This month's PTI Blog Hop challenge is to gleam inspiration from a variety of non-traditional holiday color schemes to create a project. Nichole provided us with six gorgeous non-traditional holiday color scheme inspiration photos. I love each color scheme, and really wish I had time to create a project for every one of them! If you would like to check things out for yourself, you can find out all about it here.
For this challenge I decided to use the color scheme in the second inspiration photo. I think it's my favorite color scheme from the bunch. Isn't it just delicious?
While looking at this color scheme, the first thought that came to my mind was fun & whimsy, which lead me to think of the great Gingerbread Lane stamp and die set that I hadn't been able to try out just yet. I really liked the gingerbread houses that Daniel made during release countdown week, so I case'd her design while using this great color scheme. (FYI - while stamping, I found that Hibiscus Burst was a bit dark for my needs and decided to substitute it with Sweet Blush).
I worked on both of the houses at the same time, trying to use a little bit of each of the colors from the inspiration photo. I'll admit, it was late and my brain had apparently gone to sleep, since I found that I'd glued bits and pieces together which I hadn't originally intended to. And, umm ... well, it wasn't an isolated incident, as it happened more than once. So, I ended up with one mostly turquoise house and one mostly pink house. ha!
I added one house to a Tag Sale #4 die cut from Aqua Mist card stock, and the other to a pillow box die cut from Sweet Blush card stock, spritzed with a pearl mist, and impressed with the Picnic Plaid impression plate. Both projects sport the same sentiment stamped in Hawaiian Shores, with the word "sweet" from Strawberry Patch stamped in Raspberry Fizz.
Wouldn't this pillow box be perfect to gift someone special with a sugary treat packaged inside?
Aside from the pearls, bakers twine, and glittery embossing powder, all supplies are from PTI.
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This month's PTI Blog Hop challenge is to gleam inspiration from a variety of non-traditional holiday color schemes to create a project. Nichole provided us with six gorgeous non-traditional holiday color scheme inspiration photos. I love each color scheme, and really wish I had time to create a project for every one of them! If you would like to check things out for yourself, you can find out all about it here.
For this challenge I decided to use the color scheme in the fourth inspiration photo. Isn't it lovely?
This color scheme just made me think of poinsettias. I couldn't decide between making a red or white poinsettia, so I compromised and made both! haha!
The wine bottle tag has a rustic white base, a sentiment stamped with Ocean Tides ink, and a decorative swirly-do (yes, I'm sure that's the correct name for it :) from the Over Under Easy stamp set in Pure Poppy ink.
The poinsettia petals are die cut from Pure Poppy card stock, the leaves from Pinefeather, and the center from Limeade Ice. The entire flower is glittered up with stardust pens and Stickles.
The pillow box is die cut from Pure Poppy card stock, and the sentiment from Bells & Boughs is stamped in gold and heat embossed in glittery powder.
The sentiment doesn't stand out as much as I would have preferred, but will have to chalk it up as a learning experience!
The poinsettia petals are die cut from Rustic White card stock, the leaves from Pinefeather, and the center from Limeade Ice. Again, the entire flower is glittered up, but this time using only Stickles.
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This month's PTI Blog Hop challenge is to gleam inspiration from a variety of non-traditional holiday color schemes to create a project. Nichole provided us with six gorgeous non-traditional holiday color scheme inspiration photos. I love each color scheme, and really wish I had time to create a project for every one of them! If you would like to check things out for yourself, you can find out all about it here.
For this challenge I decided to use the color scheme in the third inspiration photo. It was the color scheme that I was first drawn to from the bunch. Isn't it gorgeous?
I was so inspired that I ended up making two projects for this color scheme! The first being a wine bottle tag, perfect to gift at a Holiday get-together.
It is made with a Smokey Shadow base with the sentiment embossed in white and colored with Copic markers. A decorative flourish from the Over Under Easy stamp set is embossed with clear powder under the sentiment. I love the decorative touch it adds.
The focal point consists of a house die cut from Love Lives Here from Ocean Tides. The bottom half is stamped in Fresh Snow using BB: Text Style and the roof is stamped in Ocean Tides ink with one of the patterns from Bitty Background Blocks.
The house sits upon a glittered snowflake die cut layered on top of a trimmed Mat Stack 3 die cut, stamped with BB: Polka Dot Basics and BB: A Little Argyle. The finishing touch is the sewn-on heart border cut from Ocean Tides felt.
My second project is a nifty little gift card holder using the Seed Packet Die. The seed packet was die cut from Aqua Mist card stock and stamped with Erin's new Striped Sweater background set. What a match made in heaven! I can totally see giving a clothing store gift card in this sweet little package! The sweater stripes were stamped with Fresh Snow, Aqua Mist, Ocean Tides, and Smokey Shadow inks.
And, to keep with the sweater/clothing theme, I chose the "Wishing you a Cozy Christmas" sentiment from Peaceful Pinecones to stamp onto the vellum label cut with the Happy Day die. A *heavily* glittered branch/pinecone from the Peaceful Pinecones set serves as the main focal point.
Die cuts from the Buttoned Up #1 dies serve as closures for the packet. Button-shaped cuts from coaster board and Smokey Shadow card stock were glued together, stamped with designs from the Delightful Doilies stamp set, and then heat embossed with glittery embossing powder. I really like how the buttons turned out!
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It's World Card Making Day! What have I been doing on World Card Making Day? Freezing my tukas off at soccer games ... morning, noon, and night. Literally, we had a game early this morning, one at noon, and another one tonight. We would have had a fourth game today, but the opposing team cancelled it. Oh, how I wish I could have spent the whole day, warm and cozy, crafting in my jammies!
Between games, I did manage to eek out one little card. I decided to use Dawn McVey's Glittered Tabs technique to also enter into this week's Make It Monday over at PTI. If you would like to check out Dawn's great video tutorial, you can find it here.
I took inspiration from Betsy Veldman's wonderfully cheerful winter color scheme I spied on her blog during the latest PTI release. I just love the look of her colorful snowflakes using the new Snowflake Medley set.
Here is a close up of that pretty glittered tab. I used 1/2" and 1/8" strips of Scor-Tape to adhere my glitter since I don't own any variety of the glue pads. I used some Prisma glitter from PTI on the 1/8" strip, and some turquoise glitter (that I got from JoAnns eons ago, no name on the bottle) on the 1/2" strip.
All supplies are from PTI, aside from those already mentioned and bakers twine, thread, glimmer mist, and Versamark ink.
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