You're Such a Doll..

Hey there!!  Monday is here and my kiddos are on spring break!  Unfortunately, today looks to be the only nice day out of the whole week... the rest of the week the forecast is for what else... rain!!  Ugh!  Anywhoo... I have a little card today featuring another super cute My Favorite Things Pure Innocence set.  This set is called Paper Dolls and when I saw it I knew I had to get it!  Took me a while because being that it was so darn cute it sold out in a nanosecond and I had to wait for it to come back in stock.   I inked her up for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge (#65) over on Splitcoaststampers.

I used some sweet papers from the LilyBee Designs 6x6 pad Picket Fence to do some paper piecing.  I stamped the little PI girl on a piece of the LilyBee paper and then cut out... yes, cut out, the teeny tiny paper dolls!  I then stamped her again on some white cardstock and colored the rest of her with Copic markers. After I finished coloring her and trimming her out I adhered the little paper dolls.  I used a MFT die-namics die from the Polka Dot Greetings set to die cut the piece she is mounted on.  In order to create the mat, I simply traced around the outside of that same die and then trimmed it out.  Some little roses were created using the Die-namics mini rolled roses dies... aren't they cute???

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & kraft; SU! green; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Dies:  My Favorite Things and Spellbinders; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; PP:  LilyBee Designs Picket Fence

Mini Journal...

Hey there!  Here today with a little project that works for five different challenges!  That is a first for me working in five challenges on one project.  The most I have done prior to this is four and I thought that was alot of challenges!  But I know there are crafters out there who routinely enter their projects in way more then five challenges!    Anywhoo... my little project works for the following challenges:

JUGs  - embellish a notebook or journal

City Crafters - use up your scraps

Shabby Tea Room - polka dots

Stampin Sisters in Christ - use music in some form

Card Patterns - sketch

When I saw that the JUGs challenge was to embellish a notebook or journal I knew right away that I wanted to do a mini one.  My little journal is 4 1/2 x 3 1/4.    The perfect size for the Card Patterns sketch.  My last project had some scraps left over and so I used them along with some other scraps to put together my journal and lucky for me those scraps included the polka dotted paper and the music paper!  Now I have to say that had it not been for fellow crafter, Michelle, posting her projects for City Crafts and the Shabby Tea Room I wouldn't have known my little journal would fit right into those challenges... so, thanks, Michelle! 

I love how my little journal turned out so I think I'm going to be keeping it for myself.   Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; PP:  October Afternoon Thirft Shop; BasicGrey Green at Heart; LilyBeeDesign Picket Fence; Glue stick; mini journal; Sizzix leafy branch die; KaiserCraft rhinestones; Prima Trellis Rose