Papertrey October Blog Hop Challenge: Take 2

The second color palette I liked was this one:

I love to knit.  In fact, I have several paper bags of projects in progress clustered around my end of the couch. I liked the whole stripey thing here and wanted to recreate it.  Too bad I haven't gotten the new Sweater Knit stamp from this months release yet.  I really made this a lot more complex than I needed too because I started out with another idea in my head.  I was going to cut out the center of the striped block with a limitless layers die and then stamp the Christmas sentiment inside it.  I am here to tell you that you cannot die cut through 3 layers of PTI cardstock! But, you can use an Impression Plate and get some nice embossing going on.  The rest is pretty self explanatory.  I popped up the Limitless Layers big oval over the hole I tried to die cut. Should have done that in the first place.  I like how it so clean looking.  I want to recreate it using the knit pattern stamp for the stripes when it arrives.

I was at work today stressing about how I was going to get pictures in the daylight and my son took these. I really, really like the photos, he has a great eye. Thanks for looking!

Supplies for "Cozy Holiday"

Stamps:  Happiest of Holidays(PTI)

Dies/Impression Plates: Herringbone Impression Plate, Limitless Layers 2-1/2" oval

Cardstock:  Aqu Mist, Ocean Tides, Smoky Shadow, Soft Stone

Ink:  Smoky Shadow

Other: Clear Embossing powder

Papertrey October Blog Hop Challenge: Take 1

I haven't ever participated in a Blog Hop before but thought I'd give it a shot.  I was inspired by the whole idea of non-traditional Holiday colors so I picked the following ones and this is what I came up with.

I love all these colors together and decided to experiment with this technique  that Heather Nichols showed.  I've certainly used colored inks to emboss with before but never thought of using Versamark first, then a dye ink on top.  Cool idea. I did all the embossing first and then the background stamping.  I really liked how it turned out.

Check out Take 2, and thanks for looking!

Supplies for "celebrate the season"

Stamps: Snowflake Medley, Backgroun Basics: Postmarks  (all PTI)

Sentiments: Framed Out #7

Cardstock: Classic Kraft, Rustic White

Ink:  Aqua Mist, Hawiian Shores, Simply Chartruese, New Leaf, Fine Linen

Other: Clear Embossing powder