PTI February Blog Hop

It's PTI Blog Hop time! This month's theme is scallops.

Here's my card, where I included some vertical scallops. I overlapped two rows, one cut with the large scallops and one with the small scallop die.



I also used the Mat Stack 4 die, Big Birthday Wishes and By the Numbers Dies. The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey collection, Hopscotch.



Thanks for hopping by!
Melissa

"It's your 4th birthday" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Big Birthday Wishes
Ink: Walnut Stain (Ranger), Chestnut Roan (Colorbox)
Paper: Berry Sorbet, Hopscotch (Basic Grey)
Other: Small and Large scallop dies, Mat Stack 4 Die, Berry Sorbet satin ribbon, By the Numbers Die, Foam tape, Sponge

Thinking of you, always

We have a tiny purple crocus poking out in our yard! Spring flowers may just be my favorite! In honor of the upcoming season, I made a card using the beautiful tuilips from "Wishing You".



I stamped a few extra of the blooms, cut them out and used small pop dots to pop them up on my card.



Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Thinking of you, always" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Wishing You, Year of Flowers: Lily of the Valley
Ink: Rouge (Colorbox), Purple Hydrangea, Versamagic (Memento) ** a good match for Plum Pudding**, Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse
Paper: Vintage Cream, Plum Pudding
Other: Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, pop dots

Wishing you a happy birthday

It's Make It Mondays time again! This week's challenge was to create a strip of glitter using Scor-Tape. Fun!



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"wishing you a happy birthday" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Mat Stack 2 collection, In Bloom
Ink: Hawaiian Shores
Paper: Stamper's Select White
Other: Scor-Tape, Martha Stewart glitter, gems, foam tape

Get Well Soon

Do you ever create a whole card and then really dislike it when you're finished??

That would be this card for me! I wanted to make something to enter the latest Make It Mondays challenge--to use a vellum sentiment strip. I had the idea to have several strips of vellum laying diagonally across the card. So far, so good.



I heat embossed "Get Well Soon" onto the lowest of the three strips. I stamped the background dots. I cut the bottom part of the three layers of cs with Edgers #1. Sewed the bit together. Still okay.

Then I added a ribbon diagonally, thinking it would draw the eye. Don't like it.

And then I die cut and stamped the butterflies and positioned and repositioned them about 14 times. Don't like them. I couldn't get them in the right place, and I feel they are too big also. The last step was to color some gems with a Copic marker and add them to the card.



Oh well, it's a learning experience, I guess! This card uses the latest WPlus9 color challenge . (Kraft, Lilac, Turquoise and White).

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Get Well Soon" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Love Lives Here, Healing Touch, Round and Round Anniversary Set
Ink: Lilac (Colorbox), Hawaiian Shores, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: Kraft, Stamper's Select White, Lavender Moon, Vellum
Other: gems, Copic marker, glue dots, Edgers #1, sewing machine, sponge, Hawaiian Shores satin ribbon, White detail embossing powder (Filigree), heat tool

I'm back with my card for a brand-new program sponsored by Papertrey Ink: Make It Mondays.



Those of you PTI fans already know all the details, but in case you don't and would like to learn more, go here .



I decided to use just one sentiment repeatedly on my card, the happy birthday from Enjoy the Ride. This is probably my favorite happy birthday stamp...it's a good size and I love the font combination!

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Happy Birthday" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Enjoy the Ride
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Hawaiian Shores
Paper: True Black, Hawaiian Shores and Aqua Mist
Other: True Black satin ribbon, small scallop border die, pearls (colored with a black Sharpie)

A little note

Today's contest during the PTI Anniversary celebrations is one in which the winner will design a stamp set in collaboration with *the* Nichole Heady...how cool would that be!!

Go to Nichole's blog and read all the details and download your free digital images!

I created a card using Melissa Bickford's cute tag.



The rainbow and cloud stamps come from Up, Up and Away.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"A Little Note"
Stamps: Up, Up and Away
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), sky blue (Colorbox)
Paper: Stamper's Select White, Pure Poppy and Blueberry Sky
Other: Pure Poppy satin ribbon, Copic markers, Limitless Layers die

Papertrey Ink Customer Favorites

Papertrey Ink is celebrating it's 4th Anniversary! And today it's hosting a contest in which customers post and link their own favorite project from 2010 in a chance to win a huge prize! See all the details here at Nicole's blog.

I'm going to repost my favorite project that I made in 2010, a scrapbook page.



This page features photos of my kids on their first day of preschool, back in September 2009, and their last day of school in June 2010. It was particularly special as it was my daughter's first year at preschool and my son's last.



I used a ton of PTI product on this: the stamp sets School Time and School Time Additions, the large scallop border die, stamps from Mini Scrapbook Series: Library Ledger and Tabs.



I did lots of fun background stamping and heat embossing. For all the details you can visit my original post .

Have a great weekend!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

It's my turn to post today at the Waltzingmouse Makers Blog !

Here's my card:



All the details are posted over there.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa