Friday, May 16, 2008

Thank You Challenge

Happy Friday!

It's STAMP SOMETHING challenge day! This week we are launching our second challenge, the theme is Thank You. We figured what better way to say thank you for all the support these past couple weeks than to have a thank you challenge.

We were thrilled by the outcome of our first challenge. It was great to see how many people participated in the fun. The creations we saw were terrific! We so appreciate you all sharing your art with us! Thank you!

I made these 3x3 note cards and a matching box to hold them all as my sample project. It was fun making cards and a 3D item. I rarely do that! I love the Afternoon Tea DSP and my Essence of Love stamps, they work great together.

For the box, I used a piece of cardstock 4 1/4" X 8 1/2" and scored it at 1" 4 1/4" and 5 1/4" the long way and then at 1" on the short side. Then just cut the short score lines, fold and tape together. I used a piece of DSP to cover the box and to hide the taped seam. For the final touches, I added a piece of wide chocolate grosgrain ribbon and some styled silver Hodgepodge Hardware and a sentiment. The sentiment is from the set Short and Sweet.

The cards are each 3x3 cardstock decorated with more DSP and some punches and scrap paper. The cardstock colors are Soft Sky and Groovy Guava. I stamped the butterfly from Essence of Love and the thank you sentiment from Short and Sweet on each card to keep them all similar.

If you'd like to join in the fun of our challenge this week and be entered for a chance at some blog candy, just make a Thank You themed project and post a comment on the challenge blog post on STAMP SOMETHING with a link to your work. We will draw a blog candy winner on Thursday evening at 7pm ET.

Thanks for looking! Hop on over to STAMP SOMETHING and check out the fabulous projects made by our design team! Hope you'll give our Thank You challenge a go! Have a great weekend. Happy Stamping!! :)

19 comments:

Lauren said...

Denise - this is fabulous! The set is beautiful.

Marilyn said...

I haven't been able to play along yet, but I do want to try - this looks like so much fun. I love what you've done with these thank you cards!!

Becky Carafa said...

What a beautiful gift set! I love how you stamped on the dsp on some of them!

Stampin_Melissa said...

These are all so very lovely! Just beautiful Thank You cards. I think I may be inspired to play along! :D

Melissa said...

Awesome, awesome, awesome! I've been holding out on by the Essence of Love stamp set but I love everything about this so I just might have to get it after all!

Many Blessings,
M.

Alex said...

Your project is FABULOUS girl and I am soooo going to make one of those little boxes! I love this - and of course it is PERFECT for the challenge!!

*STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

Alex said...

Your project is FABULOUS girl and I am soooo going to make one of those little boxes! I love this - and of course it is PERFECT for the challenge!!

*STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

Unknown said...

WOW Denise these are truly amazing! I do hope to join in again this week. Thanks for the inspiration. Lol Lynn x

Emily said...

Denise, this is such a cute set!! I LOVE it! The colors you used are great! TFS!

Jo said...

These are fabulous Denise and I love the little box...will definitely be having a go at this in the near future!
Hope you have a very Happy Birthday! Hugs, Jo xx

Heather Huggins said...

Wow!! Really pretty..

Jo said...

Hope you're having a great weekend. I've given you an award...take a look on my blog for details :)

Lynn said...

Super cute project! I love the way the paper and stamp set look together...and I've been trying to resist that set! The week ahead I should have a little more free time so I hope to participate in this weeks challenge.:-)

Samantha said...

Love Love Love them!!!! I am going to play every week but this week it will be later than sooner :) Working a lot. Thanks for the blog award-you are so absolutely amazing!!!

Anne said...

Lovely gift set, the different card designs are so pretty!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and your kind comment!

Teresa said...

Those are Beautiful! When I think of butterflys I don't think of those colors but butterflys are those colors. They are wonderful!

Andrea, said...

Fantastic work Denise, I love the card holder and all of the cards are so pretty, fab colour combos

betty said...

your project is wonderful! Beautiful cards and great color-combos! this box is a very nice idea, really pretty and elegant!

Katharina Frei said...

I love your creations! So special and the paper is beautiful!