Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  I'm participating in the Papertrey Ink blog hop today.  It's a little late in the day, but I really wanted to play along.  I got some of the new products and wanted to get them inky.  Here's the photo they chose as inspiration.

 

I made this tag using the traditional red and green colors.  I just love the quilted series the PTI has designed and this tag is really fabulous!  I stamped the pieces inside the snowflake and added some ribbon, twine, and bells to the tag.  The sentiment was embossed in white on the banner.

I think this stamp set is my favorite of the release.  I just love tea cups and teapots.  I stamped this one in red on the die cut and added a floral spray from more die cuts.  There is some yellow stickles in the center of the poinsettia.  The front of the card was impressed with the linen impression plate.  The sentiment from the set was stamped in black.  Simple card.

 

I used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for my layout.



That's it from me today!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe:  Tag

Stamps:  Quilted: Winter (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, real red, garden green

Ink:  Versamark, real red, garden green

Accessories:  Quilted: Winter and Tag Sale: Quilted dies, white embossing powder, ribbon, bakers twine, bells, fun foam

 

Recipe: Card

Stamps:  Cup of Cheer (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, real red, garden green

Accessories:  Cup of Cheer die, linen impression plate, yellow stickles, dimensionals



Papertrey November Blog Hop Challenge

The Papertrey November Blog Hop Challenge this month is focused on snow.  I've experienced an entire season of snow last week here in Buffalo, NY!  But we love it and believe it or not, it's almost gone!  This is the photo I chose as my inspiration.  It looked so much like Buffalo last week!  Snow can be so pretty!

 

I've been organizing my stamps and dies recently and I've come across some things I didn't realize I had or forgot about!  One of them was this snow drifts die.  I saw a this card done by Kay Miller and I just fell in love with it and it inspired me to create this one.  I die cut it from white cardstock and the little trees from green cardstock.  I pulled out those snow drift pieces and sponged the rest of the piece with distress inks.  Then I put it all together, added the sentiment, the gold star, white snowflakes and star dust stickles.   I wish I would have embossed those snowflakes so they showed up better. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Stylish Sentiments: Holiday (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, garden green

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, tumbled glass and salty ocean distress inks, delicate gold, fresh snow

Accessories:  Snow drifts plate die, star dust stickles





Just Us Girls #225 - Photo Inspiration Challenge and January Papertrey Blog Hop Challenge

Hi everyone!  It's getting closer to Valentine's Day, and Just Us Girls has a great photo inspiration challenge for you to help you get those Valentine cards done.  Marisa chose this great photo to inspire you.

Here's a larger picture.  Lots of different ways to be inspired by this photo, don't you think?

I was also inspired by the Papertrey Ink blog hop challenge photo here.

 

So after all that inspiration, this is what I came up with.  I used a some pink cardstock, modeling paste, and the chevron pattern stencil from Simon Says Stamp for the background.  The love word was die cut seven times:  four times from white cardstock, twice from a dark pink, and once from pink glitter paper.  I then stacked them together with the dark pink in the middle.  I also stacked the heart in the same manner.   The heart was added to the banner with the sentiment.  The little  hearts were punched with a Martha Stewart heart border punch.

 

Here is a side view of the die cuts.  I saw this on someone's blog, but I can't remember whose blog.  I had this idea in head ever since I saw it.  I love that pink in the middle!

 

I used this week's CAS(E) this Sketch, and actually CASED Lynn Mangan's card.  She's the guest there this week.  I love her style!

 

 

You can see more inspiration from the JUGs team on these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Wonderful Words: Love (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, pink pirouette, pink glitter paper

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Wonderful words: love die, WPlus9 banner die, Martha Stewart heart border punch, Golden modeling paste, chevron pattern stencil (Simon Says Stamp), corner rounder

 

Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire: Mixing Mists to Match and August Blog Hop

OK, so I'm kind of stamped out!  I'm participating in the Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire from yesterday and today's blog hop.  I've combined two challenges cause I'm tired!

 These are the colors and sketch I chose for the blog hop because I had the royal velvet reinker to work with for the mixing mists to match challenge.



Nichole gave the recipe to make a mist which was 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol and about 75 drops of the reinker.  I only did about 50 drops.  I don't have any of this color so I don't know how intense it should be, but I think it was fine.

 I wanted to use this circle cover plate as a mask and spray the mist over it and use the negative piece, but it just didn't look right.  So I decided to use the mask since the color was so pretty.  Then I just went about assembling my card.  As I said, I don't have any PTI colors, so I just matched them to SU
 colors as best as I could. 

I've had fun doing all these challenges.  I hope to try more of them later in the week.  School starts (for me) on Thursday with staff development and then again next Tuesday.  Kids come back next Wednesday.  Where did the summer go?  Sigh...

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Rosie Posie, Rosie Posie Step 2, Reason to Smile (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, cool caribbean

Ink:  Royal velvet (reinker), cool Caribbean, night of navy, kiwi kiss, always artichoke

Accessories:  Cover plate circle die, Rosie Posie dies, pearls

Papertrey Ink June 2013 Blog Hop

Hi crafty friends!  I'm participating in today's Papertrey Ink's June Blog Hop!  Today the challenge is to add a touch of gold.  I tried a couple of things before I came up with my final card.

So here's what I came up with.  I took inspiration from a couple of the pictures in the graphic.  I chose the Polka Dot Basics stamp set to emboss the gold dots.   I paired it with this chevron paper from PB&J by Basic Grey.  It looks black, but it's actually a dark navy blue.  The butterfly was cut with the Butterfly Kisses die and then stamped with the coordinating image from the same set in Versamark and embossed in gold.  I added some gold bling for its body and more gold by added the ribbon.  The sentiment is from Vintage Picnic and was stamped and embossed in gold onto a flag die from WPlus9.  All this gold made me dizzy!

 

  I'm on day 2 of my summer vacation and it is so nice to wake to the birds chirping rather than an alarm clock!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Recipe
Stamps:  Polka Dot Basics, Butterfly Kisses, Vintage Picnic (Papertrey Ink)
Paper:  Neenah white, PJ&J (Basic Grey)
Ink:  Versamark
Accessories:  Butterfly kisses die, gold ribbon, WPlus9 flag die, gold detail embossing powder, bling

Papertrey February Blog Hop Challenge

Happy Friday! Well, this is the first time I'm participating in the Papertrey Blog Hop! I wasn't planning on it, but the card I made fits the challenge so I thought I'd enter it. My card also qualifies for the Make It Monday Challenge #3. Here's my card.

I just adored the new Button Boutique stamp set and coordinating dies for the set. I used the block die to cut some pretty new paper I purchased this week at AC Moore. It's from K&Company called Madeline. It reminded me of chintz fabric...perfect for this pinked-edged block. The buttons were cut from Vintage Cream and stamped with the four different button stamps from Button Boutique. I used Certainly Celery and Purely Pomegranate. The Pomegranate ink is a second generation stamping to get the lighter color I wanted. The buttons were strung with some floss in coordinating colors. I also made a strip of glitter using scor-tape and glitter. This was this week's Make It Monday challenge. The sentiment is from Star Prints and was stamped in black Versafine ink. For the blog hop challenge, you were to use scallops on your card. Can you see my scalloped buttons?

Here is a closeup of the glitter strip in case you can't see it.

Of course, I needed a sketch to follow! The Splitcoast sketch this week is what gave me the idea for this card. Now that I'm looking at it, I think I was supposed to have a different color paper above the glitter strip...too late now! And I love the way this card came together! How about you?

Thanks for stopping in today! I'll back tomorrow with a really cool 3D/Technique challenge from Just Us Girls, so make sure you stop by!

Recipe

Stamps: Button Boutique and Star Prints (PTI)

Paper: Vintage cream, Madeline (K&Co.)

Ink: Versafine black, certainly celery, purely pomegranate

Accessories: Button Card Collection dies and Buttoned Up #2 dies (PTI), floss, scor tape, MS glitter, dimensionals