Thursday with the Design Team!!

Happy Thursday!

Here we go with more inspiration with the talented Prickley Pear Design Team. 

Let's start with Irit today. Irit has created this adorable house with the Row Houses set. With the matching dies, this set is great to make little scenes on your creation. 

Michelle's "eye" catching card uses the Large Eyes stamp as background to this pretty Butterfly Sentiments image. The sentiment on this card is called Live in the Moment.

 

Michelle's created a second card with the Live in the Moment sentiment. This one features Lola the Fairy.


Heather's still getting inky with the stamps of the recent New Release. This is Bat in the Moon and Scratch the Cat. Those adorable cat faces? They come from the new Halloween Banner set, along with the "Boo" sentiment.



Heidi's also getting crafty with the New Release. This beauty was created with the stamps of the Fall/Halloween Cupcakes.

Thanks for stopping by!

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You've Got Mail!!.....Art

Happy Tuesday, Prickley Pear fans!!

Here at Prickley Pear, we're constantly looking for new inspiration to bring to you using the Prickley Pear collection of stamps. Our Design Team member, Irit, came up with the awesome idea of creating Mail Art. 

What is Mail Art? 

It's decorated envelopes, making both your creation and the package that carries it to it's destination beautiful and artistic!

And look at how wonderfully the mail art turned out!

First up, since it was her lovely idea, is the talented Irit. Irit created this colorful envelope with the Blobby Flowers 2 clear set. Can you spot her use of the Live, Dance, Laugh sentiment? 

Sharon has used the Row House set for her beautiful mail art. This set is perfect for adding that additional flare to your envelope.

Heather masked off the centre of her envelope with the Flourished Oval die cut and then stamped Petunia around the frame.

And, Heather had so much fun with the first piece of mail art, that she had to give it another try! This envelope uses the Hibiscus 2 clear set, the Bicycle red rubber and the sentiment and tri-floral stamp from Scalloped Circle & Oval 4 Floral clear set. 

 

Thanks for stopping by today to check out our adorable mail art. 
Why don't you give it a try? Link up your Mail Art in the comment section and I'll come visit your artwork. 

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Stars & Stripes

Happy Fourth of July!

To those who call "home" the United States, I know today is a day of celebration, so we've selected a "Stars and Stripes" theme for our projects today.

However, many members of our Design Team hail from outside the United States, therefore, our "Stars and Stripes" will be illustrated in pattern, rather than patriotism. 

Up first day is Michelle, with this beautiful card in the patriotic colors of red, white and blue. I love the bright and somewhat unusual coloring of A Mother's Love. The sentiment comes from Butterflies Clear set. 

 

 

Heather created her card using Row Houses. This new set comes with adorable matching dies that make it easy to create fun scenes like this one.

 

Heidi has created this yummy birthday card using the Build a Cupcake set. This set has mix and match tops and bottoms that can be easily cut with the Cupcake dies and assembled into multiple variations.

 

And finally, this bright and cheery stars and stripes creation is by Lisa and uses the Ice Cream Cone die set and matching stamp set. 

Want to pick up this set and the matching dies for a great price? There are still some limited edition June kits in the store, which includes both these items, plus accessories to make two cards for the low price of $29.99!

 

We hope you enjoyed this Tuesday edition and hope you have a fantastic day! 

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Brilliant Backgrounds

Do you ever look at your finished project and think "well, that's kinda boring!". Image looks great, sentiment is sweet....but that background is just bleh! 

Here are three ways our Prickley Pear Design Team takes those backgrounds up a notch. 

Irit is the queen of brilliant backgrounds! Remember her super cool canvas piece back in March? She's pulled out the stencils and texture paste again to make this textured background for the Let Your Faith Be Bigger sentiment.

Sharon's sponged a gorgeous scene with Row Houses. I could make my home sweet home in that scene!

 

And Tracie has done a little repetitive thinking with the Blobby Flowers 2 clear set. I just love how this one turned out! Sentiment is from the same set. 

 

Thanks for stopping by to visit today. We'll be back on Thursday with a Vintage Viewpoint. 

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