Cutting And Stampin' Design Team Introductory Blog Hop

Happy New Year to My Crafty Friends!  I hope you had  a wonderful holiday season!  I ended the year with a "bang" ...I had foot surgery on Dec. 28, my second foot surgery ever - and let me tell you - I don't know why feet, that area able to withstand us standing, jumping, running every day- are so incredibly painful once you have surgery!  I'm still in my first week post surgery, and on mandatory bed rest (which sounds really good when you hear it but is not fun)!!

Anyway, I am excited to announce that I am part of a wonderful new Design Team at http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com . We have some wonderful ideas to share with you in the coming months featuring the Amuse Studio products! 

If you just happened to vist my blog, please be sure to go back to the beginning  at http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com  so you don't miss a single project from my design team sisters!

Here at Cuttin and Stampin we are HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY and in the mood to CELEBRATE.  Today we are having a blog hop Celebrating our new Design Team and kicking off our weekly challenge blog.  Each of us has produced projects to Celebrate.  There are 11 new Design Team members and the final stop is where you can enter to WIN blog candy.  All you have to do is visit each blog and be sure to leave a comment. There are (2) $25.00 gift certificates to A Muse Studio up for grabs.  So grab a cup of coffee and hop along to meet the NEW CUTTIN and STAMPIN Design Team. 

For those of you new to my blog, I am Teresa and I've been doing some form of scrapbooking as long as I can remember!  I have gone through many crafting "phases" where I would experiment with whatever "crafty" trends were hot at the time.  I was very into rubber stamping about 10 years ago, but then took a break from pretty much all crafting for a while. I got back into crafting when I got my first Cricut several years ago.  Since then, I've been doing a variety of paper crafts- mainly focusing on card making, mini albums as gifts, and a bit of scrapbooking.  I am excited to combine rubber stamping with my Cricut and my brand new Cameo to see what I can create!  I thank Tammy Smith for the opporunity to work with this talented team and this brand new Challenge Blog!

For today's "Celebration" themed blog hop, I have two cards I created for you!

My first card is a birthday card for my daughter's upcoming birthday, although it could very well

be used as a graduation, congratulation or as an encouragement type card as well.

I used my Cricut Cartridge "Suburbia" to cut the lady with her "beverage"

and Elegant Edges to cut the frame behind her.  I used my brand new Silhouette Cameo

to cut the word "You" and stamped the "Celebrate" from a stamp from my stash.

A close up of the Party Girl ...you can see I used some Christmas Red Stickles to make her 

sparkly necklace and earring!

I inked the sentiment base to help it "pop" out against the background.

Using foam layering squares, I lifted up the sentiment as well as the

lady to give dimension to the card.

I hope my daughter will enjoy the card!

For my second "celebration" project I created another birthday card - this time for my sister in law

who also has a January birthday.

I am sorry to say the colors are not coming through as they are in reality.

The Chevron that you see in the background is NOT a patterned paper,but

actually cut with my Cameo!  It is cut from a deep purple paper. layered on a very pale

purple cardstock.  It was one of the first things I cut with the Silhouette Cameo and I was very

impressed how well it preformed!

  

Here is a close up of this cute cupcake!  Again, various shades of purple to create the 

cupcake wrapper and the cupcake itself. I ran the icing portion of the cupcake through

the Cuttlebug to create the swirls in the icing.

Using my favorite foam adhesive, I popped up the cupcake as well as the sentiment

to give it interest. 

That adorable purple ribbon was made into this cute little bow by using my

new 3 Girl Jam bow maker!  Made it so easy to get such a cute little double bow!  

For the sentiment, I simply printed it on the pale purple cardstock

(same used for the base of the card), then double matted it with other

cardstock used on the cupcake and the chevron to tie it all together.

I inked the edges of each layer of the sentiment piece.

I think this will be the perfect card for my sister in law!

I want to thank you all again for stopping by and being part of our CELEBRATION Hop.  Your next stop is my sweet friend Janet at:

 http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com

Don’t forget to hop all the way through, leave a comment at each blog and enter to win blog candy at the end!

In case you get distracted along the way, here is a complete line up so you can make it to the candy.

Tammy – http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com

Teresa K – www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

Janet – http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com

Doris – http://momsbeenscrappin.blogspot.com

Sherri – http://sherri-iloveflipflops.blogspot.com

Pam – http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com

Robin – http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com

Teresa R – http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com

Kim – http://kimross.blogspot.com

CallyAnn – http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com

Daphne – http://craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com

Blog Candy – http://cuttinandstampinchallenges.blogspot.com

I love to read your comments - won't you please take a moment to let me know your thoughts?

Thank you for stopping by!



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