Category Archives: Papertrey Ink

Pixie Pattern Paper

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I recently joined a blog group on the PTI board. We chose the name Papertrey Pixies (I love that name). Unlike other groups we are doing monthly challenges (about all I can handle, lol). May is the first challenge and Teresa came up with a great one – create your own pattern paper (PTPC1). I love doing this! I was feeling in a bright-and-sunshiney mood today, so I went with another rainbow bouquet.

I love PTI but I am super excited that StampinUp will begin to sell a kraft colored ink. To get the kraft for this card I used CTMH’s Desert Sand and off-stamped, then used the 2nd generation impression. It is almost a perfect match!

You make me Smile
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Beautiful Blooms 2, Say it with Style, Fillable Frames 1;
Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Summer Sunrise, Spring Rain; Landscape (Palette); Lavender Lace (SU); Desert Sand (CTMH);
Paper: Kraft, Hibiscus Burst, White;
Other: Fillable Frame 1 die, Hibiscus ribbon;

Winter Wishes

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I created this card for a past Clean & Simple Sketch (ftl86). This is a great sketch.

I chose to go the winter route because I wanted to use an image that wasn’t already over-used with this sketch (flowers, butterflies, etc.). I thought about a few options, but when I thought snowflakes this card popped right in. I love this Christmas Tree set.

Merry and Bright
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Merry & Bright;
Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet; Burnt Umber (Palette);
Paper: Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet, White;
Other: Frosted Lace Stickles (Ranger);

Have a Hoot

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I made this card for the CAS challenge (cas66) which was to use Kelly’s card as a sketch.

After perusing my stamp sets, I settled on the owl image and everything else just fell in place. I stamped the owl on PTI Rustic paper before I thought about how I was going to color it. I opted to use my Copics. Unfortunately I don’t have any brown markers yet, so I used the Artichoke trio.

The moon is Lemon Tart paper that has white sponged on one side and orange (whatever color was on my “orange” sponge) on the other side. I also used the Wood Impressions plate along the top, but you can’t see it in the picture. I had a hard time coming up with a sandwich since I don’t have PTI’s mats.

Hoot on Your Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Wise Owl, Background Basics – Diamonds;
Ink: Burnt Umber (Palette), White, Orange;
Paper: Kraft, Lemon Tart, Orange Crush, Rustic White;
Other: Copics;

Just Because

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I made this card for the CAS challenge (cas63) which was to be inspired by Alanna’s card.

She used the same punch in different colored paper, so I did that too. I sorta kept the layout – the trio then a line then the sentiment.

Just Because
Stamps: Vintage Picnic Sentiments (PTI);
Ink: Noir (Palette);
Paper: White, Kraft, Hibiscus Burst, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise (PTI);
Other: flower die (PTI); grosgrain (SU); scallop punch (ek success); rhinestones (Kaiser & MM);

PRO-crastinator

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Yep, I put the PRO in procrastinator! I’ve been thinking about teacher gifts since school started. But when did I actually start working on them? The night before the last day of Teacher Appreciation week (thanks to Furlough Friday, no school on Friday and so one day less to procrastinate). *sigh* This year I made gifts for 4 teachers. And thankfully all of them are wonderful teachers so I did want to make the gifts.

I made each teacher a set of 6 notecards. Because of the late hour I made all of the cards the same. Though, honestly, if I had thought it out I would not have designed a card that would result in 576 total impressions!

Next up I made covered notepads. I don’t have a lot of stock in my SU stash (because my stock is in Purcellville – hi mom! lol), so I pulled out my PTI Poppy cardstock. I was in luck I had 8 pieces left (I only needed 4)! Plenty to make these covers. I carefully cut the first one and lucky me made it perfectly the first time (never happens). But don’t worry, I made up for it by cutting the next 3 all at the same time – 1″ short!!! Thankfully I had those extra sheets – but now Poppy cardstock is on my next purchase list! I’m not overly happy with these notepads but that is because I designed as I went.

Finally I created these paper clip bookmarks. I was so happy I had dies that would work to do this, that I forgot the PTI dies are not symmetrical, so I wasted quite a few minutes lining up my pile of cut pieces to the die so I could mark them for easier stamping and assembly. Even still they didn’t line up nice. One day I’ll figure out how to do that! Or maybe PTI will see the error of their way and make them symmetrical (but I doubt it, lol). I do like them – but then I love bookmarks!

And no gift is complete without chocolate. I added a little box of macadamia nuts to each package which was simply stacked and tied with a piece of grosgrain. My kids made a thank you card that accompanied the gifts.

ETA: I should have mentioned this, as I think it is a good tip 🙂 I buy my kids’ shoes at discount places. The shoes are held together with little elastic strings. I keep those strings because elastic can be handy in crafting. I used those strings to hold the pens onto the notebooks!

Thanks for taking a peek!

I used PTI Teacher’s Apple and Take Note to create the cards and notebooks. The inks are StampinUp. If you want to know about anything else, just ask!

Quick and Easy

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I wanted to make a set of cards that I could give to a friend. I didn’t want to worry with special handling or extra postage for lumpy cards, so I went with simple one layer cards.

I’m not really a fan of stamping the same thing more than once – but dang these cards were so fast, it didn’t matter. I ended up making a set of 6 – 3 of each design.

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Hello
Stamps: Beautiful Blooms 2, Fillable Frames 1;
Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, Spring Rain; Landscape, Noir (Palette); Lavender Lace (SU);
Paper: White;
Thinking of You
Stamps: On My Couch Additions, Fillable Frames 2;
Ink: Regal Rose (SU); Noir (Palette);
Paper: White;

It’s Pink!

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I am really not a fan of pink. Some of my friends, and both my kids, are fans of pink – so I will craft with it.

This card started out a bit different – the pattern paper was a faux silk panel but I messed that up, so I ditched that piece and went with some Raspberry Fizz DSP. Since the card was originally for the PTI Blog Hop, I kept the “scene” sparse to help focus on the faux silk. Unfortunately I was not really paying enough attention when I decided to ditch that because now I think my scene needs a few more pieces. Since I adhered the couch with dimensionals, I can’t take it apart easily…so I’m just going with it!

hello
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: On the Couch;
Ink: Raspberry Fizz;
Paper: Sweet Blush, White, Raspberry Fizz Mix DSP;
Other: Raspberry felt, Large Scallop die, Couch die; rhinestone (Kaiser); corner rounder (SU); white thread (DMC); Border punch (EK Success);

Poppy Petals

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It is PTI Blog Hop time! This month’s challenge was to use tissue paper. These tissue flowers have been around for (what feels like) forever, but I’ve never tried them myself, so I thought this would be a good time.

I recently purchased the Remember set – it has been on my list for a long time but each month PTI comes out with an awesome release so it has been hard to whittle down my wish list!

The flowers are made using white tissue paper. I punched out the shapes using the PTI flower dies. After I sponged on the color I stamped using the outline images. I kept the layers together with a black brad. Finally, some scrunching and artistic arranging. Easy peasy!

Thank You
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Remember;
Ink: Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Noir;
Paper: Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy, White, Green Tea Leaves DSP;
Other: Black ribbon, Beautiful Blooms #2 dies; brads (Pink HedgeHog); scallop border punch, label die (SU); Label 1 die (Spellbinders);
Layout: Sketch #50 (2s4y);

You’re Tweet

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I made this card for the Res-Q Challenge blog (resq39), which was a sketch. As with the previous circle focal, I decided to do a scene – this one a bit more inland.

I did a bit of paper piecing for the bird houses. The cloud was created by tracing one from an old Stampin Up die cut set.

You’re Tweet
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Bird Watching;
Ink: Noir, Berry Sorbet;
Paper: White, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Spring Rain, Spring Moss, Pink Patterns DSP;
Other: Berry Sorbet ribbon;

Butterfly Birthday

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I made this card for Becky’s latest Compose a Card challenge (#7). I deviated a bit from her photos – I tried to use yellow, but everything I came up with looked too much like cards that were already posted. So I flipped through my pattern paper and found that Lavender Moon looks really good with Spring Rain & Cream.

Yesterday I went to Ben Franklin with my PTI card swatches and found DMC thread for just about every color. So when I started working on this card I knew I would work in using the thread somehow! I started by using it to add detail to the felt butterfly. Then I added a couple stitches to the blue panel.

I cannot wait for more colors of PTI Felt. That stuff is dreamy! So thick and cuts wonderfully. I have an egg die just waiting for more felt options 🙂

Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Butterfly Dreams, Birthday Basics, Fillable Frames #1;
Ink: Spring Rain, Lavender Moon, Noir;
Paper: Cream, Spring Rain, Guidelines DSP;
Other: black felt, butterfly die, frame #1 die, lavender button; leaf die (SU); thread (DMC); embossing folder (SU);