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

Happy for You, PTI!

Papertrey Ink is celebrating eight years in the business.  Congratulations PTI, may you be successful for many many years to come!  To celebrate, they are having all sorts of fun including some great challenges.  My card today is following the inspiration of PTI's design team with both a color recipe and a sketch:

The color recipe:
 
The sketch:


I went all literal on this one.  The stamp set is PTI's Doodlie Do, and the cardstock is PTI too.  I colored the flowers with Copics using colors that coordinated with the cardstock.  The centers of the flowers were stamped on the colored cardstock, cut out, and embossed with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder to give some dimension.  The flowers were adhered with foam tape with the middle flower given a double dose.  The centers of the flowers are also popped up a bit with foam tape.

Here is how you can play along with the Papertrey Ink Challenge

This card is also playing in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  All Things Bright and Beautiful



Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are having a great day!

Kara Lynne

Caught a Bug? Maybe Influenza A?

I know the flu is really going around, yuk!  My mother has it, and it is no fun.  I made a card to send to her.  She only lives five miles away, but I thought it might cheer her up to get something in her mailbox.  What could cheer someone up more than a shaker card?!  This little bug was corralled behind the shaker window by a circle of tissue boxes ready to strike!  Fortunately, Mom has a great sense of humor.

All of the stamps are from Paper Smooches Healthy Vibes.  The tissue box papers are from The Paper Studio, Khloe Lane and the background is PTI Limeade Ice.  The bug was colored with Copics YG21 and YG23.  I was going to use green sequins and beads, but then I realized that would just be gross, so I went with a cheerier pink and orange.  Some of the sequins are from Doodle Bug, and the others are Hobby Lobby's brand.

This card is joining the fun at the following challenges:

Virginia's View #12: Shaker Cards                                Paper Smooches Sparks: Anything Goes
                            

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: H is for... Health!


Thanks for coming over to visit today!  Stay healthy!

Kara Lynne

City Crafter Challenge Blog Guest Designer!

I am so thrilled to announce that today I am a guest designer over at the City Crafter Challenge Blog!  Please go on over there and check it out.  I have so much admiration for the design team and all they do to bring this challenge to our online community!  This week's inspiration comes from this photo with the theme of "lace and roses":

I was inspired by the contrasts of the background and foreground, which I hope is reflected in my card:

 

 

 

 

The chevron background is a Silhouette cut called Chevron Fancy Frame, I used five cuts each of a flower from 5-Petal Flowers for the roses, and Abstract Decorative Wreath makes up the lacey "doily" around the tea cup.  The cup itself is Silver Metallic from the Paper Company, cut using Mama Elephant's Cup of Wishes die, and the lace on it is from Offray.  The other papers are sadly unknown from my stash.  I inked the rose petals with Brilliance Moonlight White, then shaped them using a McGill Paper Blossom tool, and glued them together.  The sentiment panel (also cut from Chevron Fancy Frame, is raised with foam adhesive.  The sentiment is from SSS Apothecary Labels and is inked in SSS Slate. 

 

Here's a close up of a couple of the flowers before they were put together:

 

A side note:  At City Crafter's I mentioned that I started by scrapbooking.  That was in 2001 when our first daughter was born!  Being a very organized person (sometimes to the point of paralysis - ahem), a have a systematic way in which I do scrapbooking.  Each child (we have two girls) has 24 pages from her first year, and then 12 pages for every year after that, all the way up to the present.  I just did the math and that's 312 pages so far.  Lord willing, I plan to stop with age 18 (480 pages).  Do you scrapbook, and if so, do you have a system you use?

 

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Kara Lynne

My Tweetheart

Before I talk about the card today, I would like to thank Barb of ...Enjoying Life... for the very generous gift to Simon Says Stamp!  She had a random drawing while promoting the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Group and Challenge.  Being fairly recently back to blogging, I didn't know it was there until I saw her post.  It's very fun and incredibly supportive over there!

Not much time in the craft room this weekend, but enough to join the shaker challenge over at Virginia's view and still play with those wonderful colors at ColourQ.  There's even a little time left at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes!

 

I received this whimsical image and sentiment from the sweet Vera Yates of Ling's Design Studio a couple of years ago.  It's called Tweethearts by Paperworks Co.  I colored it with Copics.  I had to add a little green (outside the color scheme), but I kept it a grayish green.  I made the shaker using dies and sequins from PTI Shakers + Sprinkles.  The seed beads are from Michaels.  The PP is from Authentique's Essentials Collection, and the cardstock is older paper that I had in my collection.

Here are the challenges that inspired this card:
Virginia's View Challenge #12: Shaker Cards           Colour Q Challenge #277 (Still working to get their badge on the side bar)
       

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes


It's so much fun being back in blogland reconnecting with friends and making new ones!  Thanks so much for visiting my blog.  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne