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You can cast your votes by clicking the button below or clicking on this direct link HERE.  The survey will close on February 1st, 7am ET!

January 2016 Blog Hop

Today we are excited to present the BIG monthly Blog Hop that Papertrey Ink hosts for all of its talented customers to show off their skills! The Blog Hop is an ALL DAY EVENT!  An Inlinkz list is posted below and you can add your link anytime up until 11:30pm ET.  And don't worry if you didn't get a chance to make a project and play along, there is a contest for non-participants as well over in our forum in the designated thread. I look forward to seeing all of your creativity!

A day dedicated to seeking inspiration through projects utilizing Papertrey Ink products.   This event allows all of our customers who enjoy sharing inspiration & artwork with their peers do so through their personal blogs.

Today, 10am EST until 11:30pm EST.

photo source: Rex Ray

I recently ran across the amazing collage artist Rex Ray and his colorful works.  His use of shape and painted textures were especially inspiring to me.  If you have a moment, definitely google him and take a look at his extensive portfolio.  This particular piece seemed perfect for blog hop inspiration.  With a bold, unique color scheme and a unique arrangement of basic shapes, there is a lot you can take away from this!  Substitute other images or shapes for the ovals and rounded squares.  Use your own interpretation of the colors to create a masterpiece!

 

 -Participating bloggers can add their link to the appropriate list here anytime between 10am EST and 11:30pm ET on January 25th within the InLinkz list below. The title of your post should be "Papertrey January Blog Hop Challenge".

-Only one entry per person please.

-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 is 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 ET and the winner announced Tuesday morning.

-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 today!  Thank you for joining us!

EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNERS:

Samantha's Creative Cards used this as the perfect opportunity to create a 14th birthday card she needed.  The woodgrain look on the numbers is such a great touch!

Angie Person made an incredible thank you card by building her own geometric background.  Loving the combination of polka dots and triangles!

Happy Everything! Kristin created this retro styled birthday card, drawing inspiration from both the shapes and colors.  Great execution!

Congratulations to all three winners!  Please send a note to customer service and provide them with your full name and the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to!  Thank you to everyone for joining us!

An InLinkz Link-up

Make It Monday #237: Matchbook Valentines

Join Lexi as she shares tips and tricks for making darling matchbook Valentines, perfect for sharing with kiddos and adults alike!

 

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

--A new Make It Monday Challenge 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 and a matchbook Valentine.

--Please enter new projects only.

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

--Add your project to our InLinkz list below.  ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE.  

--You will have until 6am, Monday, January 25, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. 

--One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday,  January 25, after 6am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!

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

An InLinkz Link-up

 

EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:

 

 

Congratulations to Janet W. for being randomly selected as this weeks winner!  Please email Customer Service and provide the email address you would like your $25 gift certificate sent to!  And a big thank you to everyone else who participated in this challenge.  There were so many amazing entries!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

 

January 2016 Blog Hop Challenge

 

The January Blog Hop is not taking place until January 25th, but we thought we would share the challenge as well as the inspiration photos here to give you a head start.

A day dedicated to seeking inspiration through projects utilizing Papertrey Ink products.   This event allows all of our customers who enjoy sharing inspiration & artwork with their peers do so through their personal blogs.

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

photo source: Rex Ray

I recently ran across the amazing collage artist Rex Ray and his colorful works.  His use of shape and painted textures were especially inspiring to me.  If you have a moment, definitely google him and take a look at his extensive portfolio.  This particular piece seemed perfect for blog hop inspiration.  With a bold, unique color scheme and a unique arrangement of basic shapes, there is a lot you can take away from this!  Substitute other images or shapes for the ovals and rounded squares.  Use your own interpretation of the colors to create a masterpiece!

Today is the Day!

The day we have all been waiting for is finally here!  Can't you just feel the anticipation in the air!  Now is your chance to be one of the FIRST to get to play with all of the amazing paper crafting goodness that we are offering up this month!!!  I wanted to let you know a few things about the day today so you can know what to expect!  

The release party begins right now, at 7am EST on our forum.
Be sure to stop by our forum and enjoy the camaraderie and chit chat about all of our new products.  It's entertaining and a super duper way to pass the time until you can begin filling your cart.

Stamp Set & Die Reveal NOW @ 7am EST, just scroll below or CLICK HERE.

I have revealed all of the stamp sets in their entirety below, as well as all the dies.  This way you can have everything in one place and make informed decisions about your purchases.

You can't have a party without a contest.
Scroll below to find the "Release in Review & Release Contest" post with a question for you to answer.  Share your answer with us and you will be eligible to win:

a $150 PTI Gift Certificate
to spend on whatever you choose!

The contest will close at 9:30pm EST and the winner will be chosen via the Random Number Generator.  I will announce the lucky winner here before 10pm EST!

Release Ordering 101

I have added a page of information that will tell you all about the details of ordering during the release, procedures & policies you should be aware of and more.  Whether your new here or a regular, I think you will all find this information helpful.  You can find this information HERE.

January in a Nutshell!

You can always see a linked review list for each release on my Previous Countdown page, HERE.  But I have also added the list below, so it's easy to navigate while you are making your shopping decisions tonight.

Day 1: Thanks Coach, Go For the Goal

DAY 2: Bold Blossoms, Bold Blossoms Coloring/Watercolor Pages, Outlined, Keep It Simple: Baby, Tucked In: Baby

DAY 3: Bitty Butterflies, Enclosed: Butterfly, Cover Plate: Butterfly

DAY 4: Petite Places: Home & Garden

DAY 5: Coin Purse II stitching dies

DAY 6: Moments Inked: Binder Page dies

January Release Winners

Be sure to stop by our January Release Winners Page to see if you were one of the lucky folks that won one of our amazing prizes over the last five days!

9th Anniversary Fun Begins February 5th!

As tradition holds, we will be celebrating our upcoming anniversary in a BIG way with extended release festivities!  We will be skipping the sneak peeks and jumping right into the announcements, introductions and products beginning February 5th!  There are so many fun things in store for you, we can hardly contain our excitement!  There will be thousands of dollars in giveaways, challenges, contents and MORE!  Be sure to mark your calendars and add alerts to your phones!  You won't want to miss a single minute!

Vote For Your Top Paper Picks!

Over the last nine years in business we have introduced dozens upon dozens of patterned paper collections.  We have always heard,

"I wish I could buy a whole package of *just * that pattern from my favorite collection."

During the anniversary festivities we will be giving YOU the opportunity to vote on what individual pattern you would like to be able to purchase in bulk and a selected few will be made available for sale!  An actual survey will be presented on Blog Hop day to tally the votes, but you have an opportunity to contribute your input on which single patterns will even be included on the survey by joining in our chat on the customer forum.  

Visit the thread we started yesterday HERE to see if your favorite has already been mentioned.  We would love to hear from you!

Join us on Periscope!

Join Ashley Cannon Newell today at 9pm ET to watch a live Periscope broadcast of the new products to be released. As a viewer, you can chat live by entering text into the "say something" box at the bottom of the live video page. You can also give the broadcast some love by double tapping on the screen while watching the broadcast or replaying it. So, if you like what you are hearing or seeing, tap on your screen to show Papertrey some love.

 

We encourage you to enable notifications for Periscope on your mobile device/tablet so you will be notified when we are live. Simply click the notification link or open Periscope to find the live broadcast. If you follow us on Twitter, a tweet will be sent to let you know we are live. You have the option to watch the broadcast via the web by clicking a link from the tweet.

 

Find us @PapertreyInk or by searching Papertrey Ink on Periscope.

Don't forget: 10pm EST Product Release Time.

Just a friendly reminder that the new products will be released tonight at 10pm EST on our website.

Thank you so much for visiting throughout this exciting countdown and we look forward to seeing all of you throughout the day and later tonight!