Papertrey Make it #284:background stamping with sentiment stamps

This week's Make it Monday over at Papertrey Ink is all about repeated sentiments.  I went to town stamping a background for a sympathy card and prepping a baby card as well.

I used a Botanical Silhouettes sentiment for the background, repeatedly stamping with Fresh Ink blue sage.  I added a stamped image from my beloved Lovely Layers set using Fresh Ink Blush three times MISTI stamped and then the edges with Peach.  I love being able to do this with the MISTI!

I will save the Welcome Baby card for when I find out if it's a boy or a girl and the name as I love to personalize baby cards ...

Father's Day card - love

I have been a bit obsessed with cover plates.  I made a card set of cover plate cards (see my instagram account) and made another for my Father's Day card.  A simple design - a black cover plate die cut over a cream card base.

 I added a blinked Wet Paint die cut in gold glittered paper with five layers below of cardstock to add some dimension and pop it up a bit.  Super simple but well received by my dear father. <3 p="">

And here is a sympathy card I made for a colleague - very simple.  I used the Giga Guidelines medallion with a Graceful Garden sentiment.

I used my trusty MISTI to do some ombre stamping with two aqua Avery Elle colours.  I love that you can stamp over and over again in the same position for some depth.

The background is the Text Impression plate for some texture.  I love my impression plates for this very purpose!

PTI Blog Hop - Aqua/Melon: with sympathy

This month's blog hop over at Papertrey Ink is all about this gorgeous colour combination:

I had to make a sympathy card earlier this week for a dear friend and decided to use these colours as my inspiration.

I used one of my beloved sets, Natural Beauties, to stamp the flowers with Fresh Pool ink all over the card panel.  I removed a section and used that space to stamp a Fillable Frames sentiment using Fresh Peach ink.

I covered the panels with lots and lots of foam dots and adhered it to the card base to add some dimension.

I quite like the look of the flowers without all the layers - the graphic is a little more airy and light ... Next time I do a card with a panel cut out, I will make sure to cut it lower (or higher) ... I didn't really mean to centre it but that's how it turned out ... alas! :)

Check out my crafty sale if you like:
http://cardsbycara.blogspot.ca/2013/06/crafty-sale.html
I also have some Project Life cards from the Midnight collection as well.

Supplies:
Paper: Recollections 110lb white
Stamps: PTI Natural Beauties, Fillable Frames
Ink: Fresh Pool and Peach
Misc: foam dots

with sympathy

I had to make a sympathy card and kept it super simple.  A colleague's sister in law took her life and I wanted to make sure the family knew they were in our thoughts ... sympathy cards are never easy to make so I kept it one layered and basic.

I used PTI's Leave it Be stamp set with Pear and Tuscan Olive Fresh inks.  I just love the graphic style of this set - so nice and bold.

 The two toned stamping is so fun and adds a nice depth to a one layer card.

The sentiment is from the Peaceful Garden set - stamped in Turquoise Fresh ink.  I love the font on this one.

So what are your go to stamps for sympathy cards?

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Check out my crafty sale if you like:
http://cardsbycara.blogspot.ca/2013/06/crafty-sale.html
I also have some Project Life cards from the Midnight collection as well.

Supplies:
Paper: 110lb white
Ink: Fresh Tuscan Olive, Pear, Turquoise
Stamps: PTI Leave it Be, Peaceful Garden

PTI August Blog Hop + SAF2013: homemade mists

I combined Papertrey's Blog Hop inspiration colours and sketch with the homemade mists from Stamp-A-Faire 2013.  I made a pale purple mist using Fresh Silver Lilac ink combined with water and Perfect Pearls in Pearl.  The resuts were a shimmery lavender mist. 

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So here's my card using all the elements:

I used the Circles cover plate as a mask and misted a white piece of card stock.  This was a lot of fun - I am definitely going to be making some more mists!! 

I then cut out a circle and added some Mini Blooms and leaves stamped with Versafine Black Onyx.  I added the Botanical Silhouettes sentiment using Navy ink from Fresh as my Enchanted Evening.

 Here's a close up with the misted layer - in person it has a gorgeous sheen to it.

The shot above also shows all the foam dots I used to pop up the circle and then the flowers and leaves.  Lots of dimension for this card.

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If you are looking for some crafty supplies, check out my sale page here to see if anything catches your eye.  I've got grid journaling cards, an impression plate and some stamps!  

Supplies:

Paper: Staples 110lb white, Hawaiian Shores, Enchanted Evening, Plum Pudding, Royal Velvet, Simply Chartreuse

Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Fresh Navy

Stamps: PTI Botanical Silhouettes, Mini Blooms

Misc: Perfect Pearls in Pearl, water, Fresh Silver Lilac reinker, foam dots

His and Hers online class - Day Three: with sympathy watercolour style

 For this card, I tried Jennifer's method of watercolouring over light ink but it didn't work out that well for me - a big hot mess, unfortunately!  Not sure if it was me or the ink or what but I went with plan B and heat embossed the image with Versamark and some gold Zing embossing powder.

 Then I watercoloured with an aqua brush and some Distress Markers scribbled on an acrylic block.

I added the sympathy sentiment using one of the Fillable Frames sets and stamped it on spring moss using the fabulously crisp Versafine Black Onyx ink.  I mounted it on foam dots since the rest of the card and panel were sitting flat. 

Watercolouring makes me feel like an artiste (yup, arteeeest) even though I am SOOOOOOOOO not!! :-P

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Kraft, Spring Moss, watercolour paper
Ink: Versamark, Versafine Black Onyx 
Misc:  Distress Inks, foam dots, Zing gold embossing powder

His and Hers Day Three/10 Minute Craft Dash - with sympathy

I tried my hand at another sympathy card using the 10 minute craft dash colour combo - this is a beautiful group of shades together ... and the third day of the His and Hers challenge was all about sympathy cards.  It's always good to have a few on hand as you are never in the right frame of mind when you actually need one of these cards.  They are also great to add to card sets as they are (unfortunately) necessary at one time or another.

This card came together pretty quickly - I used Birch, Sicilian Blue and Sugar inks for the ikat stamping and overlaid the sentiment from PTI's Think Big set in Chocolate.

I popped up the white panel on foam dots and attached it to a kraft card base.  Easy peasy and done in only 4 minutes and 24 seconds.  Whoo hoo! :-)

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Kraft, Staples 110lb white
Stamps: PTI Irresistible Ikat, Think Big
Inks: Fresh Sicilian Blue, Sugar, Birch, Chocolate
Misc: foam dots

His and Hers Day Three/10 Minute Craft Dash#17 - here for you

Day three of the online class His and Hers covered sympathy cards.  I decided to combine this with a new to me challenge, the 10 minute craft dash.  I managed to make the card in under ten minutes!

I think I was more concerned about keeping track of the time and continuing to refresh my phone's screen to check the time! :)  I got my card stock, inks and stamps all ready to go before beginning which is allowed, according to the rules. 

I stamped the flowers from Natural Beauties in Sicilian Blue ink and then overlaid the line image in Birch.  I added the inner embellished dots in Sugar and Fuchsia before gluing down some irridescent sequins.  I think it took longer for me to cut the sequins and adhere them than the stamping!

I added the sentiment onto a piece of spring rain card stock using a Think Big sentiment in Birch and added it on foam dots.  I got this card made in just under the allowed time - 9:42!  Have you ever tried to time yourself to make a card in under ten minutes?  It's a great way to challenge yourself so I encourage you to try it out ...

Supplies:
Paper: Staples 110 lb white, PTI spring rain
Ink: Fresh Sicilian Blue, Birch, Sugar, Fuchsia
Stamps: PTI Think Big, Natural Beauties
Misc: irridescent sequins, foam dots

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are definitely the hardest ones to make ... you are upset that you have lost someone and not really in the right frame of mind to craft ... But they still need to be made and so it was with a heavy heart that I stamped this one.

My second cousin in Europe just lost her husband in a motorcycle accident on his way home from work ... He was only in his early 40s and such a vibrant sweet guy to everyone he met.  Needless to say it has come as a big shock to our family.  I am sending this to her so that she knows I am thinking of her.

I used the gorgeous Natural Beauties set from Papertrey and stamped in Jenni Bowlin malted milk, brown sugar and weather vane.  I stamped the Think Big Favourites sentiment in brown sugar as well and impressed it with the woodgrain impression plate.  I edged the panel with some Chai vintage touch ink from the tea dye duo and mounted it on Aqua Mist.  I made an envelope with some lightweight kraft paper and my trusty scoring board.  I stamped the angled label in Frost White ink from Colorbox - it is such a great white!

I will mail it off tomorrow to my cousin and lend her any support I can during this difficult time ...

Supplies

Paper: PTI Aqua Mist, Staples 110lb white, lightweight kraft paper from stash for the envelope
Stamps: PTI Natural Beauties, Angled Labels, Think Big Favourites
Ink: Jenni Bowlin malted milk, brown sugar, weather vane; PTI chai vintage tea dye; Colorbox Frost White
Misc: PTI Woodgrain impression plate, MS scoring board
 

With Deepest Sympathy

Sympathy cards are never easy to make ... I try to keep them simple and tasteful.  I had to make one the other day and this is what I came up with:

 I did some simple scoring and added Stickles for a bit of bling.

Supplies:
Paper: Staples 110lb
Stamps: PTI Asian Fusion
Ink: Brilliance pearlescent blue, Versafine Onyx Black
Misc: Stickles, MS Scoring Board

Sympathy cards

Sympathy cards are never easy to make but I needed two for tomorrow so here's what I came up with.  A white base, a grey layer and some charcoal chalk ink with my new In Bloom stamp set. 

 

To add some interest, I used Liquid Pearls in white opal and Stickles in Blue to colour in the centre of the flowers.

On the inside, I stamped a leaf image from the same set and then used a steel blue sentiment from Asian Fusion.

 For some reason, I can't change the orientation of this image; my apologies!

Supplies:

Paper: Staples white, grey

Stamps: PTI In Bloom, Asian Fusion

Ink: Colorbox Charcoal Chalk Ink, Fresh Steel Blue

Misc: Liquid Pearls white opal, Stickles, glue dots