PTI June 2018 Blog Hop Inspiration

June 2018 Blog Hop Inspiration

Isn't this photo fantastic!  I am in love with all of the color!

The fruit and the color was my inspiration.  I had just purchased the Still Life Summer set and thought it would be perfect for this challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by to look.  Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

PTI Still Life Summer, Forest Floor Summer

PTI Noted A2 Pinked Vertical

PTI Banner Style

PTI Bitty Big Limeade Ice patterned paper

Make It Monday #325 Flowers In Reverse

This week on Make It Monday Dawn showed us how to add color to floral cards in a new way.

This is a fun twist on how we usually make our flowers...lots of white and lots of layers with pops of color, especially on the leaves.

The Recipe:

PTI Sunflower Harvest, Gran's Garden, Simple Sunflower, Embroidered Blooms, Banner Style

PTI Mix & Mat Flourishes

PTI Lovely Lady, Orange Zest, Hibiscus Burst, Cocoa Bean inks

Thanks so much for stopping by to look.  Your kind comments are always appreciated.

PTI Anniversary Color Challenge

Papertrey Ink is celebrating their 11th Anniversary and that means many fun challenges.  The one I'm entering today is a Color Challenge.

The Color Recipe I chose belongs to Laurie Schmidlin. 

 Here are her colors:

When I saw the green in this selection, I knew I had to use the beautiful Bloom & Grow stamp set.  The next thing that concerned me was the shading on the flowers, but I stamped them again in the same color making a section of the flower darker and it turned out great.

Thanks so much for coming by to look.  Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

Bloom & Grow

PTI Bitty Big Hawaiian Shores patterned paper

PTI Power Poppy, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold, Green Parakeet, Hawaiian Shores, Amethyst Allure inks

Bountiful Blessings

Fall is my very favorite time of the year, and happily, I live in an area that gets to experience the changing of the seasons.  I love color and fall bursts forth with glorious color.

I bought the PTI Color Pop Autumn set when it first came out, and I think I have only made one card with it.  So, I pulled it out and started to play.  The leaves, berries and all of the little elements are so much fun.  Do you see the little acorn?

The Recipe:

PTI Color Pop Autumn

PTI Autumn Abundance patterned paper

Thanks so much for coming by to look.  Your kind comments are always appreciated.

Just Us Girls #273 - Photo Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Photo Week.  Nancy is our hostess and she has chosen a fun photo for our inspiration.  Here's how I was inspired.

When I saw this picture with all of the fabulous circles, all I could think about doing was the Bokeh Effect technique.  I love how the white circles soften the base colors.  To create the background I used Hero Arts Soft Granite & Fresh Peach. The white circles were made by using Brilliance Moonlight White.  The thanks script is from Mama Elephant.  I cut four of them and glued them together to add some interest.  The sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh and Verve.  Thanks so much for coming by to look!

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Lee Ann, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired and want to play along.

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our December challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of February.  Good luck!

Recipe:

Mama Elephant Thanks Script

Pretty Pink Posh & Verve Sequins

Hero Arts Soft Granite & Pretty Peach ink

Brilliance Moonlight White ink

GKD Innocent Pink CS

Gray CS from Michaels

Just Us Girls #267 - Color Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Color Week.  Sharyn, here,  I am your hostess, and the colors I have chosen are Red, Turquoise and Gold or yellow.  You can, also, use neutrals such as, white, black, kraft,  ivory, brown or gray.

Here's my card

When I was young, my parents,  my brother and I used to go ice skating.  We used to go to a place in Indianapolis called Lake Sullivan.  In the Winter, after the lake froze,  it was transformed into a beautiful ice skating rink.  There were hills for sledding too.  We had a slide-in camper that fit in the back of my dad's truck that we took with us.  It was a warm place to get out of the cold, and we were able to make hot chocolate......such good memories!

The stamp set I used is called On Ice and is available at Papertrey Ink.  The background stencil is from Tim Holtz and is called Holiday Knit.  I saw it a few weeks ago on a Kristina Werner video, and thought it was so cute.  It was perfect for my Winter themed card.  I used Dap Lightweight Spackle and some GKD turquoise sea ink to create my background.  I used some black embroidery thread to lace the skates and added some pom poms.  The sentiment was embossed with gold embossing powder on Vellum.  Thanks for coming by to look!

The Recipe:

PTI On Ice

Tim Holtz Holiday Knit Stencil

Dap Lightweight Spackle

GKD Turquoise Sea ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

GKD Fine Detail Gold embossing powder

Recollections Gold Foil paper

GKD Pure Luxury White & Red Velvet CS

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Tajanna, have created using our challenge colors.  I can't wait to see how you are inspired!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January.  Good luck!

Just Us Girls #263 - Color Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Color Week, and Lisa has picked a really fun color combo for us, Purple, Olive and Navy.  Here is how I was inspired!

I watched a video of Jennifer McGuire's on No Mess Glitter Die Cuts and fell in love with this die set from My Favorite Things called Geek is Chic.  I didn't add glitter to mine because I didn't have the double sided tape that she used, but here is what I did.  I first cut one pair of glasses out of white card stock.  I inked the bottom half of the glasses with navy ink and the top with purple ink.  I then cut four pairs of glasses from navy and purple card stock and glued them together.  I glued the inked pair to the top and then coated it with Glossy Accents.  After it dried, I applied another coat of Glossy Accents. These glasses are so stinking cute and shiny.  You would never know they were made of paper.  I just realized as I'm writing this post that while the green is supposed to be olive, I had in my mind lime, so my green is a little on the light side.  I black embossed the sentiment onto Vellum.

The Recipe:

My Favorite Things Geek is Chic

Spellbinders Standard Circles and Scalloped Circles

Cuttlebug Spots and Dots

GKD Wild Lilac, Navy & Black Onyx CS

Glossy Accents

Wiggly Eyes

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Wanda Cullen, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired and play along.  We would love to see what you create!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our October challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen has our Guest Designer for the month of December.  Good luck!

Just Us Girls #259 - Color Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Color Week and Nancy has chosen a beautiful combo for us to work with.  The colors are warm pink, light pink & ivory.  I had lots of crafting time today.  We had some plumbing problems that resulted in us needing a new sewer line.  My craft room faces the front of the house, so I had a clear view of the front yard and could watch all of the action.  As I'm sitting there crafting my little heart out to get a head in a couple of challenges, I see a spray of water coming out of the huge hole in the ground.......yep, they punctured the water line.  Guess we are getting a new water line too.  lol  I just had to laugh.  What else can go wrong?  Anyway, here's my card.

I used the Pretty Patterns stamp set from Gina K. Designs to make the background, along with Memento Angel Pink & GKD Bubblegum inks.  The card base is GKD Ivory card stock.  I made a little tag that I sponged with Angel Pink ink and decorated with a little heart border.  I added a pink ribbon, button and a couple of crimped hearts.

Recipe:

GKD Pretty Patterns, Signs of Spring & Spoon Me stamp sets

Reverse Confetti, Tag Me & Love Note dies

GKD Mixed Berry button

MME Enamel dots

Offray Pink ribbon

GKD Bubblegum & Ivory CS

GKD Black Onyx & Bubblegum ink

Memento Angel Pink ink

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and out GD, Barbara Hagen, have made this week using this beautiful color combo.  I hope you will be inspired and want to play along.  We would love to see what you create!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our September challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of November.  Good luck!

Reverse Confetti Color Challenge

I love the color combo for the Reverse Confetti challenge and just had to play.  I'm fairly new to Reverse Confetti products and don't have very many, but when I saw the cute Flamingo set I knew I would have to buy it.  The sentiment "what makes you different makes you beautiful" seemed perfect for my little red flamingo.  As I'm looking at this card, I realize that not only does my sweet flamingo have a pigmentation problem, but her legs are on backwards.  lol  Oh well, too late to change it now.  I hope no one will notice!

The recipe:

Reverse Confetti Fabulous Flamingo

Reverse Confetti Tag Me Too, Diagonal Stripe Pretty Panel & Perfectly Paisley dies

Cuttlebug Paisley EF

Echo Park Patterned Paper

Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury White, Red Hot & Navy card stock

Gina K. Designs Navy Gingham Ribbon

MME enamel dots that I colored with a Gold Faber Castell Pitt Pen

Just Us Girls #254 - Color Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Color Week, and Sue V. has chosen lime, navy and neutrals.  I really like this combo.  It is very refreshing!

I decided to pull out a Gina K. Designs  frame set called Fun Year Round to make a quick thank you card. I paired it with some patterned paper from the GKD Journey of the Heart paper pack.  I love to paper piece and decided to paper piece four of the circles.  The other circles were filled in with stamps from the same set.  I added some We R Memory Keepers twine and two GKD In the Navy buttons.

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our Guest Designer, Kristie Goulet, have created this week.  I hope you will be inspired and play along with us.  We would love to see how you are inspired by this fun color combo.

If you win Chic of the Week for any of our August challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of October.  

Just Us Girls # 250 - Color

This week at Just Us Girls we have a Color Challenge.  Vicki is hosting, and she has chosen turquoise, green & lime as our challenge colors.  Isn't that a fun and interesting combo!

I used a fun set from Gina K. Designs called Bring the Bling.  I love the look of these dotted flowers and swirls all done up in the challenge colors.  I used a Martha Stewart Cherish border punch to make the lime and green border pieces.  The two tags were made with a Paper Smoochies Tag Stitched die in Pure Luxury White and Turquoise Sea card stock.  The white tag was sponged with Turquoise Sea ink from GKD and Pear Tart from Memento.  The sentiment is from the GKD Flower Builders stamp set.  I added some MME enamel dots and a GKD white ribbon.

We are being sponsored this week, in honor of our 250th Challenge, by Dare 2B Artzy! The Chic of the Week will get their choice of a stamp set valued at $14.99 or under. Thanks so much to Dare 2B Artzy!

Please visit the Just Us Girls page to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Rebekka, have made this week using these fun colors!  I hope you will be inspired and want to come and play along.  We would love to see what you create!

If you win Chic of the Week for the month of July, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of September.  Good luck!

Just Us Girls #246 - Color

This week's Just Us Girls challenge is hosted by Maria.  She has chosen a color challenge using yellow, orange and neutral.

After thinking about this color combo for a while, I remembered a fruity stamp set by Gina K. Designs called You're the Sweetest.  I decided to make a background of lemon and orange slices.  I used a Spellbinders A2 Curved Border One die to make the curvy border at the bottom and attached it to a piece of The Paper Studios gingham paper.  I added a bright orange ribbon, a button & some twine to pull it all together.  I love it.  It's bright, clean, happy and a little sweet!  Hope you like it too!

GKD You're the Sweetest

The Paper Studios gingham paper

Spellbinders A2 Curved Borders One die

Offray orange ribbon

Doodlebug twine

GKD Sunrise Smoothie button

Please visit the Just Us Girls page to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Shirley-Bee, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired by this fun color combo and join in the fun.  We would love to see what you create!

Remember if you win one of our June challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of August.