PTI MIM #275: Stamped Dangles

Amy introduced us to "dangles" in the card-making environment. She made it look so easy here on Nichole's blog for this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday. Let me just say, I scoured my stamp sets trying to find jewlery-like embellishments just so I could play along. One more challenge to cross of my list. I'm needing to rebuild my stash of birthday cards, anniversary, sympathy and get-well wishes. Bring on this month's challenges for Papertrey Ink's 10 years in business.

Here's my version of stamped dangles:

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Kraft and Dark Chocolate

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, Canyon Clay, VersaFine Oynx Black, Hibiscus Burst, Green Parakeet, Blueberry Sky, Berry Sorbet, Bright Buttercup and Tropical Teal

Stamps: In The Meadow, Beautiful Blooms II, Birthday Cheer, MIM Mini Kit: Wee Folk and Birthday Style

Dies: Pretty Peonies, Celebrate Big, Edger #3 and Heart Border

Other: Black Sharpie, Foam Tape, Ink Blending Tool and WOS

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

Nichole has challenged us to use the image below as inspiration for this month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

photo source: Art in Parsi

I was eager to try this because I received my box of new goodies Saturday, including the August release "Brushed Off" stamp set. Here's my interpretation even though I varied the colors somewhat.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Kraft, Stamper's Select White, Dark Chocolate and DCWV Basics Stack

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Canyon Clay, Harvest Gold, Blueberry Sky and VersaMark

Stamps: Brushed Off and Scribbled Sentiments

Dies: Swoosh and Heart Border

Other: SU Dimensionals and Dark Chocolate Satin Sequins (Neat & Tangled)

PTI MIM #204: Watercolor Smooshing

Let's get this straight right from the start. Betsy showed us her secret way of "smooshing" watercolors…not "smooching" like some people thought and/or typed because of auto-correct. Everyone needs laughter in their life, and that was achieved. The last Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge was to use ink and water to create gorgeous backgrounds using the "smooshing" technique. It's fun and only a little messy ~ at least for stampers like me who don't like to get inky fingers. Here's my "smooshed" birthday card. It's a win-win because it's also masculine ~ yay!

It's pretty self-explanatory, but here's a few details. I "smooshed" my Spring Rain and Ocean Tides background on watercolor paper. After it dried, I stamped the trees and adhered the red birds using Glue Dots. Die-cut the heart border out of Pure Poppy and layered Ocean Tides to ground the trees and place my sentiment. The Birthday Swoosh was easily adhered by using my Xyron. And that's it!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Kraft, Ocean Tides, Spring Rain and Pure Poppy

Ink: Ocean Tides, Spring Rain and Versafine Onyx Black

Stamps: Swoosh and Through The Trees

Dies: Swoosh, In The Meadow and Heart Border

Other: Watercolor Paper, Acetate, Glue Dots, Xyron and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #196: Colorful Card Corners

Thanks, Danielle, for motivating me and showing us here how to dress up our corners for this week's Make It Monday challenge for Papertrey Ink. Because I kept thinking I had lots of time to make Christmas cards, you might say I procrastinated a tad bit and was really pushing right up to the last minute. Let's just say I got my 80 cards mailed so most people received them before Christmas. It really took the fun out of it so found it difficult to get back in that stamping room and create. Besides that, it needs a major purging and reorganizing. However, I needed a sympathy card for tomorrow when I'm meeting a dear friend for lunch who lost her traveling companion over the holidays. Without further ado, here's my creation.

I think this is a first for me using so many different stamp sets and ink colors on one card. Actually found it to be kind of fun. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Sweet Blush, Stamper's Select White, Berry Sorbet and Black (stash)

Ink: New Leaf, Winter Wiseria, Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist and Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Ruby Reprise, Natural Beauties, Crackled Mini and Boutique Borders: Sympathy

Dies: Heart Border

Other: Black Enamel Dots (stash)

PTI MIM #150: Window Screen Cards

Life just doesn't go the way we plan sometimes, and this week was one of those. Couldn't seem to squeeze in any block of time in my stamping room until last night and right now. Have to hurry and post this though as we're off to a Super Bowl Party ~ Go SEAHAWKS!

Melissa showed us how to create window screen cards using a cover plate here. Since my only cover plate is PTI's hexagon, I had to go with that. Here it is:

My Kraft card base was stamped using Turning A New Leaf and Kraft ink. Then I stacked two Simply Chartreuse Fabulous Frames together with the hexagon cover plate from Vintage Cream and acetate before adding mounting tape to raise it up. Finished it off with a heart from the heart border and rhinestone.

Edited to Add: Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks ~ 2014 Super Bowl Champions!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Kraft and Simply Chartreuse

Ink: Kraft and SU Chocolate Chip

Stamps: Birthday Style and Turning A New Leaf

Dies: Fabulous Frames, Heart Border and Hexagon Cover Plate

Other: Green rhinestone, acetate & mounting tape (stash)

PTI MIM #149: Glitter Embellishments

Heather and her glitter really inspired me to make a card for PTI's Make It Monday even though I hate the clean up afterwards. Sheepishly, I must admit I do love the rich impact glitter provides. Thanks, Heather, for sharing your tip of running die cuts through a Xyron twice so adhesive is on both sides. That worked pretty slick.

Since I don't yet have the die for Boutique Borders: Valentine, I stamped the border on Vintage Cream card stock using VersaMark and SU Cherry Cobbler ink before clear embossing it. My sentiment was also done this way using VersaMark and Kraft ink. My clear embossing powder must be too old because I didn't get the results I expected. Using a Vintage Cream card base, I added a layer of Kraft, SU Bravo Burgundy before adhering my focal image. To finish it off, I pressed pink glitter on my heart border the width of the card base for my glitter embellishment. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Kraft and SU Bravo Burgundy

Ink: Kraft, VersaMark and SU Cherry Cobbler

Stamps: Boutique Borders: Valentine

Dies: Heart Border

Other: Xyron adhesive, clear embossing powder (Joann's) & pink glitter (Joann's) 

PTI MIM #138: Inlaid Die-Cuts (Take 3) Happy Birthday & SSS: Anything Goes

Here's one more attempt at Betsy's inlaid die-cuts technique as demonstrated in a video on Nichole Heady's blog for PTI's Make It Monday challenge. This birthday card was done without using any stamps ~ just die-cuts. And let me just add, that it was very time-consuming finding and adhering those little tiny pieces that matched the background patterned paper. It's my own fault though because I dumped them in my trash because I forgot I needed to keep them. Don't think I'll make that mistake again. Both "Happy" and "Birthday" are inlaid dies in case it's not easy to see in the photo.

I'm also entering this birthday card in the Simon Says Monday Challenge: Anything Goes. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Harvest Gold, White & SU retired DSP

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Pretty Peonies, Wonderful Words: Birthday & Heart Border

Other: Hawaiian Shores button, Twinery Twine & rhinestones