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Senior Design Team Challenge: Wedding Day Revisited

Today is one of my favorite days of the month!  The day in which the Senior Design Team revisits a previously released set from our archives!  This month we selected Wedding Day, a beautiful set by Alli Miles!  With many spring & summer weddings on the horizon, the team will have you fully prepared for upcoming events!  And they even have some year-round uses to showcase as well!

Wedding Day is full of all kinds of bits and pieces that you can use to create beautiful wedding masterpieces!  Whether it be a card for your favorite couple, a mini book of your own wedding or custom wedding thank-yous, invitations or favors, this set has endless possibilities!

I thought I would share with you a project that I originally showcased during the countdown for Wedding Day in 2008.  It is a really simple tag-shaped card base, featuring a single color (Sweet Blush) paired with white.  But there is something about that simplicity that makes a statement of elegance.  The card uses several of the design elements from Wedding Day to build a border and medallion style embellishment.  I created a vellum envelope for the card to tuck into as a perfect finishing touch. It's still one of my favorite projects after all of these years.

Now how about a few projects from the amazingly talented Design Team?!?!?

CLICK HERE to read more from Betsy Veldman.

CLICK HERE to read more from Dawn McVey.

CLICK HERE to read more from Heather Nichols.

CLICK HERE to read more from Lisa Johnson.

CLICK HERE to read more from Michelle Wooderson.

Aren't all of these projects just absolutely amazing?  I hope you enjoyed this little jaunt into Papertrey's past release and are left inspired to go do something crafty yourself!  Thank you for stopping by today and have a fantastic rest of the week!

Make It Monday #4: Creating with Fun Foam

Welcome back to another Make It Monday Challenge and Video today. We're here to try our best to make your Monday a wee bit more happier and creative than it would be normally. Today, our video is by Heather Nichols. She's challenging us all to raid the general craft closet at your house to find some fun foam. You'd be surprised by the uses it can have in your stamping studio!

Here are some still shots of the project today:

If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.

--A new Make It Monday Challenge & video will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.

--Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge.  Your project must use at least one Papertrey product of some kind as fun foam in some way in order to qualify.

--Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

--Add your link to our --->InLinkz List<--- 

--You will have until 7am, Monday, March 7st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.  And you can enter as many times as you like.

--We will be tweeting and posting on our Facebook page every night (between 5-9pm EST) highlighting a Featured Project.  These tweets/Facebook postings will just be a shout-out regarding projects that caught our eye.  The tweets/Facebook postings no longer have any special merit regarding the actual contest.

--One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, March 7, after 7am.  The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook.  The randomly selected winner will get to select a FREE Papertrey stamp set of their choice!

 Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!

EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:

Congratulations Elizabeth S., you've been selected to win a free stamp set of your choice!  Please contact Customer Service at your earliest convenience with your shipping information and chosen set!  And thank you so much to everyone for playing a long!

Papertrey Radio Podcast #2

 

I'm so glad everybody enjoyed the first Papertrey Radio Podcast as I did. The wait has ended for the next installment. Just click the button below to play the episode directly from here:

Papertrey Radio - Episode 2

or you can download the mp3 file below to save it to your iPod or mp3 player

-for Mac, right click on link below, select "download linked file"

-for PC, right click on link below, select "save target as"

Download PapertreyRadio2

If you would like to participate in the next podcast, please call (301) 799-8338 and leave us a message. Your answer, question, or commentary might be featured on our airwaves soon.

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And remember, Papertrey Radio Podcasts debut every other Friday here on the blog. Look and listen for the next one on March 11th.

February 2011 Blog Hop

Welcome everyone to the February Papertrey Blog Hop!  We are so thrilled to see you here!  First, the challenge...

This month we decided to dedicate the Blog Hop to scallops!  We want to see your best use of scallops, of any sort, on a project!  This can include scalloped borders, offset-scallops, stamped scallops,  scalloped mats, scalloped frames, layered scallops, scalloped tags or anything else you can dream up! You can use dies, patterned scissors or even circle punches in a row to achieve your special look. We are looking forward to seeing all of your amazing creations!

I have included an inlinkz list below for you to add your link to your blog hop project.  This new type of link list will allow you to select a thumbnail to go along with your link, making it easy to go back and find a project later that might have perked your interest.  

You have until 11:00pm EST tonight (February 25th) to add your link to this list.  THREE random participants will be selected to win a FREE Papertrey Ink stamp set of their choice.  They will be announced and highlighted here, on my blog, tomorrow morning.  We look forward to seeing all of your creations!

EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNERS:

Jazzytobi created this stunner with offset scallops stamped with In Bloom.  Her color scheme as well as the simple ribbon accent are a perfect pair.  Her soft color addition around the sentiment focal point help to lend a lovely delicacy to the project.

Jessica Davis layered a few scalloped borders at the bottom of her card, which brings together a bright & unique color scheme.  I love how she carried the color scheme into her background, which is stamped with images from the new Delightful Doilies stamp set.

Joyce M cleverly used a scalloped circle to create a folded "flap" for her flower pot.  I also love how she layered all of the flowers from In Bloom to create a bouquet.  The twine & button accent around the pot is a perfect finishing detail.

 

February Blog Hop Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we are excited to present the BIG monthly Blog Hop that Papertrey Ink hosts for all of it's talented customers to show off their skills! 

The Blog Hop is an ALL DAY EVENT!  A new link list will be posted here on my blog at 10am EST and you can add your link anytime up until 11:30pm EST.  And don't worry if you aren't going to get a chance to make a project and play along, there will be a contest for non-participants as well over in our forum in the designated thread. I hope that I will see many of your familiar faces over here tomorrow! I look forward to seeing all of your creativity!

 
All of our customers who enjoy sharing inspiration & artwork with their peers through their personal blogs.

 
The actual Blog Hop will take place tomorrow, February 25th, beginning @ 10am EST. 

 
You will explore individual blogs through a thread here, on my blog, beginning at 10am EST tomorrow. 

 A day dedicated to seeking inspiration through projects utilizing Papertrey Ink products. 

 

This month we decided to dedicate the Blog Hop to scallops!  We want to see your best use of scallops, of any sort, on a project!  This can include scalloped borders, offset-scallops, stamped scallops,  scalloped mats, scalloped frames, layered scallops, scalloped tags or anything else you can dream up! You can use dies, patterned scissors or even circle punches in a row to achieve your special look. We are looking forward to seeing all of your amazing creations!

 

 -Participating bloggers can add their link to the appropriate list here anytime between 10am EST and 11pm EST on February 25th within the link list that will be posted.The title of your post should be "Papertrey February Blog Hop Challenge".

-Customers & participants alike can peruse all of the links and absorb all of the amazing inspiration that will be shared!

-After you have made your way through the list, simply return to our forum and participate in all of the fun!

-You can chit chat with everyone in the Blog Hop forum! Take this time to praise your peers efforts, discuss anything new you might have learned and which projects really offered something unique!

-The three random blogger participant winners will be announced Saturday morning on our forum and highlighted here on my blog!

-You can enter our Blog Hop Forum contest. There will be a special thread posted in our forum specifically for this purpose asking a question. Please only post once, as the winner will be picked via the Random Number Generator. The forum contest will end at midnight EST and the winner announced in the morning within the thread.

-Create a project while you are here, using the new inspiration you have gathered from the Blog Hop. You can post your projects in the gallery, even if you do not have a blog! We are looking forward to all the fun tomorrow and we hope to see you there!