Paper Dolls Guest Designer!

I am so happy to be a guest designer over at the Paper Dolls blog today! If you have not done so already you must head over and check them out. They host a challenge every week with fabulous prizes and feature wonderful artists and designers on a regular basis! This week the challenge is based around a file from Suzan and RJ of Papyrus Jungle.

Head over to the Paper Dolls and grab the file for this week's challenge and get to work! Make sure you stop by Papyrus Jungle to check out their blog and store!

I used the file this week to create a scrapbook page, I'm not sure what I'm gonna use it for but I'm sure it will come in handy someday. I suppose it could be used for a wedding album...anyway on to the pictures.

The large mat is for a 4"x6" picture and the small square mat is for a 2.75" square picture. Both of these mats are popped up off the page to add some dimension. The rectangle in the bottom right corner is for journaling and is flat on the layout.

The title is cut using Old English Text MT, a font that was installed from Microsoft Office. And the star of the day, the castle!

I cut out the file at approximately 8" wide. I opened all the SVG files in Make The Cut and layered them over one another so that the image was assembled as above. Then I re-sized everything all at once so the overall dimensions were to my liking, in this case 8" wide.

I hope you have enjoyed the project today and are inspired to make something of your own.

Happy crafting,
Jessica

A Few Projects I've been Working On

First of all I have a project for the Paper Dolls challenge this week. The files were created by my fellow My Thoughts Exactly Design Team member, Belinda of Bee's Hive O'Drama. I used the adorable house to decorate the front of a box that holds a soap bottle or lotion bottle.

I then used the cute little flowers to decorate a gift card holder that is ties around the box.

Of course I used Trendy Twine to tie some button to the flowers and tie the gift card holder to the box. My boyfriend and I have spent our weekend building a light box for my pictures, I'm still learning to use it...

Next I have two ATCs that I have been working on for another swap on the MTC forum. There are two themes this time, where I'm from and the year I was born. For the where I'm from ATC I did a play on jokes about the wonderful North Dakota :-P I'll let you see if you can pick out the two jokes before I explain them after the pictures.

The inside even has some state facts about North Dakota. Ok so the jokes...the main joke is that when you cross the border between Minnesota and North Dakota in Fargo you see this little itty-bitty object on the horizon. You drive all day just to find it's the welcome to Montana sign, North Dakota is VERY flat! The other joke is that we have so few trees they are all numbered. We had a good laugh one day when we took the dog to the park in town and noticed that the trees really were numbered LOL!

Ok the second ATC was for the year I was born and I added a little narrative on the back explaining all the events depicted. It reads, "I was born in 1985. My favorite Sesame Street character, Elmo, was introduced on 11/18/1985. Krista McAuliffe and the rest of the Challenger crew were commissioned in July. On 10/3/1985 Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on its maiden voyage. 23 years later I graduated with a degree in Aerospace Engineering." You could say that year shaped my life in many ways right down to what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I hope everyone had a fantastic Father's day!

Happy crafting,
Jessica

Life and Paper Dolls Challenge

It has been so long since I've posted. Where have I been? Well we spent a week in Las Vegas taking a firearms training course, it was super fun (just don't tell my boyfriend, that would be admitting he was right AGAIN)! I almost want to take up competition pistol shooting now...maybe when I'm done with school and have a 'real' job :-)

Yup that's me! My boyfriend took the picture and he even caught my spent shell flying out of the chamber (just below the 'b' in blogspot). I thought that was really cool. We also spent a few days visiting our parents. Now it's back to work and attempting to write my thesis, blah.

Ok on to what you really what to see some crafting! This is for the Paper Dolls challenge this week. The provided SVG was a 3D house that you had to use in some form. I chose to make a shape card with it. Of course I used MTC to modify the SVG. I think it is super fun!

Of course I used Trendy Twine, my newest crafting obsession. The door even opens up with a little message.

  

The paper, stamps, ink, and buttons are all Stampin' Up products. I didn't add a sentiment so that I can use it for any occasion that may pop up. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting,

Jessica