Thank You for a Great Season

Hi Everyone!!

I have a quick card to share that I made for my son's

basketball coach.

Their final game is tomorrow  and he has done a GREAT job coaching the team this year

and making sure all the kids had a blast playing!

Sorry about the bad lighting....it is late and dark

and with my poor photo skills this is the best I could do.

That is one thing on my list of to do's this year....become a better photographer!

Anywho here are the detail of this card:

Card Stock~ Kraft, white, black and orange all from my stash

(I am so trying to clean that mess up...but that is for another post...LOL)

Die Cut~ Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs~Thank You Sentiments

Twine~ Trendy Twine..Halloween 

Ink~ Tim Holtz Distress

Wild Honey and Gathered Twigs

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I am entering this into the following Challenges:

D.L Art~ Thankful Thursday Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge~ Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT night!!

Whimsical Wednesdays Challenge #14~~Some Interactive Fun~~

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is time for another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!

This weeks Challenge #14 ~~Some Interactive Fun~~

Create a LO with movement...whether it is a pull out tag, slider, waterfall....anything that will move.

This is my project

My son was chosen as 1 of 4 kids to play in the Minor League All Star Game. His team~the Nationals~ was such a well run team and the coaches so helpful thoughout the entire season that Parker not only learned so much about baseball but his skills improved greatly! I was so honored that they chose Parker to play and after talking with the coaches...they chose him because of his improvement and all the skills he learned throughout the season. His love for baseball has gone as far as wanting to try out in September for the Clarence Travel Team~9U. They are an intense travel team...practicing all winter and then playing throughout the spring and summer.....We will see when tryouts are here :)

I was so excited and so very proud of him, his team mates and the way they played in the All Star game that I had to make my LO right after the game and preserve that memory immediately :)

My movement for this Challenge are the tags. I made 2 using my gypsy~ Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cartridge and the Sports Mania Cartridge.

I made my tag base and then welded a shadow Baseball to the top.

I then cut the baseball layers and attached them to form my tags.

Before attaching the baseballs, I stamped journaling lines

Here you can see my journal tags

Up close of the tags....I added in my white gel pen the stats of the game...some highlights of the day.

I love how this came out and Parker loved it so much it is already hanging in his room.

Some extra details about this LO....

The "My All Star" cut is a free SVG file I found over at SVGCuts.com. It was jsut perfect for this LO.

The embellishments are from EK Success.

I used my white Sakura Gel Pen for the journaling.

The paper is from Carolees Creations & Company and was one of the packs I picked up at the CKC Convention. The great thing about this paper...it was only $1 for 6 pages :)

So I hope you will join us over at Whimsical Wednesdays for this week's challenge!

Make sure to stop by the Whimsical Wednesdays blog to see all the DT imspiration and to welcome the new DT members.

ALSO~~~

This week Kimberly from My Craft Spot is our sponsor. She has donated a $15.00 gift certificate to her store. Thank you Kimberly.

Thanks for stopping by...I hope to see all your creative "Interactive" projects!

~~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!

Hockey Puck Birthday Card

Hi happy bloggers!

It's the weekend and unfortunately I am still feeling under the weather...this silly head cold has really knocked me for a loop. I am feeling better than 2 days ago so hopefully tomorrow I will feel even better.

I have to because my youngest has a birthday party tomorrow and they are having a place called Nickle City Reptiles come and put on an animal show. I have attached their website here if anyone is interested in checking out this very cool group and show. They are VERY popular around our area and have even appeared on some popular TV shows. I have yet to see them and I am so excited for the chance to see them tomorrow. My son has also informed me they will be at his birthday party in June..only time will tell :)

Anyways here is the birthday card I made. The birthday boy plays hockey, just recently finishing his season and since I just got the Sports Mania Cartridge I thought I would give it a try.

I started out by welding two hockey pucks to make the card base. Remember one puck has to be flipped upside down so the card closes right. I cut it at 4" which is a perfect size, especially for an 8 year old to write inside his birthday message.

Once I assembled the hockey puck cut I slightly doodled around the name...which is from Cuttin Up.

I have a hard time trying to figure out what font to use and from what cart to grab it from...there are just too many cute and useful ones :)

To give the puck some "pop" I attached it to the card base with some foam dots.

I really like the way this simple card came out! And of course had the make the colors Sabres colors--gold and blue for the birthday boy's and ours favorite hockey team!

Hope you like this card....

I will be back later with some exciting news hopefully tonight if not tomorrow :)

Until then......