PTI November Blog Hop Challenge

Why is it I never seem to have the right stamps for these challenging? No candy cane stamp whatsoever. Guess I'll have to remedy that so it doesn't happen again. Anyway, it's time once again for Papertrey Ink's monthly blog hop. Here's the image to inspire us. 

{source: goodhousekeeping.com}

The shade of blue ribbon is like none of the blues I own so I capitalized on the red and white with a touch of Blueberry Sky. My holly was stamped in Pinefeather with red berries. This is the card I created that looks just like a gift box all decked out for Christmas. 

Happy Hopping! I can't wait to see what others created based on the above photo. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Blueberry Sky and Pinefeather

Stamps: MFT Hand Lettered Holiday

Dies: Fancy Flakes, Tag Sale #9 (resized) and Noted: Scalloped A2

Other: Red/White Striped Ribbon, White Crochet Thread, Ink Blending and SU Real Red Marker

PTI MIM #342: Envelope Bags with Patterned Paper

Didn't think I'd have time this week to try Lexi Daly's challenge for this week's Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday so I'm rushing to beat the deadline and also my bedtime. 

The old bag-elopes have made a comeback by using patterned paper instead of an envelope. Same concept, new idea! I had to be very careful while folding my scored lines as to not tear the paper. Perhaps it's a bit easier with a tad-bit thicker patterned paper than my old Bitty Dots. Thanks, Lexi, for the inspiration and awesome refresher!

Nothing fancy but I've completed the challenge, and one bag is ready for goodies. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Aqua Mist, Bitty Dots and Clear Vellum

Ink: Raspberry Fizz

Stamps: None

Dies: Tag Sale #9, Hexagon Cover Plate and Fancy Flakes

Other: Ink Blending Tool, Twine, Nuvo Drops, Heart Clip and Victorian Edge Scissors

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 May 2018 Blog Hop

Well, here we are again on the 25th of the month and time for another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. It's a little chilly here today in Western Washington, but this inspiration photo defines summer. My days of camping have long passed, but I have fond memories of all the fun times we had. 

{image source: snippets & ink}

The tablecloth and colorful flowers inspired me to create an anniversary card. Thanks to the recently-purchased Bitty Big: True Black I didn't have to stamp my own gingham. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Bitty Big: True Black and Hibiscus Burst

Ink: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Winter Wisteria, Royal Velvet, Amethyst Allure, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Humming Along and Garden Grace

Dies: Humming Along and Tag Sale #9

Other: SU Dimensionals 

Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge

The September Blog Hop at Papertrey Ink means we're only three months from Christmas Day. Time to get your "Kraft" on and think about buying and wrapping gifts. Fortunately, at this point in my life I don't need to do that much any more, but I do like to make my Christmas cards. What a great photo imspiration to jumpstart that mojo!

Source: Burkatron

Here's my creation based on the image above. Yay, one more Christmas card done!

Because I don't "yet" own a pinecone stamp, I had to get a bit creative so I stamped dark chocolate berries topped off with a shimmery Gelly Roll pen. My black card stock was lightly sponged with white pigment ink, wrapped in twine and adhered to a white card base. Some of the greenery is popped up using SU Dimensionals, as are the berries. The tag was tied to the twine so it's floating freely. To coordinate with the white edges of my die cuts, I stamped just the "laughter" banner of the sentiment using black ink on white. That was adhered to the Kraft tag stamped in black ink. 

Thanks for stopping by, and I really do appreciate your comments. Looking forward to seeing all the fabulous creations during this hop!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Black

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate and White Pigment

Stamps: Happiest of Holidays and Spruce & Sprigs

Dies: Tag Sale #9 and Spruce & Sprigs

Other: Twine, Gelly Roll Glitter Pen, Sponge and SU Dimensionals

PTI Create Along With Us: September 2016

We just returned from a fun vacation in the great state of Tennessee so I am way behind in blogland. In fact, I hurriedly skimmed through the DT's posts to find a card that inspired me so I could participate in this week's Create Along With Us Challenge. Now the hardest part is selecting only one because I want to CASE them all...and when I have more time, I intend to do this. My favorite day of posting was the Christmas Faith post on September 12, even though I ended up making a birthday card. Not that I could ever come close to creating Melissa's style, but she inspired me with this card of hers.

Melissa's Card

Here's my birthday card with a similar design.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Ocean Tides

Ink: Soft Stone and VersaMark

Stamps: Ombré Sentiments: Birthday and Scene It: Celebration

Dies: Sketched Stars and Tag Sale #9

Other: Holiday Plaid Patterned Paper, White Embossing Powder, White Gel Pen, Lawn Fawn twine, and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #258: Cover Plate Tags

Playing along with this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink. This week it was Laurie's turn to share something new with us by using cover plates to create tags.  My options are pretty limited with only one tag die and one cover plate, but I made it work like she showed us. The trick was to line up the cover plate over the tag so it looked good, and then die-cut it using the tag die. Her video here shows how to accomplish this. Because the tags are so small and the cover plate full card size, I made two different ones.

 Below are individual photos of each tag. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Black and Pure Poppy 

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Hexagon Cover Plate, Tag Sale #9, Swoosh and Bubble Talk (heart)

Other: Perfect Pearls Mist: Perfect Pearl, Gelly Roll Glitter Pen, Rhinestone, Red Ribbon and SU Dimensionals

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White and Hawaiian Shores

Ink: Autumn Rose

Stamps: None

Dies: Hexagon 

Cover Plate

, Tag Sale #9 and Fancy Flakes

Other: Nuvo Crystal Drops Glossy White, Ink Blending Tool, Twine and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #241: Ombre Stenciled Backgrounds

It's time for another Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink. This week Betsy Veldman showed us how to obtain nice, even color using blending sponges and how to add some pattern using the new stencils. Her colorful and striking card showcases Tulip Time from PTI's February Release. Since I recently received my latest order from Papertrey, I had to take a stab at this technique so I'd know how to use the new Modern Background Stencils. Here's what I made and looking forward to more stenciling.

For the first time, I used white foam to add dimension to my "Cheers" die cut. Both the foam and glittered paper were run through my Xyron before die cutting to make it easier to adhere them to each other and also to my card. It was a little tricky because of the delicate word die, but probably still easier than adding foam tape. The black strip of paper with the white embossed sentiment is also raised up, but for this I used SU Dimensionals.  Now I remember why I seldom use white embossing powder on black card stock because no matter how I "prepare" the paper, the powder tends to stick where nothing has been stamped. The twine bow and three pink adhesive gems finished my card. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Silver Glittered (Joann's) and Black (stash)

Ink: VersaMark, Hibiscus Burst, Autumn Rose and Scarlet Jewel

Stamps: Keep It Simple: Birthday

Dies: Tag Sale #9, Uncorked Words and MFT Stitched Rectangles

Other: White EP, Twinery Twine, Studio G Adhesive Gems, White Foam, Modern Background Stencils, Ink Blending Tool, Xyron and SU Dimensionals

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 

PTI MIM #223: Camouflaged Pocket Inserts

Guess what? It's Sunday night and I'm entering the challenge demonstrated by Dawn McVey for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. She showed us how to make pocket inserts and camouflage them. She posted this last Monday, but this is my first chance to create since last Sunday. Where does the time go? It sure has been flying by quickly these days.

Here's my card that includes a bit of watercoloring by misting Spring Rain and Blueberry Sky inks on the pocket and blending Hibiscus Ink on the insert. If you look closely, you might just see some WOS Shimmer on the wreath and the flowers.

This photo shows the camouflaged pocket insert. See, it was camouflaged!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Simply Chartreuse

Ink: Blueberry Sky, New Leaf, Winter WIsteria, Hibiscus Burst, Spring Rain and Enchanted Evening

Stamps: Background Basics: Super Stripes and MIM Mini Kit: Lovely Laurels

Dies: MIM Mini Kit: Lovely Laurels and Tag Sale #9

Other: Corner Chomper, White Crochet Thread, Blending Tool, Water Mister, Wink of Stella Shimmer and Foam Tape

Papertrey Ink's 8th Anniversary Gift Tag (Day 3)

Today's challenge on Nichole's blog in honor of PTI's 8th Anniversary was to create a handmade tag for a matching gift bag. It's not very often I make tags because even if I use a gift bag, I usually include a homemade card. However, my Tag Sale #9 dies were staring me in the face wanting to be used. Here's my tag (both layers) as I was creating it.

Tag before I tied it together with twine.

Tag attached to gift bag.

Edited to Add: Entering this in Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, H is for Heart

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Classic Kraft and Scarlet Jewel

Ink: Scarlet Jewel and Pure Poppy

Stamps: Grunge Me, Sketched Shapes and 2012 Birthday Tags

Dies: Tag Sale #9 and Bubble Talk

Other: Twinery Twine