Papercraft Star - Challenge 27

It is time for the first challenge of the New Year over at Papercraft Star! This week your challenge is to create a card, layout, altered item, gift, or home decor project using one of your New Year's Resolutions as your inspiration. Be sure to include the New Year's Resolution as part of your project description on your blog!

You have until Noon EST on Saturday January 8th to post your entries for this challenge! Be sure to check out the PCS blog throughout the week to see tutorials and inspiration from out Executive team! Also, stop by our message boards and say HI!!

This month's sponsor is

PINKCATSTUDIO!

They sponsored the design team with some adorable digital stamps!

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Now for my project...

I am not one to make New Year's Resolutions. I think it is wonderful to make goals but why wait until the first of the year? I have several goals for 2011 and one of them is to spend more time crafting with my children, so for this challenge we set down at the dinning room table as a family to create these cute little Valentines using the digital stamps supplied by PinkCatStudio!

How cute are these?

For the hearts I used Red felt, Mod Podge, a Cuttlebug Embossing folder and my BigKick. I tried a new technique that I found in the February 2011 copy of Scrapbooks Etc. on pages 58 & 59.

I adhered the owl and branch down to the paper but I put pop dots under the leaves to add some dimension.

Here are the Valentines that my husband and darling daughters made....

The top one is my husband's and the bottom two are my daughters'.

Don't have a reason to make Valentines? How about a Birthday card...

I hope that you will stop by Papercraft Star and upload your entries! I look forward to seeing your projects! for this week's challenge! May 2011 bring you Happiness, Love, Laughter, good health and a TON of FUN!!

Thank you for stopping by!

Regan

Instructions:

1) Print digital stamps onto cardstock

2) Color your images and cut them out.

3) Card Base 3 1/2 X 4 1/2 (card stock)

4) Patterned paper mat 3 1/4 X 4 1/4

5) Ink your mat and card base

6) Adhere your mat to your base and then your image to your mat.

7) Print out Valentine sentiments on your computer and cut into strips.

8) Ink sentiments and adhere to Valentines

Supplies:

Owl Patches, Rex, and Love Birds on Swing digital stamps by PinkCatStudio

Several Stampin' Write Markers by Stampin' Up!

assorted Pattern Papers by Stampin' Up!

Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Old Olive card stock by Stampin' Up!

Pop Dots

Computer and Printer

Fired Brick and Walnut Stain Distress Ink by Ranger

Red Felt

Mod Podge

Hounds tooth Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

BigKick

Martha Stewart Tiara Punch