Botanical Silhouettes

This is without a doubt, my favorite floral stamp set to date. It is Papertrey Ink's 4th anniversary set, Botanical Silhouettes. I purchased so many stamps and supplies from PTI that year, it qualified me for six anniversary sets! I gave away a few, have used one and decided to keep the last set for back-up, just in case anything happened to my used set! This is just one of the images from this set, stamped in several colors. The clear dot embellishments I purchased on eBay but cannot remember what they are called...if you know, please email me, as I'd love to purchase these in more colors. :)

Supplied:

Stamps: Botanical Silhouettes, Sew Simple Borders

Card stock and nk: All Papertrey Ink

PTI Die: Leafy Vine Border

Happy Anniversary to my DH!

A quick post to share an anniversary card I made last month for DH, celebrating our 24th year together. I "borrowed" my design idea from from a Nichole Heady card here. I love how this turned out and my DH was very pleased as well. He still has it displayed on this bedside table :)

Papertrey Ink Products:

Tipped Tops dies 

Bountiful Banners die 

Fillable Frames #7 die

Super Stars Border die

Stamps: Heart Prints, Heart Squared, Background Basics: Tin Types

Gold Filigree Embossing Powder

Marcos Paper: Gold Reflective cardstock

Papertrey Ink March 2014 Blog Hop #2

For my second card for the Papertrey March Blog Hop,  I was drawn to the shiny teal boots in the inspiration photo above. I love pretty rain boots, and the shinier, the better. Again I turned to Green Thumb to use this great polka dot boot image in the set. These boots are clear embossed with pink pigment ink and three layers of clear embossing powder. I combined these boots with images from another oldie, Scattered Showers. The "mud puddle" the boots are sitting in is actually made using an oval die, Spring Rain card stock and Glossy Accents. (For some unknown reason this photographed more teal than it appears IRL).





Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Green Thumb, Scattered Showers, Polka Dot Basics 2

Ink: Colorbox pigment inks, PTI Fresh Snow and Spring Rain die ink

Cardstock: PTI; Green plaid designer paper: my stash

Clear Embossing powder

Dies: PTI 2-1/4 inch Limitless Layers; Lil' Inkers Stiched Mats; SSS: Postage Stamp Edge dies

Papertrey Ink March 2014 Blog Hop #1

Another PTI Blog Hop has made it's way to the forefront of my calendar for March. The challenge this month is to incorporate anything high gloss or shiny into our design. This was an easy challenge to meet, as heat embossing is what drew my interest into stamping from the very beginning. Just something magical about watching that powder melt into an embossed image. 

I dug out a couple of old stamp sets for this challenge. For some reason Papertrey Ink's Green Thumb has been on my radar of late. There are no dies for this set, but images are easy enough for fussy cutting. I combined the flower pot from Green Thumb with florals from Mini Blooms and came up with this:

My shiny-glossy is in the flower pot, meant to look like the cobalt blue pots I grow my roses in for our deck. It is stamped in blue and coated with Glossy Accents. And the sentiment is embossed in the same blue. A few of the Mini Blooms are raised with foam adhesive and a tiny bit of embellishing to the centers with colored Stickles.

Supplies used:

Stamps: Papertrey Green Thumb, Mini Blooms (and dies)

Ink: PTI dye inks, Colorbox Blue pigment ink, Glossy Accents

Cardstock: PTI

Baker's Twine: PTI Enchanted Evening

Ranger Stickles

PTI February 2014 Blog Hop

It's time for another PTI Blog Hop! I just love the color palette offered by by Nichole this month. I was drawn to the lavender and green, one of my favorite color combinations. I did rediscover our desperate need for some felt in New Leaf. Fingers crossed we will see this from PTI soon!

Supplies:

PTI Stamps: Tags for Spring, Life

Cardstock: Gina K Lovely Lavender, PTI New Leaf, SS White

Limitless Label dies, PDP#2 Flower Die: PTI

Pattern Paper, Ribbon, Felt, Dye Ink:  PTI

Lavender Ink: Heliotrope, Colorbox

#2 PTI Anniversary Submission

Another color combo/layout combo based on these sketches from Papertrey Ink 7th Anniversary Celebration: 

I just love this Owl set from Melissa Bickford. And I am totally channeling Laua Bassen in using bold colors and more white space than I normally leave. Not sure what was going on with my camera and lighting - that top stripe really is Hibiscus Burst, not the orange color as it appears on my computer.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI: Polka Dot Parade #11; Boutique Borders: Love

Dies: Polka Dot Parade #11, Boutique Borders Friend, Rick-Rack border die

Ink: PTI, Colorbox

#1 PTI Anniversary Submission

I have a couple submissions ready for the PTI 7 Year Anniversary Celebration.  Nichole Heady issued this challenge on Day One, with seven color combos and 7 layouts. My goal is to tackle each sketch, but crafting time is not on my side this week, so will continue to do what I can to meet this challenge. Using a new Tim Holtz Splatters stencil, I applied a new technique I learned in the recent Online Card Class: Stenciled.

Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Doodlie-Do; Fillable Frames #5

Card stock, White Filigree powder, Ink: All PTI

Circle Die: Spellbinders

Stencil: Tim Holtz Splatters