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Keep smiling posies

Happy Friday everyone! I have a sweet button posie card to share with you all today!

I started by covering my card base with a couple of different pieces of My Mind's Eye patterned paper. Next, I added my doily and my sentiment that was stamped on a Double Ended Banner die. I die cut a strip of hearts out of the Heart Border die and then attached it along the side of my card. For my flowers I die cut two of the flower stems from the Heart-2-Heart #12 die collection and then added two 'posies' that were die cut using the Buttoned Up #1 die collection. The button dies were stamped with a couple of images from the Button Up stamp set.  

And that's all I have for you today! I'm hoping and planning on being a much better blogger than I have in the past. I have a really bad habit of only blogging during Papertrey Ink release time but I'm working on changing that. Hoping to liven things up a bit around here! :)

Thank you for stopping by...

~Melissa

 

*ALL SUPPLIES ARE PAPERTREY INK UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE*

KEEP SMILING

STAMPS: Heart-2-Heart #12, Button Up

CARDSTOCK: New Leaf, Pure Poppy

PATTERNED PAPER: My Mind's Eye

ACCENTS: lace doily (Wilton)

TOOLS: Heart-2-Heart die collection, Buttoned Up die collection, Double Ended Banner die, Heart Border die

Heart-2-Heart #12 - Day 3

Happy Saturday everyone!

I'm back for day 3 of Papertrey Ink's January countdown and have a few more cards for you using the newest little addition to the Heart-2-Heart series. Heart-2-Heart #12 will be available starting January 15th on the Papertrey Ink website. Let's jump right in to todays post...

Todays colors...

I hope you don't mind more pretty, flowery cards. :) For this first one (and the second one below) I created two felt flowers out of Hibiscus and Harvest Gold felt. I created flowers similar to these awhile back...HERE is the link so you can see exactly how I made them. The only difference is that I used Beautiful Blooms ll #2 flower die instead of the flowers from Flower Fusion.

I used the flower stem and sentiment, from Heart-2-Heart #12, along with the stitched image, from Sew Simple Borders, to create my border along the bottom and top of my white cardstock. My flower center was created with the Buttoned Up #1 die and the Button Up stamp set. 

For this second card I just mixed my colors around and used the second sentiment in the set. 

Before I get to todays last card I thought I'd explain how it all came to be. As a Mom I have a lot of little nicknames for my kids and 'Love' just happens to be one of them. 'Have a great day, Love'...'Hello, Love'...'How are you, Love?'...I use it so much that every now and then my daughter will turn around and use that term of endearment on me! The only thing is that she uses her best British accent when saying it! LOL! Makes me smile every.single.time! So, I thought it was only fitting that I create a little card for her, Keep smiling love,  and leave it on her nightstand so she would find it one day when she gets home from school.

I started with a Kraft cardbase and stamped the dotted circle/flower image along the left side and bottom of my card. I filled every other circle using the heart image. Next, I stamped 'Keep smiling!' in Aqua Mist onto my white cardstock and also a stitched border using the Sew Simple Border set. I die cut letters using the Block Alphabet Upper die set. I made another flower, just like the one above, and attached that as my 'O' in 'LOVE'. Lastly, I added a die cut flower stem and a bit of Aqua Mist ribbon up in the corner.  

Well my friends, that's a wrap for me today. Thank you for stopping by to take a peek of what I had to share. I hope you enjoyed! Before you go be sure and stop by and say hello to these ladies...

 

• Nichole Heady
• Heather Nichols
• Dawn McVey
• Maile Belles

 

Have a wonderful day!

~Melissa

 

FLOWER DUO:

STAMPS: Heart-2-Heart #12 (available January 15th), Sew Simple Borders, Button Up

CARDSTOCK:  Stampers Select White, Kraft, Hibiscus

INK:  Simply Chartreuse, True Black, Hibiscus, Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart

Accents: Hibiscus & Harvest Gold felt

TOOLS: Heart-2-Heart die collection (available January 15th), Button Up die collection, Half & Half die collection

 

KEEP SMILING LOVE:

STAMPS: Heart-2-Heart #12 (available January 15th)

CARDSTOCK: Kraft, Hibiscus, Simply Chartreuse, Stampers Select White

INK: Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse, True Black, Versamark

ACCENTS: Aqua Mist ribbon, Harvest Gold felt

TOOLS: Heart-2-Heart die collection (available January 15th), Beautiful Blooms ll #2 die collection, Buttoned Up die collection

 

Background Basics: Inspiration & Button Up - Day 5

Day  5 is here and I am back with one last post before the big Papertrey Ink release. I have truly enjoyed sharing all of my projects with you over the past five days and hope that I have inspired you just a bit with these three new sets. And as always, I have loved hearing from you and appreciate all of your excitement and kind comments. 

So before we get into todays projects how about a little recap of all 3 sets...

 

Heart-2-Heart #10

• features 7 images - 2 butterflies, 2 antennaes, 1 heart, 2 sentiments
• will retail for $5
• will be available for purchase starting November 15th on the Papertrey Ink website
• has coordinating dies 

Background Basics: Inspiration

• features 2 background strips and 2 background blocks
• will retail for $18
• will be available for purchase starting November 15th on the Papertrey Ink website
• A coordinating impression plate will be available for sale separately and
  will retail for $16

Button Up

• features 12 images
• will retail for $15
• will be available for purchase starting November 15th on the Papertrey Ink website
• coordinates with the Buttoned Up #1 dies 

 

  

Up first for today is a card featuring one of the background strips in BB: Inspiration as well as a flower with a Button Up button in the center. The flowers were die cut using the Beautiful Blooms ll #1 die collection. The pink flower was stamped with the same background image as the card and then the smaller flower and die cut button were added.  

  

To finish it off I added two strips of glitter as well as a couple of die cut leaves from the Sending You die collection.  

 

Next up is a sweet baby card with images from Button Up and Sweet Baby. My sentiment and giraffe were placed onto a die cut frame cut from the Fillable Frames #4 die.   

 

I stamped all of my buttons along the bottom, added my frame to my card front and lastly added the flower, button and leaves. The leaves were die cut from the Flower Fusion stem/leave die and stamped with Flower Fusion #12.

 Lastly for today I have a Christmas card created with the Christmas Tree die .  I stamped the BB: Inspiration once again on my tree and then added two die cut buttons. The sentiment is from Holiday Button Bits.

And that completes this release for me. All of the new products will go live on the Papertrey Ink website at 10PM EST on the 15th. Until then here are a few more links for you to check out...

 

• Nichole Heady
• Erin Lincoln
• Heather Nichols
• Lexi Daly

 

Until next time :)

 

 

Flower Inspiration

Stamps: Background Basics: Inspiration & Button Up (available November 15th), Sending You

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Spring Moss, Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush

Ink: Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, Spring Moss

Accents: glitter

Tools: Button Up die collection (available November 15th), Beautiful Blooms ll #1 die collection, Sending You die collection

 

Sweet Baby Girl

Stamps: Button Up (available November 15th), Sweet Baby, Flower Fusion #12

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Spring Moss, Sweet Blush

Ink: Pure Poppy, Sweet Blush, Spring Moss

Accents: Pure Poppy button, glitter, Prima flower

Tools: Fillable Frames #4 die, Flower Fusion stem/leave die, Sweet Baby die collection

 

Sending Holiday Cheer

Stamps: Background Basics: Inspiration & Button Up (available November 15th), Holiday Button Bits

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Spring Moss, Kraft

Ink: Pure Poppy, Spring Moss

Tools: Button Up die collection (available November 15th), Christmas Tree die

 

Heart-2-Heart #10, Background Basics: Inspiration & Button Up - Day 3

 

Welcome back for day 3 of the Papertrey Ink release countdown. I have quite a lot to share with you today so I'm going to jump right into todays projects! I hope you have a nice hot cup of coffee or tea ready.  :)

It's been quite awhile since I posted any new color combos so I thought it might be nice to start doing that again. Here is a new one for today...

 

Up first is a mini 3.5 x 5 card created with the Heart-2-Heart #10 and Button Up stamps and dies along with the new Background Basics: Inspiration Impression plate. I started by stamping my butterflies onto white cardstock in the colors above. Instead of cutting half of my larger butterfly off I decided to trim around it and leave it hanging over the edge of my card. I added my antennaes to each one, the two smaller ones were stamped and the larger one was die cut. I die cut a button, stamped it with one of the Button Up button images and attached it with a bit of Summer Sunrise ribbon. My sentiment, 'Hello sweet friend!', is from Heart-2-Heart #4. 

And here is the bottom of my card. I used the impression plate to emboss the bottom. The words read...love inspire smile believe dream create treasure hope pray.  

For card #2 I started by stamping my Kraft card base with one of the the Background Basics: Inspiration images. As you can see there are quite a few inspiring words...

• believe in yourself
• have faith
• have fun
• don't give up
• inspire others
• be happy
• count your blessings
• laugh til you cry
• be you
• think positive

These are just a few of the many inspirational quotes and sayings in this image!

After stamping the background I moved on to my other pieces. I added a scalloped white border along the side... a strip of Bitty Dots patterned paper...

my die cut butterflies...a strip of glitter...

and lastly my ruffled fabric and polka dot ribbon.

Card #3 was super simple and fun to create. I die cut two flowers using the Beautiful Blooms ll #1 die collection and stamped the smaller flower with one of the block inspiration images. I layered them together and then added one of my die cut buttons from Button Up. My sentiment is from Heart-2-Heart #2.

 
And the flower stem and leaves were die cut and stamped with the Flower Fusion #10.

And last but not least is this cute as a button card.  My sentiment is from Baby Button Bits. All of the buttons were die cut using the Buttoned Up #1 die collection. The were all stamped with one of the images from Button Up and then attached to my white piece of cardstock.

The white background was embossed using the Background Basics: Inspiration impression plate. Lastly, another one of the die cut butterflies was added!

If you've made it this far...thank you! I so appreciate you all taking the time to visit me. Here are a few more inspiring links for you to check out...

 

• Nichole Heady
• Erin Lincoln
• Heather Nichols
• Lexi Daly

 

Have a wonderful day and I'll see you all right back here tomorrow!

 

HELLO SWEET FRIEND

Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #10 & Button Up  (available November 15th), Heart-2-Heart #4

Cardstock: Kraft, Stampers Select White, Raspberry Fizz

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Summer Sunrise, True Black

Accents: Summer Sunrise ribbon

Tools: Heart-2-Heart #10 die collection (available November 15th), Background Basics: Inspiration Impression Plate (available November 15th),  Buttoned Up #1 die collection

 

BUTTERFLY INSPIRATION

Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #10 & Background Basics: Inspiration (available November 15th)

Cardstock: Kraft, Stampers Select White, Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise

Patterned Paper: Bitty Dots

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Fresh Snow

Accents: Summer Sunrise Satin Dots ribbon, glitter

Tools: Heart-2-Heart #10 (available November 15th), Meduim Scalloped Border die

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Stamps: Button Up & Background Basics: Inspiration (available November 15th), Heart-2-Heart #2, Flower Fusion #10

Cardstock: Kraft, Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, Stampers Select White, Simply Chartreuse

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Summer Sunrise, True Black

Tools: Button Up die collection (available November 15th), Beautiful Blooms ll #1 die collection, Flower Fusion stem/leave die

 

CUTE AS A BUTTON

Stamps: Button Up & Heart-2-Heart #10 (available November 15th), Baby Button Bits

Cardstock: Kraft, Stampers Select White, Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Summer Sunrise

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Summer Sunrise, True Black

Accents: Raspberry Fizz Saddle Stitch ribbon

Tools: Heart-2-Heart #10 die collection & Background Basics: Inspiration Impression Plate (available November 15th), Buttoned Up #1 die collection

Introducing Button Up, Background Basics: Inspiration & Heart-2-Heart #10 - Day 1

Hello...hello...hello, everyone! So glad you could join me for the first day of this months Papertrey Ink countdown. There are quite a few new stamp sets being released this month including three new ones from me...Button Up, Background Basics: Inspiration & Heart-2-Heart #10. All of the new products you will be seeing over the next 5 days will be available for purchase starting on the 15th.

Let's jump into the good stuff...

For day 1 I will be sharing cards using the new Button Up stamp set. Here are the details...

• features 12 images
• will retail for $15
• will be available for purchase starting November 15th on the Papertrey Ink website
• coordinates with the Buttoned Up #1 dies 

I had some thin chipboard laying around and die cut a bunch of the buttons and then stamped them with the following colors...Pure Poppy, Ocean Tides, Hibiscus, Aqua Mist and Simply Chartreuse. With those I decided to create a set of cute Christmas cards.  

I kept them all pretty clean and simple, keeping my buttons the main focus. For this first one I used the Baby Button Bits stamp set and stamped only the 'J  Y' from the 'Bundle of J  Y' sentiment. I threaded my button and then stamped a scalloped border along the side with a few of the other button images in the set.  

I pulled out Holiday Button Bits for these next few cards. The first one features a few button ornaments. 

A couple more ornaments....

 

Christmas holly...

and snowflakes made with the Peace Be Still dies and some fun Christmasy gingham ribbon....


And that wraps up day one for me. Tomorrow I will be sharing projects using the other two sets, Background Basics: Inspiration and Heart-2-Heart #10. Until then here are a few more links for you to check out from the other Papertrey gals...

• Nichole Heady
• Erin Lincoln
• Heather Nichols
• Lexi Daly

 

Thanks for stopping by...see you all tomorrow!