So glad to see you back here for the last day of the November countdown! Have you all been enjoying yourselves this week? Are you excited to fill up your cart with all the brand new Papertrey goodness tonight?
Well, sit back and relax, as we still have two more sets to formally introduce to you!
Tiffany Pastor is joining us again to present a beautifully executed stamp set entitled "Christmas Friends" The set is intended to be used to create amazing holiday projects, but upon some experimentation, I found that it could really be so much more!
The details.
- Christmas Friends will be available for purchase tonight, midnight EST.
- It will retail for $24.
- It contains a total of 29 stamps (18 images and 11 sentiments).
The second set that I am *officially* announcing is a little background set I designed called Background Basics: Diamonds. I've been showing you quite a bit of it all week, but I will also be sprinkling a little of it in today's post as well. It is an amazing essential set that myself and most of the design team could now not live without!
The details.
- Background Basics: Diamonds will be available for purchase tonight, midnight EST.
- It will retail for $15.
- It contains a total of 3 background strip stamps.
Now that we have all those details out of the way, let's move onto some fun projects!
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This first project is probably one of my favorites out of the bunch. I love how clean and simple it is. I love the color scheme (even though it was out of my comfort zone at first!). I also love the little discovery I made. When you stamp our Fresh Snow ink onto Enchanted Evening cardstock, it dries to match our Spring Rain cardstock! Pretty isn't it!
The large swirl and birds are both part of Christmas Friends. Tiffany's style is certainly represented in these. I added a few clear rhinestones to the swirls as accents. I love using all three sizes on one project. It makes it a little more interesting to the eye. The sentiment is from Giga Guide Lines. I think the fonts and style of it work perfectly with this new set. I bet this card would be pretty in several other colors as well!
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Next is the same bird from the first card used on a Christmas card, as it was originally intended. It is stamped in Dark Chocolate ink and cut out so it can be perched at the edge of the sentiment block. So, what do you think of these patterned papers? They are actually from our new paper collection for November, Turning a New Leaf (you can read more about it in the post below). Dark Chocolate Satin Ribbon is tied around the card in a dainty bow.
I love this verse that is included in Christmas Friends. So sweet and
perfect for holiday cards that are going to dear friends rather than
family. A few small fern images from Turning a New Leaf are stamped in clusters at the edges of the sentiment block in New Leaf ink, which adds a bit of contrast to the Ripe Avocado found in the patterned paper.
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Here's another Christmas card using a bit of an nontraditional holiday color, Terracotta Tile. The new rusty orange color looks AMAZING with gold (and I'm not usually a big fan of gold either, so that's saying a lot!) The ornaments & sentiment were heat embossed with our Gold Filigree Embossing Powder. I love that stuff... it picks up detail SO well! The gold frame was done with one of our Gold Paint Pens and a ruler.
To make ornament placement easy, try placing the stamps face down on your card front, moving them around until you get them just where you want, then pick them up with your block all at once. All you have left to do is ink and stamp!
The Ripe Avocado pine boughs (Martha Stewart punch) are accented by some new rhinestones being added to the store which coordinate well with either Dark Chocolate or Terracotta Tile. Who knew orange and green could create such a warm and elegant holiday card?
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This is just another example as to how you can "use your noodle" (as I always say to my kids!) and use your stamp images for something other than what they were intended for!
To begin, this card is cut a bit different than a standard card. It is still an A2, but I cut away about an inch from the cover, making it a bit shorter. This allowed me have the flower overhanging a bit, adding some fun visual interest. By the way, recognize that sentiment? Nothing other than part of the new Signature Greetings from Dawn!!! Yay! Just love that set!
So now, back to that floral focal point! Believe it or not, the petals of the flower were created with the Christmas ornaments from the holiday card above! The largest ornament coordinates with a 1-1/4" circle punch perfectly. I stamped them in Dark Chocolate ink and colored them with the Berry Sorbet Copic Trio. The last step was punching the five "petals" out! Using the circle punch allows you to *punch off* the top hanger portion of the ornament, leaving you with a perfect circle.
When you adhere those swirly circles together and add a button to the center, you end up with something beautiful. Use a 2-Way glue pen to add a bit of adhesive here and there along the swirls, sprinkle on some Prisma glitter and you end up with something fabulous! Notice the patterned accent strip? It uses one of the images from Background Basics: Diamonds that I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
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Speaking of Background Basics: Diamonds... how about a little set of cards that focuses on that very set? I like to call this my Pink Thank You Trio. (Dawn, wherever you are, this one's for you!) Each of these cards shows off one of the three patterns included in this new pattern building stamp set. Did I mention yet how much I LOVE this set?!?!?
Each of these cards is a tad smaller than 4x4 inches, therefore coordinating with our 4x4 envelopes. The pattern is stamped with Versamark ink. The polka dot strip is from Black & White Basics patterned paper collection. The flower is from Making Memories. A True Black Vintage Button is added to it's center with a glue dot. And who can forget the Thank You sentiment (from the new Big & Bold Wishes) stamped with True Black ink. This here version is done with Berry Sorbet cardstock (that last sentence was said in my best cowboy voice by the way, just in case you couldn't tell).
...and this is Hibiscus Burst...
...followed by Raspberry Fizz. Yuuummmmmmmm!
I really enjoyed stamping with these two sets today and I hope you were able to gain inspiration from the projects I created just for you! Did you learn
anything new today? See something you
want to try for yourself? We want to know! Just for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, we are
offering up an AMAZING prize package...
- Christmas Friends stamp set
- Background Basics: Diamonds stamp set
- Prisma Glitter
- Gold Filigree Embossing Powder
You have until 11:30pm EST tonight to leave a comment
and be eligible to win. Please play nice, only one comment per
person. One winner will be randomly selected and announced today shortly before midnight EST. The winning announcement will be made on
our November Release Winners page.
Want to see more of Christmas Friends? Stop by Becky Oehlers' blog for some additional projects!
Anabelle O'Malley has some STUNNING projects to share using many of the new November sets! You will NOT want to miss this!!!
Alli Miles is showcasing more from her set, Communique Curves.
Dawn McVey has more to show you with Signature Greetings!
Tiffany Pastor stamped another project to share with you using her new set, Christmas Friends.
Lauren Meader has one more peek to share using the new November Templates!
Complete supply lists for all of today's projects can be found HERE.
