July PTI Bloghop

It's time for the PTI Bloghop, you still have until 11h59pm EST tonight to join in the fun.  Here is the inspiration photo for today:

Photo Credit

Don't you just love all those colours together!  The colours is what attracted me first, the brown, turquoise and orange.  Then I thought of the texture of the blinds.  Then I was stumped as to what to do!  Yep, it happens.  But the shape of the cushions kept creeping into my mind, so I decided to go with that as my main focus and what resulted was a very CAS, sort of graphic card I guess.

Paper: PTI cardstock (Kraft, Orange Zest, Aqua Mist)
Ink: Versamark; Memento (Tangelo); Vintage Photo DI
Stamps: PTI (Woodgrain Background; Bitty Background Blocks; Embellishments)
Other: Clear Embossing Powder; Corner Chomper; Dimensional Squares

I'm not really sure about this card, except that it's CAS and, I guess, different!  But different is good sometimes!  I popped up the middle orange "cushion" that was heat embossed after stamping the Woodgrain background on it.

Not much else to explain really, so let me not waste too much time by blabbing on, rather go and hop around the PTI participant blogs for lots of incredible inspiration!

Papertrey June Blog Hop Challenge

It's that time of the month where PTI hosts a challenge on their BLOG and this month, (my first ever participation), we were given an inspiration photo to go with:

Isn't that a really pretty picture!  Look at that rainbow of colours!

I gave this challenge two tries, but I am happier with my second try so I will post that card first and just show you the second card at the bottom of the post.

Paper: Notecard (Hobby Lobby); Neenah Solar White
Ink: various distress inks; Memento (tuxedo black; cantaloupe; dandelion)
Stamps: PTI (Flower Garden; All About You Additions)
Other: Pearls (Hero Arts)

I basically tried to capture all the different colours in the photo, on my card, by rubbing the distress ink pad directly to my cardstock.  This is something  I learned from watching a tutorial by Emily Leiphart.

I then stamped the flower stems.  The petals were stamped in two yellow inks with a bit of rock and roll technique, trimmed and adhered to the card base.  I glued the one inside petal only and used dimensional squares under the other petals to pop them up.  I finished off with a pearl at each centre.

Here is a side view of the card to show the dimension:

Here was my first try where I focused on some of the colours but mainly used the wooden box at the bottom of the photo as my inspiration.  The PTI stamps used on this card were "Take Three Summer", "Background Basics: Woodgrain" and "All About You Additions".

Thanks for taking a peek!  I am off to visit some hoppers and then it's off to the airport to fetch my family from South Africa!  I have been awake since 3am I am so excited!

Have an awesome day!