Spring time in my yard

Sunrise

Driveway bouquets

Tulip glory

afternoon stroll in the back yard

fresh bark mulch freshens our space

blessed with my garden of eden

Love

Make it Monday #320
Spot Color Word Diecuts

This week's challenge from Betsy Veldman on the PTI blog

is a new technique for me. I noticed that it makes a difference seeing the diecut word when it is "fatter" and the ink stamping lighter. I used the rose image from Botanical Blocks and the die from Wonderful Words: Love. It's a fun effect!

Card Supplies:

  Stamp: PTI Botanical Blocks

  Dies: PTI Mix & Mat: Postal, Wonderful Words: Love

  PTI Green Parakeet card stock, Ranger Water color paper

  Copic markers and SSS rhinestones 

Love You

Papertrey April Blog Hop

It's April 25 and time for another PTI Blog Hop!

Our inspiration is below.

I was drawn to the floral bouquet on the bottom tea cup, the curvy gold edges of the china and the subtle pattern of the background. My paternal grandmother who was not the least bit domestic had a set of china like this. My mom was totally into homemaking but used very modern, graphic patterned dishes, not one floral in her cupboards. Me, I'm a happy-in-between gal with my favorite set of Portmerion Botanic Garden dish ware!

Card Parts - all PTI: 
  Butterfly Blooms (sentiment)

  Stitching Garden stamps & dies

  Mix & Mat: Flourishes die (outer frame only)

  Aqua Mist Bitty Big & vellum card stock

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you're a delight

What fun to discover a cache of stamped die cuts that coordinate 

with pattern paper from Papertrey's Hooray kit! I added a sentiment 

from Concord & 9th's new Wreath Turnabout set.  

I can't decide if I like it with the bird or not. what do you think?

Card Parts:

Stamps & Dies: PTI Doodlie-Do, Hero Arts MMH February Spoken Bird kit; PTI Mix & Mat: Confetti die  
Sentiment: Concord & 9th Wreath Turnabout

Linking to: SSS Flower Power - Monday challenge
Tic Tac Toe 044  I used the 3rd column down- dimension, ink, patterned paper

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Merry

I'm on a roll for producing Christmas cards ahead of time now that I've found a couple year-round challenges focused on Christmas. This month's CAS Christmas: Ornament challenge prompted me to create an ornament not from a stamp but from a wreath die cut which was backed by another circle die cut and hung on a silver ribbon. The "merry" from PTI's Sprig Wreath was embossed with sparkly platinum EP on a PTI Shape Shifters: Round die cut.  VersaMark ink, clear EP and a SSS Snow Falling stencil with ink blended DI added texture around the merry. The wreath was foam mounted to the "merry" circle with a few aqua glitter PTI Confetti Garland border stars added. The ornament was grounded with light stenciling on the card, the green ink at the top hinting that a tree branch is near.  

Happy you...birthday...everything...

Make it Monday #319
Graffiti Word Art

Last minute card Sunday evening/early Monday morn to join the MIM challenge. I found a word die in PTI's Tipped Tops die set, cut it from water color paper, blended three Distress Inks across it, and glued it on a pattern paper from PTI's Hooray! kit. After stamping three more words around the "Happy" I added tiny diamond crystal Stickles dots to the banners, cut a scalloped border and adhered it to a white card front. 

all is calm, all is bright

I popped by the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge this week which focused on using a favorite Christmas verse. Immediately the words to Silent Night came to mind and a PTI Christmas Faith stamp set of shorter phrases, one of which was from Silent Night. The scene was stamped with an older Hero Arts cling stamp, Merriest Christmas Wishes, and inked with Broken China DI Oxide on the bumpier side of a Ranger water color paper panel. The paper texture caused spotted coverage even with two tries which sort of looks like a snowy evening around the lone bird. A sentiment was stamped with black ink below and the panel adhered to a white card front.

While I had the Hero Arts stamp out, I made two more cards of different designs. The second card framed the square with a PTI Center Style: Feminine die cut from silver card stock and a PTI Bells & Boughs' sentiment. This was centered on an aqua panel banded with a coordinated pattern paper and added to an A2 white card

The third card uses the PTI Quilted: Tag Sale to frame the scene. In this panel I manipulated the oxide ink with water to create a varied look before white embossing a sentiment from PTI's Thrill of Hope.

I fell in love with the aqua birch tree pattern paper and added it to the card front before mounting the tag on foam.

Fantastic to have three cards ready for next Christmas!

hello friend

Make it Monday #318

Simple Stitched Stems

My card was inspired by Michelle Leone's card on this week's

MIM challenge on the PTI blog. She did a super job on her first

ever video as a PTI design team contributor.  I was also inspired 

by my friend Greta who frequently uses felt in her projects and

did for this same challenge. Truly this is a case of her project.

I made a bookmark for a retired teacher friend's birthday.

The back was finished with another Basic Bookmark 2 cut  

from Autumn Rose card stock. This is my first stitching on a
paper crafting item that I can recall. What a fun challenge!

Papertrey Ink supplies:

Oopsie! Daisy stamps & dies provided the stem, leaves and Scarlet Jewel felt flower.

Bitty Button Stacks dies cut the Lavender Moon & Limeade Ice felt flower parts

Infinity Phrase Sentiments  for the lilac colored "LOVE YOU"

Thinking of You

One more for SSS Happy Birthday Wednesday Challenge 

I like background cling stamps but often forget to use them. This winter SSS

released the rubber cling Center Cut Heart Background stamp which can be used 

with many techniques. I chose to stamp with Versamark ink and use white EP to 

show it off. I die cut the panel with a SSS stitched rectangle die, centered it on an

A2 light gray card and added a little banner with enamel dots. At the last minute 

I used my Prismacolor pencils to color the little heart above the banner. A large 

stamp like this one takes full stage on most any project. The next time I want to

only use the center heart with a sentiment to keep it simpler.

hb my friend

On PTI's April Color Ambassador post today, Lexi Daly discussed 

the use of complimentary color pairs. I had just made a birthday

card for my friend who likes purple and added an older floral die

 cut for contrast. It needed a sentiment but the two large white alphabet  

letters looked rather blah on the purple panel. Knowing that yellow is

purple's opposite on the color wheel I sponged DI squeezed lemonade 

on the letters creating an ombre effect which provided the pizazz that  

had been missing. A secondary sentiment was white embossed on a  

black banner to ground the "hb". Yellow enamel dots were added and 

a birthday wish was stamped inside.  

Card Supplies:

PTI Shape Shifters: Oval 1 die

SSS Memory Box Meadow Rue die (NA)

Altenew Bold Alphabet dies

PTI Infinity Frames Sentiments

PTI Bitty Big lilac paper

Linked to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge celebrating their 9th birthday

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Sending sunshine and smiles

SSS Monday Challenge: A Trio of Something
Make it Monday #317: Using Outline Images

It's spring and time for butterflies and flowers!

Today's card used a variety of Papertrey stamps and a Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die.
This was a bit of a challenge as I had cataract surgery on my "good" eye this morning!

Solid or color images:

PTI Beautiful Butterflies, Stitched Garden

Outline or black images:

PTI Doodlie-Do (sentiment), Oopsie! Daisy, Rustic Wreath

Inks:

Brilliance Pearl Orchid & Pearl Sky, Ranger Archival Black & DIO twisted citron

I'm linking this to 

PTI Make it Monday #317 

 SSS Monday Challenge: A Trio of Something 

I used 3 colors, 3 daisies, 3 different sized butterflies, 

3 sets of 2 different sprigs of leaves and a trio of dots

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