My Creative Time August Sneak Peek #4

Welcome to another day of My Creative Time Sneak Peek week!  Today is our last sneak before tomorrow's official release, and we saved the best for last!  Emma has created a gift card holder die and coordinating sentiment stamps!  Having lots of males in my family who are difficult to shop for, I find I buy a lot of gift cards.  In the past, I've used my Cricut to make cute gift card holders, but they were very time consuming.  This die makes it a breeze!  I just ran it through my Cuttlebug, and there it was, with built in notches for closure and for holding the gift card, as well as some beautiful embossing around the edges!  I stamped "Happy Birthday" from the Gift Card Sentiments stamp set that coordinates with the die.

Now I made this gift card holder for my son Eric, who turned 16 on Tuesday!  He loves his iTunes, so I had to include a gift card as part of his present.  To decorate the front of the holder, I adhered a 2 9/16" x 3 9/16" piece of patterned paper.  Then I added the cute squirrel from Birthday Bash, cut at 2".  He comes holding a "1", and then I also cut the "6" from this cartridge, at 1 1/2".

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends!  We are giving you an opportunity to win the BEST PRIZES EVER during Sneak Peek Week, with a total of SIX winners being announced during Friday's Stamp release!  All you have to do is leave a comment HERE, as well as on the rest of the design team's blogs for a chance.  There are some AWESOME prizes with this release!  Do you want to know what the "GRAND PRIZE" is?  One lucky winner will be an "Honorary Guest Designer" for the September stamp release.  Yep!  You heard that right!  One winner will receive all four of the new stamps, along with the dies for that month and will be able to join us for the Sneak Peek Week, along with the blog hop!  Here's what to do to qualify:

1.  Spread the word to the world on Facebook & to whatever connections you have about this release.  Let us know that you did so on My Creative Time's Facebook page, OR just tag Emma in your post!

2.  Just comment on ALL of the designers' blogs EVERY DAY during Sneak Peek Week!  That's ALL you have to do to qualify for the BEST giveaways ever!

The winners will "randomly" get chosen, and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, August 19th, at 8:00 AM PST in her video during the release of this AMAZING new stamp collection and dies! Good luck!

Now, because I am guest designing at Everyday Cricut this week, Emma has also donated her Happy Mail Stamp Set and Embossed Envelope die shown below for me to give away.  Just leave a comment on this post by Saturday at midnight, and I'll announce the winner on Sunday!  Also, if you haven't visited Everyday Cricut today, please stop by to see another fun new project that I have posted over there.  And be sure to stop by My Creative Time to see Emma's sneak peek and to get links to all of the designers' fun sneak peek projects!

Recipe:

Papertrey Ink Summer Sunrise Cardstock
The Paper Studio "Birthday Extravaganza" Patterned Paper
Core'dinations Textured Cardstock
My Creative Time "Embossed Gift Card Holder" Die
My Creative Time "Gift Card Sentiments" Stamp Set
VersaMagic Jumbo Java Chalk Ink
Michael's Googly Eyes
Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate Ink