No Thanks

Yes, that's what I found when I went looking through my card stash--or more accurately, what I didn't find. I have lots and lots of cards lying around, but very few thank you cards. So, I'm going to make an effort to make more thank you cards, starting with this one for today's SCS clean and simple challenge. The challenge theme was "think spring" and I am more than ready for that!.

I used a die cut butterfly, made using my Slice, as the focal image. I cut the butterfly from some new glittered SEI patterned paper (coming soon to i {heart} papers) and from a piece of acetate. The acetate is embossed with a dotted pattern to add interest, then layered over the striped cardstock butterfly. A trio of pearls along the center hides the glue dot I used to adhere the acetate.

The rest of the card is pretty simple. I punched a fancy scalloped eyelet border along the edge of a pale pink panel. A strip of rose grosgrain ribbon is wrapped around the panel. The butterfly is set on a celery circle. I stamped one of the thank you sentiments from Verve's Thankful Accents in teal ink on the aqua card base to finish the card.

Materials Used:

Thankful Accents stamp set (Verve Stamps); Taken with Teal Classic ink, Pink Pirouette cardstock, Regal Rose grosgrain ribbon (Stampin' Up!); Aqua Mist and Spring Moss cardstock (Papertrey Ink); Just Chillin' Slice cartridge (Making Memories); designer paper (SEI-Happy Day/Streamers); circle die (Nestabilities); Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug); Pinking Scallop border punch (Martha Stewart); self-adhesive pearls (Queen & Co.); acetate

Simple Sparkly Snowflake

I made this super quick card for this week's Paper Craft Planet sketch challenge, provided by Susanna. My Slice machine made this card so easy to put together!

I used the Mistletoe cartridge to cut a pair of snowflakes. The white snowflake is the "regular" one. The larger silver one is the "shadow" version of the flake. I love this feature on the newer Slice design cards! I attached the white snowflake to the silver one with foam tape and added some rhinestone embellishments before placing the layered flake on a shimmery blue panel.

I had room at the bottom to add the "happy winter" sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Rustic Snowflakes stamp set in navy ink. The panel is layered on a navy mat, then on a gray card base.

If you play along with this week's sketch, please use the keyword sk121209 so your card can be added to the album with the rest of the creations based on this sketch.

Materials Used:

Rustic Snowflakes stamp set (Papertrey Ink); Night of Navy Classic ink, Night of Navy, Basic Gray, and Shimmery White cardstock (Stampin' Up!); silver and blue shimmery paper (Target); Mistletoe cartridge (Slice); large self-adhesive rhinestone (Darice); small rhinestones (Offray); foam tape

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop-Teacher Text

It’s time for another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. This month’s theme was text. I knew right away what I wanted to create for the hop. I went with a back-to-school theme incorporating text with a traditional school image.

I used patterned paper with text as the focal image on my project. With the help of my Slice die cutting machine, I cut an apple shape (3 ½” setting) from several different papers. I was worried that the machine might balk at the heavy weight of the PTI cardstock, but it cut nicely. I paper pieced sections from the different apples together to create this one. The majority of the apple is made from the alphabet patterned paper from the Chocolate Remix paper pack, with Pure Poppy as the base and New Leaf for the leafy top.

I made a quilted panel to set the apple on by assembling patterned paper squares on a Dark Chocolate mat. I used my sewing machine to stitch the pieces together, then layered the apple on top with dimensionals. I added a button embellished bow to complete the panel. I stamped some of the sentiments from the Teacher’s Apple set in Pure Poppy ink to finish off the card.

Materials Used:
Teacher’s Apple stamp set, Pure Poppy Palette ink, Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Dark Chocolate, and Cream cardstock, Chocolate Remix and 2008 Bitty Dot Basics designer papers, Pure Poppy grosgrain ribbon, wooden button, twine (Papertrey Ink); Kraft cardstock, 1 ¼” square punch, silver brad, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Back to School cartridge (Slice); sewing machine