PTI MIM #326: Inchie Elements

Lexi Daly jumpstarted our mojo this week by hosting Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday and using "inchies" in her adorable card. Her video was awesome sharing tips on how to accomplish these elements. She inspired me to make three cards using inchie elements in different ways. Since I'm still in need of more graduation cards and sympathy cards, here's what I created. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, True Black, and Black & White All Over 

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Keep It Simple: Graduation

Dies: Modern Numbers and Wet Paint Cuts III

Other: Zing! Gold Metallic Embossing Powder, Luxe Gold Adhesive Sheets, Gold Glitter Paper (stash) and Foam Tape

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Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, True Black, Black & White All Over and Holly Leaf (Darice)

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Keep It Simple: Graduation

Dies: Modern Numbers and Wet Paint Cuts III

Other: Zing! Silver Metallic Embossing Powder, Silver Glitter Paper (stash) and Foam Tape

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Thank you for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Amethyst Allure + White Basics

Ink: Amethyst Allure, Hibiscus Burst, Blueberry Sky, New Leaf, Bright Buttercup, Americana and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Ruby Reprise, Tag-Its #4, Beautiful Butterflies, Rosie Posie, Peaceful Garden and Painted Petals

Dies: In The Meadow

Other: Ink Splatters w/Paintbrush and Foam Tape

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary - Day 5 (Retirement List Challenge)

On Day 5 of the 11th Anniversary of Papertrey Ink, they announced the Retirement List of Stamps will be all gone after May 15. Today's challenge was to create a project using a stamp set from the Retirement List. Believe it or not, I only have about 12 of those sets, and I chose Beautiful Butterflies to make a birthday card. Thought it would be fun to do some "smooshing" since I haven't done that technique in quite awhile. 

Thank you for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Black, Aqua Mist, Green Parakeet and Amethyst Allure

Ink: Aqua Mist, Green Parakeet, Amethyst Allure and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies, Beautiful Butterflies Layers and What The Doodle: Piece of Cake (sentiment)

Dies: Beautiful Butterflies, Beautiful Butterflies Layers, Mix & Mat: Pretty Brackets and MFT Stitched Rectangles

Other: Glossy Black Nuvo Drops, SU Dimensionals and Acetate (smooshing)

PTI MIM #292: Color Blocking Three Ways

This week it was Laurie's turn to share a technique challenging us for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. Her examples show three different ways to apply color blocking to our projects. 

Why is it that even though I manage to enter these challenges, I never seem to have the right cards on hand for the occasion? Perhaps it's because I can't keep up with all the sympathy cards needed lately.   Sad but true. Therefore, I made two different cards using color blocking.

Card #1 (using card stock)

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Soft Stone, Spring Rain, Enchanted Evening, Comic Strip Patterned Paper Collection and Vellum

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black and Delicata Silvery Shimmer

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies and Jolly Holiday

Dies: Life Is Beautiful

Other: Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss Black and Foam Tape

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Card #2 (using inks on acrylic block & misted)

Thanks for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Amethyst Allure+White Basics and SU Elegant Eggplant

Ink: Bright Buttercup, Amethyst Allure, Royal Velvet and VersaMark

Stamps: Inspired: Prayer

Dies: Inspired: Prayer and Cover Plate: Pretty Frame

Other: White Embossing Powder, White Crochet Thread, Foam Tape, Water Mister, Ink Blending Tool, Silver Pen and Sequins

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Photo Finish

In addition to Product Designer and Design Team Contributor for Papertrey Ink, Heather is also the Traveler's Journal Ambassador. She showed us here on Nichole's blog how to create travel journals similar to a small scrapbook or notebook.  The options are endless, and when I have more time I'm going to try this.

For this challenge, we were to incorporate a photo into a project. Because I rarely print photos any more, I found one in my stamp room just waiting to be used. Besides that, I'm in need of thank you cards. This is it.

Thanks for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Soft Stone and Stamper's Select White

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical and Wet Paint

PTI MIM #231: Motif Building

Yes, it's Sunday night and time for me to attempt another Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge. Betsy showed us here how to build larger motifs from smaller images. She makes everything look so easy. First of all, the only stamp set I found in my stash that would help me build a motif was Lovely Layers. Then I had to search my stash to see what smaller images I could use. After all, this is a challenge, right? Well, here's my card.

My apologies for not commenting yet on other blog posts. Having company sure is fun but changes one's routine. I hope to do better this week. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Summer Sun, Canyon Clay, Scarlet Jewel, Autumn Rose, Simply Chartreuse and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Lovely Layers, Bitty Bouquets and Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: None

Other: None

Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop Challenge

Here is the inspiration photo from Nichole's blog here:

Here's my take on the challenge (and I'm almost out of time).

I just missed the deadline for posting this to the Blog Hop because I thought I had until midnight Eastern time but the cut off was at 11:30 EST. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Clear Vellum

Ink: VersaMark and Delicata Golden Glitz

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies Layers and Keep It Simple: Get Well

Dies: Beautiful Butterflies

Other: Gold Zing! Embossing Powder, Zig Clean Color Real Brushes and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #210: Using Vellum to Soften Patterns

Lizzie showed us here how to use vellum to soften those bright patterns from patterned paper or ones we've stamped ourselves. Heidi Swapp Pink Color Shine was staring me in the face asking to be put to use so I sprayed some Stamper's Select White card stock and let it dry. Using Royal Velvet ink, I randomly stamped two images from Reasons to Smile to be covered by vellum. Here's a closeup view:

My next layer is a Tipped Tops Die cut from vellum and adhered underneath the butterfly from Beautiful Butterflies. For cohesiveness to my theme of smiling, I die cut the word "Smile" from SU Elegant Eggplant using Block Alphabet dies and adhered the vellum behind the letters. Here you can see the card in full view. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Vellum and SU Elegant Eggplant

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Royal Velvet and Heidi Swapp Pink Color Shine

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies and Reasons to Smile

Dies: Block Alphabet, Tipped Tops and Beautiful Butterflies Layers

Other: SU Elegant Eggplant Marker, Glue Dots, Sponge and Foam Tape

PTI MIM #203: Doodling with Stamps

Joyce, this one's for you. (big smiley face) Hope you're not confused all weekend even though we do need to "Spring" ahead for Daylight Savings. It's only Friday afternoon, my card is done, and I'm posting it already. Ashley showed us how to use the doodling process with our stamps for this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday. Sounds easy because who didn't doodle just for fun when chatting on the fun, paying attention in class, or any time we had paper and pen in hand. Well, it wasn't quite that easy…for me anyway. Ashley made it look really easy on her masterpiece. My card was inspired by Mailes birthday trio here. I think I'll make more of these but without my doodling.

My doodling was done using a Fine point Sharpie after stamping the butterflies in Harvest Gold and stamping the layers on the largest butterfly. My MISTI sure came in handy layering that butterfly.  Finishing the card with sentiments from Swoosh, I used my new VersaFine black ink for clean, crisp results. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Harvest Gold and VersaFine Black Onyx

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies, Beautiful Butterflies Layers and Swoosh

Dies: None

Other: MISTI and Fine Point Black Sharpie

Papertrey March Blog Hop Challenge

High gloss is definitely a trend, especially in cardmaking. Here is this month's Blog Hop Challenge for Papertrey Ink, which was to incorporate anything glossy.

For my card, I opted to use white embossing for my sentiment and glossy accents on my "flying" butterflies. This birthday card really shines. Check it out below:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores & Stamper's Select White

Ink: VersaMark, Spring Rain, Harvest Gold, Berry Sorbet, Winter Wisteria, Aqua Mist and Sweet Blush

Stamps: Half and Half and Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Half and Half

Other: White Embossing Powder, Glossy Accents, Hawaiian Shores button,Twinery Twine and 

SU Dimensionals

PTI 7th Anniversary ~ Day 1 (Color & Sketch Challenge)

This challenge was actually announced on the first day of Papertrey Ink's 7th Anniversary, but we have until 7 am EST on February 15 to post our creations. They've kept us so busy with each day's challenge I didn't get to try any of the recipes provided until now.  Our task was to select any one Color Recipe Card and one Sketch Recipe Card from the seven options shown for our project. There's no limit to how many combinations we use or cards we make. Since I have three cards to share and a long post, let's get started. 

Pictured are the Color and Sketch Recipes I used for this fun birthday card.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, SU Regal Rose for Hibiscus Burst, Aqua Mist and SU Real Red for Pure Poppy

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Mat Stack #2 and Edgers #3

Other: SU Melon Mambo Embossing Powder, SU Dimensionals, Twinery Twine and SU Clear Rhinestones

My second card is a sympathy card, which I hope I don't have to use anytime soon but prefer having at least one ready and available when needed. 

Edited to Add: Also entering this in Simon Says Get Krafty Challenge for today. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: SU Always Artichoke for Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse for New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist, Classic Kraft and Vintage Cream

Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse (full & stamped off) and SU Soft Sky

Stamps: Mum's The Word and Boutique Borders: Sympathy

Dies: None

Other: Corner Chomper, Twinery Twine and SU Dimensionals

My third and final card for today is a special birthday card for my husband's aunt, when she turns 90 later this month. It's hard to see in the photo but the patterned paper has tiny, pink hearts so I felt the punched hearts and rhinestones finished it off nicely. Here are the recipes I used:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Harvest Gold for Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz and Bravo Burgundy for Scarlet Jewel

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Big Birthday Wishes

Dies: By The Numbers and Nesties Scallop Circles

Other: Heart Punch (really old), Pink Heart Rhinestones (Studio G) and SU Dimensionals

PTI Make It Monday #128: Stamping Random Background Patterns

No surprises here! It's Sunday night once again, and I'm squeezing this entry into Papertrey Ink's MIM before the deadline early tomorrow morning. Ashley Newell showed us how to use any color combination and individual stamps to randomly stamp creating our own background. Well, I did just that but kept mine to one layer ~ clean and simple, easy peasy!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Rustic White

Ink: Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, SU Pumpkin Pie, SU Baroque Burgundy & SU Chocolate Chip

Stamps: Think Big Favorites #6 & Beautiful Butterflies

Other: SU Chocolate Chip Marker & sequins

PTI Make It Monday #121: Colored Vellum Flowers

Believe it or not, it's only Saturday night and here I am posting my card for this week's Make It Monday. Betsy Veldman did a tutorial sharing all her tricks for making lovely colored vellum flowers. Even though I have plenty of floral stamps, my flower dies are limited so I leaned on my Beautiful Blooms II #1 dies. Would love to try this technique again when I can heat emboss with the proper floral die.

The larger size bloom was sponged with Hawaiian Shores ink and lined using a SU Certainly Celery Maker. The smaller bloom was sponged with Harvest Gold and lined using a SU Blender Pen and Hawaiian Shores ink. It's hard to see here but I also used a Q-Tip to edge the smaller bloom. The layers were adhered with Zots, and I doubled them up to give the flower even more dimension. For the center of the flower, I finished it off with a sequin that coordinates with Hawaiian Shores. My BIL's sister will be having open heart surgery soon so I hope "our prayers" will lift her spirits. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Harvest Gold

Ink: Hawaiian Shores and Harvest Gold

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Beautiful Blooms II #1 and Filigree Border

Other: Rhinestone, Sponge Daubers, SU Certainly Celery Marker, Q-Tip, Blender Pen and Zots

PTI Make It Monday #118: Photo Postcards (Take #2)

Since I had so much fun with the first one, I decided to try another photo postcard for PTI's Make It Monday creating custom photocards by stamping on photo paper. Perhaps it's because I used Epson Glossy Photo Paper, but my Staz-On Black ink would not adhere to the photo paper. My second attempt worked using Memento Tuxedo Black for my sentiments on both postcards, but I had to very carefully pull my stamp press from the photo with hopes of not destroying it. Once again I was reminded that patience is a virtue. And since I love rainbows, I couldn't resist using the photo below with the ideal sentiment, "Like A Rainbow You Color My World." Hope you agree!

Supplies:

Cardstock: White

Ink: PTI Hawaiian Shores & Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies & PTI Mat Stack #1 Collection

Other: Photo (Epson Glossy Photo Paper)

Birthday Boutique & Butterflies

This birthday card was created based on PTI's Make It Monday #108: Inked Backgrounds shown by  Heather Nichols on Nichole Heady's blog. My card base is PTI's Simply Chartreuse. After stamping two sizes of butterflies from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies stamp set using VersaMark, I heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. Using a sponge dauber, I applied several inks in a circular motion until I got the look I wanted. Then I wiped the ink of the embossed butterflies. This was applied to my card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

My sentiment from Boutique Borders: Birthday was stamped using Memento black ink on vellum cardstock creating a flag banner. To finish it off, I added the black/white twine and tied a bow.

Also entering this in Simon Says Challenge: Easter/Spring

Supplies (all PTI unless noted): 
Stamp Sets: Beautiful Butterflies & Boutique Borders: Birthday
Cardstock: Simply Chartreuse and White 
Ink: VersaMark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse, SU Pumpkin Pie, SU Blissful Blue
Other: Black/white twine, SU dimensionals & green Studio gems