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June 2025 Release Day

Make It Monday #121: Colored Vellum Flowers

June 17, 2013      Nichole Heady      19 Comments

Betsy's received several requests for a tutorial featuring her lovely colored vellum flowers. She's on deck today to show you all the tricks. Just click play and let the magic happen. 

 

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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 include colored vellum flowers.

–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 below.

–You will have until 7am, Monday, June 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,  June 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!

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EDITED TO ADD THIS WEEK'S WINNER:
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Congratulations to Darnell 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. linda in nc says

    June 17, 2013 at 8:32 AM

    Wow! Betsy’s card is beautiful.

    Reply
  2. Dolly says

    June 17, 2013 at 8:51 AM

    Question for you Betsy…if the stamping and embossing on the vellum is so tricky…Why did you not choose to do the stamping first and then the die cutting?

    Reply
  3. Michelle Bala says

    June 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM

    Stunning card! Thanks for the tutorial!

    Reply
  4. Robin in Washington says

    June 17, 2013 at 10:08 AM

    Stunning card! Thank you for the tutorial!!

    Reply
  5. Mendi Yoshikawa says

    June 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM

    Such a beautiful card. Thanks for the tutorial Betsy! 🙂

    Reply
  6. Cheryl B. says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM

    Another winner winner chicken dinner!!

    Reply
  7. Christi Conley says

    June 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM

    Beautiful!!

    Reply
  8. Holly Saveur says

    June 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM

    GORGEOUS..love this card and the other one you made..Thanks for this great tutorial Betsy!

    Reply
  9. Jodi (Jodi&jade) says

    June 18, 2013 at 12:30 AM

    I cant speak for Betsy, but I tried to stamp and emboss the flower first and then I diecut it, and when i did it that way the embossing cracked and chipped away in areas, since the embossing does go right to the edge, it was under the die.
    Betsy you cards are SO AMAZING, and I LOVE how colorful you create them all.

    Reply
  10. Linda R says

    June 19, 2013 at 7:00 AM

    Thanks for a amazing tutorial.

    Reply
  11. Noreen says

    June 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM

    Betsy’s vellum flowers are beautiful, and the colors are lovely!

    Reply
  12. Diane Oliver says

    June 20, 2013 at 8:56 AM

    IS the tut somewhere else. I can’t open it from work or home ??? I don’t see it on her blog.

    Reply
  13. LauraJane says

    June 21, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    GREAT tutorial Betsy.
    I like how we can PIN directly from the thumbnails of the
    Participants.

    Reply
  14. Darnell J Knauss says

    June 22, 2013 at 12:08 PM

    Hmm, not sure my first comment went through, so I’ll try once more. If it doesn’t take, it just goes away. Thank you, Nichole and Betsy, for this wonderful tutorial video! Betsy, your open weave hexagon card front is incredibly inspired!!

    Reply
  15. Greta H says

    June 23, 2013 at 2:52 PM

    Betsy does the best videos & now I have a new favorite! Fabulous card!

    Reply
  16. Darnell J Knauss says

    June 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM

    Yippee! It’s a thrill to see my card featured and although I know it’s random, I still wanted to say thank you for this awesome prize!!

    Reply
  17. Hannah A. says

    June 26, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    Cool. This was really interesting and inspiring. Thank you. I’m very impressed! 🙂

    Reply
  18. Conniecrafter says

    June 30, 2013 at 7:52 AM

    Gorgeous flowers, love the coloring and great card design too!

    Reply
  19. Miriam says

    August 13, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    Love the card…endless possibilities!

    Reply

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