Challenge #20

Hello, Kimberly here, with a new Papertrey Peeps challenge!

Hasn’t the past release week been fun? I am so excited by all of the fabulous new banner products that Papertrey Ink has produced. One of my favorite things about PTI is the way they introduce such comprehensive product lines that make crafting easier and more creative at the same time.

So for this challenge, pull out one of the older PTI “product lines” and get crafting while you wait for your banner sets. How about making some bookmarks with All Booked Up, a few notebooks with Take Note, maybe a holiday cottage with Home Made, a cookbook with Recipe Box? I’m sure I’m missing some, so feel free to include any product grouping you have.

Bonus points if you get ahead on your holiday preparation and make a gift for others.

I altered some mini composition books using the Take Note set. These are based on Lisa Johnson's tutorial here. 

Thanks for playing along.

Challenge #14

Photo from Country Living

Hi all, time for a new Peeps challenge! I found this photo some time ago and flagged it. I think I was first drawn to the background which reminds me of Harvest Gold. I am so loving that color! For me, color is usually a major factor in coming up with a design. I love to select the colors and lay them all out for inspiration. It is so much fun to just play and change things around to get different effects. I was intrigued about ways to use 2 primary colors with both cream and white. I have seen some really awesome cards recently that use white as the accent--very striking! 

So here's the challenge: Make something using RED, YELLOW and CREAM with at least a dollop of WHITE!

When thinking about what to make, I first thought of seasons. The red and yellow seemed naturals for summer and also for fall. My first card is a basket of apples for a fall thank you note.

But how about spring and winter! Card 2 is my winter sample. Something bright and cheery for a cold winter day. Hard to remember how that feels with our long stretch of over 100 degree days! I again used plastic film over the globe image. So easy to do since I found the right glue! I even used an eyelet! I have a bunch of these laying unused in a drawer. One of my first 'had to have' purchases when I started stamping. DH bought me a Crop-a-Dile too! I thought I was going to use it for everything (LOL!).

Hope you find time to play. You don't have to pick a season. Anything that inspires you will do--JUST HAVE FUN!

Have a good week!

Hugs, Sharron

Challenge #10

Hiya, my fellow peeps! :) It's my turn to host a challenge here on the Papertrey Peeps blog and I thought it would be fun to do another color challenge... The colors for this challenge were inspired by my friend Becky's PTI May Blog Hop card (though I substituted gray for the kraft/brown).  Purple is a color that I don't often show much love to, but the way she combines it with other colors really makes it seem so fresh and fun!

Challenge: To create a card or project using turquoise, chartreuse, purple, gray and white.  Can't wait to see what you come up with! :) (As always, there's no pressure or deadline to play along... Just have fun and join in when you can.)

Challenge #9

Hi Peeps! Here in the US it's the Official, Unofficial Start of Summer. I hope you are all enjoying your extended weekend and that the weather is co-operating. Since our hearts have all turned to all things summery, I thought I would challenge you to make a project that is about travel or vacation. I think you have lots of sets to help with this, and if you can put a spin on it, all the more fun! We've got bicycles, surfboards, hot air balloons and cars to name a few. Make a card, a scrapbook page, a bon voyage gift, or anything you can think of. Here's my contribution:



There's lots more details about it on my blog.

Have a wonderful day and I hope you will be able to participate.
Linda

Color Challenge!!

Hi everyone!! Yesterday I was coloring up this gorgeous image from Delightful Dahlia and a color challenge came to mind (with a bit of a twist)! I thought it would be fun to make a card using green and red, sounds easy enough?! The twist is it cannot have a Christmas theme!

If you get a chance to play along I hope you have fun with it!

Have a happy and safe weekend!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Delightful Dahlia

Paper: Papertrey White

Ink: Papertrey Pure Poppy & Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools/Accessories: Rectangle Nestabilites, Pop Dots, Quick Kutz Diamonds & Dots Embossing Folder, Copics: G21, G24, R24, R27, R29

Peeps Challenge #6 Bling on the Old

Hello everyone! Cammie here. Wasn't the latest PTI countdown and release great? Did you manage to snag the items on your wish list? While you're waiting for the man in brown or the postman to deliver your new goodies, do you have some stamps that are feeling a little neglected? I thought this would be a good time to use some of those stamps that haven't seen ink for some time or ever! So choose some stamps at the bottom of the stack or in the back of the drawer and ink those babies. The second part of the challenge is to add some shimmer--glitter, gloss, gems to your card or project.

So while we're waiting to bring on the new, let's bling on the old.

This CAS card uses Simply Stationery and Mega Mixed Messages.

Peeps Challenge #5 Template Challenge

Hi Everyone. Today it is my turn to host the challenge. I had a few ideas in mind but decided to go with something different. Your challenge is to make something using a template. It does not have to be a box it can be a card but you need to use a template as your base. There are lots of great templates out there you can use, you can even make your own if you want. Don't forget you can stamp on it too! Here is my project

I hope you have fun with this challenge and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Peeps Challenge #4 . . . Okay to CASE!

Hi gals! Lucky thing Terri is on the ball, she reminded me it was my turn to post a challenge. I am getting ready to go out of town so I chose the easy route . . . CASEing!!! Yes, you have permission to CASE. I really enjoyed Nichole's challenge during the last blog hop to CASE one of the design team members, this time you are to CASE Nichole herself. And here are the parameters. Choose a card or project Nichole made from one of the last two releases and using a set NOT from that release, make a similar card. I chose her project here where she used the dahlias and the new color. I pulled out the dots background set and used Berry Sorbet, Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry as my colors stamped on vellum and Berry Sorbet for my colored paper strip. Berry Sorbet and Raspberry buttons for my button 'stack' at the end of the color strip and a sentiment from Damask Designs.

Can't wait to see what you come up with! Ready, set, CASE Nichole!

Papertrey Peeps Challenge #3

Hello, Peeps!  This is the first challenge I've ever issued, so bear with me!  I thought I would give you all the challenge that I have been working on the last few days and that is a birthday card for my sister, who is also my best friend.  Her birthday is March 2nd, so the timing works out very well for this challenge.  Her favorite color is orange, bright orange, and I always have so much trouble working that color into a feminine card.  (Mine usually end up looking sports-team imspired, which can be nice, but none of my sister's favorite teams feature orange!)  So that is the challenge: a feminine card featuring orange zest.  Bonus points if you work in Spring Rain, her second favorite color or a tea theme, since tea is one of her favorite things in the world.

If you don't have orange zest, substitute another orange or a color that you don't use very often. Good luck and have fun. 

My devious plan is to have a bunch of cards I can CASE for my sister for future events! :) So thanks in advance for taking part in this challenge. 

Here's my card!  I used Friends 'til the End to stamp the background on Orange Zest cardstock.  I made a another layer with the label imanges from tea time stamped in Versamark and Fresh Snow on Summer Sunrise.  The teapot is embossed and stamped with Polka Dot Basics in Versamark on Spring Rain.

Challenge 2: Inspired by Packaging!

Hi ya Peeps!

I hope you're ready for a new challenge?! Thanks so much to Lori for the last one, I had a blast spending ages deciding which button would feature on my card for that challenge!

So onto our new challenge....well I dunno about you but I tend to be inspired by just about everything around me. I recently found the packaging of my muesli a huge source of inspiration (as well as tasty) and the PTI colour combo just jumped out at me!

Therefore my challenge to you is to pick any one of the products by Dorset Cereals and think about using the colours featured on it on a creation of your own (it doesn't have to be restricted to cards!) Obviously some colours may struggle to match with a PTI colour so feel free to use other supplies or just pick a product that features all PTI colours. If you look closely at each package you'll see that they nearly all contain at least a bit of white text so feel free to use that if you want a neutral colour to balance things out a little!

Here's lots of different colour combos to take your pick from. If you want to check out bigger pictures then you can go to their website here and use the tabs just below their header to check out their different products!

For my example I picked some scrummy porridge that really jumped out to me:

It features New Leaf, Spring Moss, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate and White in terms of PTI colours. Here's my creation using that colour combo:


Now who says you can only use a holiday stamp set for that holiday? My DP here was created by stamping the tree from Holiday Tree. I thought it was kinda cool that it reflects the design on the packaging too!

Card Recipe
Stamps: Holiday Tree/Daily Designs/Daily Designs Sentiments
Ink: Dark Chocolate/Spring Moss/New Leaf
Card: Dark Chocolate/Pure Poppy/Spring Moss/Stamper's Select White/New Leaf
Accessories: New Leaf Twill Ribbon/Martha Stewart Border Punch/Circle Nestabilities/Cuttlebug

To enter just click on Mister Linky at the bottom of this post. The most important thing is to be inspired and to have fun so don't stress, there's no rules, so go get inky! I can't wait to see what you all create!

Aimes
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Note: I'm not affiliated with Dorset Cereals in any way what-so-ever! Just a happy customer!

Challenge 1!!

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the first Papertrey Peeps challenge!! I am so excited to be starting us off!!! I thought I would start out with an easy one and I challenge you to use buttons!! If you don't have any buttons you can certainly make some!! I wanted to get another card made making my own but haven't gotten to it yet, if I get a chance I will make another card and post it!!
For this challenge I wanted to do something a little different, first I challenged myself to use Lavender Moon. I LOVE this color but struggle with it for some reason. I decided to use my Love Songs set, I haven't used it in a while. I embossed the balloons on several colors and cut them out. I used my glue pen and applied Prisma Glitter, so sparkly!! When it was dry I used DMC floss, wrapping around the bottom of the balloons. I then went through my buttons and found this fun button with a hole in the back and ran the floss through the hole. The card still needed something so I used Nichole's technique and applied Scor-Tape around the edges of the top white layer and applied more glitter.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!!!
Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Love Songs
Paper: Papertrey White, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz & Sweet Blush
Ink: Versamark
Tools/Accessories: Black Detail Embossing Powder, Lavender Moon Button, DMC Floss 310, Pop Dots