Hey! Just popping in to let you know I'm blogging over at Paper Crafts Connection today. I have a quick tutorial for creating your own canvas embellishments. Here's a peek at my project...head over to the blog and leave a comment for the chance to win some Canvas Corp goodies!
Thanks for taking a peek! :-) Be back soon...hopefully! It's kind of crazy-sauce over here lately!
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Hey there! Can you believe it's the 15th of the month once again?!? School is out in just a few days here. Deep breath....not sure I'm ready for summer yet!
I'm here this morning to share the remainder of my Papertrey Ink May release projects with you. I have just three left today that haven't already been shared earlier in the countdown.
First up is a card using Maile's new Happy Hydrangea set. I gave this one to my mom for Mother's Day. I used lots of different shades of blues and purples for the hydrangeas.
That Royal Velvet ink is new this month and it is gorgeous! Such a rich, deep color. I put a bit of paper lace and woodgrain paper along the bottom edge...I think they almost look like they're peeking over a rustic wooden fence. The background was embossed with the new Simple Stripes Impression plate...can't get enough of that one!! I embossed it first, then stamped it because I wanted to give the hydrangeas a more rustic feel and allow the texture of the background to come through.
Next up is a fun and happy card using the new Heart-2-Heart #4 set. I created a fun background by stamping lots of numbers from the Birthdays by the Numbers set and adding some Doodlebug border stickers. I've had these curly borders in my stash for a while and they remind me of a curly-q phone cord, so I though they'd be perfect for this project!
For the focal point, I diecut a circle from my stamped panel using the LL: 2 1/2" circle die. I created a frame from Poppy cardstock by cutting out the pinked edge circle, then cutting the plain circle from the center of it. It's a quick and easy was to create a frame. I added a bit of that curly border sticker to my phone as well! I think the sentiment stamped at an angle adds a bit of fun.
And lastly, a card that uses a combination of lots of new products. The label is from Heather's new Framed Out #4 set, the flower is of course from the new Happy Hydrangea, and the "happy" diecut sentiment is from the Pretty Peonies die collection.
The "happy birthday" that I stamped over top of the diecut is from the new Fillable Frames Sentiments set. I added a vibrant border along the bottom using the new Chevron Stripe Border die.
Well, that wraps up another fun release! I had so much fun creating projects with these new goodies and I hope you had fun following along. Happy shopping to you all tonight!
For more inspiration using the new products, click on the links to the other DT blogs...
Finished size = 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Supplies not linked, but available at 10pm eastern time on May 15th from Papertrey Ink: Happy Hydrangeas stamp set and coordinating dies, Simple Stripes impression plate, Royal Velvet ink
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Welcome to the second group post for the May Papertrey Ink countdown! Today the team is showcasing a new stamp set called Summer Camp, designed by Heather Nichols. It's a great set for all of those outdoorsy photos, masculine cards, gifts and more! The set has some great images and sentiments as well as a couple of label stamps that have coordinating dies. There is also a coordinating pattern paper pack. All of these new goodies will be available for purchase from the Papertrey Ink website on the evening of May 15.
So for our Summer Camp projects today, Nichole challenged each of us to find an image on the web to inspire us. While I was browsing around, I happened across this Eddie Bauer ad that someone had pinned on Pinterest. I loved the dramatic effect of the white letters against the pretty outdoor photos.
I decided to take that inspiration and create a mini album for some of last year's vacation photos. I used the Calendar Page die as the pages for my album and bound them together with my Bind-it All The little tabs work perfectly for holding photos. I chose two photos to use on my cover and used Photoshop to lay them out and print them one directly on top of the other. I took the "take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints sentiment" and stamped it with Versamark directly onto my photo and heat embossed it with white powder. I really wasn't sure if that was going to work...I thought it might melt my photo, but I was careful to keep the heat gun moving. It did curl it a bit, but I adhered it to a piece of cardstock when I was finished and it straightened it right out.
The patterned papers I used here are from the new Summer Camp pad. The label in the lower right corner is from the Summer Camp set and there are coordinating dies as well. I stamped the year using the Library Ledger Year Additions set. The "Colorado" title was cut using the Block Alphabet die set. I also added a bit of background stamping using the corrugated image from My Hero, My Dad.
Here's a peek at the inside. The tabs on the Calendar Page die work perfectly for holding photos. I just printed them out at home at a 2 1/2" width, which fits in the tabs perfectly.
I used lots of sentiments from the set to create the word art borders along the pages. I used the label stamps and dies from the set as places to add a bit of journaling.
One other thing to note, I diecut the pages of my album from chipboard, then covered them with cardstock or patterned paper that was also diecut with the Calendar Page die. The chipboard makes them nice and sturdy.
For my second project today I wanted to create a Father's Day card using the new Summer Camp set. I came across this image on Pinterest and thought it was just plain fun...the colors, the design, everything! So I used it as inspiration for creating my card. (sorry, I couldn't find the original source, try as I might!)
I used the sky and hill stamp from the new On the Farm set (yes, I used it again...I warned you the other day I was slightly addicted to it!!). This time I stamped the sky in Aqua Mist and the hills in Simply Chartreuse. I then used Dark Chocolate ink and stamped the fun mountain scene from the new Summer Camp set over the top. It was the perfect scale to add to the scene! I love it when things like that work out and I can combine sets together in that way.
I really tried to mimic the whole look and feel of the scene in that graphic. I added some clouds using the smaller die from the Clouds Die collection. I trimmed off the bottoms to give them that trendy flat-bottom look I've been seeing a lot of lately. I heat embossed some of the trees with Zing powders, and some of the others I stamped onto cardstock and hand-cut. (pay no attention to the pine tree growing in the lake...ha! Didn't even occur to me until I was writing this post...)
I layered everything with different thicknesses of foam adhesive. The "happy father's day" sentiment is from My Hero, My Dad and the red "DAD" along the bottom was diecut using the Block Alphabet Upper die collection. I embossed the background with the Woodgrain Impression plate and stamped the rustic wood along the side using the new BB: Farm & Barn set.
That's all for my projects today using the new Summer Camp stamp set and coordinating products. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope your week is off to a great start. You can swing by the other DT gals to see what they've created with these new products!
Finished size = 5 3/8" x 4 5/8"
Supplies not linked, but available on May 15th from Papertrey Ink: Summer Camp stamp set, Rounded Labels die collection, Summer Camp patterned paper pack
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Welcome to the first group post day for the May Papertrey Ink countdown! Today the team is playing with a new collection of goodies that are all farm-inspired! There's a new stamp set called On the Farm and a whole slew of coordinating products -- a background set called Background Basics: Farm & Barn, a Chicken Wire Impression Plate and a Shape Up Series: Barn Die. So much fun! All of these new products will be available for puchase on the evening of May 15 from the Papertrey Ink website.
I created a couple of projects using just a few of these new goodies. First up is a little set of notecards. I used the sunrise and hill images from the new On the Farm set in the background. For some reason that image reminded me of a vintage fruit carton, so I decided to pull out my Fruit Fusion Apple die and make a set of fruity notecards.
When I thought about how to package them, I decided that the Berry Basket die that was released last month would be really cute. I didn't want a whole basket though, but more of a pocket instead, so I only diecut two Berry Baskets. I trimmed off the entire bottom of one and left just a 1/2" or so on the other to use as a tab to adhere the two together. I made for a cute little pocket! I always love the versatility of the dies and how you can change them up to suit your needs.
The Take Note sentiment is from the new On the Farm set -- I love the font combination. I stamped it on an Angled Label die which was stamped with the coordinating frame stamp from the Label Basics set. The background of the card was embossed with the new Chicken Wire Impression Plate. How fun is that?
For my second project today, I created a simple card. I found this image from Country Living and love how the colorful animals pop against the neutral background.
I decided to let that image inspire my card. Again, I used that sunrise image (becuase I just can't get enough of it!) this time stamped in Fine Linen ink on a white cardstock background. The animals were diecut using the new On the Farm die collection.
To create the debossed effect around the sunrise image, I stamped the sunrise first, then cut a piece of chipboard and place it directly on top of the image before running it through my Vagabond with the Chicken Wire Impression Plate. The same principle as using a die over an impression plate, but this time I had to make do with something else because I didn't have a die the exact size to cover that spot. The chipboard was quick and easy. The checkerboard pattern along the bottom is a fun border strip that's included in the On the Farm set.
Thanks for stopping by the farm today! I hope you enjoyed checking out my projects as much as I enjoyed creating them. Now be sure to hop around to the other team members to see what they've created with the new farm products!
Finished notecard size = 3 1/2" x 5"
Supplies not linked, but available on May 15, 2012 from Papertrey Ink: On the Farm stamp set, Chicken Wire Impression plate
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