Material Girl!

Hi!

Hope you’ve all had a fabulous Easter and are enjoying Easter Monday (if you’re lucky enough to be off for it!) anyone feeling sick at the sight of chocolate yet?! LOL!

So even though it’s Easter Monday, it’s still Monday nevertheless so it’s time for a new challenge! Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our last challenge – we had a fabulous response and I can’t believe the amazing creations I came across from beautiful cards to fabulous notepads to the sweetest treat holders! Definitely got my inspiration for next Easter ;D

So as our title suggests, for this fortnight’s challenge we want you to think about using Material. Now don’t shy away if you’re not a seamstress, I’m not one either! When we say material we’re not thinking ribbon but more like fabrics, felts etc…

Fancy cheating? You can even use a pre-bought material embellishment (I’ve been loving those crocheted flowers I’ve seen everywhere recently!) or feel free to make your own material embellishment. Not feeling like making an embellishment? Then use some fabric to add a layer to your creation. Anything, so long as it’s material, will count!

So for my example I decided to finally use that PTI Butterfly Die that had been waiting so patiently to be run through my cuttlebug with some felt I had lying around!

Card Recipe
Stamps: Around and About Sentiments
Ink: Ripe Avocado
Card: Dark Chocolate/Vintage Cream/Turning A New Leaf DPs
Accessories: Butterfly Die/Cuttlebug/Paper Piercer/Brown Felt/Ripe Avocado Button/Jute Button Twine/Dark Chocolate Grosgrain Ribbon/Apron Lace Border Punch

Here’s Kate: “I decided to pull out my Beautiful Blooms set – one of the first PTI sets I bought! I used some Cuttlebug flower dies to make and layer the flowers”

Recipe:
Stamps – Beautiful Blooms/Damask Designs
Ink – Ripe avocado/Versafine
Card – Ripe Avocado/Plum Pudding/Vintage Cream
Other – Cuttlebug Flower dies/felt/Plum Pudding buttons and ribbon

As our featured stamper for April, Dana rolled out the fabric to come up with this super sweet creation:

There’s something so fitting about using material on baby cards!

Stamps: PTI Baby Button Bits
Ink: PTI True Black, PTI Hawaiian Shores
Cardstock: PTI Rustic Cream, PTI Kraft
Other: IKEA Bomull fabric, EK Success Epoxy Dome Stickers, pinking shears, sewing machine / thread, Copic Markers (E44, E55, BG13), Tombow glue roller, Dove Craft foam squares

So here are the deets:

* All entries must contain at least one PTI product to qualify

* To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. If you’re having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.

* Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe!

* Challenge closes on Monday, April 19th 2010 at 9.00am GMT

* A winner will be chosen at random to receive some PTI goodies! In addition to this, we’ll select the top three creations we like the most and feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog!

We can’t wait to see what fabulous creations you come up with!

Aimes, Kate & Dana
xxx

Welcome, Little One!

Hi everybody!

This is Vanessa with my last post as Aimes’ and Kate’s featured stamper. *Sob*. I so enjoyed sharing my work with you and appreciated all your sweet comments! A friend had her second baby recently and I made her this little set for her son:

Supplies:

Cardstock: (Spring Rain, Enchanted Evening) PTI, Patterned Paper: (Pretty Pastels) PTI, Stamps: (Background Basics: Dots II, Baby Button Bits) PTI, Ink: (Versamark Watermark Ink, Memento Black Tuxedo, Blue Dye Ink) Tsukineko, Accents: (Enchanted Evening Vintage Buttons) PTI, Fibers: (Babyblue Polkadot Ribbon) Craftshop, Dies: (Small Rectangles, Small Scalloped Rectangles) Spellbinders, Markers: Copic, Tools: (Die-Cutting Machine) Provo-Craft, (Border Punch) EK-Success

Love to use the PTI gable boxes for this purpose! They have the perfect size for baby gifts. I tried to make it look clean, because it is for a boy – for a girl I would have used more embellishments and nick-nacks 🙂

I hope you like it! Thank you for visiting and thanks again to Kate and Aimes! You are so sweet and I adore your work!

Hugs,

Vanessa xx

Challenge: Be My Valentine!

Hey!

Happy Monday! Apologies for this challenge being posted later than I wanted – I’m in the midst of a stinkin‘ cold which took pleasure in taking over my weekend :o(

Enough sniffling and moaning from me though, are you ready for a new challenge?! I hope so because for this one we want you to get ‘loved-up’ and think ‘Valentine’s’ with your creations. Remember it doesn’t have to be restricted to a card and can be a little valentine treat for anyone! Don’t panic, it doesn’t have to be one huge slushfest on a card declaring your love for someone! If you’d rather, you could think about just featuring one aspect of Valentine’s (e.g Hearts) on your creation.

Well my example started with this one card…

..and by the end of my inky session, it turned into this!

These are a cute 3×3 inches in size – so sweet! I’m selling these at work to raise money for the British Heart Foundation – I’ve sold a few today! If some don’t sell, I can always sneak them into my guy’s packed lunch for the remainder of the year ;D

Here they are closer up:

Card Recipe

Stamps: Tiny Treats: Valentine/Polka Dot Basics II

Ink: Memento Black/Various PTI Inks!

Cardstock: Stampers Select White/Various PTI Colours!

Accessories: Promarkers/3D Foam Pads/Aqua Mist Vintage Button/Cream Button Twine/Fine Black Pen

Here’s Kate with her gorgeous example:

Stamps – Big and Bold Wishes
Card – Stamper’s Select White/Raspberry Fizz
Paper – Simple Valentine
Other – Black gingham ribbon/felt hearts and buttons(Martha Stewart)/EK Success border punch

..and as our featured stamper, Vanessa has provided us with TWO stunning examples!

I’m literally drooling with this scrumptious cupcake creation…

Supplies for the Cupcake card: Cardstock: (White, Raspberry Fizz ) PTI, Patterned Paper: (Pretty Pastels) PTI, Stamps: (Tiny Treats: Valentine, Baby Button Bits) PTI, Ink: (Black) Tsukineko, (Worn Lipstick) Ranger Industries, Fibers: (Raspberry Fizz Luxe Satin Ribbon) PTI, (Twine) Craft Shop, Accents: (Sweet Blush Vintage Button) PTI, (Heart Pearl) Hero Arts, Dies: (Labels 4) Spellbinders, Markers: Copic

…and then it’s topped off with this super sweet creation!

Supplies for the Pink/Kraft card: Cardstock: (Kraft, Berry Sorbet) PTI, Patterned Paper: (Pretty Pastels) PTI, Stamps: (Background Basics: Hearts) PTI, Ink: (Fresh Snow) PTI, (Watermark Ink) Versamark, Fibers: (Vintage Cream Luxe Satin Ribbon) PTI, Accents: (Heart Pearls) Hero Arts, Tools: (Border Punch) EK-Success, (Corner Chomper) Crop-A-Dile

Here are the deets:

• All entries must contain at least one PTI product to qualify

• To enter, use our Mister Linky at the bottom of this post. If you’re having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery

• Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe!

• Challenge closes on Monday 22nd February 2010 at 9.00am GMT

• A winner will be chosen at random to receive a collection of PTI goodies!

So getting thinking of some lovey, dovey creations and get inky! We can’t wait to see what creations you come up with!

Aimes, Kate & Vanessa

xx