With sympathy

Recently card designer, Heather Nichols, posted a series of sympathy cards @  Pine Feather Sympathy Cards for the March 6 Papertrey Ink Team Tips blog. This prompted me to case these cards with my supplies and replenish my sympathy card stash. On the final card below I used a new PTI stamp and die set - Quilted: Spring.

Happy New 2015 Year!

Another year - whoopie!!

Sharing some thank you cards made recently.

Each bookmark tag was attached with removable 

adhesive allowing it to be used as a marker.

Papertrey Ink stamps & dies, Hero Arts inks, 

Divine Twine & paper from my stash.

I'm linking this up to a NBUS Challenge "Anything Goes" with the qualification of using stuff never used before. This would included my PTI Basic Bookmark #3 die,  Tipped Tops die, Note Niblets stamps, Pretty Petals stamp set.             NBUS Challenge #3

Merry Christmas

Make It Monday #179

Emboss Resist Using Diecuts

 Make It Monday with Laura Bassen

another fun technique to stretch your die cuts by using them as a stencil to emboss resist

                                      I made a stencil from PTI's Triangle Cover Plate. 

                                      The little triangles reminded me of Christmas trees,

                                      so I used green inks to shade the background.

                                      Next I die cut a tree from silver foil paper and 

                                      directly adhered it to background panel,  embossed

                                      the sentiment on vellum, folding edges around the

                                      back of panel to secure before mounting panel with

                                      foam tape on a green A2 card.

                                Papertrey Ink Dies: Triangle Cover Plate, Christmas Tree

                                Inks: Versamark; Ranger Distress Inks Peeled Paint, 

                                          Iced Spruce, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles

                                Embossing Powders: Hero Arts Clear, Platinum Tinsel

                                Stamps: Think Big Favorites #20

Celebrating with you

Make It Monday #176: Take 2 

Backgrounds with Embossing Paste 

Check out Laura Bassen's video at Make It Monday

                                         As I was lifting the Modern Cross Quilt 

                                         used on the previous card, I thought

                                        "What would the negative look like on a card?" 

                                         I quickly grabbed an A2 white card and carefully

                                         placed the still wet stencil face down on it, pressing gently.

                                         It didn't look too bad, more muted yet with some texture

                                         as you see in the second close up photo. 

                                         Hate to waste any of that fun embossing paste!

PTI Modern Cross Quilt cover plate, Tag Sale #8, and Circle Scribbles die.

Stamp: Ruby Reprise for sentiment

Previous card has Distress Inks used for coloring Dreamweaver Embossing Paste.

Gold & copper shimmer paper, vellum for tag & scribble circles, raffia ribbon for the bow.

With Sympathy

Make It Monday #176: Take 1 

Backgrounds with Embossing Paste

Papertrey Ink products used unless noted.

Stamps: Boutique Borders-Sympathy, Cutting Garden

Dies: Boutique Borders-Sympathy, Cutting Garden, 

Cover Plate-Modern Cross Quilt Die used to make stencil for background

Distress Inks - bundled sage, mowed lawn, picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, 

                         spiced marmalade, wild honey

Dreamweaver white embossing paste, white embossing powder & Versamark ink

Yellow embroidery floss and dimensional adhesive tape, orange cardstock

          

May your birthday be filled with....

Make It Monday #174 Diamond Wallpaper Stamping

Capture the moment: Make It Monday

    Stamps: PTI Stylish Sentiments: Birthday; Love Lives Here: Holiday;
                   Hero Arts XO
                   Lawn Fawn Schoolhouse Backdrops
    Dies: PTI Mat Stack #3
    Ink:  Hero Arts Pale Tomato, Navy; Ranger Sea Shells Cloudy Blue;
             Versamark
    Paper: Authentique, red glitter paper, Staples 110# white card stock
    White embossing powder,  dimensional foam tape

You rock!

Make It Monday #165

Artsy Watercolor Backgrounds

Stamp: PTI Watercolor Wonder, Recollections lower case alphabet

Distress Inks- Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn,

                       Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire

Versamark Ink & Platinum Tinsel embossing powder, sequins, alphabet stickers

Water color paper, water brush, Bazille blue top-folding A2 card

Linking this to Nichole Heady's blog - Make It Monday #165: 
Artsy Watercolor Backgrounds

Linking this also to Online Card Classes
Day 5 & 6 Watercoloring Stamped Images