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May 2023 Release Day

Iconic Baby + Inside Greetings: Welcome + Line It Up: Baby + From the Heart + Birdhouse Bliss + Elegant Edges: Fresh Cuts

Larger Than Life: Baby Sentiments + Larger Than Life: Baby + Baby Background + Vase Collection 18

Make It Monday #55: Creating Large Frames With Smaller Frame Stamps

February 27, 2012      Nichole Heady      20 Comments

Dawn McVey is here to brighten up your Monday morning with a new tutorial video. Ever resourceful, she'll teach you how to stretch your imagination and supplies by creating larger sized frames from smaller ones. Might just help you out in a pinch. Click play to learn more:

 

Here are some still shots of Dawn's project:

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f 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 Dawn's frame stretching technique.

–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, March 5th, 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, March 5th, 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!

Edited to add: Kathy Mc, #96, is this week's winner! Congrats, Kathy! Please contact CS with your stamp set choice and your mailing information. Thanks to all the participants for the creative interpretations of this challenge.

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  1. Marybeth L. says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM

    Love it Dawn , your card is beautiful! What a great idea! Didn’t know what you meant until I watched the vedio. Can’t wait to see what frame I can make larger. TFS have a great day!

    Reply
  2. Rebecca Deeprose says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM

    GREAT idea Dawn and such a beautiful card! I’d write more, but I’m itching to play!!

    Reply
  3. Debbie Baker says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:43 AM

    Dawn, you have really made me think about my small frame stamps. I think I will try this out today. Thanks for sharing and have a great day! Ciao db:)

    Reply
  4. Debbie Baker says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:44 AM

    PS I love the card! Ciao db:)

    Reply
  5. Kathy H says

    February 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM

    Dawn, you are so very clever! I have been known to cut apart a frame for either side but do so love this new idea. And aside from that gorgeous card, your hands are so beautiful! As pretty as the card you made:) have a great day

    Reply
  6. Rema Timm says

    February 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM

    Simply lovely…..

    Reply
  7. Ruby C says

    February 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM

    What a beautiful card, and you make it look so easy!

    Reply
  8. Beverly BL says

    February 27, 2012 at 10:14 AM

    Very pretty. Love the colors. Nice tutorial. Thank you.

    Reply
  9. Elaine Allen says

    February 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM

    Dawn –

    Thank you so much for this video. What a wonderful way to get more mileage out of our stamps! And what a gorgeous card!

    Elaine Allen

    Reply
  10. Carmen says

    February 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM

    I love your card and what a great idea if making use of small stamps. Thanks

    Reply
  11. Emily Frasier says

    February 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM

    Wonderful idea. Thanks for the video.

    Reply
  12. Holly Saveur says

    February 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM

    GORGEOUS Dawn!Love the idea with thestamp and heart boder die..SUPER!

    Reply
  13. donna says

    February 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM

    As always, Dawn’s MIM project is fabulous! Love the colors she chose too.

    Reply
  14. Nancy says

    February 27, 2012 at 4:22 PM

    I LOVE this idea! Always nice to get more milage from your stamps! Thanks for the great video, and what a beautiful card too!

    Reply
  15. Allsion F says

    February 27, 2012 at 8:31 PM

    What a great idea!

    Reply
  16. Suzanne Russell says

    February 28, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Great idea! You certainly have all of us thinking outside the box this week! Love your example card-as always! thanks for the inspiration.

    Reply
  17. DIANA L. says

    February 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM

    Great idea, Thanks for the inspiration.

    Reply
  18. Creative Photo Albums says

    February 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM

    Now I’m itching to apply what I just watched in the vid. Love the card too. Really stunning in blue shade!

    Reply
  19. Rema Timm says

    February 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM

    Great challenge and your card is beautiful!

    Reply
  20. Kathy Mc says

    March 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM

    Yippy Skippy I won! I’m SO excited. Now to make that BIG decision. Thanks, PTI.

    Reply

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