Penny Black Winter Berries

Hi,
Making a couple of cards for a card exchange; one of my categories is Christmas.  A couple of Christmases ago I ordered several Penny Black stamps online and I keep them like prized possessions in a special wooden box shaped like a trunk!  Although  now most of my purchases are cling or clear stamps, I tend to buy background and less trendy sentiment styles in wood.  Most valuable information!  Here is my card:

Have a wonderful day!

Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI Stampers Select White

Stamps:  PB Winter Berries, Stampabilities Sentiment

Ink:  Tsukineko Versafine Black,  SU! Marina Mist, Soft Sky

Other:  Ranger Diamond Stickles, Recollections Clear EP

Embossing Folder Watercolor Background

Hi,
I have been admiring this embossing folder technique and finally had a chance to try it.  This is such a great technique as as it is quick and simple, and you get a slightly or very different result each time you do it.
Enjoy your day,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  SU Soft Sky,  Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Ink:  Ranger Distress Faded Jeans,  Evergreen Bough,  Broken China, Versafine Onyx Black
Stamps:   SSS Summer Garden
Other:  Memory Box Dancing Tulip Die, SU Hexagon Embossing Folder, Ranger Crystal Effects

Make It Monday #166

Hi,
Have 3 days off work so I thought I 'd take part in this fun challenge!  I don't have a whole lot of PTI dyes, and I have discovered that several that  I do own are joined together, like many of the flower and leaf dyes. The biggest challenge was choosing a dye where the flowers  were at least oriented in the same direction.
So here it is, using Rosie Posie.  As usual, this was fun and whenever I partake in these challenges, I always think, why don't I do these every week?  Guess it's that little TIME  thing.
Cheers,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy
Stamps:  PTI Rosie Posie, Signature Greetings
Other:  PTI Rosie Posie Dye

Mama Elephant Summer Garden CASE Card

Hi,
Perhaps it is the new spring growth that inspired me to make (copy) some cards.  It doesn't really matter; I had fun and like what I made! Love the detail in these new Mama Elephant stamps, they are so pretty.
After seeing this card, I actually bought (ordered online) the same stencil, waited for it to arrive, and made the card.  That rarely happens as I live in Atlantic Canada and it can take 3 weeks for parcels to arrive from the US and by then I have other ideas. But this time my order arrived in 8 days! Makes for a happy girl!
Cheers,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI Stampers Select White
Stamps:  Mama Elephant Summer Garden, Hero Arts Happy Birthday
Ink:  Versafine Black, SU Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizazz, Cool Caribbean, Ranger Distress Broken China
Accessories:  Balzer Designs Stencil, Li'l Inker Tag Dye, ME Flower Dies

Winter Berries

Hi,
I was having trouble coming up with a card idea, when I decided to take a favorite stamp and just make something.  Sometimes I spend too much time looking on the computer for that perfect card, when I could be making a card. Some cards I will like, some I won't, but that is all part of creating.  So here is my card using the Penny Black Winter Berries stamp.

Cheers,

Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI White, Vintage Cream

Stamps:  PB Winter Berries

Ink:  Ranger Distress Weathered Wood, SU! Soft Sky, 

Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Red Stickles, Sponges

Snow Swirled Christmas Tree

Hi,
I am in the Christmas card making mode, which is a good thing as a friend and I will be selling a few cards at a local Christmas craft fair in November.  I have several wooden Christmas Tree stamps that I keep in a wooden box ,they are my very favorites.  The tree in this card is from a Stampin Up! set Snow
Swirled, which never seems to go out of style.

Have a wonderful day,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI Soft Stone
Stamps:  SU Snow Swirled, Stampabilities Sentiment
Ink:  SU Real Red, Versamark
Other:  Spellbinders Nestabilites Rectangles, Stampendous White EP, Clear EP

Wordsworth Trees

Hi,
Had this stamp for a few years and haven't done much with it so scouted the internet today for some ideas and am severely copying this card.  Being the CAS girl that I am, it is now a one-layer.  Hope you like it,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI White
Stamps:  Wordsworth Trees
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Versamark
Other:  Copic Multiliner

Christmas Comes in Many Colors

Hi,
I know it's been ages since I posted, what can I say, I am not great at spending time on computer during our warm sunny days!  I keep on making cards though and every so often I make one that I feel the need to share!

And here are samples of the other colors:

Thanks for looking!

Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI  White, Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Hawaiian Shores, Dark Chocolate

Stamps:  PTI Stylish Sentiments: Holiday, Stampabilities Ornament

Ink:  Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Soft Sky, Caribbean Blue, Not Quite Navy, Ranger Distress Weathered Wood,  Copics

Other:  Memory Box Woodland Branch Die, Stampendous EP

Woodland Branch Card

Hi,
Got  this new Memory Box die and just had to use it.  I do LOVE those dies!  Here is the card:

Cheers,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI Rustic White
Stamps:  PTI Iconic Images, Hero Arts Grid Pattern
Ink:  Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Old Olive, Soft Sky, NQN
Other: Memory Box Woodland Branch Die, Sizzix Flower Die, Stampendous White EP

Make It Monday #114

Hi,
This card was created  for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday using an "ink blowing technique". I thought this sounded a little hokey and I considered foregoing the challenge, but I'll have to be honest and confess that the prize spoke to me! Have a grand day,

Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream Watercolor paper(for the doily)

Stamps:  Daydreamer

Ink:  Ranger Distress Ink Refill Broken China, Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

Other:  PTI Doily Die, Dimensional Tape

Make It Monday # 111

Hi,
I feel so out of the loop, I haven't been posting anything but here goes.  I have to say I loved doing this watercolor embossing technique, it was just so darned fun!  And don't you love when you can take out a stamp set you've had for a long time and create something all brand new? Have a wonderful day.
Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI White,Soft Stone

Stamps:  Year of Flowers: Violets

Ink and Reinkers:  Ranger Distress Shabby Shutters, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, SU! Old Olive

Other:  Copic Fine Liner Marker, Beinfang Aqua Brush

Make It Monday # 105

Hi,
I looked at the PTI Make It Monday and had 18 minutes to make a card, get a photo, post it to my blog  and  upload to Papertrey.  Came close but didn't quite make it!  Perhaps I work better under pressure because I had previously made a card but didn't upload it due to a high ugly factor!  Hope this is a little prettier.  Enjoy your day,

Val 

Materials:
Paper:  C/S  PTI Vintage Cream
Stamps:  PTI  Fancy Flourishes, Daydreamer
Ink:  SU Real Red
Other:  Sook Wang tape, Glitter Ritz Glitter, PTI Edger Die

Birthday Card for a Friend

Hi,
Can you believe I have completed  2 posts in less than one week!  I have been again inspired by Papertrey Ink, ok maybe the threat of winning a prize has a motivating factor.  Also I needed a card for a friend, and this friend is a very good cardmaker herself so I wanted to make something I thought she might like.  Anyway, the PTI challenge today is to use a watercolor technique or look, so I made some "spray paint" with a reinker and "painted " a background on watercolor paper before stamping it.  This is what I came up with:

Cheers,
Val

Materials:
Paper:  PTI C/S Rustic White, Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Stamps:  PTI Daydreamer, Framed Out #1, Tag Its #5
Ink:  Ranger Distress Broken China
Other:  Memory Box Dies 

Rosie Posie Meets Harvest Berries

I am so enjoying all of the inspiration and festivities at Papertrey Ink these past several days. And oh the prizes! Managed to whip up a card in the midst of shovelling out of about 35 cm (14 inches) of snow!  It has been such a winter wonderland this year so far.   I chose to use Sketch # 2, which you can see here. This is what I came up with:

Thanks for looking,
Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI C/S White

Stamps:  PTI Harvest Berries, Asian Fusion, Rosie Posie

Ink:  SU Black, Burgandy; Versamark

Other:  Stampendous Clear EP,  DeSerres Ribbon, EK Success Circle Punch

Layered Embossing

Hi,

Made this card for the Make It Monday Challenge #101 which requires heat embossing over a previously embossed area;  the details are HERE.   I almost always think I need to rush out and get just the right stamp set for each particular challenge, but then (sometimes) I return to my senses and endeavour to make use of my existing supplies, which i am thinking, is good for the creativity side of things. I am so enjoying our  cold but very bright winter this year.  Yes, that is snow in the background! 

Cheers,

Val

Materials:

Paper:  PTI C/S: Soft Stone, Bazill White

Stamps:  PTI Asian Fusion, Turning a New Leaf, Signature Greetings; Unity Grain Background

Ink:  Versamark, SU Basic Black

Other:  Stampendous Clear Embossing Powder, Stampendous White Embossing Powder, PTI Heart Dies