The PaperTemptress ...
Now, as a papercrafter, doesn't that name just make you curious?! Well Patricia, the PaperTemptress, is celebrating her ONE YEAR anniversary and I was invited to help her celebrate by helping YOU have a chance to WIN!
First off, here is a card I made to highlight some of the most beautiful paper that this fabulous company offers.
I worked with the
Bronze and
Copper metallic papers to bring you this Thanksgiving card. I colored my image very lightly with Koh-I-Noor pencils (no OMS) as I was going for a very soft look and didn't want the image to fight with the glory of this paper. After cutting the main image with an oval nestie, while the ivory CS was still IN the nestie I lightly rubbed some copper metallic paste over the image to soften it and add some richness. I used GKD's ivory cardstock as my base, then I added a layer of the PaperTemptress Bronze metallic followed by a Copper metallic that I had run through my textile CB embosser. This metallic paper embosses SO beautifully!
Using a recent sketch from
Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge, I put together the rest of the card, with a simple nestie mat made from the bronze metallic paper followed by my main focal image on ivory. A simple bit of organdy metallic/pearlized ribbon and a few deep brown rhinestones for some "glitz" completed the card.
Here's a close up so hopefully you can see the real beauty of the paper - it IS tricky to photograph to catch the sheen without the glare :-)
Ok - here's the scoop on the Treasure Hunt.
To celebrate the 1 year anniversary, Patricia is hosting a Treasure (Blog) Hunt starting on Saturday the 24th, the actual day PaperTemptress originally opened!! Things are a little different since PaperTemptress's design team members generally post on
PT's Community Blog but for the Treasure Hunt you will be visiting the design team members' blogs so you can spend a little time looking around their creative blogs!! There are some amazing new design team member (names you are definitely going to recognize) so the hunt is going to start with them so you can get to know them a little better. There may be more than one blog to visit daily but there will
only be one letter each day so be sure to keep track of the letters you need in order to come up with the word that qill enable you to enter the treasure hunt giveaway. This is where it gets really good!! For every 25 entries there will be a variety package of the winner’s choice given away so be sure to spread the word so that your chances to win increase!! The more that enter the more packages given away so be sure to tell everyone! If only 25 enter then only 1 package will be given away but if over 30 enter then there will be 2 lucky winners, now if 75 enter then 3 winners and on and on. All you have to do is start here at the
Community Blog, check for the link or links to the featured blog of the day, visit the blog or blogs,
write down the letter every day and when the treasure hunt is over then you will
e-mail the PaperTemptress the word that you found during the treasure hunt to enter the fabulous giveaway! Good luck!!
Thanks for hopping by!
Happy Saturday stampers! You know what that means - it's another My Time to Create challenge from our fabulous Lauren Meader AND this week it's a template challenge. I am so addicted to Lauren's templates that I couldn't wait to work on this challenge. Your task this week is to use any one of Lauren's My Timeless Templates (remember there are two free ones so ANYONE can play along) to package up candy! How sweet is that?!?!? (Yes, pun intended)
Ok I've had this idea in my head for a while so I finally put it all together... there will be several pics in this post so scroll on down to see them all. I decided to make Thanksgiving favor boxes/place cards. Even more special is a little twist for the candy inside... more about that in a minute. The template is Tucked Away - at this point it's my most favorite - I use it all the time. Most of these are the petite versions but one of the favors (for my DH) is the larger size. The stamps on the top label are from Theresa Momber's Autumn Beauty - as is the leaf image on the name tag. The names were just printed on vanilla CS on my computer in a deep brown then punched and sponged before adhering. Some of the papers are from Gina K, a couple of those are Digital papers - the rest of the papers are from PTI's Autumn Abundance which I ADORE.
Since I have time I'll probably finish making the set with all papers from the PTI set so they "match" sort of and I'll probably make my DH a petite version so there is no "Favor Box Envy" going on at the table. *grin*
Now, the idea here is that each family member/guest will select their favor box from the centerpiece and place it at their chosen dinner spot at the table. What they WON'T know until they open it up - is that yes, there is candy inside - I chose to fill them with hershey nuggets. But very special nuggets...
I did "I'm Thankful For Labels" instead. I will ask each family member to send me a list of THREE things they are thankful for about each member of the family. I will then print all of those up onto label sheets, wrap the nuggets with the thankful for saying for each person. Then, as part of our Thanksgiving tradition, everyone will have multiple sweet thoughts from various family members to carry them through the next several days as they eat their sweet treats.
Here's a sneak peak at a couple of the labels for my husband's candies... little silly things that will let him know I am thankful for him. (and yes he does the dishes AND the laundry so I have more stampin time!)
