papertrey january blog hop

It’s that time of the month again over at Papertrey. 

This month’s Blog Hop challenge is black and we are being asked to create a project that showcases this bold colour .

I decided to create 2 projects for this challenge, a layout and a card. 

This layout is about my DD’s trip to the arcade during one of the birthday parties she attended last September.  She had a lot of fun trying out all the games there but her face literally lit up when she was doing high speed driving in one of the car race video games.  Should I be nervous now?  As for the green headband, I have no idea how it got there, lol.

I used Papertrey dies (modern alphabet, seeing stars, edger #5) and bitty dot patterned paper (raspberry fizz and summer sunrise).  I also used American Crafts thickers and patterned paper from October Afternoon and Studio Calico. 

For the layout, I am also linking this to  Leigh Penner’s Pages with Papertrey Challenge #15.  The challenge is to use negative die cuts in your layout.  I obviously used the negative die cut challenge in my stars.  But I realized as I was posting this that I had also used mixed elements in my title which is also one of my favourite PWP challenges. 

For my next project, I created a Valentine card.  This is my first time creating a card with a black base and I love the dramatic effect it has on the card. 

I stamped Fancy Flourishes using Papertrey’s Fresh Snow ink.  I then added the heart border and finished off with the Limitless Layers: Heart die stamped with With All My Heart (both from Papertrey) and adhered using pop dots for some dimension.  This is my only Valentine set and I don’t think I need anything else. Love it!

Here is a close up of my hearts...

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!