Win It Wednesday 04/17/19

One of Papertrey Ink's Win it Wednesday challenges this week is to choose something that inspires you and create a card using that inspiration. I have long saved bits of kleenex boxes because they have two complementary designs on many boxes, and it seemed like a perfect opportunity to put one of those ideas to work. This is one of the boxes I saved:

I knew that Text & Texture: Bokeh would replicate one pattern, and the solid leaf from Gathered Garden was a suitable leaf for the other one. I inked my stamps in Blueberry Sky and Enchanted Evening on a Spring Rain background, and mounted the finished pieces on an Enchanted Evening card. It needed some color, so I used the Swoosh set to cut a bright red Birthday greeting.

This was a fun challenge, and I finally got around to playing with one of my kleenex box saves.

Win It Wednesday 02-20-19

Win It Wednesday is PTI's fun new feature, where 3 different challenges are offered each Wednesday. One of the challenges this week is to make something with a favorite color of PTI cardstock. What? They are ALL my faves! I looked back through photos of cards I've made in the past year, and see that although I am an equal opportunity color user, I may use Kraft or Enchanted Evening a bit more than others.

Having said that, one of my favorite PTI colors that I don't see anywhere else is Ocean Tides. I really enjoyed Kelly Lunceford's Offset Gatefold Card post, and used Ruby Rose to die cut flowers and leaves from scraps of patterned paper, and Little Labels for the sentiment.

While I was in gatefold mode and had all the materials out, I made two more, using Enchanted Evening and Pale Peony cardstock, and Your Beautiful Birthday and Sentiment Staples: Welcome for the sentiments.

It was great to be inspired to get out some old products, and also to use up a few patterned paper scraps.

Papertrey Ink January Blog Hop Challenge

The inspiration for this month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge was this image:

I fiddled around and came up with this:

I liked the black and white textures, and used shades of gray to piece together multiple backgrounds, including the Modern Backgrounds stencil. White cake layers from Your Beautiful Birthday didn't show up very well on the gray Square 1, although heat embossed dots in pink and yellow helped a bit. "Celebrate" is from Hooray, and the blue flower from Friendship Jar Flowers.  Colored cake layers or black dots on them probably would have worked better. I think this card is a good candidate to revamp on a future Transformation Tuesday.

As I was pulling out materials to make this, I was thinking just how versatile PTI products are and how much I enjoy finding a suitable stamp or die for what I have in mind!