Friday, July 1, 2011

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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 - 

$20 prize
Choice of One Stamp Set
Choice of One Stamp Set

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

48 comments:

  1. WOW, this is way too much fun!!! I love LOVE bakers twine!

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  2. Oh, I love that you made a twine-covered onesie! It is fabulous =) Thank you so much for joining our bloghop!

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  3. The twine covered onesie is super cute!.

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  4. The twine covered onsie is super cute! What an idea... And I do love the font and sentiments from Paper Smooches. Lovely lovely card!

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  5. Gorgeous colors and the onesie looks superb with 2 colors of Twine.

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  6. I love your little outfit. Great idea!

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  7. So cute, love the onsie and how you used the twine:) Having fun hopping with you today!! I'm #58
    ~Madison funkycards.blogspot.com

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  8. Wow that use of twine is amazing! TFS :)

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  9. Oh my word! Twine heaven! That is awesome!

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  10. The twine onesie is so cute! Great card! TFS!

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  11. Great use of twine, cute card, thank you for sharing :)

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  12. I think I've just seen the cutest thing ever made with twine!

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  13. Super cute with the bakers twine! Love it!

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  14. lovely card. great way to welcome a baby.

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  15. That onsie is cleaver! What an awesome idea! http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/

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  16. This is too cute.. Loved it... TFS..

    Hugs,
    Khush

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  17. So cute! Great use of twine!
    Thanks for sharing,
    Blessings,
    Bunny
    http://bunnyrunswithscissors.blogspot.com/
    http://www.ajillianvancedesign.com/

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  18. Wow, a lot of care and love went into this card. Your co-worker will love it!

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  19. Fabulous use of twine, I can see it took some time to create this.

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  20. this is so cute! love the twine! :)

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  21. Cute card :) What a great way to use twine...how imaginative!

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  22. Wow... fabulous idea!

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  23. What an awesome use of baker's twine! Great onesie. Thanks for sharing! :)

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  24. This is so creative! Love how you covered the onesie with Baker's Twine.

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  25. Oh this is so adorable and creative! I love twine so much, I want some in every colour! Thanks for sharing! :D

    I' participating in the blog hop as well, I'm blog number 34!

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  26. Love your use of twine! I have never seen anything like that! Awesome card!

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  27. How AMAZING is that twine onesie?! Just so clever! :)

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  28. Great way to use twine. Love texture.

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  29. Oh my word, this is adorable! Using the twine to make the onesie! Thank you for sharing!!

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  30. Your onesie is incredible! Thank you for sharing it.

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  31. WOW!! What a fun card!! LOVE the twine idea!! THANKS for sharing and have a fabulous day! !=)

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  32. I love your crazy one wrap onesie. My eyes were going back and forth following the wrap. Tie dye doesn't have anything on this! SUPER!

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  33. Cute card! The twine onesie is adorable!

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  34. What a great new way to use twine! the pattern it creates is just perfect for the onesie!

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  35. this card is too cute for words!!
    -Elaine Uhl
    http://createNstamp.blogspot.com

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