Calendar Girls April Blog Hop

Papercrafts Presents 365 Cards magazine which is our inspiration for these monthly hops which thus became the Calendar Girls. The magazine has Creative Ideas for every day of the year: occasions, holidays, and celebrations including 42 unique holidays!!! These unique holidays are our inspiration. The April unique holidays are:

April is School Library Month - Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

April is Autusim Awareness Month  

April 1: April Fool's Day - Kimberly http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com

April 7: No Housework Day -  Michelle Ferris

April 8: Easter - Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/ 

April 13: Scrabble Day - Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

April 17: A Blah, Blah, Blah Day - Lynne: http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

April 21: World Circus Day - Laura: http://lauraleesdream.blogsot.com/

April 22: Earth Day - Janet: http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

April 25: Administrative Professionals Day - Lisa W ~ http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/

April 27: Arbor Day - Janet : http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

 The hop starts with Lynne (http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/). You won't want to miss a single occasion!!! 

The line-up for April includes:

Lynne: http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Kimberly - http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/ 

Laura: http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/

Stop by and check out these holidays as I am sure you are going to want to remember these holidays and include them in your card making projects!!!!!

We will have blog candy to the lucky recipient that remarks on each site along the way!

My first card is for April is School Library Month.

Recipe:

A2 Card from brown paper

Sentiments Cricut Cartridge for lock on front of card

Make the Cut for the wording

A Child’s Year Cricut Cartridge for the child reading and the book

My next card is for April is Autism Awareness Month.

Recipe:

Puzzle pieces cut from scraps using My Community Cricut Cartridge

April 17^th is “Blah Blah Blah” Day. Now, with “blah blah blah” day reminds me of my grandfather would say would Gram would get on the phone all he could hear her say is “blah blah blah”.

Recipe:

From My Kitchen Cricut Cartridge for phone

Make the Cut to cut the 7-inch circle for my rocker card

Make the Cut to cut the doily which was 6-inch

Paper for bottom layer of circle is From My Crafts as it reminded me of an older type oilcloth tablecloth and then with the lace cover

Thanks for stopping by and mark your calendar again next month to see what Holidays to Celebrate on May 12th for the next Calendar Girls Blog Hop! Your next stop through the calendar is Kimberly . . .

God Bless and thank you for stopping by

Hugs, Love, and Pixie Dust

Lynne 

Febie Kindness Start of Encouragement Journal

My very first project for Creative Kuts as a member of their Design Team and I'm thrilled to be sharing this with you!!!!

I had purchased some time back these little Mulberry Scrapbook albums at Pat Catans which were 2 for $1 and who just couldn't pass on buying them and you would just had to have several of course!!! Each page measures 7.5 x 8.5 inches with a total of 8 bound pages. Just purrfect for an "Encouragement Journal"!!! Creative Kuts also has several of the bears with different words which I intend to put in this book along the way to continue. Consider this my first installment!


First off, Febie and I needed to get acquainted as she just wasn't sure what I was doing or who I was...after becoming acquainted I convinced her I wouldn't hurt her and that I would even do pink just for her!!!! The paper was purrfect for this project and from the DCWV The Lace and Linen Stack which is a vintage style cardstock with pearls, browns, and pinks and the one paper I used had the pink with the look of chocolate (who doesn't love chocolate?? I know for a fact that it is one of the basic food groups!!) I used the My Community cartridge for the puzzle pieces with inserting the phrase "K is 4" using Jasmine font cartridge. Febie has the word "Kindness" already with the shadow. I added a tag with a quote from Mark Twain: "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see". which I thought was purrfect!!! Febie wanted a little freedom to kick up her heel and just play Vanna White with showing the word "kindness" sew, I put a brad on her one arm and one leg just to give her some freedom. The cut has a bow but for dimension, I added a little pink and white polka dot bow, some pearls and of course one of my dimensional flowers with pearls on the inside!! The tag was doubled for durability and strength with a scrap of irridescent ribbon which completes my little project!

Hope you enjoy my first Design Team Project and go over to Facebook and check out the Creative Kuts fan page for challenges and sales!

God bless
Hugs and love,
Lynne

Chic Birthday Card

As my very first post, I would like to show a card I had made for my daughter, Jean's, birthday which we celebrated last weekend. The card base was cut from A Child's Year Cartridge at 5.50 inches. The little "chic" shop is actually the "candy shop" from My Community cut at 4.75 inches. The word "chic" was cut with black as the shadow and a glitter pink at 1.75 inches from Forever Young. I cut the mannequin also from Forever Young at 4.50 inches. Can you guess that Jean's favorite color is pink? The paper I used for the card background and my little shop is DCWV Black Currant. I love bright colors. The gadget that I just got and absolutely love is the XYRON! With poor flexibility of my hands, this works phenominal with the lettering and making the letters into stickers! I have also shown the inside of my card with a bit of poetry that I like to add to my cards and stickers on the opposite side for the festive occassion! I hope you like it!
Hugs and love,
Lynne