PTI anniversary - inspiration challenge

For day 1 of the anniversary celebrations, we were to pick a colour combo and a sketch as the starting point for our creations. Here's what I came up with.

And below are the colour combo and sketch I used.

Materials used:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar white, 

Neenah Desert storm (shadow layer for flower and leaves)

Simon Says Stamp (pink and green)

Stamps - Crackled, Filled with Joy (both PTI)

Inks - Fine linen (PTI), Surf blue (SSS), Archival Jet Black (Ranger)
Dies - PTI SAF 2014 kit

Sequin - Studio Calico

Adhesive - Glossy accents, foam tape

Challenges:

PTI - Day 1 Inspiration cards

Seize the Birthday - Anything goes (no toppings for me)

Craft your Passion - 248 Always anything goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything goes
Addicted to Stamps - #131 Anything goes

PTI anniversary challenges

Papertrey Ink is hosting a number of challenges this week to celebrate their 8th anniversary. Day 3 challenge was to create a tag with/for a matching gift bag.

Here's a close-up of the tag:

I wasn't actually planning to play along with this one, but I had this gift for a sweet friend who was celebrating her birthday this week and I just happened to have the perfect (recycled) gift bag to put it in. That's when I decided I should make a matching gift tag and play along with the PTI challenge.
Since the bag was all white and sliver, I decided I could also play along with the PTI Heavy metal challeng for day 7.

I used Ranger's Liquid platinum embossing powder to heat emboss the pretty background image (PTI, Crackled mini stamp set) and then die cut the tag before heat embossing the sentiment (PTI, SAF 2014 kit). I also heat embossed an extra strip of cardstock and used that to die cut the flower and two leaves (PTI, SAF 2014 kit). To add yet a little more sparkle, I added a few silver sequins (Pretty Pink Posh) and attached the tag to the bag using a piece of recycled ribbon and some white twine.

Challenges:

PTI - Day 3 Bagged and tagged

PTI - Day7 Heavy metal

Crafts4Eternity - R#213 ~ Two's

Party Time Tuesdays - #195 Anything goes

Happy B-day 2 you

My third card in a row features stamps from Winnie&Walter (Bigger bang flurries) and CAS-ual Fridays (Bold wishes) and a die by Simon Says Stamp (Bundle of stitched shapes).

I used another fun technique from the current OCC CAS4 class by stamping the images using Gesso and applying distress inks (Broken china and Faded jeans) after the gesso had dried. The gesso resists the inks.

The silvery strips and the flower embellishment were made using Ranger's Liquid platinum embossing powder and the sentiment was heat embossed in white (Simon Says Stamp) onto some Neenah solar white card stock that was given the desired colour using Glass slipper ink (Studio Calico). To finish things off, I wrapped some white twine (local supermarket) around the card, mounted the layers onto my Neenah cardstock and added white Enamel accents for the flower hearts.

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Challenges:

Winnie&Walter - Colour challenge

Friday mashup -195 Sketch plus 2 different embellishments

Allsorts - 296 Flower power
SSS Wednesday challenge - Anything goes
Seize the birthday - Anything birthday goes