Sparkling Lemons

I was excited to use some of my new Simon Says Stamp goodies I purchased with my SSS gift card from Barb to create a glittery card for the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge:

 

I cut a white panel and used SSS Waves stencil to blend both SSS Lemon Chiffon, and HA Lemon Yellow, moving the stencil slightly to create the various lines.  I then did the same with Liquitex modeling paste, and a layer of Liquitex mat medium and glitter.  I added mat medium over the top to keep the glitter adhered.  I blended DI Squeezed Lemonade on a piece of white cardstock.  The stamps are from SSS Lemonade.  I heat embossed the sentiment with PSX silver embossing powder.  The sentiment was adhered to a piece of vellum which was foam adhered to the main panel.  The lemon slices were stamped with HA Lemon Yellow, cut with a circle die, brushed with WOS, and adhered with foam tape.

This card is going to play over with the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Group Challenge #12: So Sparkly!


I'm also linking up to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: A Piece of Paradise.  Those glittery yellow waves make me think of warmer days with a glass of sweet lemonade in hand!


Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne

Birthday Blues

Unlike the title today, birthdays don't seem to get me down, although sometimes I am shocked to find out I'm no longer in my 20s!  Like in that one dream, you know the one, where we're in college, but we never can find that one math class and therefore we can't graduate, and then at some point we yell, but I'm 44 years old now!  Okay, maybe that's just my dream?  Anyhoo, embrace each year of your life, they all matter!  By the way, just in case you were wondering if I have college remorse issues, I did indeed graduate.

Papertrey Ink is hosting their eighth anniversary party and today they introduced sky themed stamps and dies, along with linen cardstock in white and cream!  Today's challenge is to create a blue ombre card:

The image from PTI's Stylish Sentiments: Birthday was heat embossed and then ink blended with PTI Enchanted Evening ink to get an ombre effect around the sentiment, and then down onto the rest of the card.  I used a combination of Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, and Enchanted Evening cardstock and ink to make five different shades of blue for the buttons (Button Stacks II Die).  For example, I don't have Enchanted Evening cardstock, so I blended the ink onto Spring Rain cardstock instead.  Spring Rain ink on Spring Rain cardstock is just a shade darker than the cardstock alone.  Stacked the way they are, it's not so easy to see the variations.  I threaded them with some floss and popped them up on foam adhesive.  The panel was adhered to a True Black card base and I will use a white pen for the inside message, or maybe just add a white insert, we'll see.

Click here for today's PTI Eighth Anniversary challenge

Thanks for coming over to visit, and I hope you are enjoying this important day of your life!

Kara Lynne

Golden Gratitude

Papertrey Ink is celebrating another day of their eighth anniversary, this time with silver and gold.  They introduced new Luxe Metallics papers.  The look is beautiful!  They also announced this year's Stamp-a-faire which has a Project Runway theme.  It is August 29th and everyone is welcome to join in free of charge!  The challenge today is to incorporate nothing but metallics and neutrals into a new card creation:

Wow, that was a tough one to photograph!  I gold embossed using PTI's Giga Guidelines Stamp Set onto PTI's Fine Linen and some white cs from my stash.  I has a sheet of gold foil from days of old.  My embossing powder is PSX, also from days of old.

Click here for today's Papertrey Ink Challenge


Thanks for coming over to visit!  I hope you're having a great day!

Kara Lynne

Springing Into Action

We're in the middle of Papertrey Ink's Eighth Anniversary celebration, where they introduced "All Things Spring" with gorgeous new products soon to be released.  Today's challenge is to spring into action, meaning that we are to ink up a set that has yet to see ink.  This fall I ordered the Mat Stack 3 stamp set and hadn't used it, until today:

I stamped the Mat Stack 3 stamp in Smokey Shadow and the two stamps from PTI's Thank You Kindly stamp set in Raspberry Fizz.  It was die cut using the Mat Stack 3 die and matted with both Raspberry Fizz and Smokey Shadow card stock.  The white paper is from my scraps, they were embossed using two different Darice embossing folders.  The ribbon is from packaging from some Christmas PJs I bought for my girls.

Click here to link back to PTI's All Things Spring challenge

 

Thanks for coming over to visit, I know I've been posting more than usual so, as the card says, thank you ever so much for staying with me this week!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

 

Kara Lynne



Watercolor Bouquet

Okay, my family better not want to eat this week because I'm way too busy making cards for the PTI eighth anniversary party!  Day four brought the challenge of combining two different floral stamp sets to create a bouquet: 

I chose Doodlie Do and Happiness in bloom.  I stamped the various leaves and flowers in PTI inks Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Simply Chartreuse, and Limeade Ice on watercolor paper.  I mostly used the small flower and medium solid leaf from Happiness in Bloom along with two larger and one smaller flower and some leaves from Doodlie Do. Then I used a wet paintbrush and blended the colors together.  I used a white Gelly Roll pen to slightly add a little detail back into some of the flowers.  The sentiment from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday was white heat embossed onto Limeade Ice card stock, matted by white card stock, and popped up using adhesive and fun foam.  The water color panel was adhered to a Pure Poppy card base.

Click HERE to link to PTI's Day Four Challenge



That's all for now.  Thanks so much for visiting!  I hope you have a beautiful day!

Kara Lynne

Sprinkled with Joy!

Another day of fun over at the Papertrey Ink blog!  They introduced several new products today including a new monthly feature called Enclosed which includes an innovative way to make tags.  The design team did an amazing job featuring the first release called Enclosed: Flower.  The challenge is to create a tag for a gift bag that you make from scratch or pick up at the store.  I was excited to play along!  Here is my gift tag shaker and bag:

 

 

I had a difficult time with the photos today, sorry about that.  The papers are PTI Lemon Tart and Harvest Gold.  The tag was made using PTI Shakers + Sprinkles set.  I stamped some flowers from Happiness in Bloom using Lemon Tart on the bag to reflect the flower sequins in the tag.  The twine is from Paper Studio and the white paper bag is one I had in my gift wrapping supplies.  I cut an extra white heart, scored it near the top, and attached it to the back of the shaker, creating a flap inside to write on.

Here is the link again to PTI's third challenge for their eighth anniversary party:

This little shaker tag is also going to be linked over at the super fun Virginia's View Challenge Blog where challenge #12 is to make a shaker!  Virginia and her guests have demonstrated some awesome shaker ideas!

Thanks for coming to visit!  I hope your day is sprinkled with joy!

Kara Lynne



Dad's Pajamas

I received the PTI Guide Lines Two Stamp Set for Christmas.  I have so many ideas of ways to use it in my head, but I'm not sure how it all works on paper.  I need to stock up on masculine cards, so I decided to put ink to paper and use it.  When I finished the card I realized the colors and pattern look very similar to a pair of pajamas my father wore!  Well, that must mean I achieved masculine.

For the second day celebrating Papertrey Ink's eighth anniversary, we are challenged to create a card inspired by one of Mailes Belles' creations.  So many things about her cards inspire me!  For this card I chose her splitting technique, but took a wider approach, and I used her colors from her feather card that was featured as one of the color recipes. 

All papers and inks are from PTI.  The colors include:  Blueberry Sky, Spring Rain, Ocean Tides, Aqua Mist, and Smokey Shadow.  The sentiment die is One Liners: Happy, and the stamped sentiment is from Happiness in Bloom.

Thanks so much for visiting, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne