There is so much to get to today, first here is 2 cards I made with today’s freebie you can grab over in the Crop Room, for the next 3 days pop over there anytime to crop with us, do some challenges and share what you are working on. I’ll have a new freebie each day too, yay!
I used the party hat freebie (grab it in the crop room) to make both of these cards!I found a vintage photo and topped each one with a mini hat, how cute? and nothing says "party" like curling ribbon!This hat was enlarged and decked out with crape paper party streamers that were stitched together and fringed, fun!
Now lets start hoppin! You have a chance to win a digital stamp set on every DT members blog! Leave a comment to win, that is all you have to do, if you want a second chance to win place this fan badge on you blog and leave another comment, easy peasy and I thank you for this extra step!
Next on the hop is Cheryl Gorka see what gorgeous projects she has lined up today!
If you get lost along the way you can come back here and refer to the list of daily hoppers:
Now get hoppin! Be sure to leave some love so you can win some stamp sets, don’t worry, if you buy something during the 50% off sale and end up winning the same set I will let you pick a different one. Now I am off to the Crop Room to play, see you there, happy crafting!
I have met so many cool crafters over the years online and I wished we could all get together for a craft night, well now we can! Next week in Celebration of the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff 1 year Anniversary I am having my first ever virtual crop and I hope you will join me:
All you need to do, if you havent already, is join the MyGrafico Community then when accepted you can join the crop room {a virtual classroom} and you can crop with me next week! It is free of course and you can win fabulous prizes so what are you waiting for, sign up now 🙂
I was looking for some inspiration this morning so I popped over to 2 sketches 4 you and mad 2 cards using both Laura’s sketch #49 and the bonus sketch. This card uses the bonus sketch and the “Baby” theme from Caardvarks:
The chick digi is from the cute easter stamp set from Lindsay's stamp stuff. See stamping tip at the end of this post 🙂
There are some fun techniques on this card. I stitched 4 pieces of 2″x7″ tissie paper together, fringed and crinkled it (I got that tip from Johanna on Leah Fung’s blog) and hot glued it to my card, fun! Also I embossed the little dots on the scallop circle with my Crop-a-dial just by placing my paper in the eyelet setter part and giving a squeeze.
I colored the scissors from the Sew Pretty set with copics.
Here is another cool tip from Johanna, look at the little bow, all you do is fold a scrap of ribbon in 3 and tie it with thread, saves time, money and look how cute!
I had a bit of trouble stamping the “it’s a girl” on the tall card, the ink kept beading up on the cheap-o clear stamp so I scuffed it with an emery board (fingernail file) and now it works so well:
Use a fingernail file or fine grit sandpaper to improve a cheap clear stamp! Please note, this if for the silicone cheapos that you find in the craft store (like the dollar stamps) high quality clear stamp will not need this step. Stamp first, scuff later:)
Boy that was a lot to get through! Thanks for sticking with me and til next time happy crafting!
