January 2013 Blog Hop

The Challenge for this month's PTI Blog Hop is BLACK BACKGROUND!

I made a designer strip using the medallions stamps with pure poppy and raspberry fizz ink on white paper.  I bordered it with pure poppy paper.  My squares are cut from the Take Three Die in white and raspberry fizz paper.  I heat embossed the heart from Tag-Its' # 12.  The other sentiment is from With All my Heart.  I think black lends itself really well to the reds and bright pinks and works so well for valentine cards!  This was a fun challenge and I may be using more of Black for a background!

January 2013 Blog Hop

The Challenge over at the PTI site is BLACK Backgrounds!  Here is my second card for this challenge:

I kept the black pretty simple this time.  I used the outline of the gracious vases and embossed with white, then I added a flourish using clear embossing powder.  The flowers are from The Sweet Life and the sentiment is from Beautiful Blessings.  Thanks for taking a look!

January 2013 Blog Hop Challenge

The January Blog Hop is all about BLACK....for the background. It is stunning and really makes the other colors pop.  My daughter, with cancer, needed a card for a lady who has stage 4 ovarian cancer...she selected this one to mail off to her.  Today she goes in for her 6th and we hope final chemo treatment, she has been running a fever the last several days.  She felt it broke yesterday, so we are hoping as is she, that she can have this final treatment.  Then we wait for a month to have the PET scan and see if they can pronounce her in remission!

Stamps:  PTI The Sweet Life, Heart 2 Heart # 10
Papaer:  PTI Black, melon berry
Ink:  versamark, memento black, melon berry, hibiscus burst, raspberry fizz, simply chartreuse, ripe avocado