Happy Birthday Blog Hop!

Hi and welcome to my Birthday Blog hop! This is the start of the hop that includes 12 wonderful blogs on the hop (there are 2 that are only able to participate on Sunday - so make sure to come back if you are hoping on Saturday!). I hope you enjoy hopping along and enjoy all the projects that everyone has come up with!

The theme for today's hop is Birthday! I will be celebrating my 27th birthday on August 3rd and can't think of a better way to celebrate it with all of you! Everyone on the hop has made any project that makes them think "Birthday".


For my project, I have created some party decorations! I made a "Happy Birthday" banner, invitations and topped it all off with some matching cupcake toppers and a card! I hope you enjoy!

Items used for the banner:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge 
• Blast off Imagine cartridge
• Scalloped 2 inch circle punch
• 3D Foam adhesive squares 
• Twine
• Stickers from my stash
• Striped paper from DCWV Stack 7

I started by cutting out the banner triangles using both the Birthday Bash cartridge and the blast off cartridge to make them the orange background color. These were cut at 3.5 inches.

After cutting out all the banner triangles, I tied them together using 4.5 inch pieces of twine. Once all the banner pieces were attached together, I punched the scalloped circles and attached the letters (stickers) and then attached the scalloped circles to the banner with 3D foam squares.

Next up was the invitations:

Items used for Invitaion:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge
• Blast Off Imagine cartridge
• Memonto Ink
• Bo Bunny stamp set
• Twine

I started by cutting the triangles that matched the banner at 5 inches using the same cartridges as before. Once they were cut out, I lined up my stamps to fit the scalloped sides of the invitation and stamped them using Memonto ink. I then added the twine bow to give the invitation a little pop of color.

Then came the cupcake toppers:

 Items used for cupcake topper:

• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Memonto ink
• Happy Birthday stamp from PBD "Birthday Birthday" set
• toothpick
• adhesive
• DCWV striped paper from Stack 7 
• Left over paper from triangles 

I used left over striped paper and triangle paper to punch scalloped circles. Once they were punched out, I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. I then used some adhesive to attach a toothpick to the back of the punch.

Last is the card:

Items used for card:

• Birthday Bash cartridge 
• Scalloped 5 inch card base
• scalloped circle cut at 4.5 inches
• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Extra banner triangle
• Sentiment stamps (both from PBD)
• 3D foam squares
• ATG adhesive
• Brads

For the card, I started by using a scalloped card base that I had in my stash. I then cut a scalloped circle at 4.5 inches from the Birthday Bash cartridge and attached it to the front of the card base using my ATG gun.  Next came attaching the banner triangle and scalloped punch with the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. The banner was attached using 2 brads through the striped paper (now that I am typing this out, I did this before attaching the scalloped circle to the card base.) I then used a 3D square to attache the 2 inch scalloped punch to the triangle. Before adding this, I stamped it with the sentiment using Memonto ink and inked the edges.

Once the front of the card was all done, I added the sentiment to the inside of the card!

Thank you all so much for checking out my project, and have a blast on the hop!!!

Blog Candy Time!!

I am so excited about the blog candy that is available today! Pink by Design is sponsoring the hop and had donated a $15 gift card! 

There are 3 ways to be eligible for this prize.

1. Become a follower and leave a comment (if you are already a follower, just leave me a comment!)
2. Like my facebook page, and come back here and leave a second comment telling me that you have done this. 
3. Like Pink by Design on facebook, and let them know I sent you!

I hope you have enjoyed what I created today. The next stop on the hop is Meighen. Below is a list of all the blogs in the hop if you get lost along the way. 

Blog List!
Samantha (Me) 
Meighen
Jenn
Ruthie
Gloria
Jen
Courtney
Momo
Kim
Shannin
Jenny (Sunday Only)
Michelle (Sunday Only)

July Scrappy Jak Card of the month club

Scrappy Jak is a facebook page put together by Melissa! She has a card of the month club that goes for 6 months at a time. I was fortunate enough to get a place in the club starting in July. How it works is she sends out the same supplies to everyone in the club and it is up to us how we use them to make a card. We are allowed to add other embellishments to the card, stamps, etc. In this months kit, there was 2 card bases and supplies, and this is what I came up with. :)

The only extra parts that I added were the stamp sentiments, the white square on the first card that has the sentiment stamped on it, and the white circle punch behind the star on the second card. I also used 3D foam squares to attach the stars on the first card, and the star on the second card.

Hey Cowboy!

This weeks Chemo Angle card was just so fun to make! I was trying to come up with a fun card for this week, and am really happy with how it turned out! I got my inspiration when I was cleaning up my messy craft area and was putting some paper stacks away. I started flipping through some patterned paper and when I came across the western themed paper the ideas just started popping up in my head of what I could make! I hope you enjoy!

Items used:

• DCWV patterned paper from All About Boys Stack used for card base
• Paper doll dress up cricut cartridge
• Tan, brown, red, black, blue and light yellow cardstock (from stash)
• Twine
• 2 inch square punch
• Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Peachy Keen 3/4 inch Wide Eyes Kids Face stamp set
• Pink By Design Sentiment from "Spring has Sprung" set 
• Memento Ink
• ATG adhesive
• 3D foam square adhesive
• White gel pen

Like I said before, my inspiration came from the DCWV cardstock that I used for the card base. The base is a 12 x 6 piece of paper scored at the 6 inch mark to make it a 6 x 6 folded card. I cut out the "cowboy" and all layers at 5 inches and attached them all with my ATG gun. I added some accents to the clothing layers and hat by using my white gel pen to trace the detail cuts on each layer. I added some twine as a "rope" for my cowboy! I also stamped the face onto the cowboy using a 3/4 inch face stamp from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide eye kids face stamp set and memento ink. I used the 3D foam squares to attach the cowboy to the cardbase. I then used my square punch and some blue cardstock to make a tag to hand write "Hey Cowboy!" before attaching it, I inked the edges with my distressing ink, and attached it with a 3D foam square as well.

On the inside of the card, it is stamped with a sentiment stamp from the Spring has Sprung stamp set by Pink by Design!

Butterfly Birthday Card

Yesterday, I shared with you the card for one of my nieces who celebrated her birthday this month. For the other one, I made this card! She turned 2 on the 11th!

Items used:

• 3 different shades of pink cardstock
• white cardstock
• 3D foam squares
• ATG adhesive 
• adhesive gemstones 
• Happy Birthday sentiment stamp
• Storybook Cricut cartridge 
• stickles
• Ink
• scalloped 2 inch circle punch 

I started by cutting out the butterfly's. I cut 2 in the darkest pink at 6 inches. For the second layer, I cut the butterfly at 5 3/4 inches, I attached this later to the front of the card with ATG adhesive. I cut the smallest butterfly at 4.5 inches. I attached this butterfly with 3D foam square adhesive. I added stickles to the antenna's to give them some sparkle. I then cut a scalloped punch from the white cardstock and stamped it with the Happy Birthday sentiment from PBD and inked the edges. I also added the adhesive gemstones to the front of the card for some added bling.

To make a back flap for the card, I took the second large butterfly and trimmed off the top wings just blow the antenna's and secured it to the front flap with ATG adhesive.

Ballerina Birthday Card

This month, 2 of my nieces celebrated birthday's! One turned 4 and the other 2. For the 4 year old I made this card!

 (This picture was taken before I added the stickles)

Items used:

• Card base 
• pink paper cut to fit front of card base
• Cream, dark pink, light pink, and brown card stock
• Paper Doll Dress up cricut cartridge
• stickles
• Balloon and sentiment stamp
• Sentiment stamp from PBD 
• Peachy Keen face stamp
• Memonto Ink
• Adhesive
• 3D foam square adhesive
• markers
• white gel pen
  

I started by cutting out the doll base in the cream colored card stock at 5 inches, I then cut all the respective layers also at 5 inches. I also cut the pink background paper to fit the front of the card base and attached it using my ATG gun.

I used my ATG to attach all the layers together, and then used stickles along the detail cuts to give some definition to the dress, shoes, and hair ribbon. I also stamped the face of the doll with one of my face stamps from Peachy Keen stamps! I used my white gel pen to fill in the eyes on the face.

I attached the ballerina doll to the card using 3D foam squares. Once the Ballerina was attached, I added the sentiment stamp (from PBD) under her, as well as the balloon stamp. On the inside of the card, I added a sentiment stamp and the balloon stamp and then colored them in with my markers.

Hey Cupcake!

My card last week for my card angel patient was such a fun card to make. I have been in the mood for some cupcakes, so before making some to eat I figured I would put one on a card!

 (Sorry for the weird crop on the second picture...I had already written in the card when I took the picture, and edited it out.)

Items used:

• DCWV card base in black
• White cardstock to stamp cupcake stamps on
• Markers
• 3D foam squares
• ribbon 
• stamps
• memonto ink
• gel pen 

I started by stamping the cupcake stamps on my white cardstock. I wanted just an outline of the top part because I wanted to add the face. To do this, I just inked the edges of one of the cupcake tops from my "Cupcake" stamp set from PBD. After stamping the edges on the paper, I added the face stamp from a Peachy Keen Stamp set.  Once the cupcake stamps were done, I hand cut along the lines to cut them out. I then colored them in with my markers. I added some blush chalk to the face to give it a little color.

Before attaching the cupcake to the front of the card, I attached the ribbon around the card base. I then used the 3D foam squares to attach both the top and bottom of the cupcake. I then added the sentiments to the outside as well as the inside of the card.

Football card

The second card that I have made for my Chemo Angel patient is a football card. One of the things I was told about him is that he LOVES football.

Items used:

• DCWV card base
• ribbon
• brown card stock
• PBD stamps (sentiments and football)
• 3D foam squares 
• ATG adhesive
• Memento ink 

 I started by stamping the footballs onto the brown cardstock and hand cutting them out. After stamping and cutting enough footballs out, I pulled out some ribbon to add to the card, and attached that with my ATG gun, I used the 3D foam squares to attached the footballs to the front of the card. I then added the sentiments to the front and inside of the card using memento black ink.