Spring is in the Air - FEB PTI Blog Hop

Today my crocuses actually bloomed. No longer are their tiny heads of colour peeping from beneath the earth. Instead, those little buds have matured into lovely blooms in full GLORY! How sweet it is to know that spring is just around the corner. And with that, I spent the day cleaning and doing laundry! LOL

Have you got signs of spring in your neck of the woods too? Or have you managed to start your Spring cleaning? I don't want to hear about those of you who are finished Spring Cleaning! Haa Haa Ha!

I made this card to do double play.
PTI Blog Hop, as well as, Sketches! {by Tamara}. http://sketchesbytamara.blogspot.com/2009/02/recipe-challenge-37.html
You too can play along.

It is a real easy one, flowers, buttons and glitter!

I thought that the sparkles on the flowers gave a real "morning dew" look to the flowers. What do you think? It was very difficult to achieve a good photo; that showed the sparkles, so forgive the shadows!

I hope you enjoy the hop my friends, thanks for stopping by!
R

It's all in the Ingredients:
Paper- PTI white, summer sunrise, lemon tart, DP scenic route
Stamps- Magenta
Ink- Memento Tux Black
COPICS- B00,B02,Y11,Y13,Y21,Y23,YR04,YR09,YR23,YG17,YG23
Embellishments- PTI summer sunrise satin ribbon, Dollar store buttons, hemp twine, quickie glue pen, warm highlight glitter, SU! corner rounder

Friends till the end challenge

Nichole has another great challenge over on her blog, and a great chance to win a card kit for you and a friend. http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2009/02/day-9-introducing-friends-til-the-end-quick-kits.html

Have you seen all the yummy things included in this kit? I am all a swooning over it. Ink, ribbon, paper, inspiration sheets and stamps all for $16! I say that is a no brain er!

The simply amazing and talented Dawn McVey http://dawnmcvey.typepad.com/these_are_a_few_of_my_fav/2009/02/introducing-damask-designs.html has also launched sneak peeks of her first stamp set today. OMG! It is DAMASK! Can you say versatile,trendy, elegant, stylish and classic all in one set. I can't wait for the 15Th to place my order.

I made this card with my BFF in my mind. She is here from Hawaii this week. And I am sooooooooo excited to see her; it has been a year since we have seen each other. I am counting the days down with Nichole as my BFF comes on the same day as the launch.

I hope you too have something to look forward to today!

R

It's all in the Ingredients:

Paper- PTI white, WW pink, DCW plaid, MM dots

Stamps- SU!

Ink- SU! Wasabi

Embellishments- cuttlebug- flower die, textile embossing folder, EK success bling, felt, hemp twine, pop dots, SU! tag punch, SU! wasabi ribbon, pins, buttons

Bitty Dot Challenge

When was the last time you did a connect the dots? Nichole has a fun challenge over at her blog today. I sort of struggled with this card as it is very late at night. However, I know tomorrow is gonna be super busy so I wanted to squeak it tonight before I go to bed.

If you too like sketches and want to play along, hop on over http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2009/02/day-7-introducing-bitty-dots.html .

Did I mention the incentive? Yes Virgin there is a Santa! It is Ribbon, a whole bunch of stunning ribbon!

It's all in the Ingredients:

Paper - PTI sunrise, Choco chip SU!, Scenic Route - dot paper

Stamps - Stampettes

Ink- color box chalk Lime, sunrise - PTI

Embellishmenst: cocnut buttons and raffia

Thanks for stopping by

R

It's in the Bag Challenge

OK I am back again. Yes this is posting #3 today! It has been a great day of challenges. Nichole yesterday challenged everyone to make a bag, or decorate an existing one.

Due to time restraints I stamped on this American Cards bag with my Always stamp set from SU!.

TGIF!

R

PTI Over the Rainbow Challenge

Have you been to visit Nicholes blog this week? She is having great contests, fabulous prizes, and Inspiration from the design team that will blow your socks off.

The great announcement that came today is that she is finally going to have a sample pack of all of the stunning PTI colours. HURRAY!!!!

Also, today she issued a colour challenge. The colours were a real challenge for me because I don't have them all, but I did the best I could with what I had. And I won't have that problem any more once I get my hands on the new sample pack! LOL

It's all in the Ingredients:

Paper- PTI -Summer Sunrise, PTI - White, Olive - WW

Stamps - Impression Obsession

Cuttlebug folder

Ink - Vivid Olive

Punch- SU!

Bling - K&Co, Stickers- K&Co

I hope you all have a chance to play along!

R