MIM: A la Carte: Confetti

   Back with another card for this week's A la Carte MIM Challenge at PTI.  This time I chose the video Make your Own Confetti by Danielle Flanders. I just found out one of my nephews is turning 40. I couldn't miss this opportunity to send him a card. I thought the confetti card was perfect.

I also included the technique "Camouflaging Die Cuts. I think that technique is awesome.  I've tried it before and wanted to do it again. Since I used my Cameo to cut the numbers, I had to estimate placement of numbers. The shading is a bit higher than I would have liked.  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

PTI June Blog Hop: Inspiration Galore

           Do you know Christmas is only 6 months from today? It is also PTI's June Blog Hop. The challenge this month is based upon an inspiration photo, color combinations as well as some sketches.

This is the color combination & sketch I chose for my card.

                    

My version.

I must confess lining up the triangles and die cut was no easy matter. If you look closely, you'll see the rest of the sentiment stamped under the embedded die cut.

Here's a close up of the triangles that were stamped in Versamark with the dots from Banner Builder. I think it made the cardstock a tad darker.

 

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

Happy Birthday PTI!

  The festivities continue for PTI's 7th year in business.  The challenge today is to create a birthday and submit a picture of the card and one of you holding the card for a double entry.
Here's my card.

Holding my card.

Now all I have to do is pop it in the mail to the wonderful staff at the PTI warehouse in Cincinnati. Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

Celebrating DH's Birthday

  Today is my husband's birthday. We had our family celebration on Sunday. Tonight we will go out for a bite to eat.  Here's the card I made him.

 The Background Builder stamp: Birthday Fun is one of my favorite birthday stamps. It's hard to see, but I fussy cut the presents stamped in Enchanted Evening and propped them up with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

MIM: Double Backgrounds

My nephew has a birthday coming up early next week.  After viewing the MIM "double Backgrounds, I thought I would give this technique a try. It also gave me an opportunity to use one of my newly released stamp sets, "Balloon Bash". I paired it up with BB: Birthday Fun. If the color scheme looks familiar, you might recognize it as one of the Fruits of Summer palettes from the July Blog Hop.

 A close up shot.

    I really liked how this card turned out. The double background is a cool technique. Hopefully, I'll be using it again.  Thank you for stopping by to take a peek.

Birthday Banners

     When I saw the video for this week's MIM: Flagged borders, I knew I would have to make time to join in.   I decided to use the palette from this week's colourQ challenge

  I wanted my card to be different from the one Dawn did in the video. I had an idea to hang small banners from the Wonderful Words: birthday.  The rest of the card just evolved from there.

I stamped the presents from BB:Birthday Fun in Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores. Then I  fussy cut the Hawaiian Shore ones and adhered them with foam dots to add some dimension.

I used Glitter Ritz: Kiwi on the Wonderful Word: Birthday. 

I am really pleased how this turned out. Thank you for stopping by to take a peek.

A Triple Crown Challenge

    I can't tell you how many years ago, I bought my little jars of Pearl Ex. Like many other stamping supplies purchased, they just sat unused.  When I saw Nichole using the Pearl Ex on her cards lately, I was hoping there would be a MIM tutorial. Wish granted.

   Had I remembered that all I really needed to do was stamp the image with Versamark, I think I would have used these babies a lot more. Here's an upclose shot of my image & sentiment.

     I also decided to use the Pearl Ex powders on the vertical border I stamped.

  

Since the theme of the card is birthday, I am also submitting it to the current challenge at CAS-ual Fridays which is having a birthday bash.

The sketch is from this week's challenge at Retrosketches. I pretty much stuck to it.

  I don't often combine challenges. So this is great for me.  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.