Monday 7 February 2011

Make it Monday!

Evening Everyone!

Yes I am back again! This Papertrey Anniversary is certainly keeping my blog active! So today Nichole announced the NEW 'Make it Monday' which will be a weekly challenge. You can read all about it HERE and also the current challenge which is Go-To Sentiment Cards.

I always need Thank you cards so I thought I'd make that the first of my cards that I will most likely be making for this challenge seeing as the prize is a $250 Papertrey Gift Certificate!


Purple is a colour that I use lots of then non seems to appear for ages! I do like the colour but it's not my go to colour I guess I should say. Anyhow, I chose to use the Plum Pudding CS as I was hopping around blog land and saw some of the Sugar Plum paper used. I do LOVE polka dotted paper and completely forgot I had this paper pad so out it came!


I'm loving these cute lil 4x4" cards, so quick and easy to fill the space! I'm certainly giving my PTI dies a workout this week as you can see by my creations! The Mat Stack 4 is one of my FAVES because of it's size and I am kicking myself for not ordering the Mat Stack 5 - hope it's back in stock by release!

Ok back to the card! I used an array of stamp sets to stamp the background: Mixed Messages, Mat Stack 3, Up, Up & Away, Butterfly Dreams, Communique Curve Sentiments, Mat Stack 1, Beyond Basic Borders, Round & Round and finally Giga Guidelines! I used the technique Erin showed in her video & also used Nichole's idea of stamping one sentiment in black ink to stand out.

The Mat Stack 4 is adhered to the card using foam pads and the same for the butterfly.

There is also a new challenge over on A Passion for Papertrey! So as I was making the card I thought I'd join in on the NEW challenge which is 'Tag Your It!' Tags, I love them! 

I didn't want to stamp all ove the tag so I only added one sentiment but lots of butterflies instead. Really simple but I think it stands out nicely!


I used Maile's technique HERE for the tag ribbon! It just looks tidy and neat and makes attaching it to a gift super simple.

Well, I have certainly waffled on tonight! Lol! It's back to uni tomorrow and an early start. I got a bit done today but still got a way to go! 

I'll be back tomorrow with a scheduled post while I am out with another TAG to share.

Thanks for stopping by - Again!


7 comments:

Bonnie said...

Such a pretty card, love your butterflies!!

Caryn said...

Gorgeous card and tag Beverley, great take on the Make it Monday challenge AND out Tag challenge.

Thanks for joining in.

Hugs,
Caryn xxx

Donelda said...

another great take on the challenge!! Your cards are so eye appealing, when I scan quickly through all the cards that are linked I keep going directly to yours!! cool!!

Lori said...

Sweet card and tag set.

Aimes said...

Well you can 'waffle' all you want when talking about projects as fabby as this one! ;D
You make soooooo tempted to pick up plum pudding and play with it..!
Thanks so much for joining us on A Passion for Papertrey!
Hugs,
Aimes
x

Imke said...

Very pretty Card, Beverly. I love your color choice and the butterfly. Good luck !!

Daniela F. said...

Beautiful set, Beverley! Love the small card size and sentiment cluster :)