Design Team Tips - Uplifting Card Set

Happy Friday, crafty friends! It's time for a Design Team Tip with Papertrey Ink. Today, I'm sharing a tip on creating one of my favorite things ... flat, uplifting note cards. Most of the time we create folded A2 cards, but sometimes I like to create postcard style cards, where you don't need anything written on the inside, because the front says exactly what you need it to. You could place these anywhere you feel they could bring a smile to someone!

The Words to Live By series was perfect for creating this set. Here are the links to each one I used....

Words to Live By: Happiness

Words to Live By: Smile

Words to Live By: Inspire

Words to Live By: Kindness

Words to Live By: Caring

Words to Live By: Courage

For the base of my note card I used the Scallop Stackers: Medium Die. I die-cut six different colors … Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet, Hibiscus, Green Parakeet, Melon Berry and Bright Buttercup.

I then die-cut six white rectangles using the Nesting Basics: Rectangles Dies. On those I stamped my sentiments, mixing up the colors between each of the cards. 

I just love the Together Forever Blooms Stamp Set and thought one of the flowers in that would be the perfect accent around my sentiment.

After each of my panels were stamped, I attached them to the colorful scallop rectangles and added sequins around the bottom of each one.

And here is a peek of them all together. So happy and cheerful!

Thanks so much for visiting. Have a happy Friday!

xo,

Melissa

 
STAMPS: Words to Live By: Inspire, Words to Live By: Happiness, Words to Live By: Smile, Words to Live By: Kindness, Words to Live By: Caring, Words to Live By: Courage, Together Forever Blooms
INK: Bright Buttercup, Green Parakeet, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus, Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select White, Bright Buttercup, Green Parakeet, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus, Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry
DIES: Scallop Stackers: Medium Die, Nesting Basics: Rectangles Die
OTHER: sequins

Transformation Tuesday - Happy Easter

Good morning, friends! Welcome to Transformation Tuesday with Papertrey Ink. Today, I'm taking a design I created last fall and transforming it into a card for Easter. This design was a bit different for me, but I was so  happy with the end result that I wanted to create it again!

Here is my original card. You find the full post right HERE!

Here is my transformed card. I started with a piece of Bitty Big: Harvest Gold paper and attached that at an angle on the front of my white card base. After attaching it, I thought it needed a bit more color, so I added a strip of Hibiscus along the bottom and side.

Using both Nesting Basics: Ovals and Nesting Basics: Pierced Ovals Dies, I created a base for my sentiment. 'Happy Easter' is from the Huggables: Bunny & Chick Mini Stamp Set. 

I added flowers from Lilies of the Field around my sentiment. Those were all stamped in pinks, yellows and purples and die-cut with the coordinating Lilies of the Field Die Collection. I wanted to add a few more leaves and ended up using a few I had stamped and die-cut from a previous project. Those are from the Botanical Bounty collection.

I popped the whole thing up with dimensional foam and added a few colorful sequins to complete it!

Thank you for visiting with me today. I hope you enjoyed and hope you have a wonderful day!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Lilies of the Field, Botanical Bounty, Huggables: Bunny & Chick Mini
INK: Harvest Gold, Hibiscus, Orange Zest, Lovely Lady, Lilac Grace, Lavender Moon, Green Parakeet, Simply Chartreuse, True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select White, Hibiscus, Hawaiian Shores
PATTERN PAPER: Bitty Big: Harvest Gold
DIES: Lilies of the Field, Botanical Bounty, Botanical Bounty ll, Nesting Basics: Ovals, Nesting Basics: Pierced Ovals
OTHER: sequins

Saturday Showcase - Better Together

Hey friends! Happy weekend to you. I'm joining in today for Saturday Showcase over on the Papertrey Ink Blog. This week we are creating projects with the gorgeous set, Better Together. Pretty florals + uplifting and thoughtful sentiments … two of my favorite things in one stamp set!

I created two cards for today … same color combo, just different layouts!

I started by stamping a variety of the flowers and stems/leaves onto the following cardstock colors … Hawaiian Shores, Bright Buttercup, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet and Pure Poppy. After die-cutting them all I began assembling my cards. 

For the first one I chose a simple row of colorful flowers. I attached those to a white card panel that I had trimmed down to 4" x 5.25". Above my flowers I added one of uplifting sentiments.

I then attached the panel to the front of my Bitty Big: Smokey Shadow card base. I used circle punches to create the centers of my flowers. It's hard tell from the photo, but each of them was filled in with Glossy Accents.

My second card features more of the flowers tucked around my sentiment. I did some layering on this one, placing the smaller flowers over the larger. Again I filled in the centers using my circle punch and white cardstock. 

I wanted to add a bit more color and chose to replace a few of the words in the sentiment with colorful sentiment strips. I just love how this one turned out!

Be sure to visit the Papertrey Ink Blog for more inspiration. Have a wonderful day!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Better Together

INK: Hawaiian Shores, Bright Buttercup, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Green Parakeet, True Black

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Bright Buttercup, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Green Parakeet

PATTERN PAPER: Bitty Big: Smokey Shadow

DIES: Better Together

OTHER: glossy accents

Transformation Tuesday - Just Because

Good morning to you, friends! I'm popping in today to share a card for Transformation Tuesday with Papertrey Ink. I always tend to lean towards clean and simple designs, so that's what I did again for today. I chose an older CAS card and did a very simple transformation into yet another CAS card. 

Here is my original card that I created back in July. You can find it right HERE!

For today, I simply switched up my sentiment and swapped out the heart on my original card for a butterfly. 

I used Sentiment Staples: Just A Note and stamped the sentiment in the following colors … Pale Peony, Bright Buttercup, Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores and Green Parakeet. Next, I stamped 'because I miss you', in True Black, onto a strip of white and attached it with dimensional foam.

Just underneath my sentiments I added a strip of Bright Buttercup cardstock. 

And last, but not least, I added a die-cut butterfly from Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Butterflies. I added dimensional foam behind that before attaching it and then finished my card off with a few colorful sequins. 

I'm thinking that creating a set of all occasion cards with the entire Sentiment Staples collection would be a great gift idea. And with this CAS design it would take no time to mass produce them! What do you think? 

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today, friends. I hope you have a happy Tuesday!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Sentiment Staples: Just A Note

INK: Pale Peony, Bright Buttercup, Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz, Green Parakeet, True Black

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores, Bright Buttercup

DIES: Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Butterflies
OTHER: sequins