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Berries Framed

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This weeks’ Make it Monday challenge at PTI (mim12) is to make a card with a pen frame. Such a fun technique!

I always need thank you cards, so I went with that idea. I had seen a card done once using strawberries and the With Sympathy leafy vine. I added little white flowers, not too visible in the layout but after obtaining a few opinions, we all agreed the card was better with them included. My final touch was to use the polka dots on the card base (note – must grab the gingham next time I’m shopping…a picnic feel would have worked with this very well).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thank You
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Green Thumb, With Sympathy, Polka Dots;
Colors: Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf, White, True Black;
Other: pen (Zig Millennium);

Panel Art Inspired

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This card is for another relative who sent some books to the family. I wanted to create a card that had an oriental feel, so I went to Google images and searched for Japanese art. There was a piece that caught my eye immediately – beautiful panel artwork with wispy trees. I tried to recreate it, but fell short. I still like this card, but it isn’t what I was hoping for.

Thanks for taking a peek.

thank you
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree (SU); Communique Sentiments (PTI);
Colors: Vintage Cream (PTI); Watercolor paper (Strathmore); Soft Suede, Early Espresso (SU);
Other: sponges;
Technique: Sponging; Wet Paper Watercoloring;

With Love

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I made this for the Waltzingmouse sketch (wmsc43).

I needed a card to send to a new great-grandma. I chose to do pastel colors. Since this is traveling to Japan, it needed to mail easily as well, so not too embellished. After die-cutting the butterfly I decided to emboss it to help it balance the branches on the other side.

Thanks for taking a peek!

With Love
Stamps: Asian Gardens, Fancy Phrases, Labels 10 (WM);
Colors: Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa (SU), White (PTI);
Other: Butterfly die (PTI), Pearls (Kaiser), Labels 10 die (SB), Plenty of Petals embossing folder (SU);

Rock On

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This was just something that came to me. I’ve been trying to use more pattern paper (I have way too much). The metallic thread is some spirelli thread from Spellbinders – I thought it was a perfect touch for this rockin’ themed card. The sentiment came from Please Be Seated – hee hee, love it when something like that happens.

rock on
Stamps: Extreme Guitar (SU), Please Be Seated (sentiment-SU);
Colors: Brilliant Blue, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Black, White (SU);
Other: Jersey Shore DSP (SU); metallic thread (Spellbinders); star dies (MFT);

Spring = Birds

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This was created for the Stampin’ Royalty spring challenge (src67). Spring definitely means birds to me. I am no professional bird watcher, but I love seeing birds – and hearing them!

When I first put this card together I was using the Summer Sun card stock as the base, a yellow bird, and Pacific as the mat to the green pattern – it was ALL wrong! The card base was too harsh, so instead I used a piece of tone-on-tone pattern paper; that made it better. The yellow bird was just not popping, so I made it blue instead. Almost there. With the bird blue I decided the sentiment would be blue and so I needed a different mat color. I pulled the yellow cardstock back out and that felt right. So much happier with this version.

Thanks for stopping by.

hi
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Cheep Talk;
Colors: Summer Sun, Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive;
Other: Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Lots of Letters chipboard, border punch; machine stitching

Balloons Squared

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Just getting in a little weekend stamping. I created this card for the Moxie challenge – In My Beautiful Balloon.

This card isn’t my favorite, but it isn’t horrible, lol. Not much to really talk about. I chose the pattern paper because of it being bright and I knew as soon as I saw the squared pattern what I would do. I cut the pattern so the white “grout” would act as another mat for the focal panel. And I chose to use the Curly Label punch to help break up the square-ness.

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Stamps: Up, Up & Away (PTI); Everyday Button Bits (sentiment-PTI);
Colors: Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Bashful Blue, White (SU);
Other: Washington Apple DSP (SU); Curly Label Punch (SU); 1″ Circle Punch;

Masked Leaves

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Wow, it took me a long time to figure out what to do with PTI’s latest Make-It-Monday challenge (mim10). The challenge was to use dies for masking. The sample created in the video used reverse masking.

Since no idea was presenting itself automagically, I decided to get all my PTI dies out and rifle through them until the muse got interested. I finally settled on using the leaf dies, but I could easily have done this same thing with flowers.

Anyway, the way I did it: I took a piece of printer paper and cut it to card front size. Then I ran it through my Big Shot with the leaf die, moved the die, ran it through again, ditto (for 3 leaves). Then, just like Lisa’s video, I added repositionable glue and adhered it to my card base. Next was sponging – I used 2 colors per leaf and chose to go from green (summer), to yellow (fall), ending with brown (winter). Finally, with the mask still in place, I went back and stamped the Geometrics grid background over the sponged leaves using vanilla ink.

Of course then I just sat and stared at the card not knowing what to do next! Obviously I figured something out 🙂

Thanks for taking a peek.

Thinking of You
Stamps: Places Please, Vintage Picnic Sentiments, Background Basics: Geometrics (PTI);
Ink: Kiwi, Olive, Curry, Mustard, Suede, Espresso (SU); Vintage Cream (PTI);
Paper: Rustic Cream, Ripe Avocado (PTI);
Other: Rustic Twine (PTI), Leaf dies (PTI), Place Card die (PTI);
Techniques: Reverse Masking, Sponging;

Retro Doilies

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I finally purchased a doily set. There are so many out there! This set is from Maya Road and I love it! The images aren’t huge (the blue one is the biggest of the set), but I think it will do for what I want.

I needed a few quick cards so I could get some RAKs into the mail. I pulled out the doily set and picked a retro-feeling color scheme. The card just took a couple minutes to make. The sentiment is stamped on the same type of paper, trimmed, and popped-up.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thank You
Stamps: Doilies Stamp Sheet (Maya Road); Wonderful Words (SU);
Colors: Rustic White (PTI); Bermuda Bay, Kiwi Kiss, Soft Suede (SU);

Rainbow Flowers

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I created this card for the Make it Monday challenge (mim9) which was to use heat embossing.

I think I was feeling a bit creative tonight as I didn’t use a sketch for this card (*shocking* I know). Heck my muse was so much in charge that I don’t even remember how I got started with this one! [Now if only she’d stick around for awhile.]

I think first came the decision to do clear embossing with sponging (in a rainbow of course). Since I was going with rainbow flowers, I decided to send this card off to my niece (she’s in college-hence the “miss you”), so I kept the rest of the card bright & cheery.

Oh, and I have to tell you my “snowflake”. [Sidenote, my mom and I call it the “snowflake” technique because the first time we decided to cover up a mistake, we ended up using a snowflake.] I sponged the flower heads with the rainbow colors and then went back and added sponging to the stems. The stem sponging *so* did not look right, so I covered up most of the sponging with the ribbon.

When I was putting the card together, I did wonder whether it was balanced or not. I thought about adding something to that top left corner, but instead, I moved the sentiment a little off the card on the left and then added glitter centers to the flowers. I’m thinking the glitter helps with the balance, so the top/left doesn’t feel as empty. What do you think? Could I have achieved balance a better way?

Thanks for taking a peek!

Miss You
Stamps: All About You & Additions, Fillable Frames 2 (PTI);
Colors: Hibiscus, Sunrise, Lemon, Plum, White (PTI); Landscape (Pallette), Turquoise (SU);
Other: Chartreuse ribbon, Fillable Frames 2 die (PTI); glitter (SU); sticky shapes (O’SoSticky);
Techniques: machine stitching, sponging, heat embossing

Graphic Style

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This is another card I created for the styles camp. Clean & simple is my preferred style, so going graphic was very painless. This whole card took only about 15 minutes to put together. Very simple – white embossing on color cardstock and hand-draw a couple lines with a marker and ruler.

I still have a few more to post for this camp, but I do believe this is my favorite!

Thanks
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Fabulous Phrases;
Colors: Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, White;
Other: Black Journal marker, White embossing powder.