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 9th Anniversary Day 8: Color Pop Fortune Teller

Day 8 during Papertrey Ink's 9th Anniversary brings us to another fun challenge on Nichole's blog. Our instructions were to print out the Color Pop Fortune Teller square, fold it according to her detailed instructions and create a project using at least three colors selected using this tool. Before flipping back and forth, we were to pick a number between 2-5 and our birth month (April) for our color scheme. My numbers were 4 and 4, and the "flipped" colors were Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf and Ripe Avocado.

I tried something new to me, and not sure I'd do it again. It was it bit more work than I had bargained for making sure not to overlap color or go outside my margin. First, I die cut the butterfly three times on a 4x5.25" piece of white card stock, that would eventually be placed over my white card base. My ink blending tools using Raspberry Fizz and New Leaf ink pads went to work on the card base. Then I stamped Ripe Avocado butterfly highlights, a few dots using a Gelly Roll Glitter Pen, and my sentiment stamped also in Ripe Avocado. The top piece was then adhered to the card base. Another challenge met as I'm pushing myself to finish two more.

Here's my card:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf and Ripe Avocado

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies Layers and Boutique Borders: Thanks

Dies: Beautiful Butterflies Layers

Other: Ink Blending Tool and Gelly Roll Glitter Pen

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 #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