MCT Designer Challenge

Hello Thursday! Today's Designer Challenge is brought to you by MCT Designer, Nikki Foraker, aka Scrappin Navy Wife. She is the queen of embossing and her challenge to us today is to use embossing on our projects. It can be heat embossing, dry embossing or better yet BOTH!

I used the stitched layering hearts dies on my card to make this cut out border strip. I popped it with foam tape for dimension. I like how it looks.

My embossing comes in the form of my sweet little punch art lamb. Simple scallop circles {head and body}, circle cut in half for ears, partial oval for the face, and trimmed tiny fishtail tags for the legs. So easy!! I used my Cuttlebug polka dots embossing folder for the 'wool', and for the sweet face, which is a Peachy stamp of course, I used heat embossing so it would show up on the black. I like how it came out! Sentiment computer generated.

Hope you will join us for the Designer Challenge! Be sure to link up on the My Creative Time blog and you could be this week's winner! :)

Product List:
My Creative Time, Stitched Layering Hearts dies
Quickuts scallop circles, circles and oval
My Favorite Things fishtail tags
Cuttlebug polka dot embossing folder
Echo Park, Love Story 6x6 paper pad
Ink, clear embossing powder, white pen, black marker, button, hemp twine

MCT 3D Wednesday

It's 3D Wednesday with My Creative Time!! Admittedly, my favorite feature. :) Today's assignment was to recycle something as part of our project. I love doing mini books and 3D projects, as you probably already know. Today's project is a pocketbook calendar. I've used the My Creative Time large tag dies for my book, and for my recycle element I used cracker boxes to make my own chipboard book cover and numbers. 

Super simple to do - just cut the die shapes and adhere the calendar pages. Seriously simple! Each page leaves space on the opposite side for plenty of notes. 

Adorn the cover with the year and a few embellies if you like; I chose these sweet little hearts; hole punch and bind with ribbon. That's it! And so cute for a purse or backpack.

Product List:
My Creative Time, Tag Dies
My Creative Time, Stitched layering hearts dies
Quickutz, Diesel Classic alphabet dies
October Afternoon, Modern Homemaker 8x8 paper pad
Ribbon, mini calendar, cracker box

Announcement!! ♥

Hello blog followers and fellow peachy lovers! I can't tell you how excited I am to be posting on the Peachy Keen blog as guest contributor for February! Thank you so much to Kathy, Lorie and the Peachy Team for letting me play! I am so happy to be giving my peachies some extra love and a whole new appreciation. :) And even more exciting...tonight is the new February release and I am dieing to get the new set. If you haven't seen the sneaks over there yet, you MUST go check them out. Kathy has outdone herself AGAIN and the team has shared some amazing projects. 

My card today is a sweet little Valentine using the adorable little peeker bear stamp from the January release. 

She's just the sweetest little thing. The bow and sentiments are also part of this awesome set.

I used stickles on her bow and glossy accents on her eyes. A little pink copic for her sweet cheeks and she's all set to ......

....wobble!!! :) I put her on a wobble for extra cuteness!! Adorbs!!!

But I couldn't stop there, I had to make this cute little treat box and matching card as well. Again using the January release stamp set for the candy stamp and sentiment. I love this set!! For the card I simply cut 6x3 and scored in half, added the 2 3/4x2 3/4 piece of pattern paper then the stamped heart on a circle.

The tiny bakery box is a Quickutz die. Isn't it the cutest!

Product List:

Peachy Keen January Release, PKSC-13

Quickutz mini bakery box die

Quickutz nesting heart dies

My Creative Time banner die

Echo Park, Love Story 6x6 paper pad

Various pattern paper scraps

Border punches, circle punch, corner punch

Ribbon, stickles, glossy accents, action wobble, ink, copics 

Red light, green light

I can't STOP!!! I keep getting ideas in my head and have to make them! I hope you don't mind. The second I opened the package of toothpicks, this idea came to me and I had to make it. RECYCLE!

The plastic packaging is the perfect size for Hershey nuggets, I thought to myself.

Ok well maybe not 100% perfect, but I trimmed it a bit so it's not quite as deep and now it IS perfect!

Seriously?! This paper looks like lines in the road! I didn't even do this on purpose when I selected it, but once I made my road-tag, I realized the paper matches back to my tag perfectly. Score! The heart and title letters are My Creative Time dies...

... as is the layered curly label. I made the sentiment by putting several others together. Umm, score again! ;)

Inside message is simple. Again using MCT dies and sentiment. Sweeeet!

Thanks for coming by today. Happy Groundhog Day!

Product List:
My Creative Time, Fun Lowercase Alphabet dies
My Creative Time, Stitched layering heart dies
My Creative Time, Vintage label banner die
My Creative Time, Curly label die and layering die
My Creative Time, Lots of Love stamp set
My Creative Time, All Star Baby stamp set
My Creative Time, 100% Sweetness stamps and heart die set
My Favorite Things, fishtail tag dies
Echo Park, Love Story 6x6 paper pad
Ink, black marker, white pen, stickles

p.s. My dorky husband didn't even get it when I showed him!!! He looked at it. Looked at me. "Stop what", he says. "In the name of love", I tell him. "A song. 60's. Diana Ross. You know. Don't you get the stop light and the lines in the road?" "No", he says. Then he just laughed. :{ Gee. Thanks. What a goob! But I love him anyway. LOL!

Just monkeyin' around

Ummm....it's February!!!! Can you believe it? I refuse to accept it. Take that, father time! LOL All right, well getting down to business.... I don't have many punches, but I do love punch art. So the other night I got out my dies and starting playing around. This sweet little monkey is one of my creations. Isn't he cute!

I think the Peachy Keen face makes him extra cute, and his bed head hair, also a Peachy stamp, makes him the cutest little guy swingin' on the vines.

Simple shapes is all you need. Get creative with your dies and punches. You'll amaze yourself with what you can put together using just your imagination and a few shapes!

Product List:
Monkey:
Circles, oval, and heart dies, or punches
Peachy Keen PKSC-13, January release
Peachy Keen, PK-490 Everyday Character faces
Other:
Quickutz nesting heart dies
Paper Trey Ink, double ended banner die
Pink by Design, Jungle Fever stamp set
My Creative Time, Lots of Love stamp set
Carta Bella, Devoted 6x6 paper pad
black ink, white pen, glossy accents