PTI June 2016 Blog Hop

Happy Saturday!! Exciting day of the month in the crafting world because its PTI Blog Hop day. Gorgeous inspiration photo this month - full of color and shape. 

For my card I layered a bunch of flowers PTI Mums the Word to mimic the layered jellyfish from the photo. Those ARE jellyfish right? I stamped the the bottom of the MFT Balloon Strings background stamp and added the mums in Plum Pudding, Enchanted Evening, Raspberry Fizz, and Tropical Teal to match the colors in the inspiration photo. What a gorgeous color combo! 

I added a die cut Thanks for Swoosh along the bottom and they skewed the plum pudding and stamped panel on top of an Enchanted Evening base. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone's creations on the Hop! Always such different interpretations! Thanks for popping in! 

CASology #191 WASHI

Happy Tuesday! We have a fun one for you at CASology this week! WASHI! We all probably have more WASHI than we will ever use or even care to admit to having. I have tons of it but have been using it more often in my everyday note taking, list making, and bullet journaling. 

For my card I created a striped butterfly out of washi. As pictured below, I created the striped pattern by alternating gold and silver washi tape on a scrap piece of card stock and then die cut the butterfly out of it. I also used washi tape for the PTI Swoosh sentiment as well. Before adhering the butterfly and sentiment, I scored part of the card base on a diagonal to line up with the washi tape lines in the butterfly. Scoring adds interest while preserving white space. Check out Laurie's PTI Make It Monday video this week for great ideas on using score lines for additional detail and texture! She always uses score lines on her CAS projects in such interesting ways. 

Check out the rest of the DT interpretations of WASHI for more ideas on how to use up your washi stash. Can't wait to see what you come up with! Have a good week!

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely

January 2016 PTI Blog Hop

Its the 25th so its time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. This month's inspiration photo was graphic and bold and I admit threw me for a bit of a loop. 

I made two cards this month. For my first card, I was inspired by the graphic nature of the photo so I pulled out Sketched Shapes and stamped a row of triangles on a diagonal in Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, and Orange Zest on two pieces and heat embossed the sentiment in the middle. 

The white panels are adhered with foam tape so it floats above the sentiment. 

 Second card was inspired by the oblong shapes in the photo. I found a medallion from Fancy That that had a similar shape within it. I heat embossed the medallion in white and blended Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores, and Orange Zest on the medallions. Sentiment from Swoosh was diecut and adhered across the card.

Can't wait to see what everyone else came up with! Thanks for taking the time to stop by! 

ColourQ #305

Back again posting a couple more cards I made today. First one is for the Colour Q challenge which I haven't played with in a while. 

These colors were so bright and cheerful I thought they would pair well with the new balloon dies I got from Simon Says Stamp. Birthday die cut is from PTI Super Swoosh. 

I masked off a strip and blended in Summer Sunrise and Lemon Tart inks on the strip. I added a few streamers from the Hooray stamp set and used some small enamel dots to embellish them. Sentiment is from PTI Good Times. 

So glad to have a few hours of crafty time earlier but now the family is back home so who knows if and when I'll get to create more tonight. Hopefully, fingers crossed. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Three on Thursday

Hello -

I've got three cards to share with you today...all created last night during three episodes of Gilmore Girls (LOVE that show!).

First card is inspired by the Create Along With Us challenge at PTI. I was completely inspired by THIS card by Ashley Cannon Newell. It was simple and pretty and gave me a chance to open up my new patterned vellum pack. For my birthday card, I used similar colors as Ashley's as well as the challenge colors at Colour Me....! this week. Sentiment is from Tucked In:Birthday and flowers from PTI Birds and Blooms. I used Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles for around the sentiment panel.

My second card is inspired by the CASology cue card:Aquatic. To me Aquatic is nautical....maybe being a Coast Guard wife all these years has really influenced how I see things! :) I used PTI Out to Sea since I don't have any fish or sea themed stamps. I stamped the Crackled background in Soft Stone using my MISTI to ground the compass stamped in Enchanted Evening. Kept a good amount of white space around the light background to keep it CAS. 

My last card is for this month's One-Layer Simplicity Challenge - Striped Down. I masked off a large strip along the bottom of the white cardstock base. I embossed the birthday from PTI Swoosh in white and blended a rainbow of inks over the embossed sentiment. Still getting the hang of the ink blending technique. Hard a hard time with the middle colors like the green looking smooth. But Iove the crisp clean edge masking gives on white cardstock.  

Off to MD for my annual visit to my sister's! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by! 

CAS(E) This Sketch #117

Hello friends - Long time no blog. Things are exceptionally busy here with some minor home renovations and cleanup. Probably gonna be end of May before everything goes back to normal and we are settled in again. It was so frustrating to get the PTI March release stuff and the MISTI and not have any time to play with them! 

I did find a few minutes here and there over the past couple of days to make card using the new Brushed Blooms set. I really like the watercolor look for these stamps but had some trouble with double stamping to create the beautiful flowers. Thought the flowers would make for a nice focal point in this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. 

I love the softness of the flowers and thought it would look great against the black cardstock...kinda like the matting of a painting. Sentiment is from Swoosh. 

And also wanted to share this little two step flower color cheat sheet I made for myself. Of course, even with this, I stamped two of the flowers in the darker one first so had to come up with two new combinations. Worked out though and will have to add those two to the sheet. 

Really hoping to pop in here once in a while during this renovation process.... I'm reading all your great blogs and saving the posts I love and want to CASE. So sorry I don't get to comment as often as I should.

Thanks for stopping by!

Orange You Glad...

....that this is not the view outside your window??!!

Another 6-8 inches today in NJ on top of all the snow we have already. Kids get a snow day, DH working from home, pot of Chicken Mushroom Wild Rice soup on the stove, and thankfully a little bit of crafty time while all were outside shoveling. 

And speaking of orange....I am inspired by the  Colour Me....Monochromatic! challenge this week. My first card uses the pretty medallion from PTI Giga Guidelines set. I stamped a row in white on kraft card stock then turned the stamp 45 degrees and stamped over it in Orange Zest. Sentiment is from Fancy That and an orange rhinestone in the center of each medallion completes it. 

Love how the white looks on kraft. 

Second card uses the new Swoosh set. Funny how I was so excited to get this set but once it go here, I totally forgot what I wanted to do with it.  I decided to keep it simple and played along with the One Layer Simplicity challenge this month - WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.  

I masked off a column and stamped the hello swoosh in several fun colors. I scored the ends of the column for more interest. 

Hope you are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by.