PTI July 2012 Blog Hop

25th of the month - it is time for PTI Blog Hop. I really liked the photo inspiration this time as well as the color combination. So, I had to play along. I created this card using all the colors mentioned in the inspiration photo and used Rosie Posie stamp set.

I stamped the roses in Berry Sorbet and Summer Sunrise inks, die cut them and popped them up with some foam dots. I used the Melon berry patterned paper along with some Harvest gold border to add some more interest to the card. I then added them to a white panel and mounted it on a Berry Sorbet Card base.

I had not used PTI's berry sorbet card stock in a while and was happy to use it. It is such a soft color and it was such a pleasure to see this card come together. The sentiment and leaves were stamped in Simply Chartreuse Ink. The sentiment is from PTI's Simple Little Things Anniversary Set

Here is the inspiration photo. You can head over to Nichole Heady's Blog and you can see the full list of participants.

Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Rosie Posie stamp set, PTI Simple Little Things
Ink - PTI Summer Sunrise, Berry Sorbet, Simply Chartreuse
Paper - PTI Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold and White Cardstock, PTI Melon Berry Patterned Paper
Other - PTI Small Scalloped Border Die, PTI Rosie Posie Die, Paper Studio Pearl Embellishment

Clean and Simple Birthday Card

I am back to share this CAS card that I did for Cas-ual Friday Challenge CFC#51 - CAS Birthday Card.

I used some Washi tape on the card. The Cycle image is from Hero Arts + Sizzix stamp set. I stamped it in SU Rich Razzleberry ink and die cut it. The sentiment is from PTI Simple Things (Anniversary set). I love how this card turned out.

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Hero Arts + Sizzix, PTI Simple Things (Anniversary Set)
Ink - SU Rich Razzleberry, Memento Black
Paper - PTI White Cardstock
Other - Queen and Co Washi Tape, Chicken Wire Washi tape from Freckled Fawn

Got Buttons?

Reveals have started over at PTI...OMG!! So much cool stuff...More details on Nichole's blog. The challenge for today was to create a project/card that utilizes buttons in a creative way. I could not think of out of the box for this one, kept it simple.

I used the PTI Eyelet Lace border die and cut it out with some Simple Chartreuse CS. Then I added some buttons in the eyelet holes :) The button on the flower was kind of unique shaped almost like a brad.
I created the sentiment panel for Thinking of you inspired by the Make it Monday Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Vintage Picnic Sentiments, PTI Mailbox Greetings, PTI Year of Flowers: Lily of the Valley, PTI Anniversary Stamp set Simple Things.
Paper - PTI Simple Chartreuse, Sweet Blush, Hawaiian Shores and Vintage Cream CS, PTI Pretty Pastels Patterned paper
Ink - Memento Black, Memento Bamboo Leaves, Ranger DI- Victorian Velvet, PTI Inking Cube - Chai
Other - PTI Beautiful Blooms ii #3 Die, PTI Eyelet Lace Border Die, PTI Vintage Buttons

Triple Challenge Card

I wanted to share the card that I did for three challenges today. I used this digital freebie image from Inger Harding. I love her images.

Here is my card,



The three challenges were,

1) Copic Creations Challenge - Coloring Black with Copics. I used C5, C7 and T6 for coloring the hair black in this image. As per the tutorial you can see on Copic Creations site, the colors that Suzanne Dean uses are C5, C7 and C9. I did not have C9, so I had to substitute.

2) Copic Color Challenge - Challenge #36 was to use the Colors V17(Amethyst), YR68(Orange), G99(Olive).



3) Just Us Girls Challenge - To add a 3D flower to your project. They have a fantastic tutorial also. But I did not have the Blossoms nestabilities. So, instead I used the five petal flower punch from Paper Wishes and created my own 3d flower. Basically I punched out three flowers, edged with ink, then folded two of them and then curled the third one using a tooth pick and then put them all together with a jewelled brad.

Supplies:
Stamp - Digital Freebie Image from Inger Harding, PTI Simple Things Anniversary Set
Paper - 120 LB Pure Luxury CS from Gina K, SU DP, SU Orange CS, PTI Rustic Cream CS, Bazzill Yellow CS
Ink - Memento Black, Copics, PTI Avocado Ink, Brown chalk ink
Other - Jewelled Brad, Paper Wishes 5 Petal Flower Punch, SU Word Window Punch

2 Sketches 4 You - Kazan's Sketch #37

Justrite stamps are the sponsors for the latest Kazan's Sketch #37 over at 2Sketches4You.

Here is my card for it. I used the Justrite Stamp that I have and the sentiment is from PTI. I colored the flowers with Sakura Glaze pen which kind of gave it a embossed look.

Here is my Card,



Here is the sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Justrite Stamps, PTI Simple Things Anniversary Set
Paper - PTI Soft Sand, Pure Poppy and White CS, SU DP
Ink - Memento Black, PTI Pure Poppy, Copics
Other - Sakura Glaze Pen, Marvy giga punches, SU Word Window Punch, PTI Ribbon

Clean and Simple Designs

I was searching SCS Gallery for some clean and simple designs and found this blog titled "Clean and Simple Stamping". Awesome blog and suiting my design mojo as of now. So, I have started working on some of their sketches. They are very simple and elegant and have a WOW factor. Here are some cards I have done using their sketches and CASE'ing their sample cards too (although my stamp sets are different). Sorry this might be a long post, but wanted to post all my CAS cards at one shot.

Fall-To-Layout 1

This layout is pretty inspiring and can be used in so many ways, in fact I have a future idea to use this for my Christmas Challenge card as well.



Supplies:
PTI Simple Things Anniversary Set, PTI Summer Sunrise CS, PTI Vintage CS, PTI Kraft CS, PTI Summer Sunrise Satin Ribbon, SU 1-1/4 and 1-3/8 Square Punches.

Fall-To-Layout 15

I know I jumped quite a bit, but this layout just beckoned me. I still intend to do other sketches. I am totally into CAS layouts now a days.



Supplies:
PTI Garden Life Stamp Set, PTI Polka Dot Basics, PTI Plum Pudding CS, PTI Lavender Moon CS, PTI Plum Pudding and Lavender Moon Palette Ink, PTI Lavender Moon Ribbon

Fall-To-Layout 22



Supplies:
SU Bitty Basics Hostess Level 1 Stamp Set, SU Small Oval Punch, SU 1" Punch, SU Haiku PP, Ink - SU Ruby Red, SU Wild Wasabi and SU Purely Pom.


Fall-To-Layout 23

I ended up doing two cards for this layout. Here they are,




Supplies:
PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection, Generic PP, Silver Embossing Powder, PTI Vintage Cream Twill Ribbon



Supplies:
SU Bitty Basics Hostess Level 1 Stamp Set, Unknown Sentiment Stamp, PTI Haiku PP, Generic Ribbon.

I hope that you will try these layouts also and have some fun with it.

Cheers
Banu

New Year, New Challenges

Happy New Year. It is time for resolutions. My resolutions this year are to blog more often, use my existing supplies first before buying new and also to eat healthy and lose weight. A tall order....but well...we have to think big.

I wanted to share two Holiday cards that I did for a PTI swap on SplitCoastStampers.com. I do not own any holiday stamps from PTI, so I challenged myself to use non holiday stamps from PTI to create holiday cards. Here are the two results.

Anniversary Set Tree

I used this stamp from the Anniversary Set - Simple things and kind of created a tree effect. Used the snowflakes cuttlebug embossing folder as background. Some stickles and ribbon completed my embellishment. I used the Sentiment from Mailbox greetings.



Supplies
PTI Simple Things Stamp, PTI Mailbox Greetings Stamp, PTI Cardstock, Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder, SU Word window punch, Generic White Ribbon, Stickles

Shapes by Design - Ornaments

I used this versatile set to create ornaments for this holiday card. I popped them up with some dimensional and added stickles.



Supplies
PTI Shapes by Design Stamp, PTI Simple Things, Oval Nestabilities, Generic Ribbon, Stickles

Happy Stamping :)