Pride card

 I am celebrating Pride month today with a pretty rainbow card.

I blended five colours of Distress Oxide ink in irregular rainbow order on a piece of white cardstock, then pulled out the Market Place Mini dies from The Greetery, and cut them out in white.

I added some white paint spatters, then double stacked one of the Perfect Sentiments from Pinkfresh Studio, that was heat embossed in gold.

Happy Pride everyone!

New Home cards

 I already had the idea to use these dies to make some 'New Home' cards, but when I saw the recent launch by The Greetery, I was inspired by the colours Betsy used!

This is the Market Place Minis die set, that came out last fall, and I used to make some European looking Christmas cards.

These are the cutest little row houses.  Yes, they're a little fiddly to cut and assemble - but I've learned to cut multiples, then mix & match the pieces to make it go faster.

The end result is so worth it!

The sentiments are from Perfect Sentiments by Pinkfresh Studio.  Stay tuned, I have a few larger ones in the works.

Market Place Tags

In prepping my end of the year post, I realized that I hadn't posted the Christmas tags that I created to gift with the tri-fold cards that I made using the Market Place suite of products from The Greetery.  

Yes, I managed to get 18 of these little guys made!  I used the tri-fold card as my inspiration, sticking to a limited colour palette, and cut multiple pieces out at a time - it looks a little more daunting than it actually was.  Once you embrace the chaos of doing a project with a ton of tiny pieces, it goes pretty quickly.

This is the Market Place Mini die set, along with the Holiday Festoons set - that provided all of the wreaths, bows and swag details.  I made them into tags by backing them with a solid cream building, then glued another one to it like a hinge, so you can open up the house and write your Christmas greeting.  I punched holes through the top and threaded some jute twine through.

The finishing touch was to spatter some gold paint to go with the touches of gold on each tag.  Labour of love, and SO worth it!  Everyone raved about these.

Gingerbread tags

These were my second effort at using the Mini Market Place dies from The Greetery.  I once again made them into tags, this time with a gingerbread theme, inspired by Wanda Guess.

These were easier than my last batch of tags, as all the bases were cut from kraft cardstock, and all the bits were cut from white - quicker die cutting, and easy assembly.

The wreaths and bows are from the Market Place Holiday Festoons die set.  Once everything was assembled, I spattered some white paint, then added a white backing to make them into tags.