Release day...

I have a few more cards to share with you using some new products coming out tonight, April 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. First up, is the new Graceful Greetings stamp set!

On these, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink, then poured different colors of embossing powder on and heat embossed them to melt the powder. Then I stamped the flowers from Graceful Greetings. 
The papers are from last month's Chicken Scratch Gingham paper pad. These little cards make me so happy! I love all of the colors.

Graceful Greetings card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Graceful Greetings

INK: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Sweet Blush

PAPER: white cardstock, Chicken Scratch Gingham

DIES: none

OTHER: Zing! embossing powders, twine

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Next is Petite Places: School stamps and dies and Keep It Simple: Teacher stamps.

The background is from the Black & White All Over paper pad (dot). The scallop is cut with the Scene It: Doily Tag Base.

Thank You, Teacher card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: School, Keep It Simple: Teacher

INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, Tropical Teal

PAPER: Chicken Scratch Gingham

DIES: Petite Places: School, Scene It: Doily Tag Base, Shaker Shapes: Pencil (loop)

OTHER: Copic Markers, button from Wee Folk mini kit, ribbon-craft supply.

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Next is Enclosed: Apple and Tucked In: Thank You.

Again I used the Black & White All Over paper pad and added some stamping to the background with Quilted: Spring stamp set. I had stamped this background previously and didn't end up using it, so I found it and pulled it out. I think it works nicely with the reds and greens of the apple! When you are feeling uninspired, try stamping a few backgrounds. Then maybe later on you'll be inspired to use them for something!

Thanks card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Enclosed: Apple, Tucked In: Thank You, Quilted: Spring

INK: New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather

PAPER: Pure Poppy Pattern Pack, Sweet Blush and Spring Moss cardstock, Black & White All Over Paper Pad

DIES: Enclosed: Apple

OTHER: sequins, twine.

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Last is Flower Favorites stamps and dies and Lunchbox Love stamps.

Again a Black & White All Over paper is used in the background (frame), then I watercolored a piece to adhere in the center. 

Cheer Up Buttercup card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Flower Favorites, Lunchbox Love

INK: Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow Pattern Pack

PAPER: Black & White All Over

DIES: Flower Favorites

OTHER: sequins, watercolors.

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All of the new things you see here will be available on April 15th at 10pm EST. Thanks for stopping by and please visit the other gals to see what they've made with the same products: 

Nichole Heady

Amy Sheffer

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

Monthly Moments: September...

This month, the Monthly Moments products are all about fall...back-to-school, harvest, leaves falling, hayrides, football and autumn days. I've done a scrapbook layout and a pocket page with the Monthly Moments: September products. Here are some sneaks of the stamps, dies and pretty papers available on Sept. 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink.

On this 8.5 x 11" page, I used some of the Monthly Moments: September Journal Cards in the background.

Then a pocket was die cut with the new Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3 die to hold photos of Kati on her first day back to school this year. I used the lined stamp in the Monthly Moments: September stamps to stamp lines for the journaling.

The cute little chalkboard shapes were made with a die and chalkboard paint! I cut some Tremendous Tags out of thin chipboard and painted them with Martha Stewart Chalkboard paint. Found the paint at Michaels for $1.99. They dry quick and are hard like little chalkboards! So fun to make!

Then the Monthly Moments: September stamps and Tag-Its #6 stamps were used on the little chalkboards - stamped with white ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder to really make the white stand out. To create the "chalk" look, I dipped my finger in white stamping ink and rubbed it over the embossed sayings.

The book saying was stamped with the new Book Club stamp set coming out this month also. Kati loves to read, and I thought it would be cute to add this saying onto a back-to-school page!

Back-To-School scrapbook layout:
STAMPS: Monthly Moments: September, Tag-Its #6, Book Club
INK: True Black, Fresh Snow by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts\
PAPER: Monthly Moments: September Journal Card Collection, White/Sweet Blush/Pure Poppy cardstock, Fine Linen Bitty Dot Patterned Paper
DIES: Monthly Moments: September die, Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3, Tremendous Tags\
OTHER: twine, chipboard stars by Studio Calico, embossing powder - white, chalkboard paint, chipboard, hole punch, washi tape.
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The next one is a 2-pager/pocket style scrapbooking layout from our apple picking days when the girls were little. I used the Monthly Moments: September die and stamp set and the coordinating Journal Card Collection.

From the Journal Card Collection, I chose 3 of my favorite papers from the pack. They make it easy to do a quick page, just fill some of the pockets with these, some pockets with pictures, then embellish a bit if you want, and you're done!

Some of the little chalkboards were used on this layout too, using the same idea of stamping on them and embossing. The long, skinny photo was trimmed down to 2x7" from a 5x7" picture. The pocket was cut with Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3 to hold my journaling. I couldn't resist adding an apple and some sayings from Apple Prints ..."I love you to the core" and "I pick you" were perfect for this!

Washi tape always adds a little bit more pattern and interest to my pages. (I forgot to round the corners of the Fall card like the rest of the pages, will go back and do that.) Anyway, that's it! A quick and simple page.

Fall Into Fun pocket page:

STAMPS:  Monthly Moments: September, Apple Prints

INK: True Black, Fresh Snow, Canyon Clay by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts

PAPER: Monthly Moments: September Journal Card Collection, Vintage Cream cardstock

DIES:  Monthly Moments: September, Tremendous Tags, Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3, Apple Prints

OTHER: washi tape, chalkboard paint, chipboard, twine.

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The rest of the Papertrey Ink team has more to share with you also:

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen

Laurie Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Creating shaped borders with non-border dies...

Good morning, all! I have another new Make It Monday video up this morning at Papertrey Ink. Today I'm showing how to create shaped borders to your cards without using border dies. You can use almost any dies in your stash for this technique! Visit Nichole's blog to see the video: Make It Monday #175. My girls start school in one week, so I've got school on the brain lately. Shopping for school clothes and school supplies has me in the mood to make something special for the new teachers.

I've used the Apple Prints dies and coordinating stamp set, along with Teach & Inspire stamp set. You'll want to work with some dies that have a coordinating stamp set to go along with it, so you can stamp the shape into the cut out and make the shaped edges look seamless.

During the last monthly release, I made a card with this technique using Life Is Beautiful stamps and dies, you can see that one here, just to get more ideas of what you can do with this fun technique. I hope you have fun with it! Join us in this challenge, and you might win a $25 gift card!

3pm EST: "Gallon:Quart:Pint Color Challenge"

Here is your next challenge, Stamp-a-Faire goers!

Select a color scheme from your recipe box and incorporate the "gallon/quart/pint principle". I chose to use Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening and Pure Poppy colors by Papertrey Ink for my card.

As you can probably tell, Aqua Mist is the "gallon". It's the color I used the most of with the background and stamped lines from Teacher Tickets. The second most used color is Enchanted Evening, so that is the "quart" color. I stamped two apples, the sentiment and used twine in the darker blue color. The "pint" color is the least used on my card, which is Pure Poppy. Even though there is only a bit, I think it stands out the most, don't you?

Neutrals actually don't count as a color, so the die cut numbers in white don't count. I had fun stacking the numbers die cut with the By the Numbers Border Die. I was inspired by this stacked number project life card (scroll down to the black numbers) I saw on Pinterest. Well, I can't wait to see your take on the "Gallon/Quart/Pint" challenge. Have fun!

Back 2 School card:
STAMPS: Teacher Tickets stamps (line), Back To School stamps (apples and sentiment)
INK: Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening and New Leaf inks
PAPER: Aqua Mist and white cardstock
DIES: By the Numbers Border dies, Back To School dies
OTHER: pearls by Melissa Frances, twine by The Twinery, machine stitching.

release day...

It's release day once again! We've been showing the new products for June over the past few days from Papertrey Ink. Would you like to see what else is being released this month? :)

I made this little book as a way to get autographs at the end of the year from friends with their names, phone numbers and a fun message. We could have really used one of these this year with Kati...they went to a few weeks of school here in Colorado and didn't buy a yearbook, so we needed to get her new friends' information to keep in touch over the summer.

I used the new Cover Plate Chevron Vertical with some Linen Vellum Cardstock and die cut the chevrons, then I poked out every other chevron and added the top piece back onto another piece of linen vellum. Does that make sense? I used the new Back To School stamps and dies, the Teacher Tickets stamps and the new Antique Alphabet stamps to decorate the front.

Aren't those apples and books so adorable? Oh my.

And the tickets could work for so many different things. I love all of the colors layered together.

School Autographs Mini Book supplies:
STAMPS: Back to School, Teacher Tickets, Antique Alphabet
INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Classic Kraft inks
PAPER: Linen Vellum cardstock, Spring Moss cardstock
DIES: Cover Plate: Chevron Vertical, Back to School dies, Just the Ticket Border Die
OTHER: burlap, twine.
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Here is a new stamp set and dies called Bigger Blooms, which is a bigger version of the Mini Blooms!

I cut the Boutique Borders: Thanks frame twice - once from white cardstock and once from red dotty paper. Here's the trick: I cut the dotted frame in half to make it appear longer!

You're Sweet card supplies:
STAMPS: Bigger Blooms
INK: Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, New Leaf, True Black, Fresh Snow
PAPER: white, kraft and Smokey Shadow
DIES: Boutique Borders: Thanks die, Bigger Blooms dies
OTHER: dot paper by Studio Calico.
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I must have been feeling in a black and red mood, because my next card has black and red on it also. I used Teacher Tickets, Back To School and Wonderful Words: Teacher. I created a large ticket myself by cutting a rectangle and punching in the centers with a half circle. This "houses" the rest of my design, so it's not floating on the card.

The paper clip attaches the word to the big ticket. I used the lined stamp as a diagonal in white on the background.

Teacher We Appreciate You card supplies:
STAMPS: Teacher Tickets, Wonderful Words: Teacher, Back To School
INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, New Leaf, Fresh Snow
PAPER: Smokey Shadow, Classic Kraft, white
DIES: Wonderful Words: Teacher, Back To School
OTHER: dot paper by Studio Calico, burlap by PTI, paper clip, seam binding, circle punch.
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Here I kept my design simple with some blocks of colored cardstock and used the new Live, Love, Life stamp set in matching inks, all on Classic Kraft to help the colors shine.

Thank You card supplies:
STAMPS: Live Love Life
INK: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold
PAPER: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, Classic Kraft Pattern Pack, Classic Kraft cardstock
DIES: none
OTHER: none.
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Last, another simple, clean one with Polka Dot Parade #5.

I used the new Happiness in Blooms dies (leaves) with the little bird.

Happy Birthday to You card supplies:
STAMPS: Polka Dot Parade #5
INK: New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, True Black, Summer Sunrise inks
PAPER: Soft Stone Pattern Pack, white, Spring Moss
DIES: Polka Dot Parade #5, Happiness in Bloom dies, Layerz Mat Stack 3 die
OTHER: none.
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That's it for me! For more ideas, visit the other team members to see what they've made with these same sets. All of these products will be available on June 15th at www.papertreyink.com.
Betsy Veldman

Cristina Kowalczyk

Dawn McVey

Debbie Olson

Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols

Jessica Witty  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady