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Life’s a Picnic Sentiments + Picnic Time + Cornered: Summer Sun

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Welcome to Day 2 of the May Countdown.  We have more wonderful products that you will love creating with!  Big, easy-to-use sentiments, paired with an array of picnic items, will have you creating summer cards and projects that will make you smile the entire time you’re putting them together.  I was smiling and I didn’t even know it, my mom called me out!  It was just really fun and I loved how they turned out.

We’re starting off with our new Life’s a Picnic Sentiments.  Just the title of these stamps makes me feel happy and sunny!  And then, we’re going to pair those sentiments with our Picnic Time dies so you can create the whole picnic scene.  So, let’s get started.

JJ is our feature designer today, and wow, I love this card!  It’s simple, yet every single pie on this card looks real!  The reason… the Picnic Time dies are AMAZING!  I love how they were designed because with a few cuts, you can make all of these pies.  There’s even a die-cut to create the piece of pie!

I really love how she used the pies to enhance the 4th of July theme, making one pie red, one blue, and then the flag, it’s so clever.  And don’t forget, when you’re making pies, you definitely need to add a little sugar to the crust, okay, it’s actually coarse glitter so don’t let anyone lick it!  =)

Happy 4th of July Card

SUPPLY LIST:

STAMPS: Life’s a Picnic Stamp Set

INK: Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Royal Velvet, Enchanted Evening, True Black, Dark Chocolate, Classic Kraft, Fine Linen

PAPER: Rustic White

DIES: Picnic Time

OTHER: Coarse Glitter

JJ’s next card is just as adorable as the pies!  She starts with a wonderful blue background accented with distress sprays, then she used the Wood Plank Stamp Set as a blanket to the set the stage for her picnic goodies.  Next she added the “paper plates” and then all the delicious traditional picnic foods using the Picnic Time dies.

I love all of the detail JJ added using a white gel pen.  Just adding a few accent lines here and there makes such a difference.  Finally, her card is finished off with one of my favorite sentiments from the Life’s a Picnic Stamp Set, because it is absolutely true, there is nothing better than good food, good friends, and sunshine!

 

Good Friends Card

SUPPLY LIST:

STAMPS: Life’s a Picnic Stamp Set, Wood Plank Background Stamp Set

INK: Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Lemon Tart, Harvest Gold, Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice, Green Parakeet, Spring Moss, Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Amethyst Allure, Winter Wisteria, Royal Velvet, Dark Indigo, True Black, Dark Chocolate, Classic Kraft, Fine Linen

PAPER: Rustic White

DIES: Life’s a Picnic, Picnic Time

OTHER: Distress Oxide Sprays, White Pen

TIPS:
  • Use coarse glitter to add the look of sugar crystals
  • Blend the edges of your pies with a darker color to give a more realistic baked look
  • Layer two of the striped die cuts to create a lattice pie look

TIPS:

  • Use a small blender brush to add shadows for more realistic look
  • Use a white pen to add highlights to your die cuts

Cornered: Summer Sun is up next and I absolutely adore this card by Seeka!  It’s simple, yet makes a big splash!  She got started by cutting out her top layer of cardstock using 2 of the Cornered: Summer Sun corners at a time so she only had to run them through her die machine twice. She then created the rainbow layer underneath.  I am partial to rainbows and I love how she ink-blended it in a circle to match each quadrant of her die-cut Cornered: Summer Suns, it’s perfect!

By adding some distress spray to her rainbow, it makes it look like spray art, which is so cool and trendy.

SUPPLY LIST:

STAMPS: Tuck It Sentiments

INK: Various Tim Holtz Distress Inks

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White

DIES: Cornered: Summer Sun

OTHER: Distress Oxide Sprays

 

We hope you have enjoyed all the beautiful projects that we have shared with you today!  We would love to hear what you think of everything we have introduced!  Please leave a comment on this post to tell us what you like the most and why, and you will be eligible to win big!

 

Leave a comment today and you will be automatically entered to win a $50 Papertrey Ink gift certificate! You have until 10am ET, May 26th to leave your comment and be eligible to win.  Only one comment per person please.  One randomly selected winner will be posted on the May Release Winners Page by 11 PM ET on May 28th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  12. Oh my, love Picnic Time! My favorite card is the one by Kelly, with the blue bandana as a base, & all the richly colored treats on top.

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  13. Oh my gosh, I love everything! The cards are fabulous and all the food looks so realistic!

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  14. There is so much to love. The pie, the picnic food, the patriotic feel. This is an exciting release!

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  15. Awesome cards! I love all the fun picnic foods, and the summer sun design is fabulous! I’m partial to the 4th of July since it also happens to be my anniversary!

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  19. You nailed it with the picnic theme for summer, and I can see where certain images could be used all year. Oh, what fun and great card designs!

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  34. All the picnic items are so CUTE. Love how the design team used the hot dog and pie! Such a fun summer release!

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  39. oh my I love the pies they are so stunning. specially the blue berry pie red white and blue.

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  42. All so yummy! How does one pick! I think what JJ did with the picnic set and picnic sentiments really inspires me!

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  47. I love how Cornered Sun is paired with the picnic set – looks so fun! I love #10 – not sure if it is Seeka or Kelly’s.

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  49. LOVIN, LOVIN, LOVIN this release! I’m normally a “stick to the big holiday (Christmas and Birthday) supplies”, but I adore these oh-so-versatile summer foods.

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  54. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! JJ’s card is stunning with all of those gorgeous colors! 😍😍😍

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