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Hello there! Today I've got another card for the Papertrey Ink 9 Year Anniversary Celebration. Today's challenge on the PTI site was to create a new project with supplies you grab and gather together in 5 minutes.
Well this wasn't a hard challenge for me since I still hadn't cleaned up from the card I created yesterday which you can see here. In fact I had already die cut a bunch of these Bold Blossoms flowers out and had the bird from the Winter Woods set die cut and stamped already and used the same sentiment stamp set so the only other supplies I had to grab was ink, white cardstock, Copic markers, a handful of silver sequins and the Meadow Greens stamp & dies set.
The inspiration for my card is the photo above which is from Park Cities Petals who I follow on Instagram. Their arrangements and florals are amazing! So when I saw this big bouquet of deep red poppies I knew I wanted to use them as inspiration for a card. I used to grow poppies at our old house when I had really good soil, they were beautiful in oriental reds, yellows and pinks and were the size of teacups.
For my card, I started out by stamping my sentiment from the Graceful Greetings stamp set in black ink, then inked up the ferns from the Meadow Greens set in Ocean Tides ink and stamped off, stamping the ferns twice on the front of my card. Next I die cut three sets of leaves from the same set, Meadow Greens and stamped those full Ocean Tides ink. After that, I stamped my flowers in Ruby Red ink (SU) and added shading using Copic markers, then stamped the centers in black, popping up the largest flower and it's center with foam adhesive. All that was left was to arrange and adhere my pieces and then I added black glitter to the flower centers and three silver sequins.
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Hello, friends! Happy Saturday! Today I've got a card that I created for the Papertrey Ink 9 Year Anniversary Celebration. Each day during the celebration (from Feb. 5-15) Papertrey Ink host a challenge, the first challenge which started yesterday was to create a new project that uses one of the Color Recipe Cards shown on the PTI site. I chose Betsy Veldman's Color Recipe card with it's beautiful vibrant colors, my favorites.
The card that I created is a one panel birthday card using the PTI stamp sets, Bold Blossoms, Graceful Greetings, Winter Woods, Turning a New Leaf and Beautiful Butterflies. I had so many ideas in my head for creating cards when I first saw the Bold Blossoms set that Dawn McVey designed, the card I'm sharing today is one of them.
I started off my card by first stamping my sentiment in black ink, then I die cut and stamped four of the flowers and some leaves from the Bold Blossoms set adding shading with Copic markers to the flowers. I also die cut and stamped several of the centers of the flowers and then die cut and stamped my bird (you know everything is better with a bird on it, lol). After arranging my die cut flowers, leaves and bird around my sentiment, I then knew where I wanted to stamp my orange flowers and Turning a New Leaf stems. I did add a touch of tropical teal to my card which isn't on the card recipe but felt was needed in my design. I stamped a little butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies set at the top of my card and once all my stamping was done I adhered everything in place. As a finishing touch, I added three iridescent sequins.
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Hello! It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge. Lori is our hostess for this week who chose this fun Valentine inspiration photo and great color palette.
Before I get to my project for today, I'd like to welcome our new Color Throwdown design team member, Amy Rysary. Welcome to the team, Amy!
I'd also like to welcome the talented Kay Miller as our February guest designer.
Along with the Color Throwdown Challenge, I'm jumping in and entering my card and gift bag into the Curtain Call Challenge as well. The card and gift bag that I created doesn't really have much stamping on it other than my sentiment banner because I chose to go with more die cut felt which was inspired by both this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and the Curtain Call Challenge. I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Keep It Simple: Valentine's Day for my sentiment and the PTI heart shaker dies as well as some button, flowers and leaf dies.
I used the PTI dies to create my shaker and filled it with a variety of sequins and the tiny die cut hearts that come with the dies. Once I had the shaker put together, I adhered it to the embossed die cut panel I had added to a white card base with foam adhesive. After that I stamped my sentiment onto a banner, die cut my flowers, buttons, and leaves in shades of red, pink, white and gray. I sewed real buttons into the centers of the flowers and once that was done I adhered them onto the edge of my heart shaker adding the sentiment banner after the flowers were in place.
For the little gift bag filled with candy, I adhered a paper doily onto the front of the bag, folding over the top edge and using the same PTI heart shaker dies I used on my card, I die cut them in pink, red and white and adhered them on top of the doily. I die cut more felt flowers, buttons and leaves and sewed on a heart button and adhered that to the center of my hearts. To seal the bag I used a pink heart straight pin along the top edge of the bag.
For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
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