PTI Create Along With Us Challenge: May 2018

It was release week at Papertrey Ink so that means we create our own version of something that inspired us from the amazing DT. Because I was on vacation last week and then had company, I desperately needed to get back in my stamping room and create. Lexi definitely inspired me with her clean and simple designs so I made one similar to her rainbow hearts for graduation and a second one for a masculine birthday, as shown below. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Tropical Teal, Enchanted Evening, Royal Velvet and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: For The Graduate and Keep It Simple: Graduation

Dies: Sketched Shapes

Other: Foam Tape

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Kraft and Vintage Cream

Ink: Classic Kraft, Canyon Clay, Terracotta Tile and Dark Chocolate

Stamps: Star Prints, Scene It: Celebration and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: None

Other: SU Ticket Corner Punch and Foam Tape

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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 December Blog Hop Challenge 2016

Nothing like rushing at the last minute. Here's my card for Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop Challenge for December. Hope this will put a smile on my friend's 75th birthday as we were unable to attend her party.

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

Edited to Add:  Also entering this birthday card in Simon Says Monday Challenge: Party Time

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Lovely Lady

Ink: Lovely Lady, Bright Buttercup and Aqua Mist

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: Nesties Classic Scallop Circles, Nesties Classic Circles and Modern Numbers

Other: Sponge and SU Dimensionals

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's 9th Anniversary Day 5: Sampler Square Challenge

WOW, this was the challenge of all challenges. In fact, several people posted on the PTI Forum for clarification of the rules. This is for Day 5, and here's Nichole's instructions: "…cut nine 1-1/2” squares from white cardstock, then alter all nine of the squares using a variety of techniques, colors, stamps, etc. Be sure to do something different to each square! "

The first challenge was to decide on a color palette, then which stamps would work well in a 1-1/2" square, and which nine techniques to use so each square would be different. My color palette besides Stamper's Select White is: Harvest Gold, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal and Gray/Silver with bits of Black. Here's what my 5-1/2" card looks like:

Techniques & Products Used Per Square: Top Left to Right

Square 1: Smooshing + Sizzix Embosslit Beautiful Wings

Square 2: Emboss Resist + Beautiful Blooms II

Square 3: Dry Embossing + Picnic Plaid Impression Plate & Jolly Holiday Die

Square 4: White Shadowing + Iconic Images

Square 5: Ink Blending + Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Scene It: Celebration

Square 6: Inlaid Die Cut + Jolly Holiday Die

Square 7: Silver Dipped Die Cut (& heat embossing) + Harvest Berries

Square 8: Two-Step Stamping + Rosie Posie & Rosie Posie Step 2

Square 9: Ombre Stamping + Ruby Reprise

I know just the friend who will be receiving this because she saves all the cards I send her. She will appreciate the hours I spent creating and designing this. Admittedly, it was a fun challenge but not something I'd make on a regular basis because I just don't mail 5-1/2" cards. I'm an A2 kinda gal!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold and SU Going Gray

Ink: Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal, Delicata Silvery Shimmer, VersaMark and White Pigment

Stamps: Rosie Posie, Rosie Posie Step 2, Beautiful Blooms II, Iconic Images, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday, Scene It: Celebration, Harvest Berries and Ruby Reprise

Dies: Jolly Holiday and Sizzix Embosslit Beautiful Wings

Other: VersaMarker, Silver and Clear Embossing Powders, SU Ticket Corner Punch, Corner Rounder, Rhinestones/Gems, Gelly Roll Glitter Pen and Patterned Paper (stash)

PTI Create Along With Us Challenge: February 2016

Create Along With Us is PTI's way of encouraging us to select something the design team has created during their release and create our own version. There are so many beautiful projects it's challenging to decide on one. For something a bit different, I chose Ashley's What The Doodle card and chose something other than a butterfly just to be different. Here's Ashley's card:

And here's mine using Rosie Posie:

And now, thanks to Ashley, I have two more card fronts ready to finish with whatever sentiments I so choose. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores and Harvest Gold

Ink: Dark Chocolate

Stamps: Rosie Posie, Grunge Me and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: None

Other: Vellum, Sequins & Glue Dots (stash) and SU Dimensionals

PTI's 9th Anniversary Day 3: Grab & Craft Challenge

Already on Day 3 of Papertrey Ink's 9th Anniversary festivities as can be seen here. The challenge was to create a project using supplies we could "grab" in 5 minutes. Can you tell I still had birthdays on my mind? Because I used a Kraft card base, I should have used some richer colors so they would stand out a little more. If I had dies for Scribbled Sentiments, I would have die-cut the middle "happy" in Harvest Gold to add dimension. Think it falls in the masculine category though so all is good. It's readable in real life. : ) Here's my card.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Kraft

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores and Dark Chocolate

Stamps: Scribbled Sentiments and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: None

Other: Corner Chomper

PTI September Blog Hop Challenge

Love the results of Faux Chalk Art when combined with the right colors and sentiment. Betsy Veldman is the queen of this technique and showed how to do this in a video for Make It Monday #98. This month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge on Nichole's blog here is to incorporate fall colors and images surrounding our faux chalkboard as shown in the beautiful photo below.

photo source: Country Living

I'm well ahead of the deadline because we're heading on vacation to visit family over the next couple of weeks. Going to "schedule" this post to see how well that works for me. Anyway, here's my take on the challenge. 

Edited to add: Entered also in AAA Cards #48: Autumn Colors (thanks honeybeelane) here.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Soft Stone, Stamper's Select White and SU Basic Gray

Ink: Joann's White Pigment, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Simply Chartreuse and Ripe Avocado

Stamps: Mum's The Word and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: Mum's The Word and Tag Sale #9

Other: Colorbok Designer Paper Pad Carnival, Sponge, White Embossing Powder and SU Dimensionals 

ColourQ Challenge #308 and SSS Challenges

Just love the shopping tote and colors shown here on the ColourQ blog for this week's challenge to use this color palette:

Even though I'm not using all SU products, my color choices are very close. Chalk off another Christmas card for me ~ yay! Here's my card.

Edited to Add Challenges: Faux Chalk Art Technique for Monday's SSS Challenge: Love This Technique and Wednesday's SSS Challenge: Die Crazy. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Kraft, Aqua Mist and SU Not Quite Navy

Ink: VersaMark, Simply Chartreuse, SU Not Quite Navy Marker, White Pigment Ink (Joann)

Stamps: In The Meadow, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (stars) and Stylish Sentiments: Holiday

Dies: In The Meadow

Other: Snow Tex, Glossy Accents and SU dimensionals (all from stash)

PTI SAF 2015: Mix + Match and Threads Challenges

Continuing on creating for PTI's Stamp-A-Faire event, my second card combines the Mix + Match and Threads Challenges. Mixing Patterns by Betsy Veldman and Twine Techniques by Danielle Flanders inspired me to break out my new Triangle Trio Die. Betsy showed us how to use at least three different patterned papers considering small, medium and large designs and cutting the paper to coincide with those same sizes. Danielle showed us 10 different ways to use twine on our projects. Here's what I created. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Studio Calico Here & There Collection

Ink: VersaMark and Dark Chocolate

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: Triangle Trio and Celebrations

Other: Button, Darice Hemp Cord, Vellum Runner, Glue Dots and Clear Embossing Powder

PTI MIM #183: Dry Embossing Over Heat Embossing

Because I've been vacationing a week at a time the last three months, I really haven't been crafting or visiting a whole lot of blogs. However, I managed to follow Nichole's blog to keep up with the sneak peeks and now I'm back home for Release Week. So, why not rush once again to meet another deadline for the latest Make It Monday? Dawn is showing us the technique of dry embossing over heat embossing. (By the way, if you've never been to Mackinac Island, I highly recommend it.) Without further delay, here's my card.

It's difficult to see here but I used another idea of Dawn's on this card. The top piece of Rustic Cream card stock stamped & embossed using Leaf Prints was dry embossed using PTI's Woodgrain Impression Plate before adhering with SU dimensionals. Before adhering to the Rustic Cream piece with the stamped sentiment, I glued on a thin strip of SU Baroque Burgundy card stock. Think this fits the bill for a masculine birthday card? I do…and that's all that really matters, right. 

Edited to add: Since the theme at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is O, I'm including this card because of the orange leaves. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Rustic Cream, SU Always Artichoke and SU Baroque Burgundy

Ink: SU Always Artichoke, SU Baroque Burgundy and SU Pumpkin Pie

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Leaf Prints

Other: Woodgrain Impression Plate, SU Dimensionals and Clear Embossing Powder (Joann's)

PTI MIM #165: Artsy Watercolor Backgrounds

Had every intention of posting this earlier until a dear friend called to chat. I'm not really very "artsy" but wanted to try Betsy Veldman's watercolor technique as shown in this week's Make It Monday for Papertrey Ink.

Using PTI's Mum's The Word stamp set on Stamper's Select White cardstock, I inked up three different size mums with Harvest Gold, Tempting Turquoise and Pink Passion. With water and brush in hand, I drew out the inks to mimic Betsy's technique. When dried, that layer was cut in three pieces, adhered with SU dimensionals to "life" them up on the New Leaf cardstock and placed on a white card base. To finish it off, I added a little bling with coordinating sequins, stamped the sentiment from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday using New Leaf ink, and rounded two corners.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and New Leaf

Ink: New Leaf, Harvest Gold, SU Tempting Turquoise and SU Pink Passion

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Mum's The Word

Dies: None

Other: Sequins (won from Jennifer McGuire) and Corner Chomper

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

This month's challenge here is to play around with the popular color combination of Aqua and Melon as shown from this gorgeous inspiration:

photo credits- roses:::maile's ikat cards:::bowls:::floral print:::tulips

Even though I've had several days to think about these colors, I still had no idea what I was going to design until I managed to actual create today. Here's what I came up with for my niece's birthday!

My white card base was covered with a layer of SU Soft Sky DSP before adding the Hexagon Cover Plate in SU Groovy Guava. I added a few hexagons to add some dimension. "Happy" was die cut from glittered paper, and "birthday" was stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I either need to get VersaMark reinker or new embossing powder because I was disappointed with the results. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Aqua Mist and SU Groovy Guava

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: Pretty Peonies, Bountiful Banners, Mat Stack #4 and Hexagon Cover Plate

Other: Sizzix Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, SU Soft Sky DSP, Melon Glittered Paper (Joann's), Clear Embossing Powder (Joann's), White Crochet Thread (Michael's) and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #164: Cluster Stamped Sentiments

Oh my goodness, I knew it had been a while since I was able to stamp, but didn't realize it has been over a month. No wonder I was going through withdrawals. Since I need graduation cards, birthday cards and congratulatory cards, I thought I'd give this week's Make It Monday a try. Well, Heather made it look so easy. The first three went in the trash last night because I just wasn't pleased with my cluster of hats and stars, and I kept smearing the ink.  So earlier today I attempted that same card again because I liked the idea I had in my head…just not so much on paper. I am satisfied with this one for a High School grad whose school colors are red and blue.

My next card is for a high school senior who achieved her personal bests in discus and shot put and hopefully qualifies for WA State Field and Track. Her goal is to participate in Junior Nationals again so I'm confident she will. 

My third and final card is a birthday card for my SIL, which I need to mail tomorrow. 

I apologize for not commenting regularly on blog posts, and hope to improve on that task soon. Thanks for reading this post, and I appreciate every comment. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Graduation Card

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, SU Brilliant Blue and SU Real Red

Ink: SU Real Red and VersaMark

Stamps: Boutique Borders: Congrats, For The Graduate and 2012 Birthday Tags (star)

Dies: Fabulous Frames (edge of frame only)

Other: Zing Metallic Blue Embossing Powder and SU Dimensionals

Congrats Card

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Berry Sorbet and Winter Wisteria

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Winter Wisteria and VersaMark

Stamps: Boutique Borders: Congrats and Flower Fusion #4

Dies: Tipped Tops

Other: White Embossing Powder, white crochet thread (Joann's), Summer Sun Sequins (Jennifer McGuire)

Yay! It's Your Birthday

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Harvest Gold and Winter Wisteria

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Winter Wisteria, Hawaiian Shores, Memento Tuxedo Black and VersaMark

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and 2012 Birthday Tags (star)

Dies: Fabulous Frames and Tipped Tops (star)

Other: White Embossing Powder and Enamel Dot (Joann's)

PTI MIM #155: Create Confetti with Papertrey Ink Dies

The past several weeks my time was consumed assisting my DH with moving his brother to an adult family home as his COPD continued to worsen. We were so thankful he agreed to this transition because just two weeks later our Lord was calling his name. After 10 days of company and the burial four days ago, our last guests left Saturday. It was a beautiful celebration and fabulous tribute in my BIL's honor. Needless to say, we are looking forward to our vacation in another week.

It felt so good to get back in my stamping room today for some quiet time. After watching Danielle's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday video here, I decided to give it a try. Some of the hearts are popped up for added dimension. The strip of patterned paper just above my rounded corners helps ground the sentiment.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Ocean Tides, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold & SU Rose Red

Ink: SU Basic Gray

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

Dies: Bubble Talk

Other: Corner Chomper, SU Dimensionals and patterned paper from DCWV's The Kidlet Stack