Spring Cards - Stencils, Wings etc

Here are three cards I've recently posted on my Instagram site vikkispapertrailetc. Too lazy to regularly blog I sometimes worry that IG may not be the best place to keep track of card details.  Thanks for joining me today.

Card #1

Card Menu: 

The Greetery: Always in Bloom stencil, 

PTI Scallop Stackers: Medium die

Card #2

Card Menu:

Hero Arts My Monthly April Kit: butterflies, sentiment

PTI: Songbirds die (negative panel)

Concord & 9th inks

Card #3

Card Menu:

Altenew Feathered Leaves stencil

The Greetery: Crimped Circle die

PTI: Butterfly Blooms, Palm Prints

SSS: Sentiment Strips

Cards 1 and 3 are linked to SSSWC: Stencil It. 

Cards 2 and 3 are linked to SSSMC: Things with Wings

Color Hues: TCH #7

Happy holidays on the first of December! I'm delighted to join the Color Hues 7th challenge today as the guest designer. This bi-monthly challenge focuses on a two color palette in your card design. 

The two colors selected this session work well

 for winter themes, don't you agree?

Card #1

My first card sparkles with starry blue holographic paper on one ornament and magenta shimmer paper decorating the second. The blue ball dangles via a scored line from the pine needles. Both ornaments and pine spray were directly glued on a die cut panel which was then adhered to a top-folding white card front. 

Card Menu: Nordic Frames die (The Greetery)

Pine Needle Trio dies (SSS)

What the Doodle: Ornament die (PTI) first time to use this one

December Typed Words (PTI)

Card #2

I hate to discard negative die cuts especially when they serendipitously all line up. After a trim the white rectangle was directly glued to a blue panel to create the blue needles. The winter sentiment will let me use this for Christmas or other occasions.

Card Menu:

Pine Needle Trio dies (SSS)

an old HA monthly kit sentiment

vellum banner (The Greetery)

The Color Hues team have beautiful ideas that you can see on the blog. They would love for you to play along with their new challenge.

My cards are also linked to the SSSW challenge: Anything Goes

Thank you for your visit!

Deck the Halls

One more September post with the excellent sketch provided by Donna Mikasa on the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge which ends in a few hours! Nothing like waiting until the last minute or two. 

Card Menu: Altenew Holiday Bow and PTI Bells & Boughs

PTI Soft Stone card stock, Silver Stickles, Wink 'O Stella

Be sure to stop by CAS(E) for lots of wonderful entries!

Butterflies Three

 Today's post shares three cards using the same PTI Butterfly Hope set, two of similar one layer designs and the third card with multiple die cuts and texture. They were created for the July Twofer Card Challenge focusing on butterflies used in two different designs. I have four PTI butterfly stamp sets and chose Butterfly Hope with its carefree, modern look.

First the pair of similar cards:

The fill-in portion of the butterfly wings was stamped with DI. Several of the smaller images were stamped with light gray and saffron HA inks. The panel was finished with a SS Wonky Rectangles die and added to a yellow card front.

Copic and Altenew Artists markers colored the butterflies. I cut a curved edge on a piece of cardstock and used it as a guide for the DI Speckled Egg ink blended for the cloudy sky background. Panel cut with SS Stitched Rectangles.

Card #3

I taped a piece of SSS white woodgrain card stock to a top folding card front. A Shape Shifters: Oval 1 die was cut from gold shimmer paper and centered on the card. The gold embossed butterfly was stamped with Hero Arts inks, die cut, and popped up with foam tape. A small vellum circle was embossed with Rose Gold Wow EP and tucked under the butterfly to hide the adhesive. Both sentiments are from a PTI Simple Stems set.

Hope Your Birthday is the Best!

Several birthdays this month so I've been busy! Now that one card has been received I'll share it. You can create a rainbow card with stamps, dies, paper, paint etc and I chose watercolors, specifically the Altenew 36 watercolors pan set. Using a panel of Ranger water color paper and a wide brush, I painted and blended each new color diagonally across the panel. Between the three color groups I painted a thin strip in silver. The panel was left to dry overnight. Next step: taping a PTI Woodblock Prints stencil over the panel and smearing a thin coat of Nuvo Glimmer paste over it. I carefully removed the stencil, quickly rinsed it, and again left the panel to dry. This was trimmed with a SSS Stitched Rectangle die and taped on a PTI Lavender Moon card front. A small pre-printed SSS sentiment was framed in black and foam mounted over the center area. Voila! I enjoy mixing products from several companies and a bit of glitter never hurts a project either!

I'm adding this card to July's Show & Share challenge.

Colorful Cards

I saw the lineup of my favorite Clarks All Stars on the latest Inspired by Challenge Colorful Kicks (my pair are the Oregon Ducks' green) and wondered what to create. I don't recall any shoe stamps or dies in my storehouse but improvisation is part of a challenge. Using the PTI Brushed Off set I stamped two different rainbow cards. The rainbow lineup of the shoes inspired my design on both cards. Ranger Distress inks were used for the rainbow hues (the new Speckled Egg on the first card). BTW,  I also do not own rainbow stamps or dies.

Card #1

 Altenew Line Art; PTI Brushed Off

Card #2

Birch Press Celebrate; PTI Brushed Off & Circle Scribbles 

Delicate wreath set

The month of May is my busiest birthday card season, how about you? I begin the middle of April because once May 9 arrives it's non-stop through May 14 with a few days having double or triple friends to celebrate. I also sent a small set of notecards as gifts to a couple of friends adding to the crafting fun! Today's post shares one of these sets plus the birthday card that accompanied it. All five cards used Pink Fresh Studio's Delicate Wreath stamp and with the exception of the birthday card were one-layer stamped panels attached directly to A2 card fronts. The sentiments were either from the same set or PTI's Walk by Faith.

The birthday card

Using my Misti I stamped the wreath using green, pool and light tan inks onto a cream PTI Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical panel. The interior of the wreath was cut with a Delicate Wreath die and the panel was rotated sideways and trimmed to fit the kraft card. A DI ink blended scrap of white card stock was adhered to the card front and the panel foam mounted to create a framed window for the sentiment, wood bird, and sequins.

Card #2

The wreath was stamped with ombre shades of Altenew inks. 

I masked the wreath before splattering the panel with the 

same inks. DW sentiment

Card #3

 Hero Art shadow inks color this wreath on a Noted: 
Scalloped A2 Vertical panel. PTI sentiment

Card #4

 A SS stitched rectangle panel offset with dotted strips was stamped in gold. 

Tiny butterflies from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies were added for interest 

along with the PTI sentiment.

Card #5

The wreath was stamped in gold again on a Greetery
Nordic Frames die cut panel. PTI sentiment

Linking these to SSW Challenge: Anything Goes

Hello Gorgeous

 A "Hello" card for this post was created after receiving a "Zoom" virtual 60th birthday invitation. Anne was scheduled to celebrate the event in Hawaii with her family but had to cancel for you know what. Big, big disappointment, right? Immediately I thought of an older set "Some Like It Hot" (PTI) to recreate the paradise of Hawaii for Anne. Extra leaves were added from Palm Prints (PTI) and the sentiment from Infinity Frames (PTI). 

 

Inside sentiment and tropical decor

Incidentally the party was a huge success with over 50 
of us toasting her with favorite beverages and dessert!

Linking this card to AAA Birthday #13: Things with Wings 

and  Seize the Birthday: Totally Tropical

Hello Friend mini card

I grabbed a small note card that had been sitting in my pile for a year and decorated the front with PTI's Grand Botanicals and a sentiment from Pink Fresh Studio's Delicate Wreath. The leaves were cut from a smooshed DI panel. The curved edge on the front was not standing out like I wanted. I rubbed the VersaMark ink pad along the edge and heat embossed using sparkly Ranger Black Glitter powder. It will be a nice gift tag card.

Linking this at the last minute to JUGS.

Happy Birthday - hello spring

With our move this winter to another city and a new yard, I have been enjoying my daily walks with my husband. There is a small private school down the street with a great track to mark our daily miles but the neighborhood with narrow streets and large trees intrigues me more. We're amazed to see huge magnolia and cherry trees covering entire front yards, camellias taller than cottage roofs, and gigantic old growth firs with their rough trunks and sweeping branches. 

This has been a beautiful, yet strange spring with our quarantine. Like many bloggers I come and go with energy to create something but my neighborhood has helped immensely.  The Card Concept's latest challenge with flowers in an array of rainbow shades in a vase with text and a bird, prompted me to create a rainbow colored wreath of leaves with a sparkly birdie singing "happy birthday" to the reader. Luckily, the PTI Songbirds set had all I needed for my birthday card. I would define the card as clean and layered. 

Thanks for the visit. 

Here are a few scenes from the neighborhood.

Easter chicks and bunny

Last week I made a few cards with lilies and crosses for Easter but today my favorite (and only) bunny set came out of its envelope for some fun cards to send to shut-ins (looks like most of us) and maybe the grandsons.  No more words. Here they are.

3 notecards with a chick and eggs

PTI Bunny Basket stamps/dies on Hallmark notecards

Next two:

PTI Bunny Basket, PTI Big Egg die, SS Stitched Rectangles, The Greetery Nordic Frames The critters are die cut from SS woodgrain card stock. 

Linking to: Tic Tac Toe Challenge, left row down: pastels, die cuts and colored card base

SS Wonky Rectangles, PTI Bunny Basket, PTI Spring Woods

The white woodgrain chick is mounted with foam tape.

Linking to: Time Out Challenges