Happy Birthday Lesley!

It's that time of the year again...Lesley's birthday! She is the owner of Annie's Paper Boutique and Trendy Twine. I always enjoy surprising her with a birthday blog post, so be sure to stop by the Trendy Twine blog to leave her some birthday wishes!

The card I created this year is an accordian fold card. I love getting creative with fun fold cards for her birthday just for that little extra special touch! Patterned papers are all from DCWV's Confetti stack. To decorate the belly band around the card, I used a GMD Doily Die with vellum and a tag. The tag was created with a White Tag-It, Pink Midnight Trendy Page Dot, sentiments from the Smile stamp set, Raspberry Cupcake Trendy Twine, Totally Raspberry Trendy Twine, and a Provo Craft cake die cut.  For some added bling, I added Blue Berry sequins with mini Glue Dots.

Once the belly band is slid off, you can see the accordian fold. Isn't that huge cupcake fun?!

The inside sentiments are also from the Smile stamp set. Adhesives used to assemble the card were ATG and Bearly Art precision glue.

Please stop by the Trendy Twine blog to see the card Shelly created for Lesley and to leave Lesley some birthday love as well!

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Raspberry Cupcake Trendy Twine

Totally Raspberry Trendy Twine

White Tag-It

Smile stamp set

Pink Midnight Trendy Page Dot

Blue Berry sequins

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Happy Birthday, Lesley!

Today the Trendy Gals wanted to show our appreciation for Lesley, the owner of Annie's Paper Boutique because it is her BIRTHDAY!  Happy birthday Lesley!  This is the card I made for her.

The patterned papers are from DCWV's Unicorns & Rainbows stack.  The card is a fun fold card featuring a "Drapery Fold Technique".  Of course, a card for Lesley wouldn't be complete without Trendy Twine, so I used Paper Smooches Balloons dies and made Raspberry Cupcake Trendy Twine strings for the balloons.  A sentiment stamp from the Annie's Paper Boutique Smile stamp set made the card complete.  I used Bearly Art precision tip glue as the adhesive for the card.

Be sure to stop by the Trendy Twine blog to leave Lesley some birthday love!!

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Raspberry Cupcake Trendy Twine

Smile stamp set

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Growing In Unity Day 4

Thanks for sticking with me through my week of Growing in Unity!  From Monday through Friday I will post a new creation daily that feature stamps from Unity Stamp Co.  Be sure to stop by and comment each day because there will be 2 random winners from my blog comments who will each win a $20 gift credit to Unity!

On to project #4...

The stamps from the focal panel are from Unity's Everything More stamp set.  I stamped it with Scrapbook.com Orange Spice and Midnight Blue inks and cut around it with my Brother Scan N Cut, then also cut the shadow layer with the Scan N Cut.  The butterfly was from a Unity grab bag and worked perfectly to accent the card.  The style of card is a fun fold called Diagonal Double Fold Card.  You can find the tutorial I somewhat followed to create this card HERE.  The patterned papers I used were from The Paper Studio's Orange Envy mat paper pad.  I don't usually use orange in my cards, but these papers were too pretty to pass up!  Adhesives used include Bearly Art precision glue and foam tape.

This is how the card looks when it is all opened up.  I really liked the addition of the butterfly peeking out from the inside.

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I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!

 

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Happy Birthday Lesley!

Hello all! Today is an extra special day as we celebrate Lesley's birthday!  She is the owner of Annie's Paper Boutique and a great friend too!  Stop by the Trendy Twine blog to see the cards that are heading her way.

Here is the card I created for her:

Lesley loves Disney themes, so I took out my EK Success Frozen paper pad and got to work!  I used a fun fold card tutorial which was quite simple to create, but makes an interesting card for sure.  The focal point has a die cut white doily layered with a Pink Tag-It.  I punched a hole in the opposite end of the Tag-It so it looks like more of a banner than a tag.  I stamped sentiments from the APB Smile stamp set in black and tied bits of Tickled Pink Trendy Twine and Grape Fizz Trendy Twine in each hole.

The finishing touch was Grape Fizz Sequins sporadically added with Bearly Art precision glue.  below you can see how the card sits up.  I loved creating this style of card and I hope Lesley loves it too!

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Tickled Pink Trendy Twine

Grape Fizz Trendy Twine

Grape Fizz Sequins

Pink Tag-It

APB Smile stamp set

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Minecraft Swing Card

Hello and good morning!  I wanted to share this card I created for my youngest son's 9th birthday.  He requested a swing card or a Minecraft Steve head card...so naturally, I combined the two and he was thrilled with it!

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut everything except the happy birthday words.  Those were a manual die.  The swing card file was a free one I picked up somewhere once upon a time.  I should have paid more attention to the size before I started cutting because it turned out quite large, but that made the card really impressive to my son!  The base was brown cardstock and I used amazing patterned papers from The Paper Studio's Boy paper pad.  If you haven't seen that one yet, you need to check it out!!

The Minecraft Steve head was a file I created years ago just by welding rectangles together in SCAL!  

Here is a look at the card all opened up.  The center square swings around to reveal the area to write on.  For a finishing touch, I added GMD Watermelon enamel dots around the 9 on the front panel.  Adhesives used include ATG, Bearly Art glue and foam tape.

I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!

Happy Birthday Lesley!

 Hello all!  Today we are celebrating the wonderful Lesley's birthday!  She is the owner of Trendy Twine & Annie's Paper Boutique.  Hop along with the DT and GDT, starting at the Trendy Twine blog, as we share our birthday wishes for her.  Make sure to leave Lesley some birthday love as well!

The card I created for Lesley is a fun fold card called Triple Panel Fold Card.  It was really simple to make with the tutorial!  The hardest part was picking what papers I wanted in all the different areas!  All of the papers are from Cricut's Hello Kitty papers.  For the focal panel, I added a Pink Large Tag-It, and a Lemon Large Tag-It to which I adhered Sizzix Happy Birthday die cuts.  The Cherry Latte Trendy Page Dot and Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine were a great addition to the tag.  I also glued Raspberry Cupcake Sequins on that panel.

On the small panels directly above and below the focal point panel, I outlined a square with Lineco adhesive in a precision tipped bottle and adhered Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine and tied a bow.  I also glued a few Raspberry Cupcake Sequins on it as well.

Here is a look at the front of the card when it is folded.  It fits into a 5x7" envelope.

I'm not done yet sharing pictures of the card!  Here is the back of the card.  Isn't that patterned paper cute?!  The white panels allow plenty of room for stamping and writing a message. 

Here is a close up of the left panel.  I stamped sentiments from the Smile stamp set in the following Scrapbook.com ink colors: Cardinal Red, Rubber Ducky, Candy Shop Pink, and Postal Blue.  That is Lesley's card in a nutshell!  Make sure to go to the Trendy Twine blog to see everyone else's creations!

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine

Pink Large Tag-It

Lemon Large Tag-It

Cherry Latte Trendy Page Dot

Raspberry Cupcake Sequins

Smile stamp set

I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day! 

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Dinosaur Double Flap Fun Fold Card

Hello all!  I have a nephew who loves dinosaurs.  His birthday was earlier this month, so I dug through my papers until I found just the right ones to make him this double flap fun fold card.  You can find the tutorial I followed to create this card HERE.

For supplies, I used kraft cardstock and dinosaur scrapbook paper that had both been from Oriental Trading years ago.  I used GMD x-stitched circle dies and a dino die cut that had been included with the paper.  I embellished with GMD peacock clear enamel dots.

The belly band slides off to reveal lots of fun papers...

Here is the view of it all the way opened up!

Didn't it turn out cute?!  I love all the different papers that I was able to use on it.

I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!