mim#203: doodling over stamps

My approach for Papertrey’s Make It Monday #203, doodling over stamps, was a little bit different than Ashley’s. Rather than stamp the actual line image, I used the back of the stamps to get a group of rectangles.

 

After watching the MIM video, I saw a wonderful image on Home Depot’s Instagram that inspired my card.

So I used Ashley’s doodling technique to create a group of frames by stamping the backs of the stamps, softening some of the edges with water, and then doodling loose rectangles to make frames.

The paintbrushes in the inspiration photo were replaced with a wood veneer deer, the recipient’s spirit animal. This is a birthday card for my daughter’s friend, so there were some “suggestions” given, e.g. the deer, for its design.

The soft, muted colors of the card were difficult for me to photograph, but are lovely in person. The card was rushed to the mailbox or else I would have tried for a shot under better lighting conditions. I like the card so much more in person than in my photographs.

Thank you for stopping by.

nancy

supplies:

stamps:  Keep It Simple: Belated Birthday; Framed Out #12; Love Lives Here; Tiny Tags; Grunge Me; Gobble, Gobble; No Strings Attached; Birthday Bash Sentiments; Background Basics: Inspiration; and Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (PTI)

ink:  clean slate (Studio Calico); teal zeal and elderberry (Memento); violet pigment (ColorBox)

paper:  soft stone card stock (PTI); watercolor paper (Strathmore)

extras:  wood veneer deer (Studio Calico Penny Arcade kit); neutral Color Theory enamel dots (Studio Calico)

with <3

This was going to be a quick post Sunday evening to get my card in for Papertrey’s 201st Make It Monday, using a cover plate die cut as a stencil. The post never went up because I used "<3" in the title and it is an HTML code and caused a break in the link. Who knew. Anyway, back to the more interesting part of the post. I used a portion of Cover Plate: Hearts and added glitter over the light molding paste. For some reason the glitter wouldn’t stay stuck, so I went over it with Glossy Accents and additional glitter.

 

My first idea, which didn’t work out, used clear glitter over the light molding paste. Almost a week later, the glitter is not coming off. I’m not sure what happened with the colored glitter, one of the great mysteries of life, like using <3 in a blog title.

Winter is still making itself known. Hope you’re warm where you are.

nancy

supplies:

stamps:  Monthly Moments: February (PTI)

ink:  tuxedo black (Memento)

dies:  Cover Plate: Hearts and Tiny Tags (PTI)

paper:  white, pure poppy and raspberry fizz card stock (PTI)

extras:  washi tape (stash, mainly from Michael’s); blossom twine (The Twinery); light molding paste (Golden); garnet and tourmaline fine glitter (MSC); light pink glitter (Doodlebug)

pti anniversary days 3, 5 and 7 – my simple projects

It’s rare that I make anything clean and simple. It always feels as if there is something missing on my attempts. Today, though, I have three simple projects to share, all for the Papertrey anniversary challenges.

I had put together Valentine goodie bags for my religious education class and added a very simple tag using Tremendous Tags and Tag-Its #11. Being honest here, I hadn’t planned on having a tag, but decided day 3 was a timely challenge and I should take advantage.

Besides seeing the colorful bags all gathered together, my favorite part of the goodies is the Bible verse included. One of four different verses all about God’s love was slipped into each bag to remind the girls where love originates.

The challenge for day 5 was to use a stamp set that has yet to see ink. Let’s just say there were a lot of options. I chose to work with Framed Out #1 and CASE a card by Lisa Johnson from the stamp’s release in 2012.

Each time I scrolled past Lisa’s card on my Pinterest board, I was reminded that I wanted to make that card for a niece’s or nephew’s birthday. This seemed to be the perfect time.

The last challenge I was able to finish was for day 7, to use only metallics and neutrals. Using a journal card from the Heidi Swapp PL foil kit helped this card come together fairly fast – for me anyway. If we had the option to use color, I would have used a mint and gold heart rather than the black. I like at least a touch of color.

To make the heart, I used the small notebook page from School Time for the stripes, stamping it twice for narrower spacing. The heart die is Framed Out #11.

Happy 8^th anniversary, Papertrey Ink.

nancy

autumn mason jar

There have been so many incredible releases at PTI that I need another source of “income” in order to be able to buy items from my wish list; so, rather than just attempting the Make It Monday challenges without sharing, I decided to start posting projects again. Yes, you’ve got to be in it to win it. And, we’ll see how long this lasts.

Melissa’s MIM#182 with embossing on a painted mason jar was the perfect reentry challenge. The mason jar is one that should work through Thanksgiving with its fall colors and, because I only embossed on one side of the jar, there are options for decorating.

Autumn blessings to you and yours.

nancy

supplies:

stamps:  tag-its #7 (PTI)

ink:  VersaMark

embossing powder:  apricot, butter, chestnut (AC Zing!)

extras:  gray wolf acrylic paint (MSC); mason jar; ribbon (stash); stems (Michael’s); inspiration (Melissa Phillips)

papertrey january blog hop

Rather than explain this month’s PTI blog hop theme, I decided to rely on the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s the picture:

Because I am in the midst of organizing and purging my paper crafting supplies, I didn’t think I’d be able to participate in the blog hop. I desperately needed a break from making difficult decisions, such as “should I keep this paper that I haven’t used in over a year or should I put it in the purge pile,” and decided to make a card. I think you’ll appreciate the irony, though. The paper that I used for this card… it came from the purge pile!

The card was inspired by this Melissa Phillips card (last in the post), the above photo collage, and an Emma’s Shoppe brad that I came across while sorting supplies.

My daughter is working on a documentary about pregnancy and has asked me to make some baby cards. One of the mom’s is expected to have her baby girl early next week, so I thought I’d go traditional with this very pink card. And it felt so very good to be using my supplies rather than just sorting them.

For a list of all the pretty pink projects, click on over to Nichole’s blog. Thanks for stopping by.

nancy

supplies:

paper:  white c/s (PTI); dots vellum (Paper Studio); silver POW! glitter paper (American Crafts); patterned paper from my purge pile

stamps: Purls of Wisdom and Simple Valentine (PTI)

ink and embossing powder:  VersaMark; silver glitter, rose and white Zing! (American Crafts)

dies:  LL: 2¼” ovals, seed packet, cover plate: hexagon and tag sale #3 (PTI)

extras:  Emma’s Shoppe brad (Crate Paper); crinkle ribbon (stash); wood veneer (Studio Calico)

happy happy happy…

A birthday card for my nephew was on today’s agenda and Ashley’s MIM#146 looked like it would be great for a masculine card. Then I checked the Sunday Sketch on the Studio Calico blog and realized in would work well with the angled background from the Make It Monday Challenge. Doesn’t it make you happy when things like that happen?

Thanks for stopping by. I’m off to watch the new season of Downton Abbey.

nancy

mim#144: heat embossing on vellum

Just a quick post to share a card that I made for Melissa’s MIM#144, heat embossing on vellum. I was so happy to see this Make It Monday because I had asked Melis to share her secrets on this technique. I just wish that I had time to make a few more cards.

 

I blew the entire concept of using vellum when I covered it with a Flea Market photo overlay. Even though the softness of the vellum was lost, I do like how the card turned out, especially with the gold border. The sentiment is actually stamped on the overlay; the candles are embossed on the vellum.

The last three weeks I’ve been slacking on commenting on blogs, for which I apologize. My daughter had surgery to repair a torn ligament in her ankle and has needed someone to fetch and tote for her. During that time, Brianna fell (literally) into the ‘if it can go wrong it will’ group with the latest thing being catching a brutal case of the flu during an ER visit. With her stomach settling down today, we decided to look on the positive side and agreed that it was good that she has gotten the flu out of the way and lost about five pounds in the process. It always helps to see the silver lining.

nancy