PTI Laurie's Fabulous Favorites Week 2

Time for the second week of Win It Wednesday where Laurie shares her favorite card stock colors. Surprise, surprise! She used Pure Poppy and Aqua Mist and created the same card design twice, using each color. Beautifully done, Laurie!

It truly is difficult to choose one or even two favorite PTI card stock colors because I like them all. First colors that came to mind for me (at least today) are Amethyst Allure and New Leaf.  It's almost the end of February and time for my DH's aunt to celebrate her 101st birthday. She was widowed many years ago, still lives independently and is an amazing woman. Hope she likes the heart and added bling!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, New Leaf and Amethyst Allure+White Basics

Ink: Amethyst Allure and New Leaf

Stamps: Hero Arts Prayers

Dies: Mix & Mat: Postal, Limitless Layers: 2-1/4" Hearts, Modern Numbers and Tipped Tops

Other: White Glitter Paper (Joann), Ink Blending Brush, Sequins and SU Dimensionals 

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 #313: Mask & Stack

Betsy says to find the cutest stamp we own and stack them up. She showed us how to die-cut multiple cuts from sticky post-its to use as masks when stamping over images. This week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink took me out of my comfort zone because I tend to avoid masking. With the right stamps and dies, I can see where one could get amazing results. Guess I should have stuck with flowers and leaves because I just don't own many other images. Swans it is with some ink blending!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Blueberry Sky and Comic Strip

Ink: Blueberry Sky, Soft Stone, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Swan'sational and Penned Elegance

Dies: Tipped Tops (for stars) and Swan'sational (for masks)

Other: Makeup Brushes, Daubers, Fun Foam and Foam Tape

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary - Day 10 (Stripes Challenge)

What fun challenges the gals at Papertrey Ink came up with in honor of their 11th Anniversary! Today's challenge is Stripes because the number 11 looks like two stripes standing next to each other. You can see more details here. 

I pretty much kept up on all the challenges until this one but then life got in the way helping others who needed me. Yesterday was to be my day, but it was windy here in Western Washington and lost power from 1-11:30 pm so that pretty much took care of Saturday. My DH started the generator but it only supports the important appliances and lights in some rooms (not my stamping room). Was washing clothes and had dinner in the crockpot so had to make some adjustments before going to Mass last night. 

Today it snowed most of the day with an accumulation of only two inches at our house. It's chilly but at least no wind today. 

Anyway, on with my striped card!

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Green Parakeet + White Basics and SU Basic Gray

Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal, Amethyst Allure, Royal Velvet, Berry Sorbet, Scarlet Jewel, Bright Buttercup, Green Parakeet and VersaMark

Stamps: Floral Sketches, Painted Petals and Gran's Garden

Dies: Floral Sketches, Gran's Garden, Tipped Tops, MFT Stitched Rectangles and Linen/Canvas Impression Plate

Other: Ink Blending Tools, White Embossing Powder, Nuvo Crystal Drops and Foam Tape

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary - Day 7 (Use Only Dies - No Stamps)

We're already past Day 7 of Papertrey Ink's 11th Anniversary, but I'm just posting my card now. The challenge was to create a project using only dies - no stamps! I know I've done this before and not intentionally, but once I thought about it awhile I was grasping for ideas without using flowers. Some of those die-cuts don't look as good without stamping on them. Another milestone birthday card has been completed now using only dies and some bling. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Bright Buttercup, Amethyst Allure, Amethyst Allure+White Basics, Hibiscus Burst and Green Parakeet

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Dies: Tipped Tops, To The Point Edgers and By The Numbers

Other: White Gel Pen, Foam Tape, Glitter (Jo-Ann) and Sequins

PTI 10th Anniversary Challenge: Stitching

Lizzie showed us her stitching talents creating the cutest travel Tic Tac Toe set out of felt. She now wears four hats for Papertrey Ink with her added responsibilities as the Stitching Ambassador. Yay, Lizzie! Since I'm not much of a sewer/stitcher, fortunately the challenge is to create a project using the stitching projects as inspiration. Whew, now I can participate! And guess what? I used some of my new PTI Pre-Anniversary Sale patterned papers. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

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

Ink: VersaMark

Stamps: Swan'sational

Dies: Tipped Tops

Other: Black & White All Over and Comic Strip Patterned Papers, White Embossing Powder and SU Dimensionals

PTI MIM #273: Spinner Cards

Lizzie Jones was the star of the show this week with her Make It Monday video for Papertrey Ink. She shared her tips on making an interactive spinner card. I haven't really been much into interactive cards, but I just had to try this after watching Lizzie create her sweet Valentine. Because I spent the day reorganizing stamps and dies, I barely had time to play. After two phone calls from friends and then watching the Tom Brokaw special on NBC, I just had to prove to myself that I could do this technique. Without further ado, here's my blue anniversary card with a spin.

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

Also entering: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes,  Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes and Darnell's NBUS #10 Challenge (first time using Gemstone EF)

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

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

Ink: Blueberry Sky, Enchanted Evening and VersaMark

Stamps: Pretty Peonies

Dies: Tipped Tops and Button Stacks

Other: Stampin' Up Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder, Thread, Ink Blending Tool, Next Level We R Memories Gemstone Embossing Folder, and Studio G Gems

Papertrey November 2015 Blog Hop Challenge

How did we get to the 25th of November already? Anyway, Nichole challenged us to create a project for this month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop using nontraditional colors for holiday, or non-holiday. This is such a gorgeous image ~ love the colors!

 

photo source: Centsational Girl 

To create my card, I started with a Simply Chartreuse card base and a cut from Tipped Tops Dies for my image. I die cut the tree from In The Meadow and used the negative to blend some Simply Chartreuse ink for the tree shape. To decorate the tree, I die cut several circles (2 sizes) for ornaments from Sketched Shapes and stamped them using Delicata Silvery Shimmer. My star was cut from Holly Holiday using Silver Glitter Paper. A silver line was drawn around the edges before adhering it to the card base tied with a piece of silver twine. The Merry Christmas sentiment says it all, die cut from Silver Glitter Paper. 

Hopefully, I'll find time to hop and comment in the next few days. Thanks for visiting. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Simply Chartreuse, Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores and Tropical Teal

Ink: Simply Chartreuse, Delicata Silvery Shimmer and Memento London Fog

Stamps: Sketched Shapes

Dies: Tipped Tops, Jolly Holiday, Sketched Shapes, In The Meadow and Wet Paint Holiday

Other: Blended Tool, Sponge, Silver Glittered Card Stock (Joann), Silver Twine and Silver Bic Marker

PTI May Color Play Challenge

Lizzie shared here her beautiful color palette chosen for this month's Color Play. This image tells me Summer is just around the corner, and I sure hope so.

This is my first time playing along with Lizzie's challenge. Doesn't that pitcher of water look heavenly? As you'll see in my card, I had to substitute for Limeade Ice and Orange Zest. Besides the great color combo, I was inspired by Maile Belles Feather Friends Forever card. 

When I started stamping my background, I didn't intend to cut it with my Tipped Tops Dies. Then I thought I'd give it a try. It was a bit more challenging that I anticipated, but then Maile makes everything look so easy. Here's my Thinking of You card. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and SU Pumpkin Pie (for Orange Zest)

Ink: Summer Sunrise, Canyon Clay (for Orange Zest), Hawaiian Shores, New Leaf (and also stamped off for Limeade Ice)

Stamps: Natural Beauties and Keep It Simple: Thinking of You

Dies: Tipped Tops

Other: Scotch Foam Tape

PTI MIM #210: Using Vellum to Soften Patterns

Lizzie showed us here how to use vellum to soften those bright patterns from patterned paper or ones we've stamped ourselves. Heidi Swapp Pink Color Shine was staring me in the face asking to be put to use so I sprayed some Stamper's Select White card stock and let it dry. Using Royal Velvet ink, I randomly stamped two images from Reasons to Smile to be covered by vellum. Here's a closeup view:

My next layer is a Tipped Tops Die cut from vellum and adhered underneath the butterfly from Beautiful Butterflies. For cohesiveness to my theme of smiling, I die cut the word "Smile" from SU Elegant Eggplant using Block Alphabet dies and adhered the vellum behind the letters. Here you can see the card in full view. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Vellum and SU Elegant Eggplant

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Royal Velvet and Heidi Swapp Pink Color Shine

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies and Reasons to Smile

Dies: Block Alphabet, Tipped Tops and Beautiful Butterflies Layers

Other: SU Elegant Eggplant Marker, Glue Dots, Sponge and Foam Tape

Papertrey Ink's 8th Anniversary & Maile Belles Inspiration (Day 2)

Friday was the second day of PTI's Anniversary Festivities which challenged us to seek inspiration from Maile Belles' creations and find one to recreate. It was hard to choose because I just love her style, and she was instrumental in me "needing" to buy Watercolor Wonder. This first card was a fun one because it is very similar to card stock in her newly-created paper pad. Here's my card:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Tropical Teal, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Harvest Gold, Aqua Mist and Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Watercolor Wonder and Wet Paint

Dies: Tipped Tops

Other: Enamel Dots (Michaels) and SU Dimensionals

I was on a roll after perusing Maile's blog here so I recreated her third card from the same post last March. Here's mine:

Edited to Add: Both cards are also being entered in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, All Things Bright and Beautiful

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold and Sweet Blush

Stamps: Wet Paint

Dies: None

Other: MS Butterfly Punch, Glue Dots (Joann's) and Black Gems (Michaels)

Papertrey November Blog Hop Challenge

Here it is…better almost late than never!

Details later ~ gotta run!

PTI MIM #188: Stamping Ombre Backgrounds

Well, today is Wednesday, and I've not only watched Laura's fabulous video here for this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge, but I've also created a card with an ombre background. My ink color choices are very limited because I recently sold all my SU inks and haven't yet added to my supply of PTI inks. I will definitely try this challenge again when I have more ink options. Since I need to pop a wedding card in the mail tomorrow, I ran to my stamp room before we lose power again. Lost it twice yesterday and wind gusts are still unstoppable here. Better hurry ~ here's my card.

My ombre background was created with a Stamper's Select White die cut from Tipped Tops dies and stamping repeatedly (overlapping somewhat) the striped flag banner from Sketched Shapes. Ink colors were stamped in this order (bottom to top): Simply Chartreuse, New Leaf, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, and repeated Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Simply Chartreuse and New Leaf. Using Sweet Blush card stock, I die cut again from Tipped Tops and foam mounted that on my Soft Stone card base as a frame for the ombre background. "Love" from Wet Paint Dies from Berry Sorbet card stock was cut three times and glued together for added dimension. 

In the above photo, you can get a better look at the Vellum hearts and initials of the bride & groom that I popped up with foam tape and added glitter glue to make them sparkle. The Block Alphabet dies even include the Ampersand so I lucked out. Three lime satin sequins finished it off. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Soft Stone, Sweet Blush, Stamper's Select White, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet and Vellum

Ink: Simply Chartreuse, New Leaf, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: Sketched Shapes

Dies: Tipped Tops, Wet Paint and Block Alphabet

Other: Foam tape, SU Heart Punch, Lime Satin Sequins (stash), Foam Tape and Glitter Glue

PTI MIM #186: Partial Die Stamping

What can I saw other than it's late again and past my bed time. Here I am with a much-needed congratulatory card and was just sure I'd find a "congrats" die in my stash. I was determined to participate in this week's Make It Monday at PTI, because Laurie did such a great job of showing us how to stamp on paper and then die cut so only part of the shape is stamped. If you're confused, that's because I am too and it's late. Anyway, here's my card.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Sweet Blush, Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse, SU Really Rust and SU Basic Gray

Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Sweet Blush and VersaMark

Stamps: Boutique Borders: Congrats and Botanical Silhouettes

Dies: Boutique Borders: Congrats and Tipped Tops

Other: Patterned Paper from Studio Calico (I think), White Crochet Thread (Joann's), SU Dimensionals and Zing! Metallic Embossing Powder

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's 7th Anniversary ~ Day 9 (Building Blocks)

Anyone else wearing down like I am? Between all these fun challenges and watching the Olympics (plus the everyday mundane chores), I am running out of steam. This blog hasn't seen so many posts on a regular basis. How does the Design Team do it so frequently?

Speaking of the Design Team, let's get started with today's challenge here. Each team member has a basic list of six "building block" options that are numbered. Our instructions were to roll a die nine times to see which item numbers we were to use in creating a card. If we didn't have a certain item, we could roll again. I did that for Melissa's fiber selection because I don't have any embroidery floss. Since my PTI inks and cardstocks are limited, I had to make substitutions or I'd still be rolling again and again. Let me just say that I wasn't feeling too lucky when I rolled this combination: 1) Pure Poppy, 4) Sweet Blush, 5) Spring Moss, 3) Stamper's Select White, 6) Dawn's Sketch, 6) Congratulations, 4) Inlaid Diecuts, 6) Felt and 2) Baker's Twine.

A Stamper's Select White card base was covered with a layer of SU Certainly Celery, from which I die cut Boutique Borders: Congrats and inlaid it over a piece of pink & white baker's twine tied in a bow. The border was stamped using VersaMark and "Congrats" using SU Real Red. Tipped Tops Dies were used to cut two-layered stars from SU Pretty in Pink card stock and white glittered felt. Here's my card:

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, SU Certainly Celery and SU Pretty in Pink

Ink: VersaMark and SU Real Red

Stamps: Boutique Borders: Congrats

Dies: Boutique Borders: Congrats and Tipped Tops

Other: White glittered felt (Joann's), Twinery Twine and foam mounting tape 

PTI 7th Anniverary ~ Day 7 (Stripes)

In honor of Papertrey Ink's 7th Anniversary, today's challenge on Nichole's blog is to incorporate stripes in our projects. Think she wants us to realize how much easier it would be with the new Cover Plates introduced today. They look really cool and easy to use for vertical, horizontal or diagonal stripes. For my three cards below, colored stripes were adhered to a piece of white cardstock almost the width of my cards before cutting down the heighth.

"Happy Birthday" from Botanical Silhouettes is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink twice, once on the white card base and again on the stripes.

For this one, I used a Rustic Cream card base, scoring two lines on the top and one on the bottom. HAPPY is from Tipped Tops Dies and cut from SU Basic Gray card stock. Since I never confessed to be perfect, I will admit the word "birthday" from Pretty Peonies stamped on SU Really Rust and punched using SU's Word Window punch covers up an error. Lesson Learned: It's not easy stamping a small sentiment over paper seams. Both sentiments were popped up using foam mounting tape.

The two narrow strips were adhered to a Harvest Gold card base. Birthday Wishes stamped with SU Really Rust ink and a Tipped Tops Dies star cut from Hawaiian Shores finish this series.

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse, SU Really Rust, Rustic Cream, SU Basic Gray

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Basic Gray and SU Really Rust

Stamps: Botanical Silhouettes, Pretty Peonies and Think Big Favorites #7

Dies: Tipped Tops Dies

Other: SU Word Window Punch and Foam Mounting Tape

PTI MIM #148: Generation Stamping with Line Images & Multiple Colors

Dawn McVey shows us generational stamping with a twist for this week's Make It Monday Challenge. My biggest challenge was finding line image stamps that would work for this technique. I chose Fancy Flourishes and use three different shades of purple. Here's what it looks like:

Adhered to a white card base are left-over frames from Tipped Tops Dies in Winter Wisteria and Elegant Eggplant overlapping them. I thought the Fancy Flourish filled the corner nicely. Finished it off with a sentiment from Half & Half, three sequins and splatters of ink (which you can see better if you enlarge the photo).

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select, Winter Wisteria and SU Elegant Eggplant

Ink: WInter Wisteria, SU Lavender Lace and SU Elegant Eggplant

Stamps: Half & Half and Fancy Flourishes

Dies: Tipped Tops

Other: Sequins (Joann's) and SU Lavender Lace marker with misting tool (can't remember name)