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Make It Monday #12: Line Frame 101

I have received many inquiries over the years about drawing line frames around card fronts.  Today's Make It Monday video covers just that!  I hope this inspires you to try the technique for yourself!

Here are some still shots of today's project.

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 and a drawn frame.

--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, May 2nd, 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, May 2nd, 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:

Judy asked as to why I drew this frame rather than utilize the Framed stamp set.  Not only did I want to showcase this technique because it can be used for any size or shape you need, but sometimes you may also want to change things up as far as where the sentiment opening goes, etc.  If someone is uncomfortable with drawing the frame, then yes, it would probably work out best to make accommodations for Framed and stick with that.  Just trying to provide options for more creativity.

EDITED TO ADD OUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:

Congratulations to Lynn Put for being randomly selected as this week's Make It Monday winner!  You get to select a free stamp set of your choice!  Please email Customer Service with your shipping information and selected set so we can get your package out to you!  And thank you to EVERYONE for playing along!  We have enjoyed seeing all the entries and inspiration!

 

April 2011 Blog Hop

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

This month's blog hop is dedicated to all the boys and men in our lives!  Now's your chance to create Father's Day projects, boy birthday cards and more to build up your stash!  Focus on masculine color schemes, fresh pattern combinations, understated embellishments and unique uses of images you may already have in your stash!

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 (April 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 THREE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNERS:

Lindsay Amrhein used the rectangle frame from Button Boutique stamped in a unique random fan pattern. She paired this up with Seeing Stars die-cut shapes stamped with Background Basics: Newsprint.  I love the subtle pops of color on a mostly white card.  One of my absolute favorite looks!

Leish cleverly used the new Boy Basics: Simple Circles set to represent the planets surrounding her Boy Basics: Out of This world rocket ship.  The night sky she created in the background using the splatters from Grunge Me provides the perfect backdrop to set everything off.  Simply amazing!

Jean Martin paired up several sets for this classic masculine project that could be sued for so many different recipients.  A Little Argyle, Just the Ticket and Postmarks to just name a few.  I also adore the color scheme.  It's masculine without being overly dark.  Just spectacular!

Congratulations to all the winners!  Be sure to email customer service with your shipping information and selected FREE stamp set within 30 days to claim your prize!  And thank you to EVERYONE for participating  All of these projects & submissions will surely be used as an amazing creative reference for months to come!

 

April 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, April 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's blog hop is dedicated to all the boys and men in our lives!  Now's your chance to create Father's Day projects, boy birthday cards and more to build up your stash!  Focus on masculine color schemes, fresh pattern combinations, understated embellishments and unique uses of images you may already have in your stash!

 

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

 

Papertrey Radio #6

We're back to make your holiday weekend a little bit brighter. Take some time for yourself today and sit back to listen.

Papertrey Radio - Episode 6

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 Papertrey Radio 6

 

Please call in (301-799-8338) to contribute to the next podcast airing May 7th. We love hearing from you!

Re-posting Papertrey Radio Podcast #5

Podcast #5 from April 8th accidentally got deleted a few days ago, so I am reposting the link to it below!  I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.  Enjoy the show if you haven't done so already!

Papertrey Radio - Episode 5

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 Papertrey Radio 5