Monday, February 18, 2019

PTI and W&W

The latest PTI Laurie's Fabulous Favorites challenge is to use your favorite color of cardstock.  I love the PTI neutrals of Soft Stone, Classic Craft & Vintage Cream.  But for my card I wanted to use one of the color colors--haha!  I mostly have variety packs & use it very sparingly.  Autumn Rose is definitely near the top of my list--a gorgeous dusty rose color.  Unfortunately, I really couldn't get an accurate picture, so this will have to do.


I let the Autumn Rose shine by stamping the images from Gathered Garden in Versamark.  The sentiment from the same set was stamped in Weathervane.  The Pierced Feature Frame was die cut from Sweet Blush cardstock.  I added 3 smokey gems for embellishment.

Next is my entry for Winnie & Walter's 5th Birthday Bash Card Set Challenge.  Boy did I have fun making 3 Christmas wreaths with images from In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals & a bunch of different inks.


In A Word: Noel was die cut from adhesive backed fun foam 3 times & each foiled in a different color.  I used cardstock to mat the gray/silver & red versions.  For the green one I foiled the edges of the mat with the same foil using Score Tape.  I'm also entering ABC Christmas ChallengeWAW.
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I need a couple cards for men who are about to have surgery.  I like to use leaves for masculine cards, so decided to use 5 leaves from Winnie & Walter In Bloom: Renee's Leaves which works for the W&W 5th Birthday Bash 5 Challenge


I stamped one panel on white cardstock & the other on Bristol, cutting both out with W&W Essentials: Tilda Cutaways. 


I could probably count on 1 hand the number of times I've used my Copics to color images, but for some reason I decided to give it a try--maybe because the card isn't for a cardmaking friend--haha!


The Bristol panel was done with my Zigs & a water brush.  The sentiment is from a very old Hero Arts set called Special Note of Thanks & both have black splatters.  I matted the Copics panel with black cardstock & the watercolored panel with green.  They look quite different, but each has it's own appeal, I think.  I'm also entering SSS Wednesday.


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20 comments:

  1. Fabulous cards Greta. Love the Noel ones. Great idea to foil the fun foam.

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  2. all stunning cards, Greta - how clever to use foil on the fun foam and those cards turned out so wonderfully - love the leaf cards for a guy and of course sutumn rose and the monochromatic look for your PTI card is perfect - good luck in all these challenges!!

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  3. I love the images on your first card and the lovely leaves for the surgery cards. I hope the surgeries are over and they are healing. The foiled foam (say that three times) cards are beautiful and a great idea.

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  4. What a beautifully feminine monochromatic first card. Great stamping and deigns on the Christmas cards. Wonderful masculine cards and love the copic colouring. Fabulous cards Greta x

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  5. Greta, you've been busy making a fab array of lovely cards. Your first card is an ode to that lovely pink, the framing sets it off nicely. Your three noel cards are so festive with the foiling. Leaves definitely make for a good masculine card.

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  6. Wow Greta, what an amazing set of cards! Especially love the NOEL cards!!

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  7. I love the top pink card. Great idea to use the Versamark ink. It gives a wonderful effect. hugs Mrs A.

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  8. What a fabulous group of cards, Greta!

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  9. WOW! You are absolutely rocking all these challenges, Greta! A seriously amazing group of cards, my friend!

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  10. All the cards are so wonderful. And, I like the idea of using the leaves designs for a sympathy card. Usually I tend to gravitate to using the leaves for Fall cards mainly but you have shown how versatile the leaves can be.

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  11. You've been a busy lady! I like the soft wispy look of your first card and all of the playful movement on your Noel cards. And your leaves, well... they're just fabulous!

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  12. Look at you making all kinds of cards! I really like the rose color on your first card and your Noel cards are FABULOUS!!! (My Favorite Pick) and your last card has a lovely sentiment along with a very cool zig zag frame die that I like! :)

    Theresa

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  13. ALL your cards are so lovely Greta, and I don't think you need be afraid to send your colouring cards to a blog friend, they are lovely too.
    Faith

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  14. Absolutely gorgeous, Greta!!!!!!!

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  15. Oh my Greta - you have been so wonderfully productive and I love your collection of cards! I particularly love the Christmas cards with the beautiful wreaths - so festive and contemporary looking.
    Thanks for sharing with us at ABC Christmas Challenges.

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  16. Gorgeous cards... Especially that first one which is sitting on my shelf!

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  17. Love the way your Christmas cards with the wreaths turned out, Greta- beautiful! Thanks for entering our C and D challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge and good luck in the draw.
    Dorte x

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  18. I love your cards Gretta, especially the W&W Noel! You are already ahead with making holiday cards!

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  19. Wow so many beauties here!! I love the Autumn Rose card, that color is just SO elegant! The leaves look superb - both zig AND copic colors! :) And I simply adore the three different color takes on the wreaths - they are so very festive and fun!!

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  20. A wonderful collection of cards Greta. I love the soft pink/rose on the first one and the subtle stamping. How organised you are to be creating shimmery Christmas cards; the wreaths are lovely and I like the simplicity of the leaf cards; perfect for any occasion.

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