My Time To Craft 'Up, Up & Away' Challenge

Oh my goodness this post should of gone live on Saturday and I have just noticed it still in draft, I scheduled it and all but obviously forgot to press publish! This is the first chance I have had to look as we had our grandson to stay for the weekend and boy did he wear us out. He is not 2 until August yet he really is behaving like a terrible 2 year old lol, throwing a hissy fit when you tell him no. He did make us laugh as he didn't want to sleep in his cot but would happily curl up in the dog's bed with them, my daughter in law said we should of left him there for the night as the dog's were happy to have him. 

OK so this week at My Time To Craft we are going 'Up, Up & Away' which means we would like to see anything that goes in the sky however if you are using a bird or butterfly it must be the main focal point on the card. 

For my card I went with a hot air balloon and found this great 3d style one which I love as it folds flat to go in an envelope. It is a 5" x 7" card and I have left the sentiment tag blank as not sure who this will be for as yet. This was super easy to make and I used my scraps from the Echo Park Walk In The Park collection.

My card is straight it is just the angle I must have took it at.

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Lidl

Designer Papers - Echo Park 'Walk In The Park'

Brads - Papermania

Die Cut - Hot Air Balloon Card #46147 by Lori Whitlock

Side view showing the 3d effect of the balloon.

See you all soon and have a wonderful week.

My Scrap Chick Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to our "My Scrap Chick!" Blog Hop!

This is a 2 Day Hop.
We are on Day 1!

There are only a few stops on this hop each day, and you are going to love the projects you see.

My Scrap Chick is giving away a 

$20.00 GC

Silhouette Challenges will be giving away a

$15 My Scrap Chick GC

Just leave a comment on this post and each blog hop post for both days to be entered to win.

I am the third stop. 

Here is the entire list of stops for day 1 just in case you arrived here first and want to go to the start of the hop:

Nana @ My Crafting Channel

Colleen @ Creations By Colleen

Kim @ Kims Card Corner

Kristin @ Paper Creations by Kristin
Barbara @ Craft Me This

By now you will have seen two fantastic projects so what can I add! I decided to make a card and matching gift bag. I used a set called Butterfly Bag & Card found HERE. This was a super easy to make and something that you could put together as a last minute set. For the base's I used some card stock which I purchased really cheaply from Lidl and wow is it fantastic card to use with the Silhouette, I wouldn't have believed it until I tried it. The pattern paper is from a really old 2008 DCWV Spring Stack!. I cut the butterflies and then added some patterns to them with various flourish stamps. 
I cut the bag and card as it was laid out on the cutting mat and the bag is a really nice size at about 8" tall, 4" wide and 2" deep, the card is a standard 5.5" x 4.25".

Here is the set

The card

The bag

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Lidl

Designer Paper - DCWV 'Spring Stack 2008'

Sentiments - Celebration Set by Paper Pretties  and Friend by Lili of the Valley 

Ink - Ranger Distress Ink 'Picked Raspberry' & 'Bundled Sage'

Flourishes - Various from Marie Currie & Papermania 'Tweet'

Die Cuts - My Scrap Chick Butterfly Bag & Card

It is time for you to be off to see Kristin who I am sure will have something super cute for you.

Don't forget there will be more hopping tomorrow and in order for you to qualify for the prize you must have left a comment of ALL blogs from both days.

Have a Creative Day and I will see you all soon.
Thanks for stopping by.