"Swinging" in with Some Exciting news ~ and a Birthday Card :)

Morning Everyone!!

Well it is the start of the Holiday weekend and we are getting ready to spend it at the lake. The weather is going to be nice so that should make for a fun filled weekend!

But I have some EXCITING news to share! Stephanie over at Whimsical Wednesdays has asked to me stay on the DT for another term. I am so excited and so very grateful! I just love this challenge site...we have excellent challenges, amazing projects linked up every week and the sweetest DT members! Make sure to head over to the Whimsical Wednesdays Challenge Blog to meet the new DT, say hi and enter our Get Well Challenge for Angelo.

Also on Friday July 8th Whimsical Wednesdays is having a Blog Hop!! Another chance to swing by all the DT's blogs and check out all of our projects. I know there will be some excellent blog candy up for grabs as well as!!

I want to share a card I made for my Nephew's 1st birthday. It is today and yesterday I posted the canvas wall hanging I made for him. This is the card to go along with his birthday present.

I used paper from DCWV~The Playtime Stack and Changito Bday Stamps.

I used 2 pieces of the same paper from the stack, one for the base and then cut the monkey from the other. I attached him on top of the base with foam dots.

The sentiment was stamped on the same paper and also attached with foam dots. I added stitching around the sentiment to match the monkey and vines which were already on the image.

There are some candi's in the corner in green which lucky for me are the same color.

I love how this turned out....a simple cricutless card for my favorite little monkey :)

Thanks for stopping by....have a WONDERFUL and SAFE holiday weekend! I will be back on Tuesday to say hello and check out all your great weekend projects!



~Red/White & Blue ~~Whimsical Wednesdays & Catch the Bug Challenge Card

Hi everyone!

I have a card to share today to enter into a few challenges.

Since it is still baseball season at my house~we are just getting into the playoffs~ and the 4th is fast approaching I decided to incorporate the two for this card.

The paper is Bo Bunny~Liberty Fireworks.

Image is Bugaboo Stamps~I love all their stamps and always have such a hard time deciding which to purchase...but I think this one is an all time favorite!

Stars are a border cut from the Stand and Salute Cartridge at 5" I used the inside cut as well and attached a sparkly brad and foam tape to give it some dimension.

Ribbon is American Crafts and I used 3 Candi's in the bottom corner. I just LOVE these embellishments! They have a sparkle to them that the picture does not show to well.

I colored the image with my copics but in a very easy and simple way. I used 2 markers~B26 and R24.

There is not blending or shading...just straight color :)

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Whimsical Wednesdays~Let's Get Patriotic (remember you have 2 weeks to enter)

Catch the Bug Challenge~Red/White/Blue & Ribbon

Hope you like my creation for today...It so makes me think of summer!

~~Winner of the Cupcake Blog Hop~~& Coach's Thank You Card

Good Morning Bloggers!

I have chosen a winner using Random.org for the Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop.

Before I tell you the lucky winner I want to thank Sylvia for this super fun and "sweet" blog hop!

Happy Birthday Sylvia!!

Ok now for the winner....

True Random Number

 Generator Min:

 Max:

  Result: 6

The Lucky winner of my homemade skittles is

Tina from Crafty and Green

She said:

Love Love Love your Card!! Super Cute!! I'm a new follower & new to the blogging world!!

Blessings

Tina

Congrats Tina! I will be emailing you shortly for your mailing address :)

She is new to the blogging world...lets all show her some love! She has the cutest pictures of her kiddo's crafting...the before and after also...WOW :)

Before I go and make Teacher cards I want to share the cards I made for my son's Baseball Coach's

He plays for the Nationals Minor League team and they have had a really great season.

We have won some and of course lost some but overall ranked middle of the road between 22 teams.

This is the first year for alot of the players using a pitching machine and they have grown individually as well as team!

We have one more game tonight and then it is off to playoffs starting Saturday. All the teams play at least one playoff game and move on if they win.

Let's Go Nationals!!

I used some of my CKC finds for this project.

The paper is S.E.I ~I'm an Athlete

The W which is the Nationals letter was cut with SCAL

The Bat's are from the Sports Mania Cartridge

Sentiment is TPC Studio Greetings set.

I also used some red Candi's for corners. I wrote 2011 on them...I love these embellishments!

Hope they like them :)

Thanks for stopping by!