Papertrey Ink 4th Anniversary Celebration!

If you haven't been able to tell yet from my previous posts, I LOVE PAPERTREY INK!! They are simply the best place to purchase stamps.  They are celebrating their 4th anniversary right now, and having great festivities along the way.  To follow along check out Nichole Heady's blog.

The first contest is for the world's most AMAZING prize aptly called the "Ultimate Card Kit", which includes: 22 stamp sets, 20 dies/die collections, felt, ribbon, buttons, cardstock and more (over $700 worth of fabulous stuff)!!  I never win anything... but I couldn't pass up this chance!  To enter this contest you have to post your favorite card from 2010 made using Papertrey products.  Here is my favorite creation.

The Papertrey product used in this card are the Candy Canes from Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers and the sentiment from my favorite holiday stamp set On Ice.   The candy canes are colored with Copic R29.  I cut out the trim and banner (created myself!) on my Cricut and the background was embossed in the Sizzix dots folder.  This picture doesn't really do this card justice.  It looks simple on here, but in person the candy canes visually pop right off the card.  I loved the way this card came out... and I love the stamps I used! 

 I made all my Christmas cards this year using Papertrey stamps and dies.  I posted photos of them in an earlier post which you can see here.  

Christmas Cards with Papertrey Ink Stamps

I stumbled across a wonderful crafting website: http://www.papertreyink.com/.  Not only do they sell exceptionally nice stuff but they have created a wonderful community for people who use their products.  Check out their blog at http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/.   

Here are some of the Christmas cards I created using products purchased from PTI.  The stamp sets I used for these cards are: On Ice, Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers, and Big & Bold Holiday Wishes.  For these cards I used various VersaMagic Dew Drop ink pads and Copic markers.

The following cards I created using the Cricut and some stamps from Michael's Recollections stamp sets, as well as PTI's Big & Bold Holiday Wishes stamps.  In addition to VersaMagic inks, on these cards I used VersaMark Ink, Momento Dew Drops and some Perfect Pearls to add shimmer. 

Christmas Tree Place Cards

The women in my husband's family have a wonderful tradition at Christmas time... a girl's only Tea Party!  It is an event they have been doing for many years.  This year all of us "young women" (aka the daughters and daughters-in-law) were in charge of the Tea Party.  We all took the responsibility for different aspects of the party, and one of my tasks was to make the place cards.  I wanted to make something fun that everyone could take home with them. I got the idea for these Christmas Tree Place Cards from http://accucut.typepad.com/craft/2010/10/oh-my-you-need-this-die.html.

 I was not able to find any SVG files for the pyramid so I found an image of a pyramid template online and used the trace tool in SCAL to create my own SVG.  Here is the image cut out by the Cricut. 

I scored my fold lines. 

And then I folded it and glued it together.

Then I cut stars from the basic shapes in SCAL and sprayed them with some water mixed with Perfect Pearls.  I glued stars to toothpicks and stuck them into the top of the trees.  The name tags I simply printed out on my regular printer and then cut out with the Cricut.  I stamped the name cards with snowflake stamps in Versamark Ink with Perfect Pearls on top to add some shimmer. 

The Tea Party 2010