A Guest Designer and the Winner

WOW!!!  I am so completely honored to be able to be a guest designer over at More Than Favors.  I absolutely love Paula's work; she is so amazing!!!  So . . . here's my guest post. :)

This is a simple A2 gift card holder.

The cake is from the Smiley Cards Gypsy download (so much fun).  I hid the face (using my Gypsy) and used a super cute PK Princess face.  I used Stickles on the flames. :)  I used a MS punch for the borders.  The stamp is Pink by Design Simply Everything.

The gift card holder on the inside was actually very simple.  Here are the steps:

Take a 3 1/2 x 11 inch piece of paper and score it at 4 inches from each end and fold (you will want to use a bone folder).  The paper can be taller than 3 1/2, but has to be at least 3 1/2.

 

Take the 2 mountain folds and put them together making the letter 'M', or 'W' (depending on how you look at it).  This will give you the tab that sticks out. (Pay no attention to my fingernail polish - I need to take it off)

 

Cut a line on the middle fold starting at 1/2 inch from the top to 1/2 inch above the bottom.  It's easy if you mark it with a pencil.

Glue down each part of the tab at the very edge of the inside of the card.  It will be a little short (doesn't go all the way to the middle), but that's what will help it stand up.

 I thought it was simple yet different. :)  I'd love to know what you think! :)

Now, for what some of you may be waiting for . . . the winner of the 'A Few of My Favorite Things' blog hop!  I hope you had fun!  It looks like the winner chosen by random.org is . . . .

Christel AKA Scrappin Sista!!!!  She said:

Love all the wonderful touches. You have given me a wonderful new technique with the glossy accents on the glitter. Why didn't I think of that! I'm so using that real soon. TFS and the chance to win!

Congrats Christel; I'll be sending you an e-mail!!!  Let me just give a big thanks first to all of my new and returning friends!!!!  I'm so happy you came by!!  Also, a BIG thanks to Kassidy @ Inking It Up Crazy for hosting the hop; it was so much fun!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!!!!  It means a lot to me!!! :)

TT - Birthday Card

My dearest Grandpa just celebrated his 80th Birthday!!  YEAH GRANDPA!!!!  We are counting our blessings because he was the one that just suffered from a heart attack recently.  I had meant to make him a Birthday card and low-and-behold Emma with My Creative Time is doing a Throwback Thursday Birthday challenge.  She challenged crafters to use the Celebration cartridge.  Unfortunately this is not a cart I own.  If you don't own the cart Emma challenges you to use an older cart.  One of my older ones is Wild Card (one of my favs!!!)  I used the Wild Card cart for the shape of the card.  The number 80 was used from the Plantin Schoolbook cart and the cake in the background was from Disney Princess - Dreams Come True.  I know it has a ribbon, but I don't like the top of the card (where it folds) so I figured a brown ribbon should be OK even for a guys card, right?

To my Dear Grandpa - I love you and I'm glad you're around to celebrate you 80th Birthday!!!!!!  You mean the world to me; and no matter what all of the other grandkids think (all 62 of us) - I know I'm still the favorite (even if it's just because I was the first grandchild)!!!!!!!  LOVE ALWAYS!!!

Trying Something New

This is the thing.  I LOVE decorating cakes.  I'm not very good at it, but they're still edible, so I figure it doesn't really matter.  My cute little nephew's birthday was a few days ago and he and his parents and siblings came to visit for his birthday.  They had already celebrated with a cake at their house, but I don't think you can celebrate at my house without a cake too!!!  I volunteered to make a cake for him.  Right now he is into NASCAR.  Since we live in the middle of nowhere - the chances of finding a NASCAR cake pan was very slim (we even drove 45 minutes to the nearest Wal-Mart)!  After no luck finding a car shaped pan,  I decided I was going to make a car for him out of two loaf pans (one was bigger than the other).  I got a recipe from a neighbor for fondant and thought it was worth a try.  Well, it wasn't my favorite, but it turned out cute.  Next time I think I'll stick with just butter cream frosting - but it was fun to try!!!

 I also made a normal sheet cake with butter cream frosting for the adults.  I thought it was a little better.  Oh, well - at least I tried something new. :)

Birthday Cake

So with today being my little girl's Birthday, I decided to make a special cake.  It's not perfect, but my little girl got to help so it meant more.  I cut out the Hannah Montana's yesterday and thought that they would go very well with the butterfly cake.  ** Don't look at my messy table**.

Wedding

My little sister gives a lot of my cards (so I love making them for her). She's been going to a lot of weddings, so I decided to make some especially for her. (Love you Stevie)