Papertrey Ink Anniversary Color Inspiration Challenge

Good evening fellow crafters! I hope you all had a great day! The girls and I came home, they did their homework while I started dinner, and as dinner is cooking, I was able to put together a card for the challenge today over at Papertrey Ink! Today the challenge is to create a project using one of 6 Color Inspiration combos! Matching colors together on any kind of project is usually what I struggle with the most, so I love it when someone comes up with such great color combos!

For my card today, I chose this color combo:



Now, as I do not have any of Papertrey Ink's awesome ink pads yet, I had to match the colors as close as I possibly could using Stampin' Up's Ink pads instead. I chose to use some Ivory cardstock for my card base, then added some White and Kraft cardstock to that. The ink pads that I used are Ruby Red, Regal Rose, River Rock, and Crumb cake.

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I used Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterflies Stamp set, as well as the Fillable Frames Additions #1 stamp set. For the smaller stamped details, I used images from PTI's Happy Harlequin, Framed Out #3 and Framed Out #6. I used Hero Arts Happy Mom's stamp set for the sentiments. Inside of card reads "Thinking of you especially today and wishing you a Happy Mother's Day!". I had seen this card design somewhere on Pinterest, but I cannot for the life of me remember where it is from or who created it. If anybody knows, please let me know so I can give credit where it is needed, it was made using the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set and also had a Mother's Day sentiment. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all have a fantastic night!

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Sketch Challenge

Good evening fellow crafters, how was your weekend? I hope everyone had a great one! I unfortunately had to work both Saturday and Sunday, which took away a lot of family time for this week, but I do have Wednesday off so I am definitely looking forward to it! Papertrey Ink is still in the middle of all their Anniversary celebrations, including several contests while still showcasing all the projects the DT has created for this month's release. It looks like they are going to have some awesome new products, I cannot wait until the 15th!

Today the challenge is to create a project using one of the 5 sketches that Nichole has created. I needed to make some 2 Valentine's Day cards for my daughters, one who will be 9 this month on the 17th (man, how time flies by!) and another for my 6 year old. I didn't want to do anything too childish for my almost-9 year old, and I wanted to do something with a lot of color.

I chose this sketch to start my card:



This is the card I created to give to my oldest daughter this year for Valentine's Day:







Using Papertrey Ink's Super Stars Border die collection, I cut out 1 strip each of stars in red, orange, yellow, blue, and green. I used some glue to adhere them to my card the same way as the sketch. I used the Tremendous Treats Valentine stamp set along with the matching dies to cut out and stamp the paper and pencil image. I used my Prismacolor markers in the same colors to color in the images. I wanted the images to stand out against the stars on the front of the card, so I outlined each one with black marker, and adhered them to the card as well. The sentiment is from the Tiny Treats Valentine Stamp set. I used black cardstock for my card base. For the inside of the card, I used the "be my valentine" stamp for the sentiment, and then stamped the little hearts in matching colors.

I have to say I really, really, really love this card! I love all the color with the black card base, I cannot wait to give this one to my daughter! Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Contest #3

Hello again, welcome to my 3rd post for tonight! I will make this post short and sweet. I have posted more tonight than I have all year I think!

I've wanted to do a project with black and Kraft cardstock for a really long time now. I thought that trying to focus on just those 2 colors would be difficult, but it really wasn't. I just love the look of the 2 colors together. Again, I used the Year of Flowers Collection stamp set to create this Thank You card set. I used black dye ink to stamp the 4 different flowers. The cards all measure a standard A2 size.











I would like to do this with Kraft cardstock and other colors, so I might make a few more sets tonight before I head off to bed. Thanks again for stopping by, everyone have a safe and wonderful weekend!

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Contest Year of Flowers #2

Hello again! This is going to be my 2nd post for tonight, and I wanted to show you another project using Papertrey Ink's Year of Flowers Collection Stamp set! As someone who owns an Etsy Shop, I am always in need of Thank You cards to send out with my orders. It doesn't matter how big or small an order is, I always send out a small Thank you note to let my customers know how much I truly appreciate their business! So I wanted to create a simple Thank You card set that would be super easy and fast to put together.

I made this set of 12 cards tonight in about an hour. They were super simple to put together. Each card is 3½" square and is made with Kraft cardstock. Again, I used several ink colors from Stampin' Up to stamp out all the flowers onto the cards. I used the "Thank You" sentiment from TPC studios' Card Crafting Thank you stamp set, and stamped it in Early Espresso ink. I leave the inside of the card blank so I have more room to write to my customers. I used Dark chocolate and white cardstock in addition to the Kraft.










I've got my youngest daughter in here tonight with me, she is playing around with my stamp pads and some Valentine's Stamps(although she keeps asking me to open and close the ink pads for her, I guess they are pretty difficult for a young one to open!) She has just informed me that I better give her dinner soon otherwise she won't have the energy to make good Valentine's Cards for her friends. So I guess I better get to it. Hoping to get one more project in for tonight, see you soon!

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Contest Year of Flowers

Good evening fellow crafters, how are you all doing? I am doing great, again, haven't posted in a while! I've been super busy the last few weeks cranking out a ton of Valentine's Day cards from my Etsy shop. This week was the first week that I've had a break. I was able to come home from work everyday this week without the worry of having to create more cards! I spent some much needed time with my family, and now that I've had enough of that (heehee) I thought I would join in on today's contest over at Papertrey Ink. For this month's release, Nichole and the Design Team are celebrating PTI's 6th year Anniversary! They have so many contests going on right now, it's fantastic! I cannot wait to see all the new products that will be available this month on the 15th!

Today the contest is to create a project using one of PTI's Year of Flowers Stamp sets. When the sets first started coming out, I did not purchase them. However, I was super excited when they released the Year of Flowers Collection stamp set. I loved that I could get all the flower designs in one stamp set, even if the images were a bit smaller. I wanted to create an All Occasion tag set using the stamp set and the Fillable Frames Additions stamp sets. I inked up the frames and sentiments in Black dye ink, and then stamped all the flowers using different Stampin' Up ink colors. I added some white twine to finish them off.









Hopefully I will have a little bit more time tonight to create a few more projects for today's contest. Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink Day 9 Contest

Hi everyone! How was your day? Mine was good, went to work and got busy finishing the girls' Valentine bags for their classes tomorrow! I am exhausted, but took a mini break to put together these bookmarks for today's challenge over at Papertrey Ink! The challenge is:

Today we are challenging you to get in the mood for the introductions. Just create a card incorporating butterflies and leaves and you'll be entered to win big!

So my submission is this butterfly bookmark set!











I used Kraft cardstock for each bookmark, which measures 6" x 2". I stamped the white cardstock with the large leaf and vine stamp from Fiskars Aged to Perfection stamp set. Then I used a scallop circle stamp from Fiskars Wishes All Around stamp set. I punched the butterflies out of paint chip samples using a Martha Stewart butterfly punch. I finished off each bookmark with a small saying from the PTI All Booked Up Stamp Set, added an eyelet and some thread to the top, and thats it! I love love love these bookmarks! At the end of this month, the girls school is having their yearly book fair, so I will be making a bunch of these for them to give out to the students!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Last entry :)

Ok, so here is my last entry for today, I created this card with the inspiration from this card here by Nichole Heady.







Another standard sized card using various colored cardstock and more valentines pattern paper from the Target Dollar spot. I used the Tremendous Treats Valentines set, the PTI 3 Heart Die Set and Banner die. The buttons are from Walmart. I used the bunny image and colored it with my prismacolor markers, cut it out, and popped up onto embossed heart.

Thanks for stopping by today guys, have a great weekend and good luck!!!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Post #3!

HeeHee, if I had known we could do more than one entry on these contests earlier, I would have posted a lot more entries!

Here is my 3rd entry for todays Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest:

This is a set of 5 Valentine Cards that I made using PAINT SAMPLES! I got this idea from Kerry Buckley, I made my cards bigger and used more gradient colors. I got my samples from Walmart, punched out several hearts, and adhered them to a standard A2 card base with dimensionals. I added the "be my valentine" sentiment from the Tremendous Treats Valentine Stamp set.











This is such a great idea to get matching colors for any kind of punch outs for cards, I also made Butterfly Bookmarks with the technique. Anywho, gonna make one last Valentine Card today for the contest, and also to give to my Mother In Law for Valentines from my kiddos. See you soon!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest Post 2!!!

Okay, so for my second entry to the Papertrey Ink Day 7 contest, these are my Valentines Top Note Die Boxes that I will be giving out to my co-workers this year! I also sold a few sets on my etsy! I always loved the look of the Top note die box, but never knew how to put them together. I found this great tutorial here at the Sunset house. Super easy to follow and I was able to put them together in no time!













I followed the tutorial for the boxes, then used Stampin Up's Top Note die, and cut 2 each of the color cardstock and 1 of the patterned paper for each box. To layer the pattern paper on top of the cardstock top note die, cut around the perforated edge on the patterned paper, and this will allow you to make a perfect layer.

The tricky part was lining up the top note dies to match on top and bottom, but once you get the hang out it, they are easy and fast to mass produce! I added a scallop circle color cardstock die cut and a white circle die cut, then used the Tremendous treats stamp set to add the images and "be my valentine" sentiment. I added some shredded paper inside each box along with some chocolate hearts. You can fit a lot of stuff inside these little boxes! For christmas, I used them as jewelry boxes! I love making them!

Good luck everyone!

Papertrey Ink Day 7 Contest

Hello everyone! Today over at Papertrey Ink, the contest is about VALENTINES! I am sooooo excited, I love me some Valentine Crafts, especially since my all time favorite (so far!) stamp sets are the Tiny and Tremendous Treats Valentines from PTI! They are great to work with and you can use them for sooooo many things! So today, over the next few posts, I will be showing you everything I have made so far this year for Valentines!

So, today's Papertrey Ink contest is:

In honor of the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday and Melissa Bickford's new Heart-2-Heart stamp series, your challenge today is to create a project that incorporates hearts into it's design. They can be stamped hearts, die-cut hearts, felt hearts, glittered hearts, a heart border, or even hear shaped card base. Want to be inspired even further? Do a search on Pinterest or Google for hearts!

So for today, I am showing you a Valentines Card Set of 4 that I put together to give to my mom and sisters this year.











Again, these are standard size A2 cards, I got this idea from Andrea Walford, she has some amazing tutorials on her website! I used some patterned paper from the Target Dollar spot, added the "be my valentine" sentiment from Tremendous Treats, and used 2 out of the 3 hearts from PTI 3 heart die cut set. I embossed the larger heart and card base with dots, and put it all together. To keep the pattern paper on the card base with the embossed dots, I used sticky strip and just made sure to press down hard enough to get it to stick.

Good luck everyone, check out my other posts for today, going to do more than one entry, woohooo!

Papertrey Ink Contest Day 6!

I sure lovvvee me some contests! It's Day 6 of the February stamping release countdown over at Papertrey Ink and that means another contest challenge! With of course another amazzzing prize! I sure I hope win at least one of the contests, surely keeping my fingers crossed! I don't own that many Papertrey Ink stamps sets, so this would be a great opportunity for me to add some goodies to my small treasured Papertrey Ink collection!

For today's challenge, we get to pick a sketch from these here and design a project. I chose Sketch #4 because it is a sketch that I would normally never think about trying. I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and try something new. So this is my entry for todays contest, a "Just saying Hello" card and Bookmark set.











It is a standard A2 size card using Kraft cardstock. I used Stampin up ink colors chocolate chip, handsome hunter, bravo burgundy, and night of navy. I use Stampin Up ink pads for most of my inking, since I don't have any Papertrey Ink ink pads yet. They work great with Papertrey Ink stamps, ink perfectly every time. Anywho, used the Papertrey Ink All Booked Up Stamp set and stamped the book image several times in all colors except Chocolate chip. I used the "Just saying Hello" stamp from TPC Studio's Card Crafting Hello stamp set and stamped that in chocolate chip. For the inside of the card, I added and image and sentiment from the All Booked Up Stamp set as well. I added a burgundy banner die cut and some brown buttons, then put it all together! I repeated the stamping for the bookmark, adding an image from the stamp set and the letters "read" from the small alphabet die cut set from PTI.

I think this would be a perfect masculine card for a friend or husband, the colors are great together! Good luck to all the other entries and thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink Contest Day 5

It's almost time for this month's Papertrey Ink stamp release! I cannot wait! I mean yea, I have no other choice, but holy moly I am so excited! Today is Day 5 of the release Sneak peeks, and with today's contest, there is going to be FIVE winners, each receiving 5 free stamps sets! Eeeeek!!!

Today's rules:
Pick one of the team members Pinterest inspiration photos from above or select your own piece of Pinterest eye candy to use as a jump-start for your very own creation. If you are linking from your blog, be sure to showcase your Pinterest inspiration and a link to the original source.

So for my entry, I chose this card by the very talented Lisa Johnson:



which can be found on Pinterest here.

I used the layout of Lisa's card as my inspiration, and came up with this:







I love and adore ALL the Papertrey Ink Tiny Treats and Tremendous Treats sets. They are are versatile and fun to use! I really hope they come up with a Tiny Treats Baby set, or a Tremendous Treats Birthday set! I used the Tremendous Treats: Valentine Set for this card. I also used an I Love You rubber stamp from the dollar spot at Michaels. The card is standard A2 size. I used pattern paper from this years Valentine paper sets at the Target dollar spot. I used the Papertrey Ink banner die, stamped, clear embossed, and hand colored the Valentine doggie, and popped him up inside the punched circle with dimensionals. I love this card, I think this may be the one I give to my DH this year.

Only a few days away until the new release, I can't wait to see what else the Design Team over at Papertrey Ink has in store for us, so far its been exciting, and I've spent HOURS upon HOURS on the website looking at everyone's submissions, there are so many talented crafters out there, its crazy! Good luck everyone and thanks for stopping by!