Birthday Bash Blog Hop - #84 Serenade

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Birthday Bash Blog Hop. We are here today to celebrate Lisa's birthday as well as her daughter Becky's! We will showcase some fabulous birthday themed ideas! If you came here from Curls and Grins are are at the right stop! If you have just happened to come to my blog, then you should head to Scrapping with Lisa to start from the beginning! You don't want to miss a thing!

For my card, I decided to size it to fit into a legal size envelope. Using the Serenade Cricut cartridge, I cut the following images:

Bird Cage - cut at 3.75".

Table - cut at 3.75".

Bird - cut at ".

The scalloped background was made using the Elegant Edges cartridge and my Gypsy in order to manipulate the cut so it would fit on my card base. It measures 3.8" wide and 8" high.

The cage was attached to the card using foam squares in order to give it sme dimension.

To embellish the card a bit I added some bling and some white organza ribbon.

Hope you like it!

The next stop on the blog hop is Scrappin' Pink Piglet! Go check out what this talented lady is about to show you! Enjoy the rest of the Blog Hop and have a fantastic day!

3-D Church Ornament

Hi everyone! This afternoon I have been working on this 3-D church ornament - well pretty much ALL afternoon. I created it for a contest posted in the November issue of the Cricut Circle Magazine. We were to create a tree ornament featuring at least 4 Cricut cuts and the use of a Cuttlebug or Yudu.

The church was cut from Winter Woodland at 3.5" . I embossed the white layer with a Fomal Square embossing folder, then inked over the raised image. I cut the background from transparency and used alcohol ink to achieve a stained glass effect. The roof pieces were put through my Cuttlebug using the Tiny Mosaic folder. I punched the holes in the roof prior to assembly to thread the ribbon through for hanging.

The flourish along the sides of the church was cut from Winter Frolic.

The snowflake attached to the ribbon is from Christmas.

The "H" which is my last initial, is from Elegant Cakes.

The cute little bird atop the church is from Serenade.

I LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to hang it on my tree in December! Hope you like it too!