pwp sketch # 15 -- birthday layouts

My daughter celebrated her 4^th birthday last November with a School is Cool party.  You can check out the details here and here. 

Here is the first installment of my layouts.  I am also linking this to Leigh Penner’s Pages with Papertrey challenge.  This time, she has a sketch challenge.

For her birthday layouts, I always start with a layout of her actual birthday.  I want to remember how she looked like and what she did on the day of her actual birthday.  In the past before she had school, it usually consisted of a pancake breakfast and a trip to her favourite indoor amusement park.  But this time, her birthday actually fell on a school day.  So, it involved mommy giving her a surprise visit to school with some treats  for her classmates. Here is my layout using the sketch above.

I used Papertrey dies (modern alphabet,  loop de loop) and patterned paper from Crate Paper’s Storyteller line and Studio Calico.

Close up of the journaling...

The next 2 layouts capture some of my favourite photos from her birthday party the following day.  Here is one with some fun pictures from the photo booth. 

I used the same Storyteller patterned paper from Crate, Papertrey’s modern alphabet dies and some Jillibean Soup’s alpha stickers.  I am also linking this to Leigh’s challenge of using mixed elements in your layout title.

Close up of the journaling...

The last one I will be sharing today is her Cake Time layout.  I made  this recently for the Colour Suite challenge when we attended the Crop and Create event. This was the layout which won me a never-been-released-fresh-from-winter CHA 2013 Basic Grey layout kit (yey me!).  The best part was I was chosen as winner by Kelly Purkey, one of my favourite crafty bloggers / stamp designers (talk about being starstruck when she handed me my prize!).

Here it is... I just love how happy she looked at these photos. 

I used Papertrey dies (modern and script alphabet, heart border, little hot rod), stamp (little hot rod (bus), postmarks) and cardstock (pure poppy for the hearts).  I also used patterned paper from Crate’s story teller line, Fancy Pants and Echo Park.

Thanks for stopping by!  Check back next time for part 2 of my birthday layouts.

DT inspired projects

One of the first challenges on Papertrey's anniversary celebration is to create a project inspired by the DT's (design team) favourites.  I have done a few based on Danielle, Cristina and Heather's favourites.  You can find them here, here and here.  Today, I want to share what I created as inspired by the rest of the DT's favourites.

First up is Ashley.  Here is my card.. I used Papertrey cardstock (kraft, dark chocolate), stamp (strawberry patch, fillable frames, mega mixed messages) and die (fillable frames, strawberry patch).

It was inspired by Ashley's second card below.

Next up is Betsy.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey cardstock (white), die (flippin' up), stamp (wreath for all seasons) and patterned paper.  

It was inspired by Betsy's last card below.

Next is Dawn.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey cardstock (kraft, white, dark chocolate), stamp (rosie posie, beautiful butterflies) and dies (sending you, rosie posie).

It was inspired by Dawn's fifth card below.

Next we have Debbie.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey cardstock (black and white), stamp (harvest berries) and ink (smokey shadow).

It was inspired by Debbie's third card below.

 Next we have Erin.  Here is my card. I used Papertrey stamp (around and about), patterned paper and cardstock (kraft).

It was inspired by Erin's third card below.

Next we have Jessica.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey stamp (sweet life, pretty peonies), dies (sweet life, pretty peonies, turning a new leaf), patterned paper (bitty dots), twine and button.

It was inspired by Jessica's second card below.

Next we have Maile.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey cardstock (soft stone), stamp (up, up and away, movers and shakers sentiments), die (up, up and away) and ink (smokey shadow).   This was actually a CASE of one of Maile's cards.

Here is how it looks like opened up.

 It was inspired by Maile's fifth (interactive) card below.

Lastly, we have Melissa.  Here is my card.  I used Papertrey cardstock (kraft, sweet blush, berry sorbet, hibiscus burst), die (notched flowers, turning a new leaf) and stamp (beautiful butterflies).

 It was inspired by Melissa's third project below.  It is actually a tag which I interpreted to a card.

 Whew!  If you reached the end of this post, thank you!  Hope you are having a fabulous evening.

watercolour challenge

Hi crafty friends!  Today's challenge over at Papertrey's anniversary celebration is to create a project that uses some type of watercolour technique or look.  Watercolour is one of the growing trends currently. And Papertrey is coming out with a gorgeous set called Watercolor Wonder.  Can't wait to get my inky fingers on it!

Here is my card...

I used Papertrey's Wildflowers set, cardstock (new leaf, harvest gold, stampers white) and ink (berry sorbet and simply chartreuse).  I also diluted some pure poppy refill ink with water and swirl it around the floral image using a watercolour brush.

I also used one of Heather's favourite cards as my inspiration for this.  Here is her card.

Thanks for stopping by!

colour inspiration challenge

Today's challenge over at Papertrey's anniversary celebration is on colour inspiration.  Nicole put together six colour stories to choose from.  We are tasked to create a project utilizing one of the colour schemes.  This is the colour scheme I chose to work with. 

And here is my card...  It is not a colour scheme I would normally use but that is what a challenge is for, right? 

I used Papertrey cardstock (stampers select white, lavender moon, plum pudding, hawaiian shores), ink (hawaiian shores) and hexagon die.  I did not have a blueberry sky cardstock so I just used a similar one from my stash.

I am also entering this on Papertrey's design team inspiration challenge.  I used Cristina's card below as my inspiration.  I have always loved her CAS style!

Thanks for stopping by!

papertrey sketch challenge

I am back for another quick post for a challenge happening over at Papertrey.  This time, it is a sketch challenge. Nicole gave us several sketches to choose from and here is what I chose.

And here is my card...

I used Papetrey's dies (take three and butterfly dreams), spring moss cardstock, Birthday Basics stamp and black patterned paper.

I have to work with very limited supplies today since I left most of my crafting tools at the Crop and Create venue.  Good that I have some cut outs left lying on my crafting table.

Have a great Sunday.  I'm off to day 2 of the Crop and Create event. Bebsy should be here soon!

packaging challenge

Hi again crafty friends!  This is my second post for the day.  The first one is here. 

I am here for another Papertrey anniversary challenge.  Have you seen all the gorgeous packaging Papertrey is adding to their line.  Check it out here. 

Today's challenge is to create some type of wrap, tag or gift packaging project inspired by a photo you found on Pinterest or another site.

Here is my project.

I used Stitches and Swirls, Tag Sale die and bitty dot patterned paper.  I have this linen bag from Craftmate Virna which I used to package a set of cards to be given as a gift.

It was inspired by the this project created by Debbie Olson.

Now, I am off to the Crop and Create event. Bebsy is now downstairs waiting for me, ha!

Have a fabulous weekend!

year of flower challenge

Hello crafty friends!  I am back with a quick post for Papertrey Anniversary's Year of Flower (YOF) Challenge.  As part of  the anniversary surprise, Papertrey is releasing coordinating dies for all the YOF sets.  How awesome is that!  No more fussy cutting in the future!

Related to that, today's challenge is to create a project using your favourite flower of the series.  I only have 2 of them and my favourite is hands down the violets. 

So on this very snowy day here in Toronto, I decided to make my card a little cheerful.  Here it is...

I used  Papertrey's YOF: Violets, Pretty Peonies for the sentiment, ink (smokey shadow) and cardstock (lemon tart, simply chartreuse and stamper's white).  I also used my Li'l Inker's Stitched Rectangles dies and did some embossing with it. This will be the last time I am fussy cutting those flowers!

Stay warm!

one card, three challenges

I am really getting the hang of all these challenges.  It is something that I look forward to every week now.  Sometimes I surprise myself that I can make my card fit more than one challenge.  Such is the case for this card.  I am entering this not only to one, nor two but three challenges.  Talk about being efficient, ha!

Here is my card. I used Papertrey stamp (celebrations), die (modern alphabet, wonderful words, framed out), impression plate (woodgrain), cardstock (smokey shadow, true black, spring moss, aqua mist, hawaiian shores), patterned paper (bitty dot pure poppy) and ink (fresh snow).  Wow, this is a 100% Papertrey card!

I am entering this to the following challenges:

- One of Papertrey’s Anniversary contests where we were asked to create a project inspired by one of the Design Team's favourite projects.  I chose Danielle Flanders' XOXO card. I  love the dark background and the gradient of colour in this card.

- Next is at CAS-ual Fridays.   The challenge is to use letters creatively in our CAS project.  I used my different die cut  letters to create the focal point of the card.

- And lastly, I am entering this to Passion for Papertrey’s Love is in the Air challenge.  The project does not have to be for Valentines but should be love-themed.  I made this card for my Dad’s birthday.  His birthday is not until October but I want to make my cards in advance, lol.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having a fabulous week!

black and white challenge

The ladies over at the Passion for Papertrey blog are having a black and white challenge.  I thought I'd play along and came up with this super fast and CAS card...

I used Papertry stamp (2012 birthday tags), die (doily details, limitless layers circle), impression plate (hello sunshine), cardstock (white and true black) and ink (smokey shadow).  

I had a lot of fun using that impression plate and I think I will have it out for a while.  Here is a different angle of the card that shows the impression better. 

Thanks for stopping by!

january avery elle challenge

I was websurfing over the weekend and found this challenge over at the Avery Elle blog. 

Avery Elle is one of the new stamp companies I have recently discovered and I love the fun designs of their stamps.  Here is the inspiration photo for this challenge.

And here is the card I created based on the that.  I worked with the black and red colour theme as well as the stripes found on the photo. 

I used Avery Elle’s Framed Fonts and Picture It sets.  I also used Fancy Pants’ patterned paper and Papertrey’s cardstock and ink (pure poppy and smokey shadow).

I adhered the washi tape and camera using some dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by!