PTI Christmas card

Hello again,

Two posts in one day! You've got to make make the best of a dull wet day.

My second post is to join in with this weeks challenge over at LIM. This week its a

RECIPE

3 - 2 - 1

This week we have a simple idea for you to use as the focus of your cards.

All that you need to do is to incorporate 3 of something, 2 of something and 1 of something else!

I decided to make another Christmas card to add to my pile and came up with this

I cut 3 square apertures, stamped 2 snowflake stamps and added 1 sentiments stamp.

I rounded the corner and set the panel on adhesive foam to give some dimension.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

Hugs

Carol x

PTI masculine birthday card

Hello everyone and welcome to a wet Bank Holiday weekend in Manchester. Am I downhearted? Not a chance, because it gives me a good excuse to stay indoors and craft today. I can't hang any washing out, we are not entertaining this weekend so I don't need to be in the kitchen and all this equals one happy gal settling in for the day!

Today is PTI bloghop day and we were given these lovely photos to inspire us

Aren't the pictures gorgeous and autumnal? Even though I don't want to wish the last of the summer away, I was really drawn to the textures and colours in these pics. I decided to pick out some of the colours, and the herringbone and argyle patterns for my card. I have a lot of trouble making cards for men but I think this one would do.

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I cut out a herringbone pattern in brown card with my Silhouette Cam and matted it onto fine linen card. I used canyon clay and spring moss ink to stamp the argyle pattern and sentiment tag, and a couple of brads and some scraps of ribbon finished it all off.

Thanks for looking and enjoy the hop.

Hugs

Carol x

Christmas tree card

Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to Aida, Jenny, Guylaine and Shirley who are new followers this week. I'm sorry that I have been absent for a while but I have been busy decorating and reorganising my pantry and it took far longer than I anticipated. It had become a dumping ground for all sorts of non food related items, but now all the out of date dry goods and spices have been purged, the space has been painted and new shelves fitted so that I now have no excuse for letting it get into such a dreadful state again. I just need to make labels for all the lovely new glass storage jars lining the shelves, and the job is done.

I have to confess that I did find time to make a card for last week's LIM challenge for a one layer card but the result was so bad I couldn't enter it and it ended up in the bin! I don't know why I find it so hard to do a single layer card, but I have to accept that I do. I was thrilled that Mandie and Chrissie chose to showcase my card for the sketch challenge and I will display their badge with pride, once I can work out how to do it, that is!!!! I am still technically challenged.

The LIM challenge this week is to use tearing on a card and I decided to make another Christmas card to lessen the load as Christmas draws closer

This was a very simple card. I just die cut a PTI tree out of 4 shades of green card and then tore them to bits and reassembled them. Some little red pearls for ornaments and a couple of sentiments finished it off. I did put the tree on foam pads to give a little dimension and matted a thin red layer of card to help it stand out from the cream base but I hope it still counts as CAS?

If you get chance, do go and look at the entries on this challenge - there are some very talented people out there!

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Carol x

PTI Celebrate card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Dotty Jo who is a new follower this week. I've just come back from a pleasant few days away with my daughter and we spent our time exploring Chester and the Wirral, eating too much and watching the Olympics when we could. I'm not usually one for watching much sport but I've been quite moved when watching some of the medal ceremonies and seeing how proud the athletes are of their wonderful achievements. I embarrassed DD by getting tearful in the middle of a Department Store that was showing a mixed South African team getting a gold medal to the sound of the SA National Anthem. Wonderful stuff.

Well when I got back I wanted to play a little so I looked at this week's LIM challenge which is to use green and blue together on a card. Mandie and Chrissie mention the old saying 'Blue & Green should not be seen, Unless there's a colour in between!' I've never understood this saying because, in my opinion, one of the best colours schemes in nature is green leaves against a beautiful blue sky, so I think the saying must have been coined by the the fashion police of the day!

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Anyway this is the card I came up with using some blue and green card, a heart die and the PTI  set Heart to Heart 3, stamped in Versamark ink, and the sentiment which I selectively inked to get on two lines, came from Little Lady. I stamped the word 'celebrate' in blue ink but it doesn't show up well in the photo - it looks darker in real life, and a few tiny gems add a little sparkle.


Thanks for looking in and I'm now off to start looking at all the lovely entries this week.


Hugs
Carol x