Hippo Birdies Two Ewes Birthday Card

I am making some birthday cards for my friend Teresa to give to her fellow teachers. Every year she gives out more then 70 cards, so I started last year helping her make them. Here's another of my creations.

I got the inspiration for this card from when I was growing up. I remember this saying from a card I received and it popped into my head, so I thought it would make a cute card.

SUPPLIES:

Hippo- Cricut cut- Animal Kingdom cartridge

Birdies- Cricut cut- Paper Pups cartridge

Ewes- Cricut cut- Winter Frolic cartridge

Sentiment- Cricut cut- Cherry Limeade cartridge

Paper- Kaiser Craft, Best Creation Inc and Bazzill

Ink- Tim Holtz/Ranger Inc.- Distress Ink- Faded Jeans

Glittery Highlights- Sakura Jelly Roll-Stardust pens

Adhesive- Helmar Art & Hobby Adhesive

I have entered this card in the following challenges (check them out!):

Easy Craft Projects -photo inspiration

Creations by GillM -anything that flies

If The Shoe Fits- Scrap It -Jungle Book inspired

Forever Friends -Include an animal

LESSology DT Application Project

I found the request for LESSology DT members on the Scrapbook Call Blog. I checked it out and decided I would give it a try!

I love making all kinds of repurposed projects.

So this is the project I put together. It is a canvas that I found at the Goodwill. I covered it with the Alice In Wonderland Halloween paper. Then I took an old costume and cut it up and made the fabric flowers that are along the edge. The centers of the flowers are old buttons cut off a dress. This project is a total Upcycle!!

The title I got from the Alice in Wonderland story. When Alice is at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, the Dormouse recites...

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat,
How I wonder what you're at:
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky,
Up above the world you fly
Like at tea tray in the sky.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat,
How I wonder what you're at:
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky.

Use 3-5 pieces, put them together. Use a needle and thread and sew a button in the center. This will also help hold the flower together. These buttons are ones from an old dress!

To get the pieces of thin material to look all wrinkly, you melt it over a candle. Be very careful it doesn't catch on fire. It is very easy to make these flowers!

I cut up a skirt from an old Halloween costume. I cut it into squares and then a circle, then to look like little flowers. You don't have to be perfect because you can make them look like you want when you do the next step, with the melting.

SUPPLIES:

Viva Decor Pearl Pens and Glitter Liners- accents and to attach the vintage buttons

Vintage Buttons

Repurposed 12x12 Canvas

Repurposed black costume

Repurposed buttons from an old dress

Twinkle Twinkle- cut with Cricut using Nursery Rhyme Cart

Little - cut with the Cricut using Graphically Speaking

Bat- cut with the Cricut using Simply Charmed

Helmar 450 Adhesive was used to attach the flowers

Foam PopDots used to to attach the title

This canvas is also entered in the following challenges:

Dutch Dare

Paperminutes

Crafty Chicas Wedding Card

This month over at the Chicas Getting Crafty blog the assignment was wedding themed. I made this cute wedding card. Get more details over there, check it out!!

Don't forget to join in the fun with the follower challenge!! All you need to do is submit a wedding related layout.

Hoot Birthday Card-Challenge Entry

I made this adorable card for a friend. I think it came out so cute!

SUPPLIES:

Stampin' Up Owl Punch

DCWV Polka Dot Paper

Alphabet- Studio G Wooden

Zva Creative- Pearls

Tim Holtz- Distress Ink- Antique Linen

Faux Stitching- Zig Pen- Pure Brown

Scotch Tape Runner

Foam Pop Dots

LITTLE OWLS- paper is bazzill, they are a Stampin' Up punch

I am entering this card in several challenges this week:

Simply Create- Challenge #49 - Favorite Animal

Glitter Geeks- Week #9 - Furry and Feathery Friends

Stampin' For The Weekend-Challenge #14 -Spots & Dots

Delightful Challenges- Aug 3rd -Stitching- Real or Faux

Little Red Wagon- Challenge #92 -Put a Critter On It

Party Time Tuesdays- Birthday Blog Hop -Birthday card

You Are My Sunshine

You Are My Sunshine

My Only Sunshine

You Make Me Happy When Skies Are Grey

You'll Never Know Dear How Much I Love You!

I thought it would be fun to try something really different...so I used an actual vinyl record album as the base for this project!!

Check out more details over at Chicas Gettin Crafty!!

I love this photo! This was taken in May when Geoffrey graduated from Daytona College. These three are my sunshines!

I entered this fun layout in the following challenges:

Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - Nothing Square

Amber's Crafts & Stuff - Glittery

Crafts & Me Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Belli Blog- Non-paper

Ruby's Rainbow- Gems

Club CK 1-Hour Layout Challenge

This was fun. I have never participated in a one-hour challenge. Over at the CKClub they have them regularly, but I have never done one. Today I thought it would be fun to give it a try. Here is my take.

It was a challenge to use horizontal stripped paper.

This photo is of my mother and I taken in 1969 at sunset on Padre Island. I love this photo.

SUPPLIES:

Paper- Chatterbox- Scrapbook Walls- Beach Stripe, Beach Dot and Large Frisbee Stripe

Shells- Jesse James Buttons

Flower- Prima Floral Embellishments

Tim Holtz- Distress Ink- Vintage Photo

Circle is cut using the Cricut Expressions and the Christmas Cheer Cartridge

Studio G Wooden Alphabet Stamps

Helmar Adhesives- Tape Runner, 450 and Acid Free Glue