PTI's Create Along With Us

Hey friends!  Dropping in with a card for the January PTI Create Along With Us challenge.  I'm also adding this to the current Color Throwdown and the current Time Out challenge.  My card is a pretty much a copy of a lovely card that Dawn McVey created with the newly released Bold Blossoms stamp and die set.  I watercolored the background using Stampin Up! Smoky Slate reinker and once it was mostly dry I stamped the sentiment from Happiness in Bloom using grey and black inks.  The flowers were die cut from watercolor paper and stamped Memento Tangelo, Dandelion and London Fog inks.  I spritzed them with water so they would curl up a bit for some added dimension.  The leaves were also die cut from watercolor paper and then stamped using Memento Bamboo Leaves.  The main panel was die cut and then everything was layered on.  Adhered the panel to a light grey cardstock base.  Here is a photo of Dawn's beautiful card:

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  PTI Happiness in Bloom; Dies:  PTI Beautiful Blooms and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Memento Bamboo Leaves, London Fog, Tangelo, and Dandelion, Stampin Up! Smoky Slate

 

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Hey friends!  Going to try to make this a quick post... have a migraine today.. yuck!!  Made this card for this month's PTI Create Along With Us challenge, as well as the current ColourQ challenge.  I love the new Twig Wreath stamps and dies from PTI.   All the PTI design team projects using these new products are amazing (of course!) so it was hard to choose one to base my design on, but the closet was a lovely card by Betsy Veldman (see below).  I went with the idea of a banner, just made my a little bit bigger.  I used the lovely PTI set Garden Grace to create my little floral piece on the wreath (a Memory Box) die.  To create the texture on the banner I impressed it with some burlap.  The banner was die cut using a die from the MFT jumbo fishtail flag stax dies, as was the small banner that the sentiment is stamped on. 

 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white, Stampin Up! kraft, Patterned paper:  Stampin Up!; Stamps:  PTI; Dies: PTI, MFT and Memory Box, Inks:  Stampin Up!; burlap

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Hello friends!!   Going to try to make this a quick one.  Have a card I made for the new PTI release week challenge:  Create Along with Us, as well as the current ColourQ challenge.  I almost didn't play along with ColourQ this week.   Summer Starfruit isn't one of my favorite colors, but I pushed forward and found some patterned paper that worked.    The idea behind the PTI challenge is to create something inspired by one of the design teams' release week projects.  I chose a card made by Laura Bassen.  I loved the angled frame part of the design.  I changed things up by not trimming of portions of the frame the way Laura did, as well as adding an additional layer to the card.  I used the Nostalgic Notions set for the flowers and sentiment.  The frame was die cut using my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Backdrop dies.   Stamping the sentiment within the angled panel was a real bear... thought I was going to go cross-eyed or something by the time I had it done.  It came out pretty darn straight, but the more I looked at it the more off kilter it looked, lol!  And despite the fact that I don't like the Summer Starfruit color I really like how the card turned out.  I threw in some neutral colors (SU!'s new Tip Top Taupe and River Rock, as well as Simon Says Stamps' fog cardstock)

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; SSS fog; My Mind's Eye patterned paper; Stamps:  PTI; Dies:  PTI and A Jillian Vance Design; Ink:  Stampin Up! Calypso Coral, Pink Pirouette and Rich Razzleberry; Crystal Stickles