Calligraphy and watercolor go hand-in-hand...

Calligraphy is so hot in stationery these days, so I'm extremely happy that it's making its way into card making as well! Here I've used the Calligraphy Classics stamp set, along with some watercoloring/painting of my own.

To make these, I started off stamping the sentiment in a lighter pink color, then used a wet paintbrush to paint over it. When dry, I stamped the sentiments again over the top in Pure Poppy. The leaves were painted by myself with a teal watercolor paint and a tiny bit of gray and black mixed in. Before I did the leaves, I actually stamped 2 flowers with the Paper Clippings: Thinking of You stamp set.

Swing by the Scrapbook Expo blog to read the tutorial!

Hope you are having a great day!

Introducing Floral Sketches & Calligraphy Classics...

Today we are previewing two new stamp sets by Papertrey Ink, Floral Sketches and Calligraphy Classics! These will be available for purchase on 5/15 at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. On my first set of tags, the color scheme was inspired by this pin.

The Floral Sketches stamp set was used for the flowers, and the sentiments are from Calligraphy Classics. I love, love the big font - great for a beautiful focal point for tags and cards! See the branches? Those are actually veins for the larger leaf in the floral set. They reminded me of the branches from the inspiration piece.

The tags are cut out with the Tag Sale: Quilted die.

About the stamping: the flowers are dipped in Lovely Lady ink, then the edges dipped in Pure Poppy, then I stamped the second step of the flower (outline) in Scarlet Jewel. The tiny flowers are stamped in Fine Linen and Classic Kraft (outline) inks. The leaves are Enchanted Evening with white embossed veins and the branches are stamped in Stormy Sea.

Calligraphy Tags:
STAMPS: Floral Sketches, Calligraphy Classics
INK: Lovely Lady, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, Enchanted Evening, Aqua Mist, Fine Linen, Stormy Sea, Classic Kraft
PAPER: white
DIES: Tag Sale: Quilted
OTHER: twine, sequins.
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The next card and tag use just the Floral Sketches stamp set. The gingham paper is from the Chicken Scratch Gingham paper pack. Sentiment is from Floral Sketches also! There are many pretty sentiments in this set!

Just a Little Note For You card and tag:
STAMPS: Floral Sketches
INK: Lovely Lady, Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise, Stormy Sea, True Black
PAPER: white, Chicken Scratch Gingham
DIES: Tag Sale: Quilted
OTHER: corner rounder, twine.
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These new products will be available for purchase on May 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink! Stop by each of the design team blogs to see more projects with these sets!

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

Make It Monday: Splattering...

I am up this morning with a Make It Monday video! Today I'll be sharing a couple of ways to get the "splattered" look on your tags and cards.

There are a couple different ways to splatter...well, I'm sure there are MANY different ways, but in the video, I'll show you two techniques, a fine splattered look and how to get the big droplets, as well as how to make these pretty tags!

Swing by Nichole Heady's blog to see the new Make It Monday video tutorial! Have a very happy Monday!

Autumn style...

Is it really August already? Wow, how the summer flew by! My kids started school this week, and I just can't believe our summer break is over. At least we have fall to look forward to! Speaking of fall, we have some beautiful autumn products coming soon at Papertrey Ink! Let me show you a few of them...

First up, I used the new Brushed Off stamp set to create a colorful border on the card below and added a piece of the new Autumn Chicken Scratch Gingham paper to the top.

A new leafy die called Branching Out was cut in Classic Kraft cardstock and a sentiment from the Tucked In: New Home stamp set was added to the bottom. Any type of sentiment could be used with this card though.

Sending Heartfelt Congratulations card:

STAMPS: Brushed Off, Tucked In: New Home
INK: Summer Sunrise, Canyon Clay, Classic Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy

PAPER: Autumn Chicken Scratch Gingham, Classic Kraft, white

DIES: Branching Out die

OTHER: Pure Poppy button, floss.

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Next another quick card made with Brushed Off, which I stamped in blues, oranges and greens in the background.

Don't you just love these leaves? I cut them out with a new die collection called Leaf Silhouette dies. A Canyon Clay button and a sentiment from the new Scribbled Sentiments stamps finishes it off! So easy!

For You card:
STAMPS: Brushed Off
INK: Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, Orange Zest, Canyon Clay

PAPER: Aqua Mist, white

DIES: Leaf Silhouette Dies

OTHER: Canyon Clay button, floss.

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Is there a product you can't wait to get? All of the new products you see here today will be available for purchase August 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Thanks for stopping by, see you back here tomorrow for more previews! Visit the Papertrey Ink team to see more ideas:

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Laurie Willison
Lizzie Jones
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Introducing Special Delivery...

Beep, beep! We've got a special delivery for you.

Whether it's a flower truck delivering flowers for a special occasion, an ice cream truck for a summer or birthday card, or a school bus...this little truck from Special Delivery can be customized so many different ways! I chose the flower delivery truck to work with (I know, big surprise, right?)...

The oval is from the new Limitless Layers: Labels, and I die cut and stamped the Special Delivery truck as a focal point inside the oval. The ribbon stamp is from Ribbons & Bows. A super quick (almost) one-layer card.

Flowers Just For You card:

STAMPS: Special Delivery, Limitless Layers: Labels, Ribbons & Bows

INK: Fine Linen, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening, Classic Kraft, Simply Chartreuse

PAPER: white, Aqua Mist

DIES: none

OTHER: corner rounder, pearl by Melissa Frances, seam binding by Zipperstop.

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The second one is more detailed using the Special Delivery truck as a border. I used the Garden Grace stamps and die, and the Congrats All Ways stamp set. I love mixing sentiments from different sets, need to remember to do this more often.

See the dot from the truck design? I used it on the top border of my card as well. Another thing I did was instead of use the flowers from Special Delivery on the truck, I used a couple of flowers from Garden Grace, so the flowers from the truck would match the big bouquet of flowers on my card.

Congrats card:

STAMPS: Special Delivery, Garden Grace, Congrats All Ways
INK: Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss, New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Classic Kraft, True Black
PAPER: Rustic White
DIES: Garden Grace
OTHER:  Sweet Blush button, Button Twine by Papertrey Ink, seam binding by Zipperstop, corner rounder.
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The rest of the Papertrey Ink girls have more to show you with Special Delivery, hop on over to see more!

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman

Cristina Kowalczyk

Dawn McVey

Erin Lincoln

Heather Nichols

Laura Bassen
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady