Coffee Cozy and a Card

 I finally finished my first coffee cozy. I only bought the die about a year ago so I guess it was about time. I took the cozy to work today and used it with my first Pumpkin Spice latte of the season. I got lots of compliments on it so now I want to make lots more! This one was really simple, I just used the heart from the details die set (and the adorable matching heart tag but you can't see it in the pics), a button stacks die and some leaves but I can't remember where those are from now.

 

 

 

I also made my first card with the Beautiful Brushstrokes kit.  Oh my goodness, I don't really use flowers very much but I LOVE these. They are so easy, even when you are off a bit they still look great. I masked the flowers a bit to stamp the leaves. I was pretty lazy so I just tore up a paper towel. Probably not the best method cause it kept moving on me but I still got the effect.  I used a few rainstones, a sentiment from Keep it Simple Thank You and a little Wink of Stella in the flower centers. I can't wait to try watercolor with it! 

Card for baby!

I made this quick baby card tonight to give to a friend tomorrow.  I love this coverplate from PTI.  It was used this week in the MIM and I wanted to make a card for the challenge, coloring embossing paste, but I didn't really have time to get that messy.

I used some Crate Paper patterned paper for the petals and set them in aqua mist. I had a little dark greenish - brown nubby gem (I don't know what these are called!) that I used as a center. The sentiment is from Boutique Borders Baby. Very simple card,  although it would have been so much faster and easier if I would have used my ATG gun. For some reason I started with liquid glue when I put down the Aqua Mist piece, so then I had to glue in each petal! I should have covered the card base with adhesive and then just popped them in.  Oh well, next time!

Halloween Card

I love the technique shown on this week's Make it Monday over at PTI. And, after this week's sneak peeks of the August release, I'm getting excited about Halloween.  So even though it is barely past July I created a fun Halloween card. This was a super quick attempt but I really like the card so I might make another one to see if I can do it a little better. 

Graduation Card

I have a graduation card today. I don't have any graduation stamps, so I just used a PTI congratulations sentiment. I used a bunch of strips of card stock from when I was practicing with Background Basics Random Stripes.  I colored some brass dots and some clear star gems with a Copic marker to make them black. I kind of think I should have made the strips thinner, or have less of them, or maybe have pointed the ends like an arrow but was in a hurry (like always!). Grad party in an hour, better get going! Thanks for looking.

Another Envelope Wrap

I really liked the Make It Monday envelope challenge over at PTI so I decided to make another one. Today is my fifth anniversary so I made a card with envelope wrap for my husband using Love Potion. This set is so cute!

Envelope Wraps

This week the Make It Monday #163 challenge for PTI is to make a wrap for your envelope.

 

I needed to make a baby card this week for a friend and thought I would participate in the challenge. I made the card and envelope last night and already gave it to my friend. I think I turned out pretty cute! I am going to make envelope wraps again.  Easy and it really adds to the card.

I was up way past bedtime making this so I went pretty simple. By the time I was finished my desk was a mess so my pictures are not very good.  I just placed the card and envelope on a piece of paper on top of my mess! For the envelope wrap I used a Half and Half die with Melon Berry card stock, Polka Dot Parade #4 and Boutique Borders Baby. I used Chocolate ink although it looks black in the photo.

For the card, I CASE'd a card that Betsy Veldman made last year.

 

I didn't have most of the supplies she used so I had to improvise. The lampshade is made with the little dress from the Hanging Out dies and the base is the spoon from Comfort Food. The books are Building Blocks which I cut down a little bit. I used Simple Alphabet for the lettering on the spine. Baby's name is going to be June! 

I used an old embossing folder for the shelf, a striped background stamp for the bottom half and Wonderful Words Baby.

Make it Monday #155: Make Your Own Confetti!

This week at Papertrey Ink the challenge is to use your dies and create your own confetti. I really wanted to use my new Phrase Play die,  so I made some confetti from my sun and clouds Heart 2 Heart dies and made a shaker card, using the phrase,  You are my sunshine. I used my Wink of Stella pen on the clouds and suns. I was going to use a scalloped border around the edge but it wouldn't quite cover the foam tape so I just made a simple frame from Aqua Mist card stock. I'm still thinking on how else I can do that.