Flying Chipmunk

 😁 Not quite what you're expecting my friends!  😁

My nephew has spent the last 6 weeks going thru the application and acceptance process to attend the Portuguese Airforce Academy.  During flight week, he's been flying "chipmunk" planes.

And we just got the news that he got thru this week with well deserved acceptance!!!

Since we're going to be visiting soon, I made a card for him and also got him a little "chipmunk plane" keychain, (seen on the pics). This is just a little fun gift to go with the card, to show him that we've been there right along with him thru the whole process, rooting for him and praying for him.

 To create the background, I used the Riding the Waves Stencil from Made to Surprise to make the clouds.  I wanted it to be a very subtle background so that the plane would pop. 

I used the Spitfire die from Frantic Stamper to make the plane.  I cut it out of silver, green and red cardstock so I could put in the little inserts which are the colours of the Portuguese flag.  The plane is adhered to the background with foam strips.

On the inside, I kept it simple by just stamping the very large sentiment, from the Sentiment A5 stamp set, also from Made to Surprise.

And that is it for today.  I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to seeing him and the rest of the family next week 😀

Enjoy the rest of your Summer!

DRU Challenge #145 ~ Grad/Congrats!

Hello crafting friends and welcome to a new challenge at Dies R Us.

Challenge # 145 ~ Grad  / Congrats!

Unfortunately, most, if not all, graduates this year will not be able to graduate in the traditional manner, but they will still be able to receive a card from family and friends to let them know that we are thinking about them.

Here is one of the cards I made for high school graduate. The school colours are maroon, black and white, so I tried to stick to those colours as much as possible.

I used the Frame Card Stamp 4K die from Card Deco to cut my shaped card. Love these dies, so easy to use and produces a shaped card with just one pass on your die cutting machine.  Although this die is 12" long, it is only 6" wide, so it will fit in the majority of die cutting machines.  If you don't have a set of long die cutting plates, you can pass it through one time, then move your die with card stock in place and run it the other way for a second pass.

After adhering my papers down, I used the Congrats Grad die from Tutti Designs as my focal point.

I wanted a little bit of colour variation, so I die cut it out of white, maroon, silver and black card stocks.

I then fussy cut the bow and the cap out of the maroon card stock and adhered to the white. I did the same with the silver for the stars.  I used the black in it's original form and adhered that to the white a little to the top to give it a black shadow. This helped the die stand out more from the backing papers.  I also hand made a tiny tassel and attached it to the hat using a tiny brad.

On the inside, I left it pretty plain so I could add my personal message. I just added a strip of both DP's I used on the front of the card.  That was it.  It didn't take long at all to put together, but I think it came out pretty cute.

Here is a list of supplies used to make this card, each linked to the Dies R Us store for your convenience.

Card Deco - Frame Card Stamp 4K

Tutti Designs - Congrats Grad

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope I was able to inspire you to create a project, and  play along with us at the Dies R Us Challenges for your chance to win a gift certificate to the Dies R Us Store.  A new challenge begins on the 1st and 15th of each month.  Be sure to follow on Facebook and Pinterest too.

Before I go, I'd like to remind you that Dies R Us' sister store,  Didi Crafts, is now open. It has warehouses located in the USA and Canada.  It has some products that are the same as Dies R Us, but in addition, it carries international dies and other crafty supplies for a variety of crafts.  Go take a peek and be pleasantly surprised!

Till next time,

stay safe and healthy!

Congrats on New Home!

Hello everyone. I'm on the Dies R Us Inspiration Blog today sharing the card I made for my daughter and her family using a combination of dies from Karen Burniston.

Instead of making a pictorial for you showing you how I put this card together, I have the links to Karen Burniston's tutorials.  She explains it so much better than I could :-)

So here is a quick review of the dies I used with links to the video tutorials and to the Dies R Us store for your convenience.

 Karen Burniston - Tag Book Pop-Up

Tag Book Pop-Up Video Tutorial

Karen Burniston - House Pivot Panels

House Pivot Panels Video Tutorial

In addition to the top two dies, I used another couple of dies to complete the neighbourhood scene on my card.

Memory Box - Puffy Clouds

Impression Obsession - Small Birds

Well, crafting friends, that is it from me for today. I hope you enjoyed your visit and that I was able to inspire you to use your dies, create a project, and come play along with us at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog for your chance to win a gift voucher to the Dies R Us Store.  A new challenge begins on the 1st and 15th of every month.  Be sure to follow us on Facebook too.

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Crafty Gals Corner 100th Blog Post Celebration!!!

Hello bloggy friends and welcome to our 100th post celebration🎉

Our challenge is Anything Goes and runs for two weeks this time.

In order to celebrate this post, Samantha, our team leader, my daughter, and the owner of Crafty Gals Corner, is sponsoring the prize for this challenge.

Prizes
$30 Package of Crafting Goodness
$10 GC to Beccy's Place provided by our DT sister, Tracy

Here is the card I made using the Floral Dance die from Crafter's Companion.

I made this card for Samantha.  I remember when she told me that she would love to run her own challenge blog, and knowing her, I said go for it! She's always achieved every goal she's set for herself 😊, and I knew this would be no different!  So, here we are two years later, going strong and celebrating our 100th post.  Woo-hoo!🎉

To add to this celebration, I have a small gift for one lucky participant.

  All you have to do is to leave a comment on this post and also on the Crafty Gals Corner 100th blog post.  I will announce the winner during our next challenge on 14 December 2016.

I hope you enjoyed my card and will join in the fun.

Please take a few moments and visit our blog for some awesome inspiration from my DT sisters.  You have till noon, CST, on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, to link your project to our challenge #100, "Anything  Goes", at Crafty Gals Corner.

Anything Goes at Cardz TV ~ Challenge #1

Hello crafting friends. I'm back today to invite you to join our first challenge of this Fall term at Cardz TV.

Mary has 3 teams, the Cardz TV Anything Goes team, which I'm very happy to be a member of, the Gallery Designers who post a card everyday of the week for your inspiration, and the Sketch Design Team. These ladies make a card using one of Mary's fabulous sketches, which you can find when you go to Cardz TV blog and click on the Sketches tab.

With the Anything Goes Challenges, you can create anything you want any way you want it :-) It can be any project with any theme.

I made this card for a dear friend who's now a very proud granny for the very first time.

 

I had so much fun using all the different dies to make this card. The background square is Anja's square from Marianne Designs. The Blocks, Lion, Giraffe and Pacifier are all from Cottage Cutz. The Heart Banner is from La La Land.  This card base was made with the heavy weight cardstock from GinaK and measures 5.5" x 5.5". I typed a poem on the inside that I got from a card I received when my daughter was born 26 years. I just love it and include it in every "baby" card I make :-)

And speaking of the inside the card, do you see that fabulous sentiment?  It's from the Cardz TV Congratulations stamp set. It's one of my "go to" sets. There are so many different occasions and I just love the font of this set too.  Here is a peak: 

Now it's your turn to make a project and play along with us. Our challenges run for two weeks, so you have till noon, EST on 13 October to link your project on the Cardz TV blog.  Remember, for more inspiration, you can visit the blog and take a look at the beautiful projects my very talented DT sisters made for you.

Till next time,

Crafty hugs,

HIMCR Challenge # 180 ~ Freestyle ~ Anything but Christmas!

Happy Saturday all!

Our challenge for you today at Hiding in My Craft Room is Freestyle! Woohoo! All that we ask is that you make a project relevant to anything but Christmas. 

Our sponsor today is our wonderful team leader, Laurie from Hiding in My Craft Room.  She will be sponsoring the challenge winner's prize and it's going to be a surprise!   As you know, Laurie always comes up with some awesome prizes :-)

 

I made this card to send to a friend of mine that has recently become a Grandma to a very cute baby boy.

 

 

Since I used some of my scraps, I can't tell you where all the papers I used are from, but I can tell you that the sweet baby image is a stamp called Wee One by Whimsy Wee Stamps, and the nappy safety pin is a stamp by Crafter's Companion called Special Little Person.  I coloured them in using copic markers.

 

This is our last challenge for 2014, but don't be sad, because we have lots of fun challenges to share with you in 2015! :-)

 

Till next time,

Happy Crafting.

 

 

 

 

 

CardzTV Blog Hop Winner!

Good morning all!  I hope you are all having a wonderful Wednesday!  So, as promised I'm back this morning with the winner for the CardzTV blog hop.  The winner chosen by random.org is ...

 

 

 

Melissa from
 Sunshine Honey Bee

 

Congratulations Melissa!

Please email me at lenfon@msn.com with your address details so that I can put your CardzTV stamp set in the mail for you.

Once again, everyone, thank you so much for hopping along and for all the sweet comments you left.

 

Till next time,

Happy Crafting!

 

 

 

 

Graduation Card for Young Man

So, as promised, here I am with my second graduation card, also for a young man.  This one's colour theme is maroon, black and white which are his school colours.  I used the Paper Dolls Teen Scene to make this graduating doll.  The problem with this cartridge is that there are no noses or mouths on these dolls and I just can't stand that, so I drew them in myself.  Unfortunately I can't draw worth diddly, so it didn't come out the best but it's going to have to do.

 

Since the recipient of this card is a great trombone player and plans on following a career in music, I wanted to incorporate something musical in card.  Looking through my stash I found the black and white music note paper that I thought was perfect for this card.

 

The numbers and sentiment were punched using an assortment of punches from EK and SU! I made the little tassle using crocheting cotton and used a little black gem in the centre.  Normally, I use brads but the ones I had were a tad too big. I used a few more of the little black gems on the card to tie it in all together.

 

For the inside, I once again mixed and matched a few sentiments to come up with the one I wanted.  I just remembered that I need to make a little gift card pocket on the other side of the card to insert the gift card we got him.

 

I think I'm done with graduation cards for this year. Thank you for stopping by today and for your lovely comments.

 

Hugs,

Lena

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Graduation Congrats

I have a couple of graduation cards to make this year.  So for my first one I thought Mickey would express the happiness of graduating from High School.  One chapter closed and another one about to open in these young men's life.

 

 

 The school colours for the first young man are blue and silver.  Well I had to add a little black to make it pop and to match Mickey, whose image was cut from the Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge. I embossed the silver mat with the Diamond Plate Cuttlebug embossing folder. The 2013 was cut using two EK punches and the numbers were stamped. The mortarboard is a cut from the Locker Talk cricut cartridge.  I used some silver thread and a brad to make the tassel.

 

For the inside, I added Mickey again and a combination of different sentiments. I added a few silver stars just to add a little interest.  You can't quite see from these pics but the silver paper has a pretty shine to it without being very sparkly which I thought was perfect for a young man. They aren't too much into the sparkly things in life :)

 

I'm not quite sure yet what I'm going to do for the next grad card I have to make, but as soon as I figure it out and make it, I will be back here to share it with you.

 

Thank you for stopping by today.

 

Hugs,

Lena

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Congrats Card



My son excelled at school this year - it was hard going and work loaded but he managed it with great determination. It's hard for me to think that this time next year I will be planning a high school graduation party! My mind is already going over the endless possibilities where my crafting skills will come in handy :)

 

For this year though, I made him this card and we are getting him a lil gift to go with it. We want to show him that we appreciate all his hard work and effort. Of course, getting great grades was his reward for his hard work, but we want him to know that mom and dad appreciate it and are extremely proud of him.

 

This card was inspired by Enfys from Going Buggy.  I liked the way her birthday card turned out and decided that this would be perfect for my son.

 

Maroon, black and white are our school colours.  Looking back, though, I think I should have swapped the maroon and the black.  It would have been a more colourful card.  The stars are embossed using a Cuttlebug folder called Christmas Stars.  Just for fun, I put the large star on an action wobble :)

 

 

I kept the inside pretty simple.  Just used the same colour cardstocks and added a few more stars for good measure :)

 

Thanks for visiting.

Have a great day!

Hugs,

Lena

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Congratulations Card

Hello crafty friends. I made this congratulations card for one of Hubby's cousins who is celebrating his company's 30th jubilee.

 

It's a 3 fold card that I cut from the Wild Card Cartridge. To give the bottle the glass look, I stamped Versamark all over it, sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.

 

The clock die was a cut that my SIL gave me, so I'm not too sure what company it is from. The little corner swirls were made with a Marianne Creatable.

 

On the inside, I used the same swirls and added a champagne glass.  This was also given to me by my SIL so not too sure of the company either. I cut out the 30 using the font from the Quarter Note Cartridge. All the papers are from Paper Studio and the white card base is from ColorBok.

 

On the right hand side of the card, I left a blank white mat so Hubby can write his message.

 

All in all I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, especially when this was my second attempt.  I was almost finished with the original card, only had to glue the Congratulations embelly to the top,  when our puppy decided that it needed some adjustments in the form of total destruction!

 

Here is what was left of my first card ...

 

 

Yes, he is still alive and in good health lol ...it is a good thing he's cute :)  The rest was all in bits and pieces.  In fact I don't know whether he ate the bottle because I couldn't find it amongst the scraps. We have to leave everything away from the edge of the counters - I guess my card was not far enough back on my desk and it was total destruction in a matter of a minute or two.

 

Well, my friends, thank you for stopping by and sharing this paper crafting adventure with me.

 

Many blessings,

Lena

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MS-150 Bike Ride and a Card

Hi everyone, I'm so proud of my hubby and I would like to share the reason with you.  He rode the MS150 bicycle ride from Houston to Austin this weekend in order to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. The ride took place over two days, 83 miles (134 km) on Saturday and 66 miles (106 km) on Sunday.  Not only did he decide to join this worthwhile ride very late, but the last 6 weeks he had been fighting a bout of vertigo and therefore unable to get any rides in, in order to get fitter. Yet he did it - Way to go Hubby!!! :)

I made him a card from Brian and I and we got him his favourite dessert too - Tiramisu.  Here are a few pics I would like to share with you ...

So here is a photo of hubby crossing the finish line in Austin, Texas.

 

This is the card I came up with for him.  I used the cricut Dude cartridge to make all the cuts for the rider. I embossed the silver paper with the cuttlebug diamond plate folder and used a MS punch for the border.  Added a few black brads and voila, done!

 

This is what I did for the inside.  It was a bit of a joke - since this ride seemed to be a breeze for him, in my personal message on the card, I told him that next year, I want to see something a little more extreme :) like the rider in the front of the card.  I also told him how extremely proud we are of him.

 

That is it for today. We had a very enjoyable weekend. We drove from Pearland to Austin to be there for my hubby and visited the Capitol Building while waiting for him to arrive. 

 

Until next time,

Lena

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