PTI's Laurie's Fabulous Favorites Week 7 (Color Combination)

This week Laurie challenged us to use our favorite color combination on a project for her Fabulous Favorites Challenge at Papertrey Ink. You can see her beautiful card here using Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Harvest Gold and Enchanted Evening. Can't wait to try that combo myself!

She has also inspired me to create a swatch ring of PTI card stocks to select new color combinations. Hopefully I'll get that accomplished this week. For now, here's my sympathy card for my cousin and his wife who just lost her mother. I wanted it bright and cheerful because that was her mother's personality. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Soft Stone

Ink: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Lovely Lady, Raspberry Fizz, Scarlet Jewel, Soft Stone and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Stitching Garden and Penned Elegance

Dies: Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical and Stitching Garden

Other: Stencil Basics: Diamonds, Black Nuvo Drops and Gelly Roll Glitter Pen

PTI Create Along With Us Challenge: August 2018

This challenge allows us to select something the PTI Design Team created during the August Release that inspired us and create our own version. Once again there were so many gorgeous Fall projects it was hard to choose. Loved the beautiful layers and design used by Kelly Lunceford on Day 4 of this month's release. Isn't this beautiful? 

Because I don't own any of the new products, I improvised with what I do have and varied the colors somewhat on my card below. It's still a birthday card and a masculine one at that. Thanks, Kelly, for inspiring me!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Dark Chocolate, Terracotta Tile, Clear Vellum and 2008 Bitty Star Basics

Ink: Dark Chocolate, Terracotta Tile, Bright Buttercup and VersaMark

Stamps: Sentiment Staples: Birthday

Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangles, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical, Scene It: Celebration, Scene It: Basic Backer and Tag Sale: Quilted

Other: Water Brush, Copper Embossing Powder, Fun Foam, Jute & Glue Dot

PTI MIM #332: Petite Pattern Play

I swear each week goes by faster and faster and the temperatures get hotter and hotter. We finally have a bit of a cool down here in Western Washington, and we're heading to Yakima for a wedding today. Praying it's not too hot over there. 

Anyway, I'm rushing again to get this card posted for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday before we leave. Michelle Leone challenged us to experiment with some smaller images to create a pattern. Another way to get more bang for our buck from stamp sets in our collection. Needing an anniversary card, which I seldom make, this technique seemed to work OK for what I wanted. 

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 Autumn Rose

Ink: Autumn Rose and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Trendy Tree Tops, Wet Paint and Harvest Berries

Dies: Limitless Layers 2-1/4" Hearts, Tipped Tops and Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Other: Clear Embossing Powder, WOS and Twinery Twine

PTI MIM #328: Creating Shadow Backgrounds

This week it's Laurie Schmidlin's turn to host Make It Monday for Papertrey Ink. Details can be found here. She told us "it's a super easy technique" that she loves. Well, I didn't have a lot of time to ponder what stamps to use as I'm leaving town tomorrow for a week and didn't want to miss out on participating. Let's just say I'm not thrilled with my first one but do like the second one better. Why is it all the stamps I own never seem to fit the challenges presented? Anyone else feel that way? On with my cards. (I'm packed and ready to go so thought I'd try a totally different version of a "shadow" background using Americana ink for my third card.)

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Soft Stone

Ink: Soft Stone, Tropical Teal and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: What The Doodle: Feathers and Floral Sketches

Dies: What The Doodle: Feathers

Other: Black Watercolor (splatters), Black Sequins and Foam Tape

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Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Lovely Lady, Autumn Rose, Scarlet Jewel, New Leaf and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Sentiment Staples: Birthday, Ways to Say: Birthday, Rosie Posie, Rosie Posie Step 2 and Gran's Garden

Dies: Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical, Rosie Posie and Gran's Garden

Other: Ink Blending Tool, Stencil Basics: Dots and White Foam

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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

Ink: Americana, Orange Zest, Scarlet Jewel and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Painted Petals and Penned Elegance

Dies: Painted Petals

Other: SU Dimensionals and Gelly Roll Glitter Pen

PTI MIM #325: Flowers in Reverse

This week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday details hosted by Dawn can be found here. She shared a different twist to creating flowers by keeping them more neutral and adding color to the leaves and other card layers. Can’t wait till I have more time to check out my floral dies and try this technique again. TFS, Dawn!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, True Black, Berry Sorbet and Green Parakeet+White Basics

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Painted Petals, Beautiful Blooms II Dies #1, Button Stacks, Fancy Foliage Details, Swoosh, Mix & Mat: Postal and Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Other: Twinery Twine, Nuvo Crystal Drops and Zig Clean Color Real Brush Lt. Carmine

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary - Day 1 (Sketch Challenge)

The month we've all been waiting to help Papertrey Ink celebrate their 11th Anniversary. Where has the time gone? It's always exciting to see what's new and participate in the variety of challenges and contests for 10 days in February. 

Our first challenge was to choose one of the great sketches provided to create a project. The sketch I chose belongs to Dawn, who we've been praying for (and still are) before and after her small intestine transplant in DC. 

This is the year of milestone birthdays for friends and family members. My dear hubby's family has lots of longevity in his family. One of his Mom's two sisters still living will be 100 on February 28, and she got her driver's license renewed last year for five more years.  (Yes, she still drives, just not on freeways anymore). She certainly deserves a special card!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

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

Ink: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Berry Sorbet, Scarlet Jewel, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Gran's Gardens and Ways to Say Birthday

Dies: Gran's Gardens, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical, Tage Sale: Quilted and Modern Numbers

Other: Garden Gate Stencil, Clear Embossing Powder 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 #284: Background Stamping with Sentiment Stamps

Sure is a good thing that Papertrey Ink has a weekly Make It Monday Challenge with the chance to win a $25 gift certificate. This certainly motivates me to get in my stamp room to create at least one card that I need in the near future. Today I followed Melissa's video sharing how she uses sentiment stamps to create a background and then appropriately embellishes the card. It's that time of year to make graduation cards, and I always design them specifically for the graduate using their school colors. Here's what I created today for a cousin's granddaughter. 

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

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Spring Rain and Enchanted Evening

Ink: Spring Rain and Enchanted Evening

Stamps: Birthday Cheer, Celebrations and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (EE stars)

Dies: Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical, For The Graduate and Modern Numbers

Other: Sizzix Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, SU Silver Embossing Powder & VersaMark Pen, Silver Glitter Paper (Joann's), Star Punch (stash) and Foam Tape

Papertrey April Blog Hop Challenge 2017

Can you believe it's already the 25th of April, which means we're almost one-third of the way through 2017? It's time once again for another Blog Hop Challenge at Papertrey Ink using the image below. You can read all the details here. 

print designed by the talented Megan Carter

Rather than use flowers like I usually do, I opted to layer Life Is Beautiful butterfly dies colored using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and SU Going Gray

Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade and Delicata Silvery Shimmer

Stamps: Big Birthday Wishes and Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals

Dies: Life Is Beautiful, Wonderful Words: Birthday and Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Other: Ink Blending Tool, Zigs, WOS Shimmer, Waterbrush and Rhinestones

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 10th Anniversary Challenge: Packaging Inspiration

Rebecca started off Papertrey Ink's 10th Anniversary festivities with her beautiful gift wrapping and packaging ideas. Her blog post was very interesting about her family history and fulfilling her dream of being a Packaging Ambassador for PTI. You can see her work monthly on the 6th but to get the challenge details go to Nichole's blog, which is to create a new packaging project. 

Because I didn't have any gifts to wrap, I opted to create a Pocket Card. It turned out better than I expected, and I even used some more new Pre-Anniversary Sale paper. The hoarding is over!

You can see the decorated pocket insert below just waiting for a personalized message. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Hibiscus Burst and Hawaiian Shores

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Keep It Simple: Birthday

Dies: Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical and Limitless Layers: 2-1/4" Ovals

Other: White Embossing Powder, Hooray Patterned Papers, White Crochet Thread, AC White Glitter Tape and 1/4"-Scor Tape

PTI MIM #274: Pattern Play with Die Cut Silhouettes

Have been trying to cope with this horrible sinus infection rather than playing with paper, stamps and dies. Just couldn't pass up this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday though because it's all about using some of my hoarded patterned paper. I actually used five different designs. And besides that, I have some "new to me" PTI pads due to ship any day now hopefully.

Lexi shared some great examples of mixing patterns on her blog and in the video here. My brain just wasn't working properly so with hopes of making it easier on myself I went with balloons, too. 

Note to self: Never use foam and Sizzix adhesive sheets on the "Celebrate Today" die. It took me forever, was all tangled up, stuck together, foam stretched and so on…but I went with it anyway. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Vintage Cream and Kraft

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Birthday Style, Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals and Noted: A2 Scalloped Verticals

Other: Stampin' Up Retired Patterned Paper, White Foam and Twine

Papertrey January Blog Hop Challenge 2017

Did that inspiration photo for this month's Blog Hop Challenge at Papertrey have you drooling for beautifully frosted sugar cookies? The colors sure pop on the black background.

photograph from Julie Baerwald

I was so inspired by the cookies I made two cards: the first totally from scratch, and the second using a mini kit. Sounds just like I was baking, doesn't it?

Thought my new Fancy Foliage Details Dies (NBUS as Darnell would say) might work beautifully with Rosie Posie. If you enlarge the photo, you can see how I highlighted Step 2 of Rosie Posie using my Gelly Roll Glitter Pen.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Basic Black, Raspberry Fizz and New Leaf

Ink: Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz and Pure Poppy

Stamps: Rosie Posie and Rosie Posie Step 2

Dies: Rosie Posie, Fancy Foliage Details, Swoosh, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical and MFT Stitched Rectangles

Other: White Foam, Stampin' Up Dimensionals and Gelly Roll Glitter Pen

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This is the first time I used the dies from this fabulous kit with the preprinted florals. Lining them up was easy (thanks, Betsy), but it was still more time consuming than anticipated. Definitely worth the effort though...at least in my opinion. What to you think?

Some of the die-cuts were popped up for added dimension and highlighted with glossy accents to look more like icing. Popped up the "love" sentiment on white foam, adhered to a white card base and called it finished. Off hopping to see what others created for the challenge!

Also entering the first card in Darnell's NBUS Challenge #9, Word Art Wednesday and SSS Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes. 

Thanks for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate your comments. ❤️

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals and Wet Paint

Other: Stampin' Up Dimensionals, White Foam and Glossy Accents

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