Papertrey Ink Create Along With Us: December 2016

It's time once again for the Create Along With Us Challenge at Papertrey Ink.  The designer's have been super busy creating many wonderful projects during release week.  So the challenge involves picking one of their projects and using the supplies we have on hand to mimic it.

I chose a vibrant, gorgeous floral card by Kay Miller.

You can see more details about this wonderful card on Kay Miller's blog by clicking HERE.   I just love the colors Kay used so I was excited to get creating!  Here is what I came up with:

I chose to use Papertrey Ink's Floral Sketches as my floral focal point.   I brushed on tropical teal ink behind the bouquet just as Kay did.  To make things a little easier I arranged my bouquet where I wanted it on my card then I place Glad's Press and Seal over the bouquet and flipped it over.  The bouquet sticks to the Press and Seal making it easy to figure out where to put the inked  backdrop.  I have attached a photo below to show you better what I have described.   Laurie Willison has a wonderful video that shows Press and Seal in action.  Click HERE to see the video. 

I wanted to add some shading to my solid stamped images.  So I took out my Prismacolor Pencils.  I simply outlined the edge of the flower with a pencil a shade darker than the ink I used.  I then blended out the pencil lines making them softer with Gamsol.  It is amazing what a difference that little bit of pencil makes.  See for yourself in the photo below:

I liked Kim's flower centers too so I mimicked them by drawing in the centers with a white gel pen.

I found this design to be quite versatile so I made 4 cards some with a few other sentiments: 

I didn't think sequins would be appropriate if giving this card to someone who is having a hard time in life. So I drew in little 3 black dot clusters where the sequins are in the other cards.

Supplies listed and linked below:

PTI Floral Sketches Stamp Set	PTI Everyday Classics (2009 Anniversary Edition	PTI Wishes Come True Stamp Set

PTI Keep It Simple: Encouragement	PTI Amethyst Allure Dye Ink	PTI Raspberry Fizz Dye Ink

PTI Bright Buttercup Dye Ink	PTI Simply Chartreuse Dye Ink	PTI Tropical Teal Dye Ink

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Create Along With Us: September 2016 and Tutorial: Making smaller sequins

This is the week new products are released over at Papertrey Ink so instead of having a technique video challenge they give the designers a break and we simply choose one of their wonderful cards created during the release to mimic.

I immediately fell in love with Amy Sheffer's card below:

I love how she used the tag, holiday clusters and subtle ink blending on her card.  So I decided to make my own fall version.  See more info on her fabulous card on her blog by clicking here.

I combined several different stamp sets to make my floral arrangement.  The leaves were actually die cut from gold poster board a friend of mine generously sent me.  I don't often use gold..I don't know why because when I do guild it up I love the results!  I added some colored pencil shading blended out with gamsol to add depth to my stamped images.  I heat embossed the scripture sentiment with gold embossing powder.  I just love this sentiment..perfect for many situations!  I did some subtle ink blending in the background using a soft make up brush.  Ink spatters in watered down canyon clay add to the ink blending.  Look...look...I actually used an eyelet!  I have a ton of these lying around and was thrilled to use one.  Some gold and white fibers embellished the tag.  This is a large sized card 5" x 7" and I don't do well with white space so I hope it looks okay!  My elements just were too large to fit on a smaller card.

See those small gold sequins?  Well I made them so to speak...let me show you.

I used my Crop a Dile Big Bite to take a "bite" out of the large sequins to make them smaller.
I took a few photos to hopefully show you what I'm talking about.

Position your sequin on top of the specific sized hole you want your sequin to be centering it as best you can and press down the handle.  Viola!  You end up with a smaller sequin and a donut looking thing which would be good to save for shaker cards.   I do apologize I had the sequin on top of the smaller hole in the photo but I actually used the hole to the far left for my example sequins.  I was given a whole bunch of sequins from a lady who did sequined ornaments but I didn't have a variety of sizes so I was thrilled to find I can now make my own!

Supplies listed and linked below:

PTI Everyday Classics (2009 Anniversary Edition	PTI Floral Sketches Stamp Set	PTI Color Pop Autumn Mini Kit

PTI Canyon Clay Dye Ink	PTI Americana Dye Ink	Momento Pistachio Dye Ink

PTI New Every Morning Stamp Set	Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink	Inky Antics Gamsol Coloring Kit

PTI Fancy Foliage Details Dies
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