Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, no, I am not confused, I know its Wednesday, but I am playing in two challenges that have Monday in their name - Make it Monday from Papertrey and The Cure for the Monday Blues from Taheera.  I am sure Taheera picked that inspiration picture just for me ;) - bright colors, that's just my thing! And then Betsy Veldman  over at make it Monday came up with this darling idea of making confetti garlands and I had to combine the challenges..... All the flowers are from the Papertrey set Beautiful Blooms II. I heat embossed them. The sentiment is also Papertrey - Think Big Favorites. Added a mix of homemade and bought sequins and stringed them up. I LOVE this card! So cheerful! I am also linking it with  Flashback Friday  - Got flowers The Snippets Playground  - use a snippet (sequins)           I have another blog post coming up today - day 3 of the STAMPlorations stamp relea...

The wonderful Darnell from djcardkreations  is celebrating her birthday today!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY you sweetheart! I wish you many more. I love seeing your new creations and your blogposts - they are a treat to read! You have inspired my at so many levels - thank you! I am sure everyone knows Darnell - if not you better head over to her wonderful blog..... Darnell, this is for you: I hope you like it! I got inspired by this weeks "Masking with die cuts" over at  Make it Mondays . The super talented Erin Lincoln is showing us how to do this expertly. Its a great video to watch! So I went to "work" on this card. I diecut post it notes for masking, sponged around them and then stamped in the flowers, deliberately leaviing an off center white border around the stamps. the happy is die cut from a paint chip. All supplies are by Papertrey. Added some tiny white dots and some sprinkles of Mr. Huey. There is a linky Party going on over at Ardyths b...

This weeks Make it Monday  is the brainchild of the super talented Betsy Veldman  who inspires us to make our own cover plates. This is really easy, if you have an unlimited supply of Papertrey products. However, if you don't it becomes quite tricky. I thought it would be easy, but no its not - at least not for me.....The problem with the older Papertrey dies is, that you can't break them apart - like the matching dies for my all time favorite set Happy Trails, which I first thought I'm going to use. So rummaging through my PTI box I found that the only dies I have are from the set Beautiful Blooms and that was that.... And here is the card: Its a little tricky to do, since the dies are only minimally larger than the stamps - so you can't really stamp into the opening as Betsy showed us in her video. I laid the card stock with the negative die cuts onto the card and traced around with a pencil. I removed the negative die cut and stamped into the traced out...

Stamped Square Frames - that is the theme at this week's  Make it Monday . The talented Dawn  shows in a video how to do that. Its easy and quick and the result is  fabulous  - I think!  I don't really have a border stamp from PTI, so I improvised - part of the fun! I took the sentiment from the Papertrey set Cutting Garden and used it as a frame. The dies are also Papertrey  - Beautiful Blooms. The one with the ink on it was a leftover from some project I can't even remember. (You know what that means.......) - it goes into the Snippets Playground ! I added a silver paper candy in the center, which I colored with Copic. That works just fine and you don't need to buy them in all different colors. I mounted the white cardstock on a red card.  I chose the colors to fit this weeks  Dynamic Duos Challenge and I am also linking this up with Seize the Birthday  - anything goes Thank you for visiting my...

I decided to combine the 10 minute craft dash  with the Papertrey blog hop . At the last minute - as so often....Well, that happens, when you have to work all day, as I had to do yesterday, too... the requirement at Papertrey is sequins. I happen to have a few, that I have never used. So I quickly threw this card together - I was in Yoga class earlier and thought the entire time about how to compose this card...Amazing, what yoga is good for.... I made a quick grid with pencil, used a flower from the Papertrey Beautiful Blooms set and a Michaels sentiment. I made this card in exactly 9 minutes and 50 seconds. Puhhhh, that was close.....Its a little off center and the sentiment is a little off, too -  oh well...otherwise I would have gone over the time limit....

I played around with color embossing after watching Heather's video on Make it Monday #101. I started with the grey PP and put the big yellow blossom in the bottom left corner, but had totally forgotten, that this yellow despite being opaque does not work.....Grrrr... So I took white cardstock and simultaneously color embossed both. I covered that mishap on the PP with some green leaves - I still like the end result. All stamps are  Papertrey - Beautiful Blooms and Dress Form. Tonight I won't be able to make cards - have to work until late :( At least its quiet enough for now to get that blog post out and link it up with Make it Mondays . Thank you all for visiting and those kind an  uplifting comments you left on my blog - they always put a smile on my face :)