Play Date Cafe Challenge #51 - Christmas Gifts Galore

Another fun challenge this week hosted by Sarah at the Play Date Cafe!  We have wonderful sponsor so I ended up creating a few projects using their die cuts.  This is a picture of the complete set of projects.

Here is Sarah's wonderful picture for the color inspiration:

What serene lovely colors. Here are a few closeups of the projects.

I received a card with the Fancy Frame Window A2 card.  I decided to layer it onto another piece of Ocean Breeze.

The image is from Hero Arts  Christmas stamps. The embossing folder is Cuttlebug. The inks are Versamark, Hero Arts Shadow Ink Sand, Versafine Deep Lagoon. This project didn't end up using the minty green and doesn't have all  the colors for the challenge this week but does have the wonderful die cuts so I included it with my other projects.

The second project was the inspiration for all my projects as I had a cake box from the wedding die cuts and thought what a great Christmas Tree it would make.  I stamped the Hero Arts Christmas tree on the front and back using Versamark ink and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

Sponge some blue dye ink and accent with beige and minty green pearls and you have an elegant Christmas Tree.

The next project was a beautiful Trapezoid box die cut. I stamped the Stampendous Holiday Quad Cube repeatedly using Versamark and heat embossed using white embossing powder. Then I created a little tag using Juniper Adirondack dye ink and Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment.

The last little tuck top cube box is adorable and was fun to emboss and decorate with tulle and snowflakes.

All the wonderful boxes and die cuts were provided by our sponsor this week Creative Cuts & More.
If you head over to place an order you can receive a 10% discount by using the code: CC&M10Lisa.

The design team all had different die cuts to play with and created some very inspiring projects. 

Play Date Cafe design team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Have a lovely day! Looking forward to viewing all the entries this week, as always!

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #46

This week is a color splash week at the Play Date Cafe.  Julie selected  the inspiration photo:. 

Stunning photo! The color splash is where you create your project with black, white and/or grey and add a splash of color from the accent colors provided. This week you can choose one of the splashes to add to your black, white or grey. 
We have a really fun sponsor this week at the PDCC:

Creative Cuts & More is a leader in the die cutting industry. We offer a huge variety of bags, boxes, cards, labels, frames and shapes, including many that are exclusive to CC & Bazzill Smoothies, Bazzill Canvas and Metallic cardstocks plus felt, velvet paper, chipboard and acetate.

Check out our blog and the gallery at Creative Cuts & More for more ideas to inspire your creativity.

Website: http://www.creativecutsandmore.com/

Blog: http://die-cut-diva.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Parker-CO/Creative-Cuts-and-More/129268965389

The prize is a wonderful assortment of products:

Creative Cuts & More provided the design team with some lovely wedding inspired prodcuts to create our projects from.

I chose to create a set for the bridesmaid and grooms as their thank you gift.

All stamps are  from Hero Arts. Love the new large flourish! The ink is Versafine Smokey Grey.  The pink dye ink is Memento Rosebud (my favorite pink dye ink).

The tulle has become so addictive to me. I am finding so many fun uses for it. (I confess I also picked up some white tulle to dye any color I want.)

Go check out the  other wonderful entries from the rest of the design team:

Play Date Cafe design team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Love the color splash challenges as everyone's entries are always so fantastic.

Suzz