So with challenge it is making a gift bag with a matching tag.  I actually made this one last.  Had to really thing about it.  Then I remembered that I had one of those We R Memory Keepers bag punch boards and I was thinking, sweet, I will make a bag and put buttons from the buttons dies on it.  I even went so far as to pull the dies out.  But then I was disappointed in the choices for paper.  So as I was searching my stash to look for the paper to make the bag I came across this canning paper.  I am sooooo in love with anything canning and fruits and veggies.  AND I am sooooo in love with October Afternoon.   So go back in time about a year ago,  I had one sheet of this canning paper and I really did not want to use it because once used it would be gone…..oh noooooo.   Well I went to the Scrapbook Expo or some other show and went to this wonderful booth that sold packs of one print of paper for an AWESOME price.  I think I got 25 pieces of this paper for $5.00.   Oh happy dance…. I know have tons and tons and tons of this paper to use to my content.   I will have to confess I bought a bunch of them (other prints of course) mostly October Afternoon.   Oh heaven!!  And to make it sweeter if I bought 6 packs, I got it for $20 instead of $30.   Of course when I got to CKC in March, I am checking out the paper again.  Such and awesome deal on my favorite papers.  OK, I am digressing.

Here is my bag and tag

See the wonderful canning paper…..please admire it now.   I made the bag from that punch board and the tag from the friendship jar die and accessories.   For FUN, I cut out a mason jar of pickles and put it on the tag underneath the vellum.  I thought it would look more like glass.   The gingham print is the reverse side of the canning jars.  Oh happy dance!!!!!   I was able to use the Papertrey Ink Get a Handle in It Die which fit perfectly.  This bag would fit a pound of coffee or may a skinny mason jar!   LOL

As far as the double stamping on the tag, I made a mistake and then tried again to see how to line it up better.  And then I decided that I really liked the dual stamping, gave it a little atistic flair!!!

I hope you enjoyed!!!

Supplies:

October Afternoon Mason Jar paper from the Farm Girl Paper Line
Papertrey Ink Get a Handle on It Die
Papertrey Ink Jar Label Two Dies
Papertrey Ink Jar and Lid Die
Papertrey Ink Jar Topper Die
Vellum
Silver Cord
Silver Shimmer Paper by Anna Griffin
Butter Mint Card Stock by Bazzill
Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad

For today’s Challenge, we had to use metallics and neutral colors!

I used a cover plate and added shared of neutral and metallic shapes back in.   It is cream, kraft, gold shimemr and gold shiny paper.  So hard to tell, the colors just did not pick up correctly when I took the picture.

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink Harlequin Cover Plate
Kraft, cream, metallic shimmer and gold foil card stock
Papertrey Ink Wet Paint Dies
Gold Sequins

Thanks for looking!!!

Well this challenge is to use a stamp set that you have not used.   WELLLLLLLLLL  that is not too hard since I buy way more than i actually use.   Since it is starting to feel like it might want to be spring again, I decided to use the Strawberry Patch Stamps.   I also wanted to do watercolor!

When I started it looked so boring and then I thought it would be nice to smear up the colors so it had a real bleeding affect.   I liked how it came out

I also used the pico embellisher to get the white seeds on the strawberries.  I like how it looks.  All textured and funky!!!!

Supplies:

Neenah Solar white Card Stock
Papertrey Ink Strawberry Patch Stamp Set
Papertrey Ink Strawberry Patch Sentiments Stamp Set
Peerless Water Colors
Pico Embellisher White and gold
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
Black Archival Ink Pad
Versamark Ink Pad

Todays Challenge with the Papertrey Ink Anniversary Countdown is to find an inspiration of the wonderful creations from Maile Belle!!!!

This was my inspiration.  Her beautiful butterflies!!!!

This is my interpretation of her card.  I have had this butterfly stamp set for ever and had never used it.  So glad that I finally did.   I like the set and I just may make some more!!!!

Supplies:

Summer Sunrise Card Stock by Papertrey Ink
Neenah Solar White Card Stock
Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Set by Papertrey Ink
American Crafts DIY Shop Sequins
Papertrey Ink Inkpads – Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, Canyon Clay, Summer Sunrise, Autumn Rose, Tropical Teal, Ripe Avocado

Thanks for looking!!!!!

It is the 8th Anniversary of Papertrey Ink and they have all sorts of challenges for us followers/lovers!  To start with is the sketch/color scheme challenge.

To be honest, I pick color schemes based on if I can find the color cardstock in my messy craft room.  I had these handy.  But to honest with you, all the color schemes are great!!!!

I went with a wine theme.  I used the Celebrate die from the uncorked words die set and make it the background, almost an embossed look.  Then I made a pattern on the tag using the two smaller wine glasses.    I made the small wine glass dies as the “charms” “tags” hanging from the gold cord.   I also stamped the words “wine” and “cork” on the glasses to ass a little something something!!!

Instead of a button on top of the tag I made a cork!!!  LOL.   Got to love that cork paper pack I got!!!

I found little O-rings to make the glasses look like wine charms.   Also you can see the close-up of the word background.

The inside of the card was using summer sunrise!!!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Cardstock from Papertrey Ink – Ripe Avocado, Summer Sunrise, Plum Pudding, Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartruese
Ink from Papertrey Ink  – Ripe Avocado
Papertrey Ink Uncorked Stamp Set
Papertrey Ink Uncorked Die Set
Papertrey Ink Uncorked Word Die Set
Cork Paper
Gold Cord
O-rings

Continuing on with Day Five of the Clean and Simple Online Card Class…I took on the challenge of the Laura Bassen card.  Laura always does an awesome job of blending colors to make awesome jobs!!!!

I actually took her class on Craftsy and would highly recommend it to those who want more of those type of techniques.

It warmed my heart to hear her say that sometimes she does a card over and over again.  I feel so rushed to finish a card that I let it go with all the messy stuff.  Funny how we perceive that all cards they make as being perfect every single time.

The first thing I did was pull out my baby wipes to notice the little clouds on the sheets.  Oh dear why did I not have plain old cheap ones.   LOL   I did find some handiwipes to use on top of the nice cloud laced puffy baby wipes to make the card.

I have a confession.  I rarely get re-inkers.   So I was stuck, then I remembered that I had a ton of the Stampin Up! re-inkers from the old consultant days.  Yeah, most of them worked.  Sadly some had dried out!

I was going to punch a hole in the middle of the card but since there was a lot of white space, I thought the print would get lost.  So I decided to add a tag like sentiment.  At first it was going to be a strip across the card, but dang, that sentiment is large!!!

Finally settled on a velum tag and the green tag with some cording.  I love how this stamp is suppose to look like a written note made with a calligraphy pen.

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Card Stock
My Favorite Things Card Stock – Lush Lagoon, Green Room
Stampin Up Reinkers:  Wild Wasabi, Bermuda Bay, Blue Bayou, Baja Breeze
Avery Elle Wood Grain and More Stamp Set
Avery Elle Write It Stamp Set
Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
Gold Cord
Simon Says Sparkle and Shine Sequins

For Day Five of the Clean and Simple Online Card Class, Jennifer Rzasa showed us the ink patterns technique using washi tape to make a geometric design.  She had did some research online to find a muse to start her inspiration.  So I went out to Pinterest and searched for Geometric Designs.  This one caught my eye.    This was an art print from Etsy and I loved the shading of different colors in separated sections.  Since I had the washi tape, and the distress Inks I said Let’s Go!!!!!

This was my interpretation of the print.

If you look closely enough, it is the same design in the print of the circle on the lower right.

I thought a circle card was a different look for me and decided to use different colors in the “Color Wheel” instead of similar colors.  Next time I might stick to one color family and blend to create different tones.

Supplies:

Distress Inks ( in my vain attempt to keep my workspace clean I put them away before writing down the color names)
Nennah Solar White Cardstock
Think Little B Washi Tape
Simon Says Stamp Hello You Stamp Set
Memento Ink Black Tuxedo Ink

Also posted in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Day Three Continues on the Clean and Simple Online Card Class.  At first I was going to do a sailboat like Kristina, but I kept looking at the sky and thought it would be cool to do a nighttime sky with a sailboat.  I pulled out my sailboat and it was one of those kind that were separate pieces,  nope.  Then I thought it would be cool to do a silhouette of an animal in black looking at the stars.  Well none of the animals I had were looking up, and if they did, the die looked like a blob.   LOL…. so I decided to do a horse.  Yes a horse.  A wonderful majestic horse running wild against the night sky.   Ok, so he was trotting, but can you just picture the scene.  Just play along with me!!!

What was so interesting about this technique is that it took a long time for the stars to come out….sort of like real life…waiting for those stars to come out.   LOL

Finding the sentiment was a tough one until I found a stamp set from Ali Edwards called Get Outside.  Not sure what you would use this card for, except for a party….calling all wild people.   LOL

thanks for looking!!!!

Supplies:

Galloping Horse Die by PoppyStamps
Black Cardstock
Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Simon Says Blue Violet Inkpad
Silver Embossing Powder by Ranger
Versa Mark Inkpad
Constellation Background Stamp Set by Hero Arts
Get Outside by Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday Stamps

Also Posted in the Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Still plugging away on my cards from the Clean and Simple Online Card Class.

Ladies I admire those of you who have posted all  your cards….Not sure how you do it!   Still on day three and the class is over with

Well this one was inspired by Julie Ebersole Gesso Resist card… Oh by the way, I am ordering that deer die.  I cannot get enough deers and antlers.

When I saw her card I was struck by the colors and how they looked like fruit, from fruit came lemons, from lemons came lemonade.  Aha!!!  I have some lemonade stamps somewhere!

In fact I had two!!!

Now I want lemonade!!!  LOL

Supplies:
White Gesso
Distress Ink: Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade
Lemonade by Simon Says Stamps
Lemonade2drink by The Stamps of Life
Tangy Orange Card Stock by My Favorite Things
Neenah Solar White Card Stock
Vellum
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder

Also posted in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes!!!

I liked the faux embossing look of the cards on day 4.   It really got me thinking.  I have so many dies that would make an interesting background.

I decided that I wanted to use my maze dies.

I ended up altering the location of each die so that it gave a diamond look on the background.   I looked for a stamp that had the word AMAZING, but alas I did not have one.  This one came from a stamp set with glasses… hence the looking for you statement.  I figured with the maze, you could be looking for someone.  It was a stretch, but it worked.

Supplies:

A-Mazing Dies from Papertrey Ink
Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Red Cherry Cardstock from My FAvorite Things
Geek if Check Stamp Set from My Favorite Things
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder

Also posted in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes