Playtime with Mandy

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Today we're bringing you some beautiful projects from designer Mandy Starner created with our Playtime collection. Mandy makes great use of all the elements of Playtime and has some fabulous ideas for creating dimension in your projects.

Happy Birthday card

Supplies used:
11512 Hide n Seek
11513 Sidewalk Chalk
11514 Sunny Side Up
11516 Up In The Sky
11517 Day Dream
Jenni Bowlin ink "Brown Sugar"
Inkadinkado Stamp
May Arts ribbon

" Make a Wish"

Supplies used:
11511 3-D Roll Up Flowers
11512 Hide n Seek
11514 Sunny Side Up
11516 Up In The Sky
11517 Day Dream
11518 A Walk In The Clouds
11519 Cardstock Stickers
Color Box Inks
EK Success punch

" Brownies"

Supplies used:
11514 Sunny Side Up
11515 Catch Me If You Can
11516 Up In The Sky
11517 Day Dream
11519 Cardstock Stickers
10123 Toffee Glitter Alphas
Ribbon by Hug Snug
Die Cut by K&Co.

Mandy's Notes: To add dimension to the clouds and kites paper, I added some of my cardstock cloud and kite stickers using pop dots.

"Playtime"

Supplies used:
11512 Hide n Seek
11513 Sidewalk Chalk
11514 Sunny Side Up
11515 Catch Me If You Can
11517 Day Dream
11519 Cardstock Stickers
Alphas by DoodleBug

Mandy's Notes: On this layout, I cut out the circles with the flower and the bird and layered them over the pieces on the layout with pop dots so they were at the same level as the hopscotch sticker. Popped up elements always look better in 3's.