PTI 11th Anniversary - Day 7 Challenge

Hi!  I can't believe that it has been almost a year since I posted a card.  It's been a rough year but I'm going to try to post a little more frequently and the PTI challenge is good to get me going.

The Day 7 Challenge is to use only dies - no stamps.

I made this valentine using the new PTI die Matchbook Medley.  I wasn't thinking about entering this in the challenge when I made it and it is already in an envelope to give away so sorry I don't have better photos.

Here are the supplies that I used:

Stamps: none

Paper: White, black, red, Bitty Big: Pure Poppy, Bitty Big: True Black, silver

Ink: none

Dies: Matchbook Medley; Huge Hugs

Other: Tiny Attacher, foam tape

Here are a few more Valentines that I made using the Matchbook Medley die but that do have stamping so not for the challenge.

Here is the inside.

Stamps: Life is What You Bake It

Paper: White, black, Hawaiian Shores, Bitty Big:Pink Posey, silver

Ink: Smokey Shadow, Hawaiian Shores, silver, black

Dies: Matchbook Medley; Life is What You Bake It

Other: Tiny Attacher, foam tape, tiny heart punch

 

Stamps: Life is What You Bake It

Paper: White, black, Hawaiian Shores, Bitty Big:Pink Posey

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, silver, Smokey Shadow, black

Dies: Matchbook Medley; Life is What You Bake It

Other: Tiny Attacher, foam tape, tiny heart punch

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Concept Challenge #48

Once again it's time for a new Card Concept Challenge.  It's amazing how quickly time flies by.  Valentine's Day is almost here.

I knew that I wanted hearts on my card and when I looked at my pink paper I found a piece that I had previously embossed and not used so I cut my heart from that.  Then I cut another heart from white using one of the shaker die from Papertrey's Shakers and Sprinkles set. 

 I used PTI's Brushed Off in several different pinks as the background. Then I embossed the sentiment in white and popped it up on dimensionals. I left the hearts flat on the paper to try to keep my card in the Clean and Simple category.

Check out the rest of the Design Team's cards and be inspired to make your own card!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Brushed Off, Keep It Simple: Valentine (PTI)
Paper: White (PTI), Melon Mambo, Black (SU)
Ink: Melon Mambo, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink (SU)
Other: Versamark, White embossing powder (Hero Arts), Heart die from Make It Market: Shakers & Sprinkles (PTI), Kool Tak Clear Foam Tape, Multi Medium Matte glue, unknown embossing folder

Mother's Day

Here is the card that I gave to my mom for Mother's Day.  Sorry it's kinda dark. Every time I lightened it up in my software the background turned a really bright, yucky color.  Anyway I wanted to try the embossing folder stamping technique for the background. I went to get my watercolor paper and couldn't find it.  I moved a couple months ago and apparently it hasn't shown up. So I used Neena Solar White instead and it just doesn't work as well. It took me 3 or 4 tries to get this background.  It doesn't look too bad IRL but I went out and got some watercolor paper yesterday so will have to try again :-)


I'm adding this card to the Keep It Simple - Watercolor challenge.

I had a great day with my mom yesterday. I hope that you did too! Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Short & Sweet (SU)

Paper: Neena Solar White

Ink: Peacock Feathers Distress Ink (Ranger), Pear Pizzaz (SU)

Tools: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Timeless Tags die (WP9)

Other: American Crafts twine, dimensionals (SU)

Edited 6/15: My card was chosen as one of the stars for this challenge. Yippee!!

My Last Valentine

This is my last Valentine this year.  I had to wait until after Valentine's Day to post this so my daughter wouldn't see it too soon.  I really like these colors and am pretty happy how this turned out.

After punching out the large red heart I coated it with Versamark and then clear embossing powder to give it some shine. 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Fancy Flexible Phrases, All Year Cheer III (Stampin'Up)

Paper: Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush, Basic Black, Whisper White, Kaleidoscope DSP (SU)

Ink: Strawberry Slush (SU), Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark

Tools: Limitless Layers: Heart Stitches die, Grand Ampersand flag die (PTI), Framelits: Hearts die (SU)

Accessories: Sequins (Avery Elle), dimensionals (SU), Mister Huey's spray mist, Clear embossing powder (SU), Glossy Accents (to glue down sequins)

Online Stenciled Class Day #3 and 2 Challenges

One of the challenges on day 3 of the Stenciled Online Card Class was to add color to embossing paste.  I'm using light weight spackling paste and I added 1 drop of Regal Rose (SU) reinker to a blob of paste. It gave me a nice pale pink color. I spread that over the SSS Peppermint Stripes stencil.  I cut my tag from some vellum that I had and ran it through my Big Shot using the Dots Cuttlebug folder.  For my main image I stamped it once in Smokey Shadow ink and cut it out with a circle Nestability. I stamped it a second time in Regal Rose ink and cut out the heart by hand. I die cut a double ended flag in Regal Rose and embossed the sentiment in white. I put it all together with dimensionals between each layer. 

This card is also for challenge #25 at CAS on Sunday to make a Valentine/Love card and the new Card Concept Challenge #2 to add texture on your card. I've used embossing paste in my Clean & Layered style card.

 

I'm having fun using my stencils in new ways. Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Tag-its #11 (PTI)

Paper: Stampers Select White (PTI), Regal Rose (SU)

Ink: Smokey Shadow (PTI), Regal Rose (SU)

Tools: Circle Nestabilities, Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug), Grand Ampersand flag die and Tag Sale #5 die (PTI), Peppermint Stripes Stencil (SSS)

Other: Bakers twine, dimensionals, Versamark ink, white embossing powder (SU), sequins (Avery Elle), light weight spackling paste (Ace Hardware), Glue Dots, dimensionals (SU)

Edited 2/5:  My card was chosen by Deanna as one of the winners in the Card Concept Challenge #2. Yippee!!!

Online Stenciled Class Day #1 and Papertrey Ink January Blog Hop

Papertrey Ink is having their January Blog Hop today. The challenge is to use pink on your project and since I haven't made my Valentines yet today is the day.

I'm also taking the Online Card Class "Stenciled" and this is my card for day 1 of the class. I die cut the heart from the top white panel so that I would know where to sponge underneath. I used a blending tool to sponge Rose Red & Regal Rose inks on the SSS Peppermint Stripes stencil. I cut one heart from Rose Red & popped it up on dimensionals. The die cut ampersand is also on dimensionals. Lastly I embossed the sentiments to the side hearts using white embossing powder.

Well I'm off to do another project.  Thanks for stopping by!



SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Grand Ampersand (PTI)
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Basic Black (SU)
Ink: Rose Red, Regal Rose (SU)
Tools: Peppermint Stripes stencil (SSS), Grand Ampersand die (PTI), Heart Framelits (SU), blending tool
Other: Dimensionals, Versamark ink, White embossing powder & Embossing Buddy (SU)

Valentine Cards

Here are cards I made for my family.  I'll have to get back and post the details later. My daughter just had a baby boy (our first grandchild) and I've been preoccupied the last few days :-)


Edited: I posted some supply details from memory. Hope I got them right!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tag Its #11 (PTI)

Paper: Basic gray, Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, White (SU)

Ink: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Going Gray

Accessories: Doily, Baker's twine, dimensionals

Tools: Adorning Accents Edgelits (SU)

This was a case of Nichole Heady's card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Love Potions (PTI)

Paper: Riding Hood Red, White

Ink: Riding Hood Red, Pretty in Pink, Pool Party, Going Gray (SU)

Accessories: Pool Party Baker's twine (SU), dimensionals

Tools: Love Potions die (PTI), Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT)

CASE of this card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Got Treats (SU)

Paper: White, Riding Hood Red, Blush Blossom, Pool Party, Island Indigo

Tools: Hearts Embosslits (SU)

Valentines

I have 2 Valentine cards today.  My daughter gave me some paper doilies for Christmas so when I saw this card on SCS I knew that I wanted to case it.

The base of the card is Kraft (now known as Crumb Cake). The two hearts were punched with the Full Heart punch - one from Blushing Bride and the other from Baja Breeze textured card stock. I sponged Blushing Bride around the edge of the one heart.  The small flower is punched from BB with the Itty Bitty Punch Pack and has a pearl in the center.  It was attached with a glue dot. A string of pearls was also attached on the Blushing Bride heart.  The sentiment was stamped in Baja Breeze on Shimmery White paper and a pearl was attached at the end then 2 little snips were made to flag the end. This was taped under the Baja heart. Baja Breeze seam binding was tied around the card and then the hearts were attached with dimensionals. That's pretty much it.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Kraft (Crumb Cake), Blushing Bride, Baja breeze textured, Shimmery White

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: paper doily, Baja Breeze seam binding, pearls

Tools: Full Heart punch, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, dimensionals, sponge

The second card is also a case. Here's the original.

It's a very clean and simple white on white card.  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped in Real Red. The large heart was punched with the Full Heart punch from Newsprint DSP (now retired) and then I inked around the edge with black. The small heart was punched with the Heart to Heart punch from Real Red. Attached to the small red heart are a rhinestone and a small bow tied with linen thread. I used the fork technique to tie the bow. If you haven't seen this technique it's pretty cool.  You can check it out here. I used the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp (I'm sorry to say is retired) to splotch the background and then attached the hearts with dimensionals.  Thanks for stopping by!

All supplies are Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Paper: White, Real Red, Newsprint DSP (ret)

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: rhinestone, linen twine

Tools: Full Heart punch, Heart to Heart punch, dimensionals

Sparkly Valentine

Time to get started on valentines cards.  This one is really simple.  I started out by punching a heart out of red glimmer paper. I then took a piece of white and embossed it with the new Adorning Accents embossing folder available in the Occasions mini catalog.  I started wrapping the Baker's twine around the bottom of the white layer beneath the heart but really thought it looked better right over the top of the heart and the embossing. The sentiment was stamped in Real Red below. The heart is popped up on dimensionals and this was layered on red. Like I said. Very simple but that's the way I like it.

Supplies all Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Holidays & Wishes

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Red Glimmer paper

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: Heart punch, Adorning Accents EF, Baker's twine, dimensionals

Edited: Chosen as an SCS CAS favorite!

2 More Cards

3 cards in one day. It must be a new record!  These are both valentine cards.  The first is a CASE of really pretty card I saw here.  I changed it just a bit because I didn't have the same supplies.

Stamps: Gentler Times

Paper: Pink Pirouette, White, Black

Ink: Pink Pirouette

Accessories: white taffeta ribbon, stick on pearls, dot EF, Scallop Trim border punch, sponge, circle punch

Techniques: sponging

The second card is for my husband. Shh! Don't tell.  It's also for 2 different challenges.  The first challenge is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge SSSC104.  It's also for last week's Curtain Call Color Challenge ACT68.

Here is my card...

Stamps: Love You Much

Paper: Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Wild Wasabi Prints DP, White, Bella Rose DP

Ink: Pink Pirouette & Wild Wasabi markers, Black

Accessories: Eyelet Border punch, stick pearls, embossing folder, heart punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Itty Bitty button, linen thread, Dew Drops

Love You Valentine

I have been wanting to participate in more challenges so I made this card for FTL124.

I didn't have a heart punch big enough so I freehanded the heart and then doodled in it with a Rose Red marker.  The small heart under the button is punched out using the Heart to Heart punch with Rose Red cardstock.  There isn't actually any stamping on this card because I used some rub-ons from Stampin'Up.

Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Rose Red (small heart), Whisper White, Rose Red Print DP

Ink: Rose Red marker

Accessories: Love Impressions Rub Ons, Oval and Rectangle Nestabilities, 5/8" white satin ribbon, Dot EF, Heart to Heart punch (small heart under button), BItty Button, linen thread, Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch, Scallop border punch

More Season of Friendship

 Here are some cards from other stamper's blogs . . . .

Autumn Cards:

Paper: Autumn Vine, Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, More Mustard, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Dimensionals, ribbon, 1" punch

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1062158

Winter Cards:

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Real Red Prints DP

Ink: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Scallop Edge Punch

http://stamplikecrazy.blogspot.com/2008/10/christmas-card-stamp-stack.html

Stamps: season of friendship

Paper: chocolate chip, brocade blue, whisper white

Ink: chocolate chip, brocade blue

Accessories: brocade blue wide grosgrain ribbon

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1059615?cat=14762

Holiday Day Cards:

Stamps : Teeny Tiny Wishes, Season of Friendship

Cardstock : Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Sending Love Specialty Paper

Ink : Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Craft Choc Chip

Accessories : Clear Embossing Powder, Small Heart Punch, Big Shot, Movers and Shapers, Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon, Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch.

Stamps: Season of Friendship, July Fourth

Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Pacific Point

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Real Red, Pacific Point

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1739383