celebrate

Somehow I have more friends with May birthdays than any other month! So I have been building my stash up for the past few days. I often use a Papertrey Ink stamp set called Stylish Sentiments: Birthday containing a great assortment of birthday greetings. Looking at the collection I stamped a background composed of sentiments plus a few extra symbols. After mounting it on an orange note card, it needed a focal point which an orange vellum banner with "celebrate" provided.

The second card used a Papertrey Ink Feather Finery feather stamped with Versamark ink and embossed in white. Tim Holtz Distress Inks were sponged on the background and a PTI "Hugs" was die cut from silver card stock for the sentiment.  This piece was adhered to a woodgrain card stock panel and mounted on a purple A2 card.

I'm hooking this up to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Let's Get Sentimental

Smile: It's Your Birthday

MAKE IT MONDAY #210: 

USING VELLUM TO SOFTEN PATTERNS

Many times I've stamped a background pattern and ended up cutting it up to lessen it's dramatic effect but thanks to Lizzie's video I can now "hide" the drama behind vellum. Try it - you'll like it!

My inspiration for this card comes from 

Lizzie Jones'  video on capture the moment blog.

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Lovely Layers and Wet Paint III

Inks: Hero Arts Grape Juice, Momento Pear Tart

PTI vellum, clear embossing powder, vellum tape, chartreuse A2 card base

HAPPY birthday

MAKE IT MONDAY #209: 

WHITE ON WHITE DIE CUTS WITH A POP OF COLOR

 I'm always looking for a new tulip card design for my Dutch friend, Anne and this week's Make It Monday challenge blog inspired this year's card. I couldn't resist using orange colors too!

I doubled the white die cuts and added a triple layer to my colored tulips.

Papertrey Ink Bitty Bouquets stamp & die set, Swoosh sentiment

Inks: Hero Arts Pale Tomato & Soft Cantaloupe, Distress Ink Mowed lawn 

Be sure to visit Make It Monday with Lexi Daly and view her video instructions

and see all the marvelous card ideas created this week!

Always thinking of you

Make It Monday #207: 

Double Partial Die Cutting

Wow! The latest Make It Monday Challenge totally challenged me! 

I am not mechanically inclined at all so...

Check out darling Laura Bassen's video for MIM for the pro version.

Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies Layers, PTI Brushed Blooms (sentiment) 

              Hero Arts Looped Flower Pattern

Dies: PTI Beautiful Butterflies, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eight

Inks:  Hero Arts Cup O' Joe, Distress Ink tumbled glass

Kraft & white card stock, pattern paper, sequins, Platinum Stickles (antenna), 

Sharpie bronze metallic pen

I'm linking this to Paper Players latest challenge:  PP238: Claire's Tic Tac Toe Challenge  as I used a die cut, sequins and the color blue. Also linked to Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday

Congratulations

Wednesday, March 25  

Papertrey March Ink Blog Hop

Today I joined the Papertrey Ink March Blog Hop for the first time ever.  I've always admired the submissions in the past and decided to join in this month.

My aunt & uncle in Texas have a 55th wedding anniversary next month. I used the Botanical Blocks: Rose image coloring the leaves with Copic markers and the background with Prismacolor pencils. Stamping the image again on a tone on tone striped yellow paper, I fussy cut the rose and mounted it on foam tape for more dimension.  I added some shine to the rose with a clear Wink of Stella pen which is impossible to see in the photo. Inside the card I stamped the Quilted: Spring love sentiment.  

Supplies:
Stamp: Botanical Blocks

Paper: Pebbles 6x6 Garden Party paper pad, PTI A2 card

Ink: Momento Black

Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Sharpie pen, Wink of Stella pen                                

You Are My Sunshine

MAKE IT MONDAY #206: 

STAMPING AND MIXING PATTERNS

Check out Danielle Flanders'  Make It Monday #206  video where she showed her technique for creating stamped patterned papers. I love the combination of gray/black and yellow and had a hoot stamping my blank paper squares!

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Doodlie Do, Framed Out #2 & 3, 

               Irresistably Ikat, Note Niblets

Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Soft Grey, Versafine Onyx Black, 

        Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade

Die: Papertrey Ink Framed Out #3

Gray & White card stock, Recollections Color Dots, 

Hemptique Baker's Twine, Scott Foam Adhesive Tape

Spring is Here - Yeah!

   I found my neglected PTI Oopsie Daisy set this week and created this card. First I pressed Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks on an acrylic block, misted with water and smooshed a piece of 140 lb. watercolor paper on the block.

    After drying the paper with the heat tool, I die cut several different sized daisies from it. The petal die cut pieces were glued on top of bright yellow solid daisy die cuts. Stems and leaves were stamped with Momento Pear Tart ink. The floral group was grounded with a strip of wash tape.                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Linking this to this week's  CASology Blossom Challenge.
Also linking this to The Paper Players Floral Challenge