Happy Polar Bear Day!!

To celebrate International Polar Bear Day I knew I had to use these super cute Polar Bear digis and the fun striped paper from the months set from Melonheadz Illustrating.

Becky's polar bear bundle

Digital paper and months bundle

To create this card I used colored images, lined the edge of the polar bear image with lavender BIC Mark-its and lined the edge of the trimmed background paper with black to match the design. I fussy cut out some salmon and used foam tape to add dimension. I created a title "Best Fishes" on my computer with a decorative font. Working with precolored images help speed up your cardmaking so that you can celebrate everyday! So, Best Fishes to you on International Polar Bear Day!

Don't forget to check out our Bi-Weekly Challenge below!! You could win digis from the store!!! 

CREATION FOR A CHILD OR WITH A CHILD IMAGE CHALLENGE

Hi everyone and welcome back!  A wee bit late with today's post as kids are off school for US Holiday, I had dr. appt. this morning and we were gone all day yesterday watching my older son's soccer games, plus it was his birthday.  Anyway, thanks so much for all your fabulous entries in our Valentine's challenge!  So many wonderful creations!  We'd love to have even more entries in the new challenge, so let people know about us:)

Our winner, chosen by random.org is

 17. Lisa s 

Congrats Lisa S!  Please contact Audrey at danmoose@aol.com in order to claim your prize.

Starting with this challenge, we will also be adding Top 3 winners, so make sure to get those entries in for a chance to be chosen Top 3!

Just a quick reminder of our rules - you are not required to use an image from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP, but if you do, you can enter as many times as you like and your theme will be anything goes.  If you choose not to use an image from Melonheadz, that is fine too, but then you must follow the challenge theme and are allowed 2 entries per person.

Our challenges will run just about 2 weeks, so this challenge will end at 11:59pm EST on March 3rd and the new challenge will begin on the 4th.  Random prize winner will get 1 Bundle of Choice from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP, what an awesome prize!!

Our challenge this time is to make a PROJECT (card or other papercrafting item) FOR A CHILD, or INCLUDING AN IMAGE OF A CHILD.   So let's see all your fabulous CHILD RELATED creations!  You can find all sorts of amazing images over at MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP and you will probably find some FREEBIES over on the MELONHEADZ ILLUSTRATIONS BLOG.

Our DT gals have provided some wonderful samples to get your mojo flowing using  images from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP .  If you have a chance, I'm sure they'd love a visit to their personal blogs.

ANITA

JEANETTE

LESLIE-RAHYE

MARGREET



RIA



TANYA

Matchbook Valentines

leslierahye here with a fun project that I created with my daughter Samantha for her class Valentines using this Valentine's Set. If you've never worked with digital stamps before, here is a reason to get started! To create 24 of these for her class was super easy. 

I created a simple template in Publisher where I could make 3 base pieces at a time. The base is 8½×3" wide. The saying was shrunk down to about 2¾" wide and turned side ways to print 3 to a page. The bases were trimmed to 8½×3" and then scored at 3", 3-3/8", 6-3/8",6¾"--about an ¼" was removed from the first 3" square to help the matchbook close easier. 

9 monkeys at a time were printed so that they could be trimmed out to 2¾×2¾" for the covers. They were glittered and then trimmed. sentiments saying "from Samantha" were printed on 1½×2¾" pieces. I used a special tab punch to create a tab to tuck the cover into but that could easily be a punched circle or heart adhered on so that the top created a pocket.

The candy was adhered to the matchbook with a piece of double-sided tape. This project was fun and easy to do with my daughter...I did the designing and cutting, she did the glittering and taping. We hope you enjoy it and perhaps it will inspire you to make your own! We'd love to see them!

TIME FOR VALENTINE'S CHALLENGE!

Hi everyone and welcome back!  Thanks so much for all your fabulous entries in our first challenge!! We were so thrilled to get so many awesome entries for our first challenge and hope you will come play along in our new challenge.  Tell your friends about us too - the more the merrier:)

Our winner, chosen by random.org is

 9. Gale 

Congrats Gale!  Please contact Audrey at danmoose@aol.com in order to claim your prize.

We'd also like to recognize  24. Vicky - Vicky is just 6 years old and has created this adorable card!

We have a special prize for you Vicky, so please contact Audrey at danmoose@aol.com to claim it.

Just a quick reminder of our rules - you are not required to use an image from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP, but if you do, you can enter as many times as you like and your theme will be anything goes.  If you choose not to use an image from Melonheadz, that is fine too, but then you must follow the challenge theme and are allowed 2 entries per person.

Our challenges will run just about 2 weeks, so this challenge will end at 11:59pm EST on February 17 and the new challenge will begin on the 18th.  Random prize winner will get 1 Bundle of Choice from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP, what an awesome prize!!

Our challenge this time is VALENTINE'S, so let's see all your fabulous Valentine's creations!  You can find all sorts of amazing images over at MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP and you will probably find some FREEBIES over on the MELONHEADZ ILLUSTRATIONS BLOG.

Our DT gals have provided some wonderful samples to get your mojo flowing using  images from MELONHEADZ ETSY SHOP .  If you have a chance, I'm sure they'd love a visit to their personal blogs.

ANITA

JEANETTE

LESLIE-RAHYE

MARGREET



RIA


TANYA