Make It Monday #260 video tutorial: From Black and White to Color...

Good morning! Today is my day for another video tutorial! I have a fun technique for you to try that involves creating a black and white background, and then popping a portion of that up, coloring it and lining it up with the image underneath. Stop by Nichole's blog for the video HERE! Here are a couple of samples that I made to show this technique...

Here I just left a border of black and white and colored the rest with Copics...

The next one utilizes the same technique, but the center is trimmed out and popped up and colored to give a pretty focal point!

What do you think? Will you give this technique a try? Be sure to watch the video at Nichole's blog and play along for your chance to win a gift card to Papertrey Ink this week!

From Black and White to Color cards:

STAMPS: Peonies on Parade, Give Thanks

INK: True Black

PAPER:White cardstock

DIES: Noted: Scalloped A1 die

OTHER: sequins, seam binding, Copic markers.

Meadow Greens revisited...

Today the senior Papertrey Ink design team is doing a little blog hop to show you some fresh new ideas for using an older stamp set called Meadow Greens, which you can find HERE! I have two cards that I've used my Zing! Embossing Powders with to create a soft look to the flowers. I've used Powder and Blush.

On the first card, I used a background paper from the Beautiful Brushstrokes paper, an older paper set by PTI. I used the Meadow Greens dies to cut the flower and the stem and stamped and embossed with the Blush Zing! powder. The gray piece was cut from the Noted: Scalloped Square dies. The border is die cut with the Filigree Border die.

The next card also uses a background paper from the older Beautiful Brushstrokes paper pad. I used the Powder Zing! on this one with a little different color scheme from what I normally work with - yellow, blue and brown!

Another Filigree Border die was used here and a sentiment from Meadow Greens stamps again.

The seam binding is the pretty ribbon I often use and is from zipperstop.com. I get it wet with my fingers to scrunch it up, and it dries just how you leave it.

Hope you enjoyed these ideas! Visit Betsy, Dawn, Heather and Melissa for more Meadow Greens projects!

Wanderlust inspirations...

Today we have quite a few new travel themed stamps, dies and papers to share with you! All of the new products will be available for purchase on July 15th at 10pm EST at papertreyink.com. First up, I have a travel journal to show you.

To create the journal, I used the new Traveler's Journal: Outer Cover dies for the cover and words, and the new Travelers' Journal Pages for the inside pages. Heather will have a full tutorial on how to assemble these books on Nichole Heady's blog