PTI Blog Hop!!!

Hi there!  It's been a while, but that's okay!  Real life instead of sitting in front of the computer, that's okay in my book!  But I did have a chance to play along with the PTI  Blog Hop Challenge!!!  So the challenge was to use a black background, and my first thought was to use a Sympathy card, but as I thought about it, it didn't work.....sympathy is usually a black card, and I wanted to do something different, so I made this.....

Yep, clean and simple but with a bit of sparkle and shine and the unexpected with the little knots of wire on each side of the sentiment.   The copper leaves....are so ancient, but I'm using what I have until the economy picks up!  Here are a few more pics for you....

I heat embossed the sentiment to give a bit of dimension and the leaves, believe it or not, are adhered with glue stick!  It's my fail-safe....if it doesn't stick with glue stick, then it wasn't meant to happen!  And the beauty of it is, you can't feel any tacky-ness or shine with the glue stick on the leaves when it's dried.

And here is a pic of the inside, because I ALWAYS finish the inside...

Nothing fancy....


Thanks for stopping by!  

~ Pam

I'm on Etsy!!!

Hi all!  For the past three months I've been working at craft fairs just about every weekend.  With all this product that I've been coming up with, including non-card type stuff, I've decided to open an Etsy store.  I've only got three items in there right now, because I still have this next weekend to do another craft fair, and I don't want to sell something that's in the store.  But there are three things in there!!  Lots more will be appearing in the coming weeks.  There is a badge over to the right which will take you directly to my store.  So, take a look, let me know what you think!

Until next time!

~ Pam

Remebered.....

Taken from inside the USS Arizona Memorial looking up out the skylight in the Wall of Names room.  Pearl Harbor, HI   December 2007

Make It Monday #81: Clay Embellishments With Dies & Stamps

I actually had an opportunity to catch a little play time for myself, so I'm submitting for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday fun!  You can find all the details here. 

Martha Stewart's Crafters Clay is great because you don't have to bake it at all!!  It is completely dried and ready to use within 12 to 24 hours and it is extremely light weight when dried.  So when I made the daisy on this card, it didn't add much weight, just bulk.  This is a card that would need a bubble pack envelope to mail it. 

 When I was kneading the clay for the center, I used white clay and added in yellow Stampin' Up! glitter to it.  I like that the glitter won't rub off because it's embedded into the clay, not just laying on top of it.

 The last picture is of one of the heat embossed daisies I stamped in Versamark ink and used detailed clear embossing powder.  I love the look of the clear embossing on just about any card I've ever seen!  And you also can see my little quilled leaf on the left side too!

Thanks for stopping by!!  See you next time!


Supplies:

Paper:    Papertrey Ink
Stamps:  PTI Background Basics Text Style
               Daisy stamp by Inkadinkado
Ribbon:  PTI
Quilling Paper:  Lake City Crafts
Clay:      Martha Stewart Crafters Clay
Glitter:   Stampin' Up!
Ink:        Stampin' Up!
Embossing Powder:  Stampendous!

Papertrey April Blog Hop Challenge

Hellllooooooo!!!  Just wanted to post for you what I've been doing lately, and the monthly PTI Blog Hop seems to fit the bill!  I dug out my quilling things about two weeks ago.  I haven't quilled in over 20 years!  YIKES!  So please don't be too critical of my quilling skills - I'm a little rusty!!

I made four tags out of the medallions I made.  I was originally going to put them all on one card in a quilt fashion for my Mom for Mother's Day, but they were too big to all fit nicely on one card front, so tonight when surfing my reading list of blogs, I saw Nichole's post about the Blog Hop and decided to put them on tags.

I used all PTI paper - Lavender Moon, Spring Rain and Spring Moss as well as one of the very first stamp sets I bought from them - Boxes, Bags and Tags.  I used my Cricut with the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to cut the layered tags.  The quilling paper is from Lake City Craft and the ribbon is unknown stuff I had. 

I hope you liked the tags!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Papertrey February Blog Hop!!!

Hey there-I'm hopping today!  I originally made this card for the MIM series, but when I realized interactive cards was the call for the blog hop, I switched.  There will be another post for the MIM...I made another card.

The photography isn't that great on this one....I can't find my digital camera, so I used my cell phone.  But you get the idea.

This is a swing card, or a flip card depending on what your vernacular is. Here is the card closed, so to speak.....

Materials I used are....

Red card stock is PTI, as well as the buttons.
Patterned paper is 6x6 Citrus stack by DCWV
The flowers were punched using an old SU! punch on both the PTI and DCWV paper. 

The idea of the card is, you open it by pulling the left and right bottom corners away from each other and the middle panel swings around.  Here is a pic of the front panel in full view....

And a pic of the 'inside' panel.....

And the tutorial of how I made this can be found here:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdE8jnzFad4&noredirect=1

Thanks for stopping by!!!