Serene Papertrey Ink Beach Scene Any Occasion Card

Good morning all! If you’re somewhere that’s cold you could use a vacation and if you can’t actually get away, I have a card you’ll want to stare at and imagine yourself there as you crank up the heat.

I had a goal this year of doing more of the Papertrey Ink challenges and finally got my act together to join the Laurie’s Fabulous Favorites Challenge today. She asked that we use one of our favorite Papertrey Ink sets. Tough decision as there are so many! However, living in Florida, I really love the Text and Texture: Ocean set paired with the Fence Line: Summer set for making realistic beach scenes like this one:

I have tried to paint the ocean myself, but just can’t capture it, so I love stamps that help me, like this one does!  This scene reminds me of beaches on both coasts of Florida! The Brilliance inks give a realistic twinkle to the sand and a metallic shine to the ‘rusty’ fence wire.

Supplies used:

• Papertrey Ink Text and Texture: Ocean and Fence Line: Summer stamp sets
• Spellbinders Labels 25 and Majestic Labels 25 dies
• Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores cardstock
• Recollections cream cardstock 110#
• Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores dye ink
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress ink: Antique Linen, Old Paper, Tumbled Glass
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink: Vintage Photo
• Tsukineko Brilliance pigment ink: Lightening Black & Pearlescent Beige
• Tsukineko Memento dye inks: Desert Sand, Tuxedo Black
• Prima Planner Glue Pen
• Simply Defined permanenet adhesive runner

I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and perhaps it transported you briefly to a peaceful warm spot! See you soon!

~D.Ann

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Papertrey Ink Stripes Challenge – Sending Sunshine Card

Hello again!

I’m back tonight with my final card for Papertrey Ink’s 11th Anniversary. This time it’s for their Stripes Challenge.

I cut the hexagon plate in 3 colors and filled it back in with stripes of each color. Then I added my sentiment, but it got lost in the stripes. lol! So I made a backing for the sentiment that covered up a lot of the stripes, but you can still see them almost spreading out like mottled sun rays from the sentiment. Not too shabby a save!

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink dies: Hexagon Cover Plate & Big Basics – Sunshine
• Papertrey Ink Cardstock: Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest & Canyon Clay
• Ken Oliver Stick-It adhesive
• SMS “Stay Put’ liquid adhesive

If you want more information on this Stripes Challenge, click HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. I’m hoping to finish up my entries for the winter Olympics and post them… stay tuned! : )

~D.Ann

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Papertrey Ink Color Challenge – Hello Tulips Card

Good evening and welcome!

Papertrey Ink’s 11th Anniversary Party continues and this time they have a Color Challenge. I chose this color scheme:

Since I just picked up some tulips today at the grocery store for a buck, I had tulips on my mind. This is the card I made:

Love those tulips! I also cut down the quatrefoil background to make that interestingly patterned fence. The background is stencil blended ink, I just taped off the borders.

To jazz up the sentiment and the butterfly, they each got a coat of Wink of Stella.

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink Tulip Time stamps and dies; Quatrefoil Cover Plate, Swoosh die
• Papertrey Ink dye inks: Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz & Aqua Mist
• Ken Oliver Crafts Color Burst Ink: Chartreuse
• Tsukineko Memento Dye Ink: Pear Tart
• Kuretake Zig Wink of Stella – clear
• Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst cardstock
• Core’dinations white cardstock
• Scrapbook adhesives by 3L foam adhesive squares & tape runner
• SMS ‘Stay Put’ glue

If you want to join the fun and see what prizes are available at the Color Challenge, click HERE for more info.

I’m glad you could stop by today. Please feel free to leave a comment – I’m always encouraged when I read them!

~D.Ann

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pps: Some more orchids have started blooming!

Papertrey Ink Dies Only Love You Card & Color Burst Ink Blending

Good afternoon, everyone and welcome!

Today I’m making another card for Papertrey Ink’s 11th Anniversary – this time for their Use Only Dies – No Stamps! Challenge. Since I just received a gift of the new Ken Oliver Color Burst ink pads (THANK YOU, Sweetie!), I couldn’t wait to try some more color blending with the Clarity Stencil brushes for some great spring backgrounds:

The colors are just gorgeous! It took me less than 40 minutes to do all 4 backgrounds, so about 10 minutes each. Some day I’ll do them with a blending tool and see how long it takes to compare. I’m slow and had to take some breaks for arthritis & FM pain, so it will probably take you less time.  You can see the stencil brushes lost a few bristles. I’m hoping it was just because it was the first time they were being used and not because I got them on clearance!

I wasn’t worried about getting perfect blends as I plan to use cover plates for some and spritz the others, so imperfections won’t be noticed. Yes, these dye-pigment combination inks react to water….

The top two were spritzed with a fine mist and dome larger drops .. I love the look!

Now I wish I’d’ve grabbed the spritzer with Perfect Pearls in it for a shiny finish! Next time!!

So I chose one of the un-spritzed backgrounds and used it for this sweet anniversary or friendship card. Part of my haul from the current amazing Hobby Lobby clearance sale were these lovely pearls by Prima. I love using them for flight trails, as it’s pretty easy just to cut the parts you need to make it go any way you want! Unfortunately, they were too light a pink — easily fixed by using a Copic marker. Note… unlike coloring a single faux pearl, these have a line of adhesive between each one to keep the shape, and the Copics will color that a little, too, if you happen to have an unsteady hand like mine. It is barely noticeable tho.

The white butterfly print on the vellum didn’t stand out enough for my liking, so I fussy cut another one and colored the back side with a Copic marker. I may have gone a little overboard on the butterfly trails, but I kept seeing places that looked like they needed something more. lol!

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink dies: Quatrefoil Cover Plate; Enclosed Heart; Big Basics Thinking of You (just the ‘You’)
• Ken Oliver Color Burst Water Reactive Inks: Chartreuse, Fuchsia, Lime Green, Orchid, and Turquoise
• Core’dinations white cardstock
• Recollections Ballerina 110# cardstock
• The Paper Company Translucents vellum – Butterfly
• Prima Say it in Pearls SIIP Swirls and Fimo Lt Pink
• Copic marker: RV17
• Tombow Xtreme adhesive
• SMS ‘Stay Put’ glue

If you want to join the fun and see what prizes are available at the Use Only Dies Challenge, click HERE for more info.

I’m also playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Work-it-Wednesday Challenge January 2018: Love For more information click HERE.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and for leaving an encouraging comment! Until next time…

~D.Ann

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Papertrey Ink Transformation Tuesday Challenge – Heartfelt Gratitude Card

Hello and welcome!

First, another disclaimer. I’ve done it again and I blame the migraines for both mix-ups. I started out making this for the Transformation Tuesday Challenge, but it ended yesterday. Fortunately, this time I found out BEFORE posting (the last one I had to change after posting) and the Retirement List Set Challenge is still going on and this card fits that one, too. I can’t wait until I can think straight again!!

Papertrey Ink is celebrating their 11th Anniversary with a fun series of challenges. Their Transformation Tuesday Challenge challenged us to turn a previous card into something new, perhaps going from simple to spectacular. I had a card on hand that I never sent out because I wasn’t happy with it. I made it back in March of 2015, just before I started blog. It was one of my first attempts at ink smooshing and I didn’t like how it turned out: the unevenness of the color, some blurry embossing and the sentiment was a little crooked.

So I decided to cut out the image and sentiment, add some more color, some contrasting edges a bunch of faux pearls for interest and pop up the sentiment.

Whaddya think?

Here’s the inside:

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink Spiral Bouquet & Enclsed Heart stamp sets
• Papertrey Ink Enclosed Heart die
• Papertrey Ink Dye Inks: Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Terracotta Tile
• Tsukineko Versamark ink & Memento dye ink: Tuxedo Black
• Recollections Ebony Signature Detail Embossing Powder
• Uniball Vision Micro pen
• Unknown watercolor paper
• Core’dinations cardstock – black
• My minds eye vintage card pack
• Recollections faux pearls
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares
• Tombow Xtreme adhesive

If you want to join the fun, check out this post for more information on the Retirement List Set Challenge and see what prize you might win!

I’m glad you could stop by today and hope you’ll leave a comment as I always enjoy the encouragement!

~D.Ann

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Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary Floral Challenge – Hello Card

Hello my patient peeps! These constant headaches are still cramping my style, but at least I was able to make a card again. Yay!

It’s Papertrey Ink’s 11th Anniversary (congrats!!)  and their Day 1 Challenge was to use one of their designer’s sketches.

Edited to add… hahaha… the joke is on me… blame it on 10 weeks of daily migraines, but the 11th Anniversay Sketch challenge already closed. No matter, the Day 4 Floral Challenge is open and this fits. Hooray!

 

I chose Dawn McVey’s sketch and decided to use her take on it as inspiration, too.

This was my first time using stencil brushes and I really LOVE ’em! SO much easier than using a blending tool!! When my head gets better, I’ll tell you all about them.

After coloring and fussy cutting the flowers and leaves, I cut into them so I could curl up the edges more easily and then popped them up with Scotch adhesive dots. The only ‘extra pieces I cut out and added where the two center petals on each flower to bring them out further than the Flower Soft stamens.

I also used Nuvo Crystal Drops on top of my die cut ‘hello’ to give it a shiny, puffy-sticker look. Note to self: next tim,e do this on a craft sheet first so if your tremor takes it out of the lines, you can cut it off!

I also stamped a couple of the smaller flowers on the inside.

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink In Bloom Stamp set, Swoosh dies, Quatrefoil cover plate die cut (for stencil, with an Spellbinders Grand Oval die cut overlay)
• Tsukineko Memento dye inks: Tuxedo Black, New Sprout, Rhubarb Stalk
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Spiced Marmalade
• Copic Markers: G99; R22,24,29; Y 13,15; YG61;63
• Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss Ebony Black
• Core’dinations cardstock: White & Black & Parisian Nights card
• Scotch adhesive runner and adhesive dots (medium)
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue

I’m playing along with the following challenges – click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun:

• Papertrey Ink Anniversary Floral Challenge
• Cropstop February Challenge – Linky Party #37 – Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinatons,  Ranger, Scotch, Tsukineko)

There are many more challenges in PTI’s 11th Anniversary celebration. We’ll see in how many my head allows me to participate. You may want to check out their blog for more info as there are great prizes up for grabs!

Thank you for stopping by today… I always enjoy reading your sweet comments!

~D.Ann

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Stamp-a-Faire 2017 – Metallic Embossed Friendship Card

Hello and welcome back! This is my final project for Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire 2017 event… Yana showed another faux iron technique using metallic embossed die cuts HERE. Here’s my ‘metal’ piece:

and the card:

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink SAF 2014 Regency die
• Papertrey Ink We Go Together stamp set
• Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores cardstock and gingham cardstock
• Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores dye ink
• Papertrey Ink Hawaiian shores ribbon: Top Notch Twill & Extra Fine Polka Dot Satin
• Tsukineko Versamark ink
• Hampton Arts Metallic Silver embossing powder
• JoAnn Craft Essentials clear embossing powder
• Queen & Co Toppings: Posies (Aren’t they just too cute?!!)
• Tombow Xtreme adhesive
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue

I’m joining in the following challenges, click on any one to find out how you can join the fun:

• Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire 2017: Metallic Embossed Die-Cut
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by today! I’ll look forward to seeing you again soon!

~D.Ann

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Stamp-a-Faire 2017 – Faux Iron Thanks Card

The next cool technique from Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire event is turning paper into a cool faux rusted iron embellishment. Betsy Veldman has a great tutorial for this HERE. Here’s how my project turned out:

Hard to believe that’s paper, right?! It could easily be an aged metal piece, don’t’cha think?!

But, no – it started out as a lowly piece of white cardstock with a bit of texture paste!

I lined the back of the inside to give more writing space as I don’t want to write too far out to the edge that shows through to the front…

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink Swoosh stamp and die
• Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles dies
• Core’dinations cardstock: white & black
• Papertrey Ink cardstock: Canyon Clay
• Art-C white molding paste
  • Side note: my molding paste had hardened, but adding water made it liquid again, so you might want to try that before tossing any!
• Papertrey Ink dye inks: Terracotta Tile & Ocean Tides
• Lawn Fawn dye ink: Walnut
• Ranger Perfect Medium
• Ranger Perfect Pearls: Heirloom Gold, Pewter, Green Patina
• Tsukineko Versamark Ink
• Hampton Arts Metallic Copper embossing powder
• Simply Defined ‘Stay Put’ liquid adhesive
• Misc. Twine

I’m joining in the following challenges, click on any one to find out how you can join the fun:

• Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire 2017: Faux iron
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
• Cropstop August Challenge Linky Party #31 – Core’dinations, Ranger, Spellbinders, Tsukineko

I’m glad you stopped by! I’ll be right back with one final card from this set.

~D.Ann

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Stamp-a-Faire 2017 – Faux Embossed Leather – Hugs Card

Ok, so faux leather is cool (see previous post), but faux embossed leather is even better, right?!! You can find the instructions for this on Nichole Heady’s post on Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire event. Here’s how mine turned out:

I like the inside sentiment:

A close-up of the ’embossing’ which is actually a couple of layers of die cuts covered with peach tissue paper and then inked:

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink Big Hugs & Garden Gild dies
• Papertrey Ink Canyon Clay Cardstock
• Core’dinations cardstock: kraft, light brown & chocolate
• Misc. peach tissue paper
• Tsukineko Memento dye ink – Rich Cocoa
• Tsukineko Brilliance ink: Coffee Bean
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs & Walnut Stain
• Papertrey Ink Dye Ink – Canyon Clay
• Staples School Glue

I’m joining in the following challenges, click on any one to find out how you can join the fun:

• Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire 2017: Faux embossed leather
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I’ll be back soon with another cool technique!

~D.Ann

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Stamp-a-Faire 2017 – Faux Leather Bookmarks

Hello dear peeps! Hard to believe a month has slipped by since I was last able to post. I do have another big project I’ve done, but it will be posted later. For now, Papertrey Ink‘s annual Stamp-a-Faire event is going on and, although I couldn’t participate in every challenge this year, I did pick a couple I found particularly interesting. Since it is Papertrey Ink’s 10th Anniversary, their theme this year focused on the traditional gifts of the first 10 wedding anniversaries… adapted for paper crafting. My first project is from the 3rd anniversary tradition: Leather. I made this pair of faux leather bookmarks for a studious couple – who celebrated their 3rd anniversary 50 years ago:

Hard to believe they’re made out of paper! If you’ve never tried this technique, I encourage you to try it. It’s easy and even feels like leather! Here’s the back:

Ashley gives a terrific tutorial HERE, so I won’t repeat how to do this easy technique that gives such terrific results. I will give one reminder that I obviously needed:

Although it looks and feels like leather, remember this is PAPER and isn’t as strong as leather!

I pulled my tassels a little too tight on the feminine version and ripped right through the paper, so I had to re-die cut the end, which just made it a bit shorter… which is kind of cute since the wife IS shorter than the husband! I also covered hers with a thin layer of school glue hoping to seal it and make it a little bit stiffer. It left a shiny look that I didn’t want for the masculine bookmark and didn’t make it all that much stiffer anyway, so I didn’t do it on the other one.

Materials used:

• Papertrey Ink We Go Together stamps
• Papertrey Ink Swoosh & Simply Jane dies
• Avery Elle bookmark die
• Core’dinations cardstock kraft & black
• Glycerine
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Gathered Twigs
• Tsukineko Memento dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Staples school glue
• Misc. ribbon

I’m joining in the following challenges, click on any one to find out how you can join the fun:

• Papertrey Ink’s Stamp-a-Faire 2017: Faux leather
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: School or Study Related
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Brace yourselves, I’ve been fiddling around on these projects since last Friday and will have several posts in a row again. See you again in a few minutes!

~D.Ann

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