Make the most of your paper crafting budget with this economical look from Dawn McVey. Even the narrowist sliver of leftover patterned paper can be used to create an eye-catching striped background for your next project. Click play to find out more.
A few close-up photos 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 a background created out of scrap pieces of paper.
–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, May 14th, 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.
–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, May 14th, after 7am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!
EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:
Congrats to Ann Y.! You have been randomly selected to receive a $25 PTI Gift certificate! Please be sure to send a note off to Customer Service and provide the email address that you would like your gift certificate sent to. And thank you so much to everyone else who played along. It is amazing to see how many different ways people used up those patterned paper scraps!
Jennifer says
Beautiful colors! Love the card!
Pendra says
Gorgeous card, love the colors and mix of patterns!
Holly Saveur says
Great card and tutorial..thanks so much Dawn!
Colleen says
What a beautiful card, I just love the colors. You do wonderful work Dawn!
Suzanne Russell says
Thanks so much for sharing your thought process as you walked us through this tutorial. Explaining “why” your cards look so fantastic is much better than merely showing us how to put one together! Combining patterns is VERY challenging for me so I better get on it! 🙂
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BEAUTIFUL Card and video!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
janet wilson says
Wonderful to get a little insight in to how you put a card together, Dawn. Beautiful card – thank you 🙂
Sue Lelli says
REALLY interesting to watch Dawn’s thought process while making this FABULOUS card! LOVE Make It Mondays!
Beverly BL says
I really enjoyed hearing why you made the decisions you made and thought the card turned out great. Thank you so much for your wonderful video.
Linda. Gerig says
Cute stamps. Linda gerig
bluemoon says
Thanks for all the great ideas, lovely card!
Jane says
Where do I do find the products used in this card and also classes to make cards?