Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #18

This week at Celebrate the Occasion, we were challenged to come up with a project that had a birthday theme that included a party hat. I used My Mind's Eye Lime Twist - Life of the Party collection. This paper is so bright and happy, it just asks to be a birthday project! :) I used one of my new favorite cartridges, Birthday Bash and created a flower box using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.

I used some tulle and the party hat sentiment to decorate the box, along with some more of the fun paper.

Then used some more tulle to tie around the 6x6 card with a bow at the top to make it look almost like its own gift box. I loved that cute little cupcake, so I used it for the main image on my card.

Come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or project and post it by Sunday, June 19th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the monthly drawing! For the month of June we are giving away a "Peachy Keen $20 gift card!! Have a great day!

Challenges I entered:
Cooking with Cricut - pick your poison
Birthday Sundaes - wet or dry embossed birthday card
Scrappy Moms - sweet treats

Kitty Card

My daughter made this adorable kitten card for the Card Makin' Mamas challenge! She is one of the Guest Designers this week and she was given the challenge to make a card using one of the digistamps they sent us. She chose all the papers and cut them out herself, she colored the kitten and flowers using her colored pencils, and made the cute little bow for the kitten! The only thing I had to help with was the striped bow, and let's face it, bows can be hard for everyone to make! She was so cute saying that she was going to give it to her friend this weekend because she's going to her birthday party. I was so proud of her for wanting to do this and it's so fun to see her creativity come shining through :)

Have an awesome day!

Birthday Car

I've been trying to make some more masculine cards for my card supply so I decided to do a birthday one since those are the ones I need most. I didn't really mean for the image to look like Lightening McQueen but I guess the new Cars movie has been on my mind since my son brings it up daily, so that's what ended up on the card :)

I tied waxy flax around the card a couple of times, because it looked a little more masculine to me than ribbon. Then I used my Sew Easy and punched some holes so I could sew the zig zag - I thought it mirrored the embossed paper really well too!

Challenges that inspired me:
My Craft Spot - tie one on
Birthday Sundaes - anything goes
The Paper Variety - for or about a special man in your life
Papercraft Star - follow sketch and masculine card
Card Makin' Mamas - use your scraps
Designed to Delight - masculine, no flowers

Have a great day!

Announcing the Winner of the iRock!!!

Using the random generator, the winner of the iRock blog candy is....

Charlotte at A Little Bit of Detail!!!

Charlotte said...

Oh so pretty. The papers you have used are just perfect. and I love the bling you used for the bubbles in the water.

Congratulations Charlotte!! A huge thank you to all of you that took the time to participate in the blog hop and to the amazing Celebrate the Occasion Design Team for making all your beautiful projects!!

Have a fantastic day!

Happy Father's Day cricut card

Using the CUTEST BEAVER EVER off of the Create a Critter Cricut Cart. I also used the grass from that cart. and embossed a blue piece of card stock with the Spots and Dots embossing folder on my Sizzix texture boutique embossing purse (so cute)

Then I used the computer to print the message out- since every man I am related to in my family works as hard as beavers- and every other man I have met thinks he does. LOL
I hope you enjoy- now go to Celebrate the Occasion and check out all the other brilliant artists on the design team this week!
Thanks,

Celebrate the Occasion Pool Party Blog Hop!!!

Welcome to the Celebrate the Occasion "Pool Party" Blog Hop. If you are coming from my super talented friend Amber's site at My 3 E Scrapbooking you’re on the right track. If you just joined us, you can go back to the beginning HERE and hop along with us. You'll want to be sure to start at the beginning because the grand prize is at Celebrate the Occasion and then there is tons of blog candy on every site! Everyone has lots of fun summer projects to share with you!

CTO-http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/

Ivette-http://www.allaboutmeandmyscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Girlia-http://girliascards.blogspot.com/

Adrian-http://byadrian4u.blogspot.com/

Amy-http://www.lovetocrop.com/

Nicole-http://nadialax13.blogspot.com/

Amber-http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Rayna-http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/ <<< -------- You are Here!!
Lisa-http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

Melissa-http://melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

Diana-http://www.dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

Kristen-http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/

Katie-http://kwilliamskreations.blogspot.com/

Nicole-http://www.creativedelightsbynicole.blogspot.com/

Linda-http://www.fancyframework.com/

Maquel-http://papermaineiac.blogspot.com/

Mary-http://marebearscraps.blogspot.com/

Judy Ann-http://craftyjar.blogspot.com/

Lucianna-http://dilsaverdesigns.blogspot.com/

Laverne-http://www.acraftershaven.blogspot.com/

I made this fun summer layout when I got all our swimming pictures back from last summer! The kids had a blast swimming and I loved making this swimming layout! I used paper from Karen Foster and Bazzill and then added the little bling bubbles and prima flowers. All the bright colors just make me want to go jump in the pool! :)


I cut out some 'splashes' from vellum and then inked around the edges with my Tim Holtz broken china distress ink. I love the way that ink doesn't even smudge on vellum! I used a couple of different embossing folders on the fish and then inked them up too.

Well I can't let you leave without a little blog candy right? I'm giving away the iRock from Imaginisce! All you have to do is leave me a comment and don't forget to leave me a way to contact you in case you are the lucky winner! Also, if you happen to like what you see on my blog and would like to become a follower, that would be awesome too, but it's not required for your chance to win. :)
The next stop on our hop today is Lisa at Pretty Paper Ribbons! Make sure to stop by and leave her some great comment love!

Have an awesome day!

Llama Birthday

I recently got the Birthday Bash cart because I loved all the different shape cards you can make it with it! Plus since I love Create a Critter so much, I thought I probably needed some more little animals to create with. These guys are so adorable! They have everything from the llama to a cute birthday crocodile, and I can't wait to use them all!

I used some scraps I had from the Route 66 paper collection from Close to my Heart and then used stickles to add some dimension to the cute little stack of presents (even guys can use a little bling, right!) Then added some ribbon and industrial size brads and my masculine birthday card was done :)

Challenges that inspired me:
Cooking with Cricut - use at least 2 of their list of colors, I used green, brown, cream, etc.
Cricut Cardz Challenge - use the card feature on any cart
Birthday Sundaes - masculine birthday
Papercraft Star - masculine, the presents reminded me of the stacked cake in the inspiration picture
Card Makin' Mamas - use scraps
My Craft Spot - use a cute critter
Scrapalicious USA - man card

Have an awesome day!