How about some Turquoise?

Hi everyone, we woke up to about 3 to 4 inches of snow again.  But we are suppose to see 60 degrees next weekend.  I sure hope the weathermen are right!!

On this week's MIM #245, Ashley showed us the color isolation technique.  You still have time if you want to watch Ashley video here and post your card before 7am on Monday.  I'm also entering this card into CTD #387.  I'm hoping the turquoise is close enough to light aqua.  You have until 6pm on Monday to enter this week's Color Throwdown Challenge, too.



SU's Tempting Turquoise CS
SU Whisper White CS
SU's Smoky Slate ink
Tuxedo Black ink
MFT's Proper Pinstripes 6x6 paper pack
Copics - YG17, YG63, Y06, R29, YR68 and B04
PTI's Doodlie Dos
SSS Prayers die cut and stamp set
Sequins

I did think Smoky Slate was too dark, so I did off stamp it once before stamping on the card stock.  I also fussy cut my flower and leaves as I don't have the die cuts for this stamp set.  I think they will be on my next PTI order.  I really do not like to fussy cut...I blame it on being left handed. Not sure if that is a proper excuse, but it works for me :)


Thank you so much for stopping by, I love it when you do.  Have a great week.

Just a few challenges...

Hi everyone,
After about 3 or 4 inches of snow yesterday, we are up to 50 degrees today...such crazy MI weather.  I enjoyed the falling snow from inside my warm house while making some cards.  Here is the card I made for Make It Monday Challenge #244, Color Throwdown #386 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes".

I do love when I can make one card that works for more than one challenge.  I started out by watching Laurie Willison's video over at MIM on scoring, then checked out the colors this week on CTD...Lime, Teal and White and had to see what SSWC was this week, sweet as anything goes.   

PTI inks in Hawaiian Shores and Limeade
PTI Swoosh Dies and Wet Paint Dies
PTI Ombre Builder Stamp Set
Gina K Pure Luxury CS
ScorPal
DMC Floss
sequins

I really like Lime and Teal together and hadn't scored on a card in a long time.  I didn't have a card stock in either of these two colors, so I took the ink pad of Hawaiian Shores and covered a cut piece of white card stock with the ink and cut my dies out from it.  Thanks for the great challenges this week.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love it when you do.  Have a great week!

A little Happy for MIM #243

Happy Easter!!!  The sun is rising into a beautiful blue sky!  It looks a lot warmer than 36 degrees, though.

I spent yesterday making 2 Babkas (first time ever).  They turned out ahh..just okay.  And some cards, too. 

Here's the one I made for Make It Monday #243, Ink Blending over Heat Embossing.  I always love using this technique and seeing the end result when you sponge the ink over the white or clear heat embossing.

 Here's the panel I started out with...and the two cards I made from it below...













 
Gina K Pure Luxury White cs and Wild Lilac cs
PTI's Beautiful Blooms and White Paint Stamp Sets
SU's French Script
PTI's White Paint Dies
SSS Wavy Scallop Stitches
Versa Mark ink
White and Clear Embossing Powder
TH Distress Inks in Wilted Violet, Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio and Mustard Seed

Gina K Pure Luxury White cs
SU's Watermelon Wonder cs
PTI's Beautiful Blooms
White and Clear Embossing Powders
Versa Mark ink
White and Clear Embossing Powder
TH Distress Inks in Wilted Violet, Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio and Mustard Seed
SSS Thanks Scallop Boarder and Wavy Scallop Stitches




Thank you so much for stopping by today.  Have a wonderfully blessed Easter!

PTI's Create Along With Us (March Release)

My inspiration for this month's "Create Along With Us" came from Kay Miller.  Kay, I love your style.  Kay impresses me with her bright and bold color choices and her water coloring skills.  I wish my cards would turn out as stunning as her's do!  She inspires me all the time!!!

Here's the card Kay made that inspired me this month.

Unfortunately I didn't have the ink colors she used, but have added them to my wishlist for my next PTI order, along with a few other things :)  It never ends!!

I added more splatter then Kay did and after uploading my picture I realized I forgot to add the sequins...oops!  I had to make my own striped paper.  I used one of the stripes from Simons Says Jumbo Stripes Stamp Set.  It only took a few minutes to make.  I'm going to have to remember this.  I can never find striped paper in the right color and this was a very easy fix. 

TH water color paper
SU Bermuda Bay ink
TH Distress Inks in Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron (I love both of those colors!!!)
PTI's Friendly Flowers stamp set and dies
PTI's Thanks (I cut off the "s") and You from Wet Paint Cut Dies I and II.
SSS Circle Loops die (cut 3 times)
SSS Jumbo Stripes

Thanks for stopping by, I love it when you do!  My week will be quite busy at church as Holy Week starts...so I may not have a chance to post.  In case I don't, may you all have a wonderfully blessed Easter! 

MIM - You're on my mind...

Hi everyone,
Here's a card I made using Dawn's sponged stamping technique for PTI's Make It Monday #242.  You can watch her video here. 


SU's Melon Mambo cs
Gina K's Pure Luxury White cs
PTI's Sentiment Splits, Curve Horizontal Die
PTI's Beautiful Butterflies and Blooming Button Bits Stamp Sets
PTI's inks - Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, Winter Wisteria, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Berry Sorbet, Blueberry Sky, Spring Rain & Aqua Mist.
HA's Unicorn White Pigment Ink
White Embossing Powder
White pearls




Such a fun technique to play with.  I really like how my card turned out and this is only the 2nd time I used this die.  I had to have them both, the horizontal and the vertical, and was on a waiting list forever.  I know I haven't used the vertical one at all.  I need to keep them where I'll see them and use them more often.

Thank you for stopping by, I love it when you do.  Have a great week.

A Stencil Happy Birthday

Hi everyone,
I only had time to make one card today, but IRL how it turned out.  I love when ideas pop in my head and I give them a whirl and they actually work!

This card is for four challenges this week.  I love it when that happens.  First and foremost, the card originates from PTI's Make It Monday Challenge #241.  Ombre stencil blending with Betsy Veldman.  She used three colors with her sample, but I only used two and after I finished the card, and looked at Betsy's sample again, did I realize, I should not have filled up the whole page.  It's suppose to fade into white.  Oops!  Not very ombre.  The colors I chose are from this week's CTD #382, hot pink, teal, white and black.  This card also works for Darnell's NBUS Challenge #6 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - add texture, which is the white and black embossing.  For Darnell's Challenge, the Tim Holtz stencil is my NBUS.  You might notice that there is some white embossing peeking out from under the black embossed butterflies.  I originally did them in white, but they were getting lost on the page, so I changed them to black.  IRL the white peeking out under the black.


Gina K's Pure White Luxury CS
SU's Black CS
PTI's Raspberry Fizz ink
Distress Ink in Peacock Feathers
VersaMark
Black VersaFine Ink
TH Lattice Work Stencil
PTI's Turning a New Leaf, Beautiful Blooms and Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Sets
White and Black embossing powder

I am going to be making up more of these cards to have on hand!

Thank you so much for stopping by and really love it when you do.

Make It Monday #240 Watercolor Resist

Hi everyone, I hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday.  So far it's sunny and near 50 here in MI.  We are suppose to get some rain this evening after getting almost a foot of snow this past Wednesday. 

If you haven't had a chance to watch Lexi's Make It Monday Water Color Resist, do so.  I really enjoyed playing with this technique yesterday.  I have two cards to show you.  The first card is my first attempt at the water color technique.

Red card stock
White card stock
Water color card stock
Yellow, Red and Blue water colors
Rubber Cement
PTI Shaker Shapes: Balloon Dies
Yellow Floss
Stormy Sky, Broken China & Tumbled Glass

Since I had fun with these colors, I thought I would see what the colors for Color Throwdown are for this week.  Pink, green and kraft.  Ooh, I wonder how they would look together....

IRL how this card turned out and am entering it into the MIM #240, Color Throwdown #381 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

Water color paper
Green Water Color
Brown Water Color
PTI Hibiscus Burst ink
PTI Rustic Wreath Die
PTI Beautiful Blooms II #3 dies
PTI Swoosh Stamp Set
SU Polka Dots EF
SU Crumb Cake ink








Here is what is left of my water color resist pieces.  I should have taken a picture of them before I die cut them up.  I did get one of the green and pink as I couldn't decide how to put my card together.

Thanks for stopping by.  I would love to know what you think of this technique by leaving a comment below.

Happy Birthday

Fellow blogger, Marcia and I met 23 years ago, when our two oldest daughters started preschool.  She and I have shared many great memories over the years, including our love of stamping.  She loves Melissa Phillips' cards as much as I do.  So I thought this card would be perfect to make for her birthday.

One of my favorite set from PTI is Doodlie Do and I've been wanting to CASE this card by Melissa Phillips for a very long time.  I've looked at her card so many times, but never realized until I read the blog today that she paper pieced it.  I thought she had colored it with markers.  Shows you how close I looked at this card...oh my!


I stamped the flowers on different sheets of designer paper from Penny Black's Painted Blooms paper pack and fussy cut them all.  My card isn't exactly like Melissa's but awful close.  It was a time consuming card with all the fussy cutting I did, but I think it was worth it.  IRL how my card turned out, as did Marcia. 

Thanks for stopping by, I love it when you do.

PTI's Challenge #5 - Sampler Squares & Challenge #9 - Snail Mail

I am entering this card in both Challenge #5 and Challenge #9.   Challenge #5, which is to cut 9 1-1/2" squares and put a different technique in each square and Challenge #5. 
Top left across - splattering, inlaid die cutting, ombre water coloring.  Row 2, left to right, regular die cutting, heat emboss stamping, confetti stamping.
Row 3, left to right, smooshing, watercoloring and dry embossing.

Challenge #9 is to make a thank you card for the PTI warehouse staff thanking them for their hard work and "snail mail" the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love it when you do.

PTI's Create Along With Us - Feb. 2016

Aren't these "Peonies on Parade" gorgeous!  When I saw Kay Miller's card, I fell in love with the Peonies and the bright colors she used.  I knew it was going to be her card I was going to CASE for PTI's Create along with Us, Feb. 2016 challenge.

Here's is my take on Kay's card.  I used PTI's "Beautiful Brushstokes".  I stamped the outline in black and then inked up the solid stamps in PTI's "Raspberry Fizz" and "Hibiscus Burst" which I spritzed with water before stamping on water color paper.  The outline of the leaves are inked in black ink, too, and the solid stamp is inked with PTI's "Simply Chartreuse" and again spritzed with water before stamping on water color paper.  I fussy cut out the flowers and leaves.  I then took my "Raspberry Fizz" ink again and spread it an acrylic stamp block, spritz it with water and smooshed my water color paper on top of the acrylic block.  I popped up the flowers and leaves and added PTI's "Hello" from the "Wet Paint Cut Dies" collection. and popped it up on a piece of white card stock.  Not a pretty as Kay's, but I still really love the way it turned out. 


Thanks for stopping by.  I love it when you do.