PTI Oldies but Goodies....Part 2

I'm back with a few more cards for the PTI Anniversary festivities as well as some other challenges.

My first card uses Year of Flowers Collection, released in 2011, and I was inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #275.

I am also entering this card at the PTI 2011 challenge and Simon Says Wednesday Fantastic Florals.

I was inspired by the PTI 2012 Anniversary Challenge and Keeway's beautiful card for my next card. I used Copic markers in a rainbow of colors.

I am also entering this card at Retro Rubber #56: They say it's your birthday.

Last up is my card for the PTI 2013 Anniversary Challenge, where I CASED a card by Nicole that I have always loved.

I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #229: Clean and Simple.

I am getting closer and closer to present day.  I'll have to see what tomorrow brings to see if I can complete all of the challenges.

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Time Out #44...Reminder...Time Spent Living Life...

Hello! There is still time to play along with our current challenge at Time Out.  This week, our challenge is a CASE challenge, and we have this gorgeous card from Karen of Snippets to inspire us. 

Karen's Inspiration Card

Last week, I took inspiration from Karen's design and technique.  This week, I drew my inspiration from the partial clock on Karen's card.  I used PTI Hands of time and a masculine color scheme.

I hope that you will take some Time Out to play along with us this week.  Please see the Time Out challenge blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team and our Guest Designer Jen.

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I'm Still Crafting

I've had lots of crafty time lately--yesterday because my girls got a ride home from school and today because I was keeping my oldest company while she did her homework and studied for her ACT.  I had to take a pause to clean up my mess and post what I have done so far.

First up is a little number for CAS-ual Fridays CFC129:  Shades of Gray.  I used Soft Stone and Smokey Shadow, and am also linking to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge where the theme is Tick Tock.  My dies are from PTI Hands of Time, and the sentiment is from 2012 Birthday Tags--that ink is Heidi Swapp Teal, on sale for 40% off at Michaels.  It's a really bright peacock blue and matches the enamel dots I had in my stash.  I added the blue and red to brighten the card up a little.

My next card is for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch CTS#67 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Tag It.   I got this Jane's Doodles set, Home Sweet Home, a while ago, but had not had a chance to ink it up yet.  I decided to paper piece everything with some SU paper, and used the Lil Inkers Love Tags for my focal point.  I impressed my card front with the Lil Inker Circles and Diamonds Cover Plate because I thought it looked like a homey quilt.

My next card is for ColourQ cQc #231, Little Tangles #32: Inside of the Card and Stamplorations Sketch #7.    It is my second time playing along with this sketch, but this time, I actually have Stamplorations stamps--Retro Mod Shapes.  My sentiment and card inside are from Neat & Tangled Party Dots.

I have two cards for this week's Make it Monday #154:  Color and Texture Tips for One Layer Cards.  My first card uses Stitches and Swirls and the Solid additions.  I embossed my Stitches stamps in gold, and then stamped over using the solids in Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice and Pure Poppy.  My sentiment was stamped in black, but apparently wasn't dry when I was embossing, because the gold stuck, and so my sentiment is gold too.

My next card was really quick to make.  I wanted to pull out some stamps I hadn't used in a while, and I used the Gallon/Quart/Pint rule for color, and stamped everything on top of something else.   Another sympathy card for my stash.

I think my favorite of the day are these next two.  I forgot that I had bought the Text Block Birthday die until I saw this card that Tracey posted this morning for Seize the Birthday.  I cased this card by Laura Bassen from the PTI release last month.  Laura used Copics, but I wanted to use water colors.  I took a 3X4 piece of cardstock and scribbled a few different shades of every color of the rainbow in stripes down the paper using Inktense Water Color Pencils.  Then, I wiped my water brush across the stripes.  After that dried, I ran it through my Xyron Machine (thanks, Kim) and then cut it with the Text Block Birthday Die.  I also cut a plain white piece of card stock after running it through the Xyron.  I adhered the white die cut to a white card base, and filled in the spaces from the colored sheet.  I'm entering these into the new challenge at Virginia's View #1 as well as Seize the Birthday.

I was left with a rainbow colored die cut, so I adhered that to another white card base, and had a super quick second card.

Here they are together.  I can't decide which I like best--but I do think that they are my favorite thing out of all I made today.

As you can imagine, I have another giant mess to clean up.  

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PTI 7th Anniversary--Birthday Challenge

Today's PTI 7th Anniversary challenge is all about birthdays.  I have three cards today, and they also use the technique from this week's Make it Monday #151 and a sketch and color scheme from the Recipe Challenge.

I was inspired by Jacquie's colorful birthday banner for this card.

I liked this card so much, I made another, using a different color scheme.

OK, I got my daughter to take a picture of me with one of the cards.  I'm with Sherlock, who has turned into an awesome crafting buddy.

I had plans to make more today, but I ran out of time.  

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Pattern Play Day 3

Hi there.  I have 4 cards using some of the the tricks I learned from Day 3.  This day was dedicated to tricks for working with hard to use or bold paper.  So far, I think this has been the best day, in terms of helping me better use my patterned papers.  Those big, bold and colorful papers that initially catch my eye and make me want to buy a paper pad, are often the ones that just it in the box, because I have no idea what to do with them (except pet and admire).

The first lesson was to cut the paper into strips and then reassemble them.  Keep it simple, add a sentiment, and you are done.  What a timely lesson.  When I was going through my Basic Grey What's Up pad, I came across a piece that was so pretty, but the entire sheet was a scene.  I loved the scene and the colors, but had no idea how to use them.  Lucky for me, my Bountiful Banners arrived just as I was making this card.

I tried this idea on some paper from Bo Bunny Timepiece Collection.  I bought this pad several years ago because I thought it would be great for masculine cards, but had never been able to figure out how to best use those papers.  I stamped my sentiment from Hands of Time onto one of the tone on tone papers in that pad, and then matted it with a tiny border in white, a trick from Day 1.  I distressed the edges, and I think it helps those papers work better together, another tip from Day 1.

My last two cards use another techinque from this lesson, of just using small amounts of the bold pattern.  This first card uses 5 different patterns from Echo Park Hello Summer.  I never would have done this before yesterday, but I think they all work so well together.  Three of the patterns are tone on tone, so they work kind of like solids, the bold is in the front, and the fifth paper is just a striped strip, which ties all the colors together. 

My last card uses papers from Echo Park So Happy Together, and is inspired by this card from Ashley during the PTI release.   I used 4 patterns from this pad, but three of them are practically solids.

That's it for me today.  I have some more ideas about things I can do with more of my bold and hard to use papers, and I have a new appreciation for all those tone on tone, solids, and subtle prints that are included in the 6X6 pads.  This class is helping me see how to best use all of the types of papers included in those pads.  Perhaps I should get some more of them now....

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