PTI MIM #322: Above & Below

This week Lizzie shared one of her personal favorite techniques and challenged us to do the same. Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday shows us how to add die cuts above and below your sentiment strip or die cut to add emphasis. Here's Lizzie's example and then my entry. 

One of these days I'm going to follow Dawn's lead by die cutting several embellishments in different color schemes to have them ready. Then I can have fun piling on the layers and rearranging them until I'm satisfied. I did a little of that for this card. 

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

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted):

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Tropical Teal, Sheer Basics Vellum and BItty Dots: Raspberry Fizz

Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal and VersaFine Onyx Black

Stamps: Gran's Gardens and Give Thanks

Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangles, Gran's Gardens and Sketched Shapes

Other: SU Dimensionals, Twinery Twine and Wink of Stella 

PTI Make It Monday #121: Colored Vellum Flowers

Believe it or not, it's only Saturday night and here I am posting my card for this week's Make It Monday. Betsy Veldman did a tutorial sharing all her tricks for making lovely colored vellum flowers. Even though I have plenty of floral stamps, my flower dies are limited so I leaned on my Beautiful Blooms II #1 dies. Would love to try this technique again when I can heat emboss with the proper floral die.

The larger size bloom was sponged with Hawaiian Shores ink and lined using a SU Certainly Celery Maker. The smaller bloom was sponged with Harvest Gold and lined using a SU Blender Pen and Hawaiian Shores ink. It's hard to see here but I also used a Q-Tip to edge the smaller bloom. The layers were adhered with Zots, and I doubled them up to give the flower even more dimension. For the center of the flower, I finished it off with a sequin that coordinates with Hawaiian Shores. My BIL's sister will be having open heart surgery soon so I hope "our prayers" will lift her spirits. 

Supplies: (all PTI unless noted)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White and Harvest Gold

Ink: Hawaiian Shores and Harvest Gold

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Beautiful Blooms II #1 and Filigree Border

Other: Rhinestone, Sponge Daubers, SU Certainly Celery Marker, Q-Tip, Blender Pen and Zots

Birthday Boutique & Butterflies

This birthday card was created based on PTI's Make It Monday #108: Inked Backgrounds shown by  Heather Nichols on Nichole Heady's blog. My card base is PTI's Simply Chartreuse. After stamping two sizes of butterflies from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies stamp set using VersaMark, I heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. Using a sponge dauber, I applied several inks in a circular motion until I got the look I wanted. Then I wiped the ink of the embossed butterflies. This was applied to my card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

My sentiment from Boutique Borders: Birthday was stamped using Memento black ink on vellum cardstock creating a flag banner. To finish it off, I added the black/white twine and tied a bow.

Also entering this in Simon Says Challenge: Easter/Spring

Supplies (all PTI unless noted): 
Stamp Sets: Beautiful Butterflies & Boutique Borders: Birthday
Cardstock: Simply Chartreuse and White 
Ink: VersaMark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse, SU Pumpkin Pie, SU Blissful Blue
Other: Black/white twine, SU dimensionals & green Studio gems