PTI January Bloghop: Hearts

Such lovely inspiration for this month's hop-- I was immediately inspired by a ton of books colors and hearts, of course.

I started with an Aqua Mist top-folding A2 card base and then matted it with patterned paper from the Shakers and Sprinkles Make It Market kit.  Then die cut the stitched heart also from aqua mist and the scalloped heart frame from white cardstock. The "scripty" font love is a beautiful die from Carta Bella's Open Book collection. Then fishtail banner is from Tag Sale #10 and the ampersand and  "sunshine" are from the Shakers and Sprinkles stamp set inked in Hawaiian Shores and Raspberry Fizz, respectively. Somewhat twine and a couple of enamel dots to finish it off!

Happy hopping as always, craft on!

-Oreet

Also linking to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge blog Have A Heart

MIM #197: DIY Stickers

Just a quick post to participate in this week's MIM, in which we were challenged to create stickers with foam and dies. Here's my take:

I tend to struggle with masculine cards, they are nearly as much of my cardmaking Achille's heel as CAS cards are. But, I have a very large family and thus need to always have masculine cards in hand, so I opted to make one, especially since these require "bare bones"and the stickers give just the extra bit of interest and texture without the frills. 

Thanks for stopping by!

-Craft on!

Runway Inspired Challenge #75: Sending Love

Sneaking this one in as it's only a few hours until the linky closes! Here is the gorgeous inspiration for the challenge:

Isn't it fabulous? So my card was mainly inspired by the color and the bling and intricate design at her neck--

Due to the striking and nearly overpowering color, I wanted to balance it with some white space. I began by using my confetti making piece of my PTI Shakers & Sprinkles heart dies. I created the shaker portion and inserted the hearts, glitter and some sequins. I actually did not have cardstock in the pink neon color, so I took my white paper and swiped my Hero Arts Neon Pink dye ink pad and then die cut the stitched heart frame and "love".  Then to add some interest, I inked up my new to me Garden Grace PTI stamp set. For the leaves I used Hero Arts' Neon chartreuse and the same pink for the flowers--the second part of the stamp was 2nd generation, so that it matched perfectly.

 I finished it off with the enamel dots and stamped "sending" from the Sparkle and Shine stamp set and then mounted it to a card base that was embellished with Lawn Fawn's stitched mats for interest. In real life it truly shines and strikes the eye much like the dress. Well I hope you enjoy my interpretation!! :)

Thank you, have a great weekend and craft on!
-O

Virginia's View Challenge #11: Clean Slate

Happy weekend to all!

So I'm back with a card for Virginia's View Challenge. I needed to make some post-Christmas "Thank You" cards for my aunt and thought PTI's Painted Poinsettias paired with bold colors, masking and Laura Bassen's die cut camouflage technique would be perfect! The "Thanks" was cut with Wet Paint Cuts and the remainder of the sentiment was stamped onto a double ended banner from PTI's Tag Sale #10.  Popped the panel up with dimensional adhesive and attached it to an A2 card base and voilà, all done! Very snail mail friendly too...I hope my aunt will like it and so will you! 

-O

And here is a close up

MIM #196: Colorful Card Corners

Well happy new year! This is the first card I'm sharing for 2015...I have really enjoyed perusing various blogs and seeing the "Favorite Cards of 2014" posts, so I'm considering doing one of those this week. Stay tuned! :) Back to this week's MIM, where Danielle Flanders challenges us to create a focal point in the corner of our card. Here is my attempt:

 When I saw the challenge, I immediately grabbed my new to me Garden Grace stamp set from PTI. I couldn't find a more perfect set as part of it is made for embellishing card corners!

I started with a white card base and then used my horizontal cutting plate to cut  (like butter, might I add) Aqua Mist cardstock. Then inked up the first part of the two-step stamp with Hawaiian Shores and the second with Aqua Mist. The leaves were inked up with Memento's Bamboo Leaves and Pear Tart. Finished it off with a double ended banner from Tag Sale 10 and some enamel dots et voilà! 

Close up of the corner

Have a great week and craft on! 

-O

MIM À La Carte: Camouflaged Die Cuts

Thought I would give Laura's technique another go! I used the Shine die from the sparkle and shine collection and the patterned paper is from the Skakers and Sprinkles kit. Such a fun technique!

 Have a fantastic week!

MIM: Stamped Borders

Slipping in a final entry, this time using the Hands of Time stamp set and made a fun shaker!

MIM :Stamped Borders 2

I simply was not pleased with my last card...there were elements I liked, but I felt that it was far too busy, I didn't like my junk bow. I guess I was just lacking some mojo. Here is another attempt that I like quite a bit better. What do you think?

I opted to make a Hanukkah card that I could send to my Mom. She's been in the hospital (in and out this past year) and I wanted something that would cheer her up and bring some light into her life. I know the challenge was to try for a sympathy card but a couple years ago I made a personal decision to not "stock" these in my card stash. It's not a superstition, I don't think that if I make them, I will lose dear ones but I suppose if the need comes, I like to do it on the spot as therapy. So,I used the stamp border technique and hope that "bringing cheer to a loved one having a rough time" might still meet the challenge! 

So I went with a slightly non-traditional Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores combination with traditional silver and bling! :) when the Festival of Lights stamp set was released a couple months ago, I knew I just had to have it!! Coupled with the previously released Mazal Tov set ....oh the possibilities!! And how can anyone NOT love the sentiment? Impossible!!

 A close up of the gorgeous Star of David and "light burst" around it .

 and the inside of the card.

Craft on!

-O

PTI Make It Monday: Stamped Borders

Hello all,

This week's challenge was provided by the über talented Melissa Phillips and the technique of the week is to stamp a card border with various colors. Here is my first attempt:

 I used several stamps on the border from the Songbird stamp set, florals, leaves and even a bird. For my focal point, I cut Tag Sale #4 in Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse and white and alternated the elements for depth. I then stamped the Songbird in Hawaiian Shores and accented the inner flower and leaves with Raspberry Fizz and Simply Chartreuse.  I then added at the bottom the Happy Birthday song line from the same set.

At the top, I made my first "junk bow"...I'm not quite sure if I'm crazy about it, I think the color need to be a bit more uniform and subtle for the bow to look right. Finished off the card with some teal enamel dots added to the centers of the flowers. Overall I'm not too fond of the card, I feel that it's a bit busy and think I'll go ahead and make another that is less so and quite a bit softer! How do you think it turned out?

Hope you're having a great week and happy holidays to all!

-O

PTI: Make It Monday-Camouflage Die Cuts

Just managed to squeeze this one in! I decided to take a bit of a detour on mine--rather than using springing, I actually used my gorgeous Gansai Tambi Japanese watercolor paints and watercolored the bottom half of the die cut. I loved the freestyle feel it gave to an otherwise clean and simple card. I I stamped in black the "happy" and added a few sequins. I then mounted the panel onto a card base that was layered with polka patterned paper from Simple Stories DIY Christmas Collection. That's all for today!

 Hope you enjoy! 

-O