Botanical Silhouettes

I broke in this year's PTI Limited Edition Anniversary Set - Botanical Silhouettes and it's just addicting.  I cut various sizes of Rustic White and Cream cardstocks and stamped away.  These were totally inspire by Nichole Heady's samples for this set.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Harvest Gold, Pure Poppy, Rustic White and Rustic Cream
• STAMPS: PTI Botanical Silhouettes
• INK: Stampin Up 
• OTHER:  Twine, ribbon and button

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!

In honor of spring, I made these cards.   Since these can be an all around card I left the sentiments out so I can add them depending on the occasion.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Plum Pudding, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores, New Leaf, Dotty Biscotti and Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday paper pad
• STAMPS: PTI Blooming Button Bits
• INK: Stampin Up 
• OTHER:  Martha Stewart Icicle border punch, Twine, ribbon and buttons

Another Flower Card

Another flower card using a more 'springy' color palette.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Kraft, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz & Simply Chartreuse, K&Co Sweet Nectar paper pad
• STAMPS: PTI Sending You, M's $1 leaf stamp
• INK: Stampin Up 
• DIECUT: PTI Beautiful Blooms II #1 & #2, Mat Stack 3
• OTHER:  Twine, ribbon and bling

Thank You!

A couple of Thank You cards for a couple of officemates at work who both like purple.  Here I used the Sending You stamp from PTI ... I like how it makes the flowers pop, it gives it a new dimension.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Rustic White, Plum Pudding, Royal Velvet, Lavender Moon, Sweet Blush, Simply Chartreuse and Dotty Biscotti
• STAMPS: PTI Sending You, M's $1 leaf stamp
• INK: Stampin Up 
• DIECUT: PTI Beautiful Blooms II #1 & #2, Mat Stack 1 and 4 and Parisian Lace Doily
• OTHER:  Twine, ribbon and bling

Hello Friend ...

This color combination is inspired by a post from A Creative Mint I just added the green.  It's a great site if you need some color inspiration ... love the photographs too.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Smokey Shadow, Rustic White, Harvest Gold, Dark Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse and Fine Linen
• STAMPS: M's border stamps, M's $1 leaf stamp
• INK: Stampin Up & Versmark
• DIECUT: PTI Beautiful Blooms II #1 & #2 die, Mat Stack 4
• OTHER:  Ribbon, twine & buttons

Marigolds

Last week I slipped and twisted my ankle really bad so I have to pretty much stay in bed and keep it elevated, immobile and iced.  I was really bored so I started crafting.  I made a bunch of cards using PTI's Marigold stamps and colored it with copics and I used different sentiments from various PTI stamps.  This is inspired by one of Maile Belles' creation.  I'm impressed on the crispness and details of the marigold imprints, it makes it stand out.  I just used a light and dark shade of yellow and orange and tried blending ...

I'm still learning how to color with copics =)

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate, White and Rustic White
• STAMPS: PTI Marigolds and sentiments
• INK: Stampin Up & Versmark
• OTHER:  Ribbon, twine & buttons

PTI January Bloghop

I just love PTI's Delightful Dahlias (and it's matching dies --- wishing for matching dies for the Year of Flowers stamps too =D).  For this month's PTI Bloghop I use it as well as my old time favorite PTI's Turning a New Leaf (wishing for matching dies too!). Excuse my Copic coloring I'm just a newbie =D.

Supplies:

• PAPER: PTI Melon Berry, Sweet Blush
• STAMPS: PTI Delighful Dahlia, Turning a New Leaf
• INK: Stampin Up, Versamark
• DIE: PTI Delightful Dahlias
• OTHER: ribbon, PTI Linen Impression Plate, circle punch, copic

More Dahlias

A few more dahlia cards.  I tried playing with copics on the first 3 (still needs a lot of practice! ... the lighter colors are more forgiving =D).  I'm getting my money's worth on this stamp set from PTI which I originally bought because of the leaves now I love the whole set!

Doilies and Dahlias

Doilies are everywhere in the crafting world so I decided to try my hand on one and I'm loving it.  It gives the card a different dimension.  Since the doily is bright white I inked it a little to make it blend.  For the flower I used PTI's Delightful Dahlia stamp and dies with a couple of buttons with twine. 

 

On this card I used the same Dahlia dies but tried it on felt.  I layered scalloped strips of paper to create a ruffle effect.  All paper used is from PTI.

Embellishments

I want to get caught up with my scrapbooking and I decided to start with my little girl's baby album.  It will have a flowers and butterflies theme and using one paper line (Brenda Walton's Small Wonders).  For the flowers, I punched 3 different sizes of scallop circles and inked the edges then I snipped it to make each petal longer.  I layered it from largest to smallest and finished it off with a pearl brad.  The butterflies were punched from Martha Stewart's various butterfly punches then inked the edges. For the smaller ones I also layered them from biggest to smallest and attached some adhesive pearls.

Pink and Purple

My little girl's birthday is coming soon and she wants a pink and purple birthday ... still undecided if she wants fairies, butterflies or bears. I've been playing around with these colors and came up with a few cards.

PTI June Blog Hop

Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf and Orange Zest

I love PTI products especially their paper. It's hard to pick my favorite since all their colors are beautiful. For June's Blog Hop, the theme is PTI's favorite color scheme. I picked Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf and Orange Zest. This color combination is leaning towards a fall theme but I think the green balanced it out.

Another Flower Card

I can't seem to make myself to stop making flowers because its so easy and beautiful ... plus it help me use up my paper scraps! This one has a touch of vintage. I cut the flowers in varying sizes, inked the edges a little then I spritzed it with water and crumpled it.  I slowly smooth it and dried it with a heat gun then layered it from biggest to smallest and finished it of with a button with twine.

Flower Cards

My paper scraps are piling up so I decided to create a few flower cards.

This card uses layered flowers in varying sizes. I sprayed pearl glimmer mist to add some sparkle then added a piece of lace at the bottom.

On this card I layered 5 flowers also with varying size then curled the ends a bit and added an I-Topped brad. I used a strip of paper folded to mimic a ruffled ribbon.

Another layered flower with some bling at the center. I used some of the wrinkled ribbon I made from seam binding and colored glimmer mist.

Happy Birthday Joy!

Today is my friend's birthday. Happy Birthday Joy! She loves purple thus the use of purple elements on this card =D. I experimented on glimmer mist on this which I've had for about a year now. I like how it adds shimmer but I need more practice applying it.

My Take on Poppy Seed Challenge

I like reading Poppy Paperie by Lisa Johnson. She recently started Poppy Seed Challenge at her blog and this is my take on it. The flower was also inspired from one of Lisa Johnson's creations.