Embroidered Blooms...

Welcome back to another Papertrey Ink countdown. We are so excited to show you a few new stamp sets coming out this month. Today we're featuring Embroidered Blooms and Ribbons & Bows. My first card uses the Embroidered Blooms on the leaves/stems and the sentiment. It's a 2 part stamping on the flowers and leaves in the set, and those are becoming my favorite type of stamps - the layered look you can achieve is amazing!

I used Sweet Blush ink first and then the tips of the leaves are stamped in red, Pure Poppy. It's one big stamp, so it's easy to line up with the first one. This set coordinates with the Turning a New Leaf dies also - a favorite of many people!

The frames were fun to work with! These are the new Mat Stack 6 dies. I cut the center of the frame with white cardstock and the outer 2 layers of the frame with Soft Stone cardstock. The outside layer was then stamped with Background Basics: Newsprint. See how if you cut the 2 inside frames at the same time, you get the skinny border like I have? So many cutting possibilities with these.

The hearts are all from Framed Out #11 (stamps and nested heart die). The polkadot paper is Smokey Shadow Pattern Pack, the border is the Filigree Border. I scrunched up a small bit of seam binding and stitched it together. I didn't want a huge bow to take over the small details on my card.

Thanks So Much card:
STAMPS: Embroidered Blooms, Background Basics: Newsprint
INK: True Black, Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy
PAPER: Smokey Shadow Pattern Pack, Sweet Blush/white/Soft Stone cardstock, Linen Vellum
DIES: Mat Stack 6 (frames), Framed Out #11 (hearts), Filigree Border
OTHER: seam binding, pearl, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Ruby Enamel Dots.
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One more! This one uses Embroidered Blooms flowers with the new Ribbons & Bows set. I stamped the bow in New Leaf, then the flowers using Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, Melon Berry and Soft Stone. A "celebrate" sentiment was used from Ribbons & Bows and "you" is from Embroidered Blooms.

Only one flower is stamped red to draw your eye right to the saying. I love the font! After stamping, the whole piece of cardstock was run through the Cuttlebug with a Simple Strips Impression Plate to create the raised lines in the white cardstock and add dimension.

This card just makes me happy! Hmm....who to send it to...

Celebrate You card:
STAMPS: Embroidered Blooms, Ribbons & Bows
INK: True Black, Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Melon Berry, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, New Leaf
PAPER: Sweet Blush/white cardstock
DIES: Simple Stripes Impression Plate
OTHER: pearl.
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These new stamp sets and dies will be available on the 15th at PapertreyInk.com. Stop by the rest of the team's blogs to see what they've made with these same products!

Ashley Cannon Newell 

Betsy Veldman
Cristina Kowalczyk

Dawn McVey

Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols

Jessica Witty  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady

the bold and the beautiful.

I don't know about you, but this week I've been recovering from the fun we had at Stamp-A-Faire! What a great event that was! I wanted to thank you so much for joining us, for your participation and kind words. We had a great time preparing everything for it, and could not have had the event without YOU. Thank you!

Now, is it just me - or do you also get totally sidetracked when you are trying to clean up your desk? I literally have papers, ink pads, dies and stamps every.where.!! But amidst the mess, somehow I was inspired to make this. Just for fun. (And my desk is still a disaster, but...crafting is much more fun than cleaning.)

I used Smokey Shadow cardstock for the base. Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse and Canyon Clay cardstock and inks were used for the hearts. Hearts are made with the Heart-2-Heart #3 stamps and dies. Fresh Snow ink works great for the sentiment on the gray cardstock.

I cut the front of this card shorter than the back, so the hearts would show on the inside, then added a little see-through Filigree die cut border. The sentiment is stamped onto a Photo Finish Strips die and then trimmed to fit my card.

The striped card was inspired by a card I saw at Treat.com. I loved the colors together against the darker background and the white sentiment. I was feeling in a "bright and bold" mood the other night while creating and wanted to try a fun color combo.

These little hearts would make cute balloons too for a birthday card if you moved the strings down to the bottom of the card. They are simply taped to the back of the hearts, and a little staple keeps the strings firmly in place. Now for some odd reason I'm craving some little conversational heart candies!

Bold Thank You card set:

STAMPS: Heart-2-Heart #3
INK: Fresh Snow, Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Canyon Clay, Simply Chartreuse inks
PAPER: Smokey Shadow, Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Canyon Clay, Simply Chartreuse cardstocks
DIES: Heart-2-Heart #3, Photo Finish Strips, Filigree Border
OTHER: twine, pearls, staples, machine stitching.

Natural Beauties.

Today I wanted to share with you a stamp set by Papertrey Ink called "Natural Beauties". Papertrey Ink is hosting an online event on July 21st called Stamp-a-Faire Summer Camp, and if you order the Stamp-a-Faire tote FULL of goodies, you'll also receive this gorgeous stamp set. Click HERE to read more about the kit and the classes!

This set is so much fun to work with. The flowers are in layers, so first you stamp a light colored layer like I did here with Sweet Blush ink for the base of the flower. I stamped once onto a scratch piece of paper to get some of the ink off of my stamp, then stamped it again onto my card. This way, I got a really nice light colored flower. Then the second step was to stamp the top layer with Pure Poppy ink. The lighter the flower, the more the top layer will contrast with it!
For the blue flowers, I did the same thing with Spring Rain ink and Aqua Mist ink(for the first layer). The second layer was done with Hawaiian Shores ink on both. The difference between the Spring Rain and Aqua Mist flowers is subtle, but you can definitely tell they are different. The Aqua Mist flowers are a bit more teal blue.

Last, I filled in the blank spots with Spring Moss leaves (on the front card). I tried Simply Chartreuse leaves on the back card, which turned out a bit darker. I think I liked the Spring Moss better. The sentiment is from this set also. I added a Filigree border die cut from Handmade paper by Lily Bee and a little strip of paper from the Handmade collection also on the left of the cards.

The little flower centers were filled in with Sweet Blush. I wanted to mention also, as you can see in the above photo, I made the front of the card shorter than the back of the card, so the Filigree border would hang off the end.

(This stamp set will also be available for free on Stamp-a-faire day, July 21st, 2012, to all customers who make a qualifying purchase of $100 or more between 7am EST and 11:30pm EST, limit one per customer.)

Have a good day!

So Many of my Smiles card set:

STAMPS: Natural Beauties

INK: Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse, True Black

PAPER: Handmade by Lily Bee, white cardstock
DIES: Doily Details
OTHER: machine stitching.