Love You To The Stars (with Studio Calico Card Kit)

Here's the second card I made using the pink constellation paper from my Planetarium Studio Calico Kit. The pink paper made me think of a night sky so I cut out the tree/house silhouette out of dark grey paper to simulate night time. I used one of the other papers from the kit and cut out "Love you to the stars and back" to use as my sentiment.

Below, I also tried another version, but I just don't like it. Something isn't right.... Maybe I should have reversed the two sky papers, I'm not sure.

Sending You Love with Studio Calico Planetarium Kit

I recently received my first Studio Calico Card Kit that I subscribed to. This card is partly from the May 2013 called kit titled "Planetarium". The blue and redish-orange papers are from the kit. The rest are other materials I have in my craft room.

Hot Pink & Black Mother's Day Meadow

 

This is the card I made for my Mother for Mother's Day. She asked for a fuchsia & black card. I was stumped for awhile, but I happened upon this beautiful inspiration card.

 

I knew I needed a sheer ribbon for mine as well so it wouldn't chop up the card and hide the beautiful flowers behind it. The wildflowers are from a beautiful set designed by Lisa Johnson called "Larger Than Life" sold by PTI. She just released a new wildflower collection I ordered called "Peaceful Wildflowers" sold by MFT.

  

Flower Jar Mother's Day Card for Grandmother

                                                                                                                                        

I made this card for my Husband's Grandmother. I mostly copied the design from Michelle Wooderson's beautiful cards.

I didn't have a dotted stamp to go around the oval tag so I used a peach colored pencil to drawn in the stitching lines. I cut paper buttons for the flower centers.

I just got the most AMAZING alphabet stamp set that I am IN LOVE WITH -- Avery Elle's "Lovely Letters".  I just got it, and I used it to stamp "Granny" on the tag. I placed the "y" a little too far to the right, but I'll get better. This set is going to let me customize sentiments so beautifully. There are two lower case y's in the set -- one has a flourish on the end for if you end a word with a y. LOVE! I'm not affiliated with either of those companies, I just love this set. It's hard to find a good alphabet in my opinion! I think if you place the letters even closer together, it looks like a continuous cursive word!

Birthday Card

I made this card today based off one I saw in last year's a muse studio catalog. I love how it turned out.

Paper: PTI Aqua Mist, Kraft, Rustic White, Rustic White Envelope
Ink: PTI Aqua Mist, Soft Stone, Smokey Shadow, and Ranger Adirondack Lights Peach Bellini
Card Stamps: a muse studio Beautiful Botanicals 2,  words from a PTI set
Envelope Stamp: Impress Small Leafy Crosshatch (I love this stamp!)

Binary Hat

The stripes on this hat spell "hat" in binary computer language. It was the perfect Christmas gift for a geeky family  member of mine!

I used this binary hat pattern. It is knit from Blue Sky Alpaca Worsted Hand-Dyes in midnight blue and iris.

Quilt: Three Christmases in the Making

This is the quilt front. The quilt is made from the pattern "Summer Breeze" from the book "Scrap-Basket Surprises". I did add more blocks to my quilt to make it bigger. It is probably queen size. This is my first real quilt and it was made for my parents-in-law. I made a quilt when I was in high school that was much smaller and a disaster, so I don't really count it.

This is the back. I like more contemporary quilts so I had some fun back here.

This closeup of the back allows you to see some of the quilting stitch pattern. I had it professionally quilted. There was no way I was going to try and quilt my "first" quilt on my sewing machine.

I sure hope they love it!

Italian Card Set - Rosie Posie

Our friend's Mother In Law is visiting from Italy so we thought we'd make her a small gift. She does not speak English, so I made sure to use my Italian Language stamps from PTI. Wow, those were really handy to have on hand and they are only $5! I originally bought them to make my friend a set of thank you notes.

Anyhow, on to the design. I was heavily inspired (and practically copied) these gorgeous cards by Maile Belles from the PTI design team.  All the stamps (except for Italian words) came from PTI's Rosie Posie stamp set. The hexagons come in a strip that has 5 hexagons. My only huge gripe is that on every other row, you need to stamp offset from the previous and you are one hexagon short on a 4.25" wide card. So then you have to ink up on hex on the strip and try and line it up to complete your row. I really wish they had put SIX hexagons on that stamp strip. Would have saved SO much time.  The outer and inner hexes are stamped separately. So this is a pretty time consuming card.  Fortunately, my husband is a great helper. He will pop the ink cover on and off and hold things and place, and whatever I need. He is the best, plus it also makes the gift from BOTH of us! =)  Here are some more cards in the set (each one we made different).

  

* Grazie = Thank You, Buon Compleanno = Happy Birthday, Ciao = Hello

Supplies:

Blue Floral Napkin Set

Fabric: Madrona Road Wild Carrot from Michael Miller Fabrics

 

Paisley Dinner Napkin Set

 

I've been in the sewing room non-stop lately trying to get through my very long list of Holiday Gifts. I even have my list prioritized --making gifts that need to be shipped first. Here is one of my completed projects, a set of 8 dinner napkins with mitered corners.

 

Fabric is from Art Gallery Fabrics in a paisley print from the Gipsy Glitter collection.