Thursday 26 July 2012

Challenge: Summertime


Hello all and welcome to another challenge! After weeks of non-stop rain here in the UK we are rejoicing in finally having a summer - hooray! Just in time for the Olympics too!!! So to celebrate our challenge this time round is... yep, you guessed it - summertime! We'd like to see a card or other papercraft creation inspired by this fabulous season!

What is a summer's day without an ice cream?! For my sample I headed straight for my Sweet as Can Be set for a tasty treat birthday card, not sure what flavour the Hawai'in Shores scoop is though!




Card details: (all supplies PTI)
Stamps: Sweet As Can Be
Card: Stamper's Select White/Raspberry Fizz/Kraft/Summer sunrise/Hawai'in Shores
Ink: Memento Black
Other: Ric-rac border die


Over to Aimes:

Summertime to me means long happy summer holidays avoiding the 'back to school' signs in shops! Ha! But I also love to see the butterflies dancing around too and that's what inspired this card:

Butterfly Birthday2

I know you don't often see purple butterflies but this was created with a friend in mind who loves the colour! The flourish gives the butterflies movement and lets them dance across the card (well I hope it does anyway as that's what I was going for!)


Caryn is busy with her lovely family this week so I'm afraid can't join us for the challenge. We're looking forward to welcoming her back soon!

So want to see what you could win? One randomly selected winner will be the proud owner of three rolls of brand new PTI ribbon - yummy!

Simply Chartreuse, Melon Berry and Scarlet Jewel

 Here are all the details you'll need to know about entering:

 * Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least one PTI product to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what is PTI as sometimes it's hard for us to see...)
 

 * All entries must be newly created (well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!!Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)
 
 * To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.

 * Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe! 
* Challenge closes on Monday, August 6th 2012 at 9.00am BST
 * As well as a randomly picked winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.!
Happy Stamping!
Kate, Aimes & Caryn xxx

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Our winners!

Hello and a big thank you for all the wonderful entries into our previous challenge - we loved looking through your fabulous creations!

So who won that super-cute stamp set you ask? Let's find out!


Here are your random numbers:
1
Timestamp: 2012-07-24 13:37:46 UTC
(Random.org)

Karen M! Congratulations Karen, please email your snail mail address to us at apassionforpapertrey@yahoo.co.uk and we'll get your prize in the post to you asap!


It was a tough decision (as always!) to choose our top three PTI Passionistas but there are the three cards we finally narrowed it down to these fabulous cards:



 
We loved Pauline's pretty, shabby chic card. Those buttons are so adorable, and her perfect stitching just finishes it off!!



 

Jean's card is the epitomy of CAS - how great would this be for the teen boys in your life?! (I can feel some CASE-ing coming on!)





Monica's card made us want to jump online and order the Lovely Layers set! She actually made a few in different colour ways - this one was our favourite!


Congratulations ladies, if you would like to grab our blinkie please email us at apassionforpapertrey@yahoo.co.uk. Check back tomorrow for a brand new challenge!

Kate, Aimes and Caryn xxx



Wednesday 11 July 2012

Challenge: Anything Goes

Hey!

Welcome to a shiny new challenge here on A Passion for Papertrey!

Now we realise that this time of year can be super busy - with holidays, schools getting ready for their summer holidays (yes, that's me! can. not. wait!), celebrating the Olympics etc, etc... - so we're having an 'Anything Goes' challenge. That's right, so long as you use one Papertrey Ink product on your project (and that doesn't have to be a card - anything creative will qualify!) then you can enter it!

Now it won't surprise you to know that I opted for a card LOL!

Balloons!

Card Deets
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits (Papertrey Ink) 
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card: Dotty Card Blank (A Muse)/White (Papertrey Ink)  
Accessories: Pure Poppy Buttons (Papertrey Ink)

Everyday Button Bits is a set I should use more often. It's fab for making quick cards with a little bit of 'oomph' with those buttons! :)

Over to Caryn:

I've had a run of boy's birthdays to cater for recently so thought I'd share one of the creations I made for my nephew who was turning 7.  It's simple but I know he's into his gaming so thought he's appreciate the Guitar Hero nod!

 
Did a slightly more colourful version too!

 
You Rock
{Card Deets}
Stamps: Grunge Me, Boy Basics: Rock On.
Ink: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise (PTI), Memento (London Fog and Tuxedo Black)
Card|: Stamper's Select White. 

Here's Kate: "I needed to make a birthday card in a real hurry so grabbed my tremendous treats set and my Copic markers, I forget how much I love colouring when I haven't done it for a while!"


Card details:
Stamps: Tremendous Treats: Birthday
Card: Spring Rain/Stampers Select White
Ink: Memento Black
Other: Copic Sketch Markers/Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder/Mat Stack 5 Die

So c'mon! There's no excuse to not play along with us this fortnight! Up for grabs for one randomly selected participant will be be:





Just before you ink along with us, don't forget those all important deets:

 * Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least one PTI product to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what is PTI as sometimes it's hard for us to see...)
 
 * All entries must be newly created (well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!!Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)
 
 * To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.

 * Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe! 
* Challenge closes on Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 9.00am BST
 * As well as a randomly picked winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.!

We can't wait to see what fabulous projects you create!

Aimes, Caryn & Kate
xxx 

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Winners!

Hey!

Sorry for the delay in posting the winner of our Olympic themed challenge - life has been busy (and very soggy!)

So without further ado, the winner of a sweet stamp set is:

Here are your random numbers:
1 
Timestamp: 2012-07-10 18:48:33 UTC


Congrats, Deirdre! Pop us an email and we'll get that set out to ya!

Now normally we'd pick our Top 3 PTI Passionistas, but seeing as we only had 4 entries we want to highlight every one who took the time to enter. Everyone's a winner in our Olympics! *wink*

First up we *love* these Olympic themed flip-flops by Deirdre! So trendy and so fun!


Next up is Vannessa who used the Olympic Rings and colours as inspiration for her fabulous work with Star Prints! A definite card for the guys or the gals!


Jean was also inspired by the Olympic rings and colours and substitued them for beautiful butterflies. We love the text she added to the central butterfly, providing and fabulous focal point!


And finally, but by no means least, Jenny strikes Olympic Gold with this card! We love the shimmer and shine of it!


Thank you so much, ladies for sharing your work with us - we really appreciate it! We're still having a few techincal glitches with our winning blinkie but we'd be more than happy to send you the code if you'd like to see if you can get it working! Fixing the blinkie is on our long list of things to do....please bear with us!

We hope you'll stay tuned for our new challenge coming up very soon!

Aimes, Caryn & Kate
xxx