MIM # 166

This week's MIM is something I've wanted to try, debossing.

Dawn shows us how, and her card is pure bliss!

I've been working on backgrounds lately, and had several ready to use.

Needed to do another birthday card, and wanted to play with the Circle Scribbles set. 

Liked how the scribbles looked with the Center Stage Cover Plate stenciled.

Birthday sentiment from Wonderful Words: Birthday

All Papertrey products

The bright morning light really shows the deboss!

Can't wait to do another! 

Make It Monday #166: Debossing Stamped Images

PTI May Blog Hop - Post 2

Just had to post one more time with some booties 

I made for little Eli.

Used the aqua mist and terra-cotta tile felts for the moccasins, with a little white patch 

and tiny white felt button.

Also included is a card with the challenge colors, with just a bit of terra-cotta tile too.

Card: Background Basics: Chevron Stripes in aqua mist

Text Block: Baby die cut shimmer aqua

Polka Dot Basics: stamps and dies

The balloons are the ball die from 7th Inning Stretch

Zing embossed the buggy, and teddy.

Mocassins: Baby Booties, Baby Booties Patches and Baby Bootie Details

All PTI  Products

Eli smiles in his sleep.

Still time to create something, using this beautiful inspiration.

PTI May Blog Hop & MIM

No wait! You're in the right place, this is PapertreInk's May Blog Hop

Just had to make a happy announcement, 11th grandchild just arrived! Baby Eli, 8 lbs. 12oz. all boy, and simply wonderful!

More photos to follow, but now to the hop!

Nichole has given us a color challenge: Aqua and Melon

4 cards for you

1st up, a birthday card using this week's MIM watercolor technique.

BB: Art Deco,

Gatsby Glamour stamp and die

copper & teal ep,

Aqua Mist and Melon Berry inks,

PTI cardstock

I used 5 layers of card stock for the die cut,

more sturdy than foam dots

Card #2

In love with Botanical Blocks! So many possibilities.

Simple ink watercoloring and fussy cut over original stamp.

PTI card stocks and inks

3rd card

Botanical Blocks, this time the sunflower, again ink watercolored.

Copper eb, copper Shimmer PTI cardstock, embossed with herringbone folder,

PTI cardstocks, aqua mist dot paper.

3rd card

Ivory embossed mums on Melon Berry cardstock, inked with Melon Berry,

Aqua embossed sentiment

Mum's the Word stamp set

Card 4

I never have a favorite of my my own work, but if I had to, this ranks as a favorite.

Friendship Jar, and Friendship Jar Spring Filler, simply love tulips!

These are copic colored with the 3 shades PTI offers to coordinate with Melon Berry...

Vellum colored with copic, leaves too.

Background Basics: Chevron Stripes in Fine Linen.

A bit of lace and Tiny Tag die

Stamped it first, then added the fussy cuts.

Just a bit of glitter

Well that's all for now, need to see more of Baby Eli?

The family Penir, that's my baby boy on the right,

his sweet wife and Eli's mamma, and big bro Shephard.

You know there'll be more pix later!

For now, enjoy hopping, there's always so much inspiration to see!

MIM #165

Make It Monday at PapertreyInk features the inspirational Betsy Veldman

and Artsy Watercolor Backgrounds

So many June birthdays, thought I'd get a headstart and

use her talented suggestions and play along.

Never miss MIM, even if Nichole's site goes down for a bit!

Boy card using Grundge Me (haven't used that one for a while!)

The images seemed to beg to be 'smudged' and smeared with this technique.

All PTI products, except the enamel dots & watercolor paper.

Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores and Limeaid Ice Inks (very Betsy-esque!)

Rock and roll technique with the sentiment

Make It Monday #165: Artsy Watercolor Backgrounds

The Card Concept #10

It's a coffee theme at The Card Concept.

Wanted to play with some Farm Fresh goodies I've had awhile.

Sentiment stamps PTI's Latte Love

PTI Background Basiscs: Tin Types 

Waltzingmouse Stitched tag die

Cheery Lynn Ambergris Doily die

PTI Cardstocks

Definitely Freestyle Collage (?)

Although it could go with Classy Elegant

Play along here:

Challenge #10 - Use a Coffee Theme

Paper Sweeties May Release Rewind

It's Paper Sweeties Rewind time, and I've created a patchwork card

using the new flag die, with Fancy Monogram stamps

to spell out Happy Birthday!

The sweet birds are from Happy Summer

Double die cut, and then slightly curved, easily done because of how the die cuts

each flag.

The talented design team has pulled out all the stops this release, check them out here:

Amber Kroening

Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

Find the new products by clicking below:

Feel Better Soon

Sorry You're Sick

Sweet Cuts - Sweeties Wagon

Fusion Challenge: Black, White & Yellow

Have missed playing Fusion Challenge, lots of life getting in the way of paper play Glad for the gorgeous inspiration this week.

My card is combining both the sketch and the photo.

Pretty much followed the sketch and used layers of patterns for the background.

Memory Box Bountiful Sunflower

sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang.

The black behind the center of the flower is covered in glitter (hard to see).

PTI cardstocks

Play along with the Fusion challenge through the 20th.

FUSION Challenge {Black, White & Yellow or a Sketch or Flowers or...}

Paper Sweeties May Release Party!

It's the 15th of the month and that means Paper Sweeties May Release Party!

Excitement about the new 'Get Well' stamps and Sweet Cut dies has

been building for 3 days, and today's the day you can purchase

what you've seen!

Feel Better Soon

Sorry You're Sick

Sweet Cuts - Sweeties Wagon

I cut the wagon from one of the new dies, and together with 

another new die for Bloom and Grow stamps, made this card.

The sweet cloud, drops of rain, and sentiments are from 

Feel Better Soon.

Amber Kroening

Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

  Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

  Jeanne Jachna

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr
Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir (me!)

Tammy Hobbs

May Guest Designer:  Mynnette Kitchen

Paper Sweeties May Release Countdown!

It's Day 2 of Paper Sweeties new stamp release for May,

better know as 'Countdown'.

Tomorrow these fun new stamps and dies you've seen will be available for purchase.

As I said yesterday, the theme this month is 'Feel Better'!

Today I've featured the darling new sentiment, Heard you're S(ICK).

It fit perfectly on the die cut and stamp from Beautiful.

Don't know about you, but when I'm under the weather all I want is a warm blanket!

My card base is a 5 1/4" square with a pinwheel style quilt cut from several designer papers.

I sewed the triangles up with my machine, added the PS sentiment from the new set, Feel Better Soon, (copic colored), and tied it 

on with PS Robin's Egg twine.

Heart tag from last month's release die cut from cork, a few pins and button.

The design team is loaded with Get Well Wishes,

and remember to come back tomorrow for Release Day!

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

MIM #164: Cluster Stamping

Make It Monday's tutorial on Cluster Stamped Sentiment with Heather Nichols.

A fun way to high light your sentiment, and Heather shows us some

tricks to make that happen!

Sentiment from Wonderful Words: Birthday

Versamark stamped and embossed with clear.

BG stamped with Background Basics: Random Stripe.

Then stars from Super Stars.

Tipsy dies.

All PTI except sequins.

Make It Monday #164: Cluster Stamped Sentiment

Paper Sweeties May Release Sneak Peek!

Welcome to Paper Sweeties May Release Sneak Peek!

The theme this month Get Well!

There are 2 new stamp sets and 1 group of Sweet Cuts for previous released stamps.

My card features Nurse Sophie

I created the background using one of the new stamps in Feel Better Soon, a bandaid 

with a heart in the middle.

Just perfect for copic coloring!

Sophie of course has her own die, the outfit is fussy cut.

Those darling sentiments (and check mark) are also in the new set.

Sophie's kleenex box is from a new set you'll see tomorrow.

Last month PS release featured tags and mat dies together with the sweet glittered heart.

And don't forget the Cotton Candy Baker's Twine, one of several colors Paper Sweeties offers!

Be sure to see what the rest of the design team has, and don't forget to come back tomorrow!

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

MIM #163

Danielle has us wrapping our envelopes this week on Make It Monday.

She shows us how to give double duty to our border dies.

Graduation is coming fast, and I made a card for a boy.

Just the Ticket on Kraft, stamped in Scarlett Jewel and black, outlined in white.

Wonderful Words: Congrats

I used the star Cover Plate, and cut it down a bit to encase the stamped tickets,

trying to keep it one layer for mailing.

Reverse of the envelope, tickets wrap from top and bottom.

You can find Danielle's video and sample beauties here on Nichole's blog:

Make It Monday #163: Envelope Wraps