A Friendly Challenge {with RC stamps and dies}

We are back at it. My dear stampy friends, Jackie and Becky are joining me in a little Friendly Challenge. It was Jackie's turn to pick the theme and she asked us each to create tags or a gifty using Reverse Confetti Stamps.

 I love doing these challenges. For one, it gives us a chance to chit chat a bit AND it is always fun to see what each of us creates with starting with a similar goal. 

It's that time of year that my crafty gift giving kicks into  full gear.  I like to be prepared (at least a little bit).  I used the awesome new Confetti Cut dies from Reverse Confetti to make a gift card holder and matching card. 

Using similar products and colors on multiple projects makes for quicker results. I am so over mass producing. I used to make 80+ cards ALL THE SAME. No more. I like to coordinate things without  it all being matchy matchy.  I stamped them up with the fun TINSEL 'N TRIM stamps and the gorgeous So STRIPEY set. I seriously can't get enough of those stripes. 

Here's a close up of the  Gift Card Treat holder. I cut two of the Sweet Treat Tents from kraft cs and stamped the diagonal stripes from So Stripey to cover the front ( I did it on the back, too). After stamping, go ahead and attach the bottom pieces to create the base to your tent. 

 While I did a great job lining up my images, I could still see a bit of a seam and that bugged me, so I used the cute loopey border stamp from Tinsel 'n Trim to "hide" that, plus it was the perfect pop of color to my backdrop. 

To accent the gift card holder even more, I used my FAVORITE new tag die, Tag Me. I added some die cut circles and a pinking circle to add a sentiment from Tinsel 'n Trim. I also tucked in a few polka dots from Whole Lotta Dots. 

You might be wondering how I added a gift card to the inside of this. Simple. I used a few re-positionable glue dots (or you can re-use the sticky stuff that most gift cards have on the back from it's original packaging) and stuck the card right to the backside of the inside of my Treat Tent. 

 And here's a closer look at the card. I really loved the neutral and Kraft colors with the green and red (Jellybean Green and Brick red ink, Paver Red cs).

  

 It had been too long since I tied on a giant bow with ribbon to a card. Swooon! ♥ I carried over the Pinking circle and banner piece from the design on my Treat Tent. 

For balance I stamped on a few of the fun dotted triangles and popped up the "Santa was here" arrow. So Sweet. Oh, and you'll notice I used the same tone-on-tone So Stripey diagonals (inspired by a card Jackie did for MFT) and that same loopey border. 

Hope you are off to a fabulous Friday! It's almost Turkey Day here in the US and I am looking forward to some quiet days with my family. Enjoy the weekend. 

 Be sure to hop on over to Jackie's and Becky's Blogs to see how they used their Reverse Confetti stamps to make tags or a gifty. 

A Challenge with Friends

Hello, hello! I'm a little late for my challenge post, but I know my friends won't mind...... Becky Carafa and Jackie Pedro.  We met many years ago because of a Swap Group we were a part of. That was in our Stampin' Up years. I've been lucky enough to have met  Becky  in RIL and although I have yet to meet Jackie, I have had the privilege of working with her on the MFT DT.  I love these gals. ♥♥   Last month we played along with a challenge together. We decided it was time to do it again. 

Becky picked it this month-CASE a project from any Stampin'Up! catty. Easy peasy and a nod to our early stamping years. While I don't use a lot of SU products anymore,  I do love getting the SU catalog every year. It is jam packed with inspiration.


 I went with a card from Pg. 119 from the current catty (the one in the upper right corner). I used a similar layout, just changed the orientation. I adored the vellum flower on that card, so I made one of my own. I also loved the texture in the background with the embossing folder, so I used my new Triangle Screen Die-namcis from MFT to create a similar feel on my card. I went ahead and added back in a few triangle pieces, here and there for some added interest. 

I decided to use a pretty fall combo with the new MFT colors Fuse Green and Brick Red. I added a pinking edge in SU Basic Grey cs.  I used the smalled flower from Upsy Daisy Die-namics (all links listed below. click the graphics to shop). I cut two of the flowers and stacked them on top of each other for added dimension. 

The stamps are from the gorgeous Reverse Confetti stamp set, Peacock Pretties. I loooove that circle sentiment, I stamped it in Amuse Slate ink and cut it out with a Circle Stax 2 Die-namics. The Hello Friend sentiment was stamped in Brick Red ink and the other border stamp was stamped in Fuse Green ink. 

I lightened the whole card up by adding the decorative panel to a Sno cone base. After I had the card together, I decided it needed one more pop of color and that was when I added in the two Royal Leaves in Sno Cone. It was the bit of balance the card needed. 

That's it from me. Be sure to join me and come check out what Becky and Jackie created. I know it will be gorgeous!

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