Inky Paws Challenge #205 ~ Use Stripes Challenge Reminder

 Hello there crafty friend!

 There's still time to play along with the Inky Paws Challenge #205 - Use Stripes Challenge!! You have until this coming Friday, September 1st to get your entries in for this fun challenge and a chance to win a $20 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Inky Paws Challenge #205 - Use Stripes Challenge

I am seriously loving this challenge!! I love to use stripe papers in my cards so I was excited to find some pretty striped papers in the Halloween Meows 6x6 Paper Pad.

I've also been wanting to play with the fun Spiderweb Oval Stamp Set. This stamp set was a must have for my Halloween collection! 

I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and mat it with a black scalloped and stitched oval I die cut from True Black card stock from Papertrey Ink using a large die from the Oval Frames Die Set. 

As I mentioned above, I used the wonderful Halloween Meows 6x6 Paper Pad. I cut my papers to 4-1/4 x 5-1/2" and then I cut the triangles off of the top and bottom. Which gave me enough paper pieces to make two cards!

My second card shows how I used the other pieces of pattern papers. This card is actually the one that inspired my design.

I wanted to use stripe papers for the strips in the TOP Inky Inspiration Sketch 14. This has been such a fun sketch. August has been such a busy month. I wish I had more time to play with this one but the challenge ends today. 

The fun sentiment, also from the Spiderweb Oval Stamp Set, was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I colored up the Happy letters with the following Copic markers: YG21, YG11, YR15, YR16. I finished off both cards by adding a few black rhinestones from the Rainbow Rhinestones from Gina Marie Designs.

Now it's your turn to get your paws inky with your Newton's Nook Designs products and create a project using the stripes theme. Be sure to link up to the Inky Paws Challenge! Can't wait to see your projects!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Papertrey Ink Stripes Challenge ~ Christmas lives in the Heart

Hello! Today I'm sharing my last entry for the Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary Celebration Challenges. This one is for the Stripes Challenge. I decided to use up some of the beautiful stripe Christmas paper that I bought last year during the huge sale.

Once I designed my card, I thought... why not make a few? So, I ended up making half a dozen. I really love the way they turned out. I started by cutting all of my card stock from card bases to layers. I don't usually do this but I thought it would make sense since I planned on doing multiples.

I then stamped the angels by using two ink pads, Aqua Mist and Ripe Avocado. I masked the angel and stamped the wings with Aqua Mist. I stamped the stars using Harvest Gold... and then decided to stamp over that with Lemon Tart and it brightened the yellow a bit. I stamped the sentiment using Memento Tuxedo black ink. I was going to doodle some strings for the stars hanging down, but I decided to add some gold twine. I punched some 1/8" holes at the top of the stars. I pulled through some gold twine and taped them to the back of the circle. I then tied a bunch of little bows and adhered them using Ranger Multi Medium Matte.

I adhered all my layers on each of the cards. I did pop up the circle pieces and the little hearts. I had a lot of fun making these and I think they turned out pretty cute!

Here are the products I used for this card:

Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday

Inks: Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, Harvest Gold, Lemon Tart, Pure Poppy, Memento Tuxedo black

Card Stock: Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy, White, Candy Cane Prints paper

Tools: Mini Misti, Spellbinders Circle & Scallop dies, 1/8" circle punch

Miscellaneous: gold twine

Thanks for stopping by!

See ya next time.

~ Crystal