Paper players #31 AND Paper Pals Art #77 AND Papertrey Ink's January, 2011 Blog Hop

My card is for three challenges this week.

The first challenge is based on Paper Players #31
sketch designed by Ann Schach.
I believe it fits the criteria with a slight deviation from the original. The sketch provided great inspiration!


The second challenge is for Pals Paper Arts #77 sketch challenge designed by Margaret Moody.
Mine is a very loose interpretation of her design. I believe the 5 elements are there just a smidge different, but it was what I needed to get me scrappin'!
Win or lose it was fun making this card, don't ya just love the little snail!

The third is for Papertrey Ink's January 2011, Blog Hop to use an "oldie but goodie" stamp set. This set is one that I have had for a while and only used once previously.

Supplies:
CS Paper: Stampin' Up's Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake
Floral Paper: K&C Co. Designer Mat Pad (from my long ago stash)
Ribbon, Stampin' Up's Pear Pizzazz seam binding
Stamp, Papertrey Ink-Flutterby Friend
Light Green Rhinestones from Michael's Craft Store

Many thanks

This is a little Thank You card to my daughter and her family for all of my wonderful Christmas gifts. Unfortunately the colors do not photograph well, but you know it looks better in person.
Stamp set from Stampin' Up - Friends Fur-Ever
Bakers Twine from "The Twinery" (One of my many Christmas gifts)

Second posting...

This birthday card is for a dear friend of ours who loves to golf.

Supplies:
SU's Whisper White and Real Red card stock "Swiss Dot" embossing folder Sentiment - Unknown
Stamps: SU's "On the Green" and Aviary stamp set. the idea for tying on a golf tee came from Julie Tilman at Mojomonday.








This is the "X" rated inside of the golf card!
Shame on me! (It's all in your interpretation).

Stylish Award

Many thanks to my scrappin' pal Diane from Rubber and Rafters for passing along this award, I love being in creative company! Thanks Diane.

Christmas tags

Here are a few gift tags I made for my scrappin' pals using some of Papertrey Ink (PTI) stamps and dies. I made several tags for each gal pal and reused the clear cases PTI's stamps come in to hold the tags, added a bit of holiday paper for decorations and called the project complete. I had fun making them and my pals enjoyed having tags ready for gift giving.

BABY BOOK PLATES

My "scrappin" friends and myself have been working on decorations for a baby shower to be held in December of this year.
I made a book plate from one of PTI's dies (Mat Stack 3), which was mailed along with the invitation asking guests to purchase an inexpensive baby book, sign their name on the book plate, and place it in the front of the book instead of buying a card.

After making the book plate I ran it through a Xron machine which added the adhesive to the back of the plate making it a sticker for the book. I found some inexpensive felt animals to add to the top of the book plate to top it off. All together I made 93 of these cute book plates (although couldn't get all of them in the photo). Here is a picture of most of them all lined up. I was very happy with the outcome and think the new mommy-to-be will be as well, plus starting a library for the new baby girl!

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The colors for this challenge were indeed a challenge! My card base is Daffodil Delight with an overlay lattice using basic gray CS. (although the photo isn't very good). The focal point is one of the bird cages from SU's Aviary set stamped in basic gray ink with the adorable bird in Poppy Parade ink. The sentiment is stamped using basic gray ink on Poppy Parade CS, I substituted a different shade of red ribbon (as I didn't have any Poppy Parade). The little sprigs of holly on the bird cage are also repeated with a holiday sentiment on the inside of the card.

ANYTHING GOES @ Paper Players#22

Well as my gal-pal Diane at Rubber 'n Rafters said, this is the cake she and I put together as a belated birthday cake for our fellow scrapper, Sharon. We had so much fun putting it together and thank goodness for the Cricut Die cutting machine saves a ton of work. We added little gifts inside each slice of cake and stamped the end of the cake to resemble a nutty consistency as is usually on carrot cake. So this is a joint blog for us, we hope you like it as much as we do.


Here's another picture from a different angle. Our friend loved her cake and was truly surprised after all we were almost a month late in celebrating!!!!