Make It Monday #204 - Watercolor Smooshing

Hi there dear friends!  It's Sunday night and I finally finished my Papertrey Ink Make It Monday Challenge - Watercolor Smooshing.  Here's my take on the Challenge:

I used Hibiscus Burst and Summer Sunrise Ink for the smooshing and I used a punch to punch out my butterflies from the smooshed paper.  What a fun technique and if you've never smooshed before check out Betsy's video for more!

 I used some PTI Banner Dies and printable paper from Melstampz to create the banner.

I die cut the PTI Block Alphas from PTI Silver Cardstock and Double Sided Foam Adhesive sheets and layered them onto PTI a Doily Details Die.

The florals were stamped using PTI Bitty Bouquet stamps and Dies.  These florals are my new favorite stamps and dies!! They are absolutely beautiful!!

I added a double layered border at the top of each of the banners using PTI Heart Border dies in Silver and Stamper's Select Cardstock.  

I added some little antennae to the butterflies using black cardstock and PTI Be Happy Dies.  I also added some rainstones to the butterflies for fun.

I tied the banners together using white Hug Snug Ribbon.

 I used my brand new MISTI to stamp all the flowers!  What an awesome tool!! If you haven't heard about the new MISTI tool, you are definitely missing out!! It is definitely the Most Incredible Stamp Tool Invented!

Thanks for stopping by!!!  I hope you have a wonderful week!!
Kristii

Papertrey Ink MIM #201: Cover Plate Stencils and Embossing Paste

Good morning sweet friends!!  I have a fun little card to share with you today for the Papertrey Ink MIM Challenge.  Here's the challenge:

MAKE IT MONDAY #201: COVER PLATE STENCILS AND EMBOSSING PASTE

--Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and a Cover Plate Die stencil.

and here's my take on the Challenge:

I used Betsy Veldman's Beautiful Brushstrokes stamp set and the Chevron Cover Plate for this challenge.  I started by die cutting the Chevron Cover Plate and then adhered the die cut to the white card panel with some Washi Tape.  I spread some Teresa Collins Essential Modeling Paste onto the panel with a spatula tool and let it dry.  Love the dimension it creates!!  I then die cut and stamped the florals with black ink.  I then stamped a light base on the florals and then added some watercolor contrast.  Love, love, love these florals!!

I added some rub ons to add a little more black contrast and then mounted the panel onto a Hibiscus Burst Card base.  I plan on adding a bible verse to the inside for a card to send a bright ray of sunshine to a friend who needs a little encouragment in her day.

Thanks for stopping by!!
Kristii

Papertrey Ink MIM #149: Glitter Embellishments

Happy Sunday sweet friends!! It's been a great weekend and I am so excited to say I've been a bit crafty!!  I got my new PTI Doodlie-do stamps and just had to make a quick project and since this week's MIM project had to do with Glitter, I didn't need any more persuasaion!!

Make It Monday #149: Glitter Embellishments

I started off by stamping the Doodlie-Do flowers onto vellum with Versamark Ink and the added fine white embossing powder and heat set them.  I die cut the image with Sweet Blush and Simply Chartreuse papers and layered the embossed images on top.  I added coarse crystal glitter to all of the centers to go with the theme of the challenge.  To make the base panel, I picked up some Heidi Swapp Blush Colorshine and Stencils at Michael's and sprayed the the diagonal lines onto Stamper's Select white paper.  I am just loving the stenciled technique for backgrounds!! It's so fun and so easy to create custom backgrounds for any project!!

Supplies Used:
PTI Stamper's Select White, Simply Chartreuse,  and Sweet Blush Cardstock
PTI Vellum Cardstock
Heidi Swapp Stencil
Heidi Swapp Blush Color Shine
PTI Doodlie-Do Stamps and Dies
Martha Stewart Crystal Glitter

Wishing you a creative day!!

Kristii

MIM #139 Stamped Square Frames

Hi there dear friends!!  I hope your weekend has been fabulous!! I've been busy making wedding invitations and baby shower goodies!!  There's nothing better than a creative kind of weekend, so I'm in heaven!!  This week's MIM challenge at Papertrey Ink was especially perfect for the Baby Shower Card I wanted to create!  I just love the sweet little frame that Dawn created and here's my take on the challenge:

I used Blush Zing Embossing Powder to create the frame, baby bunting, and baby sentiment and  I used Cricket Zing Embossing Powder to create the greenery Love, love, love the Zing Embossing Powder!! Such a pretty pink and green!!!!  The frame was created with Boutique Borders Birthday and the greenery and flowers were stamped with PTI's Birds and Blooms stamp set.  The sweet little baby bunting was stamped using PTI's Bundle of Love stap set. I just love making baby themed cards! Baby's are beautiful and bring so much joy and happiness into the world!!  

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!  I am looking forward to seeing what everyone has created this week!!
Kristii

Make it Monday Challenge

Happy Friday dear friends!! I hope you all had a very happy 4th of July!!  Our week has been absolutely fabulous! My dad visited from California, we hiked a good 10 miles during the week, spent some time with good friends, and yesterday had a girls day out!! Whew!  It truly was a fabulous week! I haven't had much time to create over the past several days, but I am busy making new cards for Farmer's Market!  Business has been very good and each week I've had to replenish my stock!! I am so very thankful for all of you who have purchased my goodies at the Farmer's Market and in my Etsy Store!!!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!

Today I made a fun little birthday card using the Papertrey Ink  Make It Monday #73: Stamping on Patterned Paper and Retro Sketches #19.  

Here's my take on the challenges:

I used Pink Paislee's London Market 6x6 pad for this card.  I used the patterned paper with mostly text to die cut the butterflies and then I stamped each butterfly with sweet blush ink.  I inked each butterfly with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink and adhered them to the card base and added a little pearl embellishment.  The pearls on the Lovely Layers Leaves were inspired from Melissa Phillips amazing card seen here.

Supplies Used:
Papertrey Ink Stamps and dies:  Love Lives Here, Filigree Border and Lovely Layers
Papertrey Ink Cardstock:  Rustic Cream
Patterned Paper:  Pink Paislee London Market 6x6 Pad
Ink: PTI Sweet Blush Ink; Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink by Ranger
PTI Simply Chartreuse Felt; Recollections pearls, Hand Dyed Seam Binding by MemrieMare

KG Strawberry Limeade Font; PTI Button and Twine

Note:  For those of you who are looking for new classes....I have been swamped with Farmer's Market and I am hoping to have some new classes up in the next week or two.  I am shooting for the second week of August.  Thanks for your patience!!

I appreciate you taking time to stop by!!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Kristii

Papertrey Ink MIM #51

Happy Sunday dear friends!!  I have been itching to get out my PTI goodies and play and what better way than taking on the Make it Monday Challenge??

Make It Monday #51-Dimensional Sentiment Banner

Here's my take on the challenge:

I used PTI's Seed Packet Die, Seed Packet Frame Die, Tag Sale #1 Die, Rosie Posie and Garden Variety Stamps.  I think Rosie Posie is my new favorite stamp set.

For the banner, I used a sentiment from the Garden Variety stamp set and selectively stamped it onto a strip of paper and then inked the edges and hand cut the tails on the ends.

Supplies used:

Little Red Scrapbook January Kit

Papertrey Ink Seed Packet Die, Seed Packet Frame Die, Tag Sale #1 Die, Rosie Posie and Garden Variety Stamps

Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz and Spring Moss Ink

Thanks for stopping by!!

I wish you an absolutely fabulous week!!

Kristii

A Little Bundle of Love, Make It Monday and Idol Worthy?

Hi there dear friends!! Today was an absolutely beautiful day!!  I am so thankful for the blue skies and warm temperatures which made weeding the garden absolutely delightful!!  I also had some serious cleaning to do, some chauffeuring, and then I was finally able to do some creating this evening!  I was so excited to use PTI's Bundle of Love stamps.  They are the cutest stamps ever!!  Of course I had to add a little Garden Variety to the mix and I am so happy with the results!! I used the PTI Make It Monday challenge.  

Make It Monday #20: Reverse Masking

I have also been contemplating the Gallery Idol Competiton and I finally feel like I have a project worthy of entering.  I am so intimidated by the amazing artists that have entered, but you never know unless you try!  So here goes!

 I used a Spellbinders Nestability to die cut a circle out of some computer paper that was cut to the same size as my focal point cardstock base. I used removable tape to glue the die cut to the cardstock.  I stamped a border stamp from PTI's Night, Night Moon stamp set inside the circle.  I used a Tim Holtz blending tool to add ink inside the circle as well.  I just love the little circle of moon and stars this technique created!  I fussy cut the stork and baby and I die cut the fence and added some Garden Variety stamps to create a sweet little scene.

I outlined the stork with a ROOO Copic marker to add some color and I inked everything with Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink.  I also inked the Spring Rain cardstock with Fresh Snow ink to soften the background.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  PTI Spring Rain and Vintage Cream
PTI Stamps:  Bundle Of Love, Garden Variety and Night, Night Moon
Ink:  PTI Dark Chocolate, Fresh Snow, and Spring Rain; Tim Holtz Tea Dye, Crushed Olive and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink
PTI Dies:  Picket Fence
SpellBinders Dies: Small Standard Circles
Copic Marker:  R000

I appreciate you taking time to stop by my blog today!!
You are the best!
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