February PTI Blog Hop!

Happy Thursday!   I am playing along with this month's 

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge.

The first thing I thought of when I saw the inspiration photo was that sure is a lot of greens!  I love green!  Green is actually my favorite color.

  Here is the inspiration photo.

I really love the different hues of greens in this photo.  I decided to work with that first.  I watercolored some shades of greens from distress inks onto watercolored paper.  I heat set it to make sure it was completely dry.  I stamped and clear embossed the sentiment from Tulip Time.  

 I tried the techniques Jennifer McGuire showcased HERE the other day doing watercolor lifting.  I really LOVE the look and effect.  To emphasize all of the circle elements in the photo,  I die cut this panel using Scene It: Basic Backer die and popped it up on some foam tape with some loose threading circling behind.  I really love the variations of greens and nuances of the watercolor lifting.  A great technique!

 Next, I die cut and stamped the Peonies on Parade flowers and leaves onto watercolored paper and white heat embossed.  I colored with some Ranger Distress inks.   I made sure to use some different tones on the leaves than I did on focal circle to play off of the different hues of greens in photo.I popped the flower up with some foam tape.  I tucked in the leaves.  I finished my card with a few clear sequins. 

As always thanks so much for hopping by!

Betty

Happy Birthday!

Happy Sunday!  I finally had a chance to get crafty yesterday once my new PTI goodies arrived in the mail.  Once I saw the Out For Delivery on the USPS tracking, I rushed to get all   most  some of my house cleaning done so I could play once my package arrived. 

I decided to play with the tulips first.  I must say that I am loving this set!  I am playing along with a couple of blog challenges so the tulips worked beautifully.   I die cut and stamped the tulips using corals and golds to comply with the Inspired By All the Little Things: Inspiration Photo.  I gold embossed the sentiment.   I added a piece of gold foiled card stock to the bottom of the panel using Scallop Square Tag to comply with this week's Freshly Made Sketches.  

I still felt like the tulips needed a little something to help them pop off of the white linen background.  I decided to gold emboss three times the smaller Feather Finery dotted images.  I love how the images peek out from the tulips.  I think it balances the whole card perfectly. I used some fun foam to pop up the white linen panel onto a vintage cream card base to look more like the cake layers.

Inspired By All the Little Things

Freshly Made Sketches

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty

Happy Birthday to a Very Special You!

 Happy Saturday!  I am popping in with a card to share.  I am playing along with a few blog challenges today.  The first challenge is for Papertrey's MIM Customizing Pattern Paper.  I chose to use PTI's Black and White ALL Over paper pad.   I added some color using PTI Watercolor Wonder stamp set to the horizontal black lines of the patterned paper.  

 I used MFT inks in ripe raspberry, persimmon, daffodil, and blu raspberry for the watercolored lines and sentiment stamping.  For the focal sentiment, I die cut Birthday Cheer die set using gold foiled card stock and layered with some true black and ripe raspberry card stock for added thickness.  I finished with a few sequins.   I chose to use the sketch from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge.

I am also playing along with AAA Cards: Sequins

The Friday Mashup:  Birthday

 

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - All Boy!

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

 

For my card, I am using MFT Stamps Products.  I started with a smooth white card base.  I die cut Lush Lagoon card stock using Blueprints 13.  I stamped this panel with the diagonal background stamp.  I die cut a pierced tag.  I stamped the tag with a sentiment from Level Up stamp set in black hybrid ink.   I die cut orange fizz using Inside & Out Stitched Squares.  I assembled the small game controller from MFT Game Controller die namics.  After assembling all of the tiny pieces, I stamped the entire top with versamark and clear embossed.

I die cut an arrow with some electric red card stock using the Blueprints 13 again.  I white embossed the sentiment from same Level Up stamp set.  I punched a whole in the tag and added some black and white twine. 

Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs for more inspiration!

Betty Wright  You are HERE!

Kim Singdahlsen
Laurie Willison

Leigh Penner
Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler Lynn Mangan
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut

Melody Rupple
Monika Davis
Sheri Gilson

Silke Ledlow
Stacey Schafer
Tara Godfrey

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Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge:  (All Boy) for the challenge details and to play along with us!

I am playing along with MFT Weekly Sketch Challenge and  Just Us Girls Add a Tag Challenge.                              

As always thanks so much for stopping by!  

Betty

Make A Wish and Such a Joy!

I am popping in with two more cards to share today!  I am playing along with Papertrey Inks 9th Anniversary Celebrations.   For this first card I am playing along with a couple of other blog challenges as well.   

My first card is for PTI Challenge Day 10.  Papercrafting Alphabet.  I love the cool chart.  Definitely want to play with it again. 

I went with the first three letters of my first name. B-E-T.  Sentiment on a banner.....my die cut words are on the Outline Banner frames embossed images.  E-  Emboss Resist.  I heat embossed the frames and did a watercolor resist.  T - is to tie one on.  I looped up some loose threading. 

I finished this card with some sequins and it was done.    I am playing along with this week's The Paper Players Color Challenge, CASE(E) this Sketch , and Simon Wednesday Challenge One Layer.

 My second card is for PTI Challenge Day 8. Color Pop Floral Challenge!   What a fun walk down memory lane with this game!  My colors are simply chartreuse, royal velvet, and spring rain.  I picked 5 and 4 for April. 

I die cut and stamped the flower outlines from Vintage Linens using white linen card stock.  For the insides of the flowers, I inked the stamp, spritzed with water, then stamped. I did the same with the leaves.  For the focal point, I die cut the sentiment page from Black and White All Over pattern paper pad using the stitchable rectangle die.  I also used another pattern from the pack on the side.  I impressed the spring blue with the distressed impressions plate for a soft distressed texture.  I finished with some sequins.

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty

Happy Birthday and Thanks, You Rule!

Happy Friday, again!  I am back with two more cards to share today!  I am playing along with Papertrey Inks 9th Anniversary Celebrations. 

My first card is for PTI Create Along With Us Challenge. 

   I chose this card by Amy Sheffer HERE
to CASE.  

I tried to recreate the look of  Amy's card.  I used PTI One Big Happy stamp set.  I die cut the two main flowers and used the negative card stock as a stencil to sponge some white pigment ink.  (TIP:  Instead of actual circular sponging motions, 

I prefer to pounce the blender tool in order to get a more prominent white image on the aqua mist card stock).  Next, I used Twig Wreath set center images to stamp the turquoise flower centers. 

Amy actually used paste to stencil the white smaller flowers onto the card.  Truly beautiful!  However, I am working on completing all of the Anniversary week challenges.  I do not have the time to wait watch paste dry....lol!   I chose instead to die cut the tiny flower die in One Big Happy several times.  I stamped the centers with the tiny flowers.  Like Amy I did use a black marker to add the tiny black dots.  



I die cut and layered the "happy"  four times.  I added the sentiment underneath from same set.  Since I did not have any white linen thread, I layered regular white quilting thread several times and tied a bow.  I found it very challenging not to add a sequin at this point. 

My second card is for PTI Challenge Day 3. Grab & Craft Challenge!

I recently purchased some pratically new PTI goodies from the PTI Forum For Sale Thread, so I grabbed that stash first because I am determined to always use what I buy.

Simply Framed 

Layered Banner Banter and die

Building Blocks

Then, I grabbed Be Mine, Valentine 

I just love all of the images and possibilities with this set.  

I was leaning toward the ruler so I grabbed the 

Spiral Notebook Page die 

This notecard measures 3 1/4 X 2 7/8
It came together fairly quickly.  I ended up using the outline rectangle image from the Building Blocks set to create the lines on the notebook page.   With the school theme, I thought the chalkboard sentiment panel would work perfectly.  Again, not a single sequin on this card.  The struggle is REAL!

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty