MIM #109 - Watercolor and Embossing

This is another masculine Birthday card  using the Make It Monday technique shown HERE .

PTI products:  
Cardstock ~  Stamper's Select White
Stamps ~ Spriral Bouquet and Beautiful Butterflies

I added Tattered Angels' Pomegranate glimmer mist to the Ditto turquoise and green instead of re-inkers for the solid flower stamp and stamped over the outline stamps with white embossing powder.
The patterned paper (kinda looks like a water-colored design) panel underneath is from K&Company.I added the brownish/greenish ribbon, but still think it's masculine enough.

MIM #109

Hope you all had a Blessed Easter

 This week's Make It Monday#109 is

 "Watercolor Stamping Plus Embossing"

Take a look at Betsy Veldman's video HERE  What a beautiful card she created!  I was always interested in learning to paint with watercolors and love to see card makers using this technique, 
so I was inspired to give it a try :)

 PTI Products: 
Cardstock-Stamper's Select White
Stamps-Spriral Bouquet; Beautiful Butterflies 

The aqua, brown, raspberry patterned print paper is from BoBunny

I tried to keep this card a little on the masculine side, so there is no bling, glitter, sequins, buttons or fluffy bows  :)

I used Ditto turquoise and green glimmer spray spritzed with water instead of re-inkers for my water-color effect. Stamped over the image with the outline of these flowers and leaves, then embossed with white powder over black emossing ink ~ some of the black came through, some shows as white... I think it looks cool, so I left it that way  :)

PTI - Blog Hop March 2013

Well, at least I'm getting a couple of my Easter cards done this the PTI March Blog Hop.  :)

I promise to get around to see all of the beautiful cards posted shortly.  I found some small gold sequins in my sewing room, not sure what I had in mind for this twisted strand of gold twine and sequins on black ribbon, but seeing as it's not been used by now, those little guys may as well adorn a card or two, eh?

PTI products:
Rosie Posie stamps

PTI - March Blog Hop

I started to make this card last week, but put it aside because I thought it need "a little something more".  Not quite sure sequins are the magic here, but it's another entry for  the  Papertrey Ink March 2013  Blog Hop

PTI products:
Spiral Bouquet stamps

PTI March Blog Hop March 2013

Time for another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!  
This is the challenge (copied from Nicole's Blog) from PTI for March 2013:

Sequins are popping up everywhere on paper crafting projects and now's your chance to try out this new trend!  With the variety of colors and shapes available, the sky is the limit with the creative possibilities!  Use them to accent the centers of flowers, add them as borders, fill shakers, or create random splashes of sparkle. 
 
I didn't have any sequins in my stash (that I remembered), so the other day I stopped at WalMart and found a roll (like ribbon) of pretty raspberry colored in their Fabric Dept.  Not sure how much I would use this trendy little-hard-to-glue-on-cards embellishment, 
I only purchased one yard. It was on sale for .57   :)

PTI products:
Rosie Posie stamps 

I heat embossed the Daisy flower and also the Stampin Up flowers, used the die cut leaves and cut a slit in one of the petals, the center of the daisy is stamped with terra cotta and yellow ink, and the other flower centers are sequins.

MIM #108~MFW~Passion for Papertrey

This card is a 3fer.  Yep, I am entering in three challenges. Whooo Hooo! (well, for me anyway :) That's about the max I can handle, it's just too confusing for me wee brain.  
I am in total AWE of those of you who enter 10+ challenges out there!

*  Make It Monday #108 - Inked Backgrounds:   HERE

*  Moxie Fab World-Card Creations Week, Emphasize the Negative:   HERE

*  A Passion for Papertrey - Negative Die Cuts:  HERE

I had to take the photo inside, as you can see on my window it's raining~we actually had a tornado warning in this area, it was very windy, thunder and lightning and lots of heavy rain...for which my lawn is so thankful for.

PTI products used~
Stamps:  Spiral Bouquet; Beautiful Butterflies
Cardstock:  Stamper's Select White

My Base card is Kraft which I sponged with 3 different shades of pink ink over the white heat embossed flowers. The sentiment was stamped onto  the sponged card in black ink.  The negative frame is from Nestiabilities Labels 8 which I cut out of a Cuttlebug folder embossed piece of white cardstock. The pearls were added as an afterthought, cause it just needed a little something :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

MFW-Chevron

Happy Friday!  Hope your weather is getting more Spring-like everyday.

I finally joined in on the fun at Moxie Fab World's - Card Creations Week this card is for The Chevron Challenge 

 

This is the largest of my owl stamps, Which I fussy cut out and popped up with mounting tape...even his googly eyes are bigger than my other owlies :)  The party hat is just the right size for him.  His perch is from a vine I've had for so many years now I can't remember why I bought it ~ may have been some crafty arrangement for the mantel??  Anywho, I've been cutting it and creating tree limbs on cards for my fine feathered friends, so it's getting used slowly by surely.
The chevron patterned paper is glued onto a 5x5 inch square card, the glittery BIRTHDAY banner is strung onto a piece of Baker's Twine and tied around brown brads from Making Memories

Thanks for stopping by ~ I plan to spend several hours catching up with you this weekend to check out your fabulous cards for these challenges.