Papertrey Ink February Blog Hop

The 25th of February means it is time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop again!  I have participated two months in a row now!!  Yay!  Here are the details of this month's blog hop:

Since we just finished up our 3rd Anniversary Festivities, we thought we would do something extra
special for this month's Blog Hop!  Design Team Appreciation Day!  Your challenge is to go through the
Design Team gallery or any of the Design Team Members' blogs and find a project that is especially
inspirational to you!  Then recreate the project with your own spin, making it unique!  Be sure to share a
link and photo of the original project that inspired you!  And you can also use this opportunity to thank
the team for all their contributions this past year!  I know they inspire ME daily and I never seem to thank
them enough!  We look forward to seeing your projects!

 So, I did two cards for this fun little challenge.  The first one was inspired by Dawn McVey's "I ♥ Paper Crafting".  More fun rainbow stamping...you know I love that!  I am not sure why the stamping looks crooked in the photo...it isn't in real life.  Hmmm...oh well!  It is still cute!  This guy also fits a Moxie Fab "Olympics of Stamping" contest category as well...so I am submitting it for that too!

 "Thinking Of You" supplies: 

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Stamps: Papertrey Ink (Background Basics: Hearts, & Asian Fusion) 

Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: scarlet, orange, canary, lime, surf, violet, heliotrope, black) 

Jewels: Doodlebug Designs 

Pen: American Crafts

Corner Rounder: EK Success

Instructions:  Fold white cardstock in half to make card base, and round the bottom corners.  Stamp the hearts to the middle of the card using rainbow colors.  Add the six rainbow colored jewels below the stamping, and then pen black lines around the entire thing.  Stamp the sentiment to the lower right corner using black ink.

This next one is inspired by Betsy Veldman's "Moon and Stars Baby" card from the January release.  Ever since I saw that cute hanging baby from the branch....I have wanted to make my own version of it!  Such a cute, cute idea!!  So, here is my take on it!

 "On the Night..." supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Paper: Doodlebug Designs

Stamps/Button: Papertrey Ink (Inside & Out: Baby) 

Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: robin's egg) 

Ribbon: Renaissance By Design

Twine: Darice Inc. 

Jewels: Westrim Crafts

Glitter: DecoArt

Corner Rounder: EK Success

Diecut Machine: Cricut Expression by Provo Craft

Diecut Cartridges: Paper Dolls Dress Up & Designer's Calendar by Provo Craft

Instructions:  Fold pink cardstock in half to make card base.  Cut two patterned paper blocks, round the top and bottom corners, and adhere to the front of the card.  Round the bottom corners of a block of white cardstock, and tie ribbon around the bottom.  Adhere it to the bottom of the card, and accent with jewels and a button.  Stamp the sentiment to the cardstock block with robin's egg pigment ink.  Cut the cloud from white cardstock at 4" using the Cricut Expression and Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge.  Cut the same image from pink cardstock at 3.5", and cut out the stars.  Cover them in glitter, and adhere them to the white cloud.  Attach the cloud to the front of the card.  Cut the moon from yellow cardstock at 2" from the same cartridge.  Cut the moon from pink cardstock at 1.75", and cut out the stars.  Cover them in glitter as well, and adhere to the yellow moon.  Attach the moon to the front of the card.  Cut the baby from peach cardstock at 1.5" using the Designer's Calendar cartridge.  Cut it again from dotted paper, and cut out just the cloth section.  Adhere to the front of the peach cut, and adhere to the front of the card.  Hang the baby cut from the moon using twine, and top with a pink jewel. 

So, that is what I came up with!!  Hope you like them!  ♥♥♥ 

So- any thoughts on American Idol, now that we have seen all the girls and guys perform?  Ummm...let me just say, apart from a couple of them...I hope they just had some major nerves, and that they are going to get better in the coming weeks.  Because most of them were pretty bad performances.  BUT....Casey James made up for almost two hours of mediocre singing last night....he is my favorite as of now!!  

Well, I better get going for now!  Have a great night! 

Until later,

~Lea