orange, hot pink and a touch of gold...

Need inspiration today? How about a color challenge. Pink Paislee has a beautiful Color Crush image on the Pink Paislee blog, and the team is playing along in the challenge. I thought I'd make a card just for fun with it - with oranges, hot pinks and even a touch of gold.

I used the Artisan papers by Pink Paislee with some stamping inks by Papertrey Ink to make the big flower. All I did was swipe the ink pad over the papers, and it brings out this gorgeous embossing that's already on the paper. I used the Notched Flower dies to cut the flower layers and the Turning a New Leaf die to cut the leaves out of the Artisan paper after it was inked. The ink colors I used were: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise and Ripe Avocado.

I placed a circle under the flower from the Artisan Circles and some twine. For the bottom, I stamped a Sentiment Series: Scallop Symbols (a new stamp set by Pink Paislee) trimmed it out and placed it under the white cardstock. The Thank You sentiment is from Mums The Word. The whole card front was placed onto a Luxe gold striped paper.

Are you going to play along in the challenge? Link me up if you do, I'm anxious to see what you'll do with this.

craft-n-connect event at Pink Paislee...

All this month at Pink Paislee, we are hosting a Craft-n-Connect event! We'll be posting a little something about each of our design team members, along with a new project each day that they've created. Along with this event, be sure to visit Pink Paislee's Facebook page for contests and prizes!

Today was my day to post, so I made this little layout of my daughter Kati at Easter.

I used some of the Luxe papers, Luxe arrow rub ons and chipboard stars and some Artisan Album Tab Covers, which I sprayed with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine mists! The Tab Covers are usually used in the 4x8" album, but I used them here on my layout to ground the photo and add color.

You can spray the chipboard stars with Heidi's Color Shine mists also, and the foil on the stars will resist the mist.

I chose this title for my page, because I really love experiencing the holidays through my girls - it's magic the way they see everything, and I wish it could always be like that! We had a beautiful Easter with the Flanders family - all of the cousins and second cousins, many generations of us all together. I wish my girls could stay little forever and always experience that magic!

If you are interested in reading a little more about me today, visit the Pink Paislee blog, and stop by each day this month to learn about all of our fabulous team members!! :)

more metallics...

All last week on the Pink Paislee blog, we were discussing using metallics on your projects! Hope you will stop over and see the fun posts. I made a little gift wrap and glassine bag to hold a card.
The Luxe line by Pink Paislee is so much fun!

Also added a bit of Pink Paislee's new Hope Chest line - the cute butterfly clip and the phrase sticker. I also discovered you can cut up those Luxe chipboard Placemats - see the stars? I scored it with my trimmer first to get a straight line and then finished snipping it apart with my scissors. This way you can use it on more than one project! The Placemats are quite large - about 8x8".

These alphas in gold glitter are really pretty. The glitter doesn't rub off and these letters are repositionable, so you can move them around as much as you want with no problem.


I had a piece of the chipboard left from above, and thought it looked like a little balloon, so I used it on the card below. I have been loving the chalkboard trend lately, so I stamped the Think Big Favorites #2 stamp in Fresh Snow ink by Papertrey Ink and embossed it with white powder, then rubbed some ink over the top to create the chalkboard look.
Swing over to the Pink Paislee blog to read more about these two projects!

luxe - urious...

One of the fun new trends I am enjoying is using metallics, they seem to be popping up everywhere these days. Pink Paislee has a gorgeous new line called Luxe and it's just that...luxurious and very high end looking, especially for cards! The metallic is embossed into the paper, so when using this paper, it really looks like stationary you would buy at the store! I made two quick cards the other day...

On the Happy Day card, I trimmed the dot paper down so that the dots were more on the bottom of the card, leaving the top open with white space for a sentiment. I used Pink Paislee's new Luxe Copper Alphas to spell out "day". I LOVE these and they don't get glitter all over you, the glitter is infused into the letter and doesn't come off. They are easy to reposition as well.

I added a "happy" stamp from Papertrey Ink's Think Big Favorites  #12 stamp set. With all of the straight lines from the arrows and such, I thought a curvy script stamp would be a nice addition. To adhere the vellum punched stars, I used Helmar's cute Zap Dots.

On the Wow card, again I used the Luxe chipboard arrows and Luxe star rub ons, Copper Alphas and a "congrats" card from Papertrey Ink's Congrats All Ways stamp set. To complete the card, I simply adhered a strip of Luxe chevron paper onto the top with Helmar's Tape Runner.

Check out all that shimmer! The Luxe line was created as an "accessory" to add to other lines, but I think it looks fabulous all by itself too.

new Pink Paislee and a coffee filter background...

Today I had the chance to work with Pink Paislee's new collections and created a layout using the new Luxe line, Cottage Farms and Pink Paislee's new She Art printed Coffee Filters (text paper you see on the layout). My assignment was to work with the sketch this week on the Pink Paislee blog.

The first thing I do when I open new goodies is to pick out which pieces I like the best and begin layering them, playing with color. I decided to keep my two layered stacks I made and add 2 photos in the other corners. Next, I wanted to try the printed coffee filters (the TEXT paper is really thin like a coffee filter), so I carefully removed what I had done so far on my layout. I used a Butter Cream acrylic paint to paint the edges of the coffee filter to my layout, then added everything back on over the top.

I added some gold Luxe heart rub ons and used several pieces from the Cottage Farms Ephemera pack to create a little ribbon badge.

An Ephemera frame was trimmed in half to use half on the top of the layout and the other half on the bottom and a gold title from the Luxe line. These alphas are so pretty in person! You can find Pink Paislee's new lines HERE.

Kati has had a tough time in school this year, but this day when I took the pics, she woke up out of bed and sprung up to get dressed, couldn't wait to go to school. Very unusual for her. It was Valentine's Day, and she couldn't wait to pass out her treats to everyone. Such a kind and giving heart. Love this girl to pieces!