New Products for Spring & Egg Hunt...

The Papertrey Ink team has a ton of new spring products to show you today, including the Bunny Basket stamps & dies, Cover Plate: Basket die, Easter Grass die, Shaped Sayings: Easter and the Simply Spring Borders stamps & dies!  Everything you see that is new here today will be available for purchase at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink.

Be sure to start at Nichole Heady's blog for the annual "scavenger egg hunt" as you hop through the design team's blogs to locate all of the egg icons for your chance to win! Click on the above official egg hunt photo to see it larger.

First, I have a treat wrap made with the Cover Plate: Basket die. Basically my treat wrap is a card that I placed glassine bags inside, then wrapped the seam binding around it like a little package. The glassine bags hold candy and a note.
The basket die is cut from Aqua Mist cardstock and placed over Mint Julep cardstock. I also couldn't help but to work with the Tulip Time stamps and dies again! I don't think I did them justice yesterday, gah! I love them SO!

The tag is stamped with Tulip Time, Bunny Basket and Simply Spring Borders. The Easter grass is cut with the Easter Grass die out of vellum.

Spring is in the Air Treat Wrap:

STAMPS: Bunny Basket, Tulip Time, Simply Spring Borders

INK: Bright Buttercup, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Ripe Avocado, Lovely Lady, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise inks

PAPER: White, Aqua Mist, Mint Julip, vellum

DIES: Cover Plate: Basket die, Easter Grass die, Tulip Time dies

OTHER: seam binding - Zipperstop, glassine bags, candy.

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On the next card, I began with the Bunny Basket stamps to create a colorful egg background.
The Limitless Layers 2.5" Circles scalloped die was cut to place behind the Shaped Sayings: Easter die cut, then a few enamel dots were sprinkled around to finish out the "colorful" look!

Colorful Easter card: 

STAMPS: Bunny Basket, Simply Spring Borders  

INK: True Black, Sweet Blush, Summer Sunrise, Bright Buttercup, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Lavender Moon

PAPER: Aqua Mist, white

DIES: Shaped Sayings: Easter, Limitless Layers 2.5" Circles

OTHER: seam binding- Zipperstop, enamel dots.

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Visit the rest of the team to see more Spring/Easter ideas! These products will be available on Feb. 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink!

Amy Sheffer
Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Kay Miller
Laurie Willison
Lizzie Jones
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Introducing Dress Up Dolls...

Today we have a sneak peek of a new ongoing series by Betsy Veldman for Papertrey Ink called Dress Up Dolls. I have made a quick Easter card with the new Dress Up Dolls: Basics stamps and dies and the Dress Up Dolls: Easter stamps and dies.

I've used a Fabulous Frame die with gray cardstock, the Limitless Layers 1.5" Squares dies to trim out the smaller square, the Sweet Life rose and the Bold Blossoms stamps and dies for the leaf. The butterflies are trimmed from the Beautiful Butterfly dies from vellum. And of course, I used the new Dress Up Dolls products on the bunny. Excuse my Copic coloring, I'm not very good at it!

Happy Easter card:
STAMPS: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Easter, Sweet Life, Bold Blossoms
INK: Tropical Teal, Lovely Lady, Raspberry Fizz, True Black, Stormy Sea, Vintage Jadeite, New Leaf
PAPER: white, gray, vellum
DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Easter, Fabulous Frames, Limitless Layers 1.5" Square, Sweet Life, Bold Blossoms, Beautiful Butterflies
OTHER: Copic markers, mica flakes, sequins, seam binding.
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Visit the rest of the team to see more ideas with Dress Up Dolls. These products will be available on Feb. 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink!

Amy Sheffer
Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Kay Miller
Laurie Willison
Lizzie Jones
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Release Day: February...

Today is release day when all of the new products for the month will be available (10pm EST) at Papertrey Ink. I have a few more new sets to show you. What fun it's been with the 8th Anniversary festivities, hasn't it?

First up is the new Etched Easter Eggs, and I made some little gift tags for Easter with the stamps and dies.

The tags are cut with the new Enclosed: Basic Folded Tag, then I stamped the vines with Lovely Laurels. I tucked some Etched Easter Eggs dies into the stamped leaf sprigs.

Sequins are from the Lovely Laurels mini kit. Love these! Pink twine finishes off the tags. The eggs are actually backed with acetate cut with the Egg die, so they kind of shine and resemble stained glass, even though it's hard to see in the photos.

Easter Tag Set:
(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Etched Easter Eggs, Lovely Laurels
INK: Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, New Leaf, True Black
PAPER: White
DIES: Etched Easter Eggs dies, Egg Die, Enclosed: Basic Folded Tag die
OTHER: Twine, sequins from Lovely Laurels mini kit.
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Next up, an Easter card with Easter Alleluias!

Love the big fonts in Easter Alleluias! I used Lovely Laurels again in the background and just inked up half of it at a time, so I could stamp the leaf sprigs going "out" instead of in towards each other, then tucked a "He is risen" sentiment inside. Added some stamped flowers and sequins from Lovely Laurels. Then I wanted a paper to add to the top that had all the colors in it that I used on my card to tie them all together, so I decided to make my own with Background Basics: Super Stripes.

Alleluia! card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Easter Alleluias, Lovely Laurels, Background Basics: Super Stripes

INK: Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, True Black, Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold

PAPER: White

DIES: Lovely Laurels

OTHER: sequins - Lovely Laurels mini kit.

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Here are Blue Skies stamps and dies.

The rays are cut with Cover Plate: Blue Skies Rays die and stamped with the stamp set with Summer Sunrise ink.  Then I die cut and stamped the cupcakes. A fun little birthday card!

Sunny With a Chance of Sprinkles card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Blue Skies

INK: Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Pure Poppy

PAPER: Raspberry Fizz Pattern Pack, Harvest Gold and White cardstock

DIES: Blue Skies, Cover Plate: Blue Skies Rays

OTHER: pearl by Melissa Frances, corner rounder, Martha Stewart scalloped circle punch.

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Here is Monthly Moments: Year Round Mini stamp set (February stamp). I also used the Birthday Classics: September set to add "happy" and "birthday".

The flowers are cut and stamped with Bitty Bouquets. Paper is from the new Luxe Silver Foil papers. I really like the purples and silver together!

 Happy February Birthday card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Monthly Moments: Year Round Mini, Bitty Bouquets, Birthday Classics: September

INK: Plum Pudding, New Leaf, Lavender Moon

PAPER: Lavender Moon cardstock, Luxe Silver Foil papers

DIES: Bitty Bouquets, 2" circle punch - Fiskars

OTHER: pearls by Melissa Frances.

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This is Keep It Simple: Mother stamp set that I stamped and embossed onto Sheer Basics Vellum. 

These pretty papers are the new Luxe Gold Foil papers (A2size), all I did was add a few things in the center, a 2" punched circle from Sweet Blush cardstock, a vellum circle cut with Limitless Layers 2 1/2" Circle die, a Swoosh die cut from Luxe Gold Cardstock and a flower cut with Bitty Bouquets.

With Love on Mother's Day card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Keep It Simple: Mother, Bitty Bouquets

INK: Pure Poppy, Spring Moss

PAPER: Sweet Blush, Sheer Basics Vellum, Luxe Gold Cardstock, Luxe Gold Foil papers (background)

DIES: Bitty Bouquets, 2" circle punch, Limitless Layers 2 1/2" Circle, Swoosh

OTHER: pearl by Melissa Frances, white embossing powder.

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Here is one more with Quilted: Spring stamps and dies. 

Isn't it pretty? A quilt lovers dream and a great set for getting to add lots of different colors. 

 Love Is the Tie Quilted card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Monthly Moments: Year Round Mini

INK: Lavender Moon, Scarlet Jewel, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss, Sweet Blush, True Black

PAPER: white

DIES: Quilted: Spring dies

OTHER: twine, clear sequins - Pretty Pink Posh.

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Everything will be available on Feb. 15 at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. 

Want to see more ideas with the new products? Visit the PTI team:

Amy Sheffer

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen
Lauri Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Spring Fling ...

Papertrey Ink will be releasing its new products for February on the 15th at 10 pm EST. Here are a few more fun things coming out this month...today it's all about SPRING! See Nichole's blog for the Scavenger Hunt information if you want to play along!

This card was made with the new Garden Grace stamps and dies. I first die cut the big floral piece, then stamped the leaves, which is all one stamp. I used Harvest Gold and Sweet Blush ink for the flowers, Aqua Mist ink on the leaves, and Fine Linen around the edges of the flowers. To create the flowers all different colors, I stamped them individually onto the die cut.

The new Cover Plate: Stripes Horizontal die was cut from white cardstock, and I wrapped the seam binding around it before attaching it to the white card base. To adhere the the cover plate, I used 1/8" Scrappy Tape, which is just like Scor-Tape. Worked like a charm to hold all of the strips down!

Every card looks naked without sequins now to me...I've got a problem. :) Sentiment is stamped on vellum with the Garden Grace stamp set. Vellum, another addiction of mine!

Happy Mother's Day card:

STAMPS: Garden Grace

INK: True Black, Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Fine Linen

PAPER: White, Sweet Blush Pattern Pack

DIES: Bunny Bag die (heart), Garden Grace, Cover Plate: Stripes Horizontal

OTHER:  sequins by Pretty Pink Posh, vellum, clothespin by Pebbles, seam binding by Zipperstop.

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Next is the Bunny Bag die, which makes a cute little favor/gift bag!

The bunny bag when put together is roughly 4" high (with the ears about 6 1/2" high) and about 2 1/2" wide. I cut this one from Sweet Blush Patterned Paper and added Classic Kraft felt for the nose and inner ears and twine for the whiskers. (Holes are already cut for you when you cut the bag! All you have to do is slide in 3 pieces of twine, wire or pipe cleaners for the whiskers!) There are also dies included to stitch the ears and nose if you'd like to add stitching. I bent one of her ears over for a floppy ear.

You can position the arms, so that the bunny can hold something. I randomly stamped some flowers with the new Garden Grace stamp set, trimmed around them and tucked them under the bunny's arms. Then I made a little sign to hang over her arm. To hang it, I made a loop with twine and taped it onto the back of the sign with washi tape. Sentiment is from the new Hippity Hoppity stamp set.

Some Bunny Loves You gift bag:
STAMPS: Hippity Hoppity, Garden Grace
INK: True Black, Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Fine Linen
PAPER: Sweet Blush Pattern Pack
DIES: Bunny Bag die
OTHER:  twine and Classic Kraft felt by Papertrey Ink, pearls by Melissa Frances.
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Visit the rest of the PTI team to see more with these fun spring products, available on 2/15 at Papertrey Ink.

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Cristina Kowalczyk
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Spring Fling...

Today the Papertrey Ink team is working with a few new stamp sets coming out on the 15th... Polkadot Parade #1 and Mini Blooms, along with a new Favor It Box #9 die. We were to find an image online that inspires us, so I found this one below and ended up using it quite literally. I loved the pastel letters and knew they'd work perfectly with the new Headline Alphabet stamps coming out this month too!

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So here is my take on the inspiration piece for an Easter card! I used the new Headline Alphabet for the sentiment and inserted the little bunny stamp from Polkadot Parade #1.

I had to pop up the tail for dimension! What is a cute bunny without a fluffy tail?

My advice when creating this card is to start in the center with the alpha stamps. I stamped the "Happy" first and then the Easter, starting with the S and T in the center and working my way out on each end to make sure the word was going to be even.

I made two little favor bags with the Favor It Box 9 dies. You can create smaller ones and larger bags with the same set! Inside the larger one, I added a tag cut with the Mat Stack 6 dies and stamped and embossed with the Mini Blooms set and the same bunny from Polkadot Parade #1. Added one of PTI's new resin pieces as the bunny tail.

Nichole Heady will have a video on how to make these cute baskets with the dies! I decided to add a fun Crate Paper brad at the top which kind of brings all of these colors that I used all together.

Now there is also a scavenger hunt today and a contest, which Nichole will explain on her blog this morning! Find all of the bunnies in the design team posts to win!

Visit the other Papertrey Ink girls for more Easter ideas:

Betsy Veldman
Cristina Kowalczyk

Dawn McVey

Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols

Jessica Witty  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Happy Easter card, baskets and tag:

STAMPS: Polkadot Parade #1, Mini Blooms

INK: Fresh Snow, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, Harvest Gold, Spring Moss, Aqua Mist, Melon Berry, Sweet Blush, True Black
PAPER: white cardstock, Aqua Mist
DIES: Favor It Box 9 dies, Polkadot Parade #1 dies, Mat Stack 6
OTHER: brads, resin flowers, shredded paper, seam binding.

A little belated, but

I'm a little belated in sending Easter wishes, but I hope you all had a great holiday! We had a very nice day with my husband's family and all of the little cousins.

My daughter Kati is having her tonsils and adenoids out in 2 days, so I've been frantically trying to get all of my Papertrey Ink projects for the month done before Thursday, so I can spend time with her and be there for her as much as she needs me. She's had swollen tonsils since last fall...and the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor thinks she had mononucleosis, which is what caused the tonsils to become so enlarged. They are so swollen that they are almost touching. As a worried mom, I'm little bit nervous of her being put under because of her congenital heart condition. Please pray that everything goes well. xo I love her to pieces!

I will have some new projects set to post again starting in 2 days for the Papertrey Ink countdown! I wanted to share some pictures from our Easter, but I just haven't had time yet. Here are two that I really liked. We have this big tree that we try to take pictures by each year in front of our house, kind of a tradition! We have an egg hunt each year with all of the cousins, Easter dinner and a bonfire, so my girls don't really dress up that much for Easter. :) The older they get, the less they want to wear dresses!

Thank you for stopping by. I'll be back soon with lots of new Papertrey Ink things to show you!

Welcome to another Papertrey Ink group post! We are featuring a brand new stamp set called Sweet Spring, which will be available on the 15th. I made a little treat pocket and coordinating card, then I thought of some little boxes as place holders that would be fun for an Easter dinner table...or even as little party favors.

First, I made the treat pocket with the Front and Center die. I cut one from Lavender Moon cardstock and folded the bottom up, then machine stitched the sides. The little flowers, frame and sentiment are stamped with the new Sweet Spring stamps! I used Raspberry Fizz patterned paper to make the tiny flowers, just stamped over the polkadots on the paper and cut them out. The eggs are stamped with the NEW Scrambled Eggs stamp set and die cut with the Egg die.

Next is a card stamped with the flowers again, but I used a dark purple cardstock and Raspberry Fizz and Aqua Mist patterned papers for the flowers. The background is stamped with the buttterfly and swirls from the Sweet Spring set.

Last, I thought of some little boxes to fill with candies for treat favors or place holders at Easter dinner. For each box, I cut 2 strips of patterned paper 6" x 1/2". I placed them together in the center, glued the bottoms and folded up the sides, making sure the bottoms were 1 1/2" square.

You can make these boxes any size you want, just make sure you cut them the same width that you want the bottom of the box to be. So if you want 4x4" bottoms to your boxes, you'll cut your strips 4" wide.

I trimmed the tops with scalloped scissors on all four sides...

To keep these treat boxes really simple, I just taped the sides together on the inside corners of the boxes with Scotch tape, then covered the tape on the inside with some shredded cardstock. I tied ribbon around them to hold them together tighter. Add jellybeans or any fun candies.

Sweet Spring Ensemble:

Stamps: Sweet Spring, Scrambled Eggs

Ink: Autumn Rose, True Black, Spring Rain, Simply Chartreuse, Lavender Moon

Paper: Lavender Moon cardstock, Raspberry Fizz and Aqua Mist patterned paper, yellow cardstock

Dies: Egg die, Front and Center die

Other: PTI ribbon.

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Visit the other girls to see what they've made with Sweet Spring and Scrambled Eggs!

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Lisa Johnson  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady