Card 6 PTI October Blog Hop

Once again, a strange color combination.  How in the world to incorporate all those colors and smoky shadow too.  I liked the contrast on the inspiration photo, but wasn't sure how to pull off gifts with the limited supplies I have and make a Christmas card.  Then I thought, how about just doing a sentiment focal point and using paper piecing to add all the colors.  So that is what I did.  I added all the colors with my twine "tassel" too.


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October Blog Hop: Card 5

This card uses the very unique/strange color combo for the holidays.  I had a really hard time using some of these color combos.  This one is hibiscus burst, summer sunrise, canyon clay, limeade ice, and new leaf.  Very strange indeed.  I tried to infuse as many festive elements as I could with the sequins and twine trimmings.  

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PTI blog hop: Card 4

This card really doesn't stick to any of the color palettes, but it is Christmas themed, newly made, and I figured it fit the blog hop.  We have classic colors of red, cherry, chartreuse, and harvest gold.  I used Year of Flowers poinsettia, and Year of flowers mini, as well as Seasons greetings.

Papertrey Ink Oct. Blog Hop: Card 3

This card was fun to make.  I used Wet Paint holiday words, red, raspberry fizz, new leaf, and hawaiian shores (which looks more blue than turquoise for some reason), pink and green twine, and a hawaiian shores button.   The focal point is supposed to look like a present.



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PTI October Blog Hop: Card 2

Keeping this short and sweet.  I loved the bright cheery colors of the color scheme I used with the shiny silver added in.  I used Vintage Ornaments and Additions, silver embossing, white gold glitter, seam binding ribbon, silver stretchy string, and the following colors: aqua mist, hawaiian shores, raspberry fizz, blueberry sky, and wisteria.


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Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop: card 1

I made more of a wintery card, but I think it works for the challenge.  The stripes look like the texture of a cozy sweater.  I used Blueberry Sky, Hawaiian shores, soft stone, and new leaf inks, and PTI stamps.

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September Blog Hop final card

Here is my last card for this month's blog hop.  I had lots of fun this week putting my own spin on the color and sketch inspirations.  Hope you had fun too.  I so wanted to incorporate the berries and twigs in the picture.  I thought the wonderful wreath set would work great until I found out that it doesn't fit in the limitless layers circles dies which coordinate with mat stack 3.  So I improvised with a little sketchy help from Dawn McVey and came up with this.  The glitter is reminiscent of snow, and the other little details are from the photo.  I just wish my markers worked better on my clear stamps.  They always ink up blotchy no matter how hard I try to make them even, so the mat stack 3 stamp did not turn out very crisp.   And I did not have any small autumn rose colored ribbon, so I used my marker to color this.  My markers are not PTI colors but SU!  In color from last year.  All in all I like it though, crafty flaws and all.  It is homemade right.   Enjoy the blog hop.  I hope to hop around and leave some comments throughout the day too.