July 2015 PTI Blog Hop

There is a beautiful image for this month's hop at PTI-

here is what I came up with:

I had visions of recreating those popped up rows of butterflies, but alas, they wouldn't all fit!

Cardstock is vintage cream, pattern paper is BasicGrey, MS butterly punch- I scored a line under those butterflies & put pop up adhesive under each wing- love how that turned out!

This 3/8" ribbon from  May Arts is the border.

I double stamped the sentiment from Graceful Greetings- I liked it in the blue color, but it didn't show well enough....

Thanks for stopping by!

May Arts: Scraps Hop

We're having a Scrap Hop at May Arts today!

I thought a fun way to use those scraps that are only a few inches long would be to make ribbon covered bandages! 

I had seen a post awhile ago with fabric covered bandages & thought ribbon would be another fun choice! The box had the width of the different sizes listed, which made it easy to pick ribbons that would fit. I've used 3/4" chevron twill,  5/8" glitter elastic, 5/8" cotton stripes, 5/8" denim, 5/8" burlap center stitch, and the new 1" solid with color band & stitched edge.

I used the fabric store brand type & Tacky glue.

Nothing fancy!

When the glue dried a bit I trimmed them up!

Sort of sad & lucky that my girl & I were both in need of a bandage shortly after I'd made these!!

Now make sure you hop along & leave comments- there will be 3 grab bags of the new release ribbons-so three chances to win this fun prize!!! 

Here's the lineup! Good luck!

Tracy McLennon

Mary Brockway

Karen Hanson

Karen Baker

Jenifer Cowles

Jen Shears

Gini Williams Cagle

Emily Lanham

Charlene Driggs

May Arts: Natural Trellis

 I'm up at May Arts today with this natural trellis!

Head over & let me know what you think! :)

MIM #217: Creating Custom Borders

This week the challenge for Make it Monday was to create your own custom border. 

I started looking for images to use & was pretty excited when I found this image from last year's stamp-a-faire set fit perfectly into a 1.5" scalloped circle punch I had!

Various Momento Luxe inks, and a bit of Delicata gold stamped off under the 'joy'.

My first use of Pretty Pink Post sequins! These are from the sequin mix.

A little grape burlap string at the edge of the focal panel.

So glad I could fit this in- Hadley went to her grandparents so I finally painted the dark green wall the house came with when we moved in while she was gone.

I.am.Exhausted.

Have a great week!

Ribbon Resource: Patriotic T-shirt!

I'm up at Ribbon Resource today! 

Head over to check out how fast & easy this shirt is to make!