Hello and welcome to the first group post for the August Papertrey Ink Release! The new products you are seeing here will be available in the store at Papertrey Ink on September 15th at 10:00 EST. Today we have some amazingly beautiful new products to share with you! We have a beautiful set called Christmas Faith by Heather, A stunning sentiment set by Dawn called A Thrill of Hope, the latest in the Inspired series by Betsy called Inspired: Jesus, and Shine, a fun and unique new set from Nichole! We also have a brand new color coming out this month called Olive Twist! I love it! It's a beautiful olive green and it's gorgeous paired with Scarlet Jewel! That's what I used for all of my cards today! Dawn is absolutely amazing at putting fonts together in a most fabulous way! When I saw this new set, it was love at first sight! I used the MISTI to stamp the sentiment in two shades, Olive Twist and Scarlet Jewel. The beautiful border across the top is from the Holiday Greens Border set. The berries and pine at the bottom corner are from the Holiday Greens set. Everything on this card is stamped in only two colors, Olive Twist and Scarlet Jewel. I just love these two colors together! For the pine border across the top, I stamped the border once, then without re-inking my stamp, moved it just a little lower and stamped again. I love the way it gives it a more fuller look. After I finished stamping, I cut my panel out with the Noted: Scalloped A2 rectangle die and mounted that onto a card base with fun foam. STAMPS: A Thrill Of Hope, Holiday Greens, Holiday Greens Borders DIES: Holiday Greens Borders, Holiday Greens, Noted: Scalloped A2 INK: Olive Twist, Scarlet Jewel PAPER: Stamper’s Select White OTHER: Clear Sequins *** I just love the way this card turned out! I stamped some of the pine from Holiday Greens onto my white background. I stamped some without reinking like I did in the card above to give the lighter shade. The sentiment is layered four times. The top layer I blended some Scarlet Jewel ink onto. I glued this flat over the stamped pine. I added the sentiment stamped onto the banner from Tag Sale #10, then tucked the pinecones and berries under the edge. The pinecones are the only thing that I used foam tape with. I added a few clear sequins to finish it up! STAMPS: Inspired: Jesus, Holiday Greens DIES: Inspired: Jesus, Holiday Greens, Tag Sale #10 INK: Olive Twist, Scarlet Jewel, Cocoa Bean, True Black PAPER: Stamper’s Select White OTHER: Clear Sequins *** Okay this was a really fun card to make! I love doing these kinds! Betsy did a Make it Monday video a while back using this technique of stamping around like this and I loved it! I made several after seeing her video, and have been wanting to do more since. When I saw this new kit from Heather, I immediately thought how perfect it would be for this technique! I started by stamping two of the sun rays from the Shine stamp set. I stamped one above and one below. This kept me from having to draw any pencil lines. I was able to use this as my grid for stamping all of the other little details. I did this all by eye too! No MISTI here people! And it was actually really easy, not to mention way too fun! I used the same colors Olive Twist and Scarlet Jewel as my other cards, but added some Simply Chartreuse and Cocoa Bean too. I stamped the sentiment onto the banner from Tag Sale #10 and adhered that with foam tape. I added a strip of paper along the bottom from the Americana + white paper collection. STAMPS: Shine, Christmas Faith DIES: Tag Sale #10 INK: Olive Twist, Scarlet Jewel, Dark Chocolate, Saffron Spice, Simply Chartreuse PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, American + White Patterned Paper *** I hope you have enjoyed seeing all the new products in use today! They will all be available at Papertrey Ink on September 15th, at 10:00 EST! For more amazing inspiration visit the rest of the Papertrey Ink Design team! Nichole Heady Ashley Newell Amy Sheffer Betsy Veldman Danielle Flanders Dawn McVey Heather Nichols Laurie Willison Lizzie Jones Melissa Phillips Kay :)