Happy Birthday

This Birthday card is my interpretation of the Papercraft Star Challenge 30 to scraplift a DT member. Jan made a woven paper card that she also scraplifted from Tracy. funny ;)
My card is made on kraft cardstock with the Scroll Tape pattern from Tapeswell as the accent. In the last picture you can see how the tape is a nice wide width and the pattern is on a clear tape. This makes it really easy to change up the look. I used the tape on baby blue and on celery green cardstock, then cut it into strips to create the woven paper center. I stamped the HB sentiment and added a few buttons with baker's twine. For the inside you can see the pocket that holds a gift card and a couple of die cut golf clubs.
I'm linking this to Kraft Outlet Challenge 3 Anything Goes too.
Right now Tapeswell has a giveaway on their blog, check it out here.
Scene of the Grime also has a giveaway for tape from Tapeswell, plus she shows a Thank You card I made from the Pink Twig pattern from Tapeswell. Hehehe I was tickled "pink" to see her post :)

Scene of the Grime Giveaway

Check this out....Scene of the Grime is doing a giveaway too!http://sceneofthegrime.blogspot.com/2011/01/decorative-tape-giveaway.html

Tapeswell Giveaway

I checked out the Tapeswell Facebook page today and saw they were doing a tape giveaway! WHHOOO HOOO! Check out their page here for all the details and enter. They want to know what new patterns you'd like to see this year and there will be 3 winners of a $20 gift card!
Plus I was super excited to see another link to the Scene of the Grime Blog which mentions my blog and shows the Pink Twig Thank You card!
Awww yeah I'm giddy!

Happy Birthday To You

This masculine birthday card was made with a couple different retired Close To My Heart stamps and a decorative making tape called Holiday Stripe from Tapeswell. The happy birthday stamp had some numbers that I don't get why they are there? Can you tell me? Any way here's some challenges I entered my card in....

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/simon-sayssketch-time.html

http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2011/01/color-inspiration-for-card-makers-week_15.html

http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/2011/01/play-date-cafe-challenge-pdcc64.html

http://thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/2011/01/inspired-by-song.html

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/2011/01/simon-says-stamp-and-show-some-masking.html

Whooo Hoooo

Whooo Hoooo! Today my gift box came from Pink Paislee and it was filled with such awesome stuff!!! What was really cool is that today is my Birthday! So it couldn't have been better timed!

Thank you Pink Paislee. Thank you Rebecca! Ya'll just ROCK!

Pink Paislee 12 Days of Christmas

OH my goodness I was searching for some inspiration on the Pink Paislee blog when I found my name as one of the blog comment winners from their 12 days Of Christmas. Did you see it? Apparently I was too absorbed by all the completely awesome projects I never read the winner list! Check it out if you haven't already.... http://pinkpaislee.com/2010/12/12-days-of-christmas-official-winners-list/ I can hardly wait to see what comes in the goodie box and to make stuff to share with ya'll!

Pink Twig Decorative Packing Tape

This is the thank you card I made for Eileen and the TapeSwell team for picking my Faux Bois Christmas card and box to be the package of the month for December. This Pink Twig pattern is even more fabulous in person! Thank you TapeSwell! I truly love your products!

TapeSwell Bows

As soon as I saw this bow idea from Niki Estes I knew I wanted to try it with the Holiday Stripe and Snowflake Decorative Tape from TapeSwell. Here's the link to Niki's bow... http://nikiestes.typepad.com/my_paper_creations/2010/12/another-quick-and-easy-packaging-idea.html If you check out her blog she has the link to a tutorial on SplitCoast Stampers too. The tape is currently on sale here at http://www.tapeswell.com/ As you can see from the photos above I covered a 12 x 12 piece of card stock on both sides with the tape. I then cut in into 1" strips. The loops are made from 1" x 6" strips that I hole punched and threaded with a giant brad to hold the bow together. The boxes are made from plain white cardstock. Making the sides of the box 2" high perfectly suits the striped tape pattern.

I love the tape patterns and colors. They remind me of the Rankin & Bass animated cartoon Frosty the Snowman. I've entered this in the Simon Says Stamp & Show Something From Yesteryear challenge here.... http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/2010/12/simon-says-stamp-show-something-from.html

I Love Gingerbread

I made these cute little gingerbread men from Sculpey Chocolate 053 Polymer Clay. This is the first time I've ever made anything with polymer clay. I think the gingerbread men turned out so cute! I just love gingerbread! I can hardly wait to learn so more techniques to make stuff like peppermints. I'm envisioning little red Santa hats and candy canes for next year! From one small block of $2 clay I made well over 2 dozen gingerbread men. I made a dozen to become pins. Plus another dozen for the gift tags on the gifts in a jar. Mmm chocolate chip cookies! I also used the Friendship Jar die from Papertrey Ink and Snowflake embossing folder from Stampin'Up! for the tags.

I'm linking this project to http://forfunchallenges.blogspot.com/ for Christmas theme. Also to http://bellichallenge.blogspot.com/ for using Christmas themed embellishments. And finally to http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/2010/12/simon-says-stamp-show-something-from.html for Something from Yesteryear.

I Love TapeSwell

I feel so lucky! I won the December package of the month form TapeSwell!!!

Check it out on their blog...
http://blog.tapeswell.com/2010/12/decorated-gift-package-of-month.html
and on Facebook...
http://facebook.com/TapeSwell
WhoooooHooooo! I love love love their tape!
You can shop with them directly on their website here...
http://www.tapeswell.com/

Thank you TapeSwell!!!