Papertrey April blog hop challenge...

It's Monday again? Wow, where does the time go? April has almost come and gone! I decided to play in this month's blog hop at Papertrey Ink just for fun... hop over to see the inspiration piece that inspired my card HERE! I can't wait to dig in and see what everyone else made. So here is my card...

Inspired by the ombre effect of the reds and oranges in the inspiration photo on Nichole's blog, I cut some butterflies from the Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies die and ink blended over them to add color and shading from light to dark. I arranged them in the colors I saw from the inspiration piece: red (Pure Poppy), orange (Summer Sunrise), cream (Vintage Cream), white and gray (Soft Stone). The white slashes in the photo reminded me of stitching, so I added some stitching to the butterflies. The sentiment was die cut with Color Pop Butterflies dies from the Make It Market mini kit that just came out! The papers are from Gossamer Blue's On My Desk line.

I'm off to hop! See you soon, hope you are having a great day!
Danielle

Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Butterflies...

I am so excited to share my post with you today, as I had a great time working with these new products and know you will too! Squeal! Today we are introducing the new Color Pop Butterflies mini kit that comes with stamps, dies, papers and stencils! First up is a card made with just the stamps and dies from the mini kit.

Originally, I stamped the butterfly and the flowers directly onto watercolor paper, but then I decided to die cut and stamp a butterfly to add over the top for dimension. I used a teal watercolor paint around the butterfly.

When dry, I added clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and a die cut sentiment from the mini kit! The font is gorgeous, isn't it!

So Happy watercolored card:

STAMPS: Color Pop Butterflies

INK: Summer Sunrise, Pure Poppy, Lavender Moon, New Leaf

PAPER: watercolor paper, white cardstock

DIES: Color Pop Butterflies

OTHER: watercolor paints.

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Next is a card using the Color Pop Butterflies stencils in the mini kit!

The card background was stenciled with 3 different layers of stencils: the yellow, the aqua and the pink. Then I used the stamps over the top to add detail to the butterflies and flowers. I trimmed out the center with the Center Style: Feminine Frame and popped it up with dimensional adhesive!

Last, the dies were used to add a sentiment, a vellum butterfly and some extra dimensional flowers.

So Happy stenciled card:

STAMPS: Color Pop Butterflies

INK: Bright Buttercup, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise

PAPER: white

DIES: Center Style: Feminine die

OTHER: stencils - Color Pop Butterflies mini kit, blending tool by Tim Holtz.

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Don't forget to shop on 4/15 at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink to get all of the new products we have been previewing this week! Stop by each of the design team blogs to see more: 

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

Introducing Dress Up Dolls...

Today we have a sneak peek of a new ongoing series by Betsy Veldman for Papertrey Ink called Dress Up Dolls. I have made a quick Easter card with the new Dress Up Dolls: Basics stamps and dies and the Dress Up Dolls: Easter stamps and dies.

I've used a Fabulous Frame die with gray cardstock, the Limitless Layers 1.5" Squares dies to trim out the smaller square, the Sweet Life rose and the Bold Blossoms stamps and dies for the leaf. The butterflies are trimmed from the Beautiful Butterfly dies from vellum. And of course, I used the new Dress Up Dolls products on the bunny. Excuse my Copic coloring, I'm not very good at it!

Happy Easter card:
STAMPS: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Easter, Sweet Life, Bold Blossoms
INK: Tropical Teal, Lovely Lady, Raspberry Fizz, True Black, Stormy Sea, Vintage Jadeite, New Leaf
PAPER: white, gray, vellum
DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Easter, Fabulous Frames, Limitless Layers 1.5" Square, Sweet Life, Bold Blossoms, Beautiful Butterflies
OTHER: Copic markers, mica flakes, sequins, seam binding.
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Visit the rest of the team to see more ideas with Dress Up Dolls. These products will be available on Feb. 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink!

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

Pedal Pusher revisited...

Happy Monday! The senior design team for Papertrey Ink is revisiting an older stamp set today called Pedal Pusher to share a few more ideas of what you can do with it! I had SO much fun with it! The layering possibilities are amazing with this set of stamps and dies!

First, I made this card and used the leaves from the stamp set to stamp around the edges of a white piece of cardstock. I added some tiny flowers from the Quilted: Summer stamp set. The bottom striped piece of cardstock was created by stamping with Background Basics: Super Stripes stamps with Raspberry Fizz ink onto Lovely Lady cardstock.

The bicycle die cuts are so much fun, because they have several layers you can stamp, so the bike pieces are in different colors, such as the wheels and basket. I cut a seat separately and trimmed it off the bicycle die, so I could stamp it in aqua and add it over the top of the orange bike.

The vellum butterflies were die cut with the Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies. You can find the vellum HERE. Some of them are folded in half to just show the profile of the butterfly!

Life Is a Beautiful Ride card:

STAMPS: Pedal Pusher, Quilted: Summer

NK: Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, Lovely Lady

PAPER: white, Lovely Lady

DIES: Pedal Pusher, Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies

OTHER: enamel hearts.

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Next, I used gray cardstock in the background (just one from my crafty stash) and layered a Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies die cut over the top trimmed in vellum.

The banner was made to set over the top of the empty space on the butterfly cover plate. I like how it grounds the bicycle, so it's not "floating" on the card.

Here you can see the dimension a bit better. I love this cute bicycle die! It has special meaning to me now, as my new guy talked me into buying a road bike and bicycling with him, his favorite past time. THIS is the one I got, and it has aqua on it, my favorite, so I had to stamp this bicycle with aqua!

Just Keep On Pedaling card:

STAMPS: Pedal Pusher, Quilted: Summer

INK: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, True Black

PAPER: white cardstock and Sheer Basics Vellum by PTI, gray cardstock-craft supply

DIES: Pedal Pusher, Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies

OTHER: clear sequins - Pretty Pink Posh.

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Visit Betsy, Dawn, Melissa and Heather to see more ideas with Pedal Pusher. 

Have a great day!

Creative Cardmaker: Adding unexpected dimension to cards...

Good morning! I'm up with another Creative Cardmaker post over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog. Today I'm talking about adding unexpected dimension to your stamped backgrounds, so break out your stamps and dies, and let's get started!

I've used Papertrey Ink's Quilted Summer stamp set for the flowers and stems, the Scripted stamp set for the sentiment, and the Life Is Beautiful dies to cut out the butterflies. For inks, I've used True Black, New Leaf, Pure Poppy and Aqua Mist.

Head over to the Weekly Scrapper to see the full tutorial!

Link me up if you give this a try. Would love to see how it inspired you. 

Have a great day!

Danielle

butterflies, stitching and Cienna...

There's a new collection coming to town, and it's called Cienna by Elle's Studio. How cute is that name! It will be available on March 10th. I wanted to use some of the beautiful patterned papers together, so I trimmed out a bunch of butterflies and added some machine stitching over the top for a quick baby card.

You can read more about this card at the Elle's Studio blog! 

I'm currently waiting on my next Papertrey Ink box to arrive, and this morning I filmed a little card making segment with 9News here in Denver on Craftsy.com's behalf! Card making is taking over the world one town at a time! hee! It was a fun experience and to see where they film the news and to be a part of it! It will be on air later in March on the Friday noon news. One thing I learned: 6 minutes FLIES by when you are showing someone how to make a card. Just simply not enough time to talk about what I love! Have a crafty day, friends!

Life Is Beautiful...

Welcome to Papertrey Ink's second group post to share some of the new items coming out this month! My first card set is a sympathy set, and I kept the butterflies and design very simple, yet I think it has a nice design to it with some special details for the recipient. 

Two butterflies were die cut from Life Is Beautiful, and I stamped only the top one in Soft Stone ink leaving the bottom one white. I layered these, offsetting them slightly, onto vellum. The sentiment is stamped with Keep It Simple: Sympathy onto the vellum. (If you do stamp on vellum, be sure to let it dry thoroughly before handling the vellum.) Then I layered the vellum over a cardstock piece and a design cut from a new die set called Delicate Details.

The vellum and Delicate Details die are adhered in the back center of the butterflies (to hide the adhesive), and then I added a bit of machine stitching on top to hold the vellum on even more.

With Sympathy card set:
(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Life Is Beautiful, Keep It Simple: Sympathy
INK: True Black, Soft Stone
PAPER: Hawaiian Shores, Spring Moss, Harvest Gold cardstock
DIES: Life Is Beautiful dies, Delicate Details dies
OTHER: vellum from craft store, machine stitching.

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Next, I tried a few more techniques on a card with the butterfly set. I die cut the butterfly off the edge of a piece of white cardstock. Then I used a new stamp set called Background Basics: Venice on the background (removing the butterfly, so I could keep that white.) When finished with the background, I placed the butterfly back in and stamped the sentiment with Life Is Beautiful. 

Here you can see the in-laid die cut detail a little better. Love this technique, need to remember to do this more often!

Wishing You a Beautiful Day card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Life Is Beautiful, Background Basics: Venice
INK: Summer Sunrise, True Black by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts
PAPER: Stampers Select White, Soft Stone
DIES: Life Is Beautiful
OTHER: thread, machine stitching.

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Visit the rest of the PTI team to see more with these new products! Everything will be available at Papertrey Ink on 5/15 at 10pm EST. Thanks for swinging by!

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen
Lauri Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Papertrey Ink's new releases for February...

Today we are sharing the last few new stamp sets coming out this evening for February at Papertrey Ink! The new sets I used on this card are Leave It Be, A Little Inspiration, Monthly Moments: Slide Frame, and Monthly Moments: Library card, as well as Four Square and The Sweet Life.

On the Leave It Be leaves, I used Blush Zing embossing powder onto Classic Kraft cardstock. I really like the mix of the modern design in the Four Square frame and the black mixed with the soft colors of the felt and leaves. Eclectic, maybe you could call it?

Love You No Matter What card:

STAMPS:  Leave It Be, A Little Inspiration, Monthly Moments: Slide Frame, Four Square, The Sweet Life, Monthly Moments: Library card
INK: True Black, New Leaf, Ripe Avocado by PTI, Versamark, Soft Granite by Hero Arts
PAPER: white cardstock, vellum
DIES: Monthly Moments: Slide Frame, The Sweet Life, Leave It Be
OTHER: enamel dots by MME, Melon Berry felt by PTI.

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This one is made with Be Happy stamp set! Of course, I had to use happy colors to go with the Be Happy stamps. I stamped the background with the flowers and leaves and then added a layer of vellum in the center for a light, airy feel behind the butterflies.

I stitched the vellum and butterflies right onto the stamped pattern on the card front before adding it to the card base. This way I didn't have to use any adhesive on the vellum and have the adhesive show through.

Someone Who Mean So Much card:
STAMPS: Be Happy 
INK: New Leaf, Spring Moss, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise
PAPER: White, Lemon Tart, vellum
DIES: Be Happy dies
OTHER: machine sewing, resin by Melissa Frances, sequins by Pretty Pink Posh.

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Last is more of a bold card stamped with Sweet Speech.

The Cover Plate: Stripes Horizontal die was used in the background with Soft Stone cardstock and is backed with Enchanted Evening cardstock.

Hello card:
STAMPS: Sweet Speech
INK: Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise
PAPER: Soft Stone, Rustic White, Enchanted Evening
DIES: Cover Plate: Horizontal, Sweet Speech
OTHER: seam binding by Zipperstop.

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I have one more thing to share with you. It's a little sneak of a new CARD KIT by Papertrey Ink!!! Yes, a card kit! And you are not going to believe who is behind the design of this...Ms. Betsy Veldman herself, card maker extraordinaire! I love her style and am so happy to see her designing the stamps, dies and every little piece of these kits! I will have more to show you of this kit on 2/28, the last day of the month. You are not going to BELIEVE all the goodies in the kit! Everything single thing you see here to make this card was in the kit....and so much more. Click HERE to read more.

Don't forget to order tonight at 10pm EST to grab all of the new products for February at Papertrey Ink! For more inspiration, visit the rest of the PTI team:

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Cristina Kowalczyk
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

cut it out...

All this week on the Pink Paislee blog, we are showing you ways to use Pink Paislee's cut files. I chose to use the Word Jumble1 and used my Cameo to cut it out.

I used the She Art - Vintage Lace Mask by Pink Paislee to create some depth on the edges with dimensional paste.

Some Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist was brushed under the title work and journaling to add color and help it stand out. I mixed a little bit of the Cottage Farms, Secret Crush and She Art lines. Love the dimension created with all of the layers.

Stop over to the Pink Paislee blog to read more about how to create this page!