Make It Monday #46

Hello hello!

  

It's another day in Christchurch and Mother Nature is still rock'n rollin'. Not too bad today though. Nothing 'major' since the 5.1 magnitude wake up call at 6:30am. There's still the odd little shakes, but nothing we're not used to ;)

  

Today, I was out seeing an old friend at the park. Malls were surprisingly not so packed - I suspect yesterday's shake ups have freaked a few shoppers out.

  

Anyway, I've tackled the Make It Monday at last! I really don't do well with tags, but I gave it a crack.

So this week's challenge was to turn any die into a folded tag. It's more or less the same theory as the Shape Up series dies.

  

I went back to using my Front & Center die. I really don't use that die enough and I just find it a little big for my head to get around. I don't do so well with large spaces - hence I've held off scrapbooking.

 

I've kept this one very simple. And I cut the Front & Center die cuts smaller so I didn't have a large area to decorate. I just stamped it with Polka Dot Basic II and added a tag. Simple as.

  

   

And you might be surprised that this simple thing took me forever to do.

 

Thanks for coming by.

 

Merry Christmas to you all, and hope that you get a well deserved break and family time :)

 

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Polka Dot Basics II, Everyday Button Bits
INK: [PTI] Fresh Snow; [Memento] Tuxedo Black; [SU!] Calypso Coral
PAPER: [PTI] Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Vintage Cream
OTHER: [PTI] Front & Center die, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles die collection; button; [Celebrate!] satin ribbon (cream); baker's twine (orange); [American Crafts] ribbon; [Copic] Sketch Marker (Y38)

Make It Monday #41: Christmas Ornament Card

Hello! I'm in the mood for playing along for challenges! So here's something for Papertrey Ink's latest Make It Monday!

 This week, we have to bring out Essential Glue Pad out and stamp and image with it, and finish off with something fine and... in my case, SPARKLY!

The only thing fine I have is Prisma Glitter, so I had little choice, but I did have this great idea to make a Christmas ornament/bauble. And those of you who know me, know I love to make windows too. So I grabbed out the plastic container PTI stamps come wrapped up in ;)

 

I used Fancy Flourishes to decorate the 'ornament'. I'm sure I've seen an ornament that looked just like this in real life. I just wish I had gold glitter. It would have been perfect.

This is what the card overlay was looking like halfway through. I stamped with the glue pad on the plastic and applied glitter. Now, Prisma glitter sticks to the plastic due to static, so once the glue had dried off, I had to go and run my finger across to try and remove as much excess off as possible. I also double layered up the glitter so that I didn't have glitter falling behind either.

 Hope you liked the card! I've got another MIM card and CAS-Friday cards to share later to check back again! Thank you for coming :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Fancy Flourishes, Think Big Favorites #8

INK: Versamark, The Essential Glue Pad, [SU!] Early Espresso

PAPER: [PTI] Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse
OTHER: [PTI] stamp set packaging container; [DMC] Precious Metal Effects embroidery floss (E677); [Palette] Prisma Glitter; [Spellbinders] Nestabilities: Standard Circles Large; [American Crafts] ribbon