretty Pastels Patterned paper
Ink - Memento Black, Memento Bamboo Leaves, Ranger DI- Victorian Velvet, PTI Inking Cube - Chai
Other - PTI Beautiful Blooms ii #3 Die, PTI Eyelet Lace Border Die, PTI Vintage Buttons

Christmas in July

I wanted to share this Christmas Card. It is nice to build up your stash of cards and not to be scrambling in November.



I used some BG Eskimo Kisses and DCVW Patterned Paper along with this Mr.Snowman image from Squigglefly. I colored the snowman with copics. Sentiment is from PTI's Mailbox greetings.

This card is for the following Challenges,

1) Squigglefly Challenge #57 to make a Christmas Card.
2) The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #18 - Christmas in July
3) There She Goes Challenge TSG63 - Inspiration Challenge. I loved the Blue and Orange in this inspiration photo, which is what my card colors are based on.

4) Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge FTTC74 - Christmas in July
5) Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #87 - The Holiday. Create a holiday card with Eyelets.

6) Laura's Sketch #56 from 2 Sketches For You. Here is the sketch,



Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamp - Mr.Snowman digi from Squigglefly stamps, Mailbox Greetings from PTI
Paper - PTI White and Vintage Cream CS, BG Eskimo Kisses Patterned Paper, DCVW Tajmahal Collection Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black, Copics, Ranger DI - Broken China
Other - PTI White Ribbon, PTI Vintage Button, Nestabilities, SU Word Window Punch, Stickles

Some more Holiday cards based on Sketches

I am back with two more holiday cards based on sketches.

1) Sketch Girl SG9 Sketch.

My friend Chris who is on the DT for Sketch girl made this sketch look so easy, but I had some trouble with it :) The panels are still not even (considering this was my 2nd attempt at it), but still wanted to share it with you all.

Here is the card that I did using PTI Mailbox Greetings,



Here is the SG9 sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Mailbox Greetings
Paper - PTI Enchanted Evening, PTI White CS, Basic Grey DP
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Stickles

2) The 2nd card was done for the OCC sketch Challenge - but some how I ended up flipping the sketch :(

Here is my card,



I also did this card for Pals Paper Arts Challenge #18 to keep it simple.

Here is the OCC Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Snowflakes from GKD StamptV Kit - Holiday Cheer
Paper - GKD Pure Luxury White, GKD Red CS
Ink - Versamark
Other - Stampendous Glitter Embossing powder, Circle Punches, Offray Red Ribbon

PTI August Blog Hop

It is time again for PTI Blog Hop. This month's blog hop challenge is to get inspired by Autumn..the textures, colors and Patterns.

For me Autumn is always about colorful foliage and pumpkins. I did not have any PTI Pumpkin stamp, so decided to with the colorful foliage. I used the tree trunk for PTI's Father Knows best stamp set and created my own tree. I used the maple leaf from the PTI mailbox greetings to create the tree. I was kind of very happy with this tree and my first attempt at shaded inking. I inked the stamp first in Summer Sunrise and then in Pure Poppy and then stamped it.

I also used the mailbox and colored it in fall colors using Copics. :) A simple sentiment and ribbon completed the card.

Here is my card,



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Mailbox Greetings, PTI Father Knows Best
Paper - PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI White CS, PTI Vintage Cream CS
Ink - PTI Summer Sunrise, PTI Pure Poppy, Burnt Umber, Memento Black, Copics
Other - Nestabilities, PTI Summer Sunrise Ribbon, Generic Black Pin, SU Slit Punch

Winter Mailbox

As I was inking up the mailbox card to work on my Mojo Monday Sketch, I remembered this other card that I had done for Christmas. I really love how versatile this set is, so had to share this card.




Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Mailbox Greetings, Stubbies by Stamps by Judith
Paper - PTI Aqua Mist and PTI White CS
Ink - Memento Black
Other - Stickles, Cuttlebug, Copics, American Crafts Ribbon

Mojo Monday Week 74

Yay!! I have the Mojo Monday 74 sketch card ready this time by Wednesday. I always end up waiting till weekend to work on my cards and pages.

This sketch was really nice to work with and I used my favourite PTI Set - Mailbox greetings to get this sketch going. I wanted to make something sunny and spring even though spring is not here yet officially. Something to cheer us up. So, I used yellow copics on the mailboxes. It was really fun doing this card.



As I was getting ready to post this I realized that I did not have the details on what copics I used, anyways another lesson learnt and will try to have those details next time. I mean what is the use of having a blog if I cannot provide all the details and maybe some step by step information too. :)

Also I wanted to get the effect of having some mail in the mailbox so I stamped the small letter image from the set in Summer Sunrise in the mailboxes, but it hardly shows up. In the last mailbox it looks like I scratched the mailbox instead of having a letter in it. :) But I liked this idea and will try it with a different ink next time.

Here is the Mojo Monday 74 Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp Set - PTI Mailbox Greetings
Ink - PTI Summer Sunrise, PTI Burnt Umber, PTI Landscape
Paper - PTI White, Summer Sunrise, PTI Dark Chocolate, Generic PP
Other - Stickles, Scallop Punch, Circle Punch, Copics, PTI Summer Sunrise Ribbon.