Papertrey February Blog Hop Challenge!

Hello everyone!  Today is a day I look forward to every month (other than release night).......the PTI Blog Hop!!!  I am going to keep this fairly short as there were sooo many wonderful entries last month and I want you to hop on your way to visit as many as you can!!

This month's challenge:

This month we decided to dedicate the Blog Hop to scallops!  We want to see your best use of scallops, of any sort, on a project!  This can include scalloped borders, offset-scallops, stamped scallops,  scalloped mats, scalloped frames, layered scallops, scalloped tags or anything else you can dream up! You can use dies, patterned scissors or even circle punches in a row to achieve your special look.

My card:

My scallops include the Doily Details Die, Medium Scallop die, and the scalloped wings of the butterfly from Love Lives Here stamp set.  I am beginning to have fun layering with all these dies now that I have my doily dies!!!  LOVE them!  :)

My fun color combo comes to you from Heather's new challenge:  Totally Hues.  Take a peek at these yummy colors!

{Best Wishes}

All products PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Giga Guidelines, Love Lives Here, Mat Stack 2 Collection

Paper:  Guidelines Cardstock, Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist

Ink:  Aqua Mist, Dark Chocolate, Oasis Green (Versamagic), Raspberry Fizz

Misc:  Mat Stack 4 Die, Doily Details Collection Dies, Love Lives Here Dies, Medium Scallop Die, Pink Rhinestones, Raspberry Fizz Saddlestitch Ribbon, Foam Tape

OTWC #36

This week at Off The Wall Craftiness, it's monochromatic week. 

Check out these wonderful shades of browns! 

For my card this week, I went sophisticated.  It's a wedding Congrats card for

a co-worker.  I decided to use the "letterpress" technique with my Giga Guidelines

Impression Plate.  Oh this is so much fun!  I rubbed my Impression Plate with Dark Chocolate

ink and then ran my kraft cardstock through my Big Shot.  Great results!

This very well may be my standby wedding card!  I like this that much!  Can't you see

 it in different monochromatic colors?  *swoon*  :)

This week's sponsor is Artful Delight.....you must check them out!

Now, let's see your monochromatic goodness this week and don't forget to

link up your creation at OTWC for a sweet little prize!

****I'm sending this over to the Card Creations: Favorite Occasions Congratulations Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
Come check it out!****

{Congrats}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Giga Guidelines, FF #10, Communique Sentiments

Paper:  Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Rustic White

Ink:  Dark Chocolate, Sahara Sand (Versamagic)

Misc:  Foam Tape, Brown Satin Ribbon (M's), Giga Guidelines Impression Plate, FF #10 Die, Brown Pearls (M's)

Papertrey Paper Dolls Challenge #15- Bright, Bold and Beautiful!

I am behind on challenges.......I'll admit it.  Sorry girls!  I will get a card made for every challenge.....I totally missed the InLinkz to one but I will post my card!  This particular week's Papertrey Paper Dolls challenge was hosted by non other than Bonnie Rose.  Please check out her blog......she updates her blog daily with some great creations!  Bonnie's challenge was a photo inspiration challenge using this photo.

I had a very difficult time with this one.........but here is what I finally came up with.

I finally went simple with this challenge.......with COLOR!!  Since Bonnie's challnege was bright and bold, I broke out my copics and colored some butterflies!  Adding a bold sentiment from Giga Guidelines in the center was just what it needed!!

Thanks Bonnie Rose for giving me a challenge to work on! 

Come play along with our challenges!  Link them up so we can see your cards!

{Just Because}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Butterfly Dreams, Giga Guidelines

Paper:  Stamper's Select white

Ink:  True Black, Memento Black

Misc:  Copics, pearls, Scor-tape, Scor-pal, Butterfly die

~~Best Wishes~~

I have been feverishly working on cleaning and reorganizing my stamp room as I have several good friends (a couple of them are on the PTI forum.....Laurie Beth and Jen Carter) coming to my home tomorrow to stamp all day and then we will head to KC for the night and shop 'til we drop on Saturday!!  We have been planning this date for some time and we just can't wait!! 

So, here is a card I made after seeing this beautiful inspirational black and white card the other day (you will have to scroll down to see the card).  I fell in love with the layout and just had to make one of my own!!

I embossed the image from Giga Guidelines with Holographic embossing powder on PTI's Stamper's Select white cardstock.  Using only a black panel, this gives such a nice clean look to this card.

What do you think? 

I am definitely going to make more cards with that black on white panel.  So CAS!!

I may not post for the next few days as I will be having some stamping fun!!

Until next time............

{Best Wishes}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Giga Guidelines and FF #4

Paper:  Stamper's Select white and True Black

Ink:  Versamark and True Black

Misc:  Holographic embossing powder (Ranger), Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars), ribbon (Michaels), oyster baubles (Stampingbella), pop dots