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Stationery Kit + Elegant Edges: Doily + Flower Garden + Vase Collection 16 + Border Bling: Scalloped Frame + Love to Layer: Lovely Bracket + Inside Greetings: Family

Ready, Set, Create! with Tina Smith – On the Bunny Trail

Designer’s Challenge: Birthday Tag Kit

Make It Monday #96: Patchwork Die-Cuts

December 17, 2012      Nichole Heady      18 Comments

This week's technique is the ideal way to turn seemingly worthless teeny tiny scraps of paper into a truely wonderful project. Let Melissa show you how to make adorable, one-of-a-kind patchwork diecuts to create stunning focal points. Just click play to learn more. 

 

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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 patchwork die cuts. 

–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, December 24th, 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,  December 24th, 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 THIS WEEK'S WINNER:

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Congratulations to Andrea Smith for being randomly selected as this weeks winner!  Please email Customer Service and provide the email address you would like your $25 gift certificate sent to!  And a big thank you to everyone else who participated in this challenge.  There were so many amazing entries!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

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  1. Nancy G says

    December 17, 2012 at 8:30 AM

    Oh Melissa this is breathtaking, love the patchwork heart and flourish! Thank you for another wonderful video!

    Reply
  2. Marlena M says

    December 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM

    I love everything about this! Gorgeous card Melissa~

    Reply
  3. Laura Jane says

    December 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM

    BEAUTIFUL card Melissa!

    Reply
  4. Carissa says

    December 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM

    Super great technique. Love the patchwork look. Love how you built on the flourish too!! That could be a MIM technique too.

    Reply
  5. Peggy Lee says

    December 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Simply love Melissa style!!! beautiful card love the video..thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  6. DIANAL. says

    December 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM

    Thanks for the fun video Melissa your card is beautiful. I am looking forward to making a few of these today. Have a wonderful week.

    DIANA
    http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  7. Stephanie says

    December 17, 2012 at 12:29 PM

    I love this idea, Melissa. Thanks so much for sharing, this is definitely something I feel I could try! So pretty 🙂

    Reply
  8. mj says

    December 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM

    another showstopper! love it! 🙂

    Reply
  9. Larissa Heskett =) says

    December 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM

    I LOVE the BEAUTIFUL card!! THANKS for sharing another AWESOME video!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

    Reply
  10. Judi Ryan- Demo says

    December 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    Melissa,
    What a beauty of a card. Just love your style!
    Great idea for using up those scraps!!

    Reply
  11. ava g says

    December 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM

    lovely card, great showcasing of quality product.
    ava g

    Reply
  12. janet wilson says

    December 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM

    Absolutely fabulous, Melissa – love the postmark “o” 🙂

    Reply
  13. Holly Saveur says

    December 18, 2012 at 3:43 AM

    LOVE IT!!! So beautiful..the other cards too..those leaves it was only a sneak paek but loved that one too.
    Thanks for the great video..always love your video’s!

    Reply
  14. Kathy H says

    December 18, 2012 at 7:21 AM

    SO LOVELY!

    Reply
  15. MaryAnn says

    December 18, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Beautiful card,thank you for the video…

    Reply
  16. Lilian says

    December 18, 2012 at 6:31 PM

    Simply stunning! Thank you for sharing such beautiful work!

    Reply
  17. Roxanne says

    December 19, 2012 at 11:21 PM

    Such an awesome tutorial. I will get a lot of mileage out of this super cool technique. Melissa has such talent.

    Reply
  18. Sue Lelli says

    December 23, 2012 at 11:36 PM

    Melissa, LOVED watching your tutorial! Your card is just BEAUTIFUL! LOVE the patchwork heart and the stitching on the flower petals!

    Reply

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Supplies used:
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-So Cherry Sweet Stencils- Product ID:  STENCIL-0041

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