Birthday Card

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Today our design team is doing one last project and we were asked to create a Birthday card that will be posted on Kassidys blog Inking It Up Crazy. I have had so much fun on this design team and am sad that our time is up! I have made lifelong crafty friends that I will someday (hopefully) meet! Thank you Kassidy for choosing me to be on your design team. What an amazing group of ladies it is made up of!

Here is the card that I made:

Recipe:

Simply Charmed

Cricut Essentials

My Minds Eye Hip Hooray Boy Surprise Paper

Misc white, red, blue cardstock

American Crafts Ribbon

White and black gel pen

Recollections button dimensional sticker

Atg gun

Action Wobble

The party hat is on an Action Wobble so it wiggles back and forth.

Hope you like it!

Love Holly

It's Christmas! Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to Recycled-Genius and the ...CHRISTMAS IN JULY Blog Hop!

**WINNER OF THE CHRISTMAS CRICUT CARTRIDGE IS COMMENT #2 CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG. I WILL BE CONTACTING YOU SHORTLY! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO LEFT ME A COMMENT, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM ALL!

If you've come from visiting Linda @ http://www.fancyframework.com/, you're in the right place! If you've just happened to come across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to Jamie’s blog at http://jmecreations.blogspot.com and start at the beginning. We would love to share some holiday ideas with you today. Each Fabulous Inking it Up Crazy Design Team member will be featuring a project made especially for this hop. We have a very talented and creative team, so make sure to check out each member's blog. There will be some fun prizes along the way, so get to hopping!!!!

Today we are celebrating all things Christmas! I love Christmas so any day I can celebrate it is a bonus for me!

For my project I decided to use my new Paper Smooches Santa Paws stamp set. I just got it in the mail and I love it. I have a new fascination with gate fold cards so I made one to go with the stamp. So adorable. I don't know who wouldn't love this little Santa!

Recipe:

Paper Smooches Santa Paws Santa
Martha Stewart black ink pad
My Minds Eye I Believe patterned paper
The Twinery twine
White Gel Pen
Misc Red Card stock
White Recollections Card stock
American Crafts Elements Glitter Buttons
Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridge
Atg Gun
Misc scalloped cut out

Hope you love this fun holiday card as much as I do!

Love Holly


Giveaway!

Since its Christmas we cant do a project without a present! I am giving away the Cricut Christmas Village Seasonal Cartridge. To be eligible to win you have to be a follower and leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite thing about Christmas is. I will randomly draw a winner on Monday July 18th. Good luck!




Your next stop on the hop is the lovely and talented

Courtney @ keezercrafts.blogspot.com

Here is the order of the hop in case you get lost along the way.

Jamie- http://www.jmecreations.blogspot.com/

Susan-http://itsmesusanp.blogspot.com/

Lisa- http://lisa-craft-blog.blogspot.com/

Linda-http://www.fancyframework.com/

Holly - http://recycled-genius.blogspot.com/ THAT'S ME!

Courtney-http://keekerzcrafts.blogspot.com/

Kassidy- http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/

Happy Hopping! And Merry Christmas in July!

Kassidy's Month Long Birthday Bash - Birthday Post

Its almost Kassidy's Birthday at Inking it Up Crazy! Kassidy has become one of my best crafty friends and I absolutely adore her! She is so creative and talented and it is a great privilege to call her my friend!

Today on her blog it is Birthday Day! You were to create something that is birthday related.
This is the card that I made for Kassidy for her birthday. It goes with the present that I am getting for her. I hope she enjoys it!

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge Simply Charmed
Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridge
E2

Me & My Big Ideas Happy Birthday Paper
Echo Park Walk in the Park Polka A Dot Paper/Brown Paper
Scrap Pink, Hot Pink, Yellow, Orange, White Cardstock
Black and White Gel Pens
Misc Pink and Green button
The Twinery Pink Sorbet Twine (cant live without their twine)
ATG gun
Modge Podge

I hope that Kassidy has the most wonderful birthday tomorrow!

Love Holly

Kassidy's Month Long Birthday Bash- Bakers Twine Day

My friend Kassidy at Inking it Up Crazy is having a Month Long Birthday Bash to celebrate her June birthday. There is a new post everyday with amazing giveaway prizes. Today's theme is Bakers Twine and I used my favorite twine ever from The Twinery. Check out her blog and don't forget to enter to win everyday for some amazing prizes!

Recipe:

Twine from the Twinery: Pink Sorbet, Carribean, Lemon Drop, Lilac
Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge: Alligator
Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridge
Expression 2
Echo Park Summer Days Paper
Misc Cardstock: White, Pink, Green, Yellow
Core'dinations Purple Cardstock
Recollections bling: nose holes and alligator toe nails (faux pedicure)
Googly eyes from the Dollar Tree
White Gel Pen
ATG Gun

Hope you enjoy my card! The twine looks great with all the bright colors of the Echo Park patterned paper! I hope that Kassidy has the best birthday month ever! What a fun way to celebrate your special day!

Love Holly

Mothers Day Card #3: My Pink Stamper Challenge + Echo Park Paper Challenge

This is the first card that I made for Mothers Day using my new Expression 2! The cards got better as I made them but I still like it a lot. I just got Echo Parks new 6x6 paper stacks on Friday and then they announced a challenge for National Scrapbooking Day to use their paper in the projects that you make and you could win some of their paper lines. Also My Pink Stamper listed 12 challenges throughout the day on Saturday and for this one I used her challenge of using pink, green and black to make a card. I am not big on black for Mothers Day so I just used a black gel pen and hopefully that is good enough!

Recipe:

Cricut American Alphabet
Cricut Essentials
Echo Park Summer Days patterned paper
Misc blue cardstock
Purple ribbon from Target
Lilac Twine from the Twinery
Misc button
ATG gun
Modge Podge
Black Gel Pen

Hope you had an amazing weekend! You can see all the challenges by visiting MyPinkStamper.com

Love Holly

Mothers Day Card #2 - My Pink Stamper Challenge using Echo Park paper

Here is another card that I made yesterday for Mothers Day. My Pink Stamper had a challenge to make something mom related and Echo Park paper has a challenge to use their paper for National Scrapbooking day so I did both challenges while making my mothers day cards!

Here is card number two that I made. I used my new 6x6 paper pack from Echo Park called Summer Days. I absolutely love the paper its so summery and since it is still raining here, it makes me excited for nicer weather to come our way!

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge American Alphabet

Cricut Essentials Cartridge

Echo Park Summer Days Patterned Paper & purple/green paper

Scrap purple paper

Lilac twine from the Twinery

White Gel Pen

Hope you had a great Mothers Day & National Scrapbooking Day! What an exciting weekend I had! You can check out all of the challenges at MyPinkStamper.com

Love Holly