Day 2: Dress Up Inspiration

Hi there,
I made a card for Day 2 of PTI's anniversary countdown. The challenge is to create a project inspired by an item of clothing. I just happened to pick up this top on Saturday, and thought it was perfect for this task.

I started out by using the blue, yellow and brown tones to smoosh a watercolor background on a stitched rectangle, then embossed trees over top once it was dry. I was pretty happy with the simplicity of it, so decided not to add much more. Just a bit of matting for contrast, and a sentiment embossed in white on vellum.

I hate to make the same card twice, so I love a watercolor background. Even if I tried, I would never be able to replicate this one.

Thanks for stopping by,
T

Day !: DT Favorites

Hi there,
It's aniiversary time at Papertrey Ink. I decided to jump in on the Day 1 challenge and make a card using Lizzie's favorite color palette from one of last year's projects.

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T

Create Along With Us - Jan 2016

Hi there,
I decided to join in with the Create Along With Us challenge that coincided with release week at PTI. I loved a card that Nichole posted the first day, and thought it would be a great opportunity to use up some paper scraps. I seem to be a bit over run with scraps lately! Here's a look at her card:

Yum! Love these colors, so much. Just gorgeous though it's a very simple design. I'm short on baby cards though, so I pulled out some pastel scraps to see what I could use to make strips. I opted to a unisex card, but will probably nake a few more this week.

I had tons more scraps, so I've pulled out the bolder colors as well and layed out a few color schemes to make up a bunch more cards. Time to refill the old shoe box!

Thanks for stopping by,
T

PTI November Blog Hop

Hi there,
It's been way too long since I posted any cards! Summer is so busy with outdoor activities, but now that winter is setting in, I hope I can devote some time to stamping. When I saw the inspiration for this months blog hop at PTI, I had to dive in. I'm completely in love with this color palette.
Chartreuse with Hawaiin Shores! Plus a lot of white with silver. I also added some Limeade Ice, and a scrap of a darker turquoise, maybe from SU, that was as close as I could find to the darker blue in the challenge photo.

 

I love this ornament die, but have never tried paper piecing with it (& probably never will again! That was finicky).  I first cut the outline from white card stock & the detail die from a Luxe Silver adhesive sheet, then cut it four more times in different colors to get all the pieces needed to fill in the frame.

Once the ornament was pieced together it was pretty quick to pop it up with foam on a stitched rectangle matted with Hawaiin Shores. I added a sentiment in silver embossing, a chartreuse bow, and adhered it all to a white card base, et voila! My first Christmas card for this year is done. Now I just have to decide who to give it to!

 

I'm also going to link this baby up on the Work it Wednesday challenge on the SSS blog. They are wanting to see what everyone is sending out for Christmas this year, so get over there and show off your creativity!

Thanks for stopping by,

T

MIM #210

Hi there,

I'm posting a Mothers' Day card today for the Make it Monday challenge. This Keep it Simple: Mothers' Day set is really getting a work out lately! I just wish I had a Fathers' Day set.

The challenge is layering vellum over a patterned background to soften the look. I opted to take it one step further and use my new Sheer Basics patterned vellum, which has stripes that are a little more opaque than plain vellum. I like how the bold stripes contrast with the more busy, flowing floral pattern of the debossed background. I inked up the embossing folder with markers, and embossed the flowers on the vellum with matching Zing powders. A little banner for the greeting is secured with a button and twine.

Thanks for stopping by!
T

PTI April Blog Hop

 Welcome to Blog Hop Challenge Day at PTI! I've been on a bit of a Mothers' Day jag this week, filling up my box to sell a bunch of cards to family at a birthday dinner tomorrow. When I saw this inspiration photo on Nichole's blog, I thought it was perfect for Mothers' Day, so here I go again!

I used the navy and white stripes in my background, and the pink roses for my bouquet, keeping it fairly simple with nothing more than a white embossed sentiment to finish things off.

That's all for now. We are having a garage sale today, so hopefully I'll have some free time to do some hopping later this afternoon!

Thanks for stopping by,
T

MIM #207

 Hi there,
Last minute, I know, but I managed to squeeze in some double partial die cutting tonight when we got home from Easter dinner at my aunt's. Laura Bassen showed off this fun technique for the Make it Monday challenge. I find if I neglect to try something out as soon as I see it, it fades from memory within a few weeks, so I made it a priority to make time for this. Now, hopefully I'll remember to use this idea again another day.

I'm loving this pink/yellow and orange combo lately. Must be a spring thing? Reminds me of tulips, I guess. Too bad the colors look a bit darker in these pics, but it does pick up the dry embossing, which sometimes gets lost in a brighter photo. I wanted to highlight the heart, so I cut a second one in white and gave it some stripes with pink, yellow and orange markers.

Off to bed, though tomorrow is another holiday for me. Looking forward to seeing what PTI has in store for us in tomorrow's Make it Monday video! I'm pretty much never home on a Monday to watch it, and pull out some stamps to play with, so tomorrow is a special day.

Thanks for stopping by,
T