How smart is Nichole Heady?  Well, for all of you who have been struggling with lining up your beloved Guide Lines stamp backgrounds, you need to fret NO MORE.  Today your life has a new beginning!  Papertrey will be coming out with TWO different types of cardstock to fit with BOTH of your Guide Lines stamp sets!  Guide Lines Grid Cardstocks printed with the grid patterns found in both of the coordinating stamp sets.  The grids are in a very light gray, making them a wonderful neutral which will practically disappear once you overlay your colorful patterned pieces on top.  The grids are printed on our high quality Stamper’s Select White cardstock so your images will stamp crisply and evenly.  We have two types of the cardstock releasing this month…

Guide Lines I Grid Cardstock
featuring the same basic grid pattern found in the original Guide Lines stamp set. 
10 (8.5 x 11″ sheets) for $3

AND…

Guide Lines II Grid Cardstock
featuring the same circular grid pattern found in the our follow up set, Guide Lines Two.
10 (8.5 x 11″ sheets) for $3

I am eager to show you my projects, so here we go!  This project was made using the new Guide Lines II Grid Cardstock and Nichole’s new Two for Tea stamp set also being released on the 15th!

 Who wouldn’t love to receive a “Tea Card?”

 You can barely make out the guide pattern on the project, even in using the lighter colors!

 This booklet -type card was so easy to make!  It measures 7×3.5.  Just score at 3 1/4 and 3 3/4 along the 7 inch side!  It will give you plenty of room inside to do some fun scrapping!

 I had a great time making this pocket out of felt and using the Two for Tea stamp set to match my color scheme!  Doesn’t that teapot on the left look like it was paper-pieced?  Nope!  Just stamped!  And I had fun curving the sentiment on my block to go over top of the sentiment page of the card!

 All topped off with the beautiful aqua mist vintage buttons coming out this month!  Why just give a card when it can be a gift AND a card?  This gift was given to a special friend of mine for Easter?  Who will you give YOURS to?

And now…for the Guide Lines I Cardstock!  I wanted to focus on a couple of really great things about this cardstock.  Even though I did not emboss with it today, just think about how fast it will go now using Guide Lines Cardstock with embossing now.  Because your work is done for you already, you can now get through techniques like embossing faster than ever!  So I thought I would encourage you to try out another thing I thought about with this cardstock.  Use your copics!   Getting used to copics?  Thinking about trying them?  Well now with this cardstock, if you do not like your first couple of tries, it is OK!!  You don’t have to re-stamp the grid, so you can practice without getting frusrated!

I got out my Quilter’s Sampler Additions set and picked this lovely flower stamp!  I love how this doesn’t look like a quilt at all, but a modern block of art.  This also allows you to get used to your copic markers in a small unintimidating space, and by using only two colors, you really build your confidence in the coloring once you are finished. I stamped the flowers in Palette Noir Ink.  Do NOT use your True Black ink.  It will bleed.

Hope you loved the ideas for using this cardstock today girls!  This has been SO much fun for me!  Hope you are enjoying the sneak peeks of everyone’s sets!  You may want to check them out today again!

Lisa Johnson has more really fun things to share using her Spots & Dots Backgrounds

Lauren Meader has been doing amazing things with her new templates!

Heather Nichols is bringing out the sports star in all of us!

Dawn McVey has been making a splash with her new Scattered Showers set

Stamps: Guide Lines Two, Quilter’s Sampler Additions, Handwritten Notes and Two for Tea (coming on the 15th)

Paper: Guide Lines I Grid Cardstock, Guide Lines II Grid Cardstock, Summer Sunrise, Aqua Mist, Hibiscus Burst, Bitty Dot Basics Patterned Paper (Summer Sunrise, Aqua Mist)

Ink: Summer Sunrise, Hibiscus Burst, Aqua Mist, Melon Berry, Palette Noir

Buttons: Vintage Buttons (Aqua Mist, Hibiscus Burst)

Ribbon: Hibiscus Burst Twill, Aqua Mist Grosgrain, Summer Sunrise Twill

Other: Marvy Scalloped Square Punches (Giga, Mega) Pom Pom Fringe, White Felt, Red-lined adhesive, Primas, hemp

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