PTI March 2016 Blog Hop

Its the 25th which means it time for the PTI Blog Hop! We had some fabulous images to draw from this month. I was drawn to this one for the color and design. 

For my card I used Soft Stone as my card base. I heat embossed flowers from Stitches and Swirls and added color using my newly acquired Sold Stitches & Swirls. Sentiment is from Reason to Smile which has a hint of stitching in it. I stamped the SMILE in white ink first and then stamped it slightly offset in Enchanted Evening. 

Off to check out what everyone created! Thanks for popping in! 

Three for Tuesday

Hi friends! Lots of fun stuff going on with Papertrey's anniversary bash this week. 

My first card is for the clothing inspiration challenge from Day 2. I'm currently searching for a gown for a formal event I'm attending in a couple of months. Pinterest and online stores are a rabbit hole that's hard to climb out of. I was inspired to make a card by this dress from a favorite designer of mine - Monique Lhuillier. Of course, none of her dresses are within my budget but they are wonderful to look at! 

I used Stitches and Swirls in Hawaiian shores on Harvest Gold card stock to mimic the design of the dress. A few enamel dots topped it off. 

Second card here is for the Day 3 Grab and Craft challenge. Challenge was to make a card using items grabbed in 5 minutes. Surprising 5 minutes is long enough to be more methodically about what I picked. I grabbed my favorite go-to inks - Simply Chartreuse, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold in black. I picked a stamp set from my NBUS bin - the SAF 2014 Joy set - as well as a a scrap piece of black paper and an Aqua Mist half sheet. 

Last card to share today is inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. 

I used birthday candles for the 3 strips along with a large sentiment collage from PTI In The Bag. I also scattered some stars along the bottom of the cluster to coordinate the stars in the sentiment. 

That's it for me today. Now off to work on crunching some numbers for taxes....ugh. Hope you are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by! 

Loving The Aquas

I recently just created a Pinterest board for all my card creations (check out my Pinterest link on the right) and realized that I often create with colors in the aqua family.....think Papertrey colors Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores. Reminds me of the ocean and the sky. So versatile - can be happy or toned down when paired with certain other colors. These colors make me happy.

So when the Papertrey anniversary bash kicked off with a color challenge, in's no surprise that the palette I was drawn to the most was Amy's gorgeous combination -

The aquas look fabulous with various shades of grey. Plus this color palette used the two new Papertrey colors that I have not yet had a chance to play with. So here's what I came up with - 

I just got Stitches & Swirls which is stamped in Smokey Sea, Tropical Teal and Aqua Mist. Panel put on a card base of Smokey Shadow. I stamped the sentiment in Smokey Shadow on a strip of Mint Julep matted on Smokey Sea. Sentiment strip was adhered with foam tape. 

I continued the design on the inside with a sentiment fro Healing Touch. 

Got another card to share using the aquas inspired by the Pinterest Inspired Challenge this month - 

I used the Winnie & Walter 'Do You See What I See' stamp again but this time heat embossed it in white on an angle. I inked the background with Tim Holtz Crushed Olive, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade. 

I added a nest of white thread under the sentiment from Altenew Label Love. Panel added to a Hawaiian Shores card base. 

Now that I am more conscious that I use these colors so often, I'm going to TRY to use other color families....let's see how well that turns out! :)

Enjoy the weekend! Thanks for popping in!