Papertrey Ink Build a Bouquet Challenge

This Papertrey Ink challenge had us build a bouquet of flower using multiple stamp sets.  For my bouquet I used Peaceful Garden, Hello There and Embellished Elegance all from Papertrey Ink.  My sentiment is a double layer of the Wet Paint hello die.

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Papertrey Ink Bagged and Tagged Challenge

For this challenge I used the "baby wipes" stamping technique for my butterfly so I could have a multicolor image.  The butterfly is from the Papertrey Ink Life is Beautiful stamp set.  The sentiment is from the Butterfly Dreams stamp set and the tag is the Basic Bookmark  3  Die.

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February Inspiration Challenge

This card was inspired by the Papertrey Ink February Inspiration Challenge.  I used my Ombre Builders stamp set, Web Paint III cut die and my Small Sketched dies.

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Maile Belles Inspiration Challenge

I do love the stamp designs by Maile Belles and her cards are wonderful.  I chose for my inspiration a card that it appears a number of use liked.  I stamped my butterfly using the "baby wipes" technique so I could blend some colors together and have a little textured look.  All stamps are from the  Papertrey Ink "Life is Beautiful" stamp set.

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Layering Cover Plates

Papertrey Ink's Make-It-Monday challenge is to layer cover plates to make a shadow effect.  I used my Harlequin Die to create the background for my card for the challenge. I also used my Boutique Borders Love stamps and my Happy Hearts stamp set.

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Creative Corners - Make It Monday #196

This weeks Make-It-Monday challenge was to create interesting corners on a card rather than applying a design to the center.  It seemed like a great opportunity to use the cute flower stamps that were the Papertrey Ink December Freebie.  For my background I cut out my Harlequin Die cover plate and then used it as a stencil.

The color inspiration palette was so pretty this month I also tried out a birthday card in the spirit of this theme.

My card was based on this great sketch below.

And here is the finished card.

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Make-it-Monday: a la Carte

Since this week's Make-it-Monday at Papertrey Ink was a la Carte, I had a difficult time choosing what to create.  I have missed a number of the challenges and was intrigued by more than one of the videos.  I finally decided on #177 Using Cover Plate Negatives.  I had a great time with this because one card led to another and then another.  Here is my card using the cover plate negative technique.

I used my Stripes Diagonal Die and cut out it out of white cardstock; the negative shapes are on this first card.  That looked fine, but I then thought about using the positive cover plate that remained for another card.  I decided to try using it as a stencil.  Here is the result.

I used post-it tape to hold the cover plate positive shape to a piece of white cardstock and was able to blend some pink and orange ink to get a pretty background for this card.  When I finished this card I still had my positive shape from the cover plate, it was just blended with color.  Well I though I could use this too, so one more card came out of this project.

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