Is Anyone Still Buying from Papertrey Ink?

The $5 sentiment and bird sets are $4.25 right now. The birds are beyond adorable. 

craftymom101, yes, I have and occasionally still buy from them. I'd buy a lot more but I have too much already. I especially loved their "splits," for their simple versatility, but see they only have one stamp/die split set now. The rest are just the dies, which wouldn't make sense without the stamps. I vaguely remember they were retiring them. 

I haven't placed an order in a few years and I don't pay much attention to their releases anymore because after Betsy Veldman left, they don't have as much that appeals to me anymore. However, I still love their cardstock, both the colors and the value. When most other companies are charging $7 or $8 for 10 sheets, getting 50 sheets for $11 is a steal.

I last bought from PTI a couple of years ago but have a lot of their sets in my stash and PTI card stock was always my go-to brand. Still have a lot of coloured card stock but have moved on to Neenah solar white because it's so much easier (and cheaper) to get here.

I still keep an eye out for PTI releases but have such a large collection of stamps and dies that I need to be careful what I buy. My most recent purchase was from Betsy Veldman at The Greetery and I do think that the current PTI designers are not as talented as they used to be back in the day when Nicole was there.

I just order from them when they had there 30% sell, I don’t buy very often but love their stamps.  I would love to find a older greeting stamp that they do not sell anymore if someone was wanting to sell.

You can say that again. Dangerous place when things are on sale. 

I had no idea that there was drama there.

I have a serious thing for birds and I love that the species are so easily recognizable with many of their feathered friends series. I feel certain that there’s a bluebird and a chickadee in there, but I haven’t quite IDed those yet.

Has anyone use the layered die set birds from them? They have a beautiful waxwing and a barred owl, but I’m not sure I’ll like working with layered die cuts — it looks so fiddly in Jennifer McGuire’s videos.

I’m not sure if knowing their cardstock is worth buying helps or hurts, IYKWIM….

Pulled out my two PTI feathered friends today (Screech owl and Carolina wren) to see if I did better with my new Stamparatus! For the most part, yes. The various feather layers were much easier to align with the platform. There were a couple of pieces so small they were sort of top heavy and nearly impossible to get to sit the right way to be grabbed by the lid, so I ended up using a block.

Things that stick out of the basic outline, though, like feet and beaks, I still had serious issues with. I think Altenew does a much better job with layering guides than PTI does.

Then I cut them out with my new Platinum Six and saw exactly how far off I was! Then I realized that there was probably some sort of way to use the dies to help align the stamps. Maybe next time....

Also not really fond of the Altenew set of brown ink cubes I'm using for birds. It was the first of theirs I bought, I think. Might have to try one of PTI's....

Thank you, thank you, thank you, azcrafty! I saw her use that technique for coloring die cuts, but not with layering stamps.

I did end up going back and making a second attempt at feet and beaks with the die cut birds; it was better, but not perfect. The templating technique will help quite a bit, though I think the issue of some of the tiny stamps being top heavy will persist.

I also die cut some stamped alcohol marker colored outline stamped birds today. I do like coloring.

I also do not need ALL THE BIRDS RIGHT NOW. If I yell loud enough, maybe I'll listen. I can take some time to experiment now that I do have all the tools....

Oops -- misspoke (typed?) -- meant PinkFresh. I have some deep-seated inability to keep those two names straight....