October 25, 2012

Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop–Love Has Wings

PTI blog hop logo

I loved the colour combos PTI provided as inspiration for this month’s blog hop. I don’t have quite a few of them though as I’m still working with a 2009 paper pack so I went with the combo shown below.

pti blog hop oct 12

The little house is a layered die cut which resembles chipboard. It is made of three layers with an additional roof layer and the patterned paper layer. The heart section is only one layer thick so it is recessed into the house.

pti blog hop oct 12 closeup

I used a new technique I developed for the leaves. I turned the leaves upside down and scored the veins. Then I flipped it back over and folded each score line upwards, away from the scoring. This cracked the score lines giving a vintage. distressed look. Then I sponged ink over the cracked score lines to accentuate them.

pti blog hop oct 12 insp pic

I also entered this in Retro Sketches #34. Click to visit challenge post.

retrosk34

I hope you enjoyed my card. Thanks for taking the time to visit and I hope you will leave a comment. If you liked this project, feel free to sign up for email updates or my RSS feed, thingies on the sidebar.

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Paper:
all cardstock-PTI, DP-SU!
Ink: vintage photo, antique linen Distress, artichoke-SU!
Accessories: foam dots-Jody Morrow, house, edge, scallop die-PTI, leaf die-Spellbinders, floral die-Heartfelt Creations (I think), ribbon-Offray, embossing tool-stash

5 comments:

Tracey McNeely said...

A really beautiful and elegant card!

Anonymous said...

what a gorgeous card. I love all the elements. They are placed perfectly.

Leah said...

So pretty! I love the colors you chose to work with and the leaves you did are fabulous. Love the sweet little house too!

Anonymous said...

that's a very lovely card!

good luck :)

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Lee said...

Very pretty. You did a great job with the colour scheme.