Decorate to Celebrate Challenge ~ 4th of July

Welcome my crafty friends!

Rhonda of Scrap Happens with Rhonda and Amy of Love to Crop have teamed up to start a new challenge blog... Decorate to Celebrate.

It's all about "Decorations to Celebrate" an occasion. Cakes, Banners, Boxes, Goody Bags, etc.

I am so excited that today I have been asked to be a Guest Designer!! The theme I was asked to work with is "4th of July"

On the 4th of July my family spends the whole day down at a huge park eating, listening to music, and other live entertainment until it gets dark and we can watch the amazing fireworks. Well, this year I decided to make my kids some goody bags full of mini coloring books, crayons, glow sticks, candy, etc so that they wouldn't get bored. (There is nothing worse then bored kids when the adults are trying to catch up. LOL)

For these bags I cut the "fireworks" and "4th of July" from the "Stand and Salute" cartridge. I on purpose did not line up the layers because I wanted more of the red to show through. I added ultra fine glitter to the white layer for lots of sparkle. The area was too big to use Stickles. :)

Here is a close up of one of the bags.

For the bag topper I used Diamond Stickles for the sparkle. I doodled with my gel pen and added bows to the corner made out of twine from "Divine Twine".

I just want to say a Huge thank you to Rhonda and Amy for inviting me to be their guest, please head over to their Blog - Decorate to Celebate and be inspired by all the fabulous creations.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!!

United We Stand Card

Hello everyone.

It has been a crazy day here but I managed to squeeze in a quick and simple card. I made this card for 3 challenges the first being "The Kraft Journal" the second being Crazy About Cricut's "Thankful Thursday" and the third being "Creative Cutter Room"

To see all the details about these challenges swing by their blogs.

The base of the card is kraft card stock and the card measures 4x9in. I used my "Stand and Salute" cartridge to cut out "United We Stand" I did all the layers using kraft, blue, and red card stock and doodled with my white gel pen. I'll be sending this to my Brother and his wife both of which are serving in U.S. Army.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day. :)