February 2018 ~ Cupcake's Creations

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Mona Pendleton | Wednesday, February 28, 2018 @ 11:00 AM | Oil Painting , PTI

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI "Transformation Tuesday" challenge. This challenge is to take a card which you’ve made in the past and transform it in some way. Here's my original card which I made March 22, 2017 and may be seen here: Here's my new interpretation / transformation: This time around, I opted for a softer pastel look featuring watercoloring. I combined pretty flowers from the PTI Vintage Linens set with the...

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Mona Pendleton | Monday, February 26, 2018 @ 11:02 AM | Make it Monday , PTI

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI Make It Monday challenge where Betsy is challenging us to create a project featuring the Mask and Stack technique. Here's my interpretation of the technique: I inked up an image from the retiring PTI Butterfly Dreams stamp set, masked and stamped the background then stamped another image from the set to feature as an embellishment: For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the Freshly Made Sketches...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, February 25, 2018 @ 8:25 AM | Easter , PTI , PTI Blog Hop

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI February Blog Hop. The challenge is to create a project inspired by the fun photo shown below: Here's my take on the inspiration photo: I was inspired to create an Easter card featuring a jar a fun little jar from the Friendship Jar Summer Fillers stamp set full of easter eggs from the Friendship Jar Spring Fillers stamp set: For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with The Paper Players challenge: and...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, February 18, 2018 @ 11:39 PM | Oil Painting , PTI

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI 11th Anniversary challenge where the challenge is to create a project featuring stripes. For the stripes, I die cut a piece of Story Sky striped patterned paper: For the focal point, I stamped a pretty peony from the PTI Pretty Peonies stamp set then added a coat of sugary like glitter: For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge: and for color inspiration, I'm...

thinking of you 16

Mona Pendleton | Wednesday, February 14, 2018 @ 10:17 PM | Oil Painting , PTI

Today I'm joining along with the PTI 11th anniversary day 8 challenge where the challenge is a color challenge. I was inspired by the pretty color scheme shown below: I created a greeting card featuring a double layered heat embossed pretty butterfly from the Life is Beautiful stamp set: I embellished with a homemade flower that was die cut using a PTI Beautiful Blooms die along with a stitched on button: For sketch inspiration, I'm joining...

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Mona Pendleton | Monday, February 12, 2018 @ 5:18 PM | Oil Painting , PTI

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI 11th anniversary day 7 challenge where the challenge is to create a project featuring dies only. I created a valentine's day card featuring a variety of die cuts including a sentiment made using dies from the PTI Wet Paint combined with the Wet Paint 11 collection. The heart was die cut using a double layered PTI Primitive Heart die cut with the bottom layer being white...

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Mona Pendleton | Saturday, February 10, 2018 @ 8:20 AM | Oil Painting , PTI

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI 11th anniversary day 5 challenge where the challenge is to create a project featuring a stamp set that is on the 2018 retirement list. I created a thank you card featuring pretty butterflies from the PTI Butterfly Dreams stamp set: I stamped the background with one of the smaller stamps in the set then embellished with a layered die cut / stamped larger butterfly. It doesn't matter to me if this...