♥ MME stampy love ♥

good morning!  how was your weekend?  did you enjoy all things card making?  what a fun, and wonderful holiday.  i can't wait to get started checking out all the amazing creations this week.


 i am up on the MME blog with the new OCTOBER CHALLENGE.

 this month's challenge: is to incorporate stamping into your project. It can be a layout, a card, a mini album, an altered piece...the sky is the limit. 


i chose to use the MME The Sweetest Thing Stamps on the cards i created for this challenge.   These stamps are some of my favorites ever.  I love how crisp the images are and how beautiful the images and sentiments work together.  while stamps can seem intimidating at first, if you start with a background or block of card stock, it can make the process so much fun and rewarding.

i created a little stamping tutorial to go along with the challenge today.  i am going to share with you a step by step process for creating a card using the hexagon stamp in the The Sweetest Thing Happiness Stamps

Here is the card I created 

you are so wonderful card

step 1:  stamp hexagons onto white card stock

I also created another card using the gorgeous doily stamps in the MME The Sweetest Thing Cutie Pie set.

  Finishing the card is made easy with the gorgeous chipboard and paper flags and brads.

 I love to stamp a background and MME makes that so easy with gorgeous stamps and gorgeous chipboard to layer on top of the stamped background.

cards supplies:  MME The Sweetest Thing "Cutie Pie and Happiness" stamp sets,  "Honey" simply lovely decorative brads and "perfect" chipboard elements, "Love" enamel dots, Tangerine chipboard pieces and decorative tape

♥ party goodie bags, tags & a card ♥

Good morning everyone!  it's my day on the MME blog and i was excited to share one of my favorite things to create when we get ready to celebrate a party at the house....goodie bags and goodie straws.  I don't like to purchase the themey ones because the kids seem to just crumple them up quickly or leave them behind, but every time I create their own personal little goodie bags filled with a fun treat they get really excited.

For today's post, I created tags for goodie straws and some goodie bags to place some fun little "finds" in.  I try to buy my "goodie bags" on clearance when I see sales at Target and Dept. Stores, because they are so fun to "pretty up" with MME papers and embellies later.

First, I cut the ribbons from the bags.  They had cute pink ribbons that would be fine for my daughter's parties with friends, but I decided twine and MME supplies would make them a whole lot cuter for their get together, more girly, feminine and just plain fun.

Then, I created tags for each one of the hard plastic straws.  I like to create little tags because they look so cute on the straws and you could easily dress up a place setting with just a tag.

 As you can see, in no time at all (using MME supplies I had on hand) I had a set of straws and goodie bags ready for my daughter's next little get together. It's always better to drink Strawberry Fizzies out of a fancy straw! ;)


Supplies:The Sweetest Thing: 6 x 6 pad, Happy title, Wood and Chip buttons, Decorative Brads, Together Decorative Tape, Together stickers, Misc: Cuttlebug butterfly die, heart doily, Cameo cut-file sentiments

also, i posted my first card class using the August The Story Begins Kit at Scraptastic Kit Club. 

here's the card we created using the gorgeous kit

hello card

 i hope you'll stop by and join us, it's EVERY monday and it's a place you can post YOUR cards too.

thank you so much for the sweet texts and notes about my son, you are the greatest of friends!  he's doing much better today and back at school, fingers crossed for no problems or phone calls....wink :)

have a great tuesday everyone!

hugs & so much love♥

danni

♥ gosh you're awesome ♥

you really are.  and that's why i know you'll completely {heart} these new enamel dots from MME The Sweetest Thing line.  these are so much fun to play with and i can not wait to see what you will do with them.

i created four cards using the dots as my "focal embellishment" and can't wait to play some more with these.  i love that you can add a splash of color without getting too "bulky" which is very important with cards (especially those you want to mail)

gosh you're awesome card

(together enamel dots)

 i love this polaroid frame paper......a LOT

it makes it so easy to cut out a polaroid frame and stitch and layer, again, without a lot of "bulk" being added to your page or cards

 wonderful you card

(together enamel dots)

 

 as you can see in this "side view" you can add the splash of color with not more dimension than  some "punched hearts"  these would be very mailable without a lot of hassle at the post.

 on the next two cards, i wanted to add more than a "splash of color" to my sentiment and design, i wanted to "play" with the embellishment use of the dots.

on my first card, i wanted to play with one of the new stamps in this set

 

The Sweetest Thing Hello Stamp Set 

the "hello" sentiment is an absolute FAVE of mine and you have to get this set to play with it as well as the chevrons, borders, numbers, florals....ok, all of it

 

i pulled out some Jenni Bowlin & Papertrey Ink stamp pads and matched my dots up to the colors to create this fun, playful sentiment for the focal of my card

 and on this card, i punched some flowers and used the dots as the centers (not unique, but never our of style)  i love the added color splash and it's so fun and easy to do for a fun thank you card

 as you can see, the enamel dots give a splash of color while still being relatively easy to send in the mail

i hope this gives you a couple of ideas for the dots.  i really can't wait to see what all you will come up with using these fun, new embellishments from MME.

don't forget to stop by the blog all week long for more inspiration using the enamel dots.  Tina had an amazing post using the enamel dots as border embellishments along with her designer tapes yesterday and the inspiration will continue all throughout the week♥

thank you for your sweetest notes, they make my day every day, you are the sweetest of friends!

hugs & so much love

danni

♥ taping and punching embellies ♥

good morning.  i am sorry for the break in blogging, i have had large card orders to complete and with those shipping today, i can sigh a happy sigh and blog♥

are your kids getting ready to go back to school?  mine are and are very excited this year, i look forward to this time with them.

this week on the MME blog we are focusing on the new The Sweetest Thing line and  i am up today sharing cards created using the new designer tapes.

i created several cards today, all using the new tapes, for the post.  i love my tapes (as you may have noticed) and it was fun to share how to create embellishments and patterned papers using your tapes.

here are a couple of the cards i created for today's post

 hello card

(punched butterfly embellies)

such a happy day card

(patterned paper background)

The tapes have become one of my go-to embellishments to add that little something extra to all my cards and projects.   There are so many things you can do with these tapes from creating patterned paper blocks, creating handmade embellishments, adding a finishing strip to any projects or a strip to dress up an envelope, they are so much fun.

you are my sunshine card

(postage stamp squares)

 you are the best card

(punched butterflies and hexagon)

 

 

I love that you can use the smallest piece of tape to create something so unique and beautiful.  To create the cards I adhered strips of the designer tape to a block of white cardstock, alternating the patterns.

 I then punched shapes using my Martha Stewart Magnetic Punch All Over the Page Butterfly Punch, Papertrey Ink stamp die and Sizzix 2" Hexagon dies.

 

 

 

 

 In order to have my patterns line up the way I want on my embellishments, I flip my block of card stock with the tapes upside down so I can see the shape through the punch before punching the shapes.It helps to have a magnetic punch but I have created these without magnetic punches.

 

and then you have your "punched" shape to create your embellies for your page or cards.  and, as you can see, I never waste a "negative" punched piece of card stock either, they make the cutest note cards to let someone know that you are thinking of them.  You can stitch the block of card stock, adhere a little trim, stamp a sentiment onto a small card base and you have a note card in no time at all.  Every bit of this card was made of scraps off of my desk.

 

 hello card

(butterfly negative)

Supplies: The Sweetest Thing-Hello Greetings, Sunshine Blossom, Together Round, Wonderful Delightful paper, Wonderful Delightful tiny word stickers, Hello wood and chip buttons, Hello acrylic stamps, Sunshine title, decorative brads, enamel dots, decorative tapes, label stickers;Misc:kraft cardstock,white cardstock,Cuttlebug embossing, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

i hope you will give these a try, they are so much fun, from butterflies, postage stamp blocks to hexagons, the possibilities are truly endless.

thanks for visiting me today.  i hope you have a great friday♥

hugs & so much love

danni