{capture the moment}

Inspirations

This week I have been thinking a lot about inspirations.  Why certain things inspire me.  Where I gain my inspiration.  Thinking about where it all begins.

This morning I had about half an hour to be creative before I dug into my work day.  I wanted to get a "quick fix" so to speak.  When searching for inspiration, my eyes stumbled upon this card sitting on my desk.  It is a special note from my good friend Dawn. The squares really struck me and I just began thinking about how much fun it would be to play with bits of patterned paper and a square punch.   Immediately, I gravitated to our NEW Everyday Blessings 6x6 paper pack.  All of the patterns in it are card makers scale.  This means when using just a small portion, as you would with the square punch for example, you will still be able to include several elements from the paper.  I know a lot of times with other papers the patterns are quite large and it's difficult to do this type of technique.

For this one I was inspired by the precise spacing Dawn had in between her four accent squares.  I matted mine on white and centered it on the card front.  The sentiment (one of my absolute FAVORITES from Alli's new stamp set, Shapes By Design) is simply stamped in white ink at the bottom.  I love how "clean" this is, love the colors and I love how I could make several and leave the bottom blank to add a sentiment later.

With this project, I created a strip of patterned squares, side by side.  I matted them with white cardstock and attached it to my card.  I am crazy in LOVE with the way our white velvet flowers (from the Air Collection) coordinate with our patterned paper.  So fresh looking and the texture just adds that subtle detail!  The sentiment is from Butterfly Kisses and was stamped in white ink.

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In my small 30-minute  stamping session I  made both of these cards.  Simple,  quick & easy!  So what are you waiting for?  Got 30-minutes?  Grab a square punch and our new pack of paper that you just bought and see what you can whip up!  I would LOVE to see your results!  Please feel free to link your project in the comments section!

SUPPLIES.................................................................................................................
Stamps: Shapes by Design (life's small pleasures) & Butterfly Kisses (Birthday wishes) from Papertrey

Ink: White craft from SU!

Paper: Spring Moss cardstock & 6x6 Everyday Blessings paper from Papertrey

Other: 1-3/8 inch  square punch from EK Success, white velvet flower from Maya Road, small blue paper flower from Making Memories, green brad from Chatterbox

and the winner is....

Customer #2085

USERNAME: grace01

Congratulations!  You will be receiving each and every stamp release from Papertrey Ink, now through January 2009!  Thanks to everyone else for playing!

Today is the DAY!

Tonight we will be drawing the winner of our FREE Stamps for a Year Contest!  I will announce the winner here at 10am EST tomorrow morning!

Have you entered yet?  It's easy!

1. Go to our homepage (www.papertreyink.com) and click on the "FREE STAMPS" icon at the top of the page.

2. This will lead you to our registration page.  By setting up your user account with us, you will be automatically entered in the contest!

3. Once you are registered you also have the ability to participate in our forum, which is buzzing with excitement!  So be sure to stop in and say hi!

The one VERY lucky winner will be chosen tonight! Good luck! 

Stampers Choice Winner!

After calculating ALL of the votes we received, I have actually determined TWO winners.  Their tallies were so close, I decided to award them both!

Juile-Ann Wells for her Family Tree project

Julie Cameron for her Out on a Limb card.

You each will receive one stamp set of your choice!  Please email customer service with your selection along with your shipping information!  Thanks again to everyone for participating!

Patterned Paper Winner

With all of the excitement in the last few days, I forgot to post the winner of our patterned paper give away.  I apologize for the delay and thanks for your patience!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

246	

Timestamp: 2008-02-19 18:14:30 UTC

Comment #246 belongs to:

You have a way of keeping your customers so excited!!! I am so glad I found this site. I come here everyday. I am getting ready to order those fabbbbbb egg boxes as sooooon as they are available...and the ribbon...and the paper....and Just Hatched stamps set. I can't wait.

Posted by: Ramona | February 14, 2008 at 07:21 AM

Congratulations, Ramona!  You have won both the  12x12 & 6x6 packages of our new Everyday Blessings patterned paper!  Please email customer service with your shipping information and we will get you prize package right out to you!  Thanks to everyone else for playing!