PTI Design Team Inspiration

Five cards.
Two hours.
That's a bit ridiculous for me, considering it takes me two hours to make one card sometimes.  But, it's easy to do when I have the PTI team to inspire me.

Today is the first day of the Anniversary Celebration at Papertrey Ink, and I'm so happy that all the members of the design team have signed on for another year.  They all bring so many different styles to the team!  Today's challenge was to peruse the DT's favorite projects from the past year and find inspiration for our own projects.  Some, I downright copied; others I used loosely.

First up, Christina:

Christina's card

 

My card!

I've had this cover plate for a couple of weeks and haven't used it yet.  Now, that I have, and thanks to Christina, I'm in love! 

Christina's card

Mine!

The inside!

I didn't want to completely copy Christina, so I used her card design as inspiration.  I don't use On the Couch nearly enough.

Onto Betsy.  Honestly, she gets me every time with her release projects and Make It Monday videos!

Betsy's card

Mine!

You can't really see it in the picture, but I did use the canvas impression plate on the kraft panel.  I wanted it to look like sand.  I only have the flip flop dies - no stamp set.  I probably need to do something about that.

Here's Maile!

Maile!

Mine!

I was losing daylight with this picture, but I think it turned out.  I used the woodgrain impression plate on the card base and added the ribbon to ground it.


And finally, Jess.  She's a fellow Texan, so she'll always hold a special place in my crafting heart.  I loved this card of Jessica's when she made it, and never have followed through in recreating it...until now!

Jess

Mine!

I used Aqua Mist as a background and a sentiment from Scattered Showers.

There are a few things I would change about some of the cards I created, but in two hours, I think I did pretty well.  I'm happy I was able to get so many completed from the great inspiration the DT brings!  You can see all the DT's favorites here! 

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P.S.
I got one more made tonight, which was my goal!

Debbie Olson inspired me with this awesome project:

Debbie's

And here's my take on it:

Raspberry Fizz is not used nearly enough in this house!

OK, I'm done now...really. 

hi, friend!

I promised myself I'd steer away from black and red for awhile, and I was successful with this card.  After watching Betsy in today's Make It Monday video, I knew what I wanted to do, but I wasn't sure which paper to use, until I was digging through my scraps and found the perfect piece.  This flowery piece is one of my favorites from October Afternoon, and I have cut it very carefully so as not to waste any!  

Falling Leaves, Hanging Out, Little Bitty Bird, Take Three die (PTI)

First, I cut the yellow square and patterned square from the Take Three die. After cutting "friend" out, I adhered it to the cardstock using a piece of post-it note as a guide.  (Another trick from Betsy.)  I popped up the "hi" panel with some pop-dots.  Then I stamped the grass from Hanging Out, the tree from Falling Leaves, and the birds on cardstock, and popped them up too.  I added a little sparkle to their wings with a Sakura pen, and some gems to the tree.  

It's been sunny and in the high 70s here in Texas; I think spring has sprung.  So, this card fits perfectly with my mood!  This year it was cold maybe one day.  Makes me wonder what our summer will be like.  {shudder}

I'm submitting this card to this week's Casual Friday challenge too!  Have you played along yet?

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You Are Loved!

I'm stuck on black and red lately. With Valentine's approaching - red is a go-to color and always looks great paired with black.  I think for my next card, I'll venture off into another color combination, but until then, here's today's card:

I used some neglected supplies again today.  Smitty's ABCs from Lawn Fawn and a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The red letters are heat embossed with Zing embossing powder.  I also *had* to have the heart shaped buttons last year, and sadly, they haven't seen much action. 

I'm submitting this card to this week's challenge at Casual Fridays.  It's a fun one!

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Love You!

I think I've been neglecting some of my supplies, and I recently purged a lot and re-organized my crafting area.  I sent a large box of stuff to my niece, and donated some cardstock and patterned paper to some teachers at my son's school.  They were all very thankful!  

As I was cleaning out, I ran across so many stamp sets from Hero Arts that I absolutely love, and have not used in quite some time.  So, I wanted to focus on those for a while.  There's a big stack sitting out right now!

This morning I made a card that will fit two challenges:

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My Type (Hero Arts)   Smitty's ABCs (Lawn Fawn)

I stamped the typewriter and sentiment onto the white panel, then cut out around the typewriter "paper."  After rolling it up a bit, I adhered a piece of heart-patterned paper behind it.

After popping up a few heart die-cuts and mounting it on a red base, I was finished!

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Casual Fridays-Make Your Mark

This week's challenge at the Casual Fridays blog is to use our markers.  I love this challenge because I love my markers!  I'm not a Copic crafter - really don't have a lot of time (or patience!) for that.  The Bic Mark It Markers are just right for me! 

A lot of color choices, easy to use and combine, and they don't leave the marker "lines" like some do.  They are a perfect alternative to the Copic challenged population - like myself!

Here's a card I came up with last night:

Flower Box and Everyday Sayings stamps (Hero Arts)

After I stamped the Flower Box on Kraft paper, I colored it and cut it out.  I popped it up on another piece of Kraft.  The edges were inked to add a little contrast.  To add a little more dimension, I added some brown pearls and another flower that I stamped, colored, and cut out. 

I'm leaving my markers out.  I had a lot of ideas floating around in my head, and now I want to see if I can get more use out of them!

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PTI January Blog Hop

Today is the 25th, which means it is Blog Hope time at PTI.  You can enter at Nicole's blog here and see all the beautiful entries.

This month's theme is:

Here's my card:

I die cut the heart from Framed Out #11 from True Black cardstock, then ran it through with the Canvas Impression Plate.  After tying the ribbon around the top, it was ready to go.So, I concentrated on the inside:

I lined up the red heart so that it would be centered in the larger die cut from the front and stamped my sentiment. 

Here's a peek from the side!

A few more of these, and I'll be ready for Valentine's Day!

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Interactive Birthday Card

I created this card for my brother-in-law's upcoming birthday. It's in a couple of weeks, so I'm happy to be ahead of the game.  The color scheme is an easy one to choose for him.  He's a Texas Tech Red Raider, so black and red are go-to colors for him.

This card fits the challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays is to make a card that is anything but A2 size, and the Make It Monday Challenge at PTI to package cards with oversize embellishments. The card base is 4x5, and with the pull tab, it measures at 4x6. 

I made this an interactive card by adhering the top and bottom with scor-tape so that the middle of the card could be pulled out.  Here is the inside:

The back can easily hold a gift card to a favorite restaurant.  I already know where I need to go to get that for my brother-in-law.  He has a favorite and hardly gets to go there.

Because this card will not fit in the standard A2 envelope, I dressed up a 4x8 envelope with a label, a birthday sentiment and a cluster of stars!  That should make him happy when he gets it in the mail. 


To play along with either of these challenges, just click the links above!

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Rainbows and Repeats - post 2

This is my second post and second card for this week's Make It Monday challenge.  This card uses this combination that Nichole gave us:

I have a dear friend who has recently made a huge, life-changing decision - she's retiring!  So, I wanted to give her a little encouragement as she steps out into uncharted waters.

Here's her card:

This card uses the Wonderful Words dies and Additions stamp set.  I placed Scor-tape on the back of my cardstock before running it through my Big Shot.  This gave enough adhesive on the back to secure the delicate die-cut down.

There are several other color combinations that Nichole came up with for this challenge.  Click on the link above to see them all!

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Rainbows and Repeats

I have two cards today - both for this week's Make It Monday Challenge.  Nichole challenged us to use repeat stamping or repeat die-cuts in rainbow color combinations.

For my first card, I chose this combination:

Here's what I came up with:

This one is a birthday card for a dear friend.  I used PTI's zig zag die, Sunshine Impression Plate and a sentiment from Up, Up and Away to create this one.  The sun die is from My Favorite Things.  I ran the center portion through the Xyron before laying it down in glitter. 

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Cards Blog Challenge

I made a couple of cards today for the color challenge at Create: blog.  It's sponsored by Paper Smooches, a company in the middle of HUGE sneak peeks and a big giveaway.  You can see the peeks every day this month on the Paper Smooches blog.  

The challenge was to use this color combination:

And it was quite a challenge, but here's what I came up with!

Little Bitty Bird, Tiny Tags (PTI)

I created the little scene on the white cardstock panel using some felt and foam adhesive to give it some dimension.  The white panel is adhered behind a layered Mat Stack 3 window, with the grass making a border at the bottom.  To bring out more grey, I added the border strip at the bottom and completed it with the thin ribbon and tiny tag.  To give a little more sparkle to the card, I added a border of glitter to the white card base. 

For the second card, I used the same color of grey and placed some chartreuse die-cut leaves on it.  To soften both of those colors, I adhered a layer of vellum over them.  After stamping the sentiment, I added the aqua flowers and chartreuse bow.  The aqua served as the perfect card base for this card.

So, that's what I've been up to today.  It was rainy and cold all day, so I was happy to stay inside and get some crafting done.

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Make It Monday #98 - Again!

Big and Bold Wishes, Teacher's Apple, Winterberry (PTI)

I made this card for this week's Make It Monday.  The idea was rattling around in my head all day, and I was finally able to sit down this afternoon and see if I could make it work.  Betsy Veldman did a great job on the tutorial.  You can see her video and card if you click on Nichole's blog here. 

I followed Betsy's tutorial a little more this time than I did with my last card.  It was kind of intimidating, but I wanted to give it a shot.  I also added some sparkle on the apple with a Sakura pen, some pearls on the leaf clusters, and some texture on the card base with the Woodgrain Impression Plate.

Thanks for looking!