PPA 107 Sketch Challenge

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This is my submission for the PPA 107 Sketch Challenge:

The stamp set and sentiment is from Magenta.  The DSP is from Stampin' Up!'s Designer Series Stack Brights Collection.  I used both sides of one double sided sheet.  The Scalloped Edge punch is from Martha Stewart.  I colored the images with water color pencils and then painted with an Aqua Painter.

I am learning that my favorite color for card making is green.

Thank you PPA for the opportunity to exercise creativity!

I thought I would add the original card that the sketch inspired. Can you see the stickles on the berries?   I couldn't submit it for the challenge because it didn't fit the sketch requirements.  I did manage to morph it into a more appropriate submission for this particular challenge.

PPA 106 Dress for Success

This week's challenge is this:  Use 1 piece of designer series paper, 1 punch and 1 sentiment.

I used SU Kraft card stock, the DSP is SU Spice Cake, from the Holiday Mini, the punch is SU Bird Builder and the sentiment is from SU Language of Friendship.  I used Versafine Vintage Sepia ink to stamp the image in order to capture the detail on the bird and the leaves. 

I sponged the edges with the Vintage Sepia and rounded the corners with my snips (not as perfect as a corner rounder, but I had already used my one punch).

The ribbon is SU Scallop Dots in Chocolate Chip.

I was more pleased with the photo this week.  I had a great tip from Patti McLeith regarding using "Daylight" bulbs.  Thanks Patti, I am having much better results.

Lighting, Light Boxes and Photographing True Color

This week's PPA Challenge is a color challenge using:
Try as I might, I cannot capture the true color of my project.  I purchased a light tent and photo lights this week, and even using these I am not happy with the photo results.  The greens and indigo are not true.  The card base and the 3" scallop circle are the same card stock, yet the color looks different on each. In addition to learning this craft, I need instruction in photography.

Hello

This week's PPA challenge was Paper Piercing.   I selected a piercing pattern and pierced the design onto SU Crushed Curry.  I cut out the center with a Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Oval.  The card stock is SU Pumpkin Pie.  I stamped the cat and the hello with SU Pumpkin Pie ink using the Touch of Kindness stamp set.  I die cut the stamped image with the next smaller scalloped oval in the set.  I then pierced each scallop.   Because of the amount of piercing, I did not embellish any further.

40. Diane from Rhode Island

40. Diane from Rhode Island

Yay! My Stampin' Up! order came in and I am using my new stuff for the PPA 102 challenge.
I used my new Touch of Kindness stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. The card stock is Daffodill Delight from the Brights Collection abd the DSP is from Just Add Cake. The image is stamped on Very Vanilla.

I used my new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch to make the DSP "ribbon" The "Hello" sentiment is from Swirls and Curls Verses punched with the Curly Label punch atop an altered Decorative Label punch. The little blue bird singing above the hello is a great match for his feathered friends enjoying the bird bath. Summertime and the Livin' is Easy.

The Birdbath

Yay!  My Stampin' Up! order came in and I am using my new stuff for the PPA 102 challenge.

I used my new Touch of Kindness stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog.  The card stock is Daffodill Delight from the Brights Collection abd the DSP is from Just Add Cake.  The image is stamped on Very Vanilla.

I used my new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch to make the DSP "ribbon"  The "Hello" sentiment is from Swirls and Curls Verses punched with the Curly Label punch atop an altered Decorative Label punch.  The little blue bird singing above the hello is a great match for his feathered friends enjoying the bird bath.  Summertime and the Livin' is Easy.

It's Time to Bloom

Well it is official.  I have registered as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  I will be organizing my first workshop soon.  This is very exciting.

The PPA 101 theme is Summertime Blues.  As we all know, "there ain't no cure for the summertime blues..."  Blue is not a color I often use.  No reason why, I am just not drawn to it, so this was a struggle.

Using SU Not Quite Navy, SU Bella's Bloom, Boho Blossoms Punch and some heat embossing, here is my submission.

...pie oh my...

For PPA 100 I am submitting a very simple technique.  I stamp the design multiple times on different papers, cut out portions of the design and glued them in place where they belong on the stamped design.

This "window" stamp and the sentiment are from the Lockhart Stamp Company.  The design was stamped on Stampin' Up! Very Vanilla.  The shutters are stamped on SU Kraft paper, then cut out and attached.  The card stock used for the card itself is Jen Wilson's 29th Street Market two-sided paper; a floral design on one side and a distressed green on the reverse side. I used the green side for the curtains, cut them out and glued them in place.  I colored the pie, cut it out and glued it in place.

The Very Vanilla is layered (on dimensionals) over SU Rich Razzleberry.  I colored the flowers, the pie and the window sill with watercolor pencils.

All the stamping was done with Versafine Onyx Black.  I don't often stamp the sentiment on a floral print, but I did this time; I like the result (...pie oh my ...)  The Sentiment on the inside of the card is "Happy New House" by Stampotique Originals, Inc.  This card is for a friend who just bought her first home and will be moving in soon.

Thank you PPA for all the inspiration, week after week.

The Pick Up

After many months I am back to stamping.  I finished school, moved and have been working on a crafting space.  Thanks to my husband, I am now in a new space.  So,  I can participate in Pals Paper Arts PPA96 Color Challenge -Masculine.

For my masculine card, I began with a digital image, The Old Truck, from Fred She Said.

I then colored the image with water color pencils and "painted" with an Aqua Painter from Stampin' Up!  The sentiment is also from Stampin' Up's "All Holidays".  I used SU's Scalloped Edge Border punch for the Cherry Cobbler scallops on the sentiment and under the Truck image.

Its good to be back participating in PPA's challenges.

Christmas 2010