Make It Monday #125: Defined Watercolors

Watercoloring seems to be so trendy right now.  Papertrey Ink's Erin Lincoln shows how to increase your paint palette with your ink pads for a new look. By using watercolors and inks that closely match it is fun to define your water coloring images.

 Supplies: PTI inks, watercoloring paper, distress markers,Wildflower Stamp set and watercoloring paints.

I had so much fun with this technique I decided to try it with a couple of different watercoloring products.

 Distress markers and distress Inks

 

Gelatos and Papertrey Inks

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Summer Card Class 2 Week 1

This week started a fun new adventure with Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner. For the next 3 weeks the Summer Card Class 2 will be given a color combination to follow as well as 3 fun sketches. Here are this week's color combo and sketch drawings.







Posted here are my cards on this week's challenges.
Monday- using the sketches and color palette:

Tuesday- color palette only:

Wednesday using the color combo for this week:

Thursday- 10 minute challenge with color palette:

Friday- Bonus color combinations

I choose the third color combo from the top for this card.

Jennifer showed how to make hatch marks on your paper with  pencil lines first, then stamp images and after stamping is complete erase the pencil lines going lightly over stamped images. I think next time I will do my pencil lines a little darker so they show up a bit more.

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Make It Monday #124 Decorated Envelopes

Melissa Phillip for Papertrey Ink with some helpful tips and a gorgeous project to inspire you to dress up your envelopes so that they can be just as pretty as the cards inside.
I needed a wedding card for an upcoming wedding and since I had planed to give the couple a give card as gift, I thought a fun wedding card and decorated envelope were just the perfect gift.

 I also entered my wedding card in the Summer Card Camp 2 challenge.

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Summer Card Camp 2

The first Pre-Class Challenge for the Summer Card Class 2 was to use at least 4 of the 5 colors shown here.

My card uses Papertrey Ink product~ Chevron CP, Mat Stack 6, In Bloom stamp set, Beautiful Butterflies(sentiment). Cardstock/Ink-Soft Stone, Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet, Smoky Shadow, White

Pre-Class Challenge 2

The second challenge is a sketch challenge using the sketch shown here:

 Supplies: Papertrey Ink My Mother My Friend die, Star Grazer Additions, Royal Velvet ink. Pink Paislee stars coated with Faber Castell Gelatos and Tim Holtz Broken China Ink.

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Make It Monday #123: Making Your Own Paint

Ashley Cannon Newall shows a really fun tutorial on making your custom colored paint with your reinkers and gesso on this week's Make It Monday for Papertrey Ink.

Luckily, I had recently picked up a bottle of gesso at my local Walmart, so I was able to try this very fun challenge. I stamped a linen bag with Stitches and Swirls, then painted it with gesso and reinkers. My card was made by painting the gesso/reinker onto a piece of sticky backed canvas and then stamping my design on. I ran the canvas piece through my Grand Calibur with the Quartrefoil CP as an impression plate to add a little extra texture to the card.

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Supplies:
Papertry Ink Quartrefoil CP, Gesso, New Leaf, Orange Zest and Royal Velvet reinkers,Chia tea ink, Beautiful Butterflies, Stitches and Swirls stamp sets. Brilliance Black Ink was used to stamp on the linen bag.

Make It Monday #122: Polka Dot Texture With Copic Markers

Turn to your markers next time you want to add some textural detail to your stamped projects. They can be used for much more than just coloring and shading.

Supplies:
PTI Garden Variety and dies, Ruby Rose and dies, Picket Fence die cut, Copic Markers.

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop Challenge

Supplies: PTI Royal Velvet Ink, Think Big Favorites, Square Prints and Delicate Gold Ink
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Make It Monday #121: Colored Vellum Flowers

This week PTI Design Team member Betsy Veldman showcased how she makes those beautiful cards with vellum and ink. This is my first card using this fun technique.

Supplies: PTI Quartrefoil CP, Zing white embossing powder,MS black embossing powder,Yr of the Flowers Mums stamp and dies, vellum. Inks~ Canyon Clay, Harvest Gold, Memento Yellow, Ripe Avocado and Simply Chartreuse.

My second card uses the same vellum resist technique with the Yr of the  Flowers Gladiolus stamp and dies,

the background stamp is a hero arts lattice stamp.

Inks~Scarlet Jewel, Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse, and Vintage Cream

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Make It Monday #120: Overlapping Ombre

This week's MIM showcases a fun, popular technique taught by Papertrey Ink's own Nicole Heady.
Nicole shows  how to use basic images, borders and sentiments in a stylized way to create beautiful overlapping ombre focal points!

Supplies~all PTI unless noted
Cream CS, INK- Sweet Blush, Lavender Moon, Winter Wisteria, Royal Velvet, Simply You stamp set,Washi Tape

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Make It Monday #119: Flagged Borders

Dawn McVey's Make It Monday challenge was to make a card with flags as a border. I used a piece of watercolor paper I had colored with Dylusion sprays by Ranger. To that I added PTI CS stamped with various stamp designs.

 

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Make It Monday #118: Photo Postcards

This week Ashley Cannon Newall shows us how to  personalized postcard to send to somebody you care about and want to show them what's new with you.
 

Supplies: PTI Thinking Big Favorites, my back yard Butterfly bush
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May 2013 Blog Hop Challenge

This month we are giving you an entire rainbow of "bouquet builder" color schemes to incorporate into a new floral project.  Just pick your favorite floral set at the moment, pull out the ink colors for one of the gorgeous inspiration pieces above and create! 

Supplies:PTI The Sweet Life, Boutique Borders, Botanical Silhouette, inks listed above.   

Supplies: PTI Qutrefoil CP, Larger than Life, Rosie Posie, YofF Gladiolus, Dark Chocolate CS and Stampers Select CS,bitty background blocks, ink colors listed above.

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May 2013 Blog Hop Challenge

This month we are giving you an entire rainbow of "bouquet builder" color schemes to incorporate into a new floral project.  Just pick your favorite floral set at the moment, pull out the ink colors for one of the gorgeous inspiration pieces above and create!

Supplies: PTI Embroidered Blooms, inks listed above. 

Supplies-PTI Year of the Flower Lily of the Valley, Friendship Summer (Bow) Inks colors listed above

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May 2013 Blog Hop Challenge

This month we are giving you an entire rainbow of "bouquet builder" color schemes to incorporate into a new floral project.  Just pick your favorite floral set at the moment, pull out the ink colors for one of the gorgeous inspiration pieces above and create!

supplies: PTI  Happiness in Bloom, Inks listed above

May 2013 Blog Hop Challenge

 

 This month we are giving you an entire rainbow of "bouquet builder" color schemes to incorporate into a new floral project.  Just pick your favorite floral set at the moment, pull out the ink colors for one of the gorgeous inspiration pieces above and create! 

supplies:
PTI Cutting Garden, all of the above ink colors. 

supplies: PTI Larger than Life, Year of the Flower Gladiolus, Twist Cover Plate,  inks listed above.

Make It Monday #117: Paper Piecing

supplies: PTI Friend's til the End, Bead Paper Pack, Movers and Shakers sentiments, Rustic Cream CS.
Purchased crochet flower and brad,

Make It Monday #116: Adding Texture to Stamps

For this week's Make It Monday  Betsy Veldman shows us how to use household items to add texture to stamps. In her video Betsy uses a comb to add texture to her solid stamps and while I have plenty of old comb around the house I decided to challenge myself with different household items to create texture on my solid stamps. I used my meat tenderizer hammer to create texture. On pink Hibiscus Burst flower I used the side of the hammer that has small raised dots, and on the Berry Sorbet flower and leaves I used the other side of hammer and ran the hammer across the inked stamp like Betsy did with her comb. I also love Dawn's new Ruby Rose stamp set that comes out this week, especially the leaves. I used two inks on the leaves to help create extra interest.

Supplies:
PTI Happiness in Bloom stamp set, Stamper Select paper, gem dots, Candi paper dots.
Inks~Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate, New Leaf and Simply Chartreuse
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