PTI February Blog Hop

 

This month Nichole gave us a very challenging inspiration photo with colors that I would never have put together, but it is beautiful! You can visit the challenge page here.

I used the gray, pinks, and purples in my card below, along with some ripe avocado and gold shimmer cardstock.

PTI's Flower Garden, Branching Out die, Wonderful Words Thank You die

Thank you for visiting My Happy Place!

PTI Celebrating 2008

Today Nichole is celebrating 2008 stamps that were released, and one of them is my all-time favorite one.  It was in the very first purchase that I made from PTI, and has been used countless times. 

The outlined images are perfect for coloring in, or you could use the fill-in images to add color.

Here's the card I made for today's challenge using this favorite set:

PTI's Flower Garden and Inspired: Hope

Thank you for stopping by!

PTI Alphabet

I was able to make another card this weekend for PTI's Anniversary Celebration! This one is for the Alphabet Challenge.  Using our first or last name, we are supposed to complete a project from this list:  

I used letters from my last name, so my task was to Emboss resist, use Vellum, Twine, and Round the corners.  

Here's what I came up with: 

Flower Garden, Keep It Simple

You can celebrate too by going to Nichole's blog!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

Color Throwdown

Today's card is for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  Pinks, green and kraft - you can't get much better than that!

Here's my card:

MFT: Words of Inspiration,  Blueprints 15,  PTI: Flower Garden

I've made several cards similar to this after this post from Jennifer McGuire!

I'm entering this one in Simon Says Stamp's three challenges this week- Monday's  No Rules Challenge and Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge, and the new Work It Wednesday challenge which is all about welcoming SPRING, so I think these colors will work!

Thanks for visiting  My Happy Place!

PTI Anniversary Day 2

 The second challenge this week was to welcome Maile Belles back to designing stamps for PTI.  Our task was to find a card on Maile's blog and use it as inspiration for our own creation.  Maile has a way of using die cuts and paper cuts very uniquely on her cards.  I chose this one to use as my inspiration:

 And here is my interpretation:

Like I did on the first card for the Anniversary, I wanted to go back to one of my first PTI purchases, Flower Garden.  This is another set for which I would love to have dies!  I used another color recipe from day one. 

If you want to see my first card for this week's celebration, you can click here. 

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

 

Paper Dolls Challenge #31

This card is for my blog group's challenge from a couple of weeks ago.  I'm trying to catch up!  Laurie challenged us with:

1.  Use a flower set, if you have it Papertrey Ink, Year of the Flowers set.
2.  Use a designer paper.  If you don't have any, make your own. 
3.  Use at least three different colors.

I love to paper-piece the flowers from PTI's Flower Garden set, so I knew that was the set I was going to use.  I don't own any of the Year of Flowers sets, and quickly turn my head away when I see someone create something fabulous.  And I scream, "No, No, NO...I don't want that set!"  We'll see how long I can keep it up.  

Here's my card:

I love that patterned paper.  All of it is from Bo Bunny and was part of a free pad I received at Archivers.  I've never used it, because I have a problem using my patterned paper. (I'm on Step 2 of the 12 Step program for this.)

I cut out the flowers and leaves by hand but would not mind a die set for Flower Garden!  (LISA JOHNSON- are you reading this?) Who am I kidding...she's not.

Here's the inside:

Come along and play with the Dolls on our challenges.  We'll have a new one this week AND we have a big BLOG HOP planned to start on March 9th.  Fun!  Click here for our blog and join the fun!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

 

Paper Dolls Challenge #13

I am a bit behind on some of the Dolls' challenges.  My apologies to Leish - who gave us a great challenge to find a piece of fabric in our closets as inspiration.  You can see the details of the challenge and other participant's cards here.  It occurred to me the other day, as I was wearing the shirt pictured below, that it was "Hawaiian Shores" in color and had bits of twine sewn through the flower.  I thought it would be a great card to create. 
Here's my shirt:

 And my card.  You knew I'd have to use Flower Garden, right?

Thanks for looking.  Come play along with our other Paper Dolls challenges.  You can find us here.

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps:Flower Garden, Inside and Out: Thank You

Cardstock: Hawaiian Shores, Stampers Select

Ink: Fresh Snow, Hawaiian Shores, Spring Moss

Vintage Buttons: Hawaiian Shores
Ribbon: Rustic Jute Twin
Other:  Kraft (my PTI kraft is on its way to my house right now), Spellbinders die

Paper Dolls Challenge #12

Lisa (mimig) came up with a GREAT challenge for us this week.  She showed us a picture of her daughter's art and wanted us to use it as inspiration for a card.  Here's her daughter's piece:

Precious - isn't it?  Can't you see little fingers digging into the clay to make the flower petals?












I knew that I had to use Flower Garden for this one.  I know...I know...Flower Garden again?  YES!!

Here's my card.  I must admit, I wasn't sure about it when I finished, but now that it has sat for awhile, I think I'm OK with it.

I loved this challenge, and I'm thinking about taking a tour of my own house and seeing what inspiration is hiding from me.  You can see the details of Lisa's challenge and play along with us on our blog here. 

Thanks for dropping by!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden, Handwritten Notes

Cardstock:  Spring Rain, Lemon Tart, New Leaf, Stampers Select

Patterned Paper: 2008 Bitty Dot Basics (Berry Sorbet)

Ink: True Black

Other:  Sizzix Big Leaf Die

P.S.  For the record - see my coffee?  That's the next PTI color I really, really, REALLY want!

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 7

Here we are - the last day of highlighting Flower Garden here on my blog.  Thanks to all of you that have stuck with me for this week and for leaving such nice comments!  I hope I have enabled you a little and this set is now at the top of your PTI Wish List!  Don't bump it down - you won't regret it!

On today's card I used the last flower image in the set and wanted to do some coloring.  I love to color!  You could see evidence of that by looking in my son's coloring books.  Really - is there anything better than a new box of crayons? (besides new stamps?)

Here's my card.  I was in the mood for something a little different, so this is a 4.25" square card.

Copics scare me.  Not only are they expensive, but the fact that I have to have certain numbers of certain colors to make sure they all coordinate is a little intimidating.  I love the look of them, and those of you that use them do a great job - but they scare me.  Therefore, I use Aquacolor pencils and a blender pen.

This started in my mind as a CAS card, and I tried to stay true to that original thought, but coloring may have pushed it over the edge of not being simple.  There is a solid stamp to use as a fill-in for those of you that don't like to color.  I outlined the flower in my Sakura Stardust pen to add a little sparkle.  Once again, all of these images are in the main Flower Garden set.  The companion set is a must have too!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden

Paper:  Spring Moss, Vintage Cream

Ink: Ripe Avocado, Hibiscus Burst

Other Supplies:

Aquacolor pencils, Dove blender pen, gemstones, Sakura pen

Again, thanks for sticking with me for 7 days as I have highlighted one of my favorite stamp sets designed by Lisa Johnson. I'm exhausted and am probably on my way to our beach vacation as you read this!

Here are all the cards together:

I'm trying to decide which set to focus on next - Scattered Showers & Additions, Springtime Doodles or Wishing You.   In the meantime, you can see several other cards I've made with Flower Garden by clicking on these links:

March 2009 (after I first discovered PTI)
CPS Challenge (I loved this sketch!)
World Card Making Day (CAS - super-easy with this set)
February Blog Hop (2 cards for the hop: creating background paper and also coloring in)
March 2010 (what's better than kraft and pure poppy?  Cork and pure poppy!)
Becky's Challenge (coloring, cutting & background paper)

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 6

Today I'm highlighting one of the last two flower images from Lisa Johnson's Flower Garden set.  The simplicity of this flower makes it so versatile and I highly encourage you to go to Lisa's post here to see exactly what I'm talking about.

Here's my card for today, using this versatile flower.

I used three different colors and rotated the solid stamp a little each time I stamped the flower.  After I was finished I stamped the outline of the flower in Versamark and heat embossed.  I didn't line it up perfectly each time, and I like the way it turned out.  I added a little nailhead to each flower, added a bow and the sentiment strip.  This is another easy card that could be replicated quickly and with different color schemes!  All of these stamps are in the main Flower Garden set, but you could easily use some of the sentiments from the companion set.

Come back tomorrow for my last day of highlighting Flower Garden!  Does anyone like to color in images? Even though this set has solid images to fill in with ink, the outlined images are PERFECT for coloring! Tomorrow I'll be doing that!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden

Paper:  Stampers Select, Summer Sunrise

Ink: Pure Poppy, Orangerie, Summer Sunrise

Ribbon: Summer Sunrise Grosgrain

Other Supplies:

Nailheads
Versamark
White and clear embossing powders

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 5

I have a monochromatic card for you today, that happens to also be submitted to the Paper Crafts Go-To Sketch Challenge #4.  Click here to see other submissions and come play along; you have until midnight (MDT) on Monday, June 28th!

I wanted to show you that Flower Garden is good for background building too.  I stamped the vine, stem outline leaf, and flower outline images and inked the edges of all the cardstock in Ripe Avocado.  I bet you thought it was Tea Dye Duo!  I filled in the leaf outline with the solid leaf stamped in Spring Moss. I filled in the flower with Vintage Cream ink and QUICKLY put on clear embossing powder.  I love how there is an outline and a solid image for both of the large flowers in this set. Lisa Johnson is brilliant!

There are still two more flower images I haven't shown you yet.  Come back tomorrow for more!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden, Flower Garden Sentiments

Paper:  Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Vintage Cream

Ink: Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Vintage Cream

Rustic Jute Twine

Other Supplies:

Marvy Scalloped Square and Square Punches
EK Success Scalloped Border Punch
Clear Embossing Powder
Sakura Stardust pen (dots in the center of the flower)

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 4

I thought I'd bring something today with a some brighter colors using Flower Garden, one of my favorite sets designed by Lisa Johnson.  As much as I love Kraft with yellow, or red, or green, or really any other color, sometimes bright and bold colors speak to me.

On this card I used the other small, outline flower to make a little bouquet.

I love the Hawaiian Shores color from PTI, and since I have reinked my pad, it's been true to color.  Each image on this card is from Flower Garden, but you could easily incorporate some of the sentiments in the companion set for this too.  Maybe I'll use one of those for an inside sentiment.  They'd be perfect for that!

I still have more to show you in my Week with Flower Garden here on my blog!  Come back and see what else you can do with this set!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden

Paper:  Hibiscus, Hawaiian Shores, Vintage Cream

Ink: New Leaf, Hibiscus, Hawaiian Shores, Orangerie

Tools: Rick-rack Die

Other Supplies:

Orange cardstock
Rhinestones (colored with Orangerie ink & heat set)

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 3

Have you stuck with me for 3 days now?  Well, I'm back with more love for Flower Garden, a Papertrey Ink stamp set designed by Lisa Johnson. 

This time, I'm showing you one of the smaller versions of the outlined flower.  I stamped it around the edges as a border and then added in one of the solid leaf images.  The sentiment and bee are both from  Flower Garden Sentiments, the $5.00 companion set.

I love pure poppy stamped on kraft.  There's just something about it.  After I finished stamping, the card felt like it needed something, so I added the bow.


See you tomorrow with a bright and cheery card using the other small flower in this set!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden, Flower Garden Sentiments

Paper:  Pure Poppy

Ink: Pure Poppy, New Leaf, True Black

Ribbon: Pure Poppy Twill Tape

Other Supplies:

Kraft

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 2

Thanks for coming back!  Yesterday, I showed you one of the larger solid flower images from Flower Garden, designed by Lisa Johnson.  Using that stamp, you don't have to color or cut out - just stamp and go.  I thought I'd show you the other larger flower image today, only the outline version.

Here, I stamped the outline version on a piece of patterned paper in Summer Sunrise and cut out each flower.  They are super easy to cut out, but I would not mind having a die for this set (hint, hint, cough, cough)!  I also stamped one of the outlined leaf images on a piece of paper, cut them out, and secured them onto the cardstock first.  I left the ends without adhesive and curled them up to give them a raised effect.  The flowers are secured with pop dots and I placed stickles in the center and let them dry.  Again, the sentiment is from Flower Garden Sentiments, the $5.00 companion set.

I'll be back tomorrow with more love for this set!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden, Flower Garden Sentiments

Paper:  Stampers Select Cardstocks, Bitty Dot Basics in Spring Moss

Ink: Summer Sunrise, Ripe Avocado 

Other Supplies:

My Minds Eye - Just Dreamy 2 patterned paper
Stickles
Kraft

A Week with Flower Garden - Day 1

Have I told you how much I love Lisa Johnson's Flower Garden set?  I do.  It was in my first-ever PTI order.  It has several different kinds of flowers with both outlines and solid stamps of the same flowers.  You can stamp the solid flower in one color and the outline in another.  It is so versatile - everyone should have it!

This week, I'm going to have 7 different projects showing you my love for this stamp set!  Come back each day to see what I have come up with.  Of course, nothing comes close to Lisa's and the Design Team's  awesome projects, so you can see more of their stuff here.  

I used Nichole's color scheme from this post in the June Countdown for this card.  I knew I had to try it when I saw her card. It's so summery and pretty. Flower Garden is perfect for this color combo!

I made a mask with a post-it note and used to to create the background paper.  The sentiment is from Flower Garden Sentiments, the $5.00 companion set. It's a must-have also with several sentiments in it.

This was an easy card to create and I should have done more to make a set, but I didn't.  Maybe later!

Don't forget to come back tomorrow to see what can be done with the other large flower stamp from this set!

Papertrey Ink Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden, Flower Garden Sentiments, Inside & Out: Thank You (inside sentiment)

Paper: Summer Sunrise and Stampers Select Cardstocks

Ink: Orangerie, Summer Sunrise, Simply Chartreuse

Ribbon: Simply Chartreuse

Other Supplies:

Brads

Spellbinders tags die

Circle punch

Orange Cardstock

Becky's Challenge #9

Here is Becky's Compose a Card Challenge #9:

I created my own patterned paper with Lisa Johnson's Flower Garden set using Hibiscus Burst, Hawaiian Shores and Pure Poppy. 

Hello Friend!

I found something new on my trip to Archivers the other night...cork!  Here's what I did with it.

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink's Flower Garden

Hero Arts All Occasion Greetings

Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety Mini-deck

Papertrey Ink's Pure Poppy and Vintage Cream cardstocks

Papertrey Ink's Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Tea Dye Duo inks

Quickutz adhesive back cork (fine grain)

Papertrey Ink's medium scallop die

Spellbinders Nestabilites dies

Random gemstones and thread

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!

PTI Challenge #2 - Mexico

I used the colors from the Mexican flag, including the gold center, for inspiration for this challenge. I tried to keep it clean and simple.

PTI Stamps:
Flower Garden
Everday Button Bits

PTI Ink:
Pure Poppy
New Leaf

PTI Ribbon
New Leaf Swiss Dot

PTI Paper:
Stampers Select White
New Leaf

Other:
Yellow gemstone

CPS-110 Challenge

Here's this week's sketch at Card Positioning Systems (CPS) and my take on it. I used Paper Trey Ink's Flower Garden stamp set and Hero Arts Sending Happy Thoughts. The ink is also from Paper Trey Ink - Pure Poppy and New Leaf, and Color Box Chalk in Lime Pastel. The gemstones are from Hero Arts.

Thanks for looking!