Papertrey Ink

Basket of flowers

Hi there everyone!!

I’ve been taking a break from card challenges recently but when I saw that one of my favourite challenges, Freshly Made Sketches was celebrating a major milestone, I had to play along. This week’s challenge is number 700 meaning that the weekly challenge has been running for 14 years! 14 years!! Isn’t that amazing?! I’m really grateful to the team who always work so hard each week – coming up with amazing inspiration and leaving kind and uplifting comments. Thank you so much – I know being a challenge DT member is quite a commitment and I really appreciate all you do.

The challenge this week uses sketch number 14 and each DT member shared when they first started playing along with the challenge. I got curious and I think I started back in November 2016 for challenge number 261 – I didn’t have a blog back then but shared on Instagram only.

For my card, I used the gorgeous Into The Blooms – Above Ground die set by Papertrey Ink. This beautiful set was just released last month, and I just had to buy it from the US as I haven’t found a UK retailer for Papertrey. I love that basket and all the little elements… although I think some of those tiny dies may end up on the AWOL list before too long! I coloured the images with various inks and then arranged them on a card base that I had covered with four squares from the Dotted Postage Squares die set by Pinkfresh Studio.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 21

Hi there!

It’s Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

It’s time to ink up Papertrey Ink’s fabulous Enchanted Forest tree stamps again! I was shocked to learn that this stamp set is from 2018 – I’m pretty sure that I only bought them a few years ago but a quick search of my blog reveals that I actually bought them in summer 2020!

I arranged my selection of trees on a Spellbinders die cut and added a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Made in May Card 5

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m playing with a few new-to-me die sets. I just realised that I spotted them in an online sales section (at different times). Both were sold out but I hunted them down and found them elsewhere – I happily paid full price because they are fabulous sets!

The daisies are by Papertrey Ink and the basket is by Sunny Studio. Both sets have so many possibilities!

The background embossing folder is by Stampin Up and the sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Three fun trees

Hello everyone!

A quick post today with my card which is my very late entry into the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

It’s a lovely sketch this week and a perfect way to get back to my CAS roots after the stress of the November challenge.

I stamped and cut lots of the images from the Papertrey Ink Enchanted Forest set during Christmas in July and I thought they worked perfectly with the sketch.

The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.

I will be back a bit later with more photos – got to press publish now to hit the challenge deadline (hopefully)! (ETA – now added!)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 11

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 11 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and more trees today!

I LOVE the Papertrey Ink Enchanted Forest stamps and dies that I picked up a few years ago, but I was shocked to see that I haven’t used them since this card in 2021. Well, that has changed and I’ve now got lots of trees in different colours all ready to go!

Today I paired the trees with the brand-new Winter Forest Background die that I picked up from the Heffy Doodle closing down sale.

The sentiment is by The Ton.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 30

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 30 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

I have to confess, I’m a little obsessed with pinecone stamps and dies, especially since the Great Pinecone Debacle of 2021 when a beloved stamp went missing for over a year!

Anyway, this obsession means that pinecones seem to make their way into almost every crafty order I place.. so I have to make sure I actually use my collection.

Today I used the beautiful Into the Blooms Pine die set by Papertrey Ink. I cut all the images from some Craft Consortium paper.

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.