I am so very excited and honored to have this be my very first post and very first challenge as a Senior Design Team member of PaperTrey Ink!!! No words can describe the feeling really. I am absolutely over the moon!
We have been asked to create a project this month using our favorite stamp set. What? EVERY PaperTrey set I own is my favorite. I am not even kidding when I say that. So it was really hard to choose. Of course, since I had my hand in designing First Fruits, I thought of that first. I have been wanting to make a very special present for my daughter though, and it had to do with Christmas.
So I decided to pick a set that was my favorite Christmas set to work with this month. I chose to make a project with the stamp set ”Believe”. I still can’t get over that elegant Santa and the absolutely stunning tree in this set. Along with the fact that the small images that can be held by Santa or used on their own are so beautifully simple. I wanted to make a book of Christmas Carols, which I could share with my readers as well as my children. I made this book of 13 arrangements for any instrument in C. So that means Flute, Volin, Recorder, Piano etc.. I made easy to read chord symbols for the accompaniment of piano or guitar and all in the format of a 5×7 space, so you can easily prepare a book using your favorite PTI card stock! I am including one large PDF of all of the arrangements so you may print them out and get ready to use it for your own gifts next year! Also…keep reading, because I will be giving this set away to a lucky person who chooses to leave a comment of thanks in this post!
You may click on all pictures for full-size images.
I loved making this book for Sophie. I know she will use it for many years to come. Even though it surely didn’t need it for stability, I matted each white page of music printed on Stamper’s Select White onto a Pure Poppy, Kraft or True Black color backing, allowing only for a slight edge to show which I scalloped using my Fiskars cutting wheel. Above each carol I chose one of the various smaller stamps in this set to highlight above each title. Allowing me to color a bit with my copics. This added a nice touch, but didn’t interfere with the music itself, which worked well. I used Polka Dot Basics stamp set and Fresh Snow ink to create a sweet background image for the cover, which complimented the stitching in the true black grosgrain. I knew I wanted to use black to match our ebony and ivory recorder. I wanted to do the Santas using the True black card stock, so I stamped them in fresh snow ink and colored them in with a white and red prismacolor pencil. For the inside cover page, I wanted to write Sophia a note in my own handwriting, so she knows how much she means to me. A personal touch that can add so much in the way of history down the road. I hope you enjoyed my project today, and will use the PDF to make your own book of carols for you or your children next Christmas, or earlier so they can practice!
Here is the link for the full PDF file of Christmas Carols. christmas-carols
(I chose to put my book in alphabetical order. The order of the songs are alphabetical in the PDF file.)
Also, here are some projects I have done previosly with this set:
Leave a comment of thanks for this post by 12 midnight EST, and one name will be chosen to recieve a complimentary “Believe” set straight from the warehouse! The winners will be announced on Nichole’s Blog HERE after 12pm EST time Feb.2nd!
Also, You won’t want to miss what the other senior design team members have in store for you today! Go see!
Also, the release team is having blog candy as well…today you have to go and visit everyone!!
Stamps: Believe, Polka Dot Basics, Fresh Alphabet
Paper: Pure Poppy, True Black, Kraft, Stamper’s Select White
Ink: True Black, Fresh Snow, Ripe Avocado
Ribbon: True Black Stitched Grosgrain
Other: Wood board Book Covers and Rings (Bind-it-All), Fiskars Rotary Paper Cutter (Scalloped Wheel)
COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THE BLOG CANDY. THANKS SO MUCH!
Your creations are amazing and Believe is a great set!!!!
I love your book of carols! Such a good idea
I love this set! I’m so glad it’s the one you’ve chosen as your favorite!! Your projects using Believe are just beautiful!!
Kerry Morgan
Great pick, totally love it and don’t have it
That is truly amazing. Thank you.
You are an inspiration! Thanks for everything!
What a lovely, timeless project! And thank you soooooooo much for sharing the PDF with us!!! I love that St Nicholas, too! Looks very Victorian and traditional.
PaperTrey is just the best. I love all the sets that I own. I enjoy seeing how the Design Team uses them.
My mother usually had to make me practice the piano, but today I’m partial to cards with music on them. I love your work. Thank you for offering the Believe set.
The black & white card is so very striking! Wonderful projects!!
I love your work! Thank you for sharing your talents.
Thanks so much for the chance to win this set. It is such a cute set and I love the cards you have done with it. So cute and Christmas-y. Have a great day!!
Love your work! Can’t wait to see more of what you
put together!
Congratulations on making it to the senior design team! What a great gift and thanks for making it available for all of us!
Great project you designed with this awesome set! Love all your work!
Congrats on making senior DT, well deserved!!!
Thanx for a chance to win a set of my own!
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome samples with us! You are so talented! I can’t wait to see more over the next 2 weeks!!!!
You are one of my absolute favorite blogs! Congrats on Senior design team. Looking forward to seeing more of your talent.
I am so thankful that I stumbled on Nicole’s blog last year. She along with all you amazing design team members have inspired me to start stamping again. Would love to win this awesome set.
Wow….Love to win this…awesome
Edna R
Indiana
I’m thankful for talented people sharing their creative efforts and inspiration!
Thanks for the opportunity to win. I especially like these stamps as they remind me of old world crafts.
The tree in the Believe set is one of the prettiest trees I have ever seen! Would just love to win this set. Thanks for the opportunity!
Love that songbook! Thank you for sharing your creations and for the chance to win this beautiful stamp set.
Love your work. I think this was the set that got me addicted to Papertrey in the first place!
I don’t own the Believe set, but your projects make me want to!
Amazing! Thank you for the opportunity at such a great set!
Thanks for the chance to win! I’m a new fan of PTI!
Would love to win this set. Your work is beautiful.
Love Papertrey….you are very inspirational!!!
What you did with your choice for favorite stamp set is really great. Thanks for sharing
Love everything here!
I will have to agree. This set is one of my favorites, and it would look great in my scrap room. Thanks for the generous chance to win. Linda
Your projects are so beautiful. I can’t wait to see how you will keep inspiring us.
~ jess k
What a great idea. My 3 year old son is still singing,”Frosty the snowman” all around the house. Thanks for the chance to win!
Thank you for all your creativity and sharing it with us!
I love your creativity! It is such an inspiration! Whenever I hit a wall I know I can count on the PaperTrey designers to get the MOJO flowing! Look forward to seeing what you great gals come up with this year!!!
All your projects are fabulous – and all the stamps are great. Thank you for your generosity. I wish you all many more years of success.
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I forgot to say: I, too, have used rubber stamped images for embroidering; the smaller ones I have stamped on paper, then scanned and enlarged to size them for my project. There are so many fabulous images that can be embroidered …. Greetings from Florida!
Great job! I love that tree… makes a huge statement.
Most hearty congratulations, Becky. You have inspired many of us already – now, all the more!
Love it all! I don’t have that set yet, but it is on my wish list!
OMG Thanks for offering someone a chance to win this beautiful set. I love PTI.
thanks for the wonderful inspiration! The songbook was really unique.
Love all of your Projects. Congratulations!
I have admired this set and that fabulous tree also! Congratulations on your DT appointment and thanks for the chance to win!
What a neat idea! My daughter would love one of these, i’ll have to keep it in mind for next Christmas.
I really love this stamp set,too. You have made some very beatiful designs with this set.
Beautiful work
Thank you for the chance to win your favorite set. I don’t have this particular one and would love to win it. I check your blog daily and so enjoy all the ideas you share with us. thank you so much.
Stephanie
Love all your creations. Thanks for the chance to win some awesome goodies!