PTI November 2015 Blog Hop

Its the 25th so its PTI Blog Hop day...but also means its exactly one month before Christmas! Yikes! 

The challenge photo for this month's Blog Hop is one of my favorites ever...it has my FAVORITE color combo (Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores, and Tropical Teal) and combines it with silver and white, and grey it seems which I am JUST seeing now for the first time. 

I was so inspired by this photo that I made four cards! First card uses Snowflake Flurries in the pretty color combo. I split the panel with the Sentiment Splits die and added in a sentiment from that set. 

Next two cards use the bold graphic stamp from Enclosed:Star. Same design, just different sentiment placement. I stamped it in the three colors and added a strip of silver card stock along the bottom to anchor the pyramids. I heat embossed the sentiment along the top of the pyramids. 

Hard to see the strip of silver along the bottom - better in this photo. Looks way cooler in person. 

This second one has the sentiment on the black banner. Lighting is a little dark...

 Think I like the one with the sentiment directly on the panel better.

Last one has a lot more color! I heat embossed butterflies from Life Is Beautiful in white along a panel and then sponged on Simple Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, and Tropical Teal to cover it giving it sort of an ombre look. I was trying to channel Laura Bassen's love of bold color with this one. 

Sentiment is heat embossed on white banner and I placed a white thread nest underneath. First time making a thread nest. 

Well that's it for me today. Thanks for visiting. Can't wait to see what everyone has made. 

And if you are celebrating tomorrow...Happy Thanksgiving!

ColourQ #317

Good morning! Quick card to share before I head off to the supermarket. (AHH! I know, week of Thanksgiving. Scary!)

This birthday card is inspired by the ColourQ challenge this week which featured a bright collection of colors. I stamped the candles along the bottom and cut the panel to allow a strip of Aqua Mist card stock to peek through. Big bold sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving my friends! I am thankful for your friendship and for this hobby we all share and love so much. xo

CASology Pretty

While I love this week's CASology cue card PRETTY, I think it was a big challenge to create something that actually was the cue word itself. I used the PTI Fashion Sense set because what can make me feel pretty is a fabulous dress. And this dress stamp is completely gorgeous!

Colors were inspired by an article I saw in the latest HGTV Magazine which featured 5 new Holiday Color Combos. I plan on making a card for each combo at some point. This card uses the hot pink, gold, and black combo. I stamped the dress form around the white card panel but only colored in the middle one in Raspberry Fizz. Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Absolutely die that I die cut out of gold adhesive paper. 

I scatted a few of the star clusters in gold around the panel to compliment the main sentiment. 

That's it for me now. Thanks for stopping in! Have a good weekend.

MIM #231

This week's PTI Make It Monday challenge is Motif Building. I didn't have one of the folksy or Nordic style stamp sets that would have been better for this challenge but thought I could make due with some of the other sets I have. 

For these two cards I used Round Repeats as my base and built the motif around the center using little stamps from Simply Stationery. Colors inspired by some of the PTI monthly inspiration color schemes. 

The cards turned out OK even though I'm not completely thrilled with the results. Maybe need to play around more with other sets. This challenge completely put me out of my comfort zone. Guess that's the whole point of these challenge....stretch yourself and do something different. 

Thanks for popping by! 

Two More to Share

Hello - Two more cards to share this weekend. First is a simple one layer card (for One Layer Simplicity Challenge - Multitude of Gratitude) using the Brushed Off set which I stamped in the various ColourQ challenge colors along the bottom. Simple sentiment from Thank You Kindly and scattered a few enamel dots along the bottom. 

My next creation is a wine bottle tag I am looking forward to using during the upcoming holiday season. Always nice to have these on hand to add to a last minute gift of wine. I was inspired to make to play along with Tracy McNeeley's 25 Days of Christmas Tags festivities. So much fun stuff going on there! I was inspired again by Laura Bassen's wreath tag HERE.  For my tag, I created an outline using an image from Spruce & Sprigs and added a few berries. It ended up being similar to THIS card I created the same night. I die cut the top portion of the wine bottle tag in red and attached it to give more color and reinforce it. I plan on writing the to/from info in the center of the tag when I decide to give it. Colors inspired by the Colour Me....Striking challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Gotta a Bunch to Share

I have a bunch of cards to share. I'm grateful that I've gotten more crafty time in and I've got plenty of my TV shows to binge watch.

First card is a single layer card inspired by Laura Bassen's card HERE. I just LOVE what Laura does with color! Mine ended up being more pastel than bold bright color like Laura's card.

I heat embossed the flower from Ruby Rose in white on white card stock and applied a little bit of ink to the centers with worked outward so the flower has a sort of colored halo. Sentiment is from SSS Tilted Banner Sayings. Linking with the One-Layer Simplicity challenge - Multitude of Gratitude - this month.

Second card is inspired by the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge this week. I pulled out one of my old favorites - PTI Feather Finery. I heat embossed the feather in white on watercolor paper. I used Tim Holtz watercolor panels - love the texture and durability of this paper vs. a watercolor pad I have which I would have just cut down to size. I watercolored teal over the feather like the sketch after I heat embossed the sentiment in black. 

Took me three tries to do this though. First time I my sentiment was crooked. Second time it smudged because I did the heat embossed sentiment AFTER watercoloring. So third time was the charm. All heat embossing first, then watercoloring. 

I gave the panel a little edge of black matting to help it stand out against the Tropical Teal card base. 

My third card is inspired by THIS card by Dawn McVey. PTI usually does a Create Along With Us challenge each month to make a new card inspired by a DT card. They haven't posted this month's challenge yet but I'm was excited to CASE Dawn's card anyway. 

I stamped snowflakes from Snowflake Serenade on a Plum Pudding panel and split the card on top of a Royal Velvet card base. I added pale purple sequins to each snowflake for some added sparkle. 

Last card is a holiday card I made using the new PTI Spruce & Springs set. I used the Vintage Cream Linen card stock for the first time. What a wonderful texture! I created a border of leaves around the edge of the card and added a few berries. Simple sentiment from Wet Paint finishes it off. Color inspired by Colour Me....Striking challenge. 

Finishing up a couple more cards so hopefully post them soon. Hope you are having a great weekend! Thanks for popping in! 

Big Bloom

So got to playing around with the new Winnie & Walter - Simon Says Stamp collaboration set Big Bloom that I got during the SSS Stamptember celebration and can already see this will become one of my favorite sets. It goes so well with gold embossing powder.

First is a card which inspired by the Pinterest Inspired Challenge this month. Love this mix of colors.

For my card I heat embossed the big bloom on watercolor paper and used watercolor to paint in the petals. Sentiment from Mama Elephant heat embossed in gold as well.

My second card pairs the gold embossing with deep purple. Love how regal it looks. I used a different center for the big bloom. 

Also linking to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Thanksgiving challenge as well as the One Layer Simplicity Gratitude challenge. 

That's it for me. Thanks for stopping by! 

More Coffee!

I have another card using the MFT Clearly Sentimental About Coffee sentiment set but this time I paired it with PTI Drips and Dribbles. I love the look of the coffee rings which I stamped randomly on the card panel in PTI Fine Linen, Kraft, and Dark Chocolate around the masked diagonal sentiment strip. The coffee mug is from PTI Cup of Cheer. Colors inspired by this week's Colour Me....Monochromatic challenge. 

Love this sentiment...I say it all the time and believe it completely.

Hope you had a great weekend! Thanks for popping in!