Impression Obsession Birthday Challenge

I have been loving my IO dies lately, and channeling Kittie Caracciolo for many of the cards I have done in the past couple of weeks. Impression Obsession has a Birthday challenge going on, and I decided to enter.  Thing is, I only have a few dies, and fewer stamps- ha!  Here's what I was limited to:

The frame die is 242-YY, and the stamp is F2178 Cupcakes.  Here's how it came out: 

 

All glittery, yay!  The cupcakes are colored with Spica and Zig pens.  The cake stand is painted with Twinkling H2O's white, and the edge of the stand I did with Perfect Pearls.  The red frame is a piece of Memory Box paper.

Just to show the glitter!  Looks really good next to the glitter paper frame.

Thanks for looking!



 

Papertrey Anniversary Day 5

Ok, Day 5 was yesterday; I'm just running a day late!

The challenge is to ink up a stamp that's never been inked.  I don't think I have any of those, but the Year of Flowers Rose is one of my cleanest!  It's a daunting task to color it.

Papertrey Anniversay Day 4

The challenge for day 4 is to make a 'bouquet' using different sets.

My challenge for day 4 is to make a card while sneezing, coughing, bowing my nose, etc etc etc.

Those are the Bloom Builders dies set in the Friendship jar.  The flower centers are from Simple Sunflowers and somewhere else.

Papertrey 2015 Anniversry Day 3

Tags and Gift Bags-

I've had Valentines on my brain, and the little boxes of candy were just sitting in front of me-

I used Papertrey:
Glassine Bags
Tiny Treats Valentine and Mat Stack 2 Collection Stamps
Hibiscus Burst and Pure Poppy ink
Pure Poppy bakers twine
Mat Stack 2 die

also- Versafine Onyx Black ink and various stickers
Nestability circle die
I ran the cut out circles through the Kryon machine to make them into stickers

Papertrey Anniversary: Day 2

Today's challenge is to channel Maile Belles.  Maile is back after taking a year off for a new baby- and speaking of babies, I thought it would be a great idea to channel her for baby cards!  TaDa!!

Seems to me Maile often favors the right side of her card with  images stacked one on another- and she also likes little round embellishments and butterflies.

Lol, I have no small butterflies...

 

 

Here's another.  Maile made a onsie, I made a card.

 

 

 

 



Papertrey Anniversary 2015: Day 1

Here we go, happy campers!  Papertrey's anniversary bash!

Today is a color and sketch challenge.

Had to do a baby card, of course!

I used the Book Print Impression plate on Fine Linen CS.  Wrapped a piece of Classic Kraft twill ribbon around the layer, then put it on the Kraft card using dimensionals.  Wonderful Words 'baby'  cut from Kraft.  'Bitty' and 'Blessing' from Bitty Baby Blessings were stamped on linen with Kraft ink,  the cut apart and layered.  The animals were cut from Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, and Melon Berry patterned paper.

Playing with MIM # 195

Here it is the first day of the New Year, and I decided to clear off the table and make something other than baby cards!  Papertrey's MIM this week is a review of all of 2014's techniques.  I chose #173 No outline watercolor to replicate.  I used Year of the Flowers Daffodils, Lemon Tart ink on Watercolor paper, and came up with this:

 

That's a piece of alcohol inked paper with a Japanese paper scrap under it, layered on Pinefeather.  Here's a close up...

 

 

I thought about the alcohol ink and how it looks like another MIM technique, and tried again-

 



#161, Watercolor Splats formed my background for a larger daffodil.  I used Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Simply Chartreuse, and Ripe Avocado inks along with Pure Maine Cold Well Water (ha!) to make the splats.  Instead of Lemon Tart, I used Fine Linen to stamp the image, and I think it was too visible; I liked the Lemon Tart better.  To finish, I used Copic T 1 to draw a wee bit round the flower, but also around the edges of both layers.

Another close up-

Hope you are having as much fun as I am!