A Passion for Papertrey - Blog Candy

If you head over to Steph and Kate's wonderful blog this week you can have a chance to win some great Papertrey goodies - one of them is the special anniversary set that wasn't available to buy!

While you're there soak up some of the fab work they do and maybe take part in one of the challenges.

Papertrey July Blog Hop

Tonight I thought would take part in my first Papertrey Blog Hop in spite of the time difference - well it's a Saturday night and I don't have to be up early tomorrow morning ;)

My mother in law, Pat, and I sat very companionably at the table this afternoon - she "stringing" beans from the garden and me making the card, with the sun streaming in on us - lovely!

The challenge for the hop is to use text in the piece - so I used the text dp from the Raspberry Fizz collection for part of the flower and panel and stamped the larger ocean tides petals with French script in ocean tides ink.

I decided to use my new set of Dahlia nestabilities to make the flowers and I scrunched and distressed them a bit "a la Dawn"! There is a vintage button, some twine, a bit of craft and aqua mist and some raspberry fizz ribbon to finish - phew!

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight - I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Take Along Tote

The good thing about having a week off work is that I get to do a bit of extra crafting! Today I made up a set of 6 monogrammed notecards for my friend Pam to thank her for a great weekend and as A Passion for Papertrey blog is having another great challenge to use one of Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates, I made this Take Along Tote to go with it.

The tote is the same on the other side - just enough space to hold 3 cards and envelopes each side.

I used my favourite Papertrey colours of Ocean Tides, Berry Sorbet and Spring Rain and the flower stamp is from Friends til the End.

Here it is filled on one side

And here are 3 of the 6 note cards -

So what do you think of this little package? Please let me know :)

First Cupcakes

This is a bit of an eleveth hour entry to the latest Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge. I just got a parcel of new PTI goodies and I made this card from my practice bits - I hate to throw anything away! I am almost distraught though, as my Rasperry Fizz ink has nearly run out and I don't have a refill bottle :( I just managed to stamp out the cupcake tops before it gave up the ghost.

The colours I've used are Scarlett Jewel, Raspberry Fizz, Vintage cream and Spring Moss and the stamps are from Cupcake Collection.

Thanks for looking as always!

Boards and Beams

I have had this little house already and coloured and waiting to be re-homed since I first got this Papertrey stamp set and followed Debbie Olsen's copic colouring tutorial.

My friend Penny is moving house this week so it was a good time to make it into a card for her and her family and also play with a new corner punch that I bought a few weeks ago and has lain unloved. I took the guide off and used it to make a border, keeping the little corners it left behind for decoration.

Hope the move went well Penny ;)

Arranged With Love

I've just got back from a great weekend away in the Cotswolds visiting my friend Pam - it was so quiet and I didn't hear a siren or an aircraft all weekend! What a difference to living near the world's largest airport.

To say thank you I made this card for Pam using my new Arranged with Love set by Melanie Muenchinger which is a companion set to my all time favourite flower stamps - A Year Of Flowers. I emailed Gina K and she posted it out so quickly I was very impressed indeedy.

The flowers were stamped in Memento Black ink and coloured with copic markers. I used Gina K's 120lb pure white card (well I did have to justify the postage!) to stamp onto and it's true - the copics don't bleed through to the other side and so will be great for one layer cards!

I hope you like this first effort - I'm working on a yellow version for my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary.

Double Challenge

I thought I'd combine two challenges in one card this week - Dawn McVey's colour challenge and the Passion for Papertrey's button challenge.

Here are the colours for Dawn's challenge this week

Such pretty colours don't you think? For my effort I stamped the flowers from PTI's Everyday Classics set in pure poppy ink onto raspberry fizz card and made the leaves in new leaf ink. I found the Bazzil grey cardstock in my stash and added the sentiment in black to complete the colour selection - phew! A few PTI buttons and a little bit of bling and it was done - clean and simple!

Here's hoping that you have had a great weekend and enjoyed this beautiful weather. If you're stopping by do let me know what you think - feedback is a gift :)

Dutch Girl Birthday

I went back to what I enjoy most for my card today and I've been wondering why I don't do it more often - basing what I make around a pretty paper set. I've had the Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl paper for ages and not really used it enough.

This is an eleventh hour entry to A Passion for Papertrey's challenge - use at least two flowers on your card and one Papertrey product. Here I've used Floral Frenzy stamps and some Ocean Tides ribbon. I distressed the edges with some vintage photo ink and added a few cream pearls from the SU Pretties Kit.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you've had a great weekend!

Birthday - Wishing You

This is a bright and bold card - for a bright and bold lady! My dear friend Lana turned 40 last week - congratulations Lana! Please excuse the poor photo taken on my office window sil in the gloom.





I used my new Octagonal Nestabilities here withthe PTI Wishing You stamp set. The paper and inks are a combo of New Leaf and Pure Poppy.

Father's Day

Sorry that I haven't posted for a while - I've been a bit poorly and my mojo has gone South I think!

I'm not sure it's good to make a Father's Day card when you're not feeling 100% but my dear Dad didn't hold it against me. As my mojo had deserted me I used a card from the Papertrey Ink forum gallery as my starting point and used the Everyday Classics stamp set from PTI for the stars - because my Dad is a real star :)

Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge 7

Better late than never for this challenge from Dawn McVey - thank goodness we are ahead of US time here! I got out my tapestry rubber stamps for this challenge as they have been a bit neglected of late. When I saw Susan's tutorial on the pansey set (here) I remembered that I had a similar one that needed a bit of love.

I started off stamping in raspberry fizz, ripe advocado and spring moss but it looked a bit "thin" so I added in a little hibisus and new leaf to perk it up a bit! Deviating from the colours I know, but I like the strawberryish colour it all came out.

Here's a closer look at the flower stamping - I used a classic square nestability to chalk out the centre in pink and then stamped away before cutting and embossing with the same die. The cardstock is ripe advocado and spring moss and the paper is spring moss bitty dots.





Do you see that little bow- I made it with a Bow-Easy which I got from Sharon Johnson over at No Time to Stamp. This was my first attempt and it was easy! If you fancy one Sharon will ship one to the UK for you at very little cost! You might want to get some of her beautiful ribbon while you're at it.

Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Wishing You

I have only made a quick card this weekend as it's Spring Bank Holiday weekend and that means planting time for me. My little babies are out of the greenhouse and all lined up on the path - thank goodness for the beautiful weather as it makes the task so much better!

This card uses the Wishing You set from Papertrey and I've dressed it up with some tiny rhinestones, buttons and a border using a new Martha Stewart punch.