Vintage Lily Of the Valley

This week's Papertrey Chicks challenge is another design team member CASE challenge. Cari chose this card by Debbie Olson for us to CASE:


And here's my card:

I love Debbie's classic style, which often goes to vintage--which I love--so I chose to go more vintage-y with mine. First, I utilized some Websters Pages patterned paper for my base and let the design work for me instead of stamping a design. I did use the same Nestabilities dies, but instead of stamping text, I used a page from my trusty old book. I used the Lily of the Valley set instead of Sweet Peas and finished up with twill and a button. Base card is Kraft.

Thanks for stopping by! I'll have a Stamp Simply challenge for you bright and early tomorrow--hope to see you back then!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Year of Flowers: Lily of the Valley (PTI)
Paper: Kraft (PTI); Perfect Paper Panel (MFT); Websters Pages
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Vintage Touch Tea Dye (PTI)
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Labels One Nestabilities (Spellbinders); twill; distressing too (Ranger); Vintage button/twine (PTI); Copic markers; Prismacolor pencils/OMS/blending stumps

Happy for you

That's me--happy for my friend LeAnne, who is Featured Stamper over at SCS today! Congrats, LeAnne--you so deserve it! I finally got my Papertrey Chicks challenge done for this week 'cause I'm running out of time--we get a new one tomorrow! Eek! So, this is the card I chose to CASE. I changed it from a square card to an A2, used buttons instead of punched stars, used lace and vintage seam binding instead of ribbon, and moved the sentiment to the bottom. And, while I used the same stamp set, I used different images for my focal image. I think it's enough different, but still recognizable. Here's the inspiration piece for my Papertrey Chicks challenge (color are to be Kraft, Pure Poppy, and white).



Not much else to explain about this card except I used Kraft for my base with a layer of Pure Poppy, then a layer of some gingham print I got from a craft store. Then I wrapped some lace around and made a fluffy bow with vintage seam binding that I got here. The images, from Vintage Picnic, were stamped on an MFT Perfect Paper Panel (temporarily out of stock) with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with Copic markers, cut out, and popped up. A few buttons, a sentiment from Vintage Picnic Sentiments, and it was done!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you'll visit the Featured Stamper thread and leave LeAnne some love.

And, this is the last day to enter for my blogaversary blog candy. Get the deets here.

~Supplies~
Stamps: Vintage Picnic and Vintage Picnic Sentiments (PTI)
Paper: Kraft, Pure Poppy (PTI); Perfect Paper Panel (MFT); patterned paper (craft store)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Classic Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders): lace (craft store); vintage sean binding; buttons, twine (PTI); sewing machine; Copic markers

With Sympathy - Papertrey Chicks Challenge #3

How about this? I'm doing the Papertrey Chicks challenge on the first day! Only because I'm hosting this week, LOL! I have a technique challenge--heat embossing.


I decided to make a sympathy card since my supply was getting low. I think these colors will lend it to either a male or a female should I need to send it. My layout is from this week's Twisted Sketch, although flipped, and I was inspired by this card by Ingrid Danvers. I stamped the large image from Fancy Flourishes on Stamper's Select with black pigment ink, then heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder before trimming my strips for the layout. I also stamped a small flourish on the sentiment (from Mega Mixed Messages) panel in Lemon Tart. I think the rest is pretty obvious. I added some small black jewels to the sentiment panel to give it some definition as it seemed to need a little something else.

Here's a close up of the shiny embossing:


And that's it! Thanks for stopping by today! I'll have a FTTC for you bright and early tomorrow morning and another post--it's a secret until then--at 11:00am EDT tomorrow and yet another at 10:00pm tomorrow night! I'm sorry for so many posts, but it just happened to end up to be a busy blogging day :) Hope to see you back for all of them!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Fancy Flourishes, Mega Mixed Messages (PTI)
Paper: Kraft, Stamper's Select White; True Black (PTI)
Ink: Basic Black Craft Ink (SU!); True Black (PTI)
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Labels Nine Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Medium Scallop Border, buttons, ribbon, twine (PTI); clear embossing powder, heat tool

Every day is a gift - Papertrey Chicks Challenge #2

I'm finally getting around to this week's Papertrey Chicks challenge. This week's challenge is to case a card selected from the PTI Design Team Gallery. Leann chose this card by Betsy Veldman.


And here's my take on it.


I kept the white card base. I changed the center gray swirl and did some scoring instead. I used a different image (a motif from the Giga Guide Lines set), I made a rolled flower instead of the butterfly, and I used a Hawaiian Shores ribbon instead of white. I also used a different sentiment, from Out On a Limb, Sentiments, which was stamped in Smokey Shadow ink. Swirly leaves are from Turning A New Leaf.

I love how this turned out. So crisp with all the white, but with enough color to be interesting. Hope you like it, too :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Giga Guide Lines. Turning a New Leaf, Out On a Limb, Sentiments (PTI)
Paper: Stamper's Select White, Summer Sunrise (PTI)
Ink: Spring Moss, Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores, Smokey Shadow (PTI)
Accessories: ribbon (PTI); Scor-Pal; glue dot, Pop Dots

Life - Papertrey Chicks Challenge

First of all, Happy Mother's Day!!!

I'm finally getting a chance to play this week's Papertrey Chicks challenge. It's a color challenge with these colors:



I love that color combo and here's what I came up with (all supplies are PTI unless noted otherwise).

First, my card base is Soft Stone. Then a large panel of Stamper's Select White card stock on which I stamped the large image from Fancy Flourishes in Spring Moss. Then I stamped images from Life in Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, and Hawaiian Shores. The sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, then I tied a bow around with Hawaiian Shores Saddle Stitched ribbon. The upper left corner looked a little bare, but I didn't really want any color there, so I went with clear Dew Drops and I think they worked. The entire white panel is up on foam tape. I'm using Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #72 for my layout.

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Fancy Flourishes, Life (PTI)
Paper: Soft Stone, Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores (PTI)
Accessories: foam tape; Dew Drops; ribbon (PTI)

U Rock!

Today I've got my Papertrey Chicks card for our trial run ;-) Here's the inspiration piece we were to use:


Since I didn't have the new A Little Argyle set when I had time to make this card, I simply embossed the Smoky Shadow base card with my Argyle embossing folder and sponged it with Fresh Snow ink for a little contrast.


Then I stamped a sentiment from Say It With Style with Smoky Shadow ink on Stamper's Select white card stock and colored in with a light blue Copic marker. I die cut flowers with the Beautiful Blooms II dies and tied them on with Vintage Buttons in the challenge colors and Rustic Twine. I'm using FTL #86 for my layout.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great Thursday!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Say It With Style, Fresh Snow (PTI)
Paper: Smoky Shadow, Stamper's Select white (PTI)
Ink: Smokey Shadow, Fresh Snow (PTI)
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Argyle embossing folder (Provocraft); Copic marker; glue dots, Pop Dots (craft store); Vintage Buttons (PTI); Pearl cotton (DMC)