Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary: Stripes Challenge

I'm back with my final card for the anniversary challenges, which was to create a project with stripes.  I opted to make a coffee themed card and stamped the tall mug from the Warm Happiness set with stripes in multiple colors.  The sentiment is from Warm Happiness Too.  These are some of my favorite stamp sets!

Thanks for stopping by!  The February release is now live--happy shopping!

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary: Color Challenge

I'm back to share my project for the color challenge.  I chose to use Amy's color scheme and tried out the Heart & Sole stamp and dies for the first time.  And hey--I'm ahead of the game with my first Father's Day card!

Thanks for stopping by!  T minus five minutes until the release goes live tonight!

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary: No Stamps Challenge

I'm back to share my project for the No Stamps challenge as part of the Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary festivities.  I'm still making Valentine cards at the 11th hour, so added this card to my stack of cards to send:

The large floral patterned paper heart die cut was one I found it my stash; I think the heart is from Memory Box.  I also die cut a pink vellum heart from the Limitless Layers Hearts collection and added that on top of the patterned paper heart.  I topped off both hearts with the Big Basics:  Love You die cut and a sprinkling of mini heart stickers.  I added the heart die cuts to a piece of foiled watercolor card stock from Momenta and adhered everything to a card base.  Simple card that packs a pretty punch of pink loveliness!  This card will go to my sister.

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Papertrey Ink Anniversary Challenge: Retirement List Set

Papertrey Ink has quite an extensive list of stamps set for retirement this year.  I was glad to see that I have most of the ones that I want, and there were only a few that are on my wish list, so should be easy to add those before they are officially gone in May.  Today's challenge was to make a card using one of the stamp sets on the retirement list.  It's no secret I love coffee, so it was an easy choice for me to decide to use the Latte Love set.  The bright and cheery colors on the dot patterned paper inspired the color scheme for my card.

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Papertrey Ink Anniversary Floral Challenge

I'm back to share the card I made for Papertrey 's anniversary floral challenge.  I have many wonderful floral sets from Papertrey, so it was hard to choose which one to use on this project.  I decided on Fresh Bouquet as it was one I hadn't used yet.  I paired it with the Noted: Scalloped Square die.  I'm terribly behind on my Valentine cards, so decided to make this love themed and this will be the card I give my mom.

Thanks for stopping by!  Can't wait to see what you made!

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary Challenge: Transformation Tuesday

Hello!  I'm back to share my card I made for the Papertrey Ink Transformation Tuesday (on Wednesday) challenge...which I'm posting on Thursday!  I enjoyed the card sketch that I used on my last project in this post so much that I decided to use that again and this time make a masculine card.  Now that football season is over, it's time to look ahead to the spring, which reminded me of baseball.  I pulled out the 7th Inning Stretch stamps and the Center Stage cover plate and got to work.

(As an aside, the grass background is not real; it's just a sheet of 12 x 12 text weight paper from a photo images pad from DCWV.)

Thanks for stopping by!  I look forward to checking out the rest of the projects!  Hope you're having as much fun with the anniversary festivities as I am!

Papertrey Ink 11th Anniversary Sketch Challenge

I'm so excited that February is here and it's time for another Papertrey Ink anniversary!  Yesterday kicked off the 11th anniversary festivities with the introduction of the design team members and their favorite card sketches.  There were several I wanted to try, but I ended up choosing Lizzie's sketch as the one for this challenge.

I opted to pull out the Quatrefoil Cover Plate and Brushed Blooms stamp set and dies to make my card.  And can I just say how thankful I am to have the MISTI tool to help line up the multi-layer images?  I think this tool has saved me from unloading quite a few sets that have frustrated me in the past!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I look forward to seeing what you made for the challenge!