House of Cards Blog Hop

Welcome to our end of DT term blog hop.  Below is the photo inspiration and your card can be of any style.  Be sure to hop along and leave comments at every blog for a chance at some fabulous prizes.  Next you will be going to Donna's blog to see her classic style creation based on this photo.  Happy hopping.

This is such a fun stamp set and a wonderful stamp company called Paper Sweeties.  I used a set called Home Sweet Home.  I loved it because you can literally create your own house and yard.

It is always so hard to find masculine stamps and these guitars from Inspired by Stamping are just fabulous.  This is the father's day card for my step-father, who is the best dad in the whole world.  I am so lucky to have him and my kids adore him.  This is an awesome set called guitars and they sell a cut file as well.  Wish I had gotten that as well, going to have to go buy it now.  Be sure to check out the Inspired by Stamping store.

Anita (Classic) You are here
Donna (Classic) Where you are going next
House of Cards Challenge Blog with original post

Inspired By Stamping
Prize: $15 gift voucher to the shop.

Paper Sweeties
Prize: $20 gift voucher to the shop.

 

SRM Birthday Challenge

I love SRM stickers and all the fun things that you can do with them.  I made a birthday set.  Loving how this came out.  My silhouette is amazing and let's me combine wonderful stickers with adorable cut files.  You can check out the challenge here.

House of Cards Color/Photo Inspiration Challenge

This fortnight, we're asking for 

CAS and/or Classic Elegant Cards

PLUS WE'D LIKE YOU TO USE THIS AS YOUR INSPIRATION~

Here is the card that I made for this challenge for my Mother-in-law for Mother's Day.  Just love these colors.  I went a bit brighter than the photo.  Hope you have a chance to play along here.

Hugs,

Top Dog Dies and The Twinery Blog Hop

Welcome to our first cross promotion of 2014 for The Twinery and Top Dog Dies.  These dies are gorgeous and so very easy to use.  They sent me two lovely sets of dies so I made two projects.

You should have come here from: The Twinery :

If not, you can go back to The Top Dog Dies blog to start the hop from the beginning.  Be sure to hop along and leave a comment at every blog for a chance to win the fabulous prize below. Your next stop is the lovely Tifany DeGough's blog. 

Top Dog Dies Pretty Petals Set and Mini Flower Die

Top Dog Dies Butterfly Die Set

The Twinery Colors I used:

Hop Prize:

Happy hopping and big hugs,

Photo Booth Props The Twinery

Photo booths have been getting more popular at all kinds of events and I thought what better way to feature The Twinery twine than on these adorable photo booth props.  You can find all the luscious twine colors at The Twinery store.  

 I used some two sided tape to adhere the twine to the prop sticks and added a dab of glue at the bottom to attach the last little piece.  It is such an easy to thing to do and gives the props such a wonderful bright handle to hold onto.

 As men age, you might notice that they appear to have some grey in their mustaches, hee , hee.  I added the bottom layer using some two sided tape and trimmed around the design of the prop.  I put the next layer of tape just above the previous layer and trimmed the twine once I was done.  I repeated this until I filled in the whole mustache.

 Some of these props just make me smile, they are so fun.  I have had these fun October Afternoon papers for a long time and it was great to be able to use them.  I inked the edges of the papers as well.

 I had to throw in a cow boy hat for Colleen as she goes to college in Georgia and loves country music.  I made a really long braid with six strands of twine and then put two rows of the stick tape across the hat.  I laid the braid down and trimmed the edges.

My dear friend helped me take photos of these props and she insisted that I include a photo of myself with the props as well.  So here you go.  

Be back with more The Twinery goodness soon.  Hugs and happy Wednesday.