More embossing with dies

Hi! I'm playing with dies again as inspired by PTI's new Make it Monday. The challenge this week is to emboss with dies. So I thought I'd make a 3x3 card set and also enter it in Moxie Fab World's The Card Sets Challenge. That challenge will end soon so I better get a move on and post this. Hopefully, you'll get a chance to play too.

This is the first set of 3x3 cards I made. I cut the circles first with my nestabilities and then used PTI's small rickrack border die to emboss a series of rows onto the lower portion of the circles to look like waves. I then stamped and cut out the small images from various PTI Tiny Treats stamp sets and popped them up with foam tape. (Yes, they are tiny images to cut but still manageable). I cut out larger circles in PTI felt for the layered look. I really like how this looks and I think the images help to convey the feeling of waves.

I made a second set of cards in red (sorry this photo is so messed up color wise). I embossed with the same die just a bit lower on the circle. I thought the rows could look more like hills or something with the various images flying above the land. I think if I have time I'd do another series with animals on land and even a Christmas one with a snowy ground. Time is always such a factor and I don't know where time goes nowadays but it's just speeding by.

Here's the little container to place them all into. Of course, I had to use this template by Sunghee. It is just perfect to place 3x3 cards in. You can get it at her Little Potato House store. I cut out 2 strips of felt using the rickrack border die to use as handles. Then used a tag from PTI's Tiny Tags set. It's the perfect size for this little bag. The label on front is from the PTI's Tag-its series.

It's hard to get a good picture of all of them. Six cards in here are a tiny bit snug because I popped up all the images.

These two are probably my favorites. You can click on the photos for a better view of the embossing.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire throug...

coffee cup shaped cards

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Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story...

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