A right royal challenge

Hello and welcome to a new challenge with a royal twist! So if you live in the UK it will not have passed you by that there is a certain royal event taking place next week, towns and villages are laden with bunting and flags and everyone is getting ready for a knees-up!

So we thought we would have our own Jubilee celebrations here on the blog by asking you to make a Jubilee-themed card!

I made my card for my god-mother who moved from the UK to California 40 years but is still passionately British. I thought a Union Jack card would make her smile:





Card Details:
Stamps: Fillable Frames 1
Ink: Enchanted Evening/Pure Poppy
Card:Enchanted Evening/Pure Poppy/Stamper's Select White
Other: Pure Poppy ribbon/scalloped border die/Fillable Frames 1 die


Over to Aimes
"For this challenge I indulged myself in the patriotic colours that seem to be already lining the streets in preparation for the celebrations:

Card Deets
{Thank You}
Stamps: Tiny Tags (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card: Enchanted Evening (Papertrey Ink)
Patterned Paper: Pure Poppy Bitty Stars (Papertrey Ink)/Diamonds (Uniko Studio Digital)
Accessories: Tiny Tags Die, Fresh Snow Twill Ribbon (Papertrey Ink)

I couldn't add a sentiment easily to this design with its mix of patterns so I opted for a tiny tag instead :)"

Over to Caryn:

I too chose to go with a red, white and blue colour scheme - well, it would be rude not to wouldn't it?!!

 

Card deets

Stamps: Hert Prints
Ink: Pure Poppy and Enchanted Evening
Card: Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, Stampers Select White.
Ribbon: from stash!


And here's what one randomly selected peep will win:

Swiss Dots ribbon - Melon Berry & Ocean Tides

Here are those all important deets:

* Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least one PTI product to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what is PTI as sometimes it's hard for us to see...)
 * All entries must be newly created (well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!!Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)
 * To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.
 * Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe! 

* Challenge closes on Monday, June 11th 2012 at 9.00am BST
 * As well as a randomly picked winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.!

Happy Stamping!

Kate, Aimes & Caryn xxx

Our winners!

Hey all!

Thanks for stopping by to see who won our last challenge - we just loved your circular creations!

So let's get right to it shall we?!

The winner of that cute l'il stamp set is..

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2012-05-29 16:15:44 UTC
(Random.org)

....Micholla!

And here are our top three PTI Passionistas:

Cara

We loved Cara's use of multi-coloured circles on her card - what a fabulous use of the Modern Wood Mats set don't you think?! Wouldn't this card brighten your day if it landed on your doorstep?!

Joyce M
Joyce's take on Aimes' circle card was a hit with all of us - we loved how she used the leafy circle frame for her spirograph, and a fabulous colour scheme to boot!

Jenny

Well just look at this beauty! What a fabulous idea -  great colours and layout and we especially loved the stitching!

Congrats ladies, if you would like to grab our blinkie for your blog email us at apassionforpapertrey@yahoo.co.uk and we'll send you the code.

Check back tomorrrow for a brand new challenge!

Kate, Aimes & Caryn xxx

Challenge: Super Circles!

Hey!

Welcome to a fabulous new challenge! We hope you're ready to ink along with us! :)

This fortnight we're honouring the most super of shapes - the circle! We know, we know: hexagons might be so on trend right now, but circles still rock! Afterall, a hexagon is just a circle with straight edges and points, right? *wink*

So my brain got tickin' for this challenge and I started stamping the circular image from Daily Designs. I wondered what pattern I'd end up with if I rotated the circle through 360 degrees....

Voila!

This pattern reminds me of one Christmas as a kid when I went crazy over my new toy: Spirograph! Did you ever have one of these? I used to make so many patterns with that baby and pin them on my pinboard to admire :)

If you're a visual learner, then here's a peek at how I stamped that image:

(Click for a larger image)

Spirograph, stamping stylee! I like it! :)

Over to Caryn...

Well I decided to go punchy with my card and broke open my Raspberry Fizz patterned papers and paired them with the Aqua Mist ones.  It was a simple case of punching circles from different papers and then layering them up to give this scalloped effect.  I die cut the letter from the block alphabet die and adhered them to a strip of AM card stock and that was it.




Here's Kate: "I had a real urge to stamp a circle background for my card so used my Mehndi Medallion set - technically some of them aren't true circles but hey! I'm loving this combination of Melon Berry, Aqua Mist and Harvest Gold!"

 

Card details: (PTI unless stated otherwise)
Stamps: Fillable Frames 1/Mehdni Medallion
Ink: Melon Berry/Harvest Gold/Aqua Mist
Card: Stamper's Select White
Other: Fillable Frames 1 die/Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)/Aqua Mist button


Our prize this fortnight for one randomly selected peep is this stamp set:

Heart-2-Heart #3 Mini Stamp Set

Here are those all important deets:

* Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least one PTIproduct to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what is PTI as sometimes it's hard for us to see...)

* All entries must be newly created (well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!!Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)

* To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.

* Worldwide entries are more than welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped within Europe!

* Challenge closes on Monday, May 14th 2012 at 9.00am BST

* As well as a randomly picked winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.

Happy Stamping!

Aimes, Kate & Caryn
xxx

Winners!

Hey!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us with our last challenge, Whatever the Weather. We loved seeing how the weather inspired your creations, no matter what the weather was like outside!

It's time to pick a winner so do you thing, Mr.Random thingy-me-bob!

Here are your random numbers:
8 Timestamp: 2012-05-15 09:48:00 UTC

Number 8 is the lucky number for Sandie! Congrats! Email us at apassionforpapertrey(at)yahoo(dot)com with your postal addy and we'll get that prize out to ya!

For our Top 3 PTI Passionistas we were truly spoilt for choice! We finally decided upon the following:

Bee

We immediately fell in love with Bee's ultra-trendy chevron sunshine! We also loved that she used a fillable frame stamp as a cloud too - what a way to stretch those supplies!

Micholla

Micholla had us wanting snow to appear more than sunshine with those beautifully stamped snowflakes. It might be May, but if we had these CAS beauties to hand out at Christmas, we'd be counting down the days!

Jenny

Jenny's super sweet card would brighten up anyone's day! We loved the literal  'pocket of sunshine' and her fabulous stitching and embossing add so much texture!

Congrats ladies! Now we're having technical problems with our Top 3 Blinkie right now...it's decided to be naughty. If you send us an email then we'll send you the code once we fix it.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined in our challenge - we'll be back real soon with a new one!

Aimes, Kate & Caryn
xxx

Challenge: Whatever the Weather!

Wow - well, thanks to my computer trying to outrightly reject the new blogger layout I am finally able to  post this weeks new challenge (sorry for the delay!).

The challenge for the next fortnight is entitled "Whatever the weather" - perfectly appropriate if you live in the UK at the moment as we've certainly be having some "weather" here these last few days!!

For my card I went very "me" in that it is predominantly Pure Poppy and uses {one of} my all time favourites stamp sets - Scattered Showers.  I have said before but it's worth saying again.... those new inks are just GORGEOUS.  It makes me happy just looking at them!!

Card Deets:
{Cheer Up Buttercup}
Stamps: Scattered Showers
Ink: Pure Poppy
Cardstock: Pure Poppy, Stampers Select White, Beautiful Blooms pp 
Dies: Heart Border, Label Basics, Scattered Showers.

Over to Aimes
"Hmmmmm...weather.....gotta admit that this challenge had me a little stumped for a while until I looked outside my window and inspiration struck:

Winners (at last).

Well,after much ooh-ing and ahh-ing we have finally settled on three fabulous Passionistas for our Wildlife challenge.  But first our randomly selected winner of the PTI stamp set is....
... 2 .....

Which means Bee is our lucky winner.  Please get in touch and we'll get your prize off to you.

Now for the three Passionistas:

Jean created a beautifully delicate card with gorgeous details and a stunning colour palette - gorgeous.



Sam  made an impact on us with her gorgeous use of colour and different stamp sets.




Cecilie made us swoon with her clever use of fabric, embroidery and paper.  What a work of art.

Well, thanks to everyone that joined in and be sure to pop back soon for a new challenge.
Hugs,
Caryn, Kate and Aimes