Papertrey Pinterest Challenge Take 2

I have a second packaging inspiration from Pinterest...this one includes a cute little tag die cut from from Papaertrey Ink's 'Half and Half' dies and stamped from the same stamp set. I've enclosed it with a cute little red kraft bag, added a frame with a handmade spiral flower and heart, and a sentiment from the 'Half and Half' stamp set and zig zag stitch from 'Button Boutique.' topped it off with a cute little clothes pin and twine. The inside tag has a sentiment from and old Basic Gray rub on set. Thanks so much for stopping by!

February 9, Papertrey Ink Pinterest Inspiration Challenge

Rare for me to post every day, let alone two posts in one day! I had a lot of fun looking around on pinterest, looking for my inspiration piece. I knew I found it right away when I saw this http://pinterest.com/pin/256494141249867315/repin/ decorated brown paper bag, and they she did kraft on kraft. I have to admit, I was also inspired by the moss I collected last fall when we were hiking up in the mountains (they've been sitting in a plastic bag, and really needed to be housed in a prettier container :). I used the happy hexagons to make a border, then for the main sentiment I used a method from a video I watched from Papertrey Ink (I think it was a Betsy Veldman one) on using your mat stacks and double dying them, then using pop dots to get a shadow effect. I used a sentiment from 'Think Big 19.' I had to use a spellbinders die, since I have yet to acquire any PTI ones (they're in my cart :). Here's my project;

More of Papertrey Ink's 'Favorite's Challenge

Today I am sharing another card made for Papertrey Ink's 'Favorite's' Challenge. I loved the Chalkboard card Betsy Veldman made with the 'Stitched Sentiment's' stamp set, here;
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I didn't quite make mine a blackboard card, but did use the white embossing over the black and bits of red, using Zing's red glitter embossing powder. I also used the sentiment stamp and die from the 'Everyday Photo Finishers' set. Cut little flag tails out of the banner and added some pearls;
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Paper Trey Ink Free Printout Challenge

Today at Paper Trey Ink, they are not only giving sneak peeks of their new monthly stamps, but there was also a free digital sheet. The challenge today was to to use one of the images from the sheet on a project. I chose this cute little teacup of posies by Michelle Bickford, along with the sentiment, 'You are my cup of tea." I backed the main image by heart cut from mesh, surrounded the heart with the vines from the stamp set 'Stitched Sentiments,' and mounded the sentiment on a die cut from 'Photo Finishers.' Surrounded the sentiment with some old Doodlebug velvet heart brads. These challenges are really forcing me to think outside my box, which I am really enjoying. Here's my card:

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Paper Trey Ink Favorites Challenge

HI there, over at Paper Trey Ink they are having a fun and inspiring challenge, where the designers chose some of their favorite designs over the past year, and we could choose one and use it as inspiration.  I chose these cute little tags by Melissa Phillips:
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I have long admired Melissa's work, and am instinctively drawn to her shabby chic projects.  I used my newly purchased half and half dies, and sentiments from Flower Fusion #6, as well as vintage lace, feathers, buttons and a cameo.  I distressed the chipboard tags with white ink and edged with distress ink.  Really fun challenge, I plan on doing some more projects for this one :)

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Paper Trey Ink Blog Hop!

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Today is Papertrey Ink's blog hope, featuring projects with a black background and bold colors. My project is a card featuring their 'Button Up,' and 'Button Boutique' stamp sets as well as their button dies. I know, I keep using the same stamps, but, trust me, it is not easy narrowing down my shopping cart of over $800.00 to a reasonable amount :) Here's my project:

And, another project I did for my Etsy shop (www.suzannebwebb.etsy.com). I made a super fun Valentine, or it could be an anniversary banner, using paper garland rosettes out of vintage dictionary pages, I love how these turned out :)

A Pocket Full Of Posies....

Over at Papertrey Ink, on Nichole's blog there is a challenge for making an envelope for oversized/odd-sized cards, etc. Mine isn't exactly a card, but something that I need to package, which is a handmade paper flower collection, and while I was trying to come up with something, I thought......'why not add to the flowers, and make it a little collection with handmade embellishments that someone could use on tags, cards or any paper crafting project?' I still love Karen Russell's products, even though she doesn't make them anymore....so I used one of her transparencies, cut it in half and sewed it with a transparency. I made a fold over tab backed with burlap and lace to staple the two pieces together and topped it with a pretty die and stamp set from Papertrey Ink, 'Hanging By A Thread', along with their button dies. Topped it with a crystal stick pin. This was a fun challenge, I would have never ventured to do on my own! Sorry for the glare from the transparency and enclosed celephane bag...