Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Christmas in July Blog Hop! If you came from Fran’s blog you are in the right place, if not and you would like to start at the beginning please jump to the Cutters Creek Design Team blog.

We have some great projects in store for you today to provide you plenty of inspiration to help you jump start your holiday crafting. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back and relax, and get ready for some fun, inspiration, and the chance to win some blog candy too!

Here is what I made for you today.  I used a paper pack from My Mind’s Eye.  There paper is always full of such great patterns and I love mixing and matching them all. I did something different for this card and just used the elements of the paper instead of adding any outside stamped images or die cuts.  Here is a picture of my card.

I used a couple of different patterns for the base of the card.  I then cut the sentiment from another page of the pad and matted it with a coordinating pattern.  After I glued that down, I cut some additional embellishments from the paper.  I fussy cut around the little bird and pop dotted him up from the background  I added a lot of stickles and spica pens to the elements to give them a little shine.  Here is a close up of the sentiment and the bird. 

 I wanted to add a little bit more so I fussy cut this little banner out from another one of the sheets. 

It’s hard to tell from the picture, but the banner has some added bling as well. 

I hope you have enjoyed all the projects this weekend, and don’t forget, we have some awesome blog candy for you.

To be eligible for the blog candy, we would love for you to follow us and leave a comment on all the blogs along the way. We will use Random.org to select a winner. The winner will be posted on the Cutters Creek Design Team blog on Monday July 15^th.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way.

Design Team Blog: http://cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/

Deanna: http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Fran: http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/

Mindy: http://www.scrappyandpiggy.blogspot.com/

Anne: http://www.annesscrapcorner.blogspot.com/

Cindy: http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com/

Jearise: http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Michele: http://www.scrapytaz.blogspot.com/

Now it’s time to hop on over and visit Anne’s blog.

Happy Birthday!

We have so many February birthdays in my family, it seems that's the only kind of card I can even think of during this time. For this card I broke out my trusty Cricut Imagine . This is my go to machine when I need something done quickly. The octopus is from Birthday Bash, but I filled it with colors and patterns from my Imagine Hey Diddle Diddle cartridge.
I thought this little octopus was perfect for a peachy keen face stamp, so I added one and I think she looks so sweet. Cutters Creek sells a couple of different face stamp assortments from Peachy Keen and they're perfect for adding just the right facial expression to your die cuts. To finish my octopus off and give her some style, I added some faux stitching with one of my copic spica pens. I wish you could see the shimmer more in the picture it's just the right amount of bling. I also went over her face to give that a little more shine too. No self respecting octopus would head off to a birthday party without the perfect accessory and I though she would look adorable with a flower on her head. This little lily from Cutters Creek's own brand of flowers was just the perfect touch. The final element for my octopus was to attach her to the card with an action wobble so she can move like a real octopus. I finished the card off with some more faux stitching and a sentiment and it's ready to be sent off!

Happy Cake Day

Ok, I know it's Valentine's Day, but today we are having a brithday challenge over on Cooking With Cricut. February is birthday month in my family, so that totally overshadows Valentine's Day for me. I decided to use this adorable little digital stamp called Bear 'n' Cake Slice to make this birthday card.

I colored this cute little guy with my copic markers and mounted him on some bright cololred squares of patterned paper. It's hard to see in the picture, but I used my silver spica glitter marker on her fork and plate to give it some shine and went over the icing with my pink one to make it shimmer as well. I think this cake looks good enough to eat and I wish I had a big slice of cake right now myself.

Red, White, and Blue

Well, at this time of year you see a lot of red, white, and blue around in preparation for July 4th. I have made this little red, white, and blue Mimosa card from Bildmalarna in honor of the upcoming holiday.

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers and the color challenge from Bildmalarna Blog. This image is the super adorable Little Mimosa. I have colored her with my copic markers. It is kind of hard to tell in the picture, but there are several hints of sparkle that I added with my copic spica pens to her dress and bow. The paper I used is Cupcake from Basic Grey. The red piece on the side was embossed with my Cuttlebug stars embossing folder. I added a little bit of lace and ribbon to the top and some prima roses as well. The roses were actually white and I sprayed them with my copic airbrush so they would match the colors in the card. I placed the flowers on top of some pearl gems I found in the wedding department of the craft store (I'm not sure what the exact name is). The sentiment is from the label accents set from Scent With Love.

Birthdya by Bildmalarna

Our current challenge on the Bildmalarna Blog is to create a project using the color scheme of red, yellow, and blue. I decided to make a birthday card using the adorable new stamp Mimosa's Birthday. I think this stamp is so cute I love how she is feeding the birthday cake to her little teddy bears.

I used paper from the Die Cuts with a View Farmer's Market stack and I colored the image with copic markers to match. One thing I did to add a little bit of dimension to the card is to go over certain parts of the image with crystal lacquer. I added it in brown to the table and benches, red to the balloon and the rose on the cake, and black for the bear's eyes and nose. I love how this product has color already in it. You can add a little bit of copic underneath for dimension and then color the rest with the crystal lacquer. I embossed the yellow cardstock with the cuttlebug birthday folder and and sanded it to bring out the embossing a little better. The sentiment I used was actually part of the summer kit from Bildmalarna (this kit was full of adorable stamps and sentiments). I went over the stitching around the edges and the words Birthday Wishes with my turquoise spica marker to add a little bit of sparkle.

We would love for to play along with us on the Bildmalarna challenge blog. To play, post a copy of your project into the inlinkz found under this post on the Bildmalarna blog.

Fairytale Tilda

I just love the new Tildas that have come out- magic, princesses, pirates, who could ask for more? I made this adorable little card with the new Fairytale Tilda. It is my entry in the Friday sketchers sketch challenge for this week. I colored this adorable little Tilda with my copic

markers. Her dress is a combination of R20, R22, and R24. The frog is YG03 and YG06. Her hair is YR23, Y21, and Y17 and her skin is E000, E02, YR000 and R20. To give her some more sparkle I painted her wings with Shimmerz pixie dust and added a little of my atyou spicas to the flowers in her hair and on the ground. I also added some roses (prima and magnolia) and blinged them up with some diamond stickles their branches (Martha Stewart punch) were cut out of green shimmer paper.

Some Bildy Inspiration

Bildmalarna stamps are making their way up the list of my favorite stamp companies. I love these little guys. We have a challenge blog called Bildy Blog where we are challenging and encouraging people to fall in love with these stamps and make something with them! The current challenge is to make a project inspired by this picture of my daughter's bedroom (just kidding). You can be inspired by the colors, the layout, whatever. I loved how graphic and clean looking this photo was, so that's the direction I went with my card.
I kept the layout basic and uncluttered just like the room in the photo. The stamp I used is Mimosa on the fence. I have colored her with copic markers and a little touch of atyou spicas for a little shine. The sentiment is from Just Rite and is cut out and mounted with nestabilities. We would love for you to join us in the is challenge. The prize is an adorable little stamp called Mimosa on bench.

Oh Say Can You See Blog Hop

'I'I'm so glad you could join the Scrapbook News and Review Blog Hop today. If you came from Jennifer's blog then you are on the right track! If you didn't you may want to hop on over to SNR Cardiverse and start from the beginning. So, this is my contribution to the blog hop today. My red, white, and blue card features an adorable stamp from Sugar Nellie. I just received in one of their grab bags and fell in love with it. What a sweet image. I colored the little girl with copic markers. To make the tricycle seem more realistic, I colored it with my red smooch paints to give it a metallic sheen. It is a little hard to tell in the picture, so I included a close up of the tricycle. I also used the white smooch on the handlebar grips and the little square in the middle of the handlebars. I think it really added a more realistic look to the triclycle. The smooch

paints are extremely easy to use on stamped images since the brush is so fine, you can get in all the small areas and not have to worry about going out of the lines. I added a little of the copic spica glitter pens to the flowers on her shirt and the patches on her jeans to give her just a little more bling. Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope you have had a lot of fun checking out all the great red, white, and blue projects, but now it is time for you to hop on over and visit Cindy's Blog and see what she has in store for you next.

Another Sweet Tilda

Another Day, another Tilda card. I can't stop making them. This card worked perfectly for me because it fulfills 3 different challenges from 3 different blogs. The first challenge was from Roses on Paper and they're challenge was to use pink, yellow, and green on a card. This Basic Grey Porcelain pack has all three of them, so it was the perfect choice. The design of this card fulfills the sketch challenge at Mojo Monday. I struggled a little on this one, but I think I got pretty close. Finally, this card will also be playing along at the copic colour challenge blog where the challenge was to use the copic colors RV 11, E39, and Y06 in your project. I don't have E39 but I did use E37 on her shoes. I tried the Y06 but it was way too bright for this project, so I substituted Y21 and Y11 for the yellow. I paper pieced her coat with two of the papers from the pack and added a little flower soft to her hair. Then I added some lace, a silk flower (which was white and I colored it with the yellow copics to match) and a pearl in the center. I sponged rose distress ink around to stamped image to make it blend into the project a little more. If you are interested in the Basic Grey Porcelain paper, stampingscrapping has a great price on it!

Scrappy Frog Fairy Challenge

The current challenge on Scrappy Frogs Challenge blog is to create a project using fairies. I don't have many fairy stamps, so I dug around and remembered this tooth fairy set I have from Close to My Heart. Be sure to hop on over and check out all the great fairy creations. The prize is a set of Studio G fairy stamps.
The paper is from Basic Grey two scoops collection. I colored the tooth fairy with copics (of course) and added accents of spica pens to bling her up a little. The flowers are from Petaloo and the bubble in the center and the pearls on the bottom are from Kaiser Craft. Cindy at stampingscrapping has a huge selection of the petaloo flowers and all the little pearl and rhinestones from Kaiser Craft.