Oooooo…. too many fun challenges going on right now!

Papertrey Ink is celebrating their 3rd Year Anniversary, as well as the February release and today the challenge was to create a card using origami! You can see my cute little creation using an origami pinwheel at the bottom of this post :)

How could I resist using this gorgeous and bold color combo from Embellish Magazine! In addition to the color challenge, we are to make a project using the Birthday Celebration Theme (piece of cake!). These colors are perfect for fun and happy… so needless to say this combo is permanently saved for future projects!

With this card, I used the 2 Sketches 4 You card sketch because, well… I just can’t resist a tall card! The inks used were Close To My Heart: Watermelon,  Moonstruck, Clover and Chocolate. The lovely design stamp is from the one and only Papertrey Ink — Giga Guidelines – and the cute little checklist birthday phrases are from CTMH’s It’s Your Day (and yes, I did cut the list stamp so that I can have the phrases separate!). I also used the Bitty Dots Basics from PTI. I just love the way this card came out! It will be going to my MIL for her upcoming birthday :)

Below is my Origami card for the Papertrey Ink challenge. I had never done one of these on a card before, so it was an interesting little baby adventure for this scrapper :) Yay for challenges that give you great results! Thanks, Nichole!

Would you believe me if I told you that I have been extremely busy?!

Well, I have been… and not much time to create lately! I have been itching to create, especially because this is Papertrey Ink’s 3rd Anniversary! They have had so many fun announcements, activities and challenges — and I haven’t been able to one of them! But tonight, I was determined to change that. So here was my favorite design team color challenge, from the classy lady, Melissa Phillips!

Aren’t these colors just perfect together… I chose this color combo because it was going to be fresh and new to me. Not going to lie though… this is my 2nd rendition because I struggled with it. Definitely love the result and glad I was able to play along with PTI a little —  and now I get to go to bed, hehe!  Have a very goodnight everyone!

• Cardstock: PTI Scarlet Jewel and Vintage Cream
• Patterned Papers: PTI Aqua Mist Bitty Dots and Berry Sorbet In Bloom
• Accessories: CTMH Pearls, PTI White Silk Ribbon
• Tools: Fiskars Scalloped Scissors

Hey all… are you all just itching to watch the Season 6 Premier of LOST tonight? I just have 40 minutes until the recap, so I thought I would share my card for the day.

Over at the CARDS blog, Paige is challenging us to create a Valentine without red or pink. I say, yay! to this one because I rarely use those colors in my valentines for my hubby. It just isn’t his thing. And since he is an artist, I need to make sure that my card will be impressive versus ‘cutesy.’ So here is my little card, made special just for him! Don’t you just love this color combo, this stamp set (Giga Guidlines) and just how simple it is? Those are all of the reasons I love it, anyway…

The other challenges I used for this card are from Pile It On, to use Non Wintery Colors; Creative Card Crew, to create a Valentine; Easy Craft Projects challenge to create a Valentine for a man; Paper Sundaes Valentine theme challenge. The way I do challenges is that I sit down each day and make a list of all of my favorite challenges and their link. Then when i am working on a project, I try to incorporate the challenges in for inspiration. Of course, this week was pretty easy because many were for Valentine’s!

Other than create this card, today I reorganized my scrap area (much needed) and I realized something… I AM ADDICTED TO BUTTONS! Seriously, I never knew how many buttons I have; now I know that the next time I see a totally adorable set of buttons that I can’t live without… I will remember that I CAN live without them, in order to give life to those just sitting and waiting for me to beautify them! I couldn’t resist taking a snapshot of my button collection so you can see what I mean… Keep in mind, these are only the buttons I am keeping out and available to myself. The rest are still in bags and jars, stashed away until they are needed again {perhaps in another decade or so, heh}

This is how I reorganized my bags of buttons that were recently purchased over at PTI! Grabbed these adorable little glass jars for a great price over at ROSS.

Here is my ‘old’ way of organizing my buttons, before I had a crazy collection… these are still precious to me and will still be used though:

Here is a close up of the detail to the card (before I decided to add the ribbon):

• Cardstock:  PTI Kraft & Rustic White and CTMH Chocolate
• Inks: CTMH Juniper, Honey, Sweet Leaf and Chocolate
• Stamps: PTI Giga Guidelines, PTI Take Note, My Cute Stamps – Ashley’s Blossoms, PTI Polka Dot Basics II
• Accessories: Misc. Honey Button, PTI White Silk 1/4″ Ribbon
• Tools: Fiskars Scalloped Scissors

(((More Photos Below)))

This is my first time joining the Papertrey Ink’s Monthly Blog Hop! I have wanted to for a long time, but my monthly order never gets to me in time — however, this time I decided to simply use my current items because I just couldn’t pass up the Annual Holiday Blog Hop; I guarantee that this is going to be great!

I am a huge fan of traditional Christmas colors. I always see other’s using fun and new colors for their Christmas projects, but whenever I try, I just get frustrated and never like the result. So here I am again, using my favorite traditional Christmas colors on all of my projects and I have to say… I love the result!

This year we are going super simple. Decided to fill this little stocking with candies and some fun gift cards for our nephews who are 7 and 4 (and recently discovered how ‘fun’ picking your own gifts out with a gift card is!).  I used Papertrey Ink’s FREE Timeless Template: Stocking Stuffer. This template is probably the easiest template I have ever used and I was finished with this stocking in no time! I also created a mini card to match and while I was at it, I used my Slice to make some cute gift tags. (Supplies Used below) I hope you enjoy my photos and I am looking forward to all of the inspiring creations from everyone else this month too!!

Supplies Used:

Colors: CTMH Cranberry, Topiary, Cream and PTI Kraft
Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics, PTI Fancy Flourishes, CTMH Victorian Snowflake
Accessories: Buttons, Cream Ribbon (gift tags)
Tools: Fiskars Crimper and my Slice