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)

CAS-Friday Challenge #28 with Front & Centre

Hi everyone! I've been a bit quiet the last few days so time for some update! I've been out catching up with my friends. Yesterday I had one over at my place and introduced stamping to her ;) We had fun, but I managed to take a good chunk/fillet of my left index finger with my craft knife :'( It's still oozing blood after 15hrs of pressure bandaids (I wasn't going to apply manual pressure for 15hrs lol). It's slowed down (bleeding wise), but I'll have another check later. But it really sucks.

Anyway, I thought I'd make a bag using my Front & Centre die at last. I've only made a card out of it and it was about time I used it for what it was originally intended for! I gave it to my friend to take her Christmas chocolate and the card she made inside.

 

Btw, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone by adding in a tag to play along with this week's CAS-Friday Challenge!

 

 

I was stuck for a while as I don't deal with big spaces so well. I tend to work in smaller areas (i.e. cards) - hence I never started scrapbooking... yet. I will soon ;)

   

I stamped over the Berry Sorbet base with Sheet Music background in Versamark. Added some snowflakes and Tremendous treats.

  

 

I don't have any tag dies, so I just had to make with whatever I had. I used the Edgers #3 die to round the end of the tag. Here's a close up view. I heat embosssed the sentiment just to show my friend what it is lol

 

It's a little hard trying to type without your index finger so I'll stop it here. but thank you for coming again! :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: [PTI] Background Basics: Sheet Music, Tremendous Treats: Christmas, Think Big Favorites #8, Tag Its #8

INK: [PTI] Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo; [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark

PAPER: [PTI] Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, Vintage Cream

OTHER: [PTI] Front & Centre die, Damask Snowflakes die collection, Limitless Layers 1.75" Circles Collection, Edgers #3 die, rustic jute button twine; [Faber-Castell] Watercolour Pencils; block bottom bag; glitter