PTI Blog Hop

When I saw Nichole's inspiration photo for the March Blog Hop over at Papertrey Ink, I was really smitten with the colors.  And I had a bit of time last evening to work on a quick card.

The inspiration photo:

My card:

I used PTI Lemon Tart and Aqua Mist cardstock (yes, it really IS Aqua Mist!), Everyday Button Bits for the balloon strings and Mega Mixed Messages for the sentiment.  Various polka dots on the balloons were made with Versamark and stamps from my stash (the middle balloon design is from PTI Round & Round).  Martha Stewart balloon punch and EKSuccess border punch.  Twine from The Twinery.

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PTI 5th Anniversary Day 4

Had a few minutes to play with today's challenge over at the PTI 5th Anniversary festivities.  Today we were to select one of the design teams' favorite color combinations and make a card.   Melissa Phillips color combo appealed to me and I was able to make another Valentine.   Besides white for the card base, I used PTI colors Autumn Rose, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz and Simply Chartruese.  I used PTI Heart Prints for both the heart images (stamped in Versamark) and the sentiment.  Twine is from Doodlebug.

Punched out the hearts with a Marvy punch.
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Happy Anniversary PTI!

Today begins the 5th anniversary festivities over at Papertrey Ink.  Five years of fabulous stamps and a supporting cast of wonderful product.  Five years of the most incredible, jaw dropping inspiration from Nichole Heady and her Design Team members.   And, five years of fabulous February anniversary festivities.
In honor of Day 1 festivities, Nichole had her entire design team list each of their top five PTI items along with a favorite card or project and a special memory.  Then, she wowwed us all by announcing a grand prize package of ALL those top five picks to a random poster if we made a card that was inspired by one of the design team members favorite cards/projects.
I am always amazed by the clean graphic style of Maile Belles, and I used PTI Background Basics Text Style and a PTI sentiment from A Big Thank You to create my card.

A few punched flowers from my scraps and a few rhinestones colored with my copics finish it off.
Congratulations on a fabulous 5 years, PTI.  May you have 5 times many more!
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Happy Birthday, Colleen!

Today is Colleen's birthday!
I hope you have a wonderful day, girlfriend!

The stems/leaves are from PTI's Everyday Button Bits and the sentiment is from Morningstar.  Both are stamped in Memento Bamboo (love that color!)  A few punched flowers (eksuccess), gems, ribbon and paper from the stash along with my new favorite MS border punch finishes it off.

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