Tuesday 17 April 2012

Challenge - Wonderful Wildlife

Greetings all and welcome to another challenge here on A Passion for Papertrey!

So after a long winter spring is finally here! We think one of the most beautiful things about spring is seeing nature emerge from the depths of winter - just looking out the window I can see tulips blossoming, and birds making their nests. So for this challenge we'd like you to join us in taking inspiration for our creativity from wildlife - be it flowers, trees, leaves, butterflies, birds.... the list is endless!!

Looking through my stamps I realised I had never inked up the fern and dragonfly images from the Masculine Motifs set, so I soon remedied that using a Hawai'in Shores and Simply Chartreuse colour combo - I know we waited a while for the new PTI inks but I still smile when they stamp out so beautifully!


Card details: (PTI unless otherwise stated)
Stamps: Masculine Motifs/Fillable Frames 1
Ink: Hawai'in Shores/Smokey Grey/Simply Chartreuse
Card: Stamper's Select White/Hawai'in Shores
Other: Gems (Hero Arts)/Fillable Frames 1 Die

Over to Caryn:

I have rediscovered my love of acetate recently so found myself reaching for it again on this card. I thought it added to the light and airy feel with those butterflies fluttering around! I love this colour combo - it's one I always associate with Betsy Veldman - my idol!! I struggled to fit a sentiment on to this card but in the end thought it would look cute with a teeny "Happy Birthday" from Wonderfully Whimsical (the perfect fit!).


{Recipe}
Stamps: Butterfly Dreams, Wonderfully Whimsical
CS: Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, Stampers Select
Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz, Fresh Snow
Dies: Clouds, Butterfly Dreams, Heart Border.
Other: Acetate

Aimes is a bit snowed under with work at the moment but might pop later this week with her creation - you know our Aimes - it will be worth the wait!!

"Wait up! I'm here, I'm here! Better late than never, eh?!

Card Deets: Stamps - Happy Trails (Papertrey Ink)/Card - Soft Stone, Aqua Mist, Vellum Card (Papertrey Ink)/Ink - Versamark (Tsukineko), Hawaiian Shores (Papertrey Ink), London Fog (Memento)/Accessories - Happy Trails Die (Papertrey Ink) H2O Paints (Luminere), Striped Ribbon (May Arts) Gem

For our challenge I couldn't resist inking up the set, Happy Trails and using the coordinating dragonfly die. I'm sorry that the lighting on my picture makes the sentiment difficult to read and doesn't give do the dragonfly much justice either: it sparkles so much more IRL!"

And what's the prize this time?! Well, one randomly selected winner will receive this sweet set from Papertrey:

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Here are 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, April 30th 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


Monday 16 April 2012

Our winners!

Hi all! Thank you for all the entries to our last challenge - we loved seeing your ideas for the wood-inspired challenge!

So let's see which lucky stampers won the prize and blinkies shall we?!

And the winner is.....

Here are your random numbers:
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Timestamp: 2012-04-16 16:39:03 UTC
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Vannessa! Congrats Vannessa! Please send your email address to apassionforpapertrey@yahoo.co.uk and we'll send that sweet set to you!


Choosing our blinkie winners was as tough a choice as ever (you don't make it easy for us do you?!!) but in the end here are the creations we decided upon:



Kasia


Kasia produced such a stunning wood-inspired card! We love how she kept a simple design, embossing her sentiment on top of that fabulous DP and making the bird the key feature, well done Kasia!




Check out Jean's fabulous CAS card! We loved how she used the textured woodgrain background on both layers beneath those cute houses, well done Jean!




Jenny
Jenny's beautiful card leapt off the screen at us - wow, just look at those colours and textures! We love how Jenny used the wooden leaves alongside the other elements. Great job!



Congrats ladies! If you would like a blinkie to blink with pride as a Top 3 PTI Passionista then pop us an email with 'Blinkie' as your subject!

Thanks again to everyone who entered. Don't forget to check back tomorrow for a brand new challenge!

Kate, Aimes Caryn xxx

Tuesday 3 April 2012

Challenge: 'Knock on Wood'


Welcome to a fabby new challenge here on A Passion for Papertrey! I hope you can join us as we hit on a trend that is wood/woodgrain. Now don't go thinking that just because you don't own any wood-patterned stamps or woodgrain impression plate that you can't play along - we just wanna see where those words take you and think outside the box if you have to!

For me, my brain is on vacation mode, so I took the whole wood-thing literally:

Peg Deets
Stamps: Background Basics: Sheet Music (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Pegs, Acrylic Paint (Home Supply)


Yup I literally stamped on wood :)

These sweet pegs were so easy to create: simply covered them in white acrylic paint and once dry, stamped sheet music on to them (note: steady hand required for stamping on to pegs!)

Over to Kate:
"Well the only 'wood' style stamp I have it the Woodgrain background set, and as I had to make a New Home card for my best friend I die cut a red 'wooden' house! Then, as I was rummaging through my dies, I came across the Tiny Envelope die....unused!! Oh dear. So I swiftly corrected that oversight, and can I say how cute the little envelope is!"


Card Details:
Stamps: Background Basics: Woodgrain/Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: Pure Poppy/Basic Black
Card: Stamper's Select White/Kraft
Other: Tiny Envelope Die/Sending You Die/ Love Lives Here Die/Linen Impression Plate


Over to Caryn:
Well rather than go for the woodgrain stamps I decided to use my woodgrain impression plate (my favourite). After die cutting and stamping the fairy castle from Little Princess I added some glittery accents and then ran it through the bigshot to give it a wooden appearance might be a little hard
to see it on the card actually - but it's there, promise!). I layered it over one of the snowflake die cuts as I thought the Aqua Mist and white colour scheme reminded me a wee bit of the snow queen's palace!!




{Card Recipe}
Happy Birthday Princess
Stamps: Little Princess, Think Big Favourites #13, Fancy Flourishes.
Ink: Aqua Mist, Smokey Shadow
CS: Stampers Select White, Aqua Mist pattern paper (gingham)
Dies: Little Princess, snowflakes, woodgrain impression plate.


So have we inspired you to play along with us? For one lucky, randomly selected, European peep will be this stamp set up for grabs:

Here are 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, April 16th 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 you rustle up for this challenge!

Aimes, Kate & Caryn
xxx


A Winner...

Hey!

Whoops - it's Tuesday already? What happened to Monday?! Seems like the days are zooming by on my Easter break and I'm a bit late posting a winner for our previous 'House and Home' challenge - sorry!

I won't keep you any longer - the winner of a sweet PTI stamp set is:

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2012-04-03 16:40:12 UTC


Which is Angélique! Congrats Angélique! Email us your postal addy with the subject of your email as 'winner' and we'll get that prize out to ya!

And now for our Top 3. Well firstly, thank you to everyone who managed to enter regardless of the fact that I forgot to put a linky thingy at the bottom of the challenge post (trust me, these last two weeks have been manic!) and apologies that we haven't had time to get around you all. We really appreciate your entries and these 3 entries really stood out to us:


We loved Emma's use of those sweet birdhouses as a home for this fabulous, soft and pretty card!
Angélique kept it beautifully CAS with her card as well as incorporating a lovely, fresh colour combo!
Shannon packed a punch with her lamps with this clever design that coordinates perfectly with the punny sentiment!

Congrats ladies! If you would like a blinkie to blink with pride as a Top 3 PTI Passionista then pop us an email with 'Blinkie' as your subject!

Thanks once again to everyone who participates and joins in the inky fun with us on A Passion for Papertrey! I hope you can stay tuned for our new challenge that will be 'knocking' around here very soon *wink*

Aimes, Caryn & Kate
xxx