Tip: How to make an open wreath using a vine stamp and it's coordinating die

Do you ever see a card by one of the fabulous Papertrey Ink designers and think I've gotta make a card just like that now!?  But then you realize you don't have all the supplies the designer used?  Well that happened to me recently.  I sat down to make some Christmas cards.  I immediately thought of Betsy's amazing card using the PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves stamp set.  I couldn't wait to start making this:

Isn't it wonderfully cute!? (You can see more details on Betsy's blog here)  I was soo happy my daughter had the PTI dress up doll basic set because it gave me an excuse to buy the Elf set and thus I could recreate this card.  Or so I thought....I didn't have that rustic wreath stamp set.  So I got to thinking what I could replace the wreath with.  This is my finished card...see what you think?!

Can you guess what I used for my wreath?  I used the vine included with PTI's What the Doodle:  Ornament stamp and die set.  I had to do some snipping though to make it work.  Here let me show you.

First you stamp and die cut or fussy cut several of the vines.  (I wanted a hollow wreath for the elves to pop out of so I cut a circle out of my card front and the size of that determined how many vines I needed)  Next you will snip apart the vine as indicated above.  Then begin layering your cut peices around the circle.  I lay the middle black part of the vine directly along the edge of the circle so half  the vine is on the cardstock and the other half is hanging out of the circle.  As indicated in the photo you will want to flip the top half of the snipped vine so it is facing the wrong way.  You will also want to overlap the vine pieces slightly when you glue them around the circle.

Above is a picture of the completed wreath.  The red showing through is mat on my table.  I decided make another card using just the open wreath since it's so pretty on it's own.

I colored the wreath and bow with Prismacolors an used a sparkle gel pen to color the tiny berries.  The bow and sentiments were all from PTI's Bells and Boughs stamp set.

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI Dress Up Dolls: Basics Stamp Set	PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves Stamp Set	PTI Bells and Boughs Stamp Set

PTI Stylish Sentiments: Holiday	PTI What the Doodle Ornament

Thanks for stopping by! Please come back again! Happy Holidays!

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Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #267 Assembly Line Card Making

This week's technique for the Make it Monday challenge involves assembly line card making.  Laurie has a wonderful video demonstrating how to make duplicate cards easily.  Check it out here. I needed to make several items for our upcoming church craft and bake sale.  So I decided to use Laurie's tips to make some Elf treats using PTI's Dress up Dolls: Elves.

I got the bags from the Dollar Tree.  I filled them with 12 kisses and added the topper printed out on my computer using Georgia Pacific cardstock.    I stapled the bags shut then used my ATG to attach the toppers to my bag.  I found it is easiest to attach the back first then fold the front over and attach last.

I got the cute little poem from My Creative Corner.    The poem reads:
With Little elf eyes watching you,
There's not a lot that Santa misses,
 So to help you be good today,
Here's a bunch of sweet Elf kisses.

 I embossed the bottom of the treat topper with little an X border to reinforce the kiss theme. 

My son turns 13 on Thursday and he is big into "potty humor" so I had to do a boy version for him.

I got the poem from Paper Crafts by Candace.  The poem reads:
I hear you've been naughty,
So listen, here's the scoop.
All you get for Christmas,
is this bag of Elf Poop!

I didn't think an X border was appropriate here so I just did diagonal slashes.

I got the color ideas from Kay Miller.   She made some adorable projects using these elves.  Check them out here.  I used Prismacolor pencils blended with Gamsol.  I am totally amazed at how easily the Gamsol blended away the pencil lines.  It made coloring very enjoyable!  The only thing I found difficult was doing the little stripes on the tights.  I have since bought a smaller blending stump so that should make blending easier for future projects.  I goofed when I was coloring so I have a few other versions to share.  Oh and I stamped the images on the little insert sheet that tells the color names of the cardstocks.  It's a little thinner than the Stamper's Select white I usually use but for this project I didn't want so many layers of thick cardstock so those inserts worked perfectly!

I added some white iridescent Stickles to the pom pom on the hat.

I borrowed a gold gel pen from my daughter to add some sparkle to the buckle, bottom of the girl's dress and buttons.   I apologize for the bad photos...I should have taken them in the daylight but I didn't finish them up until it got dark and would miss the deadline for the challenge if I waited.

I got these dress up dolls for my daughter to play with. She is loving coloring in the images but I have to say I am loving them too!   They have soo many cute outfits!  If these sell well I will do another version for the Spring craft show.  They have a cute little bunny outfit for the dolls to dress up in!   

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves Stamp Set	Prismacolor Pencils	Inky Antics Gamsol Coloring Kit

Thanks for stopping by! Please come back again! I will be sharing a few more treats I made up for my craft show later this week.

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