August 2013 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop challenge

I tried my hand at the first challenge set. I saw a flower on the paperytrey website the was featured on a card in the ribbon section of the site. I searched every release sneak peek and preview on Nichols Heady's blog to find put how she did it. I found it...so I tried to recreate that flower on my card using the two dies she used. The leaf vine die and flower fusion #4. I wanted a two tone flower so used melon berry and red poppy with spring moss leaves. I used a stamp in the new autumn pattern pieces to make the lines using melon berry , spring miss, lemon tart. Added a sentiment from stamp set  shapes by design to a kraft paper paper with ribbon notch.

Here is the challenge and link

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August 2013 Paperyrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge

I made this card for the blog hop. I used the Mum's the Word stamp and die set. I cut the mums out of Hawaiian shores paper and inked the image with Stampin Up Pacific Point (replacement for enchanted evening color). I die cut the leaves out of simply chartreuse and stamped in same color. The base of the card is Stampin up Lovely Lilac (replacement for plum pudding). Added a birthday sentiment from mums the Word in SU night of navy (replacement for royal velvet) stamped on white cardstock and notched the end. Finished with a strip of simply chartreuse and night of navy paper and clear rhinestones for flower centers. I really love the colors in this.

Here is the fast food challenge:

July 2013 Blog Hop challenge #3

This is using the first color challenge. I incorporated black as well to really make the paper pop. I die cut pure poppy, raspberry fizz and berry sorbet with the new rainbow dies. Love those dies. I colored sheer Maya road blossoms with matching copic markers and attached with dimensional dot with a silver embellished brad. Added pops of simply chartreuse with the leaves and sentiment. Finished with sprinkling of red sequins. Made a similar card for summer card camp 2 and wanted to try new colors.

July 2013 Papertrey Blog Hop Challenge #2

This is using the second set of colors. Melon berry, new leaf, summer sunrise and I substituted SU so saffron for harvest gold. I love piecing different colored papers together to add small details. I did this with the new leaf tabs on sentiment and behind ribbon by using a circle punch and then cutting that in half then quarters. I think it adds fun detail. I stamped the flowers using the rock n roll method with melon berry and summer sunrise. Finishing it with glossy accents for some shine and dimension. Added summer sunrise bow.

July 2013 Papertrey Blog Hop challenge card #1

Using the 5th color combo. SU Pumpkin Pie for Orange Zest, Summer sunrise, lemon tart, SU Certainly Celery for Limeade Ice and New leaf. I wanted to break out my new dies and make something bright, fresh and clean. This is what I came up with.

June 2013 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Papertrey Ink does a Blog Hop to get everyone inspired over a certain theme. This month it is anything to do with GOLD.

the challenge can be found here. I love accents in gold, anything shiny and glittery is so fun to add to cards for an additional pop..
I used gold embossing powder to really make my flowers stand out in this set and stamped and embossed the image on vellum paper that had flecks of gold in it.
I wanted the flowers to be the central image, so I used watermark ink to stamp the leaves, so they would be more like a background image.