PTI Blog Hop – Happy Birthday…

Happy Wednesday friends! It’s the 25th of the month (uh, where did July go?), and that means it’s time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!

This month, Nichole posted a colour challenge, inspired by a beautiful photo. We were encouraged to use florals along with the palette, as well. Here is our inspiration board:

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Is that beautiful, or what? But here’s the catch…. I literally only have one of those colours in my PTI arsenal. And at that, I only have the inkpad – no cardstock, ribbons, etc… I am still slowly collecting PTI colours, since I’ve got so much from other manufacturers! No worries, a few more of these are in my latest order, currently finding it’s way to me!

In the meantime…

It wasn’t an option for me to skip the hop – I loved the inspiration far too much to pass it up! So I did the next best thing to PTI products, and used patterned paper that followed the colour story pretty closely!

Pretty close, right? I know there isn’t a lot of PTI going on here – but I literally had 30 minutes and no supplies to put this one together, so this is where I landed! *wink*

Here is a close up of the embellishment on my bow… the flower was trimmed from one of the vintage laces I found in that tiny little shop in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. It’s this beautiful, 4 inch wide trim… and it’s perfect for cutting apart and using as different elements – I have another card coming your way in a day or two, and I’ll show you what I mean!

Thank you so much for stopping by – enjoy the rest of your hop!