FYI – Neo Graphic

Posted on February 7, 2013 by kth

It is time for another For Your Inspiration challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> FYI39.

This photo is full of modern design. I pulled my inspiration from the window design and the bright colors.

The bright colors caught my eye first so I pulled out ink that I think represented them well. Next, I chose to work with Square Prints because it has a great triangle image that represented the window design to me.

Since the overall feel of the photo is modern, I kept my card simple and graphic.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Debbie
Michelle
Mynnette
Regina
Rochelle
Rudlis
Sara
Steph
Vicki

I hope you join us at For Your Inspiration!

A Little About the Challenge: The For Your Inspiration challenge is posted the first and third Thursday of every month; each challenge is open for two weeks. To play, use the photo to inspire you and create a card – very simple! Make sure you tell us in your blog post how you were inspired!

Happy Birthday

Stamps: Square Prints, Birthday Basics (PTI);
Ink/Card Stock: White (PTI); Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie (SU);

My MVP

Posted on January 31, 2013 by kth

So the lesson on day 3 was about techniques. Kristina’s video was about offset stamping (which I still do want to try), but it reminded me about a repetition technique. I don’t know if it has a name or not, but the idea is to represent movement by stamping your image repeatedly without re-inking. Like so:

This card was inspired by the current CAS-ology cue (game). I chose to do football based on the Inspired By challenge.

I chose Denver Bronco colors for this card. When we moved to Colorado my husband started rooting for the local team. I too root for them – as long as they are not playing MY team – the Ravens (which they’ve done a couple times this year). I’m so excited that my team made it to the Super Bowl (and even more stoked that the bowl is brother coaches!!).

Thanks for taking a peek!

You are my MVP

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Have a Ball, All Star Team;
Ink/Card Stock: Enchanted Evening, Orange Zest, Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate;
Other: Block Alpha dies;

Birthday Blues

Posted on January 31, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #10 – colors & sketch. Since this is a bonus week in the month – you get both a sketch and colors to work with!

And here is my take:

I’m not normally one to combine challenges, but when I do, I start with the colors – because, to me, they dictate the type of card I’ll be making. Though I will admit that if I can make a birthday card, that is what I’ll do (and did in this instance).

I did have some other thoughts – blue bringing to mind snow or sympathy, but once I found this sentiment I knew the blues would work for a birthday card.

I didn’t want the arrows to overpower the sentiment, so I made sure they were the lightest shade of blue. The frame is medium blue, and the sentiments are dark.

The frame is popped-up on dimensionals – but everything (including the framed sentiment) is stamped directly on the white card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

What Goes Up

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Movers & Shakers Sentiments, Get to the Point;
Ink/Card Stock: White, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening; Island Indigo (SU);
Other: Fabulous Frames die; dimensionals;

Just Flippin’ Relax

Posted on January 29, 2013 by kth

It is after 8pm, so the title may not be funny in the morning, but right now I’m feelin’ kinda clever 😉

So anywho…lesson 2 at Clean & Simple Cards (Online Card Classes) is about one layer cards. I don’t normally get into masking and other techniques (I take forever to do a simple stamped card, if you add any complexity and it may take me a week to complete). However! Debby Hughes provided a cool card where she used a die to deboss and it added some depth and interest to the card.

As I was going through my stamp index, I saw this flip-flop set and this idea immediately came to me.

The idea being the embossed flip-flops are the past footprints (maybe that is obvious??) and the ink splatters are sand granules.

I like the idea, but I think I could have done better in execution – and patience. I used Jennifer’s ink splatter idea, but lost patience in waiting for it to dry (I smooshed scratch paper down to soak up the extra water and just made ugly blobs instead – learn from my mistake!!). To try to cover that up I used an ink spritzing tool to add additional color spots.

Also I think I could have placed the flip-flops (both stamped and embossed) a little better for balance. BUT I’m pretty much a “done is done” gal.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Relax

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Flipping Out;
Ink/Card Stock: Fine Linen, Ocean Tides, Dark Chocolate, Kraft;
Other: Flipping Out dies; R22 marker (Copic); ink spritzer tool (SU);

Coral and Gold

Posted on January 29, 2013 by kth

Today’s lesson at Online Card Classes was about one layer cards. Ack! I always have a hard time with these types of cards!

For this card I decided to take on an idea I’ve had in my head for while. I love this stamp set and when I first saw it I knew I wanted to do a gradient coloring. I chose gold because Maile has been rocking the gold lately and I chose coral because I recently pinned an inspiration that was gold and coral (and coral is just not-pink enough that I really like the color).

I lined up my card base on my grid paper and made sure I stamped everything straight. Again, I can’t say enough how well a juicy Versamark pad goes to good embossing. After embossing I colored in the sections with my Copics (R01, R02, and R05).

And those lovely markers allowed me to play along with CAS-ual Friday challenge too!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Quilled Elegance, Think Big Favorites 12;
Ink/Card Stock: White;
Other: Versamark ink; Gold embossing powder; Copic markers;

Birthday Post

Posted on January 28, 2013 by kth

I was so excited when I found out that Online Card Classes was having another Clean & Simple course. I loved the first edition and signed up for this one right away. Today is the first lesson – about craftmanship.

I recently purchased the Postmarks set and Julie’s card made me think about the set so I had to use it. I didn’t want to use stark red and blue colors, so I toned them down and used pink and teal.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Postmarks, Birthday Basics;
Ink/Card Stock: White, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores;
Other: Postage die; white pearls (Kaiser);

School Acceptance

Posted on January 27, 2013 by kth

My niece was recently accepted to an arts university. She plays the piano. I created this card to send to her.

I wasn’t sure how I wanted to color the piano, so I left it plain. That meant I needed the rest of the card to stay pretty simple as well. I added just a bit of pattern paper at the top to add color.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Congratulations

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Rhythm & Soul;
Ink/Card Stock: Black, White;
Other: Melon Berry Sweet Symphony pattern paper, Melon Berry robbon, Edgers #4 die;

Black Backgrounds

Posted on January 25, 2013 by kth

Nichole is hosting the January PTI Blog Hop – where the theme was Black Backgrounds.

I used a recent retro sketch for my layout.

I really love how any color just pops off a black background!

I think I’ve used the Day Dreamer stamp set just once since I bought it, but now that there are coordinating dies – this set will get a lot of use. The dies make it so easy to layer/overlap the images.

I used an old set (Faux Ribbon) to create the lines the frame the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

Wishes & Dreams

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Day Dreamer, Faux Ribbon;
Ink/Card Stock: True Black, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Limeade Ice;
Other: White embossing powder (Filigree); dimensionals.

Gold Star

Posted on January 24, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #9 – sketch.

2013-01-24

And here is my take:

I’m not quite ready to make Valentine cards, so I looked through my stash to see what other large shape I could use. Since I needed an academic-based congrats card, I went with a star.

It is hard to tell in the photo but the stamped star image on the die-cut star is gold embossed.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Congrats

Stamps: Super Stars, Fruit Fusion: Apple, Congrats All Ways (PTI); Lined Paper background (Cornish Heritage Farm);
Ink/Card Stock: Hawaiian Shores, Lemon Tart, White, Pure Poppy, Black (PTI);
Other: Gold embossing powder (Filigree); Spiral punch (SU); Star die & Apple die (PTI);

Star CASE

Posted on January 23, 2013 by kth

I’ve been in love with Laura Bassen’s work for a long while now. Early last year she posted this card that I pinned immediately. I really love the way she layered the negative die-cuts. I didn’t want to just out-right copy the card, but it has taken me all this time to figure out how to CASE it!

I chose my colors so that I could send the card to a boy or a girl (we’ll just forget that I loaded it with bling thus, in my opinion, negating that goal).

Since my nieces and nephews are getting to the age where they are accomplishing much, I chose to go with a “congrats” theme so I’d have a good card on hand when needed.

The general layout of the card is from an upcoming challenge (this card just ended up a bit “more” than what is looked-for). Nonetheless, it is one of my favorites!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Congrats

All supplies Papertrey unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Congrats All Ways, Simply You;
Ink/Card Stock: White, Hawaiian Shores, Limeade Ice, Harvest Gold, Black;
Other: Star dies, Polka Dots impression plate; rhinestones (Kaiser); circle tags (Sizzix); twine;

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Category Archives: Papertrey Ink

FYI – Neo Graphic

My MVP

Birthday Blues

Just Flippin’ Relax

Coral and Gold

Birthday Post

School Acceptance

Black Backgrounds

Gold Star

Star CASE