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Not What It Seems

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This week’s Make-it-Monday challenge at PTI is about double-sided die-cuts.

Here is the front of my card:

And the inside:

All I can say about my card is that the idea popped right into my head while I was looking for a die to use in this challenge. Yes, turkey butt is part of my vocabulary (you have to get creative when you have kids).

I have no idea when I’ll ever use this card, but my girls are getting older, so maybe it will “keep” for the right occasion 🙂

The sentiment is printed on the computer (Barabara’s Hand, free? font).

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Pretty Bird
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Gobble Gobble, Mat Stack 1 Collection;
Colors: White, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores, Spring Moss, Chocolate;
Other: Woodgrain impression plate, Mat Stack 1 die;

Blue Ribbon

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Today is day 2 of the PTI festivities. Nichole spotlighted the stamp designers – and each designer provided a free digital image! The challenge was to create a card using one of those free digi images. I chose to use Lizzie Jones’ award ribbon.

For this project, I wanted to paper piece the image. To start, I isolated the ribbon image and resized it larger. I put 4 of them on a piece of paper and printed it on regular paper. Then I cut pieces of carstock and pattern paper to cover a section of each image and printed it again. Finally, cut out and assemble.

For those of you who are visual, maybe this will help (click for larger view):

Oh, and one last detail, I did add a little Copic marker to the ribbon head to help give it a little shading.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Congrats
All supplies Papertrey unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Lizzie Jones Digital image, Congrats All Ways;
Colors: White, Black, Harvest Gold;
Other: Bitty Stars – Spring Rain pattern paper, Polka Dot impression plate; dimensionals; Copic markers;

PTI Favorites

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It is anniversary time at Papertrey Ink! This is always an exciting week 🙂 Today stars the festivities and it is all about favorites. Each design team member selected their favorite project from the past year as well as a list of favorite products.

Nichole issued a challenge to make a card inspired by a design team member’s favorites. I chose Dawn McVey. I loved her list of favorites and she has such a great sense of color (something I aspire to).

I thought it might be fun to list my own PTI favorite supplies. Here is my must have list:

  • Fillable Frame Stamps & Dies (11, 4, & 1 specifically)
  • Select White card stock
  • Simply Chartreuse color
  • Birthday Basics stamp set (because I make TONS of birthday cards)
  • Wood Grain impression plate

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Thinking of You
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Rosie Posie, Vintage Picnic Sentiments;
Colors: Raspberry Fizz, Chocolate, Rustic Cream; Bride ink, Limeade ink (SU);
Other: Chocolate twine, Mat Stack 4 die, Rosie dies, Copics;

Willow Wishes

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I created this card for both the Waltzing Mouse sketch challenge (wmsc82) and the Clean & Simple challenge at SCS (cas155).

I admit, I had a hard time with this particular inspiration picture. In the end, I went with the colors and my own memory (we had wonderful willow trees near my childhood home which I loved to hide under).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Best Wishes
Stamps: Blessed by You, Fancy Phrases (WMS);
Colors: Not Quite Navy (ink & paper), Baja Breeze, Vanilla (SU);
Other: Petal Patch DSP (SU); Tag die (Spellbinders); button, twine, Leafy Vine die (PTI);

Tiled in Blue

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I created this card for the For Your Information challenge (fyi23).

Even though the picture is full of modern lines, that isn’t what drew my attention. What I first noticed about the inspiration photo was the tiles along the outside wall of the building – and the colors: white & blue. Those two things together made me think of wedgewood.

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Happy Birthday
Stamps: Toile Blossoms (SU); Fancy Flourishes, Birthday Basics, Background Basics: Text (PTI);
Paper: Blueberry Sky, Kraft, White (PTI);
Ink: Crumb (cuz I forgot that I own PTI Kraft now), Brocade Blue (SU);
Other: Blueberry ribbon, Edgers die, Doily Details die, Flourishes die, Butterfly die (PTI); white Pearls (Kaiser);
Technique: Faux Tiles or Grid Technique

Garden in the Orient

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I created this card for the For Your Inspiration challenge (fyi22).

My stamping time has really taken a hit since we adopted a new puppy last month. But I’ve had an idea in my head for this challenge ever since it was posted. I finally made myself stamp last night. I could have created a few different cards I was so inspired by the image, but I settled on this one because the colors and bridge in the IP is what caught my eye first.

I love this set by Waltzing Mouse and this was just too good an opportunity not to use it! I did have a couple false starts with it, but I am happy with the final product.

I also feel good because that green velvet ribbon is from my HUGE stash of ribbon. Sometimes it is nice to be able to find exactly what you need!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Birthday Wishes
Stamps: Asian Garden & Additions (WMS);
Colors: Canyon Clay, Vanilla, Avocado, Chocolate (PTI); Saffron (SU);
Other: Green velvet ribbon (stash);

Birthday Rainbow

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I created this card for the Waltzing Mouse sketch challenge (wmsc80).

I took a little liberty and imagined each stripe in the sketch as its own color – instead of two alternating colors. I also dropped the sentiment panel down because that just felt right. To steal words from Amber, it felt too predictable otherwise.

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Happy Birthday
Stamps: Say it Loud (WMS);
Colors: Hibiscus, Summer Sunrise, Lemon, Chartreuse, Hawaiian, White (PTI); Wisteria (SU);
Other: bracket border punch (EK Success);

Clean & Simple Class – Day 5

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Day 5 was about techniques. I took the spotlight technique and simplified it. I stamped the map on both green and blue paper then used a circle punch to punch out my spotlights in a grid pattern.

I left off the “base” image as an attempt to simplify the technique and card. I felt there were enough glimpses of the map to know what it is (even though some of them are not the right angle – I did *try* to punch in a grid, lol).

Since I used a map image, I’m also entering this in the Moxie Fab challenge, Map to Your Heart.

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Welcome to the Neighborhood
Stamps: map (Inkadinkado); sentiment from Home Made (PTI);
Colors: Rustic Cream, Aqua Mist, Spring Moss (PTI);
Other: circle punch;

Clean & Simple Class – Day 7

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Day 7 is all about plain white cards. I actually love doing plain white cards.

For this card, I also took inspiration from the CASE Study blog challenge (#73). This month’s muse there is Jen Rzasa.

I liked how she had different colors of the same pattern and the banner sentiment with rhinestones and the little loop of ribbon.

I haven’t figured out how to cut my dies apart, so instead of creating negative punches, I just die cut the pattern paper and popped-it on the card.

I felt the background needed something. Then I remembered how Gayatri recently created her own impression plate. So I gave that a try for myself. I die cut a bunch of clouds from thin cardboard and adhered them to another cardboard. I’m quite happy having this impression plate now!

Oh, and the final card size is actually 4 x 5 1/2 (I needed to leave room in the envelope for the loop of ribbon).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Birthday Wishes
Stamps: Up Up & Away (PTI);
Colors: White, Black (PTI);
Other: Good Morning Sunshine DSP (SU); Copic-Colored Rhinestones (Kaiser); Ribbon (stash); Cloud & Balloon dies (PTI);