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!

Design Team Tips: Snowflake Medallion Gift Toppers...

Hello! Today I have a little post for you on creating pretty snowflake medallions with gold centers (or any color really) to dress up your gift packages. These create SUCH beautiful tags and toppers for the holidays or even for a winter birthday!!

Step 1: 
With the Snowflake Medallion die, die cut two of these pieces from white cardstock. Add a strip of gold tape to the flat edge. Score along the score lines that were imprinted in the die cut. (The gold tape I used was from the Luxe Letterpress Make It Market kit.)

You'll have two pieces that look like the top one after they are folded.

Step 2:
Adhere the ends together of the two pieces creating one continuous piece, as shown below.

Some other items were gathered up and die cut as well. I used a Tag Sale #4 die for the tag shape, a pillow box cut from the Essential Pillow Box die, a gold doily from the Luxe Letterpress kit gold doily, a Wonderful Words: Joy die, and some twine.

Step 3:
Press down in the center of the snowflake medallion to create the snowflake and adhere the center directly to the tag. I used a hot glue gun, because it holds the best for me! The gold tape creates a gorgeous center to the snowflake medallions! I added twine to the top of the tag.

Step 4:
Assemble the pillow box.

Step 5:
Wrap the doily around the pillow box and tie with twine.

Step 6: 
Hot glue the Joy die cut onto the snowflake and attach tag to the pillow box. You are finished with a beautiful gift box and tag for the holidays or a winter birthday! I love the elegant look and all of the pretty dimension!

Joy Gift Box:

STAMPS: none

INK: none

PAPER: white and True Black

DIES: Wonderful Words: Joy, Snowflake Medallion, Tag Sale #4, Essential Pillow Box die

OTHER: twine - craft supply, gold doily and gold tape- Luxe Letterpress kit by PTI.

Hope you enjoyed this idea, have a creative day!

Danielle

Creative Cardmaker: Inlaid Die Cuts...

Happy Thursday! This week I was up with another Creative Cardmaker post over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog. This time I have a tutorial on adding inlaid die cuts to your cards to get a really professional look!

This technique involves die cutting a word or shape out of the card front and inserting another of the same shape in a different color, like I did with the gold "birthday" here on this card.

The result is so lovely! I've used Papertrey Ink's Birthday Cheer dies, Confetti Toss stamps, The Sweet Life stamps and dies, gray paper from the new Stormy Sea + White Pattern Pack, True Black cardstock, and Luxe Gold Adhesive Sheets.

Stop by the Weekly Scrapper to read more about this process! Have a great day!
Danielle

Release Day...

Today is the day all of the new products for Papertrey Ink are released and are available for purchase! You can find them at Papertreyink.com tonight at 10pm EST! I have a couple more things to show you that I've made with these fun new products.

First up is a new set called Monthly Moments: Mini Slide Frame stamps and dies. I used the die to create a focal point under the "birthday" cut with Birthday Cheer and stamped "Let's" Celebrate with this set. "Happy" is stamped with the new Type Strips III stamps. Then I used the new Scene It: Celebration dies to trim out a few stars and layered them over the top!

Happy Birthday card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Monthly Moments: Mini Slide Frame, Type Strips III

INK: True Black

PAPER: Confetti Toss patterned paper, Tropical Teal, Pure Poppy, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold Pattern Pack

DIES: Monthly Moments: Mini Slide Frame, Birthday Cheer, Scene It: Celebration

OTHER: enamel dot - craft supply.

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Last is a gorgeous stamp set called Phrases & Praises! I love these sentiments!! I've added one over the top of a piece of Confetti Toss paper. I used a strip of the new Ombre Stripes paper pad at the top and some yellow washi tape.

Enamel dots add some extra dimension, as well as the little piece of seam binding.

On the inside, I stamped a quote from Tucked In: Sympathy.

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Phrases and Praises

INK: Raspberry Fizz, True Black

PAPER: Ombre Stripes, Confetti Toss
DIES: none

OTHER: yellow washi tape, seam binding.

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The new products you see here today will be available for purchase tonight, November 15th, at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Here are the other design team members' wonderful blogs...stop by and visit them to see more with these new products!

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

Celebration Inspiration...

Today's group post is all about birthdays, confetti and fun! All of the new products you see here will be available on Nov. 15th at 10 pm EST at Papertrey Ink!

First up, I've used a new paper pad in the background called Confetti Toss Patterned Paper Collection. I cut the Celebrate from the new Birthday Cheer dies and then cut three of the star circles from the new Scene It: Birthday dies!
All of them were layered together for a quick and easy focal point!
On the inside of card, I used the Keep It Simple: Birthday II stamps and the Scene It: Celebration stamps.

Celebrate Confetti card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Birthday Cheer, Keep It Simple: Birthday II

INK: True Black, Stormy Seas, Summer Sunrise, Hibiscus Burst, Aqua Mist

PAPER: Confetti Toss patterned paper, white, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Hibiscus Burst

DIES: Birthday Cheer, Scene It: Celebration

OTHER: enamel dots - craft supply.

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Next up is another patterned paper from Confetti Toss, then I used the Scene It: Celebration stamps and dies over the top!

Really love how these dies are all so easy to layer and add quick color to the card! SO MUCH fun!

Celebrate Banner card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Scene It: Celebration

INK: Summer Sunrise, Tropical Teal, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, True Black

PAPER: Confetti Toss, Aqua Mist, white, Pure Poppy Pattern Pack

DIES: Scene It: Celebration

OTHER: twine.

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Last is a little layered tag that I stamped with the new Confetti Toss stamps! They are cut with the Tag Sale #4 die.

On the inside, I added a Birthday Cheer die cut.

Happy Birthday tag:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Confetti Toss

INK: Tropical Teal, New Leaf, Aqua Mist

PAPER: Aqua Mist, white

DIES: Birthday Cheer, Tag Sale #4

OTHER: twine, enamel dots.

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The new products you see here today will be available for purchase on November 15th, at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Here are the other design team members' wonderful blogs...stop by and visit them to see more with these new products!

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

Petite Places Through the Seasons...

Today we are sharing a new stamp and die set coming out soon by Papertrey Ink called Petite Places: Walk in the Park! Our assignment was to create one design and four versions of it, one for each season. I decided to make a set of tags...

The bases for the tags were cut with the Scene It: Scalloped Tag Base. It die cuts slits in the tag to slide a ribbon through for tying onto a package.

1. Here is my first tag for Spring.

On ALL of the tags, I paired them with Twig Wreath stamps and dies. I also kept the design the same with the path, bridge, trees and sentiment in the same places. I simply changed the colors and flowers/leaves/berries to the appropriate seasons. The Spring flowers were stamped with Twig Wreath and the tree is cut out of the new Petite Places Patterned Paper Collection.

2. Summer...
On this one, I added some tiny flowers by the path from Petite Places: Walk in the Park and some larger flowers from Twig Wreath. I went with a bit happier and bolder with the color scheme than the Spring tag.

3. Fall...
For the fall tag, I used another tree from the patterned paper collection and some leaves and such from Twig Wreath with an autumn color scheme.

4. Winter...
This tag is probably my favorite... and it was actually the first one I made, then I adapted the design to fit the other seasons! Added some mica flakes and cut out two trees from the Petite Places patterned paper collection. The Happy Day stamp is from Tag-Its #12. The trees and bridges are popped up with dimensional adhesive on all of the tags.

Spring Happy Day tag:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

INK: Harvest Gold, Orange Zest, Aqua Mist, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Classic Kraft, Stormy Sea, Tropical Teal

PAPER: white, Petite Places: Walk in the Park paper collection

DIES: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

OTHER: seam binding- Zipperstop.com.

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Summer Happy Day tag:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

INK: Ripe Avocado, New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Classic Kraft, Stormy Sea

PAPER: white, Petite Places: Walk in the Park paper collection

DIES: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

OTHER: seam binding- Zipperstop.com.

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Fall Happy Day tag:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

INK: Dark Chocolate, Classic Kraft, New Leaf, Stormy Sea, Orange Zest

PAPER: white, Petite Places: Walk in the Park paper collection

DIES: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

OTHER: seam binding- Zipperstop.com.

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Winter Happy Day tag:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

INK: New Leaf, Pure Poppy, True Black, Ripe Avocado, Classic Kraft, Stormy Sea

PAPER: white, Petite Places: Walk in the Park paper collection

DIES: Petite Places: Walk in the Park, Twig Wreath

OTHER: seam binding- Zipperstop.com.

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The new products you see here today will be available for purchase on November 15th, at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Here are the other design team members' wonderful blogs...stop by and visit them to see more with Petite Places!

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

Introducing Winter Woods...

Today the Papertrey Ink team is introducing some fun new wintery products coming out on Nov. 15th at 10pm EST! On the first card, I've used the new Cover Plate: Winter Woods die cut from Classic Kraft cardstock, layered over some stamping with the new Fab Flakes stamps!

The cardinal is cut and stamped with a new stamp/die set called Winter Woods. The 2-step birds are so much fun! The sentiment is from Fab Flakes.

A Winter Hello card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Fab Flakes, Winter Woods

INK: Stormy Sea, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, True Black

PAPER: Classic Kraft, white

DIES: Fab Flakes, Cover Plate: Winter Woods

OTHER: sequins by Pretty Pink Posh.

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The next one is not a holiday card, just an everyday use of the birds! I used watercolor paper and stamped the hello and the hearts, then used a bit of water to paint over the top to make it look a little more subtle and dreamy!

The bird, branch and sentiment are made with Winter Woods stamps and dies.

Just a Note card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Winter Woods, Noted

INK: Ripe Avocado, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise

PAPER: White, Spring Moss; Watercolor paper - craft supply

DIES: Winter Woods dies

OTHER: sequins by Pretty Pink Posh.

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The new products you see here today will be available for purchase on November 15th, at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Here are the other design team members' wonderful blogs...stop by and visit them to see more with Winter Woods and Fab Flakes!

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

Introducing Enclosed: Present stamps and dies...

Are you ready for some super cute birthday products!? Papertrey Ink is releasing this new set called Enclosed: Present soon! This fun stamp and die set will be available for purchase on Nov. 15th at 10 pm EST at Papertreyink.com! First up, I've made a little tag set!

I've cut the background to the presents in colorful Papertrey Ink patterned papers, then cut the top layer in white. The bows are stamped with Enclosed: Present stamps. Then I used the super adorable tiny tag die in the set to add the little stamped sentiment as well! Wouldn't they be cute on a gift?! Or even a card?

For You Tag Set:
(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Enclosed: Present
INK: Pure Poppy, Hibiscus Burst, New Leaf, Orange Zest, Tropical Teal
PAPER: White, Orange Zest Pattern Pack, Harvest Gold Pattern Pack, Hawaiian Shores Pattern Pack
DIES: Enclosed: Present
OTHER: rustic twine.
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Next is a quick card stamped with Polka Dot Basics III stamp set in black on the background, then I layered the gift outline over the top and cut a bow from Luxe Gold Adhesive paper.

Last "a Gift" was stamped with the Enclosed: Present stamps, and I added a little clear sequin to the bow.

A Gift For You:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Enclosed: Present

INK: True Black

PAPER: white, Luxe Gold Adhesive Sheets

DIES: Enclosed: Present dies

OTHER: sequin by Pretty Pink Posh.

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On the last card, I simply used a hole punch to punch several different patterned papers and created a little rainbow confetti effect in the background.

What's better than colorful and fun for a birthday card!

Surprise! card:
(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Enclosed: Present
INK: Pure Poppy, Tropical Teal
PAPER: White, Sweet Blush, Tropical Teal, Harvest Gold, Aqua Mist.
DIES: Enclosed: Present
OTHER: rustic twine.
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Visit Nichole Heady's blog for more previews of things to come this month! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Danielle

Creative Cardmaker: Gold, vellum and layers...

Happy November! I can't believe it's November already...oh my! I have another quick card tutorial up for you at the Scrapbook Expo blog. Swing by to see how to make this card!

I've used Gossamer Blue's gorgeous Gramercy Road line. I couldn't help but to pull it out for fall again...it's perfect in every way!! Don't you just love that gold embossed floral paper?! The sentiment is stamped with Papertrey Ink's Basket of Blessings stamp set in Dark Chocolate and Classic Kraft inks. I'll see you soon. Be sure to check out my SHOP tab at the top of my blog, I'll be adding new things here and there! Happy fall!

Danielle