Challenge: Stamp your own background.

Hello, here we are with a brand new challenge to get your creative juices flowing and your fingers inky!!  This time around we want to see your stamped backgrounds please!  You can use any stamps you like (not just background stamps) but just make sure you feature a Papertrey Ink product somewhere on your card!  Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

As I was shuffling through my PTI sets I stopped on Rosie Posie and it occurred to me that I had never actually inked up the hexagon border stamps in that set!!  I thought I had better rectify that immediately and stamped two of the designs to give me a honeycomb pattern  I don’t know if the sun shining bright today or what but I was drawn to Summer Sunrise and Lemon Tart for my colours and came up with this design.  It totally looks like a honeycomb to me so I paired it with a somewhat appropriate sentiment from Build A Bug from Clearly Besotted Stamps!!

{Hi Honey}
Stamps: Rosie Posie, Build a Bug (Clearly Besotted)
Ink: Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, True Black.
Card: Stampers Select White.
Other: Adhesive gems.

Over to Aimes “I fancied challenging myself to not use a background set for this challenge and blew the dust off a set that I’ve hardly ever used: Studio Style

{Card Deets}
Stamps: Studio Style (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Bubblegum (Hero Arts)/London Fog, Tuxedo Black (Memento)/Squeezed Lemon (Distress Ink)
Card: White, Soft Stone (Papertrey Ink)
Accessories: Grey Twine (Doodlebug)/Detail Clear Embossing Powder (Stampendous)

I used the buttons in the set to create my own kind of patterned paper.”

Over to Kate: “This challenge made me realise just how much I love stamping my own background! I went for a summery colour scheme to reflect the wonderful weather! I used my Background Basics: Retro set and found that I’d never ever used the stripes.. shock horror because they are cool!”

{Happy Birthday}
Stamps: Make a Wish, Make a Wish Additions, Background Basics: Retro
Ink: Hawai’in Shores, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, Basic Black
Dies: Make a Wish
Card: Stampers Select White

So if you’re ready to get inky with some background stamping then please join in.  We love seeing all your fabulous creations.  The challenge is open to stampers worldwide and runs for two weeks until 9.00 am Monday 20th May 2013.

Hugs,

Caryn, Aimes and Kate xxx

Our winners!! – Celebrate Challenge

Wow – I think that was one of our busiest challenges  - you’re obviously all in the mood for celebration right now!!!  It was a tricky task to choose our top 3 and once again – I’m glad the winner is random as there’s NO WAY we’d have been able to pick just one!!!

So here is the randomly drawn winner for the Celebrate challenge….

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Random numbers generated May 6 2013 at 14:44:45 by http://www.psychicscience.org

So that means that TRACEY McNEELY is our winner, yay!!  Let us know your details Tracey and we’ll get your gift certificate over to you in a jiffy!

Now to the Top 3 Passionistas.  It was so hard this time, the cards were all truly gorgeous and with such a wide variety of styles.  Here’s who caught our eye this time…

Joyce

Joyce entered a few cards to this challenge but this one was our favourite over all – love the jaunty angles and patterned paper poking out!

Marlou

Marlou’s lovely soft colours and clean design really stood out to us.

Rachel

 

What a stunner this card is from Rachel – great hombre effect with the hearts border and the stitching add just the right amount of detail but still keep the card clean and simple.

So girls, if you’d like to proudly sport our winners badge on your blog then please feel free to grab the blinkie from the bar at the top.  And don’t forget to join us for our new challenge tomorrow!!

Bye for now,

Caryn, Kate and Aimes xxx

Challenge: Let’s Celebrate!

Hey!

It’s time to celebrate our new challenge – literally! We wanna see creations that…well….celebrate! This challenge is pretty open to interpretation – you can ‘celebrate’ anything right?!

I’m sharing a card that celebrated the marriage of a happy couple recently.

Card Deets
Stamps: Sentiment from ‘Happily Ever After’ (Clearly Besotted Stamps)
Card: Vintage Cream, Vellum (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Slate (Adirondack)
Patterned Paper: From the Park Bench 6×6 Collection (Fancy Pants)
Accessories: Vintage Cream Satin Ribbon, Cream Button Twine (Papertrey Ink)/Flower Embellishment (Maya Road)

This card features a real mix of products from different manufacturers. I love to do this at times as I feel I’m getting my pennies’ worth with my stash. This card does still feature some Papertrey Ink and so still counts for our challenge of course *wink*

Over to Caryn..

It feels like forever since I made a card and got inky – I’ve been on a blogging “journey” these last couple of weeks creating a new WordPress blog and transferring my old Blogger one over!  (If you want a chance to win some goodies – including some PTI loveliness – pop over and leave a comment to go in the draw at glitter me silly!!). Shameless plug – sorry!  So – this challenge is all about celebration (just about any occasion or event covered in this one) so I went quite literally with the sentiment!  One of my favourite colour combo’s too!  Finally inked up my Watercolour Wonder set too – love the effect (although it does slightly make me think of toothpaste!!)

{CELEBRATE}
Stamps: Think Big Favourites 13, Water Colour Wonder
Ink: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores
Card: Stampers Select White
Tools: Love Lives Here Die Collection, Stamp Press.
Other: Felt

Our lovely Kate was last seen buried under a pile of work but will hopefully be joining us later on in the fortnight!

So are you ready to ‘celebrate’ with us? We hope so! Have a look here for all the challenge deets. The challenge closes at 9am on Monday May 6th and one randomly selected peep will win a $5 PTI gift certificate!

Aimes & Caryn

xx

Our Touchy-Feely Winners!

Hey!

Thanks so much to everyone who got touchy-feely with us for our previous texture challenge. We were blown away by the creativity and clever ways you added texture to your creations!

So it’s time to pick a winner, so do your thing, Mr Random.org

That’s number 8 and means that Hanne is our randomly selected winner! Congrats, Hanne! Be sure to pop us an email and we’ll email you a $5 PTI gift certificate

And drumroll please as we feature our Top 3 PTI Passionistas:

Maureen had our jaws hitting the keyboards with this texture-licious creation. Just look at how much texture is on this beauty! The most impressive part is that all of this texture is balanced and the design isn’t cluttered in the slightest. Fabulous!

Jean had us rooting for our needles and thread with this card. We wanted to run our fingers over that beautiful sewing that adds sooooooo much texture and makes the texture the star of the card.

Christine has simply wowed us with this clever use of washi tape. Not only that, but extra texture is also added by stamping the flower on die-cuts that have been slightly separated and raised on foam pads to give texture to the image – genius!

Congrats, ladies! Please feel free to grab our Top 3 blinkie here if you haven’t already got one and blink with pride!

Thanks once again to everyone who joined in the fun with us. Stay tuned for a new challenge tomorrow!

Aimes, Caryn & Kate

xxx

Our winners!

Apologies for the delay in posting the winners to our last challenge, thanks for bearing with us!

So let’s find out who won the $5 PTI gift certificate shall we?!

And the winner is:

Here are your random numbers:
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Timestamp: 2013-04-12 13:04:28 UTC

(Random.org)

….Sharon J. Congratulations Sharon! Please contact us at apassionforpapertrey@gmail.com and we’ll arrange your prize for you!

 

On to our Top 3 PTI Passionistas..once again we had so many fabulous entries, and it was tough to narrow it done but these are the entries that really caught our eye:

Kim

We loved Kim’s use of colour behind her negative die-cut to make sure an uplifting and fresh card – this card just says Hawaii to me!!

JW

Just look at all the effort JW put into her super-fun interactive rocket card! Great job JW! I can think of lots of kiddos who would love to receive this!

Lynn

Lynn’s card jumped out at us because, quite simple, it’s beautiful! Soft colours, lovely use of patterns and a great layout..!(OK I wish I’d made it lol!)

Congrats ladies! Feel free to grab our code for a Top 3 blinkie if you haven’t done so already.

Thanks to everyone who played along, we hope you’ve already got your thinking caps on for our current challenge!

Kate, Aimes & Caryn xxx

Challenge : Let’s get all touchy-feely!

Hi all!

Thanks for joining us for another challenge! Things are a bit back to front this week so we’ll be bringing the winners of our previous challenge tomorrow.. but for now lets get all touchy-feely shall we?!

Now before you run for the hills bear with us because this challenge is all about using texture on your cards. You can really think outside the box for this one! Think how many ways there are to add that bit of extra dimension and ‘touchy-feeliness’ on your creation!

I recently treated myself to a few more colours of Bakers Twine so decided to use it as a tree top helped along by PTI’s Trendy Tree Tops set:

{Big Birthday Wishes}
Stamps: Trendy Tree Tops
Card: White/New Leaf
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Versafine Black
Other: Baker’s Twine, Trendy Tree Tops Die

Here’s the detail of the tree top, the twine is adhered to a card circle:

Over to Caryn…

I think I channeled my “inner Aimes” for this one!!  Very CAS isn’t it??  I am rediscovering my love of chunky glitter at the moment too and with gold being all the rage right now I thought a texture-themed challenge was the perfect chance to pile it on thick!!!

{Happy Birthday}
Stamps: Botanical Silhouettes
Card: Stampers Select White
Tools: Heart Prints die collection.
Other: Jute bag (cut up!!), gold glitter (local art shop), glossy accents

Over to Aimes: Well my mojo had gone MIA for this challenge. I chanted to myself ‘texture, texture, texture’ until I got so desperate that I tidied up my desk! Upon tidying my desk, I found a scrap piece of gold, texture card. Eureka!

{it’s just a number}
Stamps: Birthday Bash Sentiments (Papertrey Ink)
Card: White, True Black (Papertrey Ink)/Gold (Stash!)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Parker Number Dies (Memory Box)

Texture for me, is textured cardstock.

So are you ready to play along for a chance to win a $5 PTI Gift Certificate? Have a look here for all the challenge deets. The challenge closes at 9am on Monday 22nd April.

Have fun!

Kate, Aimes & Caryn xxx

Challenge extended!!

Hello everyone!  Just popping in to let you know we are extending our negative die-cuts challenge for a further week!  Easter has been a busy period for all of us here (busy eating chocolate for one thing) so we thought we’d just let you all have a bit longer to get your creations in!!

Here’s another card I whipped up using one of the latest sets from Papertrey Ink - Irresistibly Ikat – love this set!

Caryn, Aimes and Kate xxx