Interactive Mom Birthday Card and Gift Bag

 Hi all, 

Hi everyone, Today's tutorial is a bit different as I'm sharing a gift bag and a unique interactive birthday card I created for my daughters birthday. My granddaughter had asked me to create a card she had seen on a video and so we worked on this card together. I hope you enjoy todays video. The music that goes to this is by Meghan Trainor named Mom. It is a super cute song. You can check my video tutorial for more details.

August Scrapbook Kit

To get started on the gift bag, I just took a bag I had in my stash  and now we are going to alter it with the items from the Scrapbooking kit. The bag is from shopping at Parks Coffee, if you've not tried their coffee it's really good. lol  Cut you paper down to the size of the bag you have unless you would like a border, I left a 1/8 inch border. I distressed the edges of my pattern paper and then adhered on top of the bag. And now you can decorate.

Here is how I decorated the front of my bag. I fussy cut out the words and birthday banner from the paper collection. I adhered some faux flowers from my stash and the butterflies. I added more items later.

Now for the Birthday Card. 

For the card base you will cut one piece at 6 inches (not 6 1/2) by 8 1/2 inches, score 1/2 inch on left side of the 6 inch across the scoreboard. Fold one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 inch cardstock in half. 

Next adhere the 6 x 8 1/2 inch piece inside the card. Placing adhesive to the 1/2 inch scored piece.

Next I used oxide inks on the flower pattern paper, as shown below, inking the paper with colors that coordinated with the paper.

I then added the flowers I fussy cut from the paper collection and added the birthday sentiment, along with some other items from my stash. 

Here is the front of the card decorated. 

Now for the inside portion of this card. The words are lyrics to a song by Meghan Trainor named Mom. It is a cute song. My granddaughter saw a video and asked me if I would help her create the card she saw in the video. So I typed out a few of the lyrics and printed them out and then cut them. 

On the right hand page we created a  little bomb that opens up and pulls back together, and the hand page has a heart that lifts upwards. You can see more details on the video on how I created these pages.

On the next page we had to create a slider. So I cut a piece of paper of that is 3 1/2 x 5 inches and in the middle I traced a 1x 4 1/4 inch area to cut out as this will be a window. 

After cutting out the window place foam tap on the back 

Next cut out a strip that is 1 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches to slide in and out of the window. Next add some foam tape to end of the strip on the left side and add a flower or an image this will be the stopper when you slide it over. You can view more details on my video tutorial.  

Next I arranged the remailing words and added some ephemera from the card kit and adhered down my words above the slider.

The last page we added a little flap with the remaining words and adhered a photo of my granddaughter with my daughter underneath. 

Here is what both finished items look like. I really like this paper collection as the paper has some beautiful colors and perfect for backgrounds for this card or any card. Both of these just turned out nice and my daughter just loved her card and the gift bag. 

I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial, remember I have the video tutorial for your convenience. I had a great time using this months August Scrapbook Kit, you really get a ton of fun crafty stuff inside. I am really pleased on how the card turned out and the  beautiful gift bag brings a smile to anyone's face when receiving a gift from you.  I hope you felt inspired to create an altered gift bag or birthday card using this month August Scrapbook Kit. 

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 For more details you can always view the video tutorial process, which is at the top of the page. 

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Shaken It Up with Balloons from Clear Scraps

 Hi everyone, 

Today I am sharing some fun cards to create using the Chipboard Mini Shaker Balloons and the Chipboard Script Birthday and Balloon set. These balloons are a must have for your cards, they add a fun embellishment that WoWs any card, tag or project. I have the links down below, along with the step by step tutorial for you.

           Script Birthday and Balloons                                  Mini Shaker Balloons

          

Card 1 - Happy Birthday Balloon Easel Card

This is a large easel card. Cut 1 piece of cardstock 6 1/2 x 7inches. Score 1/2 inch with 7 inch across the scoreboard. 

Cut 2 pieces of cardstock at 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

Adhere the Scored piece (tab ) to one of the 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch pieces.

Next fold the top piece in half. (as shown below)

Next cover the other 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch piece. 

Next on the bottom half of the card, folded part, place adhesive. This is where we attach the covered 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch piece. 

For the chipboard Balloons I place glitter around the edges and the middle part, which is the back of the balloon, I added some Nuvo  Mousse embellishment and a glittered paste. I let dry for a few hours. 

The Birthday word I applied some Nuvo Embellishment Mousse on top of the chipboard. 

Next I decorated the inside of the balloons with some flower stickers and I added the cute little Hello Kitty holding the Balloons. Isn't this card just adorable? I really enjoyed creating this card and using the Birthday and Balloon chipboard set. 

Card 2 - Shaker Balloon Pop Up Box Card

For this next card cut a piece of cardstock at 11 1/2 x 8 inches. 

Score with the 11 1/2 inch across the scoreboard at 1/2, 2 1/2, 6 and 8 8 inches.

Turn tot he 8 inches across the top of the scoreboard and score at 4 1/2 inches to the second score line, Flip over and score again at the 4 1/2 inches.

Next you will cut out one end of the scored areas, from the 1/2 inch tab to the second panel and then cut out the middle panel. As shown below.

Next cut out two little tabs at 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, score on 1/4 inch on each end for both tabs. These fit inside your box. 

This photo shows that you will adhere both tabs to the inside of the box. Place adhesive to the 1/4 inch tab and glue to the inside of the box about 1/4 inch down. 

Here are what you will receive for the Mini Shaker Balloon. You have 3 frames, 1 acetate piece and the backside of the shaker balloon. Adhere 2 frames together with the acetate, peel off the film from both side of the acetate. 

Next trace the back of the balloon onto pattern paper and cut out and adhere down to the balloon. I painted the top frame a beautiful turquoise color. And on the right side you see I have the acetate adhered to two of the frames. 

Place the painted frame on top of the acetate and place your sequins inside and adhere the frames down over the balloon. Make sure to burnish down really well so the shaker bits don't fall out. 

Here is the card finished. I really like how this card turned out and may have to make some more. lol

It really turned out nice and so colorful. I really think the balloons made this card into a WOW factor, definitely going to bring some smiles. 

I  hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial showing how you can use the Mini Shaker Balloon and the Script Birthday and Balloon on creating some fantastic cards that will bring a smile to anyone's face. To check out both of these Balloons just click on the name of each product and it takes you directly to the item in the Clear Scraps Shop. 

Thanks for joining me today.

Happy Crafting my Friends, 

Furry Friends Theater Card

Good Day everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.  Today I share a card that I created for a crafty friend who lost her beloved furbaby, Paddington. He is such a sweetheart, he crossed over to the rainbow bridge about a week ago. It is so hard when we lose our furbabies, they are our children and such a huge part of our lives. 

This card is for the Furry Friends Challenge #118 at International Art and Soul. I hope you get a chance to join in the fun. I love interactive cards they are so fun for any occasion. I also created a birthday one as well, both photos are below. 

I will have the tutorial up on YouTube Channel soon. 

This card I created for my mom's birthday.

Challenges: 

Gem of a Craft Challenge 20 - AG 

Crafter's Castle: Sept. Ch. #45 AG

Crafty Calendar September Challenge AG

Crafty Catz : Challenge #565 AG with optional twist

To join our challenge just click HERE.

Hope to see you all there. Have a great day.

Debbie

Off To Dinner, Inaas Challenge #102

Good Morning!

Happy Valentine's Day!!  What are you doing today? Are you going out on a date? Having a nice dinner with loved ones? or Stay in for a little celebration?  Hubby & I decided to treat ourselves to go out for an early Lunch/Dinner.  I am really excited as we have not been out to dinner in a while but I think the weather may be bad here in Texas as I am sure where ever you like its been freezing cold as well. 

Since we are on talking about going out to dinner for Valentine's celebration over at International Art & Soul we are having our Inaas Challenge #102 - Off To Dinner hosted by Hazel our sweet design team member. What a fantastic them right?? I have to admit at first I didn't know what to do, but after looking over my stamps, it was super fun to decide what direction to go in. I went with a classic having wine at  dinner. But there are so many stamps you could use, tea stamps, recipe stamps, save the date, invitation to dinner stamps, all dressed up and the list can on. So I hope some of suggestions give
you some inspiration to join us for this fun theme.  CLick on the link here to join us Inaas - Ch. #102 Off To Dinner

Here is my card creation - 

For this card I used the stamp set by Repeat Impressions but I don't remember the name of the stamp set. I used 2 different paper pads as they went so well together, they are just was so pretty I couldn't resist. The fist one is one from Michael's Craft Store - Dark Florals by Craft Smith (Hot Buy) and the other one is Blue Fern paper - Timeless. I used black cs as my base. 

Challenges entered:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2: Celebrating Sketch number 200 - 

Bonus Sketch 

PolkaDoodles Craft Challenge: Wk 7 - AG

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: Challenge 201 -  AG

Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #477 - 478 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: #268 - Anything Goes + A Sentiment 

Thanks for joining me today,

Stay Warm & Stay Safe

~Debbie ❤

Toadily Happy Birthday

 Hi there, 

Today over at International Art & Soul our new challenge #91 is  include an animal in your project. For this cute card I used a past stamp set by Penny Black - Toadily, isn't it so cute. I've had it in my stash forever and was so happy I finally got to use it. 

For the background I used my momento inks and just blended them and used my colored pencils to color my little frog and then blended momento angel pink ink onto his belly. The flower I used a white gel pen to color in the flower. I used a balloon die and backed it with pink glitter paper and used a variety of stamps together for my sentiment. 

Challenges entered:

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge: Wk 34 AG with Colouring

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Wk 35 AG with Craft & Card Making

Simon Says: Simon Wednesday Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenges: Challenge #73 Birthday

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: 258 AG - Add A Sentiment

The House That Stamps Built - AG Challenge - A2620

Come join the teamies and see the inspiring projects they created. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Deb