JULY...a month to Die for Week 5!

Welcome to week five of our Dreamweaver Stencils July Challenge! Yes, July has five Thursdays, so you get one more week "to DIE for"!  All of this month the Dream Team are featuring our newest toys...our DIES! You'd be surprised at how many we have, and what fun things you can do with them...especially when used in conjunction with many of their matching stencils. They are such a simple way to create an effective card.
I just love all our dies, and can hardly wait for the new ones to arrive, but don't forget that most of our designs are easy to paper piece too. This week I'm sharing two paper pieced images and one of our more detailed dies to show you what I mean.

LG671 Hats - paper pieced

LL493 and LD493 Teacups Vertical - stencil and matching die
LG737 Umbrella - Paper pieced

Hope you have a wonderful last day of July and are looking forward to our new August challenge that starts next Thursday!

Here's the list of designers for today:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin
Kristi Parker VanDoren
and
Terri Sproul (GD)

Happy Creating,
Louise 

An InLinkz Link-up

April Inspirations

Well we have finally finished with that wintery March and April is showing promises of Spring! My daffodils are about 6" high, and the pansies are starting to perk back up too. The water in my pond is running again and the birds are loving playing in it!

The Dream Team has a spectacular month planned for you...filled with exciting news and inspiration for all of your crafting dreams! The exciting news will be announced in the Dream It Up! post on April 17th, but the "April Inspirations" challenge will run for the entire month. Each team member will post what inspires them in their creative life...maybe a Pinterest pic, a magazine pic, a quote, a book, a place, an artist, a crafter friend...along with their creation. We are hoping that you will feel inspired as well, and link your projects (and inspiration) to the inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog. 
I love hats, so one day I did a search on Pinterest for "vintage Easter hats". Wow, there are a LOT of images out there! Here's a few I found:

Sooo sophisticated!

Ok, maybe this one is a little over the top!

Perhaps you prefer the "Downton" look, very classy

The matching purse makes the ensemble!

Ok, these last three are a little more "normal" and really did inspire me to work with Dreamweaver Stencils' Hats stencil (LG671). Here's what I came up with:

LG671 - Hats stencil

Dreamweaver Basics class I will be teaching this weekend up in Door County
at the crafting workshops

Check out what our Guest Designer and the "A" team have been inspired by this week...

Janelle Stollfus (GD)

Dream It Up!

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Heidi Erickson

Louise Healy

Happy Creating,
Louise

An InLinkz Link-up