First PTI Swap of 2009

My friend from SCS, Sara is hosting the First PTI swap for 2009. Keeping in mind that Valentines day is just around the corner, I did a Valentine's Day card using PTI Heart Prints set. I did not buy any of PTI Raspberry Fizz patterned paper, so instead I created my own using Raspberry Fizz Ink and Guidelines Stamp set. I was personally very happy as to how the patterned paper turned out. I had always seen Nichole do it so effortlessly.

Without further ado, here is my card. Comments and Suggestions are welcome.



Supplies:
PTI Heart Prints Set, PTI Guide Lines set, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, PTI Raspberry Fizz CS and Ink, PTI Chocolate CS, PTI Burnt Umber Ink, PTI Raspberry Fizz Satin Ribbon

Love You Much Bundle - Loving It

I got the Love you much bundle from Stampin Up..Psst.They also had free shipping during that time. The only time I have seen SU do free shipping since I have been buying from them maybe since 2003. It was really nice. This bundle that came with patterned paper and punch was a great deal.

I have been experimenting with this stuff, but then I saw the FTL2O (Click here to see the Sketch) sketch and this stamp set felt right.

Here is the card,



Along with stickles, I have been trying Martha Stewart Glitter pens and they are way to cool. I like them a lot. The hearts on the side of the card, have been dotted with the glitter pens.

Supplies: SU Love you much bundle, Generic PP, Ribbon, PTI Raspberry Fizz Ink, PTI Vintage cream paper, Martha Stewart Glitter Pens.

I guess I am on a roll here with my blog. So, if I do not post any more tonight, then Good night and have a good weekend. Else.... you might see another post from me.

Signing off for now,
Enthused Blogger,
Banu

Clean and Simple Designs

I was searching SCS Gallery for some clean and simple designs and found this blog titled "Clean and Simple Stamping". Awesome blog and suiting my design mojo as of now. So, I have started working on some of their sketches. They are very simple and elegant and have a WOW factor. Here are some cards I have done using their sketches and CASE'ing their sample cards too (although my stamp sets are different). Sorry this might be a long post, but wanted to post all my CAS cards at one shot.

Fall-To-Layout 1

This layout is pretty inspiring and can be used in so many ways, in fact I have a future idea to use this for my Christmas Challenge card as well.



Supplies:
PTI Simple Things Anniversary Set, PTI Summer Sunrise CS, PTI Vintage CS, PTI Kraft CS, PTI Summer Sunrise Satin Ribbon, SU 1-1/4 and 1-3/8 Square Punches.

Fall-To-Layout 15

I know I jumped quite a bit, but this layout just beckoned me. I still intend to do other sketches. I am totally into CAS layouts now a days.



Supplies:
PTI Garden Life Stamp Set, PTI Polka Dot Basics, PTI Plum Pudding CS, PTI Lavender Moon CS, PTI Plum Pudding and Lavender Moon Palette Ink, PTI Lavender Moon Ribbon

Fall-To-Layout 22



Supplies:
SU Bitty Basics Hostess Level 1 Stamp Set, SU Small Oval Punch, SU 1" Punch, SU Haiku PP, Ink - SU Ruby Red, SU Wild Wasabi and SU Purely Pom.


Fall-To-Layout 23

I ended up doing two cards for this layout. Here they are,




Supplies:
PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection, Generic PP, Silver Embossing Powder, PTI Vintage Cream Twill Ribbon



Supplies:
SU Bitty Basics Hostess Level 1 Stamp Set, Unknown Sentiment Stamp, PTI Haiku PP, Generic Ribbon.

I hope that you will try these layouts also and have some fun with it.

Cheers
Banu

New Year, New Challenges

Happy New Year. It is time for resolutions. My resolutions this year are to blog more often, use my existing supplies first before buying new and also to eat healthy and lose weight. A tall order....but well...we have to think big.

I wanted to share two Holiday cards that I did for a PTI swap on SplitCoastStampers.com. I do not own any holiday stamps from PTI, so I challenged myself to use non holiday stamps from PTI to create holiday cards. Here are the two results.

Anniversary Set Tree

I used this stamp from the Anniversary Set - Simple things and kind of created a tree effect. Used the snowflakes cuttlebug embossing folder as background. Some stickles and ribbon completed my embellishment. I used the Sentiment from Mailbox greetings.



Supplies
PTI Simple Things Stamp, PTI Mailbox Greetings Stamp, PTI Cardstock, Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder, SU Word window punch, Generic White Ribbon, Stickles

Shapes by Design - Ornaments

I used this versatile set to create ornaments for this holiday card. I popped them up with some dimensional and added stickles.



Supplies
PTI Shapes by Design Stamp, PTI Simple Things, Oval Nestabilities, Generic Ribbon, Stickles

Happy Stamping :)

Simple Card

I love a card with layers, but sometimes it is fun to do a simple card. This set from SU called Time for you somehow appeals to me a lot. I did this card for a Simple Card swap. I embossed a frame using Nestabilities (A good tutorial for that is here in Nichole Heady's blog) and stamped the image directly on the base cs. A little bit of bling and sentiment on the word window punch completed the card. Very easy to make and lots of fun.



Supplies: SU Time for you stamp set, PTI White CS, Memento Black Ink, Nestabilities