On the Farm.

Today the Papertrey Ink team is having a blog hop to show a new stamp set called "On the Farm", coming out on the 15th.

First, I made a set of cards to send to my grandmother. She loves roosters, so I thought of her as I was making this! I wanted to use all of the different sentiments in the set, so I kept the basic design the same throughout, just changed the sentiment and animal on each one. This way, I was able to stamp them all in "assembly line" fashion. The cards are packaged in one of Papertrey Ink's Clear Card Boxes.

I wrapped a piece of Fine Linen Patterned Paper around the box and decorated it with the Background Basics: Farm and Barn (chicken wire) and the On the Farm Stamp set. A few kraft buttons were threaded with twine and wrapped around the box.

On each card, I began with the Crackled stamp with Fine Linen ink. I stamped the check pattern in Pure Poppy, a sentiment in True Black and an animal in Classic Kraft and last, a little circle stamp. Then I trimmed this piece down and added it to a white cardstock base. I stamped 2 of the check patterns with Soft Stone ink on the top and bottom. The Soft Stone is gorgeous in real life, but hard to get a good photo of it! Added a Kraft button to the top for a bit of dimension and to add a rustic feel.

I kept this design the same throughout the cards, yet used all of the different sentiments to make a variety of occasions. She's going to love these!

Next, I used the Shape Up Series: Barn die and the Simple Stripes Impression Plate to make a little birthday card for a child. My daughter would have loved this when she was little, as she loves horses!

Inside the little doors is a felt horse cut with the On the Farm dies. On the front of the barn, I machine stitched around the edges and added white strips of paper around the barn door to help the door stand out a bit. The saying says, "Herd it's your Birthday!". The card base is made with the Barn die also, with new Fine Linen patterned paper.

And if you are still with me, I have one more card made with the new Chicken Wire Impression Plate...

How cute is that chicken wire background!

Thanks for reading today and be sure to grab these fun products on the 15th at www.papertreyink.com. Now hop on over to the rest of the team's blogs to see what they've done with these items!

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady

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On the Farm cards:

STAMPS: On the Farm, Crackled, Background Basics: Farm and Barn

INK: Fine Linen, Classic Kraft, Dark Chocolate, True Black, Pure Poppy, Soft Stone

PAPER: white and Pure Poppy cardstock, Fine Linen Patterned Paper

DIES: Shape Up Series: Barn, On the Farm

OTHER: Kraft buttons, floss, twine, Clear Card Box, Chicken Wire Impression Plate, Simple Stripes Impression Plate.

Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic and Color Magic.

Well, hello again! I have some layouts today made with Heidi Swapp's new Sugar Chic line with a bit of her new Color Magic line mixed in! These layouts will be on TV in the UK soon, so for all of you in that area, be on the lookout for that. You won't want to miss grabbing these new Heidi Swapp products!

Here I've used Heidi's new Sugar Chic line of papers, Banners, Bow Ties, Stix, Buzz Words and the Color Magic Alpha ("you"). I wanted the YOU to blend in to the background and let the other cute words shine on the page, so I colored the YOU letters with a black marker. The letters actually resist whatever medium you put on them. So fun! The bow ties were perfect with these pictures of Kati and her big bows.

I've always been a big fan of Heidi's products, even back when I first started scrapbooking - remember the "ghost shapes" and pink chipboard hearts?? I may or may not still have one or two of these in my stash. Ahem. Don't judge! :)

I think this next one is my favorite... I was inspired by the Buzz Word "drama", because I thought I could easily make a page about all the drama that happens in our household - with three girls, well four if you count the dog. lol ((Can't wait for the teenage years! :))

I started with a white cardstock background and arranged the 6x6" floral paper with strips of the black for contrast and the photos over the top. Then I wanted to add all of the fun patterns, so I started punching circles of the different patterned papers.

Last, I decided to add a strip of the Color Magic paper at the top, so I used a Harvest Gold ink pad by Papertrey Ink and brushed it over the chevron resist paper to create an "ombre" effect. Wondering what "ombre" means? Check out the Pink Paislee blog - we are doing an "ombre" theme all this week. :)

For more Heidi Swapp inspiration, be sure to visit her blog: www.heidiswapp.com/blog  The Pink Paislee team contributes to her blog from time to time, so there are lots of ideas there! Have a great day!

more birthday cards...

I'm on my way out the door to run errands, but I wanted to share a couple of quick cards that I made yesterday while TRYing to clean up my scrap room. See? That's what happens...I get easily sidetracked when I'm around pretty things. :)

I noticed while giving some cards away to family over the weekend, that I didn't have as many birthday and thank-you's as I thought. So I'm going to try and focus more on those two types of cards. I had this flower leftover from a previous project/tutorial, so I thought I'd use it and not throw it away. I used Papertrey Ink's Tag Sale die #6 on the LilyBee paper with a saying from Wildflower Garden.

Now upon playing with the Tag Sale #6 die in the first card, I discovered you can do some fun things with that tab!! You can make a fun banner like I did here!

The tiny circles are just the punches that fell out when cutting this tag in each color. I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart #3 stamp and the sentiment is from Wildflower Garden. I used Harvest Gold ink, Raspberry Fizz Patterned Paper, Pure Poppy cardstock, and Melon Berry Patterned paper.

 I have to run! Have a good day!