A Watered Garden

Welcome! I'm excited to be playing along with a new challenge at PTI,

Laurie's Fabulous Favorites.

Laurie started things rolling with her favorite stamp set, and challenged

us to pick ours for a card.

Somewhat like picking a favorite child, but I narrowed it down to about

110, and selected Farmer's Market Florals.

Stamps that warm the heart, that's Farmer's Market Florals. Paired it with 

Bold Borders Foliage and Garden of Faith.

We've had a lot of rain so far this year, after a long drought, and it

looks like the roses are ready bud. I know I say it every season,

but spring in our valley is the closest thing to heaven!

A little bit of foam popping, and my card is ready to brighten someone's

winter day.

Laurie mentioned she loves the PTI florals. Me too! And I love the 

multi stamping stamps as well.

Now for the best part of this challenge: 100.00 gift certificate!

Play along on the PTI blog!

Transformation Tuesday with Michelle Leone

Hi! Thought I'd play along with PTI's Transformation Tuesday and Michelle Leone,

where we were challenged to take a previous card we liked but wanted to 

re-do better.

I was so excited to add PTI's Stitching Garden to my floral stamp sets, and wanted to

see how all the stamps looked inked and assembled. The colors I used were OK,

and the one layer card reminded me of a spring pattern. 

Michelle used her original card to springboard a second that used more modern colors

and an eye-catching flower in the center. 

Like Michelle, my 2nd remake card uses bolder colors, and a more focalized design. 

It's always fun to improve and redo. There's always ways to tweek certain elements,

such as colors or design.

Have a card you'd like to transform? 

Play along with Michelle and Transformation Tuesday on the PTI Blog.

Hope you had a great weekend and look forward to lots of crafting!

My links for the products I used take you to the PTI store.

Stitching Garden Stamp Set

Gathered Garden Stamp Set

Garden of Faith Stamp Set

Perfect Match Pure Poppy - Inkpad

Perfect Match Scarlet Jewel - Inkpad

Perfect Match Simply Chartreuse - Inkpad

Perfect Match Green Parakeet - Inkpad

Perfect Match New Leaf - Inkpad

Perfect Match Sweet Blush - Inkpad

Perfect Match Pale Peony - Inkpad

Perfect Match Berry Sorbet - Inkpad

Perfect Match Melon Berry - Inkpad

Perfect Match Lavender Moon - Inkpad

Perfect Match Spring Rain - Inkpad

Perfect Match Harvest Gold - Inkpad

Perfect Match Summer Sunrise - Inkpad

Perfect Match Tropical Teal - Inkpad

Perfect Match Hawaiian Shores - Inkpad

Done in Love

Dies only on Day 7 of PTI's Anniversary celebration.

No stamps!

Well that's easy. Went right to my cover plates for Paper Clippings: Done in Love.

This came together quickly, so I did another, using the cover plate

to create a stencil.

Since it's the same die, used 2 ways, and since Darnell has a new 'Two-Fer' challenge,

I'm playing over there too!

Twofer Card Challenge #2

Now while both cards could be used for Valentines, one is definitely a Valentine 'Love' card,

while the other is more of congratulations card (dark background) 

you give for a job well done. Or it could be an encouragement card.

Keep up the challenges, Darnell. We love them!

Hope your week is a 'crafty' one! The best kind!

   11th Anniversary Day 7: February Release Day 2 + Use Only Dies – No Stamps! Challenge           

Psalm 23:2

Every month during release week at PTI, we get to case the design team

and their genius.

As usual, this month's stamps and dies were beautifully showcased,

and it was hard to pick just one.

Dawn McVey hi lighted the soon to be released 

Cover Plate: Mountain Majesty with a

 bright rainbow watercolor.

I loved the frame she featured, with it's die cut mountains.

Trying to come near her color blends, and that space for the sentiment

was a challenge.

Here's what I came up with.

Year of the Psalms: June stamped onto a Made With Love tag 

(Pinefeather ink)

The frame is Sentiment Splits: Curve Verticle

Tree on the left is from Scene It: Mountain View,

and the stars are from Make It Market Mini Holiday Folk.

I absolutely love the way Betsy has designed the Psalms sets, and will 

be sorry to see the year and the psalm releases end.

Proverbs? Just a thought...

Create Along With Us: July 2017

Let Your Light Shine

MIM this week with Laurie Wilison, showing us how she 

masks her backgrounds. Her video, is full of 

Laurie masking tricks, such as tape to use and how to best 

apply your die cut sentiment.

See it here:

Make It Monday #250: Masked Backgrounds

I love the effects you can get doing the masking, using color,

arranging the mask to suit your stamps.

I used the Guiding Lights stamp set and masked the front, both for border

and to showcase the light.

What the Doodle: Waves die and stamps.

Laurie added water droplets, didn't think I needed them, so left them out.

Americana and Stormy Sea Inks.

Sponging done with Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, Harvest Gold.

Love the sentiments in this set, especially this one!