Neat & Tangled Blog Hop

Hooray!  Today I get to be part of a fabulous blog hop for Neat & Tangled.   I am so honored to participate in this hop.  Thank you Danielle and the rest of the Neat & Tangled team!

Now, you should have arrived here from Anna Kossakovskaya's blog.   If not, head to Danielle's blog to start the hop from the beginning! 

 

For this hop, I played with Photo Booth!    

Cute, eh? 

I had to play with the heart - I am such a sucker for heart stamps!  I created a bokeh effect and heat embossed a few sentiments onto black cardstock.  

Now it's off to the super sweet Laurie Willison's blog!  Adore her so much! 

Here's the entire hop order, incase you encounter any broken links along the way!

Danielle Walls (Neat and Tangled)  www.neatandtangled.blogspot.com

Julie Ebersole http://papertrufflez.com

Miriam Prantner http://mprantner.blogspot.com

Jocelyn Olson http://redballooncards.blogspot.com

Anna Kossakovskaya http://creativity-mango.blogspot.com

Heather Campbell http://parkermolly.blogspot.com  <-- You are HERE!

Laurie Willison http://soapboxcreations.blogspot.com

Virginia Lu http://virginialusblog.blogspot.com

Savannah O'Gwynn http://savannahland2.blogspot.com

Psst - there are prizes!  2 winners will be chosen from comments all along the hop, they will have their choice of Photo Booth or Sunday School Songs. Winners will be announced on Saturday July 5th on the Neat and Tangled Blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking part in this super fun hop!

Neat and Tangled Photo Booth	Avery ELLE-ments Dotted Dies	String by the Spool, Metallic Silver	H3 Cardstock, Licorice	A Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, 25 pk
Kool Tak White Foam Adhesive, 1/4 Squares (1/16 Thick)	Hero Arts Embossing Powder, White

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Aloha!

Ok, this new Avery Elle set is so cool. 

It's the new Avery Elle Surf's Up set.  I love the surf boards and the palm tree and the sun and the waves (which also work great for speeding air behind the van) and of course the van!

To create my card, I stamped the van, masked it, and then stamped the palm trees.  To get two different palm trees, I just bent the palm tree stamp and to get the shape I wanted!  Here's an important tip:  Don't forget to stamp your mask at the same time - before moving the shape of your palm tree!   Next, I masked everything and stamped the brushes from the Brushed set.  I love that it gives it a beachy masculine feel and I think it would be perfect for a teenager!  To finish it off I paper-pieced some of the van and added woodgrain enamel dots.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me!  Have a great day!

EH	Surf's Up Clear Stamps	Brushed Clear Stamps	EH	Studio Calico Enamel Dots, Woodgrain
EH	Lemon Grass Pigment Ink Pad	EH	Aquamarine Pigment Ink Pad	Hero Arts Dye Ink, Black
Ultra Smooth Pure White Heavy Card Stock	Kraft Heavy Card Stock

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I'm in the CLASSroom today!

Hello!  I wanted to share a sneak of it here - I have a card in the CLASSroom today! Check it out HERE!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

I'm a guest for the Mama Elephant Operation Write Home Blop Hop

Hi everyone and YAY!  I am so excited to be joining in the fun and supporting the Mama Elephant and Operation Write Home blog hop. 

Operation Write Home is a nonprofit that sends beautiful handmade cards to our service members so that they can write home to their families. How incredible is that?!  There’s no Hallmark store in the desert, so this is a pretty important gift we can give them as crafters!

For the hop, you should have arrived here from my friend, Ashley Marcu's blog.  For the hop, we're playing with the new In My Heart stamp set.

Just adorable, right? 

Let's get to the cards...  

First, I used pretty much all of my favorite dies (Cityscape, Landscape Trio, and Femme Frames) to create a little scene.  

Next, I went little more simple and create another scene, this time using a sentiment to ground the little kid.

  

The “In My Heart” set was inspired by the mission of OWH; many of those serving overseas have little kiddos at home that they write to. So the darling ladies at Mama Elephant designed cute little kids and sentiments to express just how much those little folks are missed! The drawings are done in such a way that they can be adapted to different ethnicities too, making this a really flexible set. Because Mama Elephant is so great, they're donating 20% of the proceeds of the stamp sets sold on their retail site from now until July 31st - we really want to help them fundraise for all their efforts!

Be sure you visit the OWH website and read all the guidelines carefully….you’ll learn about why glitter is dangerous to send, so leave the stickles behind when making cards for heroes! Lots more information is available on their Welcome page - tons of questions are answered there! And they have a fun YouTube show each weekday with project info, tutorials, and more - check it out HERE.

Now you're off to Operation Write Home but here's the entire blog hop list!

Mama Elephant http://www.mamaelephantblog.com
Sandy Allnock http://wp.me/p2kUof-3bC
Nichol Magouirk http://www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com
Lisa Spangler http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/
Elena Roussakis http://justmeprints.blogspot.com/Emily Leiphart http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/Julie Ebersole http://papertrufflez.com/
Pamela Ho http://fishydesign.wordpress.com/
Joni Andaya http://jonininaandaya.blogspot.com/Kathy Racoosin http://www.thedailymarker.com/
Laura Bassen http://laurafadora.wordpress.com/
Ashley Marcu http://cherryhilldesign.blogspot.com/

Heather Campbell http://parkermolly.blogspot.com/

Operation Write Home: http://wp.me/p2kUr6-4xe 

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me!

IN MY HEART	EH Landscape Trio	Landscape Trio - Creative Cuts	Femme Frames - Creative Cuts	EH
BASIC BORDERS	Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Basic Borders	Inky Antics Gamsol Starter Kit	Hero Arts Dye Ink, Black	Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils, 72 Colored Pencils
Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Lime Single Cord	Bazzill 40lb. Vellum, 25pk

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AEIheartU Challenge

Have you seen the latest AEI{heart}U challenge?

It's all about DIY Stamped Designer Paper!  I love creating my own patterned paper with stamps and while I know I can't win, I still HAD to play!  I hope you'll play too because there are prizes involved!  

I used the woodgrain stamp from Woodgrain & More to stamp a background, which I then die cut using largest Pinked die.  Then, I stamped and colored in with coloring pencils and gamsol a few critters from Storybook.  (Everything is linked below!) 

To finish it off, I coated them all with Wink of Stella Clear glitter marker and the sentiment is from Weather It. 

Storybook Clear Stamps	EH Avery Elle Storybook Clear Stamps	EH Avery Elle Storybook Elle-ments Dies	Die: Storybook Elle-ments	EH Avery ELLE-ments Dies, Pinked Elle-ments
Die Pinked Elle-ments	Woodgrain & More Clear Stamps	EH Woodgrain & More Clear Stamps	EH Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Weather It	Weather It Clear Stamps
Hero Arts Dye Ink, Black	Shadow Ink, Soft Sand	Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils, 72 Colored Pencils	Inky Antics Gamsol Starter Kit	Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker, Clear
Kool Tak White Foam Adhesive, 1/4 Squares (1/16 Thick)

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Thanks for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me!