Wednesday, January 25, 2012

PTI January Blog hop


It's that time of the month again. Papertrey Ink is having their monthly blog hop. It is always so much fun to see everyone's creations. We were challenged to pick our favorite project from 2011 and create a card that was inspired by our chosen project. We could carry over the color scheme, the layout or the stamp sets used. I chose this card that I created for Make-it-Monday: create a card/project background using a non-background stamp.



I decided to keep to the design of the card and use similar colors. The first card used Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores ink while the second card used Pure Poppy,  Spring Moss, Aqua Mist and Raspberry Fizz. The sentiment is from Heart Prints and the focal image is from 2010 Love Tags. There are so many fabulous images in this set, it was so hard to choose which one to use for the challenge. You will be seeing this stamp set on the blog again for sure.

In making this card, I really did play around a bit trying to change up the color for the card base, the color of the cardstock and the color of the focal image. When it was all said and done, what looked best to me ended up being very similar to my first card. What can I say? I tried.


19 comments:

  1. What a wonderful card. You know that the card you picked is one of my favorites of yours, although I must say that lots of your cards are my favorites. This one is just as sweet and pretty as the original. Good job.

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  2. such a sweet card! It must have been hard for you to pick a fave :)

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  3. love them both!! love the text background!

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  4. Both great cards! Love the colors and textures.

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  5. Awesome cards. Love the hint of blue. The TANL die cut is perfect behing the tag.

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  6. Deb it is different enough and both are so fabulous! Cheery and vibrant.

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  7. When you have a classic card like this ,why change it! Both are beautiful and I really love the pink!

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  8. Ha! I was just admiring the tags in the photo of your banner, and as I scroll down, what do I see?

    These cards are beautiful - the bold colours are stunning, and I love the layers on your tags!

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  9. Love the bold colour choices and all the layering of elements. Both tags are very cheery!!

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  10. I absolutely LOVE this. the colors are wonderful, the layout is stunning and it all comes together with perfection.

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  11. I love the colors! Love both cards-you've done a wonderful job recreating your first card:)

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  12. Oh, this is so beautiful, Deb! I love them both!

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  13. So pretty and fresh! Both cards are wonderful!

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  14. both cards are gorgeous. love the stamped background with sentiment stamp.

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  15. I think it looks great being similar to the first card, because the first card is awesome :)

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  16. Beautiful cards - gr8 background stamping and layers.

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  17. Fabulous design for your card. Love how you just had to change the color a bit and tag. Very pretty!

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  18. I found your blog through CAS-ual Fridays, and I love your cards! I've been browsing and see that you use PTI products too. Love them!
    I'm one of your followers now :)

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