Hi there creative friends! How is your week going? OMG I've been so busy this week - but it's all good stuff. Lots of work and lots of fun both. I'm having to look at my calendar all the time to remember where I'm supposed to be every day. Tuesday I was all over this town!! LOL. Fall is just kind of like that for me. Are you that way too? Seems as if there is so much to do this time of year and then crafting and blogging ramps up too, for the holidays. Busy is good!
Have you been following along on the Official Papertrey Ink Blog all week for all of the festivities for the September Release? It's alllll so pretty! Everything you need to get your holiday crafting started early. The fun started on the 9th with our monthly intro/sneak peek video, and we will continue to share projects on our design team blogs and on the PTI blog all the way through the 20th. So, lots of inspiration coming your way in the next week or so! All of the new release items will be available for purchase in the Papertrey Ink Store on September 15th at 10pm EST. (Tomorrow!)
Today I'm helping introduce one of the beautiful new stamp and die sets called Silver White Winters. OOOOH. Sparkly, pretty, classy snowflakes. LOVE. Snowflakes are one of my favorite go-to themes for Christmas. Something about them is just happy and cheerful I guess. I made three cards today to show you some different ways to use these new products! Something for everyone I hope!
First up today is a bold and blue embossed snowflake card! OOOH, so icy! I also think vellum looks like ice, so I used a vellum strip for my sentiment. The snowflakes and the sentiment were all stamped and heat embossed using Versamark Ink and White Embossing Powder. I randomly stamped the snowflakes onto PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock since it is nice and smooth.
Once the snowflakes were all embossed, I used different shades of blue inks and an ink blending tool and inked right onto the paper creating an ombre effect. After the ink was dry I went back and added white paint speckles to look like snow. I am so happy with how this turned out. I used some blue sparkly enamel dots for the centers of the snowflakes.
The sentiment strip was wrapped around the top layer of the card before I attached it to the silver paper layer and onto the card. This is a white A2 card base made from the same PTI cardstock.
Another close up of one of the snowflakes. The stamp set has about 10 different snowflakes so you can mix and match them to make a pretty background!
Next up is a very traditional red and green card! I used the Beautiful Berries Winter stamps and dies to create a spray of greenery at the top of this pretty new tag die. One big, beautiful white snowflake serves as the focal point of the card. I added a few pearls and then stamped my sentiment in white - which looks so nice on the red paper.
This card started with a Kraft cardstock A2 card base. I layered white paper and then Pure Poppy Carsdstock. I used a bit of the (awesome) new patterned paper to make a wrap underneath the circle tag. I love polka dots! I used a pretty green button and a bit of twine to 'ground' the spray of greenery. More is more! LOL.
This final card for today conjures up images of a country Christmas! Plaid, kraft and white with a bit of natural twine. Can't go wrong with that! I used the PTI Snow White Ink pad to stamp all the snowflakes onto a kraft layer. Then I also used the same ink pad to ink around the edges of that layer with a sponge.
A few white paint speckles for good measure! And some pretty clear rhinestones were accents to this card. I stamped the sentiment in beautiful Pure Poppy Ink.
That's it for me for today! Remember, everything new is for sale on the 15th at 10pm EST. If you don't want to miss anything from the new release, make sure to visit the official PTI blog! I'll be back tomorrow with something really fun (with a PRIZE) and then back on Saturday, starting five days of sharing more PTI projects with you. You're gonna be seeing a lot of me! Until then - have a great day! Thanks for stopping by today! XOXO
SUPPLIES FOR TODAY!
I love snowflakes on a card also. Here in Michigan beautiful snowflakes become huge snow piles.... there is something country about creating lovely cards on Kraft. Love the beautiful berries. See you tomorrow....
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 09/15/2017 at 02:00 PM
Beautiful! Snowflakes are my favorite at the holidays!
Posted by: Amy Cooley | 09/15/2017 at 05:04 AM
Beautiful cards, Wanda. Enjoy this cooler weather 😊
Posted by: Julie | 09/14/2017 at 07:16 AM