Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!

Here is my tag with frame for today's challenge. Since its dark now, and I have no natural light, I have to scan my card in.




Thanks for peeking!!

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PTI's Fourth Anniversary Celebration!!

There's a great anniversary party going on here:

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/


So many prizes and challenges! It's like heaven!

If you follow the link above, there is a free download and a challenge to create something from the download for a chance to win a spot as a guest stamp designer for Papertrey Ink!! Which is why I am up at 4:00 in the morning, trying to get my entries in because I've never wanted to win a prize so much in my life!!
Here are the creations I made with the free download...

Melissa Bickford's tag design----

PTI Anniversary Tag...Tiffany's design

Tiffany Pastor's tag design---

PTI Anniversary Tag...Alli's design

Alli Mile's tag design---

Thank you so much for stopping by!!
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PTI January Blog Hop!!

Beautiful Blooms II, Fillable Frames 4, Honeybees, Polkadot Basics

Through The Trees. The best stuff I've ever found for masking is this stuff here. The entire back is sticky so it stays put while you buff your background color on.

I have the Friend Jars/Fillers as well as the dies, but hadn't even used them yet. So I thought it'd be neat to make a gatefold card. I cut the Graphix sticky back transparency sheet using the Jar die and stick it right over the paint brush. Then I used the sentiment "You color my world" from the TT: Valentines set which I thought was a perfect fit for this stamp combo! I photographed this card at an angle so you can see the shiny transparency. Makes it look like a real jar, plus it was so easy just to stick that die cut on since its back is sticky. Looks like it came from Hobby Lobby (price tag), but I think I got it at a yard sale for like a quarter or something. Score!

Here is the card showing off the gatefold a little better.

The Challenge:

Use stamps you haven't used before. Not hard for me since I haven't used 90% of mine!!

I'm changing my tired old graduation avatar to this one. I like that it's fuzzy. Kinda makes it sexy and mysterious.

Thanks for hopping by!!
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Prayers again, please

My beautiful, sweet friend, Katie Renz, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer. She has 3 young sons who need their mama. Please band together with me and pray that God restores her body so that she can be there to raise her sons. I know without a doubt that God has the power over this dreaded disease and that He is able to send her a miraculous healing. If you would, please take a moment and get to know this lovely woman by visiting her blog and please be sure to leave her some encouraging words.

http://katiespaperhaven.blogspot.com

Prayers please

Eric broke his leg this weekend. He broke both his tibia and his fibula on his left leg right above the ankle. He was in surgery over 3 hours yesterday and in the recovery room for an additional 3 plus hours. He is in dire pain at the moment. All prayers are certainly appreciated.

"Papertrey august Blog Hop Challenge"

The Challenge:

In honor of school going back into session everywhere, we thought it would be fun to issue a Brown Bag Challenge. We want to see what you can do to dress up, alter, change and ordinary brown lunch bag into a paper crafting work of art. You could modify it to become a gift bag with handles, create a card base by folding it in half (complete with a slide out tag), add a window to it or whatever else you can dream up. After the hop is through, we should have plenty of inspiration to help us create amazing projects with inexpensive brown bags!

Here's my take on the challenge. I made a little Owlie hand puppet out of my brown paper bag. Tomorrow I'm going to pack my baby's school lunch in it. Then when he's done with lunch, he'll have something to play with!

Supply Equivalents:

PTI CS- Hawaiian shores, Ripe Avocado, Lemon Tart, Orange Zest, Dark Chocolate

1 3/4 circle punch (for whites of eyes and eyelids)

1 1/4 circle punch (for eyeballs)

PTI Large Scallop Die

I cut the wings and ears out by hand.

Thanks for looking!

I'm in awe...

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