Guest Designing for Papertrey Ink!

I had a very special request in May.  I was so surprised by the invitation to guest design for Papertrey Ink's August release that I questioned if Melissa's Instagram account had been hacked!!  Ha! Lucky for me it had not!

There's so much to love in PTI's August Release, I'm just going to present my cards and then send you to their shop!  All the goodness will be available at 10 pm EDT! OH, while you make your list, there is also a Hop over at Instagram right now where you might win a $10 gift card - yay!

Up first - the thing I love most about Fall - turning leaves!  Using Fantastic Foliage

Turning leaves - see what I did there?

Using the dies as a guide, I set up all of the stamps in my MISTI and picked them

up with the lid:

I added three fun colors using finger daubers and stamped all of them at once!

The veins and details were stamped using acrylic blocks - so easy to do - then all of the leaves were cut at once by aligning those dies over the stamped images:

Next up - Halloween!  The kid in me will never outgrow it!  Here's Happy Owl-O-Ween!

The background is a paper from PTI's Argyle Socks.  My little vellum 

cloud was cut by hand and made a great place to heat emboss my 

pun-y sentiment.  We can't have Halloween without a pumpkin, right...

The pumpkin is a layering die set called Into the Blooms: Pumpkins

I took liberties with the color on my pumpkin - what do you think?

PTI has a wonderful new hot foil plate called Fallen Leaves which I used to create this background.  I've foiled it in purple, and then used the coordinating stencils to add some

fun color.  You'll find this fun sentiment among those offered in Inside Greetings: Spooky

Since I had that little circle cut, why not make another card?

This wonderful sentiment is from: 

Thankful for Fall Sentiments

I nearly forgot those kids going back to school - here's a great card to tuck into a real backpack, and a good place for something every kid going off to college enjoys: Go-to Gift Card holder, Backpack accessories using PTI Argyle Socks again.

There's a great little slot to fit in a gift card.  See where I tucked in the notebook?

I even partially cut a backer using the coordinating die to make it a card:

These great sentiments are included in the set.

I've saved my favorite card for last - I'm so grateful to PTI for this opportunity - a thank you was necessary!

Into the Blooms: Sunflowers 

I've used an older set of PTI patterned papers to cut each and every layer -

aren't they gorgeous??  Also, a fun cover plate I've had for years called Mighty Jungle.  

Another sentiment from Thankful For Fall expresses my gratitude beautifully!

Thanks to all of you sweet friends that stop by - and made it through this post! phew!  Would you believe there is more?? Later!

Now, off you go to see ALL the REST of the August Release at Papertrey Ink!

=] Michele