Extra Inspiration from PTI's Celebrating the Past, Present & Future Challenges

During the Papertrey Ink Celebrating the Past, Present & Future Challenges,

I was inspired by a photo that Stephanie Gold shared on her blog for the 2011 challenges:

Isn't it fun?

Here's the card that it inspired me to make:

I did some masking on my card.

I started at the bottom by stamping the leaves from Wplus9's Happy Wishes stamp set and 

PTI's Tropics in Altenew Forest Glades, Mountain Mist, Jet Black and Emerald inks.

I stamped the watering can from PTI's Garden Variety in Altenew Morning Frost

and the sentiment from Tropics in Jet Black.

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PTI's Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2013 to 2016

Today, I have five cards to share that I made for Papertrey Ink's

Celebrating the Past, Present & Future Challenges.

For my card for 2013, I used my Pedal Pusher set to make two cards:

For my first card, I stamped my background using PTI's City Scene in Altenew's

Morning Frost and Evening Grey. 

I blended Evening Grey and Mountain Mist onto my background.

I stamped my bicycle on the coordinating diecut in Mountain Mist, Evening Grey

and Jet Black ink.

I stamped my sentiment using Tropics.

I also decided to make a one layer card, suing the same colours of ink.

The sentiment is from Pedal Pusher and I stamped the hearts in Altenew Crimson.

For 2014, I made a card using Feather Finery:

I used my MISTI to stamp each leaf three times in PTI Stormy Sea, Ocean Tides & Aqua Mist. 

I spritzed my stamp with water each time before stamping it.

I stamped the speckles in Stormy Sea, without spritzing them with water.

I stamped my sentiment using Spring Woods.

For 2015, I made a card using Brushed Blooms:

A simple card where I stamped my images onto my background using

Altenew Morning Frost, Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, Ruby Red and Jet Black.

My sentiment was stamped using Spring Woods.

A sprinkling of Rainstones finish it off.

For 2016, I was inspired by this card that Betsy Veldman made:

I love how Betsy layered the two tulip diecuts together.

I decided to try the same thing with my Brushed Blooms stamp set.

Here's my card:

I blended Altenew Mountain Mist ink onto my background

and used the same ink on my diecuts, along with Altenew Mango Smoothie &

Ruby Red and PTI Simply Chartreuse, Limeade Ice & Orange Zest.

I stamped my sentiment using Spring Woods.

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PTI's Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2009 to 2012

Today, I have five cards to share that I made for Papertrey Ink's

Celebrating the Past, Present & Future Challenges.

For my card for 2009, as I don't own any sets from PTI that were released that year,

 I was inspired by this card that Laurie Schmidlin shared, using Giga Guidelines:

I used my PTI Lovely Layers card to make my card:

I loved the score lines that Laurie put on her card, so I did the same, using my Scor Pal.

I stamped my flowers on my background and on my coordinating diecuts

using Altenew inks.

I matted my card on PTI's aqua mist cardstock.

I heat embossed my sentiment (from Bloomers) in white on a strip of black cardstock.

For 2010, I was inspired by this card that Betsy Veldman made:

I don't own Wreath for All Seasons, like Betsy used, so I pulled out one

of my favourite PTI sets -- Twig Wreath:

I stamped my background using my Concord & 9th Barnwood stamp.

I diecut my white panel using Mama Elephant's Femme Frames.

I diecut my flowers/sprigs using my Twig Wreath diecuts and stamped

them with their coordinating images using Altenew inks.

I stamped my sentiment using Spring Woods.

For 2011, I was thrilled that Nichole picked a set that I own 

-- one that I just purchased last year -- Garden Variety.

A simple card where I stamped my images onto my background and 

the coordinating diecuts.

My sentiment was stamped using the Bountiful Mini Kit.

I was inspired by the card that Stephanie Gold made:

I love how she turned the seed packet from on its side!

Here's my card:

I used the Concord & 9th Barnwood Background stamp on my strip of aqua mist cardstock.

I stamped my sentiment using Winter Woods.

For 2012, I was inspired by this card that Betsy Veldman made:

I loved the white diecut clouds layered over the watercolored sun rays.

Here's my card:

I smooshed Terracotta Tile, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz 

and Summer Sunrise inks, mixed with water, onto my watercolour paper.

Over that, I layered some Fancy Foliage Details diecuts.

I stamped my sentiment using Winter Woods.

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Papertrey Ink's Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2008

Today, I have a card to share that I made for Papertrey Ink's

Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2008 Challenge.

I don't own any sets from PTI that were released in 2008,

but I was inspired by this card that Betsy Veldman shared,

using Out On a Limb:

I just love this card from Betsy and decided to make a 

card that is very similar, using Spring Woods.

I blended Altenew Sea Glass and Forest Glades inks onto my background.

I stamped the bird and branches from Spring Woods onto their coordinating diecuts

using these two inks, as well as Sand Dunes and Dark Chocolate.

I stamped my sentiment in Dark Chocolate ink, using a sentiment from Songbirds.

I was also inspired by the colours of this week's Colour Throwdown Challenge:

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PTI: Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2007

Today, I have a card to share that I made for Papertrey Ink's

Celebrating the Past, Present & Future -- 2007 Challenge.

I don't own any sets from PTI that were released in 2007,

but I was inspired by this card that Laurie Schmidlin shared,

using Text Boxed:

I was inspired by the colours she used, the leaves and the fact that she

combined stamped images with watercolour.

I decided to use my Songbirds stamp set to make my card.

I stamped my leave images in Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal, Simply Chartreuse

and Dark Indigo onto my watercolour paper panel.

Then, I pressed Hawaiian Shores ink onto my acrylic block and mixed it with water

and with a paintbrush, coloured over my Hawaiian Shores stamped leaves.

I repeated this process with each colour of ink.

I used one of my Garden Gate stencils on Enchanted Evening cardstock

and blended Dark Indigo ink over top.

Then, I blended more ink onto it, without the stencil.

I stamped my sentiment in Dark Indigo ink, using a sentiment from Songbirds.

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