Urban Prairie Scraps

I received a sweet email last week from a new friend Sherry. I met her over at 365 Cards. If you haven't been over there yet, I don't know what you are waiting for. Everyone is so nice and the challenges are fabulous!! When I commented on a card Sherry made using some Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers she emailed and offered to mail me some of her scraps! Now, this was SO incredibly thoughtful of her and obviously inspired because one of my favorite things to do is sit with a pile of scraps and create something. I seem to do better with that sometimes than full sheets of paper! So Thank You Sherry.... Here is the card I made for you:

The other fun thing about this card is that tag was actually from a new pair of jeans I just bought. I wanted to use it (and the rope) so I covered it with some paper. The paper was the perfect size too, so I didn't have to shed any tears by cutting into a full sheet. I love not crying over cut paper ; )

Anyway. Thanks again Sherry for the scraps (you will see more in the next card) and for helping me with another Take-Off. If you haven't hit Sherry's blog yet (I have linked her 4 times already!) Go over to HER BLOG and say hi and see the fun things she is doing!

See you again!

k

Deets:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Friend's Till The End (Sentiment)

Ink: SU! Basic Black

Paper: Papertrey Ink Stampers White, Basic Grey Urban Prairie

Accessories: Tag, Rope, Flowers, Button, Floss

Card Patterns Sketch 14

Here is the sketch from Card Patterns. I decided to use the new Kim Hughes Set for this one:

Here is my card:
I just adore Kim Hughes sets. It's odd that I don't own more of them when I love them so much! And honestly I adore Kim. She is so nice and SO amazingly talented. If you have never visited HER BLOG, you really must. She is just fabulous!! 

I used some Basic Grey and K&Co. papers. I love how bright and cheery it is. And I just had to add that little ant there at the end because our ants are out and livin' it up in the summer sun! Every time Cache sees one he has to yell to me to come and look at it. I guess it's because he never has seen an ant before. Kim's ants are much cuter than the ones at my house, thats for sure!

Ok, thats 2 for 2. See you in a bit for another fun card!

k

Deets:

Stamps: Kim Hughes Summer Trees for CHF

Ink: SU! Tangerine Tango, Close To Cocoa, Purely Pomegranate, Ruby Red. Papertrey Ink New Leaf. Hero Arts Soft Pool

Paper: Papertrey Ink Spring Moss. K&Co Citronella, Basic Grey Urban Prairie

Accessories: Papertrey Ink Lemon Tart Saddle Stitch Ribbon, Vintage White Button. Embroidery Floss, Pop Dots

Caardvarks Quote Challenge

We are going to start off light this morning. I had a real hard time with this challenge from Caardvarks. The challenge is to use a quote or verse as the focal point. I can tell this was the first creative moment of the day because it's always tough getting going.

I used my background stamp from Stampers Anonymous which I haven't used it in a loooong time. Then stamped my brackets and quote over it. I wonder though, is it an actual quote if no one knows who said it??? Well, this really is just a warm up for today. Check back in a bit and I will have a second card to show you and hopefully you will find it a bit more interesting to look at. 

Thanks for checking in this morning.... see you again!

k

Deets:

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous, Papertrey Ink Wise Old Owl (sentiment) Pink Paislee Fancy Frames (brackets)

Ink: Papertrey Ink New Leaf, Lemon Tart. SU! Not Quite Navy

Paper: Papertrey Ink Kraft, Linen Vellum. SU! Not Quite Navy

Accessories: Hero Arts gems, Distressing Tool

Take-Off Tuesday # 24

My Serena and Lily catalog showed up in the mail yesterday just in time for TOT! There are a few new things in there that I found really fun. Here is today's picture. Some really hip wood grain and great colors:

Here is my take:
It's pretty straight forward to the inspiration. I used the wood grain stamp from Cosmo Cricket and stamped repeatedly for the background.  I loved the orange in the picture, but for some reason its really freaking me out on this card, or maybe it's the blue. I just can't tell.

Thank you for all your sweet and concerning comments yesterday for my little "Motrin Drinker." He really is fine although he napped really well (long and hard!) so maybe it did affect him some. Things are much calmer today. However, Ronin (4yr old) came into our room in the middle of the night. Since he is sick we put him in a makeshift bed on the floor. At some point he spilled the cup of water from the nightstand all over himself. So needless to say, he was crabby and awake, as was I. It's raining again today which always puts a damper on my spirits. It's taken me a while to get motivated this morning, and I am not sure that I am fully functioning yet. I venture to say I will only hit 70% productivity today. But at least that gives me room for improvement tomorrow!

Thanks for visiting today. You make me smile ; )

k

Deets:

Stamps: Rubber Soul "It's Your Day" (owl) & Animal Love (sentiment), Cosmo Cricket Happy Campers, Gel-A-Tins Super Star

Ink: Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate, Hero Arts Soft Pool, SU! Tangerine Tango, Close To Cocoa and Old Olive

Paper: Papertrey Ink Kraft, Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, Stampers White. 

Accessories: Hemp, Pop Dots

Take-Off Tuesday # 23!!

Hey there!! I have been out of it ALL weekend! I worked really hard to stay away from my computer so I could focus on some family time and let me just say.... I can tell I took some time off because putting together these next cards was a real challenge for me. Obviously my mojo is still on vacation and didn't get the memo about needing to be back in action... but I did get TOT done so without further ado.... our magazine pic:

Taken out of the CB2 Catalog (thats Crate and Barrel-Modern Edition). I have had this page dog-eared for such a long time. It's great to be using it finally! Here is my take:
I realized the things I loved about it were the contrast of circles. But I thought I should leave it simple instead of a bunch of little ones. I stamped in various colors on the circles and popped them up on dimensionals. Once again I used my new favorite sentiments set from Hero Arts.

Pretty simple design today. Hope you like it!!

Be sure to check back tomorrow for my card at 365 Cards.... I tell ya, my card is a little crazy, even for me. But its such a fun challenge I am sure you will want to give it a try! Hope to see you around. And please forgive me for being so behind in visiting your blogs. I promise I will get back into my regular program here soon... Can't wait to see what you all have been creating while I was MIA!!!

loves~

k

Deets:

Stamps: Scenic Route (flowers), PTI Green Thumb (bursts), PTI Beautiful Bloom (Gray Flower), Hero Arts Thougthful Messages

Ink: Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy, SU! Summer Sun, Basic Grey, Color Box Green Moss Chalk Ink, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream

Paper: Papertrey Ink Smokey Shadow, Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream

Accessories: Circle Punch, Embossing Powder

Take-Off Tuesday # 22: Nifty Gifties

Todays Take-Off is a bit obscure. No picture of inspiration. But I have seen a lot of tea towels around lately and thought in honor of gift week, I could use the inspiration to make my own. So, I dug out the stamps and made up these dishtowels:

The towels were from IKEA for about 50 cents. So this gift is nifty AND frugal. I stamped the images with different colors and then stitched a border on them with some embroidery floss. I just love stamping on towels. I think its so fun to watch the color take on fabric. I thought they needed a card so of course I made one:

Here it is! I think this would be SUCH a great hostess gift for the summer. Imagine a basket full with some fresh grown produce and these little babies. I would LOVE to get this as a gift!

The images are the Farmer Market stamps from Basic Grey (OffBeat line) That is the radish and the images on the card. The peas on the second towel are Papertrey Ink. I had started with that first and had forgotten I just got the Basic Grey stamps in the mail! Next time I will use images from the same set!

So that's it. Nifty Gifty Take-Off Tuesday. Hope you like it! As far as a how-to, just remember when you are stamping on fabric you MUST use fabric or hybrid ink. You cannot use a dye ink because it will wash out. I used Palette and Papertrey Ink Hybrid inks. Then you want to heat set the images for about 30 seconds with an iron. And Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by today! So glad you joined me. Come back tomorrow to see my 365 Card Challenge (its so fun!). Plus I will have another nifty-gifty for ya.

loves~

k

Deets:

Stamps: Basic Grey Off Beat Farmers Market, Papertrey Ink Green Thumb

Ink: Papertrey Ink New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream. Palette Ink Chartreuse. SU! Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie

Paper: Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Kraft

Accessories: IKEA Tea Towel, Embroidery Floss, K&Co, Adhesive Gems, Pop Dots

Take-Off Tuesday # 22

Happy Tuesday everybody! How are you enjoying your week so far? Hope you are all well. Todays Take-Off is from Serena & Lily again. I loved this neutral room. I have been into bright things lately so much that I forget you can use only neutrals and come up with a lovely creation.

Here is my take:
I used cream, kraft, white and grey. Unfortunately these colors are not easy to photograph. (who knew!?) So through lightening the photo the embossing looks a little freaky. I used silver to emboss the three images, and they are indeed matted with grey.

In honor of Score-It week over at 365 Cards, I used my Score-It Mini to add lines throughout the card. Hopefully you can see if you click to enlarge. I did double lines vertically and one horizontal line under the three flowers. You will hear me gush about the Score-It Mini ALLL week! This thing is so great to have. I love that I could score in lines to bring out one of the ideas I like from my Take-Off photo. I love that it is small so it fits in the drawer and I don't have to have it on my desk 24/7. Its just great! 

That's it for today (I think). But check back tomorrow for my Score-It project of the week! Its a fun card that you will want to try too. See you then, and thanks for stopping in!

loves~

k

Deets:

Stamps: Kamon set by Kodomo Inc., Text Boxed (Peace Sentiment) By Papertrey Ink

Ink: Versamark by SU! Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise by Papertrey Ink

Paper: Vintage Cream, Stampers White, Kraft by Papertrey Ink, Grey by Michael's

Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder by Filigree, Tab Punch by SU! Score-It Mini by Score-It

Take-Off Tuesday # 21

Todays Take Off is again from Serena and Lily. You know, this catalog is so amazing, I am going through the entire thing and using it as inspiration, so bear with me. You will see a few more in the coming weeks. But I figure you will love these rooms as much as I do, so you won't mind, right?? Ok, here is the inspiration:

And here is my take:
I left it really simple only using 2 inks and one color paper! I layer it all on white and popped up the flower. I wanted to keep it clean people!
Here's a close-up. This little tag has been hanging out in my drawer for a really long time. Glad I got to use him up. 

That's it for TOT today. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Hope you find some inspiration today and find a way to create with it, even in the smallest way.

Have a good one!

k

Deets:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Background Basics: Retro, Beautiful Blooms

Ink: SU! Not Quite Navy, Soft Sky

Paper: Papertrey Ink Stampers Select White

Accesories: Making Memories Tag, Embroidery Floss

Take-Off Tuesday #20

Welcome to this weeks Take Off. Another beauty from Serena and Lily:

Don't you just want to swoon all over the place? I love this picture so much and found it muy inspirational! Here is my take:

I pulled out some old stamps that I love but don't use very often. I got them at the Purple Turtle Stamp Shoppe online, but I can't for the life of me find the website. Did they go out of business?? Oh please someone let me know! The stamp set is called French Quarter, and I don't even know the brand. OY! This is not good! Well, they are great and if anyone knows, drop me a line so I can post it. 

I punched out those circles and put them on pop dots for some dimension, and paper pierced the elephant to give it a nice polka dot look. My ribbon was a bit wide so I twisted it and it seemed to help. So thats it! Thanks for stopping by today, and as always I would love for you to play along, just create and post a link in the comments so I can check it out!

Also, I am looking for the perfect Robin's Egg Blue... Anyone have suggestions of some ink and paper? I am dying for some!!

loves

k

Deets:

Stamps: French Quarter, Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings

Ink: Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet, SU! Basic Black

Paper: Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, Stampers White, Linen Vellum, Pink Patterns

Accessories: Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet Saddle Stitch Ribbon, Pop Dots, 3/4" Circle Punch

Take-Off Tuesday #19

I got this new catalog in the mail this week. If you haven't checked out the lovelies at Serena & Lily, you are in for quite a treat.  This is the add I picked:

I adore this! I love the colors, but also the fine print on the sheets, the bold square and that map on the wall! OY!! I just love it. Here is my take on this inspiration:Using some more of my new stuff from Rubber Soul. This cute little giraffe was actually a freebie they sent with my order. Just a little extra love from them to make my day. Thanks Rubber Soul! They are really great and such nice people at Customer Service. (um.. I think I have said this all before ; )

For Christmas I ordered a bunch of PTI Night Sky Shimmer Cardstock for the cards that I actually never got around to sending out *gasp*. But they fit this project perfectly. Up close it really adds some depth to the Fresh Snow ink. You can't tell from the photo, but I popped up the giraffe with thick pop dots to bring it out a bit. I love this image and sentiment. SO much fun to stamp!
I also thought this giraffe went quite well with that map and safari feel of this room. And that was a happy accident!

So thats it for today! Please know you are welcome to play along anytime with Take-Off Tuesday. If something here inspires you, make a card/altered item and leave me a link in the comments. I would love to see what you make!!
Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back tomorrow. It's my day over at 365 Cards!

toodles~

k

Deets:

Stamps: Rubber Soul "A Day At The Zoo", CHF Houndstooth Backgrounder, Papertrey Ink Polka Dot Basics

Ink: Papertrey Ink Summer Sunrise, Fresh Snow, SU! Basic Black

Paper: Papertrey Ink Summer Sunrise, Night Sky Shimmer CS, Stampers White

Accessories: Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow Twill, White Button (from stash) Pop Dots