Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #21

Happy, happy Friday y'all! We got a 2 hour delay this morning and I sure did love sleeping a little late! :-) I got a little time today to play around a bit with my paper and stamps before I need to get back into the sewing groove. Here's Dawn's newest color challenge ...
I am not sure I would've come up with this color combo on my own, but I do love it all together! Here's my card ...

I started by stamping the triple flower image from Blooming Button Bits onto Vintage Cream card stock using Aqua Mist ink. (Anyone have any tips for using the new ink formula? I always have trouble with it.) I punched the bottom of the panel with the Apron Lace punch and rounded the corners at the top. I roughed the panel up with some Chai and Chamomile ink before adhering it to the Aqua Mist base and adding a belt of Dark Chocolate grosgrain.

Dawn put up a great video tutorial for these paper flowers ... I gave it a whirl today and added one by the bow and then stamped the "So sweet of you" sentiment from the Signature Greetings set. This is a super simple card, but would definitely make the recipient feel special!

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my card! :-)

Supplies Used (all Papertrey Ink):
Stamps: Blooming Button Bits, Signature Greetings
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist, Chamomile
Paper: Lemon Tart, Vintage Cream; book print
Accessories: Dark Chocolate grosgrain, Lemon Tart button; twine

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #16

Hi y'all! Back with a second post and a second color challenge. Dawn gave us some beautiful fall colors to work with this time - chocolate, summer sunrise, kraft and cream. Check out her original inspiration photo here. The colors reminded me of a sunflower, so I went to town with my hexagon punch ... I stamped some polka dots onto kraft paper and purposely stamped them a little imperfectly. I added a column of Thank you sentiments down the side. The flower center and petals are Bitty Box paper punched with a hexagon punch. Everything got distressed with an edge distresser and Chamomile ink. I really like how this turned out and will be trying this soon with some brighter colors too!

That's about all for now ... trying to make the most of the long weekend to craft as much as possible! :-) Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics II, Scattered Showers Additions
Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate, Chamomile
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Kraft card stock; Bitty Box paper - Summer Sunrise, Dark Chocolate
Accessories: PTI Dark Chocolate grosgrain ribbon
Other: Edge distresser tool; Creative Memories hexagon punch

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #15

Hiya! Just popping in to post my card for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #15. I love the colors this week - Cream, Melon, Moss, and Medium Pink. I *finally* was able to make some time to stamp today - its been crazy since school started yesterday. Hopefully, I can get my head above water at work and get settled into a schedule that has room for stamping! :-)
Anyway, I used Dawn's new set, Scattered Showers Additions on this one. I started by stamping the tag image in Melon Berry but I purposely did not ink it well to give a more vintage feel. I trimmed this out and added some flowers and leaves in Hibiscus Burst & Spring Moss respectively. The sentiment is also from the set. A few extra details - I crumpled up the cream base under the tag and inked that and the Spring Moss Bitty Box layer with Chamomile ink, again to get a more vintage feel. I also added some sparkle to the flowers with a Sakura glitter pen and some Martha Stewart adhesive pearls.

Well, that is about it for now! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: PTI Scattered Showers Additions
Ink: PTI Chamomile, Hibiscus Burst, Spring Moss, Dark Chocolate, Melon Berry
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Spring Moss card stock; Bitty Box paper in Spring Moss
Accessories: PTI Hibiscus Burst satin ribbon; Sakura glitter pen; MS adhesive pearls; foam tape; twine; corner rounder punch

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #14

Hiya! Dawn gave us another great Color Challenge this week. I will admit that I had a little bit of trouble combining these colors - mostly working in the purple. But, I am happy with the end result. Here's my card ....I started by stamping the large damask image from Damask Designs in Raspberry Fizz ink - I did roll the edges of the image in Scarlet Jewel ink before stamping it onto the Vintage Cream paper. I then overstamped that damask image with the text stamp in Plum Pudding ink.

If you look closely, the Scarlet Jewel panel and the card were stamped with a flourish from Fancy Flourishes in Versamark ink. I wanted it to be subtle to help give the card some more interest - Versamark is a great way to do this. Finally, I added a sentiment in Raspberry Fizz ink and used Chamomile ink on the card base and the image panel to give it a more vintage-y feel.

I am in love with the ribbon stitching lately ... in case you hadn't noticed! My buddy Banu from SCS asked me how I was doing this, so I made a tutorial that you can check out here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used (all Papertrey Ink unless noted):
Stamps: Damask Designs, Fancy Flourishes, Background Basics: Text Style
Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Scarlet Jewel, Plum Pudding, Chamomile; Versamark
Paper: Vintage Cream, Scarlet Jewel, Plum Pudding
Accessories: Raspberry Fizz grosgrain

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #13

Happy Wednesday y'all! :-) I got through a sewing marathon last night and decided to whip up some really clean & simple cards before heading to bed. I was inspired by Krystie Lee from Cupcake Martini. Her cards are so fun and yet so simple. I love her style.

For this card, I decided to play along with Dawn's color challenge. She picked red, berry, moss, and white - a great combo! Here's a link to her inspiration photo. And here's my card ....

(Click on photo to enlarge.)

I stamped the chair pattern in Pure Poppy ink onto Berry Sorbet card stock and stamped over that with the chair outline in SU! Chocolate Chip ink. I cut out the chair and used foam tape to give the card some dimension. I stacked Spring Moss bitty dots on top of the white and Spring Moss panels and stamped the sentiment on two lines so it would fit on the panel. I love how cute this little 4-1/4" square card is.

I made one more of these little chair cards with a different color scheme and sentiment that I will post tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: PTI On My Couch
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy; SU! Chocolate Chip; Copic marker (chair feet)
Paper: PTI White, Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss; PTI Spring Moss Bitty Dots paper
Accessories: foam tape; PTI Berry Sorbet twill

Raspberry Suite #12 + FTL #51

Happy Tuesday! I got a chance to play around with some challenges again today. I am combining a color challenge and a sketch challenge for this one. Dawn McVey always has some great color combinations that most of us wouldn't dare try outside of a challenge! This week, she asked use to use Cream, Moss, Dark Pink & Dark Red. Check out her inspiration photo here.

The sketch challenge is from a great blog called clean&simple. This week's sketch looked like fun, so I gave it a whirl. Here's a link to the original sketch.

For my card, I started with a piece of Spring Moss and stamped some flourishes on it in Spring Moss ink. I actually don't have the top note die yet, but I had a die cut from a swap so I traced the shape and cut it out by hand. It's hard to tell in the photo, but I used Fresh Snow ink to give the cream piece some pattern with tiny dots from Polka Dots 2. Next, I created another ribbon flower, similar to the one in this post, but with an added layer underneath. The leaves are pieces of Spring Moss dipped in Spring Moss ink and rumpled up. Here's a closer view of the flower and you can kind of see the pattern on the cream piece in this one if you squint real hard! LOL
Thanks for stopping by - I'd love to hear what you think of these ribbon flowers!

Supplies Used (all PTI):
Stamps: Fancy Flourishes, Scattered Showers, Polka Dots 2
Ink: Fresh Snow, Spring Moss, Scarlet Jewel, Chamomile
Paper: Vintage Cream, Scarlet Jewel, Spring Moss
Accessories: Vintage Cream button, twine, Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, Scarlet Jewel satin ribbon

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #11

Hiya! Hope you all had a great 4th of July! I did make some 4th of July cards, but haven't gotten a chance to post them yet - will make sure to do that tomorrow! :-)

Dawn threw a tricky challenge this week - FIVE colors. Check out the challenge and beautiful inspiration photo here. Here's what I came up with:I made some patterned paper with my new Green Grass Stamps set using True Black, Raspberry Fizz, & Pure Poppy ink on Soft Stone paper. I hand cut some wonky flowers and leaves, stamped with and wrinkled them up. I did add a sentiment in the label frame from PTI's Friends til the End set as well. This took waaaaay longer than I thought it would (mostly due to placement of all the elements), but I am really pleased with the end result.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Green Grass Stamps - Labels; PTI - Friends Til the End
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz; Palette Noir Black
Paper: PTI Soft Stone, True Black, Raspberry Fizz, Pure Poppy, New Leaf
Accessories: PTI Raspberry Fizz luxe satin ribbon; PTI vintage button; twine
Tools: Paper trimmer, Scor-Pal, sticky tape (Taylored Expressions), scissors, hole punch

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #10

Hiya! I have a couple of challenge cards to post today, so I actually have 3 posts going up to get them all in under the deadline! :-) (I really should be working or doing some chores ...)

Anyway, Dawn gave us a great color challenge this week. I love me some Amy Butler fabrics - way cute! Here's her color inspiration photo ...And here's my card ... I used the 2 Sketches 4 You #28 sketch as a jumping off point. I stamped the damask pattern in Berry Sorbet ink onto the Melon Berry card stick, which I really like as a color combo. A simple sentiment and a few pearls keeps it clean and classy. Thanks for stopping by! I have my CPS and Kristina's Color Challenge also posted today, so be sure to check them out. :-)

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Stamps: Damask Designs
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate
Card Stock: Melon Berry, Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream
Accessories: Melon Berry luxe satin; Martha Stewart adhesive pearls
Other: Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, paper trimmer + scissors

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge # 9

Dawn has challenged us again with another Raspberry Suite Color Challenge. Black and green are some of my favorite colors, but I don't often use them together. Here's the inspiration photo that Dawn provided:
I decided to make another text style vintage-y looking paper and go with an elegant theme. I started by stamping the leaf image from the Life set in New Leaf and then layered the Background Basics: Text Style stamp over the leaves in Palette Noir ink. A few layers of coordinating card stock, some distressing with the Heidi Swapp edge distresser tool and the main image was all done. I stamped the sentiment from Damask Designs on a scrap of paper and popped that up on foam tape. I really like how this turned out. I will definitely try this out in a few other color combos!
Thanks for stopping by to check out my take on this week's Color Challenge!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Vintage Cream, New Leaf, True Black
Stamps: Life, Background Basics: Text Style, Damask Designs
Ink: New Leaf, Palette Noir
Accessories: True Black satin ribbon
Other: Paper trimmer, Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, foam tape, scissors, edge distressor tool

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #7

Happy Holiday Monday! I hope you all have been enjoying the holiday weekend and have also had time to reflect on the reason behind why we get a day off from work! :-)

Time for another Raspberry Suite Color Challenge from Dawn. First of all, her inspiration photo is so fab - I love, love, love peonies and those McCoy vases are just too cool. I thought, this will be easy - pink and green! Ok, well, its taken me about an hour and some change to put this little card together! :-) Here's my card ...
I really enjoy making my own patterned paper and this one was made using Polka Dot Basics. A definite must-have set in my opinion. :-) I will be back later with a card for the PTI Blog Hop.

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss
Stamps: Polka Dot Basics, SU! Great Friend
Ink: Ripe Avocado, Raspberry Fizz
Ribbon: Raspberry Fizz luxe satin
Other: Paper trimmer, scissors, corner rounder punch, Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape

Challenge Card x 2

TGIF everybody! I do love Fridays! :-) Here's a card I made for my best friend, who recently graduated from ultrasound school. I decided to use the Clean&Simple blog's Fall to Layout #41 for the layout and Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #6 for this card. I really love how quick this went and classy it looks. :-)
Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Aqua Mist, Dark Chocolate, Stampers Select White
Stamps: Everyday Classics
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate
Ribbon: Berry Sorbet twill
Other: paper trimmer, scissors, Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, foam dots

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #3

Wow ... this week's color challenge was a challenge! Not that there were too many colors, but just that they were colors I wouldn't normally put together. But, I do like my clean and simple card that I put together ...I started by making some patterned paper with PTI's anniversary set - Everyday Classics. I stamped the floral image on Vintage Cream card stock in Melon Berry ink. I went back and added some Pure Poppy red polka dots with a dot stamp from Polka Dot Basics. It seemed a bit overwhelming, so I tapped the whole thing with my New Canvas ink pad to tone it down a bit and make the paper a bit softer looking. Nice effect. I wanted the pattern to be the star of the show, so I left it at that. I added a sentiment onto SU! Pink Pirouette paper in Melon Berry ink (again from Everyday Classics) and stuck that down on foam tape. A little Melon Berry satin ribbon and that was it! Here's a close up of the sentiment.
Hope you like my take on the challenge. Thanks for stopping by my blog! Don't forget to comment on my blog candy post!

Supplies Used (all Papertrey Ink unless noted):
Card stock: Kraft, Vintage Cream, SU! Pink Pirouette
Stamps: Everyday Classics, Polka Dot Basics
Ink: Melon Berry, Pure Poppy, New Canvas
Ribbon: Melon Berry luxe satin
Other: Scotch foam tape, Scor-Pal, paper trimmer, sticky tape

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge # 2

Hello everyone! If you are here for the Unity Blog Hop, scroll down to the previous post. :-)
Dawn gave us another color challenge - love these colors. So fab! They remind me of a quilt that I made for a friend to give as a baby gift. She had said "it is for a girl, but they don't want any pink" and I remember thinking "are you joking!? Have you seen all the pink fabrics I have!?" haha Anyway. I did succeed in making a a quilt for just the occasion. On to my card ...
I decided to make a little fabric flower with some of the leftovers from the aforementioned quilt. Cute! I will definitely be making more of them. I actually made a few extra - they are in my etsy shop if you have to have some too! :-) Here's a closer view of the flower and sentiment:
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great rest of the weekend!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Aqua Mist, Stampers Select White, Dark Chocolate
Stamps: Everyday Classics, Polka Dot Basics
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist
Ribbon: AC Moore
Button: PTI Vintage
Other: DMC Floss, Score-Pal, Scor-Tape, fabric scraps, paper trimmer, Fiskars treading water edge punch

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #1

OMG! Dawn just started a Color Challenge! Sweet! She picked a super fab quilt as inspiration for her first color challenge. Here's a link to her challenge.

I had bought some Marcella K flower stickers at Target awhile ago. Months ago. And I have been hoarding them. (Yes, I hoard craft supplies. Shocker, I know.) When I saw the color inspiration photo, I knew they would be perfect! I decided to base my card layout on this card by Betsy Veldman. And here's what I came up with ...And here's a closer view of the sentiment and flower sticker.
Thanks for checking out my creation! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:
Card stock: PTI Lemon Tart, Raspberry Fizz, Stampers Select White, Summer Sunrise
Stamps: PTI Damask Designs
Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise
DP: PTI Bitty Dots
Ribbon: PTI Summer Sunrise swiss dot satin
Flower & Rhinestones: Marcella K