Papertrey’s Win It Wednesday and Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes challenges

How about one card for two Wednesday challenges?  Papertrey’s Win It Wednesday is to use your favorite embellishment on a card and Simon Says Wednesday challenge is anything goes.  Lately, my favorite embellishment is twine… I think it adds a little bit of something without being too heavy of an embellishment (such as a bulky ribbon).  Now I know it’s the last day of February and a snow-themed card seems weird to be creating this late in the season, but we’ve had snow on the ground since last weekend, kids out of school, and frigid temperatures.  I’ve enjoyed this last blast of winter weather and hope you find this wintery card soothing.

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White (Recollections); Aqua Mist (Papertrey)
• Ink: Fresh Snow (Papertrey)
• Dies:  Christmas Cheer Die (Papertrey)
• Accessories:  White fun foam (Darice); White twine (American Crafts); Embossing Paste (Nuvo); Snow embossing folder; Story of Christmas Stencil (Echo Park)

 

Papertrey’s Transformation Tuesday

For this week’s Papertrey Transformation Tuesday Challenge, I added a bit more pizazz to the layout of my previous card.  I had some extra alcohol panels from my previous card and then used colored cardstock and a layer of glossy accents to give the card something extra.

Previous card:

Transformed card:

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White (Recollections); Yupo (Ranger); Royal Velvet (Papertrey)
• Dies:  Text Block: Party Time (Papertrey)
• Accessories:  Alcohol inks (Ranger); white fun foam (Darice); Glossy Accents (Ranger)

Papertrey’s Transformation Tuesday Challenge, Simon Says World Card Day Challenge, and Simon Says Monday Challenge

Happy World Card Day!  I’ve been making several cards today for World Card Day.  Here’s my card for Papertrey’s Transformation Tuesday Challenge, Simon Says World Card Day Challenge, and Simon Says Monday Challenge – Tag It.  I wanted to transform a card I made in this post  and shown below the new card to make the tag a focal image of the card.  Hope you get a chance to make some cards for World Card Day.  Supplies are listed below.

New Card

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Kraft (Papertrey Ink); Orange Zest (Papertrey Ink); New Leaf (Papertrey Ink); Orange Zest Pattern Pack (Papertrey)
• Ink: Tea Dye Duo (Papertrey); Chocolate Chip (Stampin Up); New Leaf (Papertrey)
• Stamp:  Woodgrain stamp; Fillable Frames #9 (Papertrey); Year Round Happiness (Papertrey)
• Dies:  Pumpkin Collection Shape Up dies (Papertrey); Pumpkin Sections Shape Up dies (Papertrey);  Fillable Frames #9 (Papertrey);
• Accessories: twine (May Arts);

Papertrey’s Transformation Tuesday Challenge #18

I still had Brushed Blooms stamp set sitting out on my desk from on of my previous Transformation Tuesday challenges and decided to up my game with the stamp set one more time for this week’s Papertrey Transformation Tuesday #18 Challenge.  Yes, my desk is a disaster since I never want to spend the time putting stuff away.  I wanted to create a more elegant card with the stamp set and used a layer of vellum to soften the images the way that the watercolor stamping does.  I also wanted the images along the bottom of the card rather than frame the sentiment.  My card below is the transformed card and the two previous cards using the Brushed Bloom sets are below.  Supplies are listed below.

 

Supplies:

• Cardstock: White (Recollections); Vellum (Papertrey);
• Ink:  Smokey Shadow, Blueberry Sky, Hibiscus Burst (Papertrey); Classic Cherry (Ranger), Electric Lime (Ranger); Onyx Black (Versafine)
• Stamps: Brushed Blooms (Papertrey)
• Accessories:  Clear embossing powder (Stampendous)

Papertrey Transformation Tuesday Challenge

How about another fall card for Papertrey’s Transformation Tuesday challenge?  I like my initial take on using enclosed leaf die from this blog post and still had the left over watercolor paper on my desk.  I decided I would switch the look up and use the deep red as the background for the card.  What do you think?  Which one do you prefer?  Supplies are listed below.

My initial card:

My Transformed card:

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Rustic Cream (Papertrey Ink); Gold Foil Cardstock (Tonic), Watercolor paper (Ranger)
• Dies: Enclosed: Leaf die Papertrey);
• Accessories: Crushed Grape, Postbox Red, Squeezed Orange Ink Spray (Dylusions), Fun Foam (Darice);

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – Food & Drink and Papertrey Transformation Tuesday #16 Challenge

I like Papertrey’s weekly Transformation Tuesday since it always is nice to see how we can change things up on a previous card.  I decided to transform a previous drink card so I could also submit it for Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – Food and Drink.  Here’s my previous card and associated blog post.

My new card goes a completely different direction and doesn’t have the same beachy feel as my first card.  I needed a birthday card for my dad and this seems to suit him better, a bit more formal with the matting.  I also think I got a bit better with the beer stamping.  The colors seemed to blend better and look more fluid on my second card.  Supplies are listed below.  Happy crafting!

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White (Neenah)
• Patterned Paper: Various
• Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine), Harvest Gold and Orange Zest (Papertrey)
• Stamps: Craft Brew (Papertrey);

Papertrey’s July 2018 Blog Hop and Make It Monday – Repeating the Greeting challenge

I keep missing Papertrey’s monthly blog hop so I was determined to make a card for this month’s hop.  I decided to make one card for both Papertrey’s July 2018 blog hop and Make It Monday – Repeat the Greeting challenges.  The inspiration photo has pretty blues and deep red with an aquatic theme.  I used my very new Salt Air: Fauna and sentiment stamp sets.  I have been wanting to pull out my perfect pearls since I saw Betsy’s card using the same stamp sets.  Hope you enjoy the blog hop!  Supplies are listed below.

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Blue (Bazzill); White (Recollections)
• Ink:  Versamark
• Stamps: Salt Air: Fauna (Papertrey); Salt Air Sentiments (Papertrey)
• Accessories: Perfect pearls (Ranger); Sequins

Papertrey’s March 2018 Blog Hop

Papertrey has a lovely inspiration photo for this month Blog Hop.   Such a pretty bouquet of flowers!

I decided to keep the card clean and simple and focus on the flower images.  I tried softer colors on the die cut but the seemed to wash out too much so ended up with pretty pink flowers.  Hope you enjoy the blog hop!  Supplies are listed below.

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Stamper’s Select White (Papertrey Ink); Watercolor Paper (Ranger)
• Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)
• Stamps: Friendly Flowers (Papertrey)
• Accessories: Bella Bouquet die (Memory Box); Clear Wink of Stella (Zig); Fuchsia ¼ inch iridescent ribbon (May Arts); Wine Red and Mid Green from 36 color watercolor set (Kuretake Gansai Tambi)

Papertrey’s Create Along With Us: March 2018

This week’s Papertrey challenge is to create a card that has been inspired by a card that the design team has done during the pre-release posts.  I love the look of the new apple die that Papertrey is going to be releasing this month.  In particular, I was inspired by Heather Nichols’ cards in this post.  I liked the clean and simple styling of her cards.  I don’t have any apple stamps so I ended up using the peach from Summer Still Life and covering it with Nuvo drops.  Supplies are listed below.  Happy crafting!

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White 110 lb (Recollections);
• Stamps: Make It Market Mini Kit: Still Life Summer (Papertrey)
• Ink:  Onyx Black (Versafine); Pure Poppy (Papertrey)
• Accessories: Ruby Slipper Glitter Drops (Nuvo); Black Polka Dot Washi Tape (Papertrey)

Papertrey’s February Blog Hop

Papertrey’s February Blog Hop uses a great Easter inspired photo with a series of trays of grass and Easter eggs.  It inspired me to create these two cards, using a grass die and the cute bunny image from Polka Dot Parade #1.  I also decided to incorporate Papertrey’s Make It Monday Challenge of Framing Sentiments & Images.  I prefer the first card since it’s got more colors incorporated into the card and offset image.  How about you?  Hope you’re enjoying everyone’s fabulous cards.  Happy crafting! Supplies are listed below.

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  Aqua Mist (Papertrey), New Leaf (Papertrey), Lavender Moon (Papertrey); Hibiscus Burst (Papertrey), White
• Stamps:  Polka Dot Parade #1 (Papertrey), Simply Spring Borders (Papertrey)
• Ink:  Lovely Lady (Papertrey), Onyx Black (Versafine)
• Dies:  Grass Border die (Impression Obsession), Stitched Rectangles dies (Simon Says Stamp), Stitched Circles dies (Simon Says Stamp)
• Accessories: Stickles