PTI Laurie's Fabulous Favorites Week 3

This week for Win It Wednesday at Papertrey Ink Laurie shows us how to create using only dies for Laurie's Fabulous Favorites. Finally made it back into my stamping room to create another birthday card featuring die cuts. It’s so windy here today I hope I get this posted before we lose power. Looking forward to Spring like everyone else and hoping this brightens your day just a little bit!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Bright Buttercup and Black

Ink: Pale Peony, Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, Bright Buttercup, Orange Zest and Green Parakeet

Stamps: Tulip Time

Dies: Tulip Time and Graceful Greetings

Other: Stencil Basics: Dots, Ink Blending Tool, Nuvo Drops and SU Dimensionals 

Stamp-A-Faire 2018

This year's Stamp-A-Faire, "Crafting A Community Garden," was obviously all about flowers. It's been a very busy August for us so I didn't get a chance to participate as much as in previous years. However, I was ready because I cleaned up and rearranged my stamp room just in case time allowed me to create. It rarely stays this way long so thought I better capture it now as my "Welcome" photo. 

Even though I had difficulty seeing Dawn's entire process on the Live video, I wanted to tackle her "Planting A Garden" Challenge. She was all about adding color (8 to be exact) and texture (stenciling, stamping and die cutting) to layers of flowers to simulate a garden. Gran's Garden to the rescue! If I would have had the SAF Kit, I would have just duplicated Dawn's card because it's very striking. Instead, I created my own version. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Tropical Teal

Ink: Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Terracotta Tile, Americana, Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal and Dark Chocolate
Stamps: Gran's Garden, Spruce & Sprigs and Stitching Garden

Dies: Gran's Gardens, Stitching Garden and Graceful Greetings

Other: SU Dimensionals

Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop Challenge & PTI MIM #330: Repeating The Greeting

Here we are already on the 25th of the month so it's time for another Blog Hop Challenge at Papertrey Ink. This is this month's inspiration photo. Because I don't own any Salt Air stamps or dies, I chose to go with the color palette shown in this image. 

{source: Poppy & Red on Behance}

Thought I'd try something different so I embossed Happy Birthday from Graceful Greetings several times, ink blending them in Blueberry Sky with the exception of one. To highlight one of the repeated sentiments, I opted to layer die-cuts in Pure Poppy to make it stand out. Randomly stamped a few stars in Blueberry Sky and Pure Poppy, adhered a strip of Blueberry Sky to the left side and finished the card. Planning to send this to my BIL, whose birthday is later this month. 

This is a two-for-one card as I'm also entering this in Papertrey's Make It Monday #330, where Lizzie Jones challenged us to repeat sentiments on our card. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Blueberry Sky

Ink: Blueberry Sky and Pure Poppy

Stamps: Birthday Cheer

Dies: Graceful Greetings

Other: Ink Blending Tool and Spray Adhesive

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PTI Transformation Tuesday

For the first time, I’m participating in Papertrey Ink's Transformation Tuesday with Lexi. The card I chose to redo was one inspired by Lexi. About the only similarities are a star from Star Prints and a birthday sentiment. I’ve been dying to use this color combination, and will definitely use it again. First, I’ll share my original and then my remake. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Enchanted Evening, Green Parakeet+White Basics and a green Parakeet

Ink: Green Parakeet, Enchanted Evening and VersaMark

Stamps: Graceful Greetings and Star Prints

Dies: Mix & Mat: Postal and Graceful Greetings

Other: Clear Embossing Powder, Ink Blending Tool and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #308: 2017 A La Carte

Happy New Year! This is my first post and first card of 2018. 

Where did 2017 go anyway? Here we are with this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday Challenge, which is to select one of the many Make It Monday Challenges from last year. I'm pretty sure I participated in each one except the last one in December with Laurie Schmidlin. Look at her "Sending Huge Hugs" with a Faux Stained Glass beauty of colorful hearts. 

Because I'm having difficulties getting back into cardmaking after my last-minute, mass production of Christmas cards, I kept it simple. Took me hours to complete this one as it is. I never admitted to being a fast stamper. (LOL) Lots of upcoming birthdays so I thought it wise to choose the sentiment from Graceful Greetings. It doesn't really look like stained glass in this picture but IRL it does. Thanks, Laurie, for the "how to color" in circular motion tips for better results!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Clear Vellum and New Leaf

Ink: Zig Clean Color Real Brushes in Pink and Light Green

Stamps: None

Dies: Hexagon Cover Plate and Graceful Greetings

Other: Fun Foam, Double-Sided Adhesive Sheet, Gold Sequins, Gold DMC, Glitter Gelly Roll Pen, Tombow Mono Glue and Foam Tape

PTI MIM #286: Coordinating Card Pairs

Having been on vacation a week ago, I missed out on last week's challenge so I was eager to play today. Stephanie showed how she created two coordinating cards from one stamp set for this week's Make It Monday here on Nichole's blog. I cheated a little bit by using two sets because the sentiments in one just did not work for my coordinating designs. However, I used the same color scheme with mums and leaves on both. Here's what I created.


Coordinating Pair

One-Layer Thinking of You

Popped up the middle mum and leaves while the rest of the die-cuts are flat.

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, True Black and New Leaf

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Amethyst Allure, Bright Buttercup, New Leaf and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Mums The Word and Graceful Greetings

Dies: Mums The Word, Graceful Greetings, Fancy Foliage and Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Other: SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #280: Stamping Outside of the Box

Today has been a windy one here in Western Washington. Great excuse to make my way to my stamping room at least so I could enter this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday Challenge. Check out the details and video here by Lexi. She shares several great examples on her blog so let's get right to it before we lose our power. My "box" was made using Modern Background Stencils and Enchanted Evening ink. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Enchanted Evening and SU Old Olive

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, Bright Buttercup, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Enchanted Evening and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Swan'sational and Some Like It Hot

Dies: Swan'sational, Some Like It Hot and Graceful Greetings

Other: Modern Background Stencils, SU Going Gray Marker and SU Dimensionals

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Multiply

This is Day 2 of Papertrey Ink's March Release in conjunction with their 10th Anniversary. Nichole challenged us to create a project using multiple shapes, stamps or die cuts. Seems like I'm always in need of thank you cards. What a fun way to show appreciation with Zigs, smooshing and stars!

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

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Sketched Stars and Graceful Greetings

Other: Zig Clean Color Real Brushes (Persian Green, Violet & English Lavender), Water Mister, WOS Shimmer Brush and Silver Glitter Paper

SAF 2016: Floral Impressionism With Melissa

Melissa Phillips is a natural for Impressionistic Florals. Her video was so intriguing I watched it several times. This challenge for Papertrey Ink's Stamp-A-Faire 2016 was difficult for me because I don't own Floral Sketches or any stamp set that works well with these techniques. However, I gave it my best shot and will try again once I own Floral Sketches.

Here's my card:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Color Pop: Florals Watercolor Paper

Ink: Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Berry Sorbet, Autumn Rose, Harvest Gold and New Leaf

Stamps: Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals and Graceful Greetings

Dies: Graceful Greetings

Other: Foam Tape, White Embossing Powder and Waterbrush