Friday, September 5, 2014

when God closes a door || September Blog Hop at Paper Wings Productions!

Welcome to the Paper Wings Productions monthly blog hop!  If you are here from Dana's blog, you're in the right place!  If you are just stopping in, please click HERE to start from the beginning.  This month we were given the theme "purple."  


One lucky winner will get a $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store. For a chance to win all you need to do is:

  • be a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog, The Aviary
  • visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment
  • go back to the Paper Wings blog and leave us a comment here telling us you completed the hop
To increase your chances of winning you can like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop.  Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries. The winner will be announced on Tuesday September 9, 2014 here on this blog.


I'm thrilled to be back for the September blog hop! I made a card using the Scriptures clear stamp set. I can't say enough how much I love this stamp set. I used some Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx by Color Box for the majority of my card. The color was indigo and I don't have much purple in my stash so thank goodness I picked this up a while back!

With the Art Textures red rubber cling stamp set I created my background. I mixed some white gesso with some of my indigo Inx and started stamping onto white cardstock. I did not re-ink it - just kept stamping and stamping.

Then I used the large circle Art Textures stamp dipped straight onto the indigo Inx and plopped two large circles on my page. At this point, I used my heating tool to help all of the inks dry. Then I used another stamp from the Art Textures set and heat embossed some silver circles. I also dipped the edges of my background paper onto my embossing ink and heat embossed the edges with silver.

The sentiment is stamped with the indigo Inx and punched out with one of my EK Success punches. I added a few Freckled Fawn stars with glitter to top of my card.
purple: Paper Wings Productions September Blog Hop!
I have an extra PWP stamp set I'd like to give away.  I'm using this Rafflecopter to make it super easy - If you're hopping along with us, you're commenting along the way. That earns you one entry. You can earn an additional entry by becoming a follower of my blog. 

a Rafflecopter giveaway It's time to send you off to Erica's blog. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY!!

***Here is the complete line up just in case you get lost along the way***
Zoey
Amanda
Carmen
Dana
Ashley
Erica
Amber
Katie
Kristie



25 comments:

katiebug92 said...

Love how you used the art textures stamps!

Dana Tatar {datatar} said...

Awesome card! The Art Textures set is one of my faves. :) I'm loving the embossed stars!

Amanda Baldwin said...

Fabulous card!! Love that art textures stamp set - so versatile! :)

vinita jain said...

Love the art texture you create, amazing!

Kathleen White said...

Lovely card and sentiment.

said...

I love your card!
Thank for the giveaway too

Unknown said...

Love the textured look!

Carmen Whitehead said...

That's one of my favorite quotes! So very true. I love this card Ashley, beautiful work!

Zoey said...

Fantastic!!!! Love this card Ashley!!

mayoori jain said...

Cool idea . Can make a masculine card with this idea

Ellen R said...

Ashley, Very nice card! Love the saying and how the circles are like little windows.

Alisha Buggins said...

Love all the textures

Consuela Gomez said...

Beautiful.

Nikki C said...

This is just wonderful :)

Jean Bullock said...

Love the texture you created on the card. Great choice of sentiments too.

Amber said...

Super cute, love all the texture you added!

kristie sessions said...

these are some of my favourite PWP stamps! Great card!

Renee said...

Your card is so lovely....I love the sentiment, too. Great job!!

Tracy Speight said...

I love the expression and this simplicity of the texture on the card.

Handmade at Warratahstree

Donna Broussard said...

Lovely card. Love your stamping and sentiment.

Coco said...

I really love your card, the details like the stamped texture and the embossing on the edges are really gorgeous. Thanks for sharing and for the inspiration!

Amanda said...

I love how you created the background and the sentiment!

Miriam Prantner said...

Great card! Love the layered stamping and the artsy/grungy images.

carrie said...

What a great card Ashley!

Heather Thompson said...

Very awesome card. Great hop.