Wishes for PTI's New Blog

Hello friends,

Here's a card I made for the very first color challenge on the new Papertrey Ink Challenge Blog. I decided to play with an old, forgotten PTI product from my stash. 

Products used:

#papertreyink (Spring cutaway tags die, Tropical Teal ink & Huge Sentiments die), watercolor paper, watercolors, butter paper (for circular background) & Kraft cardstock

After die cutting the image, it was colored with watercolors. For the back of the die cut, a piece of butter paper left over from transferring the texture onto two pieces of cardstock was used. The butter paper piece was scrunched as much as possible, which gave it the appearance of an intricate network of fibers. It was ink blended on one side, then cut into a circle slightly smaller than the die cut. The uncolored side was glued to the back of the die cut, allowing the light teal color to show through. The Kraft die cut was adhered to the card base, followed by the watercolored image. The card was finished with a die cut sentiment and negatives from past projects in gold for the tiny flower centres.      

Challenges entered:

#pammiesinkypinkies - anything goes

#wordartwednesday - anything goes

#paperfunday - anything goes

#ssswednesday - anything goes 

#sssmonday - layers

 

Have a great day.

Leanne

Scrunched Paper Background

Hello friends,

Here's a card I made for the PFS August Challenge- Beautiful Backgrounds. I went through my PFS stash and challenged myself to try a new technique and use a die to peek through the background. This took a bit more time and effort than creating an easy background with stencils or stamps, but it was fun.

Products used:

#pinkfreshstudio (Spiral Circle die & sentiment), #catherinepooler (inks) & gems. 

A half A4 sheet of paper was scrunched up as much as possible. It was then inked using blending brushes. The inked panel was adhered to the card base with liquid glue. A panel of cardstock was die cut, glued over the inked background and cut to the size of the card base. Finished off with a stamped sentiment and gems.

 

Challenges entered:

#pinkfreshstudio - beautiful backgrounds

#pammiesinkypinkies - anything goes

#wordartwednesday - anything goes

#paperfunday - anything goes

Edited to add: A little recognition for this card…

 

Have a lovely day.

Leanne

Stenciling on Patterned Paper

Hello friends,

I'm sharing a card I made for the IG Hop 'Stencil Fun' with complementary colors as the theme. Inspired by the challenge at CASMixup I tried stenciling on patterned paper for the first time. 

Products used:

#dollarama (stencil), patterned paper, #catherinepooler (inks), gold acrylic paint, #lilinker (stitched square die) & #crealies (Happy Birthday sentiment in French)

The stencil was inked on patterned paper using the detailed angled blending brushes. The swirly portions of the image and flower centers were painted with a thin paint brush. The paper was die cut, glued on the card base and finished off with the die cut sentiment.

 

Challenges entered:

#CASmixup - stenciling on patterned paper

#stencilfun - anything goes w/ stencils

#pammiesinkypinkies - anything goes

#wordartwednesday - anything goes

#paperfunday - anything goes

#NBUS - new stencil & sentiment

Have a lovely day.

Leanne

Words of Hope for Cancer

Hello friends,

I'm sharing a card I made for the IG Hop 'An Encouraging Word' inspired by the verse from Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." 

Products used:

Awareness ribbon (printout), wax paper, #catherinepooler (ink), #justrite (die cut words), #k&company (transfers for words on strips), #liliofthevalley (corner stamp) & #sakura (micron 01)

After printing the free printable awareness ribbon, the subtle texture on the ribbon was created using wax paper. The wax paper is scrunched, placed between two sheets of paper to be used for the project (in this case the printout and a piece of cardstock for a future project) then ironed at a hot setting. The ribbon was ink blended, fussy cut and adhered on the card base. The sentiment strips were made with rub on transfer alphabets, then glued in place along with the die cut words. The card was finished off with stamped corners joined with the micron.

Challenges entered:

#pammiesinkypinkies - anything goes

#wordartwednesday - anything goes

#paperfunday - anything goes

#NBUS - new corner stamp

#wordpower - sentiment in focus

#creationsinpink - anything in pink goes

Have a great day.

Leanne

Overlapped Geometrics

Hello friends,

I'm sharing a card I made for the IG Hop 'Build Your Stash', and the theme this month was sympathy.

Products used:

#pinkfreshstudio stencil (Overlapping Geometrics), #catherinepooler (inks), #ourdailybreaddesigns (cross die), #heroarts (sentiment), #wow (embossing powder) & #crealies (sentiment strip die)

Inspired by the colors navy and teal in the graphic below, the background was inked using only three of the six stencils. The open space in the center was smooshed with the ink left on the stencil. The cross was die cut twice in black and silver cardstock. The black cross was cut in half vertically and adhered to the back of the silver cross to reveal a dark edge on either side of it, then glued to the card base. The edges of the card were darkened with the blue ink and finished off with a heat embossed, die cut sentiment. 

Challenges entered:

#pammiesinkypinkies - anything goes

#wordartwednesday - anything goes

#paperfunday - anything goes

     

Edited to add: A little recognition for this card…

Have a lovely day.

Leanne