Sneak Peek: Train Tracks day three

I am working on some seriously fun boy color combos now. This one, hawaiian shores, pure poppy and orange zest is a real fun one. I combined it with some great striped patterned paper from Basic Grey.


The sentiment, Choo Choo and Thank You are two separate sentiments from the Train Tracks set, but they go cute together! I colored the train with copics and then added some stickles to the card. I might have gotten a little carried away with the stickles! LOL! A trio of buttons threaded with some red bakers twine completes the card.








stamps: Train Tracks {Papertrey Ink, available 4/15}
paper: pure poppy orange zest, hawaiian shores, ss. white, basic grey
ink: black, copics
misc: buttons, bakers twine (red), stickles



For even more sneak peeks of what is in the works at Papertrey Ink this month, check out all the other blogs: Nichole & Michelle are showcasing Train Tracks & Alpha Blocks today. Melissa is showing Flower Fusion #3, Think Big Favorites #3 and Maile's Background Basics: Chevron Stripes. Tiffany, Heather, and Lisa will also have some amazingly creative little projects to share on their blogs today!

Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

Sneak Peek: Train Tracks day two

All Aboard for some Birthday Fun with the new Train Tracks set I created for Papertrey Ink.


Sometimes I have a tough time with masculine cards because I want to use accessories like ribbon to add some fun focal points. I have to remember - NO RIBBON! UGH! Thankfully, I have enough buttons to stretch from here to NYC and back! I decided to go with this fun color combo of new leaf, hawaiian shores and orange zest! The new leaf base was run through the picnic plaid impression plate. I used a strip of hawaiian shores, distressed on the edge and a strip of orange zest, run through the crimper. A trio of buttons with rustic thread under the orange crimped layer. The train was stamped on die cut (yes, this set has a coordinating die) select white cardstock. I stamped in black ink and colored with a variety of copic markers. The trains were adhered with foam squares. The sentiment {All aboard for birthday fun} was stamped in black ink just above the train car. This color combo works really well with this week's CAS114 inspiration on SCS!

I will be blogging more samples this week! Hope you stop by to see some more fun ideas tomorrow!









stamps: Train Tracks {Papertrey Ink, available 4/15}
paper: new leaf, orange zest, hawaiian shores, ss. white
ink: black, copics
misc: buttons, thread, foam squares, die (Train Tracks), crimper, picnic plaid impression plate



Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

Be sure to swing over to {Nichole's Blog} to see more fun projects with this month's countdown of ALL the Papertrey Ink releases!

Tiffany Pastor will be blogging about her amazing new sets!

Leese Johnson will be sham-wowing you with her new goodies!

Heather Nichols is showing off her new stuff.

The Über talented Maile Belles is showcasing some fun stuff.

And amazing Melissa Bickford is putting Flower Fusion #3 to work with some eye candy!

FS218: bspinks

I based my card on Becky's card {IC231}.
I love the black and red together, but I wanted to create a more masculine theme, since this month's theme at Papertrey is boys! I found some black and white designer paper which I thought went well with the train set. I used the No. 5 on the engine (you can custom create the train engine number). I thought it would be fun to use the "I think you can" sentiment {Little Engine that could} three times! Would this be a cute card to slip into your child's backpack when they have a big test!


I used some copics to color in the image. I added some black buttons with some red and white bakers twine.

changes:
added buttons
moved sentiment to a strip across front of card
no ribbon
made it more masculine
added designer paper

What do you think of today's peek at the new stamp set! It will be available this month on the 15th at Papertrey Ink.

Be sure to swing over to {Nichole's Blog} to see more fun projects with this month's countdown of ALL the Papertrey Ink releases!

Tiffany Pastor and Betsy Veldman are blogging about Tiffany's amazing new sets!

Leese Johnson always has some amazing things up her sleeves with her phenomenal new sets.

Heather Nichols is showing off some of the ideas she is doing with her new stuff.

The Über talented Maile Belles is wowing us with her new set, Background Basics: Chevron Stripes.

And amazing Melissa Bickford is using Flower Fusion #3 the way Lou Bega shows off Mambo #5 - with PIZZAZ!

stamps: Train Tracks {available 4/15/11 at Papertrey Ink}
paper: Pure Poppy, black, white, designer paper (DCWV)
ink: black, copics
misc: buttons, bakers twine (PTI), dimensionals



Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

Sneak Peek: Papertrey Ink Train set

I always wanted to create a set which I could use for my son Xavier! I hate to toot my own horn, but this set came out SO cute! I cannot wait to share more with you over the coming days!



And the best thing about this set - it comes with my first coordinating die to make creating projects ...easy peasy lemon squeezy!





Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

FS217: I scream U scream we all scream

For Irene! DandI93 is this week's featured stamper. The CAS103 wedding card caught my eye, so I changed the colors, removed the crimped layer, the pearls and changed the butterflies to flowers.


I like the moss and chocolate together, with a hint of white. Super clean looking!
I started with a chocolate base, then I used the fancy flourishes set by Papertrey for the top and bottom edges with chocolate ink on the moss cardstock. I punched out the main image and stamped the flourish with moss ink on the moss layer, then stamped the sentiment on top with chocolate ink. I adhered it to the card with dimensionals. Some velvet flowers (PTI) with brads are adhered with dimensionals as well.

Simple and easy!









stamps: fancy flourishes, inside and out birthday
ink: chocolate, moss
paper: chocolate, moss
misc: brads, dimensionals, velvet flowers, punches.

Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

FS216: Quixotic

Another weekend, another birthday party...anyone else feel the same way! My kids have more of a social life than I do! LOL! This card is for a little boy in Xavier's class. We went to the Bounce Place in the Mall today for the party! Fun times for little boys!

The card I made was a case for this week's featured stamper, Quixotic (Aka Elaine). She has such amazing coloring abilities, but I found this {magnolia christmas card} stashed deep in her gallery! I thought is was definitely deserving of some love! I changed the colors, stamp set and theme for the card. I also eliminated the ribbon layer and stamped a "break up focal point" instead!


I love blue! I decided that the enchanted evening monochrome look would be a nice way to create the perfect boy card. I used the star stamp from Been Boo'd with snow ink on the enchanted evening base. I did that instead of using the ribbon which Elaine used. Some punched stars with enchanted evening buttons replace Elaine's snowflakes and the main image is stamped in enchanted ink on a spring rain circle punch. I layered that with an enchanted evening punched circle and a white punched circle. There are multiple dimensionals on the circle layer as well as under the stars.


Finally, I used some stickles (you can hardly see them) on the circumference of the spring rain circle. Fun, easy card...very clean and perfect for a birthday boy!







stamps: Been Boo'd, Inside & Out Birthday
ink: fresh snow, enchanted evening
paper: enchanted evening, white, spring rain
misc: dimensionals, punches (circle, star), buttons, stickles

Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

FS215: mbrcutie25

Based this week's card on Mary Beth's card {cc227}. I changed the patterned paper, stamp set and added buttons!

I used Just Hatched for the sentiment for this baby card. My neighbor just had a baby girl (after 5 years and SEVERAL babies, we have yet to have a boy born in this neighborhood, so I was tickled pink to make a baby girl card).

I used a melon berry base, a strip of basic grey paper and then some punched and die cut butterflies, run through various PTI embossing dies.


I added buttons to the center of the butterflies, and stamped the sentiment in the corner with dark chocolate ink.








stamps: Just Hatched (PTI)
paper: melon berry, white, sweet blush, dark chocolate, basic grey DP
ink: dark chocolate
misc: die cuts, punch (MS), buttons

Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!