Butterfly Happy Birthday

I knew the moment I saw the sneak peek for Butterfly Dreams that I had to have it.  I love butterflies, and the designs that Niki Estes created are fabulous!

I tried the emboss resist technique with not much success, but I still like how the card turned out.  Is there a better color than Spring Moss?  Maybe Spring Rain, or Summer Sunrise, or Ripe Avocado, or OH - Enchanted Evening?  You get the picture!

I need a photography lesson too!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies: (all Papertrey Ink unless noted)

Paper: Vintage Cream and random kraft

Ink:  Tea Dye Duo, Dark Chocolate, Spring Moss

Stamps: Turning a New Leaf, Background Basics: Tin Type, Butterfly Dreams

Ribbon: Spring Moss Twill Tape

Other: Aquacolor pencils, dove blender pen, embossing powder, corner rounder, PTI's Fillable Frames #1 Diecut

Poppy Seed Challenge #1 (2nd post for today!)

Lisa Johnson has created her first in a series of challenges on her blog.  You can see the requirements above and full details here.  I love challenges and Lisa has made this one an easy one with just 3 requirements.  That left it open to all sorts of things!  Here's my card for it:

Supplies: (all Papertrey Ink unless noted)

Cardstock:  Stampers Select white, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss

Patterened Paper: Bitty Dot Basics in Spring Moss

Ink:  Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, Versamark

Stamps: Wishing You, Scattered Shower Additions
PTI's medium scallop die

Not PTI:  clear embossing powder from, rhinestones, Sakura Stardust pen

Fill This Day With Joy!

I made this card for a friend who agreed to be a long-term substitute for another friend recovering from hip replacement.  I thought she would need an little motivation to come out of retirement into a class of 11-year olds!

Supplies:
Paper:  kraft cardstock, Stampers Select White (PTI), Green Tea Leaves patterned paper (PTI)
Stamps:  Background Basics: Text Style, Every Day Button Bits - sentiment (both PTI)
Ink:  Fresh Snow, Tea Dye Duo (both PTI)
Other:  pearls, white gel pen

PTI February Blog Hop!

 

It's time for Papertrey Ink's February Blog Hop.  This month Nichole writes: "Since we just finished up our 3rd Anniversary Festivities, we thought we would do something extra special for this month's Blog Hop!  Design Team Appreciation Day!  Your challenge is to go through the Design Team gallery or any of the Design Team Members' blogs and find a project that is especially inspirational to you!  Then recreate the project with your own spin, making it unique! "

I have two cards for this challenge.  The first is from Lisa Johnson who used her scraps to make the card you see on the left.  You can see her post here.  I've made half a dozen of these cards.  For one, I used the exact colors that Lisa used and then I changed it up a bit.  You can see one of the color changes on the right.  I also combined Hibiscus Burst, Spring Moss and Spring Rain on a set of cards I made for a friend's birthday.  I love Lisa's Flower Garden set.  Love.  It's one of the first PTI sets I bought.

 

 My second card also uses Flower Garden.  I loved Nichole's use of Butterfly Dreams and how she overlapped the butterflies and colored them in with her markers.  Here's her post for it and knew I wanted to try something like it.  My result is on the right.  I used Aquacolor pencils and a blender pen.

Thanks for looking!

Hero Arts Cards

This month's theme at the Hero Club Blog is "Flowers and St. Patricks Day."  It's been so long since I participated in a challenge, that I almost forgot how.  On a recent trip to Archivers, I killed my gift card from Christmas and bought 3 Hero Arts Stamps, among other things.  I got, "Stamp Garden", "Oceans of Joy", and "Monster Fun."  LOVE them all.

I submitted two cards this weekend.  The first is for a friend recovering from surgery.

Supplies:

Hero Arts- "Monster Fun" and "Striped Scallop"

PTI - Hibiscus cardstock, stampers select cardstock, New Leaf cardstock, Hibiscus satin ribbon, Hibiscus ink

Other: gel pens, rhinestones, flowers, EK Success border punch

Here is the second card.  I wanted to color, so I did. My son was sitting beside me stamping dinosaurs while I colored.

Supplies:

Hero Arts: Scallop Borders, Everyday Sayings

PTI: Flower Garden, Lemon Tart cardstock, stampers select cardstock, smokey shadow ink, new leaf ink

Other: Aquacolor pencils, dove blending pen, stickles, rhinestones

Thanks for looking!

PTI and CPS

Papertrey Ink is celebrating its 3rd Anniversary with a big party!  They've paired up up with this week's challenge at CPS!  It's been awhile since I've participated in a CPS challenge, so I was glad to visit them again.  Don't know why it took me so long?

Here is this week's sketch:

And here is my card:

Supplies:

Paper: Lemon Tart (PTI), unknown pink cardstock, patterned paper is My Mind's Eye 

Stamps: Blooming Button Bits, Birthday Basics (PTI)

Buttons: Hibiscus Burst (PTI)

Ribbon: Making Memories
Spellbinders Scalloped Circle Nestabilities

PTI Anniversary - Day 8

Nichole Heady is celebrating Year 3 of PTI.  Her challenge today was to use a sketch and a specific color palette to create a card. Here are the sketch and color palette:

And here is my card:

 

In retrospect, I probably should have moved the ribbon and flowers down a little, but I'm happy to work with a different color scheme.  This is definitely out of my box!

PTI Anniversay Celebration Day 5

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Nichole's challenge was to use the emboss resist technique! Here's my submission! The main stamp is Damask Designs. The background is the text from Background Basic Hearts. Thanks for looking!

PTI Anniversary - Day 2!

Nichole Heady is celebrating Papertrey Ink's 3rd Anniversary this month with a big party. Today is Day 2 and her challenge was to use a digital stamp designed by one of the team members in a birthday card. The stamp I am using is from Beth Silaika.

Supplies:
Paper: New Leaf, Hibisucus Burst, Vintage Cream (all PTI)
Ribbon: Hibiscus Burst (PTI)
Punch: EK Success
Gel pens, pop dots, rhinestone, stickles