Papertrey Ink Anniversary Challenge Day 1 & 2

It's finally time for the PTI anniversary celebrations!

You have no idea how much I look forward to this!

In the past, Sage and I have spent lots of time crafting, 

making as many projects for the challenges as possible.

I love it!

This year, however, we're limited to one entry per challenge per person.

But Sage & I are determined to participate in each one.

Okay, I'm determined, and I'll be encouraging her to play along, too. ;)

So, yesterday, after school, we each picked a sketch and colour combo from

the eight that Nichole listed on her blog.

I chose this colour combo:

And this sketch:

For my card, I used the sketch, but I made a vertical card instead, 

using PTI's County Fair, Masterpiece and Wet Paint stamp sets.

I diecut my banner using Get a Handle on It and layered the Wet Paint Cut over top.

I stamped the butterflies from the Masterpiece stamp set, heat embossed them in white and 

coloured them using a paintbrush and ink that I pressed onto my acrylic block and spritzed 

with water. 

Then, I cut them out by hand.

The background was stamped using the sentiment from County Fair.

A few dewdrops finish it off.

Sage chose this colour combo:

And this sketch:

She's so fun to craft with!

She came down to our craft area and sketched out her card on a piece of scrap paper.

She's so adorable!

And here's her card:

Isn't it great?

I helped her trim the stamper's select white cardstock and diecut the end with Tag Sale #5.

But she did the rest on her own.

She stamped the hearts & "valentine" using the Masterpiece stamp set.

She diecut the "love" from Wet Paint Cuts and stamped the "you" from Wet Paint.

And, she let me know that I can look forward to getting this card for Valentine's Day. Yes! :)

So, Sage had to go to school today, but since I didn't get called in to work, 

I decided to make a card for Day 2: Maile Belles Returns.

We were encourage to choose a card from Maile's blog to be inspired by.

I didn't have to look too far -- I absolutely loved this card that she posted earlier this week.

I decided to use PTI's Wet Paint stamp set to create my card.

I used summer sunrise, tropical teal & sweet blush and matted my panel on some aqua mist cardstock.

Some enamel dots (MME & Teresa Collins) finish it off.

I'm also linking this card up to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:

All Things Bright & Beautiful.

Thanks for looking!