Patterned Papered Dreams

PTI Blog Hop

Good morning! Today I'm joining the PTI Blog Hop. I love the inspiration pic, it really offers a zillion creative possibilities! And that fabrics are very pretty too :)

 As you can see, my inspiration came from the stripes and the damask pieces. I used Distressed Stripes and Giga Guide Lines, and topped it with three tiny clear rhinestones. The sentiment is from Lovely Leaves.

 

Now go and keep hopping! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: (pink, blue) Impress, (black) Versafine; Rhinestones: Zva

CAS-ual Lights :)

Good evening! Quickly checking in to share a little something for this week's CAS-ual Friday's challenge. I based my card on this sketch:

And my take, with a bit of masking and die cutting involved. Also, see the lamp bases? I don't own the stamp set that matches the dies, just the companion sentiments, so I die cut them from fun foam and made my own foamy stamps. Works great with defined die cut shapes! Doilies, hearts, flowers... I learnt the technique a while ago from a PTI Make it Monday video by Heather Nichols you can find here.

Off to bed, I'm exhausted! Go ahead and give a try to this fun sketch, there's still time!

Thanks for visiting :)

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: (black) versafine, (grey) Fresh by Impress; Dies: (lamps) PTI;  Other: Felt.

Delicate

Good morning! I hope you had a great Easter weekend. We spent two days at my inlaw's house in the country and it snowed like crazy! Welcome, Spring ;)

Know what? If I ever get a baby boy gift again, I would like it to look like this one.

Isn't this Tuesday Trigger gorgeous? I was inspired by the blue gingham and the white embossing, which I incorporated to my card by debossing the buttons with a woodgrain plate. I decided to make a baby card because this picture screams baby boy to me, not sure why :)

Thanks for visiting and happy week!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI (BB: Gingham, Baby Button Bits); Ink: (Spring Rain, Kraft) PTI; Dies: (buttons) PTI; Debossing plate: (woodgrain) PTI; White/blue twine.

Trigger time

Good afternoon! And happy Palm Sunday for those of you who celebrate Easter! In Spain this day is called Domingo de Ramos and little kids are given beautifully shaped palm branches after attending Sunday's church service. It's a dear tradition :)

Ok, let's get to bussiness! I think I may have mentioned before that I love Orla Kiely's designs and patterns. So when I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World I jumped right in!

The image was so inspiring that I made two very different mini cards, but still I think they're perfect for giving away together.

Can you notice I used the kissing technique on the tiny green butterfly? It's a bit hard to see in the pic but very cool in real life :) This card was inspired by the multi-colored stems tin (burlap and colors) and the orange tin inspired the orange card, although I think this is more obvious!

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful Sunday!

Ps: Have you seen? The Holiday Cards & More vol. 7 special issue submissions call is in full swing. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and submit here!! (yes Ana, I'm looking at you).

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI (BB: Vines, BB: Petal Power, Beautiful Butterflies), Hero Arts (just saying hello, burlap border from Little Black Dress borders cling); Ink: Fresh by Impress (Harvest, Celery), Versafine (brown), PTI (kraft); Embossing powder: Ranger; Dies: (alpha) PTI.

PTI March Blog Hop

Happy Sunday, friends! Today I'm joining Papertrey Ink's March Blog Hop. The deet was creating something inspired in a really lovely pic you can find at Nichole's blog.

 

 

As you can see, my inspiration comes from the colors: White, Yellow and Aqua. I used this Studio Calico mask to apply yellow Distress Ink to the base (it's the first time I do this, so cool!). Then I stamped the sentiment from Daydreamer and the trail from Happy Trails. Finally, I stamped one of the images from Beautiful Butterflies on cardstock, cut it and sponged some yellow ink just on the edges. Oh, and I also dabbed some Rock Candy Distress Stickles on that pretty :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: (black) Versafine, (aqua mist) PTI, (mustard seed) Ranger; Other: Distress Stickles, Studio Calico mask.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Good afternoon! And Happy St. Patrick's Day! Although I'm Spanish, I've celebrated this day since I was very young, because I studied in an Irish school. We wore costumes, sang the school's himn, had lots of games and we remembered the Saint's story (you know, the snakes legend...). So I wanted to stop by today to celebrate with a card :)

After stamping the medallions and sentiment, I debossed the card front twice with a PTI impression plate (moving the card between passes to deboss more areas) because I wanted the pattern to be more noticeable. And I also glittered the clover edges although the camera hasn't captured it too well.

As I used an image, a pattern and a sentiment, this card fits this week's CASual Fridays challenge, so here I go!

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI (BB. Medallions), Cornish Heritage Kim Hugues Collection (sentiment, clover); Ink: PTI, Memento; Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye; Other: Prisma glitter, PTI Linen & Canvas impression plate.

Celebrate today

Hello there! Today's card is already in the hands of it's recipient. My grandma celebrated her 89th birthday today and I made this card for her. I was completely inspired by Laura's card here, at the CASE Study challenge. It would be impossible not to be inspired by Laura Bassen, her clean, graphic and crisp style never ceases to wow me.

So where did I grab my inspiration from? Ok, those hearts reminded me a lot to the rounded wings one of the butterflies in one of my newest PTI sets, Beautiful Butterflies. I also went with 3 of the 4 colors Laura used and I incorporated the diagonal stripes in the form of dry embossing.

I die cut the window with one of this spinner dies, adhered some vellum on the back and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. I really love to heat emboss on vellum! The trick is to keep moving your heat tool all the time so that the vellum doesn't warp.

Thank you so much for visiting and have a fantastic week!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: Versafine black, PTI green, blue, pink; Embossing powder: (clear) Ranger; Dies: (butterflies, spinner) PTI; Embossing folder: Cuttlebug.

Hexagons

Hi there! What an original title for my post, uh? :) But hey, they're the star of the show today, so I guess they deserved to be on the title :) Ok, so I created this card for the Cutting and Trimming Challenge at the Moxie Fab World, and my color inspiration was taken from the current Runway Inspired Challenge. My tool was an Xacto knife. I used it to trim the outside and the inside of all those PTI hexagons that I had previously stamped and heat embossed in white (you'll find the hexagons in this set). Then, I simply adhered them to colored cardstock and trimmed again (hey, this is a great way to use your scraps!).

When my hexagons were ready, I fiddled around a bit with them while I decided the pattern I wanted to create. And then I discovered that they fitted as a pretty awesome flower!! Oh, happy day...

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Rosie Posie by PTI, Technique Tuesday (sentiment); Ink: Versamark, Versafine black; Embossing powder: Ranger; Other: Olfa cutting blade (a must!).

Hello

Good morning, friends! Today I'm popping by with a card that features quite a lot of die cutting. Also, it's possibly one of my favorite cards ever and that's why I'm entering it at the Cool Tools Week: Die Cutting Challenge at the Moxie Fab World. Lately I've seen a few amazing uses of PTI's Quatrefoil plate, specially by super talented Amber, who always inspires me to try new things. That said, here's what I came up with...

I die cut the Quatrefoil plate from white cardstock and adhered it to a white card base. Then I die cut it from a few colors and used the positive pieces to fill in the gaps. You can call it the "puzzle therapy card" because it was very relaxing to do ;). And you'll be left with 5 pretty colored Quatrefoil bases in pink, aqua, green, red and yellow to make a few more cards.

Thanks so much for visiting and check out the Moxie Fab World because there are a ton of tool related challenges going on!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Papertrey Ink (sentiment from Modern Basics); Ink: Tsukineko Versafine black; Die: Papertrey Ink Quatrefoil plate.

A new challenge for me (CSC70)

... and no, I'm not going to the Olimpic Games ;) But I've been itching to play along with the CASE Study challenge for some time, and last weekend I finally found the time to sit down and play around to make something for it.

This is the stunning inspiration card created by Amy Sheffer

And this is my card

I took the doilies, the butterfly and the color scheme from her card. The flowers were made with PTI Mehndi Medallion. I die cut a circle, stamped the bigger medallion from the set and cut it in 4 (I still have two pieces for another card, yay!). For the butterfly, I misted a piece of cardstock with a Studio Calico mist, let it dry, stamped the PTI butterfly and cut it. The leaves are part of a sprig of mistletoe I die cut with a Memory Box die. And I think that's all...

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: All PTI (Mehndi Medallions, Butterfly Dreams, 2010 Anniversary set); Ink: Versafine black; Dies: circle Nestabilities, Memory Box mistletoe; Other: Stabillo black pen, Studio Calico mist.