Papertrey Ink 5th Anniversary Day 2 - LOVE

My 2nd card uses an image designed by Melissa Bickford. I also love her Flower Fusion series although I don't ink them up enough.

Here is my card:

I LOVE the colors on that image and the postage stamp look. I definitely am excited to see what stamp sets she will be coming up with for 2012.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White

Pattern Papers - Candy Shoppe Collection by Echo ParkStamps - PTI Flower Fusion #10
Inks - JBS Chicken Feed, Speckled Egg, Stick Candy, HA Bubble Gum

Others - PTI Flower Fusion #10 Dies, WRMK 3/8" Corner Chomper, 1/2" Corner Chomper, AC Crochet Trim, Pop Dots

C&S Week 2 Card 11 - Woo-Hoo!

Today's class was interesting with Jennifer McGuire touching on more techniques and a cute card by Lisa Spangler. 

Jennifer McGuire gave tips on doing mirror image stamping and I've seen others sharing how they do it but haven't given it a try so I thought why not. The mirror image stamping is a lot easier than I thought too. Will definitely be trying that again. The trick is using the 'right' stamp for the mirroring.

Here is my take on mirror image stamping and taking inspiration from Lisa's card:

Actually made some mistakes with this card but luckily the mistakes were easy to cover up. 

There were a couple of leaves with my log but they got stuck in my cuttlebug and was pulled out when I decided to do some dry embossing to add some texture. That's for not thinking ahead.  Ha...

Masked the inside and colored with Distress Inks Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint. I really liked how the card turned out despite the minor mistakes during creation.

This card will be added to my stack of cards for the card drive.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Soft Stone, Stamper's Select White
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Inks Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce

Stamps - LF Critters In The Forest, HA Leaf & Floral Background

Others - Spellbinders Circle Die, Pop Dots, PTI Woodgrain Impression Plate, Copics, Copics Multiliner 0.3, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

C&S Week 2 Card 10 - Sending You Bunches Of Love

I've been a little behind in my assignments for class. Day 6 was about using simple embellishment or customizing your embellishments to minimize the bulkiness. Day 7 was about creating plain white cards with a focal image.

In view of the deadline towards the Valentine's Day Card Drive, I decided to focus on the 'Love' theme and did a card based on what I learnt from Day 7.

Stamped and colored with Copics. I'm still learning how to color with Copics especially on the blending part. Added glossy accents to the hearts and Diamond Stickles to just the center heart and added a couple more layers of glossy accent for more dimension.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Smokey Shadow
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black

Stamps - MFT Flopsey Bunches Of Love

Others - MFT Open Scallops Doily Duo Die, Diamond Stickles, 1/16" Pop Dos, 1/8" Pop Dots, Glossy Accents, Copics

C&S Week 1 Card 9 - Love Makes The World Go Round

Today's technique is just so fun! I love working with distress inks and Jennifer McGuire never fails to show some awesome techniques during the course.

I just received my Technique Tuesday's January 2012 stamp in the mail and I thought it will be perfect to use with today's technique. I'm official in love with this technique and will definitely look to trying it again. This is also my second favorite card from this week's creations.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Plum Pudding, Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Inks - Ranger Distress Inks Broken China, Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick

Stamps - TT Bring On The Love

Others - Zing Embossing Powder White,  SU 3 Hearts Punch, 1/16" Pop Dots

C&S Week 1 Card 7 - Be My Valentine

Talking about inspirations, there is a Hero Hostesses blog hop going on and I was inspired with this card made by Lisa Carroll.

Here is my take:

This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - Ranger Distress Ink Worn Lipstick, Tattered Rose

Stamps - HA Dot Flower Pattern, PTI Fillable Frames #11
Others - Zing Embossing Powder White, Momento Dual Marker Rose Bud, PTI Satin Ribbon Autumn Rose, Pop Dots

C&S Week 1 Card 3 - Love

Here is my take on the 3rd and final sketch of today's class. For once, I did all 3 sketches from 1 day. Definitely happy about it.

I trimmed off sections of the red panel and stamped images randomly to mimic the use of pattern papers.

The inside sentiment is not that faint in real life. This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Pure Poppy, Soft Stone
Inks - JBS Chewing Gum, Colorbox Frost White

Stamps - Technique Tuesday Adored, Simply You, This One, PTI Tag-Its #5
Others - Versamark, Zing Embossing Powder White

Card 39 - Love Is All You need

I bought a few Hero Arts 2012 stamps at my local Archivers when they had their launch but didn't have the chance to ink them up.

Here is a card using the new Zig Zag background stamp. This was one stamp set that I HAD to have when I saw during the preview blog hop. This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

I inked the background stamp with JBS Chicken Feed, Chewing Gum, Speckled Egg and Lavender Sachet. Die-cut a flower and added White Liquid Pearls to the center as I want to avoid using buttons, brads and crystals or gems. The sentiment is clear embossed and adhered with pop dots. Also added random dots with liquid pearls to substitute the use of gems or crystals.

The inside sentiment looks faint here but it's ok in person. Nevertheless I'll be looking for another pink shade. This is a still a little pale for my liking.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - JBS Chicken Feed, Chewing Gum, Speckled Egg, Lavender Sachet, Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink

Stamps - Hero Arts Zig Zag Background, Unity Hearty Barley
Others - MFT Perennial Flower Die, Ranger Liquid Pearls White, 1/16" Pop Dots, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

Card 37 - I'll Always Be Stuck On You

I've been on a crafting hiatus as hubs was off from work during that period. As I do my crafting on the coffee table which is in the living room, crafting is just almost impossible when hubs at home since he's either watching tv or playing his playstation. I get distracted with him being around and he can't relax with me blocking his view.

Nevertheless, I'm definitely keeping myself updated and reading the blogs I've subscribed to. Since I'm mentioning blogs, I read about a Valentine's Day Card Drive for a number of children's hospitals which I will be participating. This will be my first Card Drive.

The details on the Card Drive can be found on Winter's blog. My heart just goes out for all those children who have to be in hospital for one reason or other. I definitely do understand how the parents are feeling and what they have to face and especially the children since I had a sister who was sick for 6 years.

There are some conditions on the cards if you are participating in the Card Drive. Please do take the time to read those conditions.

My first card is inspired by the PB&J Monday with Jill Foster. The blog also featured a number of cards which used the spot coloring technique and I thought this stamp set that I had will be perfect.

I stamped the cute hedgehogs and colored their cheeks and the hearts with Copics. I then added stickles to the small hearts and glossy accent to the hearts held by the hedgehogs. The sentiment was selectively stamped with different ink colors.

I decided to just stamp a sentiment on the inside so that the card can also be used to send to whoever that is in those children's hearts for Valentine's Day.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, SU Riding Hood Red

Stamps - Penny Black Stuck On You
Others - Crystal Stickles, Glossy Accent, Copics, WRMK 3/8" Corner Chomper, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

Card 34 - I Love Dancing Through Life With You

This is my first MFT stamps haul. This stamp set and skyline border die caught my eye as they were doing their November release. My anniversary was coming up in December and I thought the sentiments were so fitting I just had to get it. Of coz this image is just so romantic as well although my hubby and I do not know any of such dances :P

I've also got a penchant for sentiments and I do find myself buying a stamp set just because of the sentiments. Ha...

In view that I was going to use the skyline border, I wanted to create a night scene with stars and thought to use white embossing and dig in my distress inks. I meant to wipe off some parts of the background stamp before I actually stamp on it but confident me was multi-tasking between card making and tv watching that I forgot about that and only remembered when I was almost done with my distress inking. Anyhow I figured that this card is gonna be for my husband who won't have the eye for such detail, I left it as that.

I'm also officially on Copics. I've heard and tried a little bit of Copics a year ago but held off buying them as I thought I could do away with it. However, the coloring with Copics is just so vibrant and fun that I finally succumbed. This is officially my first Copics coloring image using the markers I have on hand. I also want to take this opportunity to say that I really appreciate all the techniques and tips on using Copics that I've found online. There are so many crafters who are sharing information willingly and freely. I'm truly appreciative. Kudos to them!

Wanted to paper piece the tuxedo and the dress but couldn't figure out how to do it well that I decided to just color with my copics. Added rock candy stickles to the dress to give it some glittery effect.

I did this sentiment using selective stamping with the stamps from the set. Wanted to do more on the inside but I'm also someone who has a ton of things to write so I decided to leave it plain for my own message.

I also decided to enter this for the Young Crafters Unite Challenge #4. It's been a while since I participated in their challenges. I had used a couple of dies here.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Smokey Shadow

Pattern Paper - Darling Dear by My Mind's Eye

Inks - Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire, Evergreen Bough, JBS Spiced Tin, Versamark

Stamps - MFT May I Have This Dance (WTG), HA Tiny Flakes

Others - MFT Skyline Border Die, PTI Fillable Frames #1 Die, Zing White Embossing Powder, Copics, Rock Candy Stickles,