Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

I look forward to playing along with the Papertrey Ink blog hop each month but I haven't had an opportunity to play along much lately. But this month's theme - combined with some new PTI stamps that just arrived on my doorstep a couple of days ago - inspired me to get creative and play along!

I used the new Year of Flowers Collection stamps and Background Basics Retro for this card, choosing to color and highlight the center flower. It was stamped on the card and colored as well as stamped on a second piece of cs, colored, cut out and adhered with foam tape over the image on the card base. From the angle of the photo, you can see a little bit of the double edge - image above and image below. The leaves were also colored and cut out but since they were adhered flat to the card, you don;t see the image under the pieces.

The border was stamped in white ink, sentiment in black and then die cut using one of the Mat Stack dies trimmed to fit the space perfectly! I love being able to use the dies this way as well as using them in their entirety, creating more use for them. Not that they're not useful as is but a few more fun ways to use them is great too! Oh and the black piece on the front of the card was also die cut with the three window die from PTI as well.

That's it for me - enjoy your hopping and thanks for stopping by!