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

Oh Pinterest, how I love thee! Really, I could spend hours looking at Pinterest. Why, you might ask? Endless inspiration can be found there...

Look at this beautiful page I found the other day from Pink Paislee made by Corrie Jones. Stunning, right?

I took this page as my inspiration, as I loved the background she made over a stencil with spray mists. I wanted to try something similar with my stamping inks on a card.

Let me show you a few step-by-step photos to make this.

First, I cut a piece of white cardstock 5x5". I also cut out a white leaf using the Papertrey Ink die called Turning a New Leaf. Get out your Hawaiian Shores ink and a Tim Holtz blending tool.

Now lay the leaf die cut paper over the cardstock and dab the blending tool into the ink pad. Carefully dab ink around the leaf die cut. Go slow and with caution, as to not rip the paper or get any ink under the die cut. You can go over it more than once to make a darker image, but I did a light dabbing here.

Remove the leaf die. Blend ink again over a small portion leaf on left side of card. Now using Smokey Shadow ink, stamp a frame from the Mat Stack 1 collection and a sentiment from the Mat Stack 1 with Pure Poppy ink.

Now stamp a plain frame from the set 3 times. Stamping off the edges of the card adds interest. Stamp 2 leaves from the Blooming Button Bits stamp set.

Now we are going to add some color. We'll make a mask by stamping the plain frame and cutting out the center. Place the negative of that over your card. Stamp the flowers from Simply Jane inside the frame with Summer Sunrise and Raspberry Fizz inks.

We are almost done! Fill in the top and bottom frames with the same Simply Jane flowers in Lemon Drops ink. Add two Aqua Mist buttons with twine. Adhere the finished card front to a card base.

You are probably wondering what Pinterest has to do with Papertrey Ink and our countdown festivities?

Papertrey Ink has a new Pinterest gallery! This means it will be easier for you to repin cards and projects by the design team, or if you are looking for a specific type of project - such as a sympathy idea, or a wedding idea - we have them categorized for you...

Here is a link to my Pinterest boards.

There is another contest happening today! Select an inspiration piece from Pinterest and create a project based on that for your chance to win! FIVE winners get to each select FIVE free stamp sets of their choice! Visit Nichole's blog for more information.

Today is day four of the Papertrey Ink anniversary festivities! The design team has picked out some of their favorite color combinations for you to try. I am loving gray lately with bright colors..

I'm also loving chevron patterns lately, so I decided to use the Background Basics: Chevron stamp set with a few different colors. When paired with hearts, doesn't the chevron remind you of a heart beat?

I decided to put the chevrons up and down instead of sideways. The frame is cut with the Simply Jane die and then stamped the Simply Jane frame stamp with Smokey Shadow ink.

I punched 3 hearts from Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz and Summer Sunrise cardstock. Last, the sentiment is from the Blooming Button Bits stamp set.

You're On My Mind card:

Stamps: Background Basics: Chevron, Simply Jane (frame), Blooming Button Bits (sentiment)

Ink: Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores, Smokey Shadow, True Black

Paper: Summer Sunrise and white cardstock

Dies: Simply Jane (frame)

Other: heart punch by McGill.

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Stop over to Nichole's blog to see all of the fun color combos that the team picked. Use one on a project and you have the chance to win another big prize pack!