Papertrey Ink's got a nice assortment of border dies to use on this week's Make It Monday video by Dawn McVey. Used repetitively, you can make stunning backgrounds. Check play on the video to find out more.
Stills of Dawn's project:
If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.
–A new Make It Monday Challenge will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.
–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and features border dies used to make a background.
–Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
–-Add your project to our —>InLinkz List HERE<—
–You will have until 7am, Monday, January 16th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. And you can enter as many times as you like.
–We will be tweeting and posting on our Facebook page every night (between 5-9pm EST) highlighting a Featured Project. These tweets/Facebook postings will just be a shout-out regarding projects that caught our eye. The tweets/Facebook postings no longer have any special merit regarding the actual contest.
–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, January 16th, after 7am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get to select a FREE Papertrey stamp set of their choice!
Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!
Editted to add: Our winner is #74, Terri E! Congrats Terri!! Please contact customer service with the stamp set of your choice as well as your shipping information. Thank you to all of the participants for playing along with this fun technique.
bevie pearl says
Thanks for the tutorial on using border dies as a background. What a great idea and what a pretty card that Dawn made!!
Pam Sparks says
very cool! I need that border die! TFS!
Marcie Smith says
Dawn, what a cool idea. I just love the background you created with border dies. Will have to get out all border dies and punches as well and give it a try.
Thanks.
Marcie
Maureen Chandler says
What a cool idea – love the background and I am going to make some thank you notes using your suggestions! Thank you so much!
Kathy H says
I love getting extra mileage out of my stamps and dies and things, thanks for that video!!
Holly saveur says
Gorgeous Dawn..thanks for the video!
DarC says
Oooh, I really love the pattern you created. The technique inspires me. Thanks.
DIANA L. says
Very pretty thank you for the inspiration and the challenge.
DIANA L.
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/
Therese says
Fab video Dawn! Love the look you achieved with the border die!
Roberta says
I love how these are used!!!
Jenn Copeland says
Gorgeous! I love it! You rock Dawn!
conniecrafter says
that is so cool, love that die
Barbara Klein says
I am going to use this idea with some of my punches.
Joan VanCourt says
Just watched this video, yes, 3 years late, but hey, it was fantastic. Love the idea. Thanks for sharing.