Hey! A super quick post to join the PTI Blog Hop. This month it's about tilted designs, and I came up with this (oh, and I went gold-embossing crazy too. Sorry for the pic, I had to take it with my phone.
I used Maile's Bountiful Banners set, scor-tape to make the embossed gold frame and a bit of The Twinery gold twine.
Keeping it short so you can keep hopping. Thanks for stopping by :)
Wedding card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps/PTI; Ink/Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Twine/The Twinery.
Hello! Today I'm joining the PTI Blog Hop. This time it's all about sequins. They're popping up everywhere! I'll keep this short so you can keep hopping :)
For this card I started with an Ikat background and a vellum stripe. Then I die cut the letters a few times from the Modern Alphabet dies, stacked all the die cuts and adhered black flat sequins to the letters.
A tip: cut the top layer for the letters from scor-tape adhered to cardstock. It works great for adhering the sequins and there will be no "glue globs" showing through the sequins little holes.
Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!
Sequined Hi card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: Irresistibly Ikat/PTI; Ink: Strawberry, Steel Blue/Impress; Dies: Modern Alphabet/PTI; Other: vellum, sequins.
Hello! Still experimenting with my Inktense pencils. I just don't get tired of them. They make watercoloring sooooo easy!
Lucky me, today's Papertrey Ink challenge is about watercoloring, so I couldn't resist making a little something.
First, I die cut the cute ric rac heart and completely glittered it. Second, I die cut the simple heart and heat embossed one of the images from With all my heart. And of course, next step was using my pencils and a waterbrush to add the watercolor effect. They blend beautifully, lookie :)
I finished the tag with a snippet of Limeade Ice twill tape.
That's it! Thanks for visiting!
Love tag: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: black/Versafine; Embossing powder/Ranger; Pencils/Derwent Inktense; Dies: hearts/PTI; Ribbon: PTI; Glitter/Ranger.
Hi again! Back with some more homework for Clean and Simple Card Making II class. This is for day 9, textures. Once again, sorry for the pics, I took them with my iPhone and almost without light. Photoshop helped, but still...
Ok, so first I played with glitter.
This is probably the most technically crazy card I've ever made. The die cut is embeded in the pannel and I made the huge mistake of adhering my glittered pannel to another piece of cardstock before die cutting, so the die didn't cut all the way through and it was really, really hard to take out the die cut branches (the glitter ones) to embed the black ones. I ended up using scissors to help me, and x-acto knive and almost an hour later the die cut came out and I could reassemble the glitter pannel to embed the black die cut. I ended up exhausted! Ha!
A little detail of my hard work ;)
Second, I tried Lisa Spangler's technique of adding texture with embossing, but I did it debossing a bloom die on my card. Looking at the end result, I'm not sure if I love the artsy look, of if the watercoloring (hello again, Inktense pencils!) makes it look like my 5 year old son made this card.
I also added some pearlized mist straight with my fingers on the blooms.
I'm entering this card in today's Papertrey Ink challenge. The sketch I followed is number 5.
Thanks for visiting!
Blessed beyond measure card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamp/Simon Says Stamp; Ink: black/Versafine; Die/Memory Box; Glitter/Doodlebug.
Thanks card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamp/PTI; Ink: black/Archival by Ranger; Die/Impress; Pencils/Derwent Inktense; Pearlized mist/Smooch.
Hi again! I had a bit of spare time this afternoon, so I decided to play in this week's Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink. The challenge is to dress up a box, so I die cut one of their Favor It Bags and went stamping crazy ;)
First I stamped the text from Background Basics: Hearts and over it I stamped kind-of-a plaid using Background Basics: Super Stripes and the narrow stripe from Faux Ribbon. Finally, I heat embossed a sentiment and a heart from Think Big Favorites #23 and added a little glitter heart that was leftover on my desk from a previous project.
I like how it turned out! However, I'm not sure about how they celebrate Valentine's day in Bolivia or of they celebrate it at all. Let's hope they do so I can put this bag to good use :)
Thanks for visiting!
Be mine bag: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps/all PTI; Ink: Fine Linen/PTI, Red Currant, Sugar/Impress, black/Versafine; Embossing powder/American Crafts; Dies: box/PTI, heart/Memory Box; Other: glitter cardstock.
I cant believe I'm writing a real life post and not a scheduled one :) Well, we are all settled now in our new house in Bolivia (although sleeping on sofa-beds), internet has just been installed and the shipping crate with all our stuff (including my crafty supplies) is supposed to arrive just before Christmas. Let's cross fingers! I'm afraid being this (wonderful) time of the year, things could be delayed. We can't wait to sleep in our beds and sit on our couch.
Ok, so I found this card in the deeps of my computer. I never got around to post it.
It features PTI and Technique Tuesday Stamps plus a bit of washi tape. I stamped the heart-balloons and then stamped again over them and heat embossed with clear glittery powder.
Happy Sunday and thanks for visiting!
Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI, Technique Tuesday; Ink: (black) Versafine, (red, turquoise green) PTI, Versamark; Die: (heart) PTI; Embossing powder: (clear glitter) Tsukineko; Other: Washi tape.
Morning! Before heading for the office I have a card for the current Runway Inspired Challenge. The inspiration comes from this Iceberg design that reminds me a lot of Mondrian's paintings:
So I took the masculine approach, the colors and straight lines and run with them :)
Keeping it short today. Thanks for visiting!
Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, American Crafts, Coredinations; Stamps: PTI (herringbone, hello); Ink: Versafine (black), Memento (Tangelo); Die: (alphabet) Lifestyle Crafts.
What? Don't you know? Casadia is the new black!!! ;) But you'll have to visit Wida's blog to know more about it... Basically, it's a chain of CASED/Inspired by cards. So fun! Here's my card:
It was inspired by Amy Tsuruta
Who was inspired by Shirley-Bee
Who got her inspiration from Wida Miller (the brain behind the Casadia concept)
Wida was inspired by this card by Jennifer Rzasa
Who was inspired by this beauty from Laura Bassen that started all this crafty craze (isn't that a good name for a blog? Crafty Craze!).
Oops! And a bit about my card. Since the very first time I saw PTI's Hello Sunshine stamp set I've been seeing Christmas trees instead of sunrays. So this is the first of many cards you will see using the sunrays as trees ;)
Now, who's next?
Thanks for visiting!
Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill, Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: (black) Versafine; Dies: (mat stack used for embossing, sunray/triangle/tree) PTI; Twine: The Twinery.
Hello, hello! I hope you had a great weekend. Today I have a card inspired by the amazing Laura Bassen.
One of her cards was featured last week in Fox News Magazine (read more about that here). How great is that? I love how Laura plays with colors and geometrical shapes in her designs, so I wanted to give it a try, and here's my final result...
I used my new arrow dies by PTI and a sentiment from this set.
Thanks for visiting!
Supplies: Cardstock: (assorted from DCWV, Coredinations and Canson); Stamps: PTI; Ink: Versafine; Die: (arrow) PTI; Other: rhinestones.
Hello! Here I come again with my last 3 Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire projects. This time I tried Tie-Dye Techniques, the Card Set and the Homemade Embellishments challenges.
Here's my card using the marbleized technique with the last of my husband's shaving cream and Block Alphabet dies. Someone is going to get a bit mad when he find's out he can't shave today ;)
Next comes the Card Set challegne, inspired by Danielle Flanders use of the Half & Half dies to make mini cards. My color combo is Hawaiian Shores, Pure Poppy and Summer Sunrise + a pop of grey. I used Modern Wood Mats to stamp the lower portion of the card and the big "you" and companion sentiments from All About You. The tiny hearts were cut from the Tiny Tags die and then I used one of the images from the Happy Hexagons mini set to stamp a polka dot pattern on them.
I also made a coordinating wrap with stamps and ribbon.
This is the back of the wrap, with some die cut and stamped hearts (these are Memory Box).
And finally, the Homemade Embellishments challenge. In this case I worked with Jess Witty's design. I love everything this woman does :)
Again, the transparency was stamped with an outline hexagon from Happy Hexagons stamped to build a modern pattern. The sentiment is from one of the Think Big Favorites sets.
Wow!! That was some stuff! I used lots of products for these projects so instead of including a neverending supply list, please feel free to email me if you have questions about any of the products used. The main ones are linked anyway.
Thanks for visiting and have a great week!
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