PTI Laurie's Fabulous Favorites Week 4

Win It Wednesday this week has Laurie challenging us to use our favorite Papertrey accessory. She created a fun and colorful birthday card using a coordinating button on each balloon. You can see her card here with all the details for participating. 

For my card, I combined ideas from Michelle's card for this week's IG Challenge as well as Laurie's Fabulous Favorites. Here's my birthday card. 

Edited to Add: Also entering Hero Arts National Craft Month Challenge with a Birthday card!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Weathervane and Green Parakeet 

Ink: Green Parakeet and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Scene It: Celebration, Shape Shifters: Oval 3, Painted Petals and MFT Stitched Rectangles

Other: Berry Sorbet Button, Baker's Twine, Ink Blending Tool and Foam Tape

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

SAF 2016: Gilded in Gold With Danielle

Have you ever heard of Liquid Gold by Plaid? Well, now you have. I had to go to two different craft stores to find it in stock so I guess it's a pretty hot product right now. Of course, it is as Danielle Flanders is right on trend. Our third challenge for Papertrey Ink's 2016 Stamp-A-Faire encouraged us to use liquid gold leafing on a project. Warning: it has a strong smell and cannot be cleaned up with just water! Ask me how I know. : ) The results are just stunning though. Here's my card:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, True Black, Black and White All Over

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Scene It: Celebration

Other: Nestabilities Scallops and Circles, Coaster Board, Foam Tape, Liquid Gold (from my stash)

PTI Create Along With Us Challenge: July 2016

When PTI's release week coincides with Make It Monday, we get to choose a designer's project that inspires us. Details for the challenge can be found on Nichole's blog. There are always so many fabulous creations it's challenging to decide which one I want to recreate. This month my inspiration is this one by Betsy Veldman. Not only do I like the layout, but the bold colors speak to me.

Of course, Betsy used newly-released products, which I don't have, but I came up with dies and stamps that I thought would work improvising. Without further ado, here's my version. 

Ink blended a "happy" die-cut from Pretty Peonies using Summer Sunrise and Orange Zest inks on a piece of acetate, water and paintbrush. Definitely think reinkers would be the answer to get brighter colors. The bottom portion of my Mat Stack #3 die is Tropical Teal blended ink. The watercoloring behind the focal image is Tropical Teal, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise and Orange Zest over white heat-embossed stars from Scene It: Celebration. Added Enchanted Evening sponged stars, white stars edged & colored with Gelly Roll Stardust Pen - all die-cut from Scene It: Celebration. The white crochet thread took the place of Betsy's Paper Clippings swirls. "Birthday!" from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday was stamped with Enchanted Evening. Some SU Dimensionals gave the added dimension necessary. 

Thanks for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments! Off to pick blueberries so I'll be viewing blogs and commenting later today. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Hawaiian Shores

Ink: Tropical Teal, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest and VersaMark

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Mat Stack #3, Pretty Peonies and Scene It: Celebration

Other: Canson Mixed Media Paper, Paintbrush, Blending Tools, SU Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder, White Crochet Thread and Gelly Roll Stardust Clear Pen

PTI MIM $249: Make It With Money

This week it was Lexi Daly's turn to host Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge. She shared several ways to incorporate money gifts into the design of our handmade cards. Since I needed a high school graduation card for a nice young man, I decided to run with it using his school colors. Here's what I came up with so I hope he likes it. Of course, there will also be more money or a gift card to go with this. (We're not just giving him $1, but I like how it lined up the #1 front and center.)

If you look closely under the Congratulations from Swoosh, you can see the numbers 2016 ink blended in gray using the negative die cuts. Congratulations and the Scene It: Celebration consist of three layers for thickness. I popped up the graduation hat using SU Dimensionals and used a removable glue dot to attach the dollar-bill diploma. I'm sure that might just come in handy some day for this high school graduate. : )

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White,True Black, Scarlet Jewel and Black & White All Over

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Scarlet Jewel and Memento Fog

Stamps: For The Graduate, 

Dies: For The Graduate, Modern Numbers, Swoosh, Scene It: Celebration

Other: Sponge Dauber, SU Dimensionals, Maroon ribbon (stash)

PTI MIM #242: Sponged Stamping

So, here we are again with another Make It Monday challenge at Papertrey Ink. This week the bright and cheerful Dawn McVey showed us how to use sponges to create a gradient ink blending on stamped images. Her two Spring Woods cards are fabulous, and you can see both of them as well as the video here. Can you believe I don't have birds or feathers in my collection, which would no doubt be quite popular for this sponged stamping technique?

In need of a milestone birthday card for a dear friend, I had to put my thinking cap on for ideas of what to use. Scene It: Celebration and Modern Background Stencils were calling my name. Without further ado, here's my card.

In the image below, you can see a close-up (click to enlarge it) of my sponged stamping and bling!

My Modern Stencil background was ink blended using Winter Wisteria, lightening up the edges. Two layers of Scene It: Celebration dies were cut, one in Winter Wisteria and one in Stamper's Select White. Here's where the sponged stamping technique comes in using Berry Sorbet and Bright Buttercup inks. Then I staggered that layer over the Winter Wisteria for a little different twist. The popped up Happy Birthday banner stamped in Berry Sorbert was cut separately from Stamper's Select White and edged with Bright Buttercup. The "75" was die-cut from Modern Numbers, dots added using a Gelly Roll Glitter Pen and popped up for dimension. Five purple rhinestones added a little sparkle to finish the card. 

I'm eager to see what others have created. Thanks in advance for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments. 

Edited to Add: Also entering in Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge ~ Make Your Own Background. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Winter Wisteria

Ink: Berry Sorbet and Bright Buttercup

Stamps: Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Scene It: Celebration and Modern Numbers 

Other: Modern Background Stencils, Ink Blending Tool, Studio G Adhesive Gems, Gelly Roll Glitter Pen and SU Dimensionals

PTI's 9th Anniversary Day 1: DT Favorites

The challenge for the first day of PTI's Anniverary celebration here was to choose one of the 13 Color Recipe Cards to create a new project. It took me a while to decide on a color combination because they are all gorgeous. PTI's Design Team is amazing! Here's the one I went with for a birthday card:

Even though there is no way I could do justice like Kay Miller did with this color palette, I wanted to use it anyway. Since we have lots of February and March birthdays, at least I'm building my stash. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Sweet Blush (sponged) and Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Scene It: Celebration

Other: Zig Clean Color Real Brushes (pink/yellow/orange balloons), SU Old Olive Marker (balloon strings), Black/White Twine, Sponge and Fine Black Sharpie (dots)