MIM #194

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SYMPATHY CARDS AND STAMPED BORDERS

Melissa focuses on using partial images to create stamped borders with the theme of "sympathy" or "thinking of you". 
Clicking  HERE will bring you to her video.

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Sorry about the night picture ~ it's an inside photo and the colors are more pastel in real life.

MIM #194

MAKE IT MONDAY 

SYMPATHY STAMPED BORDER

Melissa Phillips is up on MIM, she focuses on using partial images to create stamped borders with the theme of "sympathy" or "thinking of you" this week. Click HERE to learn more.

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PTI stamps/dies/products are: 

Beautiful Butterflies and Embellishments

Card base is Stampers Select White

PTI-Dec Blog Post

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.

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A friend saw the card I made for the 25th Anniversary and asked if I could duplicate it for her niece who is turning 25 on December 30th. 

I added the butterfly to this one, it's a more youthful look to the same card, don'tchaya think?  Plus the fact I could never ever make the same exact card twice ~ always have to recreate the wheel  ;-)

PTI-Dec Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.

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The sheer ribbon with gold polka dots, solid banners top and bottom was on a gift I received, so of course, it had to go on this Anniversary card.
        I couldn't very well throw it away now, could I?  ;-)

PTI-Dec Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos. 

Anyone else feel like 2015 is tumbling in a little too quickly??

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PTI Dec Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.

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PTI Dec Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.
 

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PTI-Dec Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.

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PTI December Blog Hop

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos. 

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PTI December Blog Hop

The December PAPERTREY INK  Blog Hop Challenge is to create with gold and silver check out the gorgeous inspiration photos.  
The color scheme on white is beautiful and the New Year is a time I like to send out a few cards~perfect timing!  Also, I need a 25th Anniversary, couple of thank yous and a congrats ~ so hopefully you will see more cards from me today ;-)

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 PTI's  "By The Numbers" and the panel under the Stamper's Select White embossed cardstock are from gold glimmer paper. 

MIM #193

MAKE IT MONDAY

CAMOUFLAGING DIE CUTS

One more card for MIM this week.  The technique by Laura demonstrated in this video is very different, I like it as a CAS card.

 

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I used a thicker cardstock to die cut three additional "hello's" and like the dimension it creates.

MIM 193

MAKE IT MONDAY

CAMOUFLAGING DIE CUTS

Here is a card made for MIM this week.  Check out the technique Laura demonstrates on this video.

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Sorry for the inside photo, the colors are very pastel and much prettier in real life.

Coffee Lovers

The sweet Miss Amy Tsurata is  graciously hosting a Coffee Lover's Blog Hop. If you want to play along head over to her Blog HERE.

I'm a little late to the party, but here is the card I am entering.

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I stamped the top part of  the Gina K mugs  (Season's Greetings set) with embossing ink onto the white card panel first, then stamped it again in Cape Cod blue ink on a separate piece of white card stock which I fussy cut and  popped onto the gold embossed steaming coffee  :-)  
The lacy decorative tape was slid under the cups.  The white panel is taped to the black panel and both are taped to the blue base card.

MIM #192

MAKE IT MONDAY 

TAB CLOSURE TRI-FOLD CARD

Betsy is up this week for a fun new MIM.  Watch her video HERE as she takes us through the steps of creating a tri-fold card featuring a tab closure...I just had to give this technique a try.

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Inside of my card where I added a note

Base card is PTI Stamper's Select White
Patterned paper is from Reflections Signature Special paper pad
PTI Sentiment is from Spiral Bouquet 
PTI Beautiful Butterfly die/stamp

MIM #191

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GLITTERED FRAME

Dawn McVey  is up this week on MIM.   Her card, of course, is gorgeous!  You can check it out HERE.

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 I will be back later with the deets ~ meeting a friend for a little ;-) shopping.

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I inked this wintery stamp in Ultimate Metallic Blue onto PTI Stamper's Select White cardstock, then added the score tape for my silver glitter frame.  The snow drift is cut from white glitter paper. 
I embossed a panel of White with Snowflakes folder from Cuttlebug, popped two panels together and adhered to the White base card.  

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The inside is stamped the same scene in Hero Arts Shadow ink. The sentiment is from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies.  If you look closely you can see I add two glittery birds on top of the stamped image.

MIM #191

MAKE IT MONDAY

GLITTERED FRAME

The very sweet Dawn McVey  is up this week and she is sharing a quick way to create pretty glittered frames on your cards or other projects. Her card, of course is gorgeous, check it out HERE

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My card design was created close to Dawn's sample (okay...not nearly as gorgeous as her's).  I just figured, why mess with perfection?  :-)   
Alright, I do have a couple of "different" ideas for this technique and hope to get to them before the weekend is over.

MIM #190

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STAMPING A PLAID BACKGROUND

Ashley demonstrates how to create a fun  plaid background in her video this week . You can check it out HERE 

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* Christmas stockings hanging off PTI's Banner Border

* Plaid is stamped on PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock

* Base card is PTI White and embossed with the  Cuttlebug Swiss Dot folder

MIM #190

MAKE IT MONDAY 

STAMPING A PLAID BACKGROUND

Ashley demonstrates how to create a fun  plaid background in her video this week . You can check it out HERE 

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MIM #190

MAKE IT MONDAY 

STAMPING A PLAID BACKGROUND

Ashley demonstrates how to create a fun  plaid background in her video this week . You can check it out HERE 

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PTI - Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP CHALLENGE

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow! 

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My tag has a  PTI 'Fancy Flourish' of silver glittery snowflakes on a Swiss Dot (snowy) background :-)

PTI-Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP CHALLENGE

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow!  

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I embossed my wintery looking trees with White Embossing Powder onto Kraft cardstock. Added a little more embossing ink on the bottom and made my 'hill of snow' to create a drift. 
The red birds are from a Martha Stewart border punch.
The Lacy Square frame is a Spellbinders die cut out of PTI True Black cardstock.  
Sentiment is PTI's Fall Elegance.

PTI - BLog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP CHALLENGE

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow! 

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PTI Stamper's Select White cardstock is embossed with Snowflakes EF by Cuttlebug.

Santa is a foam sticker, he is holding a glittered up Christmas package.

PTI's By the Numbers were die cut from Brick Red cardstock.

Snowflakes by Marvy are punched out of gold foil paper.

PTI - Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow! 

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This card is for one of my December birthday cards.

The large snowflake tag is adhered to Stamper's Select White cardstock which is embossed with Snowflakes folder from Cuttlebug.

The Sentiment is from PTI Boutique Borders: Birthday and embossed in Silver powder

 

PTI - Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow! 

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The fussy cut ornaments are stamped in three different shades of blue ink and one pink.  They are strung on silver twine from a glittery PTI Banner Border die and glued to a Snowflake embossed panel of Stamper's Select White then popped onto a sky-blue base cardstock.

PTI - Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP CHALLENGE

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow! 

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December birthday card: 
The snow drift is white glitter paper over the White embossed Birch Trees.
Sentiment from PTI Boutique Borders: Birthday
Cardinals from Martha Stewart's punch
The sweet deer is foam sticker from the Dollar Store

PTI Nov Blog Hop

PAPERTREY INK

NOVEMBER 2014 BLOG HOP

The photos HERE are so inspirational for this month's theme, which is snow!

Nichole has us digging out our favorite snow stamps and snowflake dies and creating the illusion of snow with glitter or mica flakes.  We can make some snow filled shaker elements with beads or sequins or just create a winter wonderland with paper crafting supplies, sounds like fun to me!   ;-)

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Base card is PTI Stamper's Select White Embossed with Swiss Dots

Trees embossed in white onto PTI True Black

Sentiment 'Blessings' from PTI Fall Elegance stamped in VersaMark ink onto Spellbinder's Fancy Tags

The little red bird is part of a Martha Stewart border punch 

MIM #189

MAKE IT MONDAY

IMPRESSION LINE WATER COLORING

 

You still have time to join Erin in creating for this MIM challenge 

 

I needed a card for a baby gift I will be delivering tomorrow, so I thought I would try this technique with a PTI Wonderful Words die. 

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 I use the PTI Sweet Baby stamps and die ~ embossing the word "baby" and using water color paint to go over it.

 

MIM #189

MAKE IT MONDAY

IMPRESSION LINE WATER COLORING

I have another card joining Erin this week  for the MIM Challenge.  Check out this VIDEO  demonstrating how to use embossed lines created by your dies as guides for water coloring. 

I am not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, but do love to play with water coloring. :-)

 

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I embossed the stem/leaves die from PTI's Rosie Posie then outlined  the raised side with acrylic Lime Green paint.  The inside of the leaves is two shades of water color paints. 
Cardstock is PTI's Stamper's Select White ... which I saturated a little too much and it buckled a bit in the center~I added more double sided tape after the photo.
The sentiment is PTI from the Embellishments stamp set.
Other cardstock, sheer ribbon and pearl from my stash.

MIM #189

MAKE IT MONDAY

IMPRESSION LINE WATER COLORING

I am joining Erin this week  for the MIM Challenge.  She has demonstrated on this VIDEO  how to use embossed lines created by your dies as guides for water coloring. 

The Peony cover plate from the November Release is perfect for this technique, but I don't have that one (yet) soooo,  here I am improvising cause I just don't want to miss a MIM op  :-)

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I used the backside of the embossed PTI Beautiful Butterfly dies and outlined them with Orchid acrylic paint, the inside is watercolor aqua paint.  The sentiment is from PTI's Embellishments set and the cardstock is PTI's Stamper's Select White.

MIM #188

MAKE IT MONDAY

STAMPING OMBRE BACKGROUNDS 

 

One more entry in the MIM challenge this week.

Laura Bassen's video can be seen HERE

 

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 The polka dot ombre background is stamped onto PTI's Stamper's Select White card stock.  The giraffe, elephant and "sweet baby" are  stamps/dies from PTI's Sweet Baby set.

The picket fence border die is from Cheery Lynn Designs.

MIM #188

MAKE IT MONDAY

STAMPING OMBRE BACKGROUNDS

Laura's video on stamping ombre backgrounds has me thinking outside the box.  I have been looking through my stamp sets and trying to come up with unique ways to create cards for this challenge.  

I lined up the 5 solid leaves from PTI's Fall Elegance stamp set and inked up my "border" in six different colors onto PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock that I ran through and cut Spellbinder's Label 8 die. The orange chevron paper is from a paper pad from Pebbles. "Happy Thanksgiving" (also from Fall Elegance) is gold embossed onto the Kraft owl gift tag I found at Target. His googlie eyes are from Michael's, the multi colored ribbon yarn is a local Thrift Store find.

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MIM #188

MAKE IT MONDAY

STAMPING OMBRE BACKGROUNDS

 

Check out this video by Laura Bassen on MIM this week. Her project using a gradient of layered colors is really cool.  

 

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•  My background stamps are from PTI's Embellishments and Rosie Posie and the sentiment is from Fall Elegance.
• The different greens are stamped onto PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock, the green panel frames it and I cut the White base card 5.5X5.5 square.
• The felt snowman cutie is from a pak I picked up at Michael's after Season last year.
• Sentiment is stamped on a banner from Spellbinders
• Green sequins from my stash