Weather trends...

The Papertrey Ink team is sharing some projects today made with several new fun weather-themed products coming out on July 15th at PapertreyInk.com. My first card is made with the new Rainy Day Sentiments stamps.

Sorry for the photos - was in a hurry to get these posted before I ran out of daylight! The umbrella is cut with Scattered Showers dies and stamped with Background Basics: Twinkle.

Weather the Storm Together card:

STAMPS: Rainy Day Sentiments, Background Basics: Twinkle

INK: Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist, Lavender Moon, Sweet Blush, True Black

PAPER: Lavender Moon, white, Aqua Mist

DIES: Scattered Showers

OTHER: sequins by Pretty Pink Posh.

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Next, a sunnier card made with Enclosed: Sun stamps and dies (sun) and the So Striking dies (cloud). Also stamped the sentiment with Tucked In: Thinking of You.

The sun was cut from vellum and then I used three Zing! embossing powder colors to stamp and emboss the different rays (Apricot, Mustard and Blush) with Enclosed: Sun stamps. I trimmed the sun in half.

Sending You Some Sunshine card:

STAMPS: Enclosed: Sun, Tucked In: Thinking of You, Background Basics: Twinkle

INK: Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Versamark

PAPER: white, Harvest Gold Pattern Pack

DIES: Enclosed: Sun (sun), So Striking (cloud)

OTHER: vellum, sequins by Pretty Pink Posh, Zing embossing powders - Apricot, Mustard, Blush.

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To see more weather related projects, visit the rest of the gals:

Nichole Heady

Amy Sheffer

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

Want to win a Craftsy online class?

Welcome to a special blog hop hosted by instructors at Craftsy.com, an online classroom platform that includes classes on scrapbooking, card making, paper crafting and much more! 

Spend a little time getting to know each instructor on this list and the classes they teach through Craftsy. You'll discover that some of your favorite teachers are now offering classes through this incredible platform. Look for special giveaways from the instructors and leave a comment on the participating blogs for your chance to win! Then join us on Craftsy for inspiring new ways to craft and learn!

A little about me:
Many of you have been blog readers of mine for some time now, but for those of you who are new to my work, I'd like to take a minute to introduce myself! My name is Danielle Flanders, and I've been paper crafting for about 15 years now. It all began when my first daughter was born. I wanted to document her life as a baby and create a memory book for her. Since then, I've worked for many paper and stamp manufacturers and am so grateful to have had my work published numerous times. Cardmaking is a favorite pasttime of mine as well. I love to send happy mail to make people smile! I would say my style is trendy, light and airy, clean - yet layered, girly and colorful.

About my Craftsy class:
The class I'm teaching with Craftsy is: Cards With Dimension: Lovely Layers, Textures and Embellishments.  By clicking the link, I'm happy to offer 1/2 off my class today! Sign up and watch the class anytime, at your own pace. Ask questions of the instructors and post pictures of your cards in the class platform as well! It's a great way to work on your cardmaking skills and gain feedback from the Craftsy instructors. You can read more about the class HERE. In the class, I focus on creative and simple ways to add texture to your cards with embossing, stitching, embellishing tips and ways to use vellum, tips on layering patterned papers and much more!

(Photos shown are actual cards from the class.)

Giveaway:

Would you like to win a spot in my online class? Please leave a comment. Let me know what would you would like to learn the most from an online paper crafting class? Giveaway will end Thursday, July 16 at midnight EDT. Next, hop on to the other instructors' blogs for more giveaways:

Wilna Furstenberg 

Jen Gallacher 

Nichol Magouirk 

Aly Dosdall 

Paige Evans

Danielle Flanders (you are here!)

Stamping patchwork...

Well, hello there. My friend Claudia came over last weekend, and we were able to do some stamping and card making! So I decided to make a few things with the Quilted: Summer stamp set and dies by Papertrey Ink just for fun. I am a quilter at heart, so I just love this set and the fun patterns you can make with it. The design for these cards was originally by Betsy, which you can see in this post. I just used some different colors, added a little bit of Enchanted Evening, a pretty navy blue. Love how it looks with the Aqua Mist and Pure Poppy.

The red borders were stamped with a little dash line from Quilted: Summer. I think it was meant to be a stick for the pinwheel, but it sure looks cute as a border also!

Ended up making 3 of these with different sentiments and just love how they turned out! I've used different sentiments on each. "Just because" is from the Scripted stamp set. "Warmest thanks" is from Bloomers.

The "sunshine" sentiment is from Quilted: Summer.

These were quite easy to do after I had the first one done and could copy where all of the colors would go. The trick for me was to start with the aqua one in the top center. That way I could center the triangles on the card quite easily. Added some twine and a flower die cut from Quilted: Summer. Might have to make more of these for little card sets!

You might have noticed at the top of my blog, I've started a "SHOP" link. Be on the look out for some cards for sale soon! :) Bye for now!

Quilted: Summer cards:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)STAMPS: Quilted: Summer, Scripted, Bloomers

INK: Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise, Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts

PAPER: white

DIES: Quilted: Summer

OTHER: twine.