Papertrey Ink - Create Along with Us

This week at Papertrey Ink the theme is to create along with us.  The challenge - to make a card using inspiration from the design team.  The inspiration for my card came from Dawn McVey.  It's a very clean & simple design, but as Dawn posted it has a lot texture.

Here is Dawn's card.

For my card I used the recently released stamp & dies from PTI called Forget Me Not.  This is the first time I have inked up these stamps and I think this is now one of my favorites.  The sentiment was also stamps and dies from PTI called Graceful Greetings II.  I think these are really elegant and will be using these a lot in the future.  I used a vertical striped embossing folder from Stampin Up, which is a little hard to pick up on camera.  Last I added a little bling and some Stickles to the center of the flowers.

Here is my take on Dawn's card.

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Art Impressions Challenge - Slide On By

Art Impressions is introducing a new line of stamps and dies that makes an interactive slider card.  So for this week's challenge the theme at the Art Impressions Blog is Slide On By.  I really love these new sets they are so cute and the design team has some really wonderful examples.  For my card I looked up different slider type cards on You Tube, since the challenge was to have a slider or some type of hidden feature.  I once again used the Art Impressions Bowling set for all the images & sentiments for my card.  By pulling the ribbon on the right hand side of the card you reveal both the right & left hidden parts of the card.

As you pull on the ribbon both tabs start to reveal themselves.

Here are the tabs fully revealed.  The bowling pins I masked off to create them stacked together.  The bowling ball was one I colored and fussy cut from the image I used on the front of the card. 

Here is a close up of the sliding parts of the card. 

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Papertrey Ink Make It Monday - Reverse Stenciling

Today's card was made for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge.  Betsy has a video showing a reverse stenciling technique.  I don't have a lot of stencils, so I ended up using the Spellbinders Impressabilities Flourish.  It's basically a metal stencil that worked just as well as a plastic stencil and I was happy with the results.  I used that as my background with the PTI You've Been Framed: Hexagon Die.  I love these You've Been Framed dies, as you probably noticed I used them a lot.  The sentiment was done using the PTI Wet Paint Cuts Dies.  The Birthday was from the PTI Wet Paint Stamp Set.  I finished it off using the PTI dies & stamps from the Rosie Posie sets.   The leaves were from the PTI Turning A New Leaf stamps & dies.  So here is my card.

 I like how this background turned out and will probably use the technique again.

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Art Impressions Challenge - Aging With Attitude

I haven't posted for a while, but I'm back with a fun card using the stamps from Art Impressions/Hampton Arts that I picked up at Michaels.  The set is called Bowling and it has a lot of fun sentiments and images.  I think these gals go perfect with this week's challenge at the AI Blog called Aging With Attitude.  

The background paper was from the Glitz paper pack called Uncharted Waters.  The sentiment & bowling pins on the front of the card also came with the set.

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Art Impressions Challenge - Creative Critters

Today's card is for the challenge over at the Art Impressions Blog - Creative Critters.  I went with a shaker card using the Art Impressions Mini Front & Back Pig & Elephant stamp & dies.  I used just the front of the elephant for my card along with the sentiment.  These are so easy to color and die cut.  The paper was from Authentique called Latest & Greatest.  I also die cut out the small hearts for the shaker part of the card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Art Impressions Challenge #183 - Creative Critters
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

  

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

With Mother's Day coming up I made a card to send to my mom.  Since I will be mailing it I didn't go crazy with layers.  I am also entering this card in this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.  First I die cut the flowers using the Wildflower Corner Die from Memory Box leaving the negative space on the dark pink card stock.  Using the same die I cut it again using silver paper and glued it into the negative space.  I used a piece of light pink card stock on the back to fill in the flower.  The sentiment was die cut using a die from Penny Black called For You.  I cut it three times and layered them for some depth. I love all the Penny Black sentiment dies because they are just so delicate looking.  I added some bling to the smaller flowers and that was it.

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Art Impressions Birthday Love Set

Today's card was made with two different challenges in mind.  The first is the challenge over at the Art Impressions Blog called show off your stamp.  The second challenge is with Simon  Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge called Let's do Polka Dots.  So I pulled out the AI set called Birthday Love Set one of their AI People stamp sets.  I colored the image with Copics and paper pieced the image with papers from Recollections called Paddywack.   As you can see all the papers used have polka dots.  Here is my card.

 

 

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