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Love Mail

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I created this card for PTI’s Day 7 challenge – to use hearts. I chose to use the Mailbox Greetings set because it has a cute heart bunch, but then I ended up not using it, lol.

I re-used yesterday’s sketch too. I can see me using that a LOT! 🙂

The card is pretty straight foward.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thinking of You
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Mailbox Greetings, Background: Text Style;
Colors: Kraft, White, Spring Moss; Blushing Bride (SU);
Other: Heart Border die; markers (Copic); sewing machine;

Owl Be Yours

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This card started a few days ago for the PTI color challenge. I had chosen to use Lisa’s colors: Kraft, Poppy, Moss, Aqua. But I couldn’t get it to work, so I set it aside.

Then I decided to catch up on my normal weekly challenges – like the Clean & Simple challenge at SCS. This weeks is to use hearts (cas156).

When stamping the bough, I did not ink one of the sub-branches because I knew the owls would be sitting there. It is hard to see in the photo, but I used the wood grain impression plate on the card base.

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owl be yours
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Wise Owl, Out on a Limb;
Colors: Aqua, Vintage Cream, Kraft, Moss;
Other: Poppy felt, Wood Grain impression plate;

Stitched Thoughts

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I created this card for PTI’s Day 6 festivities. I chose to use sketch 2 – and stuck exactly to it.

I chose to use the Stitches & Swirls set because it hadn’t seen ink yet. Also, it seemed to go with the stitched border in the sketch.

This card is for Operation Write Home, so I wanted this to be very mailable (flat).

Thanks for taking a peek!

thinking of you
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Stitches & Swirls, Botanical Silhouettes (sentiment);
Colors: Chocolate, White, Hibiscus, Spring Moss;
Other: sewing machine

Inspired Wish

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Well, I missed yesterday’s PTI challenge (color challenges are not easy for me, not sure why). But I definitely had to join in today’s – it was all about Pinterest. I love Pinterest (read ‘I spend way too much time on Pinterest.’) 🙂

I recently pinned this little beauty. I found it through Pinterest, but it originally came from Minted.

I was really drawn to how the circles overlapped and their darker heart images.

To do my stamping, I inked up the circle and stamped it on scratch paper first and then stamped onto my project. The stars are fully inked when stamped.

I’m actually quite pleased with this card – I have a real hard time with one-layer cards and this one doesn’t feel lacking!

If you are interested, here is a link to my Pinterest boards.

Wish Big
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Beautiful Blooms 2 (largest circle), Big Bold Wishes, Around and About Sentiments (star);
Colors: White, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst; Grey (Palette); Saffron (SU);
Other: nada!

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.

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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;

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 4

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Day 4 of class was to take a stamp and use it in different ways. I chose to use the large floral spray in the Elements of Style set by StampinUp.

My first card uses the spray as a background. I stamped it in very light ink a couple times on the card base.

To do the sentiment, I stamped the frame in a dark brown (to help pull the focus) and colored it with Copics. I’m a cutter – of stamps 🙂 The sentiment was trimmed so I could stamp the words separately.

I really like how this one turned out.

For the second card, I wanted to use the spray as the focal image. Of course, I didn’t have a lot of time to color the whole thing, and Day 5’s lesson was in my head – so I chose to do a technique: Spotlighting.

This time I stamped the spray in dark brown (since it should be the focus).

I embossed the background – not sure if that lessens the CASness, but I like the feel it adds.

I also chose to keep the same colors for all the cards.

I really wasn’t sure what I would do for the last card. I knew I wanted to do something unexpected with it. After looking over the lesson again, I liked how Kristina & Julie used their image within other images. That made me remember this totally awesome card by Dawn O. So I cased it.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Best Wishes
Stamps: Elements of Style, Four Frames, Oval All (SU);
Colors: Cream (PTI); Bamboo ink (CTMH); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento);
Other: markers-R20, R22, YG91 (Copic); ribbon (PTI);
Happy Birthday – Spotlight
Stamps: Elements of Style, Warmest Regards (SU);
Colors: Cream (PTI); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento);
Other: markers-R20, R22, R24, YG91, YG93 (Copic); Fancy Tags 1 die (Spellbinders); pearls (Hero Arts); Square Lattice embossing folder (SU); circle die (Spellbinders);
Happy Birthday – Butterfly
Stamps: Elements of Style (SU); For Every Occasion (CTMH);
Colors: Cream (PTI); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento);
Other: markers-R20, R22, YG91, YG93 (Copic); Butterly die (SU); pearls (Kaiser);

Lattice Play

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I created this card for the For Your Information challenge (fyi21).

I woke up with mojo today! I actually die cut the lattice last night, but it was bedtime, and I didn’t really know what I was going to do – only that the shape of the lattice reminded me of the shape of the alcoves in the inspiration picture.

So this morning I woke up and it all came together for me. Once I got the lattice die cut back into the kraft layer, I decided to add the four white diamond die-cuts (to mimic the bright light coming in from the far back window in the photo). As a final touch I added the rhinestones (to mimic the light refractions).

And since I love this card so much, I’m submitting it for the Moxie Fab die cut challenge

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Fillable Frames #11, Inside-Out: Birthday (PTI);
Colors: Enchanted Evening, Fine Linen, Kraft, White (PTI);
Other: Lattice die (SU); Rhinestones (Hero Arts); Fillable Frame #11 die (PTI);