Bits & pieces...

As a cardmaker, do you buy 6x6" patterned paper packs? I've been getting those more often lately and loving all of the smaller patterns and how well they work for cards. I have a couple of cards up on the Gossamer Blue blog...here is a little sneak peek.

I've done a bit of stamping and embossing onto vellum and punched out some hearts. With the negative of the punch, I used it as a mask and sprayed over the heart mask with Graphite mist by Tattered Angels. This is still one of my favorite mists, it's a little lighter than it looks here in the pictures, very soft and pretty. Anyhoo, stop by and visit the Gossamer Blue blog for all kinds of inspiration!

Are you all ready for the holidays? I'm not quite there yet, but getting company on Saturday, so I better be after tomorrow! Have a very happy holiday, crafty friends!
Danielle

working with dimensional paste and masks...

I have a little tutorial and two new projects up on the Pink Paislee blog today if you'd like to take a peek. I picked up some dimensional paste and played around with some masks, and love the embossed effect which would be fun on any type of project!

My girls had their last day of school here yesterday, so we slept in this morning and are just relaxing today, enjoying the quiet day. The wind is blowing like crazy, but I'll take the wind over the NY rain, humidity and bugs any day *smiles*. Enjoy your day!

Pink Paislee's hot products.

Today I have a blog post up at the Pink Paislee blog. We are focusing on some of our "Hot Products" from each line this week. My assignment was to highlight the SHE ART line today by Pink Paislee, specifically the Doily Mask and the Press Ons.

I used the Doily Mask with several mist colors and sprayed the mist over the mask onto white cardstock, then cut the doilies out to form this colorful card set with some "petal" card bases by Cut Cardstock! I used Papertrey Ink ribbon in Soft Stone around the cards. 

I wanted to package up the card set somehow, so I made a little pocket to tuck them into.

I cut a little saying, "Wonderful You", with the Silhouette Cameo machine and formed a pocket from the cardstock, and machine stitched the sides with a zig zag. I cut a little tag with Papertrey Ink's Limitless Layers 2 1/4" Oval Die Collection.

You could wrap up the entire thing with cellophane if you wanted!

Creating card sets are so easy and fun when you keep the same design, just make them in all different colors. Stop over to read more here at the Pink Paislee blog, see more how-to pictures, and find a supply list for this project.

Feel free to pin a project you see here on my blog anytime to Pinterest by simply clicking on the title of the post, and you'll see a pin button at the bottom of each post. Thanks for visiting! :)

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.