Papertrey Ink Anniversary Challenges: Day 7 & 8

Happy Valentine's Day!
Do you have anything fun planned for today?
My son, Jonah, is singing at a wedding that my husband is doing the sound for...
And Sage & I are attending a taekwondo demonstration this afternoon.
So, nothing really romantic, but fun nonetheless. ;)

I have some cards to share for the PTI anniversary celebrations.

The first one is for Day 7: Heavy Metal Challenge.

On some stamper's select white cardstock, I stamped my butterflies (from You're a Masterpiece)

in versamark and heat embossed them in gold.

The sentiment is from Layered Banter Banner.

A trio of Pretty Pink Posh 4mm gold sequins finishes it off. 

Next. I have a card using the same butterflies that I heat embossed in black and painted in with ink.

(I actually made these last week when I made the first card in this post.)

It's for the Day 8: Blue Ombre Challenge.

Now, I have to say that I was totally inspired by Maile Belles' card to make mine.

Since I didn't have the stamp she used for the colours at the top, I used three different shades of PTI ink (from top to bottom: tropical teal (twice), hawaiian shores (twice) and aqua  mist)

and applied them to my card with a Tim Holtz blending tool and some post-its that I used as masks.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Blessed stamp set.

And, once again, I added some Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Sparkling Clear sequins.

Thanks for looking!