Creative Chemistry 103

If you know me at all you know I am a huge Tim Holtz fan.  I love everything distress and have such a hard time making a card or layout 'clean' without some type of distressing.  If you get cards from me you know exactly what I am talking about.
This technique was fun but because I used my Misti tool on the first one, the one that looks like Tim's example project, I didn't get the shadow I was going for.  I like how the Picket Fence distress ink brings out the true color on kraft cardstock and will be using this in the future.  Here is the one similar to his:

I liked this so much, and need so many cards this month, I decided to try this again but not use the Misti.  I used PTI and MFT products along with the picket fence distress ink to see if I could get the same desired effect.  I like this one better because you see a little more of the white shadow.

Supplies:

Stampers Anonymous - Wildflowers
Distress ink - Mermaid lagoon, broken china, crushed olive, peeled paint and picket fence
Anniversary stamp PTI - Keep it simple

Ink- Picket fence distress ink
PTI ink - Raspberry fixx, berry sorbet, summer sunrise, orange zest, spring moss and ripe avocado
Stamps -
PTI - Make it Market kit - Bloomin' cute and Boutique borders birthday
MFT - Sketched Blooms

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If you haven't yet and love Tim Holtz as much as I do stop by Online card classes to check out this lastest in the Creative Chemistry series.  See you there!

Terri

PTI - Masters STAMP-A-FAIRE 2016

This last Saturday Papertrey Ink had lots of challenges with some great tutorials by some of their design team members.  I have been able to complete only one of the challenges thus far but even if I don't get them done in time I am still going to give them a try. 

The challenge I was able to complete was done by Kay Miller.  The challenge was called Watercolor like a master.  I just loved how the stamp set Kay used looked so I decided to use that as well.  I tried some different color combinations but to be honest the ones she choose looked best.  Here is my card:

Some of the watercoloring could have been a little softer but this was a great lesson.

Supplies:

Ranger watercolor paper

PTI
Lovely lady cardstock
Stamps - Mums the word & Bold blossoms for the birthday sentiment
Ink - Summer sunrise, berry sorbet, spring moss, simply chartreuse and ripe avacado

Thanks for stopping by.

Terri

PTI blog hop for July

The July blog hop is today for Papertrey Ink.  You can find it here.
My nephews birthday is next month so I decided to make this a more masculine card.

This was harder than I thought it would be :)

Supplies (all PTI)

Melon berry & soft stone cardstock
Stamps -
Background basics - Diagonals
Bountiful banners
Keep it simple birthday II
Ink-
Tropical teal, aqua mist and soft stone

Thank you for stopping by!

Terri

Happy 4th of July!

Because it was a nice long weekend and I haven't scrapbooked in quite some time I thought I would get my creativity moving with this adorable set of photos.  My sweet Lulu stealing her brothers food.  I could just read his mind lol.

Supplies:
Paper - not sure
Alpha's - American Crafts Thickers, chipboard, Pink Paislee Holly Doodle, Jillibean Soup Bean Brown and Karen Foster Design Boy alpha
Scrapworks puzzle pieces
Crate paper glitter diecuts - bubble
Thought-fulls dude - journal block

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Terri

PTI create with us

As this last week was release time for the new products at Papertrey Ink for March the Make it Monday is instead a Create with us.  This is where you can pick a designer's creation that you would like to use as inspiration.  You can find them all here PTI.
I choose a lovely card by Laurie Willison.  Here is the link to her blog Soapbox Creations.  Here is the card I chooose

What I liked was the soft color behind her flowers.  Mine is a little bolder than Laurie's but I really like how it turned out.  Of course I had a few little failures first as seen here.

Because this was such a mess I decided to try out a bunch of different colors to see which worked best with the design I had in mind.  Here is my finished card

I hope my girlfriend likes it!

Supplies:
Papertrey ink:
Hibiscus Burst cardstock
Raspberry Fizz ink
Fancy Pants sentiments stamps
Wink of Stella for sparkle
Distress Marker - Wilted violet
Small flowers for bling

Thanks for stopping by!

Terri

PTI 9th Anniversary - Saturday Snail Mail

The last challenge I am completing today is a thank you card for the warehouse staff at PTI.  I can just imagine how busy they are after the 15th of the month as that is release day.  When I get my order, which is always right, it puts a huge smile on my face.  So hopefully my little card will do the same.

I wish you could see in the picture the shine on my little oval as I covered it in wink of stella.

Supplies:

PTI
Make it Market - Garden Gild for Happiness stamp, Ruby Reprise- thank you stamp and Make it Market kit - Lovely Laurel for the little sequin flowers
Ombre stripes background paper
Wink of Stella pen

Thank you for stopping by today.
Terri

PTI 9th Anniversary 5 minute challenge

This challenge was a very big challenge for me as it usually takes me more than 5 minutes to gather supplies.  Then my eye caught on a Make it Market kit and I knew I was set.
Here is my card

This card is for my best friends birthday next week.  She just loves flowers and birds so I thought this was appropriate.

Supplies -
PTI
Make it Market kit - Lovely Laurel
Aqua mist cardstock
Ink - Berry sorbet and Simply chartreuse

Simon says stamp die - stitched circles

Thank you for stopping by!
Terri