A Get Well Card

PapertreyInk's challenges are new every Wednesday, and one of them

Laurie's Fabulous Favorites,

is a challenge I'm joining today.

Laurie picked a photo inspiration and challenged us to do the same.

Here's mine:

A beautiful photo of Japanese cherry blossoms against a dreamy blue sky.

I chose the blooms and berries from PTI's Fresh Bouquet for my card.

The inks are Altenew's newest Spring collection, with copics for accents.

Nuvo's Copper Blush Embossing powder and copper sequins give a bit of bling,

and also added some splatters with Altenew's Magenta Ink.

Nothing better to get inky with a challenge, thank you Laurie!

Love the Wednesday challenges!

The stamps and dies are still on sale in the PTI shop.

My link will take you right to the store, and there's a die set to go 

along with the stamps.

Fresh Bouquet Stamp Set

Wonder Stix Easter Cards

A Spring 'Hello' all my blogging friends!

I'm sharing a trio of cards made with some new coloring tools, won, (yes I won!)

on Ivana's blog http://www.ivanacreates.com/

They sent me a set of 24 Wonder Stix, and a very sweet note of congratulations.

I couldn't wait to play with my new crayons. and yes, they look like crayons,

but color and blend like pastels.

Ive been enjoying a new set of stamps from Altenew, 'Wallpaper Art', 

another of their matchless florals, and stamped them with some of their

new inks out this spring. 

Ist stamped in Marigold, then colored the petals with my new Wonder Stix.

The colors in the set are all pastel-y and blend beautifully! 

I really didn't spend all that much time coloring, just wanted to see how they

blended. No dust, no odor, just easy placement with the tips.

I think I used a PTI color to stamp with on this card, probably Prairie Grass. I love

that softer faded green, and the pastels came alive against it's duller shade. Hard to

see, but also added Glossy Accents to the center of this bloom.

And one more with pinks and a soft lavender with ivory tips, is this card stamped with 

Altenew's Limeaid and Fresh Leaf.

PTI Double Banner Die & Cutaway Tags: Spring (sentiment)

Hope you got some inspiration today. It's always fun to see how something new

on the market works out on paper. And I've just become their newest fan!

A big thanks to The Pencil Grip manufactures of Wonder Stix, and

the very talented, Ivana for hostessing the giveaway!

If you have any questions, I'd love to connect with you and answer.

Enjoy your day!

https://www.thepencilgrip.com/collections/all

Easter cards for Poppystamps

Good Saturday Morning, Poppy Peeps! 

Visit the Poppystamps blog for how-to's on this Easter card trio!

Here's a link:

Happy Easter by Nancy Penir

The Card Concept Challenge: Cottage Florals

It's Cottage Florals at the Card Concept Challenge, and we have this beautiful

rustic photo for inspiration.

Lots of fussy cutting for my Clean and Layered card, using

PTI's SAF 2018 Community Garden.

Mix & Mat Postal gave me the rustic background I was looking for, tied with a bit of

twine.

Play along for 2 weeks. At the Card Concept, you can choose one of our styles, or use

one of your own. Can't wait to see what inspired you!

Enjoy your week!

The Card Concept #112 {Cottage Florals}

Happy Easter

It's pick a favorite MIM tutorial on PTI's Win It Wednesday with

Laurie's favorites. If you followed that... great!

If not, we were asked to pick a favorite from PapertreyInk's many

Make It Mondays, and create a new card.

Since Easter is soon coming, my cards have taken a spring coloring,

and my Eastery/Spring stamps and dies are on my desk. It's how I 

roll with the seasons. I just love revisiting the oldies, and maybe combing

them with new sets.

So many great Make It Mondays, but I had this idea for Michelle Leone's Petite

Pattern Play, and went with it.

Remember this sweet card? Love Michelle's simple use of pattern and color.

I added a couple of lilac layers to my Scene It: Celebration die cut.

Eggs, bunny and sentiment is from Bunny Basket. And I found a pom

for the little guy's tail. All set for one of the grandkids.

Play along with PTI and Laurie's Favorites here:

Make it Monday #332: Petite Pattern Play           

Hope your week if full of crafty goodness!   

12 Kits of Occasions: March 2019 - A Whimsical Garden

A great big 'howdy' to you all! The last day of March brings the 

12 Kits of Occasions. And our hostess Lisa Elton from mypapertales.blogspot.com,

is spreading Spring our way with 'A Whimsical Garden'. 

Beautiful papers from Cartabella, darling die cuts and sentiments, stamped sweet Spring

 images, and the most gorgeous rose gold sequins ever! Be still my blossom lovin' heart! 

Well just take a look...

This guy is loving the rain, and the hope of Spring blooms so much, I had to lead with 

him. Life in my valley is beautiful right now. We've had loads of life giving rain, and I

thank God for every drop!

Lisa included this phrase, which I added to the inside of froggie's card.

Really... it says it all!

Next up, one of 3 Impression Obsession bunnies included in the kit, popped up on

a field of flowers.

PTI: Shape Shifters Oval 3 & Cover Plate Marquee.

Lisa wrapped our goodies in this green and white chevron paper. Wish you could

feel it, so rich and smooth. Perfect for 2 bunny friends enjoying the outdoors.

Corners cut from PTI's Mix and Mat Herringbone and some of Lisa's dp from the kit.

These 2 friends are mounted on Stamplorations: Luggage tags

Lisa stamped these 2 in soft brown ink for us. I used my Polychromos pencils to color them.

I'm a bit over the moon for this Art Gone Wild 'puttering around bunny'. Lisa sent us the 

mini bow too. Seemed a good place to put it, over the medallion, on the wreath. 

Colored with copics.

I also colored the trio of bloom die cuts with copics, and framed the card in black.

Poppystamps: Stitchwork Rectangle Frames.

Thank you, thank you, Lisa for a fabulous Spring-a-licous kit!

Can't wait to peruse my 'kit sisters' blogs to see how they used their goodies! 

Lisa is giving away a couple of mini kits on her blog. Be sure to visit her blog

for details.

Happy Spring! Hope it's beginning to look like Spring where you are!

Wishing You a Joyous Easter

Playing with Altenew's gorgeous floral stamps, 'Wallpaper Art', and my 

copics, I created an Easter card. Included in my order was the Layered Plaid

Cover A & B dies. I truly hated to cover the plaid die cuts up with anything,

but couldn't resist Eastery pastels with rosey copper Nuvo embossing powder

over the plaid. 

The top plaid cover die is a lavender pink shimmer cardstock I've 

had squirreled away forever!

I found a sentiment from PTI's Etched Eggs, and copper embossed that 

as well. The tiny posies are from Altenew's Build A Flower: Poppy.

When I chose my copics I made sure they were full color, that is, 02, 04, and so forth.

The pastels pop a bit more with full hue. 

Hope your weekend is full of fun and crafty goodness! 

Working on more Easter cards I can't wait to share!

Wishing You...

It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept, and we have this 'beachy'

 scene to inspire you!

I was instantly drawn to the shells and sand on an aqua background.

I used real sand on top of a Nichole Heady Sand Swatch stamp set, so I'm

going with a Mixed Media Card. The aqua bg is a piece of 12 x 12" wood print

designer paper that I had, but it was tan colored.

To change the color to aqua I brushed on Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst: Tiffany Lou Blue.

It has a lustrous gleam in real life.

A few of PTI's raindrops look a bit like water bubbles to me, so I added them.

All PTI product today, with the exception of the dp and sand.

My list will take you to the PTI store, where they still have all stamps and dies

at a discount. 

Salt Air: Flora Stamp Set

Sand Swatch Mini Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Simple Seashells Die

Simple Seashells Stamp Set

Recollections White Washed Woodgrain Scrapbook Paper

Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst: Tiffany Loo Blue Spray

Beach sand

Challenge #111-Scattered Seashells

Hello Sweet Friend

Hello, sweet friends! I'm up on the Poppystamps blog today, with a 

 watercolor card full of spring blooms! Pop on by to see how I used my

new Arteza pens to create my scene.

Can't wait for the real thing, (blooms that is) in my neck of the woods!

Have a blessed weekend!

Hello Sweet Friend by Nancy Penir

Tag You're It: Yellow Dress

Tag You're It has a new challenge with a sunny yellow theme!

Come play along @ the Tag You're It Blog

Nancy Penir

Just Saying Hello

Hi there! Hope you like floral cards, because this post is all about dancing

petals, wild rich color, and full of my love of florals.

Altenew has a challenge for the month of March, featuring a field of wondrous reds, greens 

and soft grey blue.

Irresistible if you love lifelike flowers, multi stamping for realism, petals 

that wave in the breeze, and stems and leaves that beg for shading,

you're familiar with Altenew'ss. Build a Flower series. I'm a fan.

Particularly my newest, Build a Fower: Poppy.

Sentiment: Build a Flower: Japanese Mum, white embossed on a 

Stamplorations tag.

There are 3 stamps for each bloom; a linestamp and 2 stamps for

dimension. Once I stamped my 3 big blooms, I added copics for further depth.

Then did the same for my leaves. The smaller white flowers are included

in the set, and the trio of leaves I used to stamp the side panel, as well.

Also entering the Flower Challenge, Anything Goes, a blog challenge that

'celebrates cards using floral images'. 

The Flower Challenge #30 'Anything Goes'

March 2019 Inspiration Challenge