Welcome to a new feature at Papertrey Ink called Transformation Tuesday.
We all have cards that don’t necessarily turn out the way we had envisioned or a project that we designed to be feminine that could be made masculine with a few tweaks. Some of you may remember the Recipe Remix Challenge from SAF 2013. It’s sort of like that (but with our own projects instead of customer submitted projects). The idea is to show a project transformed into something fresh and new.
Laurie Schmidlin is sharing how she transformed old to new today with a card she created a while ago:
“When I first created my swan card over a year ago, I wasn’t completely happy with it. It just didn’t turn out how I imagined it should. I made a few changes to it, including embossing the swans on white cardstock instead of dark, changing the background elements, and adding in some pastel flowers to lighten the card up a little bit.”
Supplies:
- STAMPS: Swan’sational, Lilies of the Field
- INK: Sweet Blush, Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst, Lemon Tart, True Black, Versamark
- PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Smokey Shadow, True Black
- DIES: Swan’sational, Lilies of the Field, Delicate Details
- OTHER: Gold cord, Gold detail embossing powder
CLICK HERE to visit Laurie’s blog to see more!
Now we want you to give it a go! Take a card you’ve made in the past and transform it in some way.
If you are joining along, here are the details for this Transformation Tuesday Challenge:
- Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and transform a previous card you made into a new project.
- Please enter new projects only.
- Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
- Add your project to our InLinkz list below. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE.
- You will have until 6am ET, Tuesday, February 27th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.
- One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Tuesday, February 27th, after 6am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:
Congratulations Imke Ludwig! Please send an email to customer service and provide them with your full name and the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to. Thanks so much to everyone for playing along!
Very pretty! Love the addition of the Lilies and I like the swans stamped on white as opposed to the dark cardstock. My question: is this going to be a weekly or monthly challenge? Great way to get your customers using older, or neglected stamps. 🙂
This feature will be weekly. The Simple To Spectacular feature will be monthly. That’s coming soon.
Very pretty, I love the pop of color the flowers add.
What a wonderful transformation, Laurie! The pretty, pink lilies add such a light, fresh touch to your elegant card. I’m inspired to take another look at photos of my recent cards (the cards were mailed off right away!) to see how I can transform them. I can already tell that Transformation Tuesdays will encourage me to grow and blossom as a card maker! ?
These are going to be valuable lessons. I didn’t see anything wrong with Laurie’s “old” card until I scrolled to see her “new” one. Fabulous work, Laurie, and thanks for adding Transformation Tuesdays to your already busy schedules!
Love this! I had forgotten about this new feature! I love both of the cards!!
I LOVE the transformation that you did!!! BEAUTIFUL!!! 😉
What a lovely transformation ~ the pink pastel flowers add such elegance to the black and gold!
OH! The lilies would be perfect for Easter cards! Was anyone else thinking the same thing?
I see I’m going to love this feature. You took a very nice card, and made it really beautiful. The lilies are just the bit of color it needed.
What a great learning challenge! I liked your first card but can see the difference with the swans embossed on white and the pop of pretty pink lilies. The new card is elegant and lovely.
I need to play along, I have many cards I know I can do better! Both your cards are awesome!
Already at the 11th anniversary celebration I liked the Transformation Challenge and I am glad that it continues. I was thrilled when I saw my card as one of your favorites in the video. Thank you for this honor.
Laurie, although I like both cards, the color from the flower on the second card gives some freshness. Well changed !!
Incredible that I won – I am very happy! Thank you for the many vouchers Papertrey Ink always give away. That is very generous !
Congratulations, Imke!