Birthday Bash

At Fantabulous Cricut this week, the challenge was "Birthday Bash".  Make a birthday project. Well, the timing couldn't have been any better for me...First, my blog is 1 year old this month...Woo Hoo!!! I cannot believe it's been a year since I started out on this journey...and an interesting one it has been. Secondly, my birthday is on Saturday. So, Happy Birthday to Me!!!

For my project, I made a Birthday Banner:

Finished Banner: approximately 3 1/2" x 3 1/2' (yes, feet)

Materials:
Cardstock: Orange, Light Blue, Purple, Yellow, Red and Brown
Cricut Cartridge Happy Graduation (Congratulations) Banner
Cricut Cartridge George & Basic Shapes Various Letters "H" "A" "P" Y" "B" "I" "R" "T" "D", (Shadow)
Cricut Cartridge Sweet Treats Cupcake 6, page 29 (Base, Layers, Layers Shift and Shadow/Blackout Shift)
Cricut Design Studio
Sizzix Embossing Folder Scrollwork
White Curling Ribbon
White Gel Pen

I also made a card and a favor box to match:

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials
Cardstock: White, Orange, Light Blue, Purple, Yellow, Red and Brown
Cricut Cartridge Sweet Treats Cupcake 6, page 29 (Base, Layers, Layers Shift, Shadow and Shadow/Blackout Shift)
Cricut Design Studio
Sizzix Embossing Folder Scrollwork
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Happy Birthday
Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch Happy Birthday
Yellow Ribbon
White Gel Pen
Mounting Tape

( I did add the white dots on the cupcake after the picture was taken to match the banner...did anyone pick up that I forgot the dots?)

Finished Box: 2 1/4" x 3" x 1 3/4"

Cardstock: Purple, Brown, Light Blue and Orange
Cricut Cartridge Sweet Tooth Boxes Cake Slice, page 10 (Cake, Cake Layer 2 and Cake Layer 3)
Cricut Cartridge Wild Card Wave (Squiggle line), page 50 (Icon)

A couple of posts back, I had said that I would be having a Give-away to celebrate my Blog's Birthday and My Birthday.  So would you like to know what I am giving away? Here it is:

There might even be a surprise or two! This is what you have to do to be eligible to win...First, you have to be a follower of my blog. Second, you must leave a comment HERE on this post and answer the question "What should I do to celebrate my birthday?" Give me some suggestions! You have until Sun the 28th (midnight EST) to leave a comment on THIS post. On Mon. Aug 29th, I will post the winner. Be sure to leave me a way to contact you. Good luck!

Would like to share a picture with you:

Had a great lunch the other day with these ladies. It was nice catching up. Thanks Janet, Betty and Maureen. We really need to do this more often.

Have a great rest of the week...don't forget to become a follower and leave a comment (answer my question) for the give-away.

Happy Birthday to me and my blog!
imagine what you could do......

Crop Stop Challenge # 1 Sketch

Second post for today.and I'm cutting this really close. Deadline for this challenge is tonight at midnight. I happen to run across this blog, Crop Stop, (click here to check it out), late last night. I worked extra hours today, so I didn't get a chance to even start this until tonight after dinner. It's based on a sketch.

Here is what I came up with:

The sentiment (Happy Valentine's Day) is in silver pigment ink (it may be hard to see). The silver is so hard to phototgraph for you to see.

There are silver stamped hearts on the side panel (again it may be hard to see). I guess this would be considered a version of a "Joy Fold Card". 

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:

Cardstock: White, Pink, Three Different Patterned Papers

Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 5PK - Wedding Set #2  Scrollmark

Inkadinkado Happy Everything Stamps Happy Valentine's Day

Making Memories Stickers 7/16" Dot Silver "i" and "u"

Colorbok Metal Accents Hearts

EK Success Sticko Dimensional Stickers Lovely Hearts

Silver Pigment Ink

Three Red Rhinstones

Hope you like the card. It was fun to make. Just hoping I make the deadline. Thanks. Leave a comment. 

Push yourself to the limit...just imagine what you could do