CTO Challenge 24: Surprise! A Brand New Bike For You!

Hello everyone!

Thank you all for the sweet comments - I've hit 100 followers! Yay! With school and work it's definitely hard to manage my blog and to participate in challenges, but because of all of you and my passion for crafting, I'm still here! :) So moving on, happy Tuesday and welcome to Challenge 24 over at Celebrate the Occasion. For today's challenge, it is to create a birthday card for a child. Here's what I came up with:

Isn't this card so super sweet? The little boy is blind-folded for the uncover of his birthday gift - a brand new bike! I used some fabric to tape over his eyes for his 'blind-fold.' I also cut up some packaging ribbon and attached it to the bike for a 'bow,' to make it more birthday-like. This card will fit in a 3.5 x 6" envelope.

Here's what the cutie looks like underneath the blind-fold:

Surprise! I used Peachy Keens PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment for his adorable peachy face!

Here's a peak to the sentiment on the inside of the card. I used the Pink By Design Big Thoughts set for the 'Happy Bithday':

Materials Used:

• Card base - I used a tag from the Once Upon a Princess cart and welded it in my gypsy, then I copied the image and reduced the size a tad to get the layer
• Patterned paper for layer from DCWV - All About Boys Stack
• Tim Holtz Distressing Ink: Vintage Photo and Broken China
• Ribbon cut from Formal Occasions Cartridge
• PBD Small Banners set to spell out 'surprise'
• Bike cut from Boys Will Be Boys Cart
• Boy cut from Baby Steps Cartridge
• Face from PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment
• Pink By Design Big Thoughts Stamp Set
• Glossy Accents for Bike
• Gift Wrap Ribbon 
• Black Sukura Pen
• Buttons
• Fabric
• Floss

Come along and join in on this challenge here! You have until Sunday, July, 7th at 11:59pm EST to play along with us! Have fun and good luck!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

Crabulous Father's Day

Hello everyone!

I hope that you all enjoyed your weekend as it draws to an end - I wish I had gotten more school work done but on the bright side, I was able to finish two cards ;) While searching through blogs, I came across this new challenge blog - Celebrate the Occasion - and I think it's absolutely fabulous! Most of the cards that I make are for special occasions so I'm glad there's challenges just for all the many occasions out there! The challenge for this week was to create a Father's Day card. Father's Day is in exactly one week so if you haven't done so already, you need to create something for your father! I decided to also submit this into the Whimsical Wednesday challenge blog - create something for father's day. :)

Here's what I made for my daddy! My dad is a commercial crabber, has four kids, and is a kid at heart - he LOVES remote control helicopters && ice-cream (his fave flavour is strawberry!)! My dad is also quite the handyman. I'm definitely a daddy's little girl - I love you dad!

The card base is 5x5. 

Here's a close-up of the sentiment - it's hard to read in the first picture - I tried my best to snap a good shot of it but it was too tough! 

The sentiment is from Emma (My Creative Time)'s You're My Best Buddy set. It's difficult to read cuz I added Crackle Accents to give it a different look - more aged like items you would find at a beach :)

Materials Used:

• Crabs cut from Create-a-Critter cartridge
• Screwdriver & helicopter cut from Boys Will Be Boys cart
• Tie and sand hills cut from Everyday Paper Dolls cart
• Ice cream cone cut from Doodlecharms cart - possibly
• Frame cut from Stretch Your Imagination cart
• Sentiment from You're My Best Buddy stamp set
• Patterned paper from DCWV Flower Shower Stack
• Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink
• White Sukura Gelly Roll Pen
• Crystal Accents
• Crackle Accents
• Googly Eyes
• Irock gems

Wishing you all a great week & a happy father's day!

Until next time's treasures,

Tracey xox