Paper Girls Challenge #26 Washi

 I'm hosting the Challenge over at The Paper Girls Challenge this round and I'm super excited to tell you that the challenge is to use washi tape on your project. Hooray! I love choosing challenges.  I know that Valentine's day was last week but I hope you don't mind seeing the card I made . I thought it would be fun to use one of my SU dies to cut out a heart shaped card. I simply scored my card stock and folded it then placed the die slightly off the edge of the card stock so I would have a hinge at the top. Both of the inner hearts are from the same set of dies and the three little hearts are punched.

As for the star of the show on this card I wanted the colors of my washi to really stand out so I backed the sea foam washi tape with white card stock and made the banner strip with it by simply cutting around the edges of the tape. Two of the smaller hearts are also washi that I taped onto small pieces of card stock before punching the shapes out.

I hope everyone has fun with the challenge and I can't wait to see everyone's projects! Just link up to the linky tool at the Paper Girls Challenge blog by March 2nd!

Paper Smooches Sparks Trend Watch

My sister's birthday is this week. Younger sister, so I thought the sentiment in this set Knick Knacks would be funny to use. We used to play with Raggedy Anne and Andy dolls and I thought it would be a sentimental image for her.

This challenge is a  Trend Watch over at the Paper Smooches Sparks blog. I worked in the polka dots with the patterned paper but also repeated it by punching out the sentiment with a circle, then matting it with an offset circle. Finally I added a smattering of extra circles. Well, if you can call two a smattering. I also matted my image in a scrap of polka dot paper.

The Paper Girls Challenge #25: Twine

 Has it really been a whole year since we started The Paper Girls Challenge blog? Time just flies doesn't it? So I bought this sweet little stamp at the Craft store for a whole $1 and just really wanted to use it for something fun. So I worked it into the challenge lineup. The jar is the perfect image to "wrap" a little piece of twine around.You'll see that I actually punched two holes and threaded the twine through and then tied my bow. Another twine detail is I wrapped the twine around the patterned paper background several times and then cinched it with a brad. If you do this make sure you don't wrap your twine too tight or your card will warp when you put the brad through.

Here's the close up on the jar. I cut out the inside of the jar with a craft knife and then taped with scotch tape on the back side. Then flipped my image facing forward and rubbed micro glitter on the sticky side of the tape . I love using this little technique. It has been a while though so it was definitely time to repeat. What can I say the jar was just asking for it.

Now head on over to the Paper Girls Challenge blog and see what we have going on for our Birthday Week. Make sure you check our facebook page for news as well.