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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* 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

 

 

 

MIM #188

MAKE IT MONDAY

STAMPING OMBRE BACKGROUNDS

Laura is up this week and brings her FUN style to a colorful project using a gradient of layered colors on MIM. You can watch her video HERE.

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I started out stamping the music notes is different shades of pink inks on PTI's Stamper's Select White card stock to create my ombre background.

Then I cut one of the dies from PTI's Birthday Trio out of Silver Glimmer card stock and also cut a panel to glue under the white panel and on top of the Raspberry base card.

The Spellbinder banner is cut from Raspberry and Vellum ~ the 'wishes' is stamped onto the vellum.

I topped off the flowing sentiments with a glitter button tied with silver metallic cord and sprinkled a few sequins around.

MIM #188

Happy Veteran's Day 
and
THANK YOU 
to all of our 
Servicemen and Women!

I created this note card going out to a friend today ~ it seems fitting to call it Stars and Stripes.  

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MAKE IT MONDAY

STAMPING OMBRE BACKGROUNDS

Laura Bassen brings her FUN style to a colorful project using a gradient of layered colors on this week's MIM. 

You can watch her video HERE.

I layered the 'stripes' in different shades of blue to create the ombre background on Stamper's Select White cardstock.
The Hello and Star dies are double cut to look like a shadow, then I glued them together and adhered to the front with foam tape for some dimension.  The royal blue cardstock from Recollections is framing the top and all are taped to the White card base.

MIM - #187

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE CUTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

You still have a little  time to post a project to this week's MIM.  Check out Melissa's video demonstrating this technique HERE.

I am starting to make some tags for Christmas cookies and other homemade goodies that I will be giving out to friends and neighbors this year. 

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 Sorry for the dark inside photo.

The mason jar is stamped on PTI's Stamper's Select White card stock and also onto Clear Acetate. The snowman is stamped in light grey ink and the shadow around him is also light grey colored pencil. The snow on the bottom of the jar is White and Silver sparkly embossing powder.  The "Enjoy" stamp from PTI's Spiral Bouquet is also embossed on the banner sticking out of the top of the jar (it just looks like sparkly dots in the photo, I'm afraid).  
My Partial Die Cuts are the silver and blue snowflakes and Pink banner.

MIM #187

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE CUTS

You still have some time to post a project to this week's MIM.  Check out Melissa's video demonstrating this technique HERE.

I really like how this ornament (or gift tag,~haven't decided yet) came out. There is not much to it and I know it doesn't look it...

but it took me a few hours to put together.   :-o 

It started out as a Snow Globe, but since I don't own that PTI die, I had to improvise a bit. 

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I cut a Scalloped Circle with my Giga Marvy punch from PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock and from clear acetate.  The blue sky is sponged on as the background. The Glitter Paper snow was cut to look like hills then the glittery trees and snowmen
 were glued in place. 
 
I could probably ask you to find my partial die cut here, but thinking "who has the time?"  :-)

So here is a picture:
 

It's PTI's Banner Borders that I cut out of Gold foil, then cut off  punched holes and glued them onto my Ornament for a hanger.
I cut one piece for the front, one for the back and a third to cover up the mess of Aleene's Tacky Glue on the front piece.

MIM~#187

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE CUTS

Here is another tag I made trying to emulate Miss Melissa in this week's MIM Challenge.  Ha! I wish!! 

She creates a beautiful holiday tag using the partial die cutting technique.  You can watch her  video HERE.

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I usually don't like my first card/tag posted for the MIM challenges, however, I am really not crazy about my second one in this case.
Clearly I have issues, sniping off pieces of die cuts overlapping my cards and tags and only cut two of the snowflakes here.    ;-)

I took a paint brush and swiped the edge of my Kraft banner tag with Gold acrylic glitter paint...hmm, this looks better IRL

Spellbinder's  Laurel wreath is cut from gold foil.

PTI "By The Numbers" are cut from Seaglass Metallic card stock

The snowflakes are from a Marvy punch and bling was added to the center of each

The Sheer ribbon tie is from my stash

MIM #187

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE CUTS

I am attempting to join Melissa this week as she makes a beautiful holiday project using a partial die cutting technique.  You can watch her  video HERE

I can't say that I love making tags, but I find that I am in awe of Melissa's creativity and her attention to detail, so here is what I came up with.

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Now I have to say, I really like when embellishments/dies cuts hang off the end of my cards/tags, so re-cutting the snowflakes on the numbers was NOT going to happen. I did cut off the dangling stars (under much duress). 

The base cardstock is Stamper's Select White, it's embossed with Cuttlebug's Snowflake EF.  The Snowflakes are cut with a Marvy punch that I've had for years.
Stars punch is also Marvy, but only had that for a couple of months.
PTI's Banner Borders is at the top and was cut from gold foil cardstock
PTI's By The Numbers are the perfect size for December 25th tags, they take up quite a bit of space ;-)

MIM #186

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE STAMPING

 Laurie is up this week with a technique she's calling "partial die stamping" over at the Make It Monday Challenge. 

You can view her video HERE

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Another Baby card, this one is for my dear friend's newest Granddaughter.

I used PTI's Sweet Baby stamps and Wonderful Words: Baby die.  The "baby" is partially stamped with an Impression Obsession  background stamp  "Greenery" which has tiny leaves and it is glued onto a piece of vellum. The base card is embossed with "Leaves and Diamonds" EF by Sissix.

MIM #186

MAKE IT MONDAY

PARTIAL DIE STAMPING

I'm joining Laurie at the last minute this week for a new technique called "partial die stamping" over at the Make It Monday Challenge.  You can view her video HERE

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