Sincerely Yours - September release is now available!

The time to order has arrived! The incredible September release from Papertrey Ink is now available! This morning Papertrey Ink released a truly beautiful look book showcasing all the products and featuring projects from the team. Its downloadable and is the prettiest little magazine ever! Click here: September Release Look Book 2018

Sending You Comfort has a die template available for purchase, along with the stamp set. The die perfectly cuts out either leaf branch with a small outline. Its a wonderful way to stretch the use of the stamp set for $4. :D  

On this card, I cut the leaf image from a panel of cardstock. On the panel, I also heat embossed a sentiment from Sending You Comfort in gold. Gold ink was added along the edge of the panel. To adhere it to the card base, I used foam tape. The foam tape was to bring dimension for my next idea.

Inside the die cut area on the panel, I placed the lined stamp leaf branch. Its a perfect fit of course, and its visually interesting and something different. While I stamped and heat embossed on vellum, you could easily stamp right through the opening before adhering the panel.

Finally, one more way to use the Sending You Comfort die, creating a background. I repeatedly cut the leaf branch from the same color cardstock as the card base. Each branch was adhered to the base. Some of the edges hung off and when the leaves were all placed where I wanted them, I cut away the excess by following along the card base edges.

The smaller splat images from Sending You Comfort were stamped in gold ink. I thought that gold helped tie together the heat embossed sentiment.

Whew. What a few days! Thank you all again for all the love, support, and encouragement over the last few days! All your sweet words mean so very much! There are so many hours of time put into creating each of these products. From concept, to sketching, to digitizing, to production, it really is a labor of love. Stepping out into this new world of product design has been quite the adventure. Three steps forward and four steps back. Some days it is rough. But when you share how excited you are about the products, it makes it worth it. Even better, when I get to see how you have used the products yourself! Please email me, or tag me on social media, when you use them! It would mean so so much to see! Hugs to you all!

Sincerely Yours,

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Sincerely Yours - Sending You Comfort - simple elegance

Yep, more cards. I know its shocking. But like I said yesterday, I am truly enjoying the card-making process with the images in Sending You Comfort! One more day and the entire release from Papertrey Ink will be available. The whole release is a home run. No, its a grand slam! Truly beautiful designs and I am so humbled to be a tiny part of it!

I promised I would not use my favorite color palette again today, so I didn't. Sort of. Today I only used the purple color. Because it is just.so.pretty!

Because I knew I wanted to heat emboss the lined leaf branch image from Sending You Comfort, I had an unusual order of how I created this card. Not my normal.

I began by heat embossing the lined leaf image and sentiment with gold powder on my cardstock. Once an image is embossed, the shiny and raised area does a ton of resisting of other inks, allowing me to create the background look I wanted.

I then inked the entire background with purple ink. Distress Oxide inks take forever to dry. Which is an awesome feature, but not if you are looking to heat emboss. Inking a background like this can take many hours to dry. I didn't have that kind of time in my day. Had I attempted to heat emboss the leaf branch after inking, it would have been a mess. The embossing powder would have stuck to the whole background. Even if I passed a heat gun over it. So, knowing the embossing powder would resist, that is why I chose that order.

I rubbed the ink away from the embossed areas with a dry paper towel. (any water would have altered the inked background)

Finally, the background still needed something. It was too plain. Too flat-looking. So I stamped the solid leaf image in the same purple ink. Once again, I could stamp over the embossed areas and wipe the excess ink away. Mixing the lined and solid image leaf is such a great look! I want to try it with more colors of ink. Maybe on kraft cardstock...My next post will be to tell you its time to shop. I will be at an outdoor concert that night, so my lists will get updated as soon as I get home. :D

Sincerely Yours,

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Sincerely Yours - Sending You Comfort - metallics on dark cardstock

Welcome back for another look at more projects with my latest from Papertrey Ink! Thank you all so much for all your sweet comments on the Papertrey Ink blog! Reading your positive words and excitement about Sending You Comfort, means the world! I am also happy to know that what I am needing for my own card-making is exactly what you are searching for as well! I could just hug you all!

Once again on this card, I used the lined leaf image. Its my favorite. :D I embossed the image with gold powder. This can be a little tricky on dark cardstock. The key is using an embossing pouch of some kind before stamping. By applying a powder-filled pouch to the surface of your cardstock, it helps eliminate stray embossing powder from places you do not want it. They are reasonably priced and never go bad. You can't say that for very many supplies! Links to one are down below at the bottom of my post.

All the images were stamped before I applied the embossing powder as well. When you use a watermark or embossing ink pad, the medium stays wet for quite some time, allowing you the chance to work. And on dark cardstock like this, you can easily see where you have stamped previously.

Along with the sentiment and leaves from Sending You Comfort, I mixed in my stamp set released in the summer, Bold Basics. This diamond image from Bold Basics works with just about any image from any set! It is clean, modern, classy, and highlights your words beautifully.

Oh, look, more of the leaf image. I told you, I can't get enough of it! :D This time I stamped it and covered it with Perfect Pearls. The shimmer on the dark cardstock is elegant. 

On this card, you can also see the sentiment with "our" in it. So many of you requested having sentiments with "we" and "our" to add to your collection. I am thrilled reading your comments about how you love that feature! 

The leaves were stamped with Perfect Medium (it grabs the Perfect Pearls so much better than any other ink, in my experience) on a panel of cardstock. That way, if I did mess it up, I didn't ruin the entire card. Anyone else have those fears?

A thin strip of copper cardstock was added along the edge to bring out the shine.

Its tough to photograph the shine well, especially with waning sunlight...so, I am planning on sharing this card with a video on Instagram, in my stories. Pop on over and visit me! @kimberlystamps.

Sincerely Yours,

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Sincerely Yours Introduces: Sending You Comfort

The September release countdown at Papertrey Ink has begun! Today my latest products are being showcased and I am so happy to be able to share with you! Visit the Papertrey Ink blog for links to what the rest of the team has done with Sending You Comfort and Sending You Comfort die.

When I design a stamp set, I always start with, what do I need or want for my own card-making? One thing lacking in my stamp collection was fall images. The other was sympathy sentiments. I also love simple, clean, and elegant images. All of those ideas collided with Sending You Comfort.

Sending a sympathy card is something that we all have to do at times. This set will allow you to create heartfelt cards with ease.

The main images in Sending You Comfort are the two leaf branches. One image is detailed, the other is solid. This allows you to layer the images together, or to use them as I did here in creating this fall-colored background.

The set also includes several other leaf images, along with two sets of ink splats. Ink splats are gorgeous on projects, but making them traditionally makes me nervous. I love these small images. They will be used on many of my projects.

The rest of the set includes sympathy sentiments. The best feature of this set is something that you all requested---sentiments with "we" and "our." Many of you have lamented that sets only include one person in its wording. With Sending You Comfort, you will have both to choose from.

To see more of this set, be sure and visit the Papertrey Ink blog, and also my Instagram account @kimberlystamps. I will be sharing a closer look at the set and the die template there today. Stay tuned here as well for more projects to come this week.

Sincerely Yours,

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MFT Stamps November Release Countdown; Deepest Sympathy

Welcome to the MFT Stamps Release Countdown! For the next few days we will be sharing projects featuring the new stamps, dies, and stencils that will be releasing this month. You will be able to purchase any of the products you see over the next few days on Tuesday, November 1 at 9 pm Central.

Making sympathy cards is never easy. You want the right words, the right images, simplicity, and something that will work for many situations. Deepest Sympathy is a beautiful stamp set for a difficult time.

The sentiments are heart-felt and elegantly designed. The fonts are timeless and classic. And could simply stand on their own, without other images.

Die-namics Roses in Bloom is a lovely image of flowers. It includes a stem and two flowers. The flowers fit wonderfully along side the sentiments from Deepest Sympathy. I cut my images from watercolor paper and then applied watered-down dye inks (mimicking water color).

Visit the MFT Stamps blog for all the information you will need about the upcoming release. That includes product images, product videos, links to the design team projects, and more! Plus, there always seems to be a chance to win!

thanks for stopping by!

kimberly

Supplies available November 1:

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