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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;

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);

Clean & Simple Class – Day 3

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What happened to Day 2, you ask? Don’t worry, I’ll post it – I have ideas for the cards, just not enough time!

Today’s class was about inspiration – and as I have a pinterest board full of it, I thought no time like the present to pull from it.

One of my first pins there was a cute grey/yellow hand bag (source). I really loved the yellow/grey color combo, ruffle ribbon, and Damask pattern. So those are the parts I used in my card.

I still wanted some white space on the card, so I didn’t stamp the damask over the entire white panel, and I think I really like it this way! I also think that the pattern and flowers being just on the left help give a vertical flow to a mostly horizontal card.

I need some more grey thread though. The only one I had on hand has a definitely blue-cast which is more obvious than I would like!

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Happy Birthday
Stamps: Damask Designs, Simple Sunflower (PTI);
Paper: Smokey Shadow, White (PTI);
Ink: Grey (Palette); So Saffron, Summer Sunrise, Going Grey (SU);
Other: Smokey Shadow ribbon (PTI);

Clean & Simple Class – Day 1

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I’m already a day behind! BUT I was able to do all 3 sketches today – yay! So maybe I’ll stay only a day behind 🙂

This is my first card. I did cheat a bit. I stamped the background over the entire card base – no masking. Then after I punched out the flowers, I backed that corner with some plain card stock. I had to add the bling – the card just didn’t feel done without it.


 

The second card is my favorite of the three. One day I’ll figure out how to take better pictures!

I started by picking the colors. I knew I needed a good poppin’ combo with this simple layout.

I like to keep my cards somewhat flat – since 95% of my cards go in the mail – so instead of a real button, I die-cut the button.


I’m actually pretty happy with how this final card turned out. I’m normally not really good at picking out a color scheme that involves more than a couple colors, lol. I picked out paper first and then just did my best to match it.

I bought this stamp set just for this image – it is my favorite cupcake image. It was actually quite fun piecing it all together.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Musical Score background (SU); Birthday Basics (PTI);
Colors: Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush (PTI); Cameo Coral marker (SU);
Other: flower punch (EK Success); rhinestones (Hero Arts);
Hello Friend
Stamps: Think Big Favorites 3 (PTI);
Colors: White, Hawaiian Shores (PTI); Regal Rose (SU);
Other: Damask DSP, button die, Hawaiian twill (PTI);
happy biRthDay
Stamps: Baby Button Bits, Birthday Bash Sentiments (PTI);
Colors: Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Chartreuse (PTI); Suede, Bermuda (SU); Black (Memento);
Other: button die (PTI); DSP (Basic Grey);

Joyful Flower

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I created this card for the Less is More challenge – Just One Word (challenge #47). The idea being to use only 1 word on the card.

Once I saw this stamp with the word as part of the image, I knew I wanted to use it. I decided to incorporate a Fall-to-Layout as well (ftl171).

I picked the DSP first and then looked for a flower color to compliment. I settled on Calypso – a very pretty melonish color (and I had coordinating ribbon – always a bonus!).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Joy
Stamps: Signature Series: Flower (PTI);
Colors: Vanilla, Chocolate, Calypso, Wasabi (SU);
Other: Woodland Walk DSP (SU); Calypso ribbon (SU); TANL die (PTI);

Um, I have the die for the flower, but cut it out by hand before I remembered *doh*

Fashionable Ginko

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I created this card for the latest Runway Challenge (ric2).

The pattern in the dress looked stripey without being solid…like ants – which is what text sometimes is referred to as, so that is the direction I went.

I started my card knowing I wanted a border of text paper (actually I started with both sides having a border, but that wasn’t working for me). I wanted to do a book themed card, but I couldn’t find a suitable image to go in the space I had created. I opted instead to go with the ginko leaves (set new to me and itching for ink).

For colors I chose to focus on the yellow shoes and green handbag in the inspiration photo – so I added a bit of blue for an analogous combo.

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Happy Happy Birthday
Stamps: Harvest Berries, Fillable Frames 1 (PTI);
Colors: Lemon Tart, Cream, Black (PTI); Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Saffron (SU);
Other: Newsprint DSP (SU); Heart Border & Fillable Frame 1 dies (PTI); Caribbean twine (Twinery);

Hang the Stockings

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I create this card for this week’s CAS challenge at SCS (CAS149). The challenge was to create a shaped card and use a sketch.

I flipped the sketch upside-down to make my card work for me. The stocking tops are cut from felt and the stocking bottoms are embossed.

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Deck the Halls
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Holiday Lights, Background Basics: Sheet Music;
Colors: Spring Moss, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather, White;
Other: Mat Stack 1 Mega die, Stockings die, Holly Jolly die, Picnic Plaid Impression Plate;

Nature’s Tree

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I was inspired by an adorable card by Julie(HRR) and a cool trimming idea by Lisa Young.

I actually pinned Lisa’s tree when she posted it in October – I wanted to do a tree with sections trimmed with lace or something. But it wasn’t until I saw Julie’s card layout that I figured out how to make my tree into a card.

I originally didn’t want to overwhelm the card with patterned paper as the sky, but now I wish I had at least embossed the background or found a subtle pattern.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Christmas Wishes
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Merry & Bright;
Colors: Kraft, Chocolate, Rain, White, Melon;
Other: Merry & Bright die; Scallop Ribbon die (MFT); glitter;