Duck Tape Birthday (a la Mojo Monday)

I had so much fun creating a birthday card for my daughter's best friend. This girl is as artsy and creative as my girl (and they are both knee-deep in the Duck tape frenzy), so I thought it would be fun to incorporate Duck tape into her birthday card. My daughter fashioned the "ribbon" and bow for the card  from Duck tape and generously donated some purple sheet Duck tape that she just received for her own birthday a few weeks ago. Mojo Monday Sketch 236 provided the perfect layout for this card which features some of the brand-new teenager's favorite colors, a cake image ('cause cake is one of her favorite foods), and—what else—Duck tape.

Here are the dimensions for the various layers in this 4 x 5.5 card:

• teal card base: 8 x 5.5, scored at 4.25
• white 4 x 5.25
• aqua 3.75 x 5
• purple  3.75 x 1.25 duck tape pieces
• purple 3.75 x 1.25 with top punched w/birthday edge punch
• yellow 3.75 x 1.25, swiss dot embossed
• teal 2.5” scalloped circle
• white 2.25” plain circle w/ heat embossed cake image
• white duck tape “ribbon” 3.75 x .5 and bow

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It's beginning to look a lot like Spring

From a Christmas card yesterday to a spring wreath today . . . well, that's about how fast time is moving these days, or so it seems to me. I saw this wreath posted on two blogs that I follow, Thrifty Decor Chick and Moxie Fab World, and even though it was only days until Easter, I had to give it a try. Jenni and I did this together. She wrapped the dollar store pool noodle (thank you, Thrifty Decor Chick) in duck tape, and I wrapped it in fun fur. By shopping together at JoAnn, we were able to get each of the balls of Fun Fur yarn 40% off, which brings our investment in this project to a whopping $6. We then worked assembly-line fashion to create the paper daisies (die cut with the quickutz daisy die and my Big Shot, and fastened with a brad). We hot-glued our daises to the grass, added a pink ribbon, and voila—our spring wreath (and the daisies wanted their close-up).

Praying your Easter is blessed and happy, and that you know the One Who died and ROSE for you! 

Scrappy Christmas to all . . .

A few weeks ago, Cath Edvalson previewed the Paper Crafts magazine special issue, Practical Solutions for Paper Crafters, over on the Moxie Fab World blog. Soon after, I was paging through the issue in person and found myself inspired to tackle my scraps bin. The issue contains tons of innovative ideas for using and/or storing paper scraps. For instance, there was a wreath created by overlapping short strips of ribbon in a circle. And then there were the flowers made by layering short, thin strips of paper and securing with a brad. Super cute ideas!

Before long, there I sat in the art room floor, thinking about trying those flowers and beginning to cut paper into strips. It just so happened to be green paper, and inspiration struck! So I grabbed my phone and took a quick picture of my scrap pile:

I snapped another once the scraps took on the shape of a Christmas tree:

Finally, I decorated the tree with some flocked dots (just took the paper off one side of a foam dot and covered it with flocking powder), topped it with a star punched from a scrap of glitter paper, and layered it alongside some other scraps.  A leftover piece of white cardstock I'd embossed with snowflakes; a scrap of kraft cardstock transformed with an oval die, a trip through the crimper, and some inking around the edges; and a piece of snowflake ribbon from my ribbon bin to tie it all up—yep, I see a theme here.

Here is my card, made almost entirely from scraps. It is inspired by Paper Crafts magazine special issue, Practical Solutions for Paper Crafters, and I have entered it in the Paper Scraps Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. Entries are accepted through midnight, Monday, April 9, so if you are a paper crafter yourself, what are you waiting for? Get out those scraps and make something! 

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