Friday, January 25, 2013

Black Backgrounds - PTI January Blog Hop

Today's card is one I had so much fun creating! I just let my inner artist come out to play! Paint brushes, glitter paint, acrylic paint, stamps, dies, embossing powder, paper and embellishments... Oh happy day!

Papertrey Ink has a monthly blog hop with a different theme every time. This month the challenge is to make a card with a black background. Turns out this is a lot of fun, and something I will definitely do again. I can't believe I made a card with no patterened paper! =)





I used Papertrey Ink Stitches and Swirls, Beautiful Butterflies, Mat Stack 2 Collection stamp sets, Smokey Shadow, Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz and Stamper's Select White Cardstock,  Hawaiian Shores Button, Tattered Angels Pink Lipstick, Mermaid, and Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam, Cuttlebug Hexagon Folder, and my favorite little Studio Calico Mistables Butterfly.


Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your day!

Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 86

I am so excited to bring you this week's Deconstructed Sketch card!

It is my first card as a full-fledged member of the DS Design Team! Hooray! If you visit my blog very often, you will see that I am a big fan of Jen and her amazing sketches, so I am super happy to be a full-time Deconstructed Sketch Girl, and playing along with the awesome Design Team every week now!

So, without further ado....

this week's sketch:


and my interpretation thereof:


I pulled out some old October Afternoon papers (Hometown, I think) and my new Hero Arts/Studio Calico Heyday Sentiments Stamp set that I just can't get enough of, and lots of punches and dies, and went to town!  Of course, no card is complete without a happy little butterfly, so my trusty little Studio Calico Mistables Butterfly came out and was dressed in a coat of Tattered Angels Frost Glimmer Mist before lighting on a lovely October Afternoon chipboard doily! The scroll die and stamp is by Verve... another one of my favorites!

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be sure to check out the other Design Team members blogs to see how they have interpreted this week's awesome sketch, and then I hope you will play along too! The list for you to add your link to and all the details are over at Jen's blog.
Have a fantastic day!
 
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