Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday 214: Stamping with Neutrals

Dawn McVey has a wonderful video showing how to make neutral colors shine in your projects for the latest Make it Monday challenge.  Check it out here.

I decided to make a rustic card for the challenge.  I stamped Papertrey Ink's Turning a New Leaf  in Memento Rich Cocoa onto rustic cream card stock.  I just love the little flecks that add such interest to this card stock!  My PTI craft ink pad needs refilled but in this case the semi-dry pad was perfect for stamping a lighter set of leaves.  I added berries from PTI's bells and boughs in PTI scarlet jewel ink.  The sentiment is from PTI's Year Round Puns stamp set also stamped in scarlet jewel ink.  The flowers are from PTI's Honey Bees stamped in PTI melon berry ink.   This is definitely an older set but I have used the various flowers from this set over and over again.  They are just the perfect size!  The card seemed a little plain so to add some "zing" I added teeny tiny bronze beads to the center of the flowers with glossy accents. 

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New Files Added and a Few Papertrey Ink Cards

My Valentine sale continues. If you get a chance please stop by my store.  Click the Ad above or here to go shopping.  I don't have many files in just yet but am working on putting many more files in before my sale is over.  If you need something but don't see it..please ask! I have added a few new files today.  Click on the previews to be taken directly to them in my store.  But before you go please check out my cards below.

Papertrey Ink's anniversary celebration continues.  Check out all the fun on Nicole's blog here.  This challenge involved making the sentiment your focal point.  I loved this card from Ally so I decided to copy it.

I really needed a masculine card in my stash so that is why I chose this color combo.  I would love it to try it with flowers and feminine colors though.  I used PTI's Everyday Classics anniversary set for the stars using tone on tone stamping and the sentiment is from PTI's Think Big Favorites #12.    I stamped a zebra patterned stamp from Oriental Trading on the strips of paper.  Sequins finish off the card.

I absolutely loved this card by Nicole.  So once again I duplicated it.

I used PTI's stamp set Rosie Posie for the background images.  The sentiment came from  PTI's Think Big Favorites #2 Some zig zag stitching finishes up the card.

I decided to try another color version of the card I showed in this post.

 

I ran out of PTI's lovely craft cardstock so I had to use some I got from Oriental Trading.  I was amazed at the difference in stamping this card versus the PTI cardstock.  I believe this OT one was more porous so the ink soaked in more muting the colors.  I used PTI's Rosie Posie and Turning a New Leaf stamp sets.  I added  berries from PTI's bells and boughs stamp set.  The sentiment came from PTI's signature series: dress form. The butterflies were from a Sizzix die I borrowed at the crop.  The doily is a 4" paper one from the cake decorating section.  Some yellow twine and rhinestone butterfly bodies finishes the card.

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Valentine Sale and PTI card

My Valentine sale continues. If you get a chance please stop by my store.  Click the Ad above or here to go shopping.  I don't have many files in just yet but am working on putting many more files in before my sale is over.  If you need something but don't see it..please ask!  I have added one new file today.  Click the preview below to be taken directly to my Valentine Set.

Did you see my favorite stamping company (Papertrey Ink) is having a big 7th anniversary celebration!  They are giving away a tons of prizes and having several contests.  If you missed all the fun check it out here.   One of the challenges is to use one of the color schemes combined with one of the provided sketches to create a card.  I loved this card by Daniel Flanders so I decided to replicate it.

This is the sketch I used:

I chose this color combo:

I bought these doilies in the cake decorating section years ago and was delighted to find they fit the top of the card perfectly!  I used the following PTI stamps:  Rosie Posie (accented with Copic markers), Turning a New Leaf and Wishes Come True.  I really wanted to use my 3-D butterflies file but I was at a crop and didn't have time to cut them so I substituted some Sizzix ones borrowed from a friend.  Some baker's twine and pearls finish off the card.


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Color Throwdown #261

I needed a quick card for a good friend who is going through a rough patch lately.  Papertrey ink had a blog hop yesterday.  The theme was wreaths so I used a wreath.  But drat I wasn't able to post yesterday so I missed the hop.  I also looked to Color Throwdown for their latest color scheme.  Just love these blues mixed withe yellow and green!

I pulled out Papertrey Ink's Guide lines two and stamped the background.  This is the perfect stamp set for color challenges.  It was fun watching the patterned paper take shape.  I definitely will be using these again.

Supplies:
Papertrey Ink Stamps:  Guide lines two, Turning a New Leaf, Honey Bees, Mehndi Medallion Mini,  Sentiment: Fiskars??
Momento Ink:  Bahama Blue, Cantaloupe, Danube Blue, Bamboo Leaves
Ribbon and small pearls

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