Vikki's Paper Trail: May 2017

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Make It Monday #285: Felt Flowers

The challenge this week featured Lizzie Jones who shared a felt flower tutorial on

her blog Don't Forget to Write. It's full of ideas and many beautiful creations which

she uses on gifts and tags. I no longer use hot glue guns due to past finger burning

incidents. (Grin) Instead I created a flat flower using a Kay Miller mandala die and

two leaf die-cuts from Gran's Garden, an idea I cased off Dawn McVey's card from

the April release week. It turned out better than I thought it might because 1) my

stash of old patterned paper contained this dotty gem and 2) the PTI lavender moon

card stock. The mandala base is cut from PTI tiny dot vellum and mounted on foam

tape hidden behind all of the felt die cuts. A dot of lime green Stickles to the flower

center finished the flower. The sentiment is a favorite from PTI Winter Woods.

I really love the PTI wool felt. This card will be mailed to a friend next week.

Linked to: MIM Capture the Moment

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

This month's yummy inspiration print from irtsya

and now for my interpretation for this month's PTI Blog Hop

I misted my stamps after inking to get a softer, water colored look.

While the supplies were out, I made another card, same design.

Card #2 uses different colors but the same stamp and

die sets with paint chips die cut for the flowers and bow.

PTI Products unless noted otherwise:

Stamps: Beautiful Berries: Spring, Friendship Jar Flowers, Make It Market: Sunshine & Rainbows (black floral center) Dies: Bells & Boughs, Friendship Jar Fillers, Noted: Scalloped Vertical Inks: Distress-abandoned coral, picked raspberry, worn lipstick; Hero Arts Chalkboard Black, Soft Violet, Stone Wash; Ranger Cloud Blue Paper: PTI Soft Stone, Ranger water color

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