Design Team: Think Small
For this week’s assignment, the Design Team was limited in size to three inches or less. The size requirement certainly didn’t cramp their style. They managed to create a whole range of adorable mini projects, from gift cards, to gift tag sets, to boxed cards — and even fold-out photo albums.
Mini Albums in a Slide-out Drawer by Maria Bell |
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Maria decided to use the Ho Ho Hollydays set for her project this week because she thinks the images are so darn cute. The images were perfect for the mini albums she created. The three 3 x 3" mini albums are stored in a 3 x 3" drawer, but the drawer can fit up to five mini albums. |
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These albums make great stocking stuffers. Maria colored the images with Copic Markers and added Liquid Appliqué to puff up the white parts of the snow caps. |
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The mini albums have a total of four pages to decorate or add photos. |
Christmas Gift Tags by Lynn McAuley |
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What fun Lynn had sizing these digital images |
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Images from the Ho Ho Hollydays set were printed |
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Lynn colored all of the images with Copic markers. This cardinal is from the Season’s Tweetings set. |
Mini Card by Lisa Cook |
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Lisa chose the Mini Bears & Birds for her mini card project this week. She used Copics to color her image, and a little taffeta ribbon and button finish it off just right. |
Gift Cards and Box by Cindy Royal |
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Cindy decided to make a 3" x 3" box, only 1/2" inch deep, that holds four ornament-shaped gift tags with the holly image. The box has a printed, but not pierced, background on it. She also did small gift cards with the Ho Ho Ho image on them. Those are 1" x 2.75". |
Christmas Gift Tags by Broni Holcombe |
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3" x 3" note cards were used as the bases for all of these Christmas gift tags. There are a total of 25 tags, six different designs. Each image was reduced and printed on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. |
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Various background patterned papers were added and Atyou Spica glitter pens were used to highlight all of the images. These are the stamp sets used: Penguin Chicks, Ho Ho Hollydays, Season’s Tweetings, and Pierced Tags. |
Holiday Gift Tags by Cheryl Walker |
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On the bear circle, Cheryl used the Spellbinders dies to cut the circles and the scallop circle. The star is from a button pack, and she added lots of punched branches to the side of this one. The darling little bear is airbrushed with Copics. She added ribbon to tie it to a package. |
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The sweeet little penguin is colored with Copics in a few different greys. Cheryl used this snowflake designer paper from Colorbok and cut it out with a Quickutz die. She also used some polka dot DP from Papertrey, ribbon, and the Martha Stewart branch punch. |
Mini Card by Jennifer Love |
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Jennifer has chosen her favorite image from the Penguin Chicks set for her 3 x 3" mini card. She printed the image on white cardstock and colored the little penguin with Copic markers to match her new favorite holiday patterned papers. A few half-back pearls, colored with Copic markers to match, embellish the die-cut circle to make this simple mini card. |
Baby Notecard Box by Michelle Redman |
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For Michelle’s "Think Small" challenge, she chose to make a 3 x 3" Notecard Box with notecards. Her main image was printed twice and colored. She cut the wheels out of one of the images and popped them up with Dimensionals onto the second image. Her embellishments include ribbon, and tiny hands and feet buttons. |
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Michelle used six images from the Toys On Wheels set colored with Prismacolor Pencils and odorless mineral spirits. Check out her blog for more detailed pictures of this project. |
Photos and descriptions ©2009 by their respective owners. Used by permission.
Next Week’s Blog Hop
Mark your calendar to join us next Wednesday, November 18, 2009, starting on my blog at 9:00 AM Eastern USA time, for the Blog Hop to celebrate this month’s new releases. We’ll have Blog Candy again, with several chances to win free Angels Landing image sets. Hope to see you then.




















Well, wasn’t that a whole bunch of fun?? I love all of these tiny treasures!! Great week ladies!!
Wow!! You all rocked this challenge!! Awesome work girls!!
How adorable! Everyone did a fabulous job on their mini projects!