Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #271. Our host and fearless leader, Billie A., chose Use Two Dies for the theme. I used a Darling Dino, a heart, and arrow set for my dies. There’s a class set for my great-nephew to share with his kindergarten class. I also made a class set of Valentine’s for his sister’s second grade class, which will be included for the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop on Wednesday.
When you finish here, please visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the very talented design team members created. Then, don’t forget to upload your creations to both galleries. We look forward to seeing your creations there!
Here’s my postcard style Valentine’s Day card:
Since the postcard base is white and my photo background is white, I needed to add a piece of cardstock behind the postcard.
What I Did:
- When I am mass-producing cards, I get all my trimming, stamping, and cropping done first
- When I put the cards together, I added all the DSP pieces, then went back and added the cardstock, heart, arrows, and dinosaurs
- I used the Stampin’ Up! notecards and trimmed them in half for the bases of the postcards
- The one pack of 20 notecards gave me enough postcards for both class sets of cards for my great-nephew and his sister
- For both sets of cards, I trimmed 4 12″ x 12″ inch Made with Love pieces of DSP (designer series paper) to 4-inch strips, then trimmed those down to 3 inch x 4 inch pieces of DSP
- If you are using directional DSP, make sure you pay attention to the orientation of the paper
- I needed something to anchor the dinosaur, so I embossed a piece of cardstock using the Hearts of Love embossing folder and trimmed strips to 3/4 by 4-3/8 inches
- The heart die cut actually has a tag piece on the top for ribbon, so I trimmed it off
- The dinosaurs were stamped onto either Granny Apple Green or Lemon Lime Twist cardstock and cropped down
- I colored the spikes and dots using the blunt end of the dark Granny Apple Green blend
- I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the pieces together
Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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