PTI's Laurie's Fabulous Favorites (Favorite Coloring Technique)

I've been visiting family for Easter this week in Northern MN so squeezing this in before the deadline looms early tomorrow morning. My card is an entry for Laurie's Fabulous Favorites for Papertrey Ink. You can also see more details of her beautiful card on her blog post here. Laurie challenged us to try our hand at our favorite coloring technique. 

There are so many different options these days, but I went with ink blending on card stock and the underside of vellum for this sympathy card. Without further ado (so I can get to bed after being up 20 hours), here's my card.

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White,True Black and Vellum

Ink: Distress Oxide Inks and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Keep It Simple: Sympathy

Dies: Life Is Beautiful and MFT Scalloped Frame

Other: Ink Blending Tool, Nuvo Crystal Drops and Perfect Plaid Stencil

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 

PTI MIM #349: Negative Die Cut Backgrounds

Once again it's time to try this week's Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. Ashley showed us how she created a background using negative die cuts. I was at a loss for which dies to use because I don't own any that she recommended. After skimming through the thumbnails, I see a variety of ways stampers interpreted this challenge. This is what I created to encourage an acquaintance while she endures a year of chemo treatments for her breast cancer (second time around). 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Soft Stone, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores and Berry Sorbet

Ink: Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal and Berry Sorbet

Stamps: Graceful Greetings and Confetti Toss

Dies: Floral Flaps

Other: Wink of Stella, Ink Blending Tool and SU Dimensionals 

PTI Transformation Tuesday with Lizzie Jones

What better way to transform an older card with newer products by entering Papertrey Ink's Transformation Tuesday Challenge. Because I'm in need of a sympathy card and it’s the Fall season, I decided to use leaves instead of butterflies. Mission accomplished. 

Original Card

New Card

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Kraft and Vintage Cream

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Ocean Tides, Terracotta Tile and Hero Art’s Ombré Autumn

Stamps: Leaf Prints and Keep It Simple: Sympathy

Dies: Leaf Prints, Tag Sale #9 and Noted: Scalloped A2

Other: Ink Blending Tool, Paintbrush, Nuvo Crystal Drops Morning Dew and Foam Tape

PTI MIM #321: Ink Blending on Colored Card Stock

Yes, I know it's only Friday night, and I'm posting my card already for this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday hosted by Melissa Phillips. Her samples and details for the challenge can be seen here. She definitely has the finesse for lots of layers and her seam binding bows are always beautiful. Mine is very simple as I'm supposed to be packing for our trip to visit my family. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Autumn Rose and Bright Buttercup

Ink: VersaMark, Autumn Rose and Bright Buttercup

Stamps: A Bit More Butterfly Blooms

Dies: Mix & Mat: Postal and MFT Stitched Rectangles

Other: Ink Blending Tools, Dauber and Sequins

Greetings from Seattle

Altenew is hosting a very different blog hop with prizes for commenting as well as creating for any of  the 18 challenges included.

Here is an ink blended card using Altenew's Sketchy Cities America 2. First I stamped the Seattle Skyline using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The blue sky was blended with an ink blending tool. Using sponge daubers, a silver Bic marker and a Gelly Roll glitter pen, I colored in the landmarks and buildings. The road below the cityscape is a strip of black glitter paper. To finish the card, I inked the sentiment in VersaMark on black card stock and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

You Make My World Go 'Round

Details of Altenew's Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop can be found here. There is so much inspiration, a fun blog hop and great prizes up for grabs. I was definitely inspired to create. Virginia's View Challenge was all about Spray, Mist and Splatter.

Using my Altenew Sketchy Cities America 2 stamp set, I created an emboss resist card. The card base is white, next layer is PTI Hibiscus Burst, and the top white layer was die cut with MFT's Stitched Rectangles. The Seattle Cityscape was inked with VersaMark and heat embossed in white. I then blended some Distress inks (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry) before stamping my sentiment in VersaFine Onyx Black. I splattered some water drops and added black rhinestones to finish the card.

Create Along With Us: June 2016

While the fabulous DT for Papertrey Ink showcases this month's new products, we get to play along using their projects as inspiration with links here on Nichole's blog. They come up with so many awesome creations that it's challenging to narrow down which ones to use. This is a great opportunity to challenge myself outside of my comfort zone and attempt something different. I've created two cards (but only one entry) as I was on a roll yesterday and actually finished five cards. This first card is a bit of a mix from Lizzie's Woodblock Prints (3rd one) beautiful rainbow card on the left and a spin off of Kay's Woodblock Prints (1st one) on the rightwith the bolder colors and white, layered die-cuts.


                                          


Rarely do I take on the task of creating a background that needs to be more precise than random flowers and/or leaves, but this was a fun challenge for me. Thanks to my MISTI and Lovely Layers stamp set I was able to line it up pretty well. Even though I didn't use the exact same colors as Kay's lovely card above, I only substituted Royal Velvet for Simply Chartreuse as I thought it would be too much green for my design. If you look closely or enlarge this image, you can see I stamped "Big Hugs" in Royal Velvet beneath my three-layered, white "sending" die cut. Coordinating colored sequins finished it off after adhering it to a Summer Sunrise card base and rounding the two bottom corners.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Summer Sunrise

Ink: Oranze Zest, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, Tropical Teal, Royal Velvet and Raspberry Fizz

Stamps: Wet Paint Cuts III

Dies: Wet Paint Cuts III

Other: Corner Rounder, Sequins and SU Dimensionals

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Here's my inspiration from Danielle's blog (also her 3rd card):

Thought it would be fun to try stenciling using two different colors separating a design. Since my stencil supply is limited to Modern Backgrounds and Color Pops Florals, I decided to create an oval mask for the center. The inks I blended are Mint Julep and Ocean Tides. I really like the combination but when it came time to choose the mat color, the Mint Julep ink coordinated better with Simply Chartreuse card stock. It really was a long shot against the Mint Julep card stock, at least in my opinion. Here's my take:

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Simply Chartreuse

Ink: Mint Julep, Ocean Tides and Pinefeather

Stamps: Graceful Greetings

Dies: None

Other: Modern Background Stencils, Oval Mask, Ink Blending Tool and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #250: Masked Backgrounds

Laurie showed us in a video how to mask a background for this week's Make It Monday Challenge at Papertrey Ink. I've done this before but often forget about all the different techniques out there to incorporate in card making. These are always great reminders even if I don't learn something new. Although, usually I learn at least some tips to accomplish the task easier. Here's my creation.

It's pretty easy to see here that after masking my Stamper's Select White card stock I used Winter Wisteria and Royal Velvet for ink blending. Peaceful Garden was stamped twice in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed using Clear Embossing Powder. Stamped my sentiment also in black and popped up the masked image using Foam Tape. Done.


I'm also entering this here for Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Winter Wisteria, Royal Velvet and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Peaceful Garden and Boutique Borders: Sympathy

Dies: None

Other: Ink Blending Tools, Clear Embossing Powder and Foam Tape