Thursday, August 25, 2016

August Papertrey Ink Blog



Hello everyone! I'm excited to be playing along with the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop this month! I haven't done this in a while and wanted to give it a shot! The inspiration photo is really pretty, but was a challenge for me. It is definitely not my go to colors, and I couldn't figure out how to use it for my design, but I finally decided to go with the colors. I am very pleasantly surprised and pleased with what I did! I actually love this color combination now! 

Oh and my Mom wanted to play along too! She's never done the blog hop before, or any other challenge for that matter, but she was intrigued, and I talked her into making a card. She does beautiful work, but doesn't have a blog, so she's posting it on her Pinterest board, and I'm posting it here on my blog for her too. If you want to take a look at her cards you can find them HERE. If they look kind of familiar to you, it's because she loves to CASE my cards and the PTI design teams too. 

This is the inspiration photo:



And here is what I did with it.


I went with the pinks, grey and a touch of Navy ( or Blueberry Sky). I tried to incorporate a bit of the tan color, but it just didn't work. I blended a little bit of Pale Peony for the background and then just layered all of the stamped, die cut images with foam tape.



STAMPS: Winter Woods, Stylized Autumn, Graceful Greetings, Don't Forget To Write, Forget Me Not
DIES: Winter Woods, Stylized Autumn, Graceful Greetings, Don't Forget To Write, Forget Me Not
INK: Blueberry Sky, True Black, Spring Rain, Pale Peony, Stormy Sea, Soft Stone, Berry Sorbet
PAPER: Stamper's Select White

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And here is what my Mom did!


She CASEd the card I did with the Lucky Break stamp set and die for the release, but changed her colors to match the inspiration photo. I think her colors actually are closer to the inspiration photo than mine. 



She did a good job didn't she? She's awesome!! :)

STAMPS: Lucky Break, Stylized Autumn, Paper Clippings: Thankful For You, Tinsel & Tags
DIES: Lucky Break, Stylized Autumn, Paper Clippings: Thankful For You, Tinsel & Tags
PAPER: Watercolor paper, Natural Card stock
INK: No idea :) She has all of my old ones from years and years of stamping.

Well that's all from us today! Can't wait to hop around and see what everyone else has done! 
Thanks so much for stopping by, and enjoy the blog hop!

Kay :)



Monday, August 15, 2016

Papertrey Ink Release In Review



Hello and welcome to my Release In Review post for the August  Papertrey Ink  Release! The new products you are seeing here will be available in the store at Papertrey Ink on August 15th at 10:00 EST. 

Are you so excited about the new products coming out tonight? This is one beautiful release, and I have had so much fun working with it. I have a few more projects to share with you! There's a lot :)




I'll start off with this card I created with Betsy's new Inspired: Blessed stamps and die. I watercolored the background with Peerless watercolors, then splattered with a little bit of th red. The Blessed sentiment is layered three times, and I added some of The Fancy Foliage Detail die cuts from Maile. I cut them out of some watercolored paper in pretty fall colors. 



STAMPS: Inspired: Blessed
DIES: Inspired: Blessed, Fancy Foliage Details
INK: True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select White
OTHER: Watercolor Paper, Distress Ink, sequins

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So how about these darling little Halloween costumes for the Dress up Doll! They are so cute! My background here was done by blending Distress ink onto watercolor paper, then splattering with water. I had to use the Spooky Tree from Spooky Yard again. I can see that will be a Halloween staple for me :) Added a few of those little spiderwebs and the bats from the Tiny Town: Spookville dies , and the stars from Shaped Sayings: Halloween.




STAMPS: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Halloween
DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Halloween, Tiny Town: Spooky Yard, Tiny Town: Spookville, Shaped Sayings: Halloween
INK: True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select white, Smokey Shadow, 
OTHER: Watercolor paper, Distress Ink

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And Lexi's new Alphabet Soup background die! It is so fun! I stamped it using the MISTI in Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, and Amethyst Allure. I added the heat embossed sentiment from the Keep It Simple: From All of Us set, and some flowers from Stylized Autumn. I trimmed the panel down and layered this over a piece of Amethyst Allure + White striped paper.


STAMPS: Alphabet Soup, Stylized Autumn, Keep It Simple: From All of Us
DIES: Stylized Autumn, Planner Banner Dies
INK: Raspberry Fizz, Amethyst Allure, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Royal Velvet
PAPER: Stampers Select white, Amethyst Allure + White paper pack, Smokey Shadow

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Okay, this is another one of my favorite cards from this release! Lizzie is so good at coming up with the cutest and most clever stamps and dies! Who would think of a wishbone? It would never cross my mind, but I love it!  So ingenious!! I paired this cute set with some of the greenery from Stylized Autumn and Paper Clippings: Thankful For you. The sentiment is also from the Lucky Break set and it's gorgeous!



STAMPS: Lucky Break, Stylized Autumn, Paper Clippings: Thankful For You, Tinsel & Tags: Sprigs
DIES: Lucky Break, Stylized Autumn, Paper Clippings: Thankful For You, Tinsel & Tags: Sprigs
INK: Ripe Avocado, Terracotta Tile, Simply Chartreuse, Orange Zest, Summer sunrise, Soft Stone, Cocoa Bean
PAPER: Stampers Select White
OTHER: Sequins

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And I had to do one more card with Stylized Autumn and make a pink fox! My daughter loves little animals, foxes particularly, she loves pink and purple, and I love her, so this one's for my girl :) The sentiment is from Bold & Beautiful Sentiments. I stamped it with my MISTI in Hibiscus Burst and Amethyst Allure. Everything was cut out with the coordinating dies and added with foam tape.




STAMPS: Stylized Autumn, Bold & Beautiful Sentiments
DIES: Stylized Autumn, Bold & Beautiful Sentiments
INK: Hibiscus Burst, Royal Velvet, Amethyst Allure, Simply Chartreuse, Raspberry Fizz
PAPER: Stampers Select White
OTHER: Sequins

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I thought this one turned out really cute :) I love Maile's new Fancy Foliage stamps and dies! I'll be using them for many things! I created my own background paper with some of the small leafy stamps. I stamped them in Ripe Avocado and Simply Chartreuse on Spring Moss card stock. All of the stamps were colored with Copic markers, cut out with the coordinating dies and adhered with foam tape. The little kitty and flowers are from the Spooky Smiles stamp set. 



STAMPS: Fancy Foliage, Spooky Smiles
DIES: Fancy Foliage, Spooky Smiles
INK: Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse
PAPER: Stampers Select white, Spring Moss
OTHER: Copic markers, sequins


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I had to do one more with my Spooky Smiles stamp set. The background is blended Distress ink on Stamper's Select white  card stock, then I cut it out with the Noted: Scalloped A2 dies. I mounted that onto a Aqua Mist card base that I had splattered Hawaiian Shores ink onto. All of the stamps were colored with Copic markers, cut out with the coordinating dies, and adhered with foam tape. I added a few clear sequins to finish it up.





STAMPS: Spooky Smiles
DIES: Spooky Smiles, Noted Scalloped: A2 Dies
PAPER: Stampers Select White, Aqua Mist
OTHER: Distress Ink, White Embossing Powder

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And last, but certainly not least, is Betsy's new What The Doodle: Tea Time. Such a gorgeous tea cup and the steam! I love the steam! Who knew steam could be that pretty! haha! I paired that pretty cup and steam up with Dawn's fabulous new set, New Every Morning. Dawn is amazing at arranging the most gorgeous combination of fonts. This set has beautiful sentiments too! I sponged just a bit of Tattered Rose Distress ink onto my Stamper's Select white card stock base. The sentiment was stamped in True Black, and I colored the "I Will" in with Copic markers. The tea cup ( and steam) were colored with Copics as well, and adhered with foam tape.



STAMPS: New Morning, What The Doodle: Tea Time
DIES: What The Doodle: Tea Time
INK: True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select White
OTHER: Sequins

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Whew! That was a post full! I hope you have enjoyed seeing all of the new Papertrey Ink products in use, and are inspired and excited to pick up some tonight!

Thank you all again so very much for all of the nice comments you have left for me during the release countdown, and your support, encouragement, and enthusiasm for my new stamp designs :) 

All of the new products will be available at   Papertrey Ink  on August 15th, at 10:00 EST!

For more amazing inspiration visit the rest of the Papertrey Ink Design team!