sweetly and clearly besotted (CBS, Passion for Papertrey)

Do you know Clearly Besotted Stamps?  The lovely Stephanie keeps coming up with the most beautiful stamps.  And recently she started a challenge.  This time it's a color challenge and I'm playing along.

Saw those colors and thought "sweet".  Which reminded me of a wedding set that Stephanie included with my somewhat large order a while back.  How sweet is that?   A wedding cake is sweet, right?  Then I remembered that the challenge at A Passion for Papertrey is also all about sweet.  But how to make the combo work???  NBUS here too (are ya listening Darnell?)

You know that I'm practical  frugal cheap, right?  Here's more proof.  I got the PTI mini blooms die (not the stamps mind you) thinking I could use them with lots of those little filler stamps from other stamp sets.  Flowers, leaves, whatevers.  Well I did!  I combined that one little die - see it alone in the plastic bag - with the teensy rose stamp from CBS.  And not just as filler either.  The roses take the cake on this card.  See, they even got stickled :)

Not totally the vision I had in my cabeza, but it'll work for a wedding couple.  I did manage to keep the light and airy feel of the inspiration photo so I'm happy.

Have a great weekend, friends.

Supplies for happily ever after:

Paper: cardbase Papermania

Stamps: Clearly Besotted

Ink :Jenni Bowlin, Hero Arts, Versamagic 

Tools: die Spellbinders, flower die PTI

Other: pearls, glue dots

tilt (PTI, Passion for Papretrey, CFC, SSS)

Blog hopping with PTI today...

I love this trend of putting things on an angle.  Here's my take.

Some digital PP, die cut alphas and metallic crepe paper topped with some strtegically-placed (ha!) sequins and I'm good to go.  Happy hopping!

Also playing at:
A Passion for Papertrey - Let's Celebrate
CASual Fridays - #99 Birthday Bash
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Supplies hb2u:

Paper: cardbase Craft UK, digi PP Pink Petticoat, metallic crepe paper 

Stamps: 

Ink : 

Tools:  alpha die PTI, border die Amuse

Other: sequins

i was born a chevron (Moxie Fab, PDCC, Passion for Papertrey)

It's been ages since I played at the Cafe... and I nearly missed the deadline... again.  So here are some lousy photos, but I'm in before the deadline.

Started with a chevron die from MFT and some Papermania CS in the PDC colors:

I had big plans for some graphic coolness, but suffice it to say my lack of spatial thinking abilities led to a need to re-work.  As in not-doable-with-chevrons.  So this happened.

A negative die cut with some peaks of the chevrons peeking out on the left, a lovely PTI sentiment and sequins.   And then this.

Some strips cut by trimming through the peaks and valleys of the chevrons, then aligned mismatched.  Born chevron, turned arrow.  And what goes better with arrows than a heart?  Heat embossed with a cool Casual Fridays sentiment.  A distressed mesh BG and sequins to top it off and I'm in under the wire.

Playing at:
The Play Date Cafe - #174
Moxie Fab World - Chevron Challenge
Moxie Fab World - Emphasize the Negative
Passion for Papertrey - Negative Die Cut

 Appreciate your visit.

Supplies to love and be loved:

Paper: CS Bringmann, Papermania

Stamps: sentiment PTI

Ink :Hero Arts

Tools:  heart dies Sizzix,chevron die MFT

Other: sequins, dimensional adhesive

Supplies yeah baby:

Paper: CS Bringmann, Papermania

Stamps: BG CHF, sentiment Casual Fridays

Ink :Distress Ink, Hero Arts, Versamark

Tools:  heart dies Sizzix,chevron die MFT

Other: embossing powder Zing, sequins, dimensional adhesive

somber ombre watercolor (Moxie Fab, Passion for Papertrey, SSS)

Unfortunately, it's one of those times when I need a sympathy card.  Second one recently.  Ever heard deaths come in threes?  I think there might be something to that.  Shudder.

Well, I'd seen this photo from design seeds.  Minimalistic and very positive actually.  So I went with it for sympathy cards.

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Noticing the blurry background and the grays in the color palette, I decided to try ombre watercoloring.

Because I haven't played at Passion for Papertrey for awhile, I decided to give their current "50 Shades of Gray" challenge a go.  Used a PTI die for the leaves (Lovely Layers and Tweet Talk!) which I cut from paper I'd also watercolored with various shades of green.  The second card has a PTI sentiment too.

And Simon Says "A Bit o' Green".  OK.

Also linking up to the Moxie Fab Card Creations Week Ombre Challenge.

Have a good one.

Supplies sympathy cards:

Paper: CS Neenah, watercolor paper

Stamps: Mia's Stempelkuche, PTI

Ink : Versafine 

Tools:  watercolors and paintbrush, tree die SSS, other dies PTIl

Other: 

springy window (ABNH, Moxie Fab, Hero Arts, APFP)

Here are a couple more cards from my card set I posted yesterday.  Changed up the colors a wee bit and used some Hero Arts stamps.

Used my homemade fun-foam-cut-from-a-die stamp to stamp the vines again, this time only three cuz I'm playing at this month's Hero Arts challenge:

and used the colors AND tried the new technique of die cutting fun foam to stamp with.  So I'm also playing at A Blog Named Hero where the challenge is:

And I'm hooking up to A Passion for Papertrey - Thank You since the vines are from PTI.  Actually yesterday's cards used even more PTI product, but oh well.

Thanks for visiting.

Supplies for cards:

Paper: CS Neenah

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink : Cat's Eyes, gray Hero Arts, Versafine

Tools: die bloom Spellbinders, vine PTI

Other: fun foam

chilly coffee cup (Passion for Papertrey, Deconstructed Sketch, BGC)

A project for ya inspired by this wonderful photo from Passion for Papertrey.

So much yummy old fashioned goodness for your eyes to feast on.  I just received some goodies I won from their site including the coffee cup stamp set and die from PTI.  Put it to use on this coffee cup which DD is giving one of her riding pals.  How appropriate, eh?

I modelled my snowflake on the Deconstructed Sketch #81 - roughly.   The banner is the cuff of an old sweater I used as my base.  I have two layers of snowflake, offset.  Just added the little coffee cup to it.

 

Also hooking up to Basic Grey Challenges #83 - Christmas.  Used one of my fave BG PP.  The basic pack.

Thanks for visiting.

Supplies for coffee cup tag:

Paper: CS American Crafts, PP Basic Grey

Stamps: PTI

Ink : Memento

Tools: dies:  snowflake Sizzix, coffee cup  PTI

Other:  wooden button, twine, old sweater

using up scraps (Color Q, Tuesday Alchemy)

Lotsa energy last week to get Turkey Day ready and play in challenges.  Not much left for this week...

Put together some tags using up scraps that I keep moving from left to right and back again.  I'm sure you know how that is.  Kept the nice fresh color combo from Color Q in mind too.

Used some tear-off calendar pages to cover the die cuts (was going to enter Passion for Papertrey's challenge to use  numbers... missed the deadline) to keep up a theme cuz the rest got pretty crazy!

Also parking these over at Tuesday Alchemy where the theme is #42. Anything Goes.

On a housekeeping note... if you'd like to win these wooden ornaments, check out this post.

And here is a photo of our set Turkey Day table as promised in this post.

Thanks for visiting.

Supplies for tags:

Paper: tons of scraps

Stamps: BG WMS, sentiment Inkystamp

Ink : Distress Ink

Tools: dies:  PTI, Spellbinders, Sizzix, MFT

Other: washi 

congrats to Play Date Cafe (PDCC, Passion for Papertrey)

Play Date Cafe.  What a great name for a challenge blog.  My kids are past the days of play dates, but the name makes me smile every time I go over there to play.  Happy Anniversary PDC!

This photo makes me absolutely swoon.  My three bridesmaids - whoa, blast from the past - wore red, fuchsia and violet raw silk dresses... so this is so me.  But when it came down to playing with the colors I had a really tough time.  You too?  

Tried to figure out why and decided that since  red, violet and blue are all so close together on the color wheel... it is the "glow" in the photo that makes it all work.  So I had to go for that.

My go to for glow, distress inks.  Don't own the PDCC named colors, but I took Spiced Marmelade, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries, Shaded Lilac and Chipped Sapphire and this is what I got!  Inked up Neenah CS, cut it into two panels, spritzed some Perfect Pearl/water msit, die cut the words, printed the remaining text on the PC and assembled.  It actually turned out as I imagined.  Yippie.

This was a spin off of the same idea, using up the positives and some scraps of digital paper.  Notice how my printer cartridge is losing its color.  You know me, waste not want not.

Completely different look, eh?  Crazy, this craft we love.  I'm also playing over at Passion for Papertrey - yeah, they're back and worldwide now too.  Happy Monday.  I may be back.

Supplies to love and be loved:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, CS Neenah

Stamps:

Ink: Distress Inks, Perfect Pearls

Tools: die PTI

Other: PC, bling

Get well soon (black/white)

A Passion for Papertrey wants you to create with black, white and a pop of color.  I used the sketch from Skipping Stones #118. 

Used up scraps from this card of mine for the scalloped circle.  Used 2 of my 3 Papertrey sets to stamp the black dot strip and peony.  Heat embossed both.  Stamped the sentiment and adhered circle and flower.  Rounded upper corner.  Done.

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies Get well soon:
Paper: Neenah, vintage book

Stamps: circles Martha Stewart, flower & dots & sentiment PTI

Ink: Versamark, black Versafine

Tools: die Spellbinders, corner rounder EKS

Other: pink embossing powder Zing,  clear embossing powder

Birthdays are for the birds (distress inking)

Thought I would share another episode of my long-and-winding-creative-process-road.

My destination was programmed into my GPS.  The Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge over at Moxie Fab World.

My map had a lot to do with this photo from Moxie Fab:

Absolutely love all the patterns and textures going on.  And the spot of turquoise.  Actually influenced yesterday's card too.

One tourist attraction along the way, the IKEA flyer in my mailbox.  Check out the great crazy bird tray on the left.  And next to it my first trial layout:

Used scrap birdies die cut from tissue boxes to test the layout.  My plan was to ink up CS with Chipped Sapphire and Broken China distress inks, splotch with water and then die cut the birdies.  So I did.

First detour... decided to use kraft CS for the base.  Next detour... where to place the sentiment and which sentiment?  And I knew I wanted to add something to the background, but I saw no possibilities...

Enter the Musicians of Bremen.  Not sure where they came from, but suddenly there they were in the lane right in front of me:

This opened the road for some cool background work.  And made the sentiment possible.  If you're wondering why you can't read it well... I wanted the sentiment yellow and embossed, but don't own yellow embossing powder.  I stamped with the yellow pigment ink I have and embossed with clear.  And you could hardly read it.  AAAAGGGHHH.

So, not to be brought to a screeching halt by this, I just reinked the stamp with black Versafine, stamped it and re-embossed with clear.  That's like hittin' the gas when the light turns yellow.  If it looks two-tone and a bit offset it's cuz it is!  But there is actually something cool about it.  I was just happy the second embossing didn't destroy the first.

So, last stop was the green stitching to ground the birdies on the lawn.  Because A Passion for Papertrey wants you to use needles and thread in their challenge.  And the yellow bling to represent the sun, cuz I'm still tryin to chase away the winter blues.  (And my other yellow didn't work, 'member?)

I like to liven up a road trip with a triple chocolate Blizzard from Dairy Queen.  And you?

Happy weekend.

Supplies Birthdays are for the birds:

Paper: kraft ?, CS Neenah 

Stamps: BG PTI, sentiment Crafty Secrets

Ink: Versamark, Cats Eye pigment, black Versafine

Tools: dies Tim Holtz, Memory Box, sewing machine

Other: toothbrush to splotch, embossing powder, bling