Where Creativity Meets C9

Hi there!  I'm up over on the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog today for my solo post for this month sharing a colorful card I created using some Concord & 9th products.  I hope you'll take the time to pop over and say hello.
While you're there why not join in and play along in our current "Try Something New" challenge?

Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop - A Book for Your Birthday

Hello!  I've got a card and coordinating bookmarks that I'm sharing for the Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop.  The inspiration for this month's hop is the photo below.  When I first saw the inspiration photo for the hop my first thought was that I loved the colors within it, then I started thinking about what elements I'd like to make into a card and out of the flowered pillow and patterns, my eye zeroed in on the little stack of books.  So that's what I went with.  I'm huge lover of books and reading and I'm always in need of a birthday card for one of the girls in my book club, so I used my PTI stamp set Bibliophile and coordinating dies to create a birthday card. I used the colors from the wood floor for my books, the aqua color for my background which I used a PTI impressions plate on, the white for my teacup and a pop of the coral color in my rose.  And I'm also entering this card in for the Gilded in Gold with Danielle Flanders Stamp-a-faire challenge because I used some Martha Stewart gold leaf paint and painted the edges of my teacup, the edges of two books on my card and the bottom edges of my bookmarks.  The rose is from the PTI stamp set The Sweet Life and I stamped it in berry sorbet and pure poppy with the leaves in simply chartreuse. The bookmarks I kept simple other than stamping a quick little quote from the Bibliophile set, adding a cluster of roses and painting the bottoms with metallic gold paint.

Papertrey Ink Stamp-A-Faire - Many Blessings

Hello!  I'm jumping in to share a card for the Papertrey Ink Stamp-A-Faire event that is going on this weekend.  I wanted to stamp yesterday during the day but was busy steam cleaning my carpets and so I didn't get the chance to create this card until late last night.  There are so many fun and inspiring challenges to chose from over on the Papertrey Ink Capture the Moment site and the design team has done a wonderful job of putting together another fun Stamp-A-Faire event.
For my card today, I chose to start off with one of the first challenges which was to choose one of the Master Color Recipe cards and create a card using those colors.  I chose the John William Waterhouse color card with it's pretty muted colors.  John William Waterhouse is actually one of my favorite artist with his romantic paintings of garden scenes, Greek mythology and medieval paintings.  I had started a Pinterest board about a year ago with some of my favorite paintings of his, you can see it here if you're interested. I'm combining two challenges with this one card because not only did I use one of the Master Color Recipe cards but I also used Melissa Phillips Floral Impressionism Challenge.  I love Melissa style and her card for this challenge is beautiful.  Melissa's video showing how she stamped, embossed and watercolored her flowers and card was fun and informative to watch so I decided to give it a try. I used the PTI stamp set Bold Blossoms and stamped them onto watercolor paper and followed Melissa's steps to heat emboss and watercolor them.  I used a piece of watercolor paper for my background which I watercolored using ocean tides, spring moss and gray ink and then stamped with a text stamp from the Ombre Builders set.  Once my background was done, I die cut a PTI scallop frame from soft stone and adhered it to my watercolored background and added my flowers popping up the largest flower with foam tape.  Then I die cut three of the Many Blessings from ocean tides cardstock and glued them together and adhered that to my card and stamped the coordinating sentiment from the Scripted stamp set.  To finish off my card, I used some chunky iridescent glitter around the centers of each flower. Thanks for stopping by!

Sweet Friend

Hi there friends!  Today I'm sharing a duplicate of a card that I created and posted a few days ago using the Spotlighting Technique because I had several questions on the steps I used to create it.  You can see my first card here or if you're visiting my blog you can scroll down below this post.
I actually made an attempt to do my FIRST craft video which you can watch below.  Please be gentle because it is far from perfect and I'm still learning how to create a video.  Also I must warn you that this video has NO SOUND because I ended up having to speed up the whole video to shorten the length of it and in doing so it of course affects the sound.  I'm hoping that even without the sound that you can at least see the steps I used to create my card.  And of course since this video is not edited you can see how I smudge ink on the edge of my card and how I conceal it (real life stamping in action, lol)

I used the stamp set Wildflower from Concord & 9th for my flowers and stems and the My Favorite Things, Label Maker Sentiments set for my sentiment.  I stamped on a piece of Strathmore watercolor paper and I used the Zig Clean Color Real Brushes,  an aqua brush, Zig Wink of Stella glitter pen, Sakura silver gelly roll pen and circle dies. Thank you for stopping by!

Warmest Wishes

Hi there!  I'm popping in today to share two cards that I created using the Papertrey Ink stamp set Cup of Cheer.  I also used this week's PTI Make-it-Monday #233 where Danielle shares her tips for the splattering technique. For my first card, I used the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #215 for my layout and for both of my cards I used inspiration photo from the Fusion Challenge.  For this card I used a piece of hawaiian shores card stock for along the top of my card and randomly stamped it with the flower images that came with the set.  For the lower portion, I used watercolor paper and I sponged on some hawaiian shores ink then added some water droplets and splatters until I was satisfied with the look.  For both cards I die cut and stamped the teapot, cups and flowers and then went back and added a bit of shading to the flowers with Copic markers.  For a little extra sparkle, I used a piece of double sided tape along the bottom of my stamped hawaiian shores piece and dusted on some iridescent glitter and added a rhinestone to the center of the main flower.

For my second card there's not much that is different other than the layout where I used a die cut circle as my base for the teapot and cup and I die cut a PTI banner and stamped my sentiment.
That's it for me today, I'll be back tomorrow with my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge card.

Queen Bee - {C4C#272/MIM#200}

Hello there!  Kelli is our hostess for this month over at the Crazy-4-Challenges site and her challenge for this week is to create a Valentine card fit for a Queen.  I used this week's "Crazy" Challenge and combined it with the Papertrey Ink Make-it-Monday Challenge #200 where Dawn has challenged us to use our cover plate dies in a new way. I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Honey Bees and the hexagon cover plate to create a Queen Bee Valentine's Day card.  I also used the heart shaker shapes die to make my card into a shaker with sequins and mini hearts inside.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the design team has created:

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders 
• Danielle Lounds
• Frances Byrne
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Lynn Put (that's ME!)
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Vanessa Buzard

Thinking of You - {SSSC251/MIM196}

 Hi everyone!  It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  Our sketch for this week was designed by our own Barbara Anders.

I ended up flipping the sketch for my card and well I had all the colors from creating one of my last cards out on my desk, I created another for the Papertrey Ink Make-it-Monday Challenge #196: Colorful Corners and also used the PTI color inspiration for this month as well.  I used the stamp sets Beautiful Butterflies and Bigger Blooms.  For the butterfly I die cut some watercolor paper, inked the butterfly up in blueberry then rolled the edges in Hawaiian shores ink then stamped it.  After that I added a little water to blend the colors, let that dry and added some glitter.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stamper have created:

• Dana White 
• Jackie Pedro 
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron  
• Lisa Henke 
• Lori Tecler  
• Sarah-Jane Kalé 
• Tracy Clemente 
• Vicki Burdick  
• Barbara Anders
• Jenny Peterson

That's it for me today, thanks for popping in!

PTI Make-it-Monday #196

Good day to you!  I hope you're doing well.  It's been a while since I've played along with the Papertrey Ink Make-it-Monday Challenges, but when I saw Danielle's beautiful cards and video for this Monday's challenge I knew I wanted to join in.
This week's Make-it-Monday Challenge is all about Colorful Card Corners.  I also used this month's Papertrey Ink Color Play Combo which are the colors below.

 For my card, I used the limited edition stamp set Pretty Petals for the flowers and leaves and the circular medallion was from the set Friendly Flowers.  I used the set Bigger Blooms for my sentiment (love the font on all the sentiments from this set).  I started out with a Hawaiian shores card base, then used a piece of watercolor paper cut slightly smaller to stamp my images. After that I went in with a paint brush, like Danielle shows in her video and added a light wash of color around my stamped images and softened the edges of my flowers and leaves.  I added a few silver sequins to give my card some sparkle and mounted it with foam tape to my card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope Your Day is Fabulous - {MIM#174/STS#25/CC#15}

Hi there, hope you're having a good Monday so far!  Today I'm popping in to share a card that I created for a few challenges.  First, I was inspired to try the Wallpaper Stamping technique that Ashley Cannon Newell demonstrated for this week's Papertrey Ink's Make-it-Monday #174.  I loved the idea of creating a wallpaper pattern as a background using different pieces/elements from your stamp sets, very fun.  I used two PTI stamp sets, Button Boutique for my dotted grid lines and Sending You for my leaves and flowers along with Signature Greetings for my sentiment.

 The other two challenges that I was inspired by were The Card Concept Challenge #15 with it's fresh color challenge and Seize the Sketch Challenge #25 with it's fun layout.

 Thanks for stopping by!