PTI: Create Along With Us

Each month as part of PTI's new release of products, they have a challenge to make a card inspired by a card created by one of the design team members. I chose this card by Dawn McVey.  (I had issues trying to post the card here, sorry!)

I had wanted the thanks die by itself, but it did not "fit" with the hexagon frame segment.  Filling in a few spots gave it the visual help that it needed.  Now I just need to reposition the outermost flower and I will be satisfied! 

PTI Challenge: THROWBACK: MASKING SENTIMENTS

Today's PTI challenge should not have been complicated, but somehow it was.  First, I am trying really hard to use up elements I have saved from project extras, and had a couple of die cuts I knew exactly how I would use to complete the card.  Of course, I could not find them.  Ah, well.

The challenge was to mask a text image, and stamp around it.  I've done lots of masking in the past, and generally it has been masking images for overlap purposes, so I have deliberately undercut images for the mask, so there would be no white spaces.  I realized too late that masking to make an image pop means one should leave some white space for the image to truly stand out.  So, as I have done in the past when I have not been satisfied with the result, I just temporarily glued the panel to a card, and will restamp the text onto a panel and place over the current text.  :-) It was my first time using the floral stamp set from Quilted: Spring, and I really like it.  There are die cuts for the different elements of the image as well.  The scripture comes from the "A Cheerful Heart" set.

PTI Challenge: INK BLENDING ON COLORED CARDSTOCK

I enjoyed this week's challenge, although I'd have liked to have had time to try again. I am trying to be disciplined and use something in my stash every time I make a card ... I have tons and tons of cut stamped and/or die cut items that just collect.  I'm sure most stampers reading this post will relate!  I have a ton of PTI's paisleys all stamped and cut as I went kind of crazy with them awhile ago, so while I focused on white, I only had silver/gold/copper embossed paisleys already made, so I used a silver embossed one where I would have done white had a made one for the challenge. The scripture comes from the Cheerful Heart set.