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It's release week for the new Papertrey Ink products! PTI sponsors a challenge to recreate an inspiration from the design team with our own stash called Create Along with Us. It's a dilemma to choose a project or designer but here goes.

Kelly Lunceford's darling wreath with the gourds caught my eyes. 

My focus was the wreath frame, three brightly colored elements (gourds), 

a large sentiment and gingham paper card front. 

I used a favorite Cover Plate: Stitched Die, cutting it from watercolor paper and coloring each leaf blade and the vine with a water brush and my inexpensive tin of watercolors. Since my card is for bird man Jim to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary on Sunday, the gourds morphed into a couple of Brushed Birds and a Botanical Bounty bloom stamped with Hero Arts and Brilliance inks. The birds were each backed with another bird cut in blue paper, offset slightly and popped up with foam tape. The bloom and PTI sentiment are glued directly to the cover plate panel. This was centered on an old Soft Stone pattern paper and taped directly to a white card front. The birdies got a bit of Wink O Stella on their heads. I will try this again using PTI Rustic and Twig Wreaths.

My sweetie!

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