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Welcome to the next leg of the Young Crafters Unite Blog Hop!!  If you're following the hop, you should have arrived from Efrat S's blog.

What makes me a young crafter??  Well, 1.  I'm enjoying the last few months of my twenties and will call myself young until I can no longer get away with it :-) and 2.  i love crafting.  Crafting of all kinds.

The theme of the blog hop is "Our Favorite Things."  Wow... I didn't realize how many favorite things I had until I was getting this post ready!  I eventually narrowed it down to four - twine, Lawn Fawn, Paper Smooches, and embossing.  Using my four favorites, I made this card up for a coworker who is due with her third child in August - 

I started with a card base of Early Espresso card stock and cut a piece of Crumb Cake card stock that would fit nicely on the front - about 1/4" smaller on all sides (all paper products are by Stampin' Up!).  On the Crumb Cake piece, I stamped the stars from the Teeny Tiny Backdrops set by Lawn Fawn - I have many of their sets and this is one that I use A LOT -  in Versamark ink.  Once the whole piece was covered, I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  In the center I cut out a shape that resembled a onesie.  

On a smaller piece of Crumb Cake card stock, I stamped then clear embossed "Congratulations" from the Sentiment Sampler by Paper Smooches.  I love the handwriting font on all of the Paper Smooches products!  I layered this piece on a slightly larger piece of Early Espresso.  I put a button brad on each end.  Before adhering it to the larger Crumb Cake piece with dimensional adhesive, I Caribbean and Cappuccino twine around that piece.  

I ran a piece of scrap paper through my xyron to make the whole piece nice and sticky.  With the adhesive side up, I covered the piece with Caribbean twine from the Twinery.  Once the whole piece was covered, I added some pieces of Cappuccino twine where the seams would be.  I placed this piece on the Early Espresso card base (make sure that it would cover all of the onesie cut out on the Crumb Cake.)  Lastly, I took the decorated piece of Crumb Cake and placed it on the card base, over the twine square, using dimensional adhesives.

Thanks for joining the blog hop.  Please continue on to Joy Taylor's blog for the next stop.  And don't forget to leave a comment by end of day Monday, July 4th, to be given a chance to win a prize from - 

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Participating Bloggers - be sure to stop by all of them and leave a comment!

1. legojenta.blogspot.com Marie
2. craftzonespn.blogspot.com Aditya Gupta 
3. leeartsncrafts.blogspot.com Leanne
4. handcraftedsimplybyus.blogspot.com Ruby
5. crafterkhush.blogspot.com Khushboo
6. papersmooches.blogspot.com/ Kim Hughes
7. ourchangeofart.blogspot.com Jen Rzasa
8. stephcreates.blogspot.com Stephanie
9. paperheartproject.blogspot.com Jamie Leija
10. www.scrapbookbakery.blogspot.com Heather Ruwe
11. littlemisslittleness.blogspot.com Chari Moss
12. www.theconstantscrapper.com Janice Daquila-Pardo
13. disp6194-kellyscraps.blogspot.com Kelly Latevola
14. bunnyrunswithscissors.blogspot.com Bunny Vance
15. mrspicklestamps.blogspot.com Cathy Pulickal
16. www.jans-gonestampin.blogspot.com Jan Hunnicutt
17. www.homemadecardsbyerin.blogspot.com erin t
18. priyaskraftkorner.blogspot.com Priya Mohan
19. www.kathynakata.typepad.com Kathy Nakata
20. www.madebyejp.blogspot.com Ezlie Perez
21. thebalddragonfly.blogspot.com Karen Baker
22. lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com Amy Courchaine
23. dianespaperpassions.blogspot.com DianetheLibrarian
24. christygetscrafty.blogspot.com Christiana Reuling
25. www.stampinginspiredbyblogspot.com Jill Foster
26. hobbyandideas.blogspot.com Isha
27. lynseyreadswritescreates.blogspot.com Lynsey V.
28. www.neatandtangled.blogspot.com Danielle Walls
29. jmdmoo.wordpress.com Nina R.
30. thecraftycorgi.blogspot.com Donna Bowman
31. swavycreations.blogspot.com Cynthia
32. stepstowardscrafting.blogspot.com Neha
33. www.mbm-madebymary.blogspot.com Mary McCarthy
34. mycupbrimswithtiddles.blogspot.com Tania A
35. ujjwal-handmadewithlove.blogspot.com Ujjwal
36. sew-ink.blogspot.com/ Amber R. 
37. www.youtube.com/user/Shel0524 Shelley
38. deenahopkins.typepad.com Deena
39. kbsmith34.blogspot.com Kristy Smith
40. princessandthepaper.blogspot.com Jillian Vance
41. hearthugsdesigns.blogspot.com/ Ashley N Newell
42. www.danielledaws.blogspot.com Danielle Daws
43. prettypinkposh.blogspot.com Paulina Nakamura
44. whimsicalcreations.blogspot.com Michele 
45. bluetrace.blogspot.com/ Tanya M
46. thedailymarker.blogspot.com/ Kathy Racoosin
47. www.natashablackburn.com Natasha
48. nomisneverendingworld.blogspot.com CiCi
49. www.laurelbeard.wordpress.com Laurel Beard
50. LoveMyScraps.com Melissa Shea
51. dominodebi.typepad.com/ Deborah Nolan
52. www.faithabigaildesigns.com/ Faith Abigail
53. www.clips-n-cuts.com Vicky Papaioannou
54. heathersscrappiness.blogspot.com Heather I.
55. www.jesslarsen.blogspot.com Jess Larsen
56. afkeyes.blogspot.com/ Anna K.
57. purplepassioncreative.blogspot.com Brittney Baker 
58. www.funkycards.blogspot.com/ Madison
59. 2-left-hands.blogspot.com/ Efrat S.
60. ahacreations.blogspot.com/ Angie Ha  <--You are Here
61. www.jtcardmaking.blogspot.com Joy Taylor
62. furandgreenfeathers.blogspot.com Lauren S.
63. happystampingdesigns.blogspot.com Wendy Frederick
64. www.cardmakingtime.blogspot.com Glorimar
65. www.eterno-lyyours.blogspot.com Linda E
66. flickr.com/photos/lissaaag/ Lisa Geraty
67. visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/ Elizabeth Campau
68. sandraea.blogspot.com Sandra
69. creatingcasey.blogspot.com Casey Gainey
70. preybueno.blogspot.com Patricia
71. butterflyamandascreations.blogspot.com amanda
72. brittaswiderski.com Britta Swiderski