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Background Basics: Birthday Fun & Polka Dot Parade #2 - Day 3

 

Hello there! So glad you are joining me for day 3 of this months Papertrey Ink countdown. I have a few more simple cards for you today using both of my new sets...Background Basics: Birthday Fun and Polka Dot Parade #2.

 

**Both of these new sets will be available starting March 15th on the Papertrey Ink website.**

 

Let's jump right in...

So for today I am using the same layout on each card as well as all the same colors...Hibiscus, Orange Zest, Lavender Moon and Ripe Avocado. For card #1 I mixed the polka dot flowers from Polka Dot Parade #2 with the flowers from Heart-2-Heart #7 and created my own floral design on my cardstock. The frame that my sentiment is stamped on was die cut from the My Mother, My Friend die collection. I added a single die cut flower to the side of my frame and a few rhinestones to finish it off.  

Up next is a sweet little card perfect for a little princess in your life. I mixed the images from Little Princess with the stems and polka dot flowers from Polka Dot Parade #2 to create this layout. For the tops of the towers and the castle door I stamped the outlined castle image onto a piece of Hibiscus cardstock and then trimmed each section out and adhered them over my stamped castle. This card just makes me smile! :)

I created a little cluster of flowers on this next card using all three sizes of the Polka Dot Parade #2 images. The leaves are from Heart-2-Heart #7 and were stamped in Ripe Avocado. The sentiment 'You are beautiful inside and out' is from Simply You.

And lastly for today is a card created with the Background Basics: Birthday Fun set. I started by stamping my birthday words background along the bottom of my white cardstock in Hibiscus ink. Next, I stamped a row of gifts using the trio gift image. Again, I used the frame from My Mother, My Friend die collection and stamped my sentiment, from All About You.  For the gifts around my sentiment I stamped the trio of gifts 3 times using all 3 colors of ink. I then cut one of the gifts out of each one and adhered them around my frame.

Here are a few more stops for you today that you will not want to miss...

 

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

 

I hope you all enjoy your day. I'll see you all tomorrow with more to share!

~Melissa

 

*ALL SUPPLIES ARE PAPERTREY INK UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE*

HELLO:

STAMPS: Polka Dot Parade #2 (available March 15th), Heart-2-Heart #7

CARDSTOCK: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores

INK: Orange Zest, Hibiscus, Lavender Moon, Ripe Avocado, Dark Shadow

ACCENTS: rhinestones

TOOLS: My Mother, My Friend die collection, Heart-2-Heart #7 die collection

 

Hello My Little Princess:

STAMPS: Polka Dot Parade #2 (available March 15th), Little Princess

CARDSTOCK: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus

INK: Orange Zest, Hibiscus, Lavender Moon, Ripe Avocado, Dark Shadow

 

Hello My Little Princess:

STAMPS: Polka Dot Parade #2 (available March 15th), Simply You, Heart-2-Heart #7

CARDSTOCK: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores

INK: Orange Zest, Hibiscus, Lavender Moon, Ripe Avocado, Dark Shadow

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU:

STAMPS: Background Basics: Birthday Fun (available March 15th), All About You

CARDSTOCK: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores

INK: Orange Zest, Hibiscus, Lavender Moon, Ripe Avocado, Dark Shadow

TOOLS: My Mother, My Friend die collection

Flower Fusion #11, Tree Tops & Little Princess - Day 5

Welcome back everyone for the final day of the Papertrey Ink release countdown. All of the fun festivities will begin tomorrow morning, December 15th, at 7am where you will finally be able to view all of the newest Papertrey goodies, including my three newest sets...Flower Fusion #11, Tree Tops and Little Princess. I have a few more projects for you today using all three sets. I hope I've inspired you just a little and shown you just how many possibilites they all have.

Before we get started here is a recap on all three sets...

Flower Fusion #11:

• features 8 images - 3 tulips - 1 outlined, 1 solid and 1 striped, 1 stem/leave image, 3 sentiments, 1 dot image for above the tulip
• will retail for $5
• has a coordinating flower die
• will be available for purchase starting December 15th

Tree Tops:

• features 13 images - 1 tree trunk, 1 outlined tree top, 4 patterned tree tops, 7 single images - 3 circles, 2 flowers, 1 star and 1 heart
• will retail for $15
• has a coordinating die
• will be available for purchase starting December 15th

Little Princess:

• features 14 images - 1 outlined castle, 1 solid castle, 1 flag, 2 hearts, 9 sentiments
• will retail for $15
• has a coordinating die
• will be available for purchase starting December 15th

The color combo for today is the same one from Day 1 of the countdown. I made quite a few projects but never did share them all so I figured I would share them with you today.

Up first...Little Princess. I used more Bitty Dot Basics patterned paper (yes, I am addicted to the stuff ;). I layered Lemon Tart and Hibiscus over that and machine stitched around the border.

My castle was die cut out of Hibiscus and then stamped with the outlined castle image from the set. I added glitter to the tower tops and a flag and then layered it over a couple of circle Nestabilities.

'For my Princess' is one of the many sentiments you can create with Little Princess. That was stamped in Hibiscus onto a Double Ended Banner die.

Up next...Tree Tops. I stitched more Bitty Dot Basics and then die cut Lemon Tart cardstock using the Leafy Vine Border die. I used the Tree Tops die and stamped the trunk in Dark Chocolate and circles in Hibiscus. Twine and a button were added at the end.

For my last projects I die cut a bunch of tulips using the Flower Fusion #11 die. They were all stamped in their matching colors using the outlined tulip image.

These cards are exactly the same as the first card on day 1, the colors are just mixed up. I ended up making a complete set of them...perfect for just saying hello to my sweet friends every once in awhile!

That completes the December countdown. Thanks for stopping by everyday and thank you all so much for the comments and e-mails you've been sending!! You all are the best! There is still plenty to see from these ladies...

Nichole Heady

Lisa Johnson

Beth Silaika

Heather Nichols

Dawn McVey

 

Have a fabulous day! :)

Introducing Little Princess - Day 3

Happy Monday everyone!  Here we are on day three of this months Papertrey Ink countdown. Today I have a few cards to share with you using my last set being released this month...Little Princess!  Nichole and Melissa both created projects using that set yesterday and they were simply amazing. It's always such a joy for me to see what the design teams creates with my sets. :)

 Before we get to far into todays post let me give you the details on Little Princess....

Little Princess:

• features 14 images - 1 outlined castle, 1 solid castle, 1 flag, 2 hearts, 9 sentiments
• will retail for $15
• has a coordinating die
• will be available December 15th on the Papertrey Ink website

 

Only two colors for today...

Perfect princess colors, don't ya think!

For card #1 I started by die cutting my castle using white cardstock. Next, I stamped the outlined castle image in black ink and then went back and stamped the solid image in Lavender Moon ink. Using the two hearts in the set I stamped the hearts in the towers with Hibiscus ink. The patterned paper I used on all three cards is a piece I had in my stash. I'm pretty sure it is from Me & My Big Ideas. I did a little paper piecing and stamped the outlined castle onto a piece of the patterned paper and then cut the tops of the towers out and attached them over my die cut image. The die cut flags were stamped with the flag image that is in the set.

I used one of the dies from the Half & Half collection as the base for my sentiment. There are two 'princess' images in the set...this is the larger of the two. I stamped that in Hibiscus and then stamped the separate image,  'My little', above it.

I used the Classic Spellbinders Nestability die to create the circle on this next card. That was layered over a lace doily and then my castle was adhered over that. For this castle I die cut it out of Lavender Moon cardstock and then stamped the outlined castle in Hibiscus ink. This time I used Copic markers to color in my hearts and tower tops.  

I added a little glitter to the tops of my towers and a few rhinestones. The sentiment 'Sweet girl' is from Sweet Baby.

Lastly for today is this card. I did quite a bit of paper piecing on this one.  I colored my tower tops and door with a light grey Copic marker. Lots of glitter was added which is perfect for a Princess card!

'Happy Birthday' is another one of the sentiments that is part of Little Princess!  It may be hard for you to tell but I carefully trimmed around the door with a xacto knife and gave it a slight bend to make it look like it was ajar.

 

You have now seen projects using all three of my new sets...Flower Fusion #11, Tree Tops and  Little Princess. I'll be sharing more of all three sets over the next two days. Until then...

 

• Nichole Heady
• Lisa Johnson
• Beth Silaika
• Heather Nichols
• Dawn McVey

all have more to share with you!

Thanks for stopping in! See you all tomorrow! :)

 

 

December Papertrey Ink Peeks

Hi there friends! Just a quick little post to share what I have coming up this month!

I'll be back to start sharing projects on the 10th! I look forward to seeing you all! :)