Poppy Seed Challenge #1

This is my first challenge EVER, so I'm pretty excited! :)

I just received my PTI Violets stamp set the other day and hadn't had a chance to play with it yet, so I figured this would be a great time to start!

I also just bought my first Copic markers, so I thought I'd pull them out too!!! LOVE them!

The challenge:
"For the first week I chose these three seeds... Crystals (which could be a Rhinestone too or even a gem brad!), a flower image and the use of light yellow."

I decided to incorporate all 3 seeds for this first challenge, and I am really happy with the results!

First, I stamped two separate large violet images onto white cardstock. Using my copics, I colored them in with two shades of purple (violet and lavender) and cut out.

I adhered the right one directly onto my light yellow cardstock, and then adhered the left one with a glue dot to give it some dimension (note the shadow...although it's a little greenish in the pics!??). I stamped, colored, and cut out a few leaves and adhered them under the flower petals. I decided to add 3 rhinestones to the center of each flower for a little sparkle.

To finish up the card I drew a simple border around the card with a very fine point marker and stamped my sentiment.




Supplies:

Cardstock - light yellow textured cardstock (from Walmart)
Stamps - PTI Signature Sentiments, PTI Year of Flowers: Violets
Ink - SU Basic Black
Copics - Lavender, Violet, Olive, Grayish Olive
Other - Rhinestones, glue dots

My FIRST EVER PTI blog hop and FIRST EVER JUGS Challenge

I'm so excited to share this project tonight!

Both of these templates come from Papertrey Ink, but the one on the left was a Lauren Meader design (before she left to start her own business!)...

I was so inspired by Nichole's back to basics project that I knew I had to try it soon! It was so simple yet beautiful!!

I found this adorable jewelry set for my sister-in-law's birthday and when I saw the blue and gray circles, it made me think of some patterned paper I had picked up back in December...and so I set to work!


Once I had all the boxes made up (one box per piece of jewelry), the circle paper tacked on, and the jewelry tucked inside, I added the beautiful two toned ribbon (again, just picked this up on one of my many trips to the local AC Moore shop!). But, I felt it was missing just a little something. So I decided to add a few tiny butterflies. I used one of the butterflies from Butterfly Dreams. I LOVED the lines on the stamp, but thought the butterflies were too big, so I used my small butterfly punch (martha stewart) to cut them down to size, and luckily they still looked complete! I then punched solid butterflies (same colors) and layered the solid ones with the stamped ones. I think it completed the project with a little touch of elegance!


One thing that's hard to tell from the picture is that the paper has a cool texture/shimmer to it. The blue circles are shimmery and the white ones are soft and felty! SO COOL!

Luckily I bought a set for myself, so you can see how the packaging goes nicely with the jewelry!!!

We also got her some of these little candies while on a recent trip to San Francisco. She LOVES these things!


I wanted to include them with the set, so I decided to make an Around Town tote to match! I used the same paper, and my Nestabilities scalloped ovals to add the sentiment...which was from the Signature Greetings Stamp Set.

Finally, I wanted to make her a special card to tie it all together...and I found a simple sketch and decided to give it a try. Again, I used the same papers, nestabilities, and butterfly stamp/punch. I think it worked together nicely! I can't wait to give it to her!!!

I hope you all enjoy! Let me know what you think! :-)
Can't wait to see what everyone else has been working on!


Supplies:
- Textured Cardstock from AC Moore (light gray, medium gray, light blue, medium blue)
- patterned paper from AC Moore's Christmas collection
- score tape
- templates: PTI Back to Basics box, PTI Around Town Tote
- nestabilities - scalloped ovals
- stamps: PTI Butterfly Dreams, PTI Signature Greetings
- punch: small butterfly - Martha Stewart
- ink: SU Going Gray
- ribbon: two toned ribbon from AC Moore (blue and gray)

Elegant Happy Birthday Cupcake Card

OK, so I'm in love with this card!

I cased one that I saw on Nichole Heady's blog and I love the results!

I used PTI's Cupcake Creation stamps for this one. On the pink mat later, I stamped the sprinkles over and over with VersaMark. A few scattered ones I stamped with a light pink to give them a little pop. Then, I used stickles glitter glue to add a few sparkles here and there.

I then stamped the cupcake images (there are lots of choices here!) and added some more stickles glitter glue to make the icing pop!

I stamped the sentiment directly on the light brown card stock with white ink, and then drew the lines to border the picture with a white gel pen!

Super easy and an elegant card!

HAPPY Birthday

Made another simple layout today!

You can't tell, but I scored some lines down the right side of the card and then placed the strips between them. I added some flowers, a butterfly and another thicker stip of the blue cardstock at the bottom...and I found these cute stamps on clearance at ac moore and couldn't wait to use them! How cute are they? There's a whole set of words to go with the big Happy one...super cute!

Supplies:

white cardstock, happy everything stamps (not su), SU ink, flowers, eyelet, martha stewart butterfly punch, scor-pal

I was inspired by Nichole Heady's card, and wanted to try the technique out. I LOVE how this turned out!

See her post for directions!

Clearly Stated

Another quick one today!

Just made my card base out of clear transparency film, stamped the heart and sentiment in Staz-On ink and adhered the pink and black paper BEHIND the acetate to make the heart pop! I added another layer of black and pink directly behind the set you see (on the other side of the acetate), so I could add a message without it showing up on the front!

Supplies:

Paper: Clear transparency film, cardstock from AC Moore

Ink: Staz-on

Clean, Simple, Elegant

This was super quick and easy! But I think it turned out so pretty!

I simply stamped the sentiments on white card stock, matted them with green, then adhered onto a white card base. I cut out two butterflies to match from Lauren Meader's My Time Made Easy store and it was complete!

Easy, right?!

Bath Gift Set

My friend's birthday is in just a few days, so I wanted to make a nice gift package for some lotion and shower gel I found for her.

You can't tell by the picture very well, but the striped paper also has glitter and shimmer on it...it's very pretty (bought at ac moore)! So, I used the colors from the paper and pulled out my PTI stamps and glitter and made some cute little cupcakes for the bag and card.

I LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to give it to her!!!

Supplies:

Stamps - PTI - Cupcake Collection

Ink - Stampin Up

other - score tape, stickles glitter glue

Lotion gift set

SHORT post today!

Another gift set I made for a friend!

I used Lauren Meader's flower and butterfly .svg files, cut out some yellow hearts (3 for card, 3 for bag), and lots of little butterflies.

The bag is the Around Town Tote from Papertreyink.

Bath Salts and Chocolate Set

I made this for a dear friend's birthday.

The white tin is filled with bath salts, and the silver one has chocolate inside!

Stamps: Babs in Bath, Papertrey Ink Signature Greetings

Paper: all cardstock and patterned paper was bought at walmart

Other: white canister - bought at michaels, silver canister - my flower embelishments came in there, flowers, rhinestone brads, martha stewart small butterfly punch

Papertrey Ink Contest - Embellishments

For today's contest I cut out a few flowers, added some store-bought flowers and a few buttons. For the card, I found a really cute saying "Dare to be Fabulous" and thought that would be super cute if I put a bunch of small solid butterflies with the one larger, sparkly one! It's good to stand out and be fabulous!

Papertrey Ink Contest - Oragami

So, I tried several different oragami projects, but my paper was just too thick to work. And of course, after all that I didn't have much time left to complete this project, but here goes anyway!

I did at least finally get to try out my new Spellbinders dies! Got a bunch for Christmas but haven't had 2 seconds to use any of them!

Papertrey Ink Contest

Here's my submission for the papertrey Ink contest! Since my username is erinallport, I had to use colors similar to Papertrey Ink's Kraft, Ocean Tides, Spring Moss, Lemon tart, and Vintage Cream (I don't have any of PTI's paper...yet! Maybe I could buy some with a gift card!!!).

I added a little sparkle (don't think it showed up in the pics) on the star dots and the dots above the "Wish Big" sentiment!

I hope I win!!! I love papertrey ink already, and now with all their new lines coming out, I can't wait to place an order!!!!

~E