This card is for the PTI Anniversary – Color Challenge.

I used Heather’s color scheme:

Those colors really worked well for what I was going for, which is inspired by Amy’s awesome card.

Here is my card:

I am in love with the plaid Mix & Mat! And pairing it with the seasonal greenery sets makes so much sense to me.

To do the sentiment, I trimmed the “s” from the “season’s” die and the sub-sentiment is partial inking of a sentiment from a totally different set.

Thanks for taking a peek!

I’m pretty certain I will never say “thanks, but no stamps”!! Today’s card is for PTI’s No Stamps Challenge.

Why is it that I am fully capable of creating a card without stamps until someone tells me to do that very thing??!! I managed, but I’m only feeling so-so about the final card:

I had lots of ideas but nothing was working for me. I finally decided to play with the distress crayons I got ages ago and then was too intimidated to use (which, since it took me YEARS to try distress inks, shouldn’t be a surprise). This was the first time I put them to paper an the fact that I could use the result does impress me, lol. I know I goofed and I did learn from the process, but I was happy enough to call it done!

I was thinking this would be a good masculine card, but when putting the leaf bits down, I didn’t like the way they overlapped, so I die cut a little floral bit for the center. Now all I see is that floral bit and it is just enough to throw me off.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Today’s card is for the PTI – Retiring Stamps challenge.

Here is my card:

I squeezed 3 retiring sets onto this card: Garden Grace, Think Big Favorites #1, and Clipsters Kit!

Taking advantage of the flower set having both solid and outline images, I used an oldie-but-goodie technique to stamp the flowers: Wet Paper Watercoloring.

Thanks for taking a peek!

This post is for the PTI’s Floral Challenge.

I have lots of flower sets to chose from, but I ended up going with The Sweet Life – a favorite:

I hardly ever use pattern paper because I have a hard time working with it. I had the idea for this layout and didn’t want to let it go. Getting the stamping colors right took forever! I like the vintage feel of the final card.

Thanks for taking a peek!

I’m playing along with the next Papertrey celebration challenge: Transformation Tuesday.

The idea behind the challenge is to take a past card and transform it – either to make it better or just to change it up. I had selected a few cards, but settled on this one:

And here is my remake:

From the old card, I kept the dark chocolate card base, the frosting border die, and the bling on the flowers. I changed up the cake and flower colors and the overall layout. For the layout I used a past PTI Inspiration sketch as well – from April 2014.

I am so so happy with how this turned out!!

Thanks for taking a peek!

It is February and that means Papertrey Ink is celebrating another birthday – 11 this year!!

For the first day of their celebration, we are using one of the provided sketches. I went with Lizzie’s sketch mostly because my cover plates don’t get nearly enough love! Here is my card:

As I’ve said many times before – I love rainbows! I knew I wanted to do a birthday card (my stash is in need), so I thought a rainbow would be perfect and I have a fun scallop cover plate to carry the theme.

I wanted that rainbow to be the focus, so I kept everything else very simple and just white. I really love how white can act as a pop of color!

To make my background, I took a large piece of watercolor paper and used kid-grade watercolors to make my color stripes. The oranges offered in my set are very pale, so I did end up using a distress ink for that. I die cut the scallop cover plate from the watercolored panel, and the rest of the panel was kept whole and used to back the die cut.

Thanks for taking a peek!