Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #65: Surprise 50th

Hello crafty friends.  Happy New Year !!!  I hope all is safe, happy and healthy.  

The sister blogs have gotten facelifts and new way of doing things, please read the new rules and check out how everything will operate in 2022.

Here is my post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, it's always Anything Goes.  Let's see what you have been crafting up.

My brother's girlfriend started planning my brother's surprise 50th 9 months in advance.  It was amazing that everyone kept it a secret for that long.  Here is the postboard to hold pictures almost done.  I have never worked with sticky vinyl, boy was it rough.  The SVG files I picked, the image could not be separated, so the full image had to cut for each color I wanted.  Some modeling paste that was colored with distressed inks, was used with stencils to make some texture.  Then I sprayed some distress inks over the board.

I forgot to take a picture of the board before adding the pictures.  Paint was dabbled on to make the beer foam puffy looking.  Everything turned out very nice and the guy who knows everything, was extremely surprised.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

SVG files: Maria Arts Boutique, Ruya Treasures

Love to Craft Challenge Blog #61: Pop Up Birthday

 Hello crafty friends :o)  Hopefully some of you are enjoying your summer, maybe got some vacations in with the family.  Here is my post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, which this month is Anything Goes and every month.  Please show us your crafty side.

Trying to make sure I put making cutting machine to good use, by making this easy Impossible Card Balloons by Lori Whitlock.  

This is the side view, when the card is opened.  The one side of the card rotates.

It lays flat to fit into it's own envelope.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Unity: 

paper: Bazzill, scraps

die cuts: Lori Whitlock: Impossible Card Balloons

Mix It Up! Challenge Blog #47: TLC Birthday

 Hello crafty friends :o)  I'm here with my Mix it Up! Challenge Blog post.  Time to take out your die-cuts and make something fancy, with inlaid die cutting. 

I'm finally using some new die cuts from TLC Designs.  This is the Celebrate Frame Die, it's a 6 piece die set, so I got to use many of the pieces.  For this challenge, all those tiny pieces, made it a challenge itself.  

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

die-cuts: TLC Designs: Celebrate Frame Die

Dr Digi: Birthday Bot

Hello crafty friends :o)  Today is my post for Dr Digi.  I hope you are getting house projects done and lots of crafting.

Here is a birthday card for any male species living in your home.  The image Birthday Bot was colored with my Prismacolor pencils. Not happy with the lighting, but it was getting dark.

I used metal gears and wire to give it a robot feel.  The fan-tage even has a metal look.

Here is the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Dr Digi: Birthday Bot, MFT: birthday sentiments
paper: Bazzill, MME, Bo Bunny
embellishments: Bead Landing: gears, wire, Stampendous: fan-tage embossing podwer