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Design Team Tips With Dawn McVey

Today, Dawn is sharing on her blog about creating beautiful, dimensional card bases:

"I sometimes forget what an impact it can have, when you stamp your card front and then die cut a large portion directly out of your stamping and pop it up with foam adhesive. It can take an otherwise flat card front and really make it something special, adding great detail and interest! I’ve recently fallen in love with this look all over again and am looking forward to sharing my cards with you, as well as a couple of tips I’ve picked up along the way!"

• STAMPS: New Every Morning, Beautiful Berries: Spring
• INK: Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Ripe Avocado, Green Parakeet
• PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Raspberry Fizz, Green Parakeet
• DIES: Noted: Scalloped A2, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

 Make sure to visit Dawn's blog to learn more about creating a dimensional card base for your next project!

Throwback Thursday: Doodlie-do Stamp Set

Welcome to Throwback Thursday at Papertrey Ink! Today we have a few of our design team members revisiting the Doodlie-Do stamp set.

First up is a gorgeous pop of color on this card from Keeway:

"The Doodlie Do stamp is such a beautiful floral stamp to color. The geometric detailing of the flowers have such fun shapes  and sizes that it leaves plenty of room for creative coloring and room for adding a personal touch with a white gel pen.  With just a touch of ink blending in the background, there is not much needed to make these gorgeous flowers shine!"

• STAMPS: Doodlie-Do
• INK: True Black, Lovely Lady, Bright Buttercup, Versamark (Tsukineko)
• PAPER: True Black, Stamper’s Select White
• DIES: Doodlie-Do
• OTHER: White Filigree Detail Embossing Powder, Mini Ink Blender, White Gel Pen, Copic Markers

Click here to visit Keeway's blog to see more!

Next up is this pretty bouquet of blossoms on this card from Melissa:

“What I love most about the darling Doodlie-Do stamp set is the many different ways it can be used. It’s fun to play and experiment with using different techniques. Today I added color to my stamped images by heat embossing each and then sponging on color using my Papertrey Ink ink pads and then added a few details and depth using Copic Markers and love the results. Such a simple technique, but what fun results!”

• STAMPS: Doodlie-Do
• INK: Aqua Mist, Melon Berry, Lilac Grace, Lavender Moon, Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Mint Julep, Honey Nut, Spring Moss, Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst
• PAPER: Fresh Snow Fine Linen, Lilac Grace, and Make it Market Mini Kit: Bloom & Grow
• DIES: Leaf & Sprig Frame Die
• OTHER: White embossing powder, Copic Markers, enamel dots, ribbon

Click here to visit Melissa's blog to see more!

And finally, a rainbow of pretty petals on this card from Stephanie:

"Oh my goodness how fun and whimsical is this set?! I truly loved working with the happy and childlike designs, but I feel in love with the sentiments even more. With Spring officially here and Summer on it’s way, Doodlie-Do us the perfect set for the sunshine months. :)"

• STAMPS: Doodlie-Do
• INK: Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Tropical Teal, Black
• PAPER: Stamper's Select White, Watercolor, Vellum
• DIES: Doodlie-Do

Click here to visit Stephanie's blog to see more!

Make It Monday #279: Curved Sentiments

This week, Ashley has a technique to bend your stamps on acrylic blocks to create curved sentiment designs on your projects, out of otherwise straight sentiments!

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 curved sentiment.

--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, April 3, 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, April 3, 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!

• STAMPS: Paper Clippings: Thinking of You, Keep It Simple: Wedding
• INK: Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Smokey Shadow, Bright Buttercup, Aqua Mist, Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice, New Leaf
• PAPER: White, Limeade Ice
• OTHER: Paper Clippings: Joy to the World dies, Paper Clippings: Thinking of You dies, Noted: Scalloped A2 dies
• FINISHED SIZE: 4-1/4" x 5-1/2"

An InLinkz Link-up

 

EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:

 

 

Congratulations, Kathy Mc! Please send an email to customer service and provide them with your full name and the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to. Thanks so much to everyone for playing along!

March 2017 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 ET until 11:30pm ET.

  

 

prints designed by the talented Victoria Johnson

Victoria Johnson's use of color and pattern is truly unique and one of a kind. I have selected this mini collection from her as the basis for this month's blog hop. Aren't these just dreamy? Pick a selection of colors that you would like to work with and see if you can put some of your favorite supplies to work, whether they be florals, birds, or anything else you can dream up. There are some major opportunities for color exploration and play here, so have fun with this!

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

Joyce M. created a custom floral background using many of the bright, beautiful colors found in the inspiration photo. The simple sentiment in the lower corner adds just the right touch, without detracting too much from the flowers.

Geri stamped floral elements directly onto her card base to help frame a sentiment banner. There is perfect balance created with the way everything is laid out and the way the banner is able to take center stage.

Leigh Penner did some amazing ink blending at the top of her card to create a fabulous background for her florals. The addition of the bird and the interesting colors it reflects really adds a lot of eye catching detail.

Congratulations to the winners! Please email customer service and provide them with the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to. Thanks to everyone for playing along and sharing your beautiful projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Guest Blogger: Yana Smakula

Hello, friends! This is Yana Smakula and I am excited to bring you my first monthly video tutorial for Papertrey Ink from the “In The Studio with Yana” video series. I’ll be sharing video tutorials on the 24th of each month (with the exception of next month - I am doing a lot of traveling and am unable to film). 

For this blog post and video tutorial I decided to show you one of my most favorite techniques - creating a background pattern using individual images. To spice things up I’ll also show you how to dry emboss some of the stamped images to add additional depth and detail to your project. 

I decided to use Palm Prints stamp set for my project however many other images and sets work great for this technique. I love to use large solid images with one or two detailed layers, however smaller one layer designs and even outline designs can also be used. 

I picked just a few leaves for my pattern and I assigned a particular color for each leaf, this is my number one trick for stamping patterns - it saves a lot of time and minimizes the number of mistakes I make when I do my stamping. 

I used monstera leaves in 3 sizes as well of a round palm leaf to create my background. For my color combo I picked yellow, pink and gray. For each color I used a lighter and a darker shade of ink.  

You want to make sure to begin working on your background by stamping large monstera leaves first. Unless you are going for a geometric looking pattern, try to avoid stamping same images in a straight line, stamp them so that they form a triangle for organic look. 

Working from large to small fill in the background with the images you selected. After I was done stamping my background using monstera and palm leaves I used a berry image from the Gathered Garden set to fill in any gaps I had on my background.  

At this point my background was done, however I wanted to show you a simple trick you can do using your coordinating dies to add even more detail to your project. I used coordinating dies, just 3 of them (large monstera, small monstera and palm leaf) and dry embossed my background. 

You’ll need to use a tan embossing mat to be able to do dry embossing using coordinating dies in your die cutting machine. Make sure to check your machine manual for the proper sandwich. 

To create a sentiment I used a beautiful label and a Thank You sentiment from the Gathered Garden set and stamped both using dark gray ink. I trimmed my background panel down slightly and adhered it onto an A2 top folding card base made out of Soft Stone cardstock. After I foam mounted my sentiment label I also added dimensional dots over my pink stamped dots using Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew. 

Have fun stamping! 

• STAMPS: Palm Prints, Gathered Garden
• INK: Duckling, Sunshine,Twirling Tutu, Hollyhock, Fog, Cobblestone (Simon Says Stamp)
• PAPER: Soft Stone, white
• DIES: Palm Prints dies, Gathered Garden
• OTHER: Platinum 6 die cutting and embossing machine, Foam adhesive, Tape adhesive, Mini MISTI, Nuvo Crystal Drops (Morning Dew)