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Make It Monday #266: That’s a Wrap

October 31, 2016      Nichole Heady      5 Comments

Lexi Daly has some great tips and tricks for you today that will allow you to create your own wrapping paper existing supplies in your stash! You get to take control and decide on colors and images, so you can create an entire coordinating package! Check out her video below!

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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 ET.

–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and create wrapping paper.

–Please enter new projects only.

–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.  ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE.  

–You will have until 6am, Monday, November 7th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. 

–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday,  November 7th, after 6am. 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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  1. Nancy Ward says

    October 31, 2016 at 11:58 AM

    Looks like a FUN project!

    Reply
  2. TK says

    October 31, 2016 at 1:14 PM

    Adorable paper!

    Reply
  3. CherylQuilts says

    October 31, 2016 at 1:50 PM

    What a fun idea, and I loved the video! Thanks for the idea, Lexi! Heading over to your blog for the grids! Hugs!

    Reply
  4. HJ says

    October 31, 2016 at 8:25 PM

    Very cute project. Love the ink colors you used.

    Reply
  5. Greta H says

    November 1, 2016 at 10:15 AM

    I wouldn’t want to open the gifts–such beautiful presentation, Lexi! This will be fun to try & the designs are great for card backgrounds, too!

    Reply

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