Todays Challenge is Happy Birthday!!!!!  Since I was really enjoying the vegetables yesterday (PTI Vegetable Garden), I thought I would do a play on words called HAP PEA Birthday!!!!  I stamped the pea with the two green shades of Simon Says Ink and then used glossy accents to make it shine.  Then I ran to new scrapbook store to buy new and exciting things.   Not that has anything to do with the card, but I wanted to check out the new goods.   And they had what I was looking for!!!!   LOL.   Excuses excuses.

I tried one of papertrey inks impression plates (Rustic Burlap).   Since I have a new Vagabond I was puzzled  on how to do the sandwich.  I searched and searched the internet and saw horror stories about how people ruined their Vagabond.   TERROR in my heart…. So I winged it.  Here is my sandwich for the vagabond –

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Solo Platform
Solo Shim
Cardstock
Impression Plate (Print I wanted downside to the cardstock)
Sizzix Texurz Silicone Rubber*
Sizzix Texturz Impression Pad*
One cover Plate

It fit in my Vagabond keys just perfect so I knew I would not ruin the machine.  It came out great!!!   *Just bought at the scrapbook store….see I was able to tie in my scrapbook run into this post!!!!  LOL

I used the Papertrey Ink Birthday Trio Die set for the Birthday and used the Lawn Fawn diecuts for the HAP.

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I kept loooking at the Papertrey Ink stamp set called Happy Hydragea, but was not sure what to do with it.  Then I remembered some time ago Nicole Heady did a card using Perfect Pearls.   Now I have had these pearls for a long time, still in the package untouched.  Sigh!!!!  Welcome to my world!   So I thought, why not?  If it does not work, I do not need to post it.    At Michaels I had also gotten this gold shimmer white paper.  I thought with the Perfect Pearls and the gold glimmer paper would look really nice.  Oh Boy!  I found a new love!!!   Me and Perfect Pearls….waltzing across the floor.    It was so easy and looks soooooo pretty!!!!!   But please ignore the statch on the side…. and looking at the photo it looks like some of the dust did not come off…..Hey what do you want???  Perfection????   LOL, ok, I am human, I make mistakes.   But I like it anyways.

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So I was inspired by a fellow scrapper that made around 10 ATC cards.  WTF!!!  Alright, I will make more.   At Michaels I found this really unusual paper called Chalkboard.  It is a strange texture, sorta rough, deep black.  Not sure if you are suppose to use real chalk on it or not.   Your guess is as good as mine.

So I grabbed my Movers and Shakers Sentiments because they had a sort-of chalkboard look to them… You know, different fonts in a cool way and embossed it with white powder from Hero Arts.   To decorate the rest of the card, I used the really awesome washi tape from My Minds Eye called Chalk Studio.  I have been itching to use them….. I just needed an excuse!!!

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For my second ATC, I really wanted to use Vegetable Garden Stamp Set.   I have this thing about pictures of vegetable.  I dont eat them as much as I should, but give me a picture of them and I am thrilled!!!!  Also fruit, fruit and veggies!!!!!

For the background I cut up a postcard from the Cavallini Set called Farmers Market.  I got them from Amazon.  Besides pictures of fruit and veggies, I love Amazon!!!  LOL.

I used the same wood paper from the DCWV Vintage Collector paper pack and used the Papertrey Ink Picket Fence die.  I needed something to block off the bottom half of the ATC so you could see the vegetables better.    I used foam tape on the wood slats to give it more of a fence look.   Then of course I made a few vegetables from the stamp and die set.   I used a variety of inks from Simon Says Stamps and Hero Arts.  I embossed the round label with clear embossing powder to help “Pop” out the label.

I really like this one!!!!

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So todays challenge on Papertrey Ink is Artist Trading Cards!  At least I did not have the pressure of getting something done in 17 minutes!  Whew!!!!

For this ATC I decided to use the Papertrey Ink Come All Ye Faithful die set.   I really liked the dog dies and decided this would be perfect.

Because I ran to Michaels today and they had a sale on paper pads, I bought one I have had my eye on for a while – Die Cuts with a View Vintage Collector.  It had some fun prints, so I decided to use the wood print for the dog and the pink newspaper for the background.  Throw on a little coat and some bling and I was done!  Woof Woof!!!!

Thanks for taking a quick peek!  I love comments!

Since these cards take 17 minutes or less I thought I would “whip” up another one……big mistake…..I am still peeling glue from my fingers.   LOL

I wanted to make a valentines card, so I grabbed some cardstock and papertrey stamps/dies….  That was the easy part….

So you do not think I cheated and used more supplies than required, I thought it would be great to use the heart paper from the Kissing Booth Collection from Basic Grey.

Supplies I sued:

1) Brown Woodgrain paper by Ellen Hutson
2) Papertrey Ink Cover Plate Hearts Die
3) Kissing Booth Paper by Basic Grey
4) Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words Love Die
5) Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words Love Mini Stamp Set (used the word True)
6) Glitter Foam from Walmart (great price for a whole stack of glitter foam)
7) Simon Says Stamp Black Ink

Now I spent 15 minutes glueing the hearts as fast as I could onto the back of the die cut paper…..PLEEEAAASSSSEEEEE do not look too closely at the card as you will see glue stuck here and there and the paper is not aligned.   LOL.   This is not the card to do in 17 minutes!   PRESSURE!!!!!!!

But I really like the card, in spite of all the glue and boo-boos.   HA!!!!

Also posted at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Hearts

Enjoy, thanks for looking!   I love comments!!! I really do!!!!!

Papertrey Ink is having thier Anniversary!!!   I LOVE their products.   Todays Challenge is 7 items to make a card in 17 minutes.   Yikes, something always goes wrong.

First was finding 7 items in 7 minutes.   I grabbed the stuff on my desk….no time to search.   So I got my newest item, the Feather Finery Set.   Now not knowing if each stamp was one item or the stamp set was the item, I took the safe course.

1. Large Feather from Feather Finery Collection from Papertrey Ink
2. Large dots for the feather on the Feather Finery Collection from Papertrey Ink
3. Saying from Feather Finery Collection from Papertery Ink
4. White Cardstock
5. Versamark Ink
6. Recollection fine detail gold Embossing Powder
7, Hero Arts Mid-Tone Ink Tide Pool

Of course the feather did not stamp completely, but that is life.  To make the banner more colorful, I used the tidepool ink to color a scrap of the white cardstock.

Hope You Like It!!!!

I think this was one of my favorites!!!!  Using the clear embossing paste to create a resist and then using different distress inks to create a colorful background!!!

I will defintiely do this technique again!!!!!

Also posted on Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything goes with Twine!

On the Online Class there was a bonus day using two stencils.  I had gotten the new Heidi Swapp stencils at Michaels where they gave you three matching stencils in one package.  I thought this was perfect to create a cards with ink blending.  I used the star stencil with the diagonal lines using different colors of distress ink.   I made the hello from the Big Hello Die from Simon Says. and cut it 5 times and layered it.   I then used my clear Wink of Stella pen and then glazed it with Glossy Accents.  I really like how it came out!!!  Almost looks like an embellishment you can buy at the store.   I always wanted to try that!!!!

Well this was a horse of a different color.  I am glad I tried this technique but not sure I will do it again.   Once you made a stencil from a die (in this case some leaves) and emboss it, you then use a selection of differnt embossing powders and let it dry.   I heated it up when I thought the past was dry, it did bubble in a few places where it was still wet.   When it was said and done, it felt like a rubber embellishment.  At first it was on white cardstock, but I really did not like that and cut the leaves out and placed on some Autumn paper from We R Memory Keepers.    To give it veins, I just used a brown slick writer on the leaves.

Also posted on Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes with Twine!