Invitations for the Crafty Birthday Girl | Sam's 5th Birthday

This weekend is my daughter's 5th birthday party and she decided she needed a Crafty Party. There will be lots of crafts for her friends to do. Her daddy is making her a special crafting table and some of her favorite crafts have been collected for her birthday celebration! She had creative control of how her birthday card came together and she was quite pleased with the final result. I will be adding a scribd document here next week with complete instructions on making the cuts and folds on this card and possibly a video that will show how it can be modified for other shapes.

Front of Birthday invite closed

The card features Bazzill Basics and DieCuts With a View Cardstock and Miss Elizabeth pattern Paper. The paper doll is a Sizzix die as are the accessories [clothes, shoes, hair] The heart punch is Stampin up and the Swiss Dots texture is from a Provocraft emboss folder. The font for the card is called US and is free on DaFont.com. At her request, I wrote in hand "i love crafts" all the way around the cover of the card. The face was hand-drawn using the same Micron Pen and accented with brown marker and pink ink on an eraser for cheeks!


Birthday card opened and lying flat



Card upright to see the special fold out

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoy! Check back for links to video tutorial and scribd download!

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Weekly Challenge | Show Us Some Green

This weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges

is to Show Us Some Green! While today is St. Patrick's Day, my green card is a Hero Card That I will be creating several of to send to Operation Write Home for Heroes to send back to their families. I colored Private Peter with BIC Mark-Its and Chalk highlighting his goggles and eyes with Diamond Glaze. I created a Missing You sentiment with the Blank Ticket on the Ticket Sentiments Set.

Thank you for looking! I hope you join our challenge!

Hero Card with Private Peter by Digital Delights by Louby Loo

details

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Private Peter, Ticket Sentiments Set [Blank]

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics Cardstock

INK: Frayed Burlap Distress Ink

MARKERS : BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Chalk [face], Diamond Glaze, Bazzill Basics Mini Brads, Eyelets, Hemp Twine, Sizzix Texture Fades, Bazzill Buttons, glitter pen

Check out the wonderful designs from the DT.

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries.

Just add your card twice to inlinkz

to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delight image

1st entry use your card link,

2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name

**Please be sure the card you link follows the challenge and the rules or it will be removed**We have a wonderful sponsor this week,

This weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges is sponsored by

CRAFTY EMMA'S STORE

is offering a $10 certificate to her store

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It's My Birthday Blog Hop 12-15 March 2011 | Card #3

Welcome to the last day of Jennifer Restivo's It's My Birthday Blog Hop! This celebration of Jennifer's birth runs from Saturday March 12-15th! There are 40 crafters with lots of cards to look at! Some will be showing more than one project during the hop, including me [this is my 3rd post--my 1st post can be found here, and my 2nd post may be found here.], so be sure to check back for new inspiration!

If you came to this hop from Laura's blog then you're in the right spot! If you wish to start from the beginning hop over to here.

For my final card I used Digital Delights by Louby Loo's new Pop-up card!!! What a great new cutting file for use with all sorts of electronic cutting tools. If you are like me and do not have the nifty electronic tools, there is also a PDF that makes making this card SUPER easy. I printed out one of the papers from the Birthday Paper Pack and then sent my cardstock back through the printer to print the template on the back. The Celebration Charlie Digi Stamp and the Celebrate It's Your Birthday Sentiment are both also by Digital Delights by Louby Lou!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Celebration Charlie, Circle Sentiments Set, Pop-up Card Template

CS AND PAPERS:  Birthday Paper Pack

MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Bazzill Jumbo Brad, Ribbon, Bazzill Buttons, Diamond Glaze

Thank you for looking!

Be sure to check below if you get lost on the hop. Lucy's blog is next on the list! Hop on over there to see her wonderful birthday creations!

Details on my giveaway and a complete blog hop list can be found on the post with my first card here.

Closed Pop-up Card

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Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop! I am so honored to be part of this organization's wonderful hop! There are 135 stops in hop--if you came here from Kelly's You and your Big Dreams, you are in the right place. If you would like to start from the beginning, go here.

Operation Write Home is an amazing organization and helps connect soldiers with home in many ways. One of my favorite ways to connect is by using the printables for young people to color and to write letters and notes to the soldiers abroad. Here you can download and print off writing color pages that children [or adults] can write letters of appreciation to their soldier heroes. I use these mainly with the cubscouts in our Pack. The boys love coloring the images and writing letters to their heroes.

Below I have made 2 spring themed cards! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them!

Bloom & Grow Spring Card

 Bloom & Grow Spring Card:
Paper:  Basic Grey Cardstock and Green at Heart Kit and Paper Pad.
Tools: Big Shot Express and Cuttlebug Texure Folder, Stampin Up Owl Punch
Embellishments: Flower petals, brads, 3D Glue Dots

Think Spring Card

  

Think Spring Card:
Paper:  Basic Grey Cardstock and Green at Heart Kit and Paper Pad.
Tools: EK Success Circle Punches, House Mouse Stamp, Circle Sentiments Digi Stamp by Digital Delights by LoubyLoo.
Embellishments: Basic Grey Bling, 3D Glue Dots
Coloring Technique: Chalk


To continue on your blog-hop-way, hop on over to Sharon's Desert Rose Stamper!

Blog Candy!!

Today I am offering a $10 Gift Certificate to cutnpastememories.com online store! They offer all of the amazing products that I used today and are a great store for all your needs!

How to enter for the drawing:
1. Leave a comment below with your email address.
2. Become a fan if you are not already by following me!

I will draw on Monday using Random.org and post and email the winner! Thank you so much for looking and commenting! It really makes my day!

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Delightful Challenges | Use Your Scraps

For this week's challenge we want to see you

USE YOUR SCRAPS



We know you have them so get those scraps out and use them!!!

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries.Just add your card twice to inlinkz
to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delight image1st entry use your card link,

2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name

**Please be sure the card you link follows the challenge and the rules or it will be removed**We have a wonderful sponsor this week,

is offering a

$5 gift certificate

to there store!



Dilly Duck and Ladybug Friend Card with DigitalDelights by LoubyLoo



I LOVE this challenge! I collect a lot of scraps...I try not to keep anything I can't send back through my printer...so that usually limits me to no smaller than 3×5". That size is good for card making. I will also keep pieces that are a few inches across and LONG [like 12"]. I scrapbook in an 8½×11" size and since most paper on the market now is only in 12×12" I get a lot of scraps! I love the long skinny 1" piece for running through my BigShot and making into quill strips or using for punchie art. and the pieces cut making the paper 8½" wide are great for cards.

I store my scraps in a little basket and when the basket starts to get full, I usually sit down and punch out some fun shapes or die cut them and craft with my kids, make some cards or some tags.

I hope you enjoy this cute card that I made for you!

closeups!



ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Dilly Duck and Ladybug, Ticket Sentiments

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics

MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Embossed paper with ProvoCraft Emboss Folders, punchies, and wire antennae with silver beading wired.

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): used scraps in printer for ticket and for punchies and for background "grass".l

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Warm Wishes!

As we get some chilly weather here in Texas, it reminds me of a cute snowman tag I did back in December for my papercrafty pal Kinder Stampo's Tag Swap the theme was "Wishing you a pink winter wonderland."

This 3½" wide tag is acryllic embossed with Stampin' Up's Northern Flury Textured Impressions Embossing folder on the Sizzix Big Shot Express. The cardstock is Bazzill Bling, and white with some Die Cuts With a View Embedded Glitter Paper. The brads were also Bazzill. The nameplate diecut was a Sizzix Die. The punches were various Marvy and EK Success Punches in my collection. The fibers and ribbon were miscellaneous finds at local discount and craft stores. The beads were from Fire Mountain Gems and Crazy Crow. The Turquoise ink--Bic. Adhesive was Xyron 250 and Zip Dry! Both are great for adhering paper to acryllic. Thank you for looking!

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