Grateful: My First PTI

Hello! I had some time to get inky, so I made a CAS thank you card using my one and only PTI set. I have long admired PTI stamps, but I really can't afford them most of the time. I happened to get this set second-hand from someone who was reducing their stash. Lucky me!

I'm playing along with PTI's Make It Monday #99: Repeats and Rainbows.

Stamps: PTI Spots & Dots, Unity Simple Blessings; inks: Memento inks in Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, Pear Tart and Lilac Posies, Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Spiced Marmalade

I don't have any PTI inks, so I used a mix of Memento and Distress Inks to get as close as I could to one of the color schemes we were asked to follow. I masked off a strip where I wanted the stamping, then used a Unity stamp for the sentiment and a few rhinestones to give it a bit more interest.

Thanks for stopping by today, and have a wonderful day!

Quick card for PTI

It's late, so I've got to run, but I was able to make a quick card tonight for the PTI challenge from yesterday. It called for a sketch using particular colors. I have to say, the card turned out differently than I envisioned it originally. But I really like it!

supplies ~ kraft: Bazzill, cardstock: DCWV Indian Summer (dark blue) & The Paper Company (light blue), ribbon: American Crafts, flowers & button: Making Memories Poolside, sentiment: Unity January Stampin' Store Kit (Livin' and Lovin' Life}

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I never want to get good at these...

Sympathy cards are not my favorite to make. I feel so bad for those for whom I make them because I know that loss is so hard. When my maternal grandmother, a woman who was like a second mother to me, died several year ago, I was so broken. Every sympathy card meant to impart some degree of comfort made me cry all over again because I missed her so much.

Granny knew Christ as her Lord and Savior, so I know I will see her again in Heaven. But that doesn't change the fact that I can't hug her anymore, or laugh at her jokes, or ask her about a recipe I'm having trouble making. She's not there at family gatherings. I still miss her.

So sympathy cards are hard for me to make. I want to let the recipient know I'm praying for them, but I also know that it probably won't bring them any comfort at all. And I wish that no one has to go through the pain of loss. If practice makes perfect, then I don't want to perfect these kinds of cards. I don't want this practice.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ~  Revelation 21:4

Oh, for that day!

supplies ~ cardstock: Georgia Pacific (white) and SU! (Chocolate Chip), dsp: DCWV Old World Stack, pearls: Recollections, image: Unity January Stampin' Store Kit {Livin' and Lovin' Life}, sentiment: {ippity} Just Wanted to Say...

I entered this for PTI's embossed resist challenge.

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{Pretty} Simple PTI

I'm back with another PTI card! I couldn't sleep, and an idea popped into my head for one of the images PTI provided for free. This cute little present was designed to fit inside a nestie circle, so I decided to make a window card. Once the image was matted, I cut a second mat of the same color. Then I used a slightly smaller nestie circle to cut a hole in the mat as well as the card. I embossed the card front with a Sizzix folder, adhered the frame to the front of the card, and lined up the sentiment in the frame before gluing it down to the inside of the card.

I wish I had the ability to recolor the gift, though. I can see a super simple mass production of these cards in all sorts of colors! Plus, you can vary the embossed front to fit a girly girl card (like mine), or choose a more masculine folder for the men in your life. I sure hope PTI offers the option for recoloring!

supplies ~ cardstock: Georgia Pacific (white) & Prism (pink), image: PTI

I'm off to bed - thanks for coming by to look!

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Havin' some PTI fun

I'm sure you all understand that crafting funds are limited. No? You have deep pockets and can afford to get ALL the eye candy you care to have? Well, I'm not so fortunate; I have to watch my pennies!  ;)

In reality, I'm sure you all know exactly what I'm talking about. I love Papertrey Ink stamps, papers and embellishments, but my crafty mad money has run dry. Lucky for me, I have plenty of rubber I haven't inked up yet, so I feel sorta like I got something new whenever I play with one of those sets.

But that doesn't stop me from longing over the gorgeous PTI products that are released every single month. It doesn't quell my wishing that I could go buy the entire bundle package. That certainly doesn't get in the way of my "shopping" where I fill my shopping cart with all that yumminess only to abandon it when I see the number of bucks I'll have to kiss goodbye. So, I enter every comment contest I can *hoping* I'll be a lucky winner of some brand-spankin'-new PTI. But card contests are out since they all require PTI product to enter.

Until now.

There's a new gang of stamp designers over at PTI, and they all designed something digital, FREE, for PTI fans to download and use in a project to WIN some PTI. So you betcha I jumped on THAT bandwagon!

I don't get to play all day in my stamp room, so I had to be choosy. Which one will I play with first ('cuz I'm a slowpoke and the first will most likely be the last)? I really couldn't resist this cute little house with the balloon hanging onto the chimney. It makes me smile every time I see it. So here's my card.

I masked everything to sponge the sky (more on that in my post tomorrow), then colored in the house, balloon and sun with my ZIG ColorTwin markers. I paper-pieced the grass, popped a button on the sun, and added a little Stardust penwork on the clouds, heart on the balloon, chimney and doorknob. To finish it all off, I used a Studio G set to stamp the sentiment.


supplies ~ cardstock: Georgia Pacific (white) & The Paper Company (blue), button: stash, image: PTI, sentiment: Studio G

Thanks for visiting, and have a great evening!

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