Bridal Shower Card

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Yesterday was the shower that I spent all last week making favors for.  I can now share that the theme for the bridal shower was a Princess theme.  The bride-to-be is a huge Disney Princess fan.  Those little princess crown bags I posted last week were the favors.  I was happy that everyone assumed they were for one of my kiddos parties because I was worried the bride-to-be would see them on my blog and figure out the theme but she did not!  They were filled with chocolate covered pretzels...mmmmm!  Here is the card I made for the bride-to-be!

I used the same crown from the favors to make the card (Click HERE for favors).   I'm entering this card into the Paper Cutz Challenge #95 which is any project using Pink, Black and White only.

I love these colors together!  I used Pink Bubblegum Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot and I think it goes great with the crown!  

Also, here are the prizes that the maid of honor and I made Friday night.  This purse design is from a tutorial created by Becky Roberts at Inking Idaho!  Everyone at the shower loved both the favors and prizes! 

Just a heads up...I think I may take the week off from blogging.  I didn't realize seeing all the Father's Day challenges and cards would bother me so much but they do.  I have a few Design Team projects scheduled to post but beside that, it may be quite here and I will not be visiting everyone like I usually do.  I'll be back to it next week once Father's Day has passed!  I still haven't made it to everyone who visited during the blog hop last week but I am working on it.  If I haven't stopped by your blog yet, I promise I'll get there!  Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Princess Favors

Hello Everyone!  It seems like I no sooner get done crafting for one party or shower that I start right into another!  This week I am working on Princess favors for a friend then tomorrow I have some shower prizes that I will be working on.  I wanted to show you what I am making for the princess favors and a little tutorial on how I am making them.

These are very similar to the rainbow butterfly ones I made a few months ago (Click HERE to see).

The Bag is from Once Upon A Princess and the Crown is from Gypsy Wanderings.  I used my dimensionals to pop the crowns off the bags.  Here is how they are made.

This is set up so I can cut the bag and crown all from one sheet of 8.5x11.  I didn't like how the bag sides were the last time, so I used my Gypsy to weld tabs onto the sides (See where blue arrow is).  I also hid some of the features on the crown.

After cutting them all out, I cut the tab off the top and I used my Martha Stewart Score Board to score the fold lines.

I use Glue Lines on all of my bags and boxes.  I like the strong hold I get from them.  See how nicely those tabs worked!  I'm glad I added them because it made the set up of these bags so much easier.  You just bring the sides up and adhere them to the inside of the bag base.

Once my bags are together, I run all the crowns through my Xyron create-a-sticker.

With the sticker maker, you get an even coat of glue without the wetness.  Some adhesives can make your paper curl when you are coating the entire surface.

Then comes the glitter.  I store all of my glitter in these little plastic containers with a plastic spoon that way I can glitter, store and contain the mess all in one.  They take up a little more room than the little tubes the glitter comes in, but it is so much easier than using a tray then trying to get all the glitter back into the tubes! 

This is the first batch of 30.  Don't the colors look great together!  I need to make another batch of 20 today.

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up!
• Melon Mambo Cardstock
• So Saffron Cardstock
• Pale Plum Cardstock
• Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
• Cricut E2 and Gypsy
• Once Upon a Princess Cartridge
• Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge
• Adhesives
• Xyron Create-a-Sticker
• Glue Dots brand Glue Lines
• Dimensionals

These are a quick and fun favor bag that you can stuff any little treat into to make a favor fit for any Princess.  I hope you all like them or find a tip you can use in your crafting!  Thanks for stopping by today!

You Color my World Card

I just got done hopping the MPS Blog Hop and I wanted to do a quick post before I head off to my craft room!  This one is for the Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge.  I wanted to get this one in early because I posted too late and missed the deadline for last weeks piggy challenge.  Here is my Rainbow Butterfly Card!

I was going to clip the ribbons at the edge of the card, but then I just couldn't do it!  I think it gives it an extra little something letting them dangle!  It looks like the butterfly is flying in from off the card the way they spread across the table!  I love the way it turned out and I am sitting here with an amazing idea in my head so I must be off to my scrap room! 

Products Used:

• All Scrap Paper (I'm pretty sure the black is SU because of it's thickness)
• Gypsy Wonderings
• Divine Swirls CB Embossing Folder
• Pretty Petals Sizzix Embossing Folder
• Pink By Design Stamp
• White Embossing Powder
• Michael's Ribbons

Challenges:
Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge
Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge
Cricut Cardz Challenge #65 Make a Tall Card

Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Twilight Mom Challenge

What a fun challenge for Crafty Twilight Mom.  My original submission ended up not happening because I did not have the carts I needed to complete it.  This is my only downfall with my Gypsy.  It shows me too much that I cannot have.  I wish we could just download a single cut when we need them!!  This item is not as creative but it is my Valentines Day Card for my BFF.  She is the one who threw a Twilight Book at me one day and said "you must read it"!!  I looked at it and said "I've got 3 kids and there is no way I have time to read a book that big"!!!  When I finally picked it up (to see what the fuss was about) I didn't put it down until I was done the next morning and then went out that day to buy the other 3 books!! 

I thought using shimmer paper would give it the same look as the cover of the books! The shimmer paper  is from a LSS (background, key, heart) and the red satin ribbon is from Michaels.  You can see my reflection taking the picture in the black background...hehe!!  I hope she doesn't see this on here before I drop it off to her!   

 Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!