Malt Shoppe Blog Hop

Welcome to the Malt Shoppe Hop, brought to you by the fabulous design teams of Made Especially For You and Ginger Snap Scraps!

Thank you for joining us for this sweet blog hop full of tasty, crafty projects! Along the way you'll see a variety of projects and have the chance to enter for a chance to win some delicious treats! If you just came across the hop and would like to start from the beginning, please visit Made Especially For You.

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We have five generous and fabulous sponsors giving away prizes for our hop. Let's see what they're serving :)

Adams Acres - $20 gift certificate

As Cute As A Button - $25 gift certificate

Paper Piecings by Nikki - $25 gift certificate







Ginger Snap Scraps $10.00 gift certificate

Scraptastical Kreations - $20 gift certificate

The Stamping Boutique - 3 images of the winner's choice

YOU MUST LEAVE A COMMENT ON EVERY STOP OF THE HOP TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN A GRAND PRIZE - DON'T FORGET YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION! :)

You have until Sunday June 10th at midnight to comment. Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on Tuesday June 12th at Made Especially For You.

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Here's the entire lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com
Cori - http://ginger-snap-scraps.blogspot.com
Eileen - http://scrappingactuary.blogspot.com
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
Susie - http://susiecrafthappy.com
Jessica - http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com
Robin - http://thecricutscrapper.blogspot.com
Kate - http://scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com
Karen - http://simplyfrenzied-karen.blogspot.com
Gabrielle - http://gabyspapery.blogspot.com
Laura - http://scrappinaroundtheclock.blogspot.ca
Ann - http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com
Kristy - http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com
Patty - http://creativediva98.blogspot.com
Pam - http://scrappinfabpam.blogspot.com
Barb - http://bugbites411.blogspot.com
Cyndy - http://arcyscraps.blogspot.com
Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com
Janea - http://recollectionalley.blogspot.com
Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Maria - http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com
Missy - http://tangledwebsoftangwen.blogspot.com

Thanks for hopping along with us! :)

Paper Piercing Challenge

This week our challenge was to make a card using Paper Piercing. Love this technique.

Here's my card

My little gal is hiding in a patch of flowers with her magnifying glass

looking for bugs.

Here is a little closer look at her. I was so excited that I found

out how to get a close up of my cards with my camera. I have been

fighting that for along time. It really does help to read the book 

that comes with your camera. SMILE!

I hope you enjoy my card and will drop by again.

CFC54: Clean And Simple masculine cards using designer paper

This weeks challenge at CAS-ual Friday is a

Clean and Simple Masculine card.

This will be my husbands Fathers Day card. He retired a

few years back and has this total attitude. I loved this

stamp set when I found it.

I have allot of Gena K papers, and a large box of scraps, 

I can't tell you if this paper is from her. I sure hope so. If

not, I still love this card.

Three Brad Challenge

This week we could do any card we wanted as long as it had 3 brads on it.

So, here is what I came up with. I have 4 graduations this coming week-end, so guess

what, yep I did Graduation cards.

This one is for my niece who has been  home schooled since she was in the second grade. She 

graduated with top honors, an SAT score of 1760 and got the Presidential Scholarship. Now that

is something to be very proud of.

This is the inside of her card. I always love making the inside continue with the outside.

I will now show you the card that I made for her mother "The Teacher" I felt that 

she deserved a special card as well for home schooling her kids for all these years.

My sister is an awesome mother. 

Hope you enjoyed my two cards.

Saturday Cricut Review.

This week I am reviewing the

FABULOUS FINDS CARTRIDGE

The Fabulous Finds cartridge is filled with cuts for charms, tags, frames, and more. With this cartridge, it’s easy to personalize projects and stay organized.

This cartridge includes: Windows, Jagged, Inserts, Stretched, Shadow, and Blackout creative features.

For this card I am going to us the hinges to put it together, then just cut out several other features for you to

look at. There is so much to chose from on tis cart it is hard to pick just one.

I hope you like my card and all the features it has to offer.

Here are some of the items that this card will create. I made hinges,Clipboards,tags, and charm.

This is just a small portion of items that this card will produce. On my card I used the hinges, So with

out further ado, here is my card

If you  are thinking about getting a new cart, this would be a great one to have. Thanks for 

stopping by and remember that our "May I have this Dance Blog Hop is going on over at 

Made Especially for you. There are some FABULOUS gifts,so make sure you stop by.

Thursdays Craft and Chat

Welcome to my first Thursday Craft and Chat.

Today I am going to be using two Martha Stewarts

Butterfly punches. I am using her single butterfly and 

the fabulous butterfly border. I truly love them and I 

hope that you find my explanation of these two punches helpful.

The single punch is fairly clear on how to use it, so I am going

to focus on the butterfly edge. This punch cuts out a strip of butterflies,

it does not just punch the edge of your card as you will see in the next set of photos.

As you can see this punch has wing that extend out with matching

designs on each side, so it make it easy to match up your pattern

so that it comes out perfect each time.

Here you can see the process of cutting out the strip and how it totally

cuts it away from the paper. On the wing  of each side you match the cut

strip with the smaller butterfly like I have done here to get that next cut.

And here are the finished products. These punches are so precise that if you

follow the design you will get a perfect cut everytime.  So now it is time

for the finished product, my card,

I hope this has been helpful. I love the effect that these punches can offer

Mother's Day card using ribbon.

This week our challenge was to use a Digi from our Sponsor

They have such fabulous DIGI's I just love them. So

this week I chose to do a card with this DIGI and 

put my own spin on it.

So here is is my take on this design.

I took three tulips an fussy cut them as well as the

bird. With my Fabulous finds cart I cut the background 

out of a lavender plaid. The card it's self is an over

sized card that I ran through my Dotted Swiss embossing folder.

I also like to make the inside just a pretty as the outside.

I hope you enjoy my card and be sure to stop by

Made Especially For You to check out the rest of

our fabulous Design team.

PSC30: Handmade Flowers for Mom

This weeks challenge is to make a card for mom with hand made flowers.

This is a hard one for me to do as I lost my mother 3 years ago. But I always

take flowers and hand made card to her resting place on Mothers day.

So, here is the card that I made for her.

My mother loved purple so I chose purple for her this year. I used my border

embosser to make the flowers in the corner. For the lacy edge I used one of 

Martha Stewarts edge punch. I love her punches. I layed a solid piece of  purple

over top so that just the scallops showed.

Here you get a much better look at the embossed flowers and the lacy edge.

My oval was cut with my Bigkicks and oval spellbinders cutter. I then ran it

through my Dotted Swiss embossing folder for more texture. The flowers were

stamped and fussy cut. I layed the leaves flat and placed pop dots on the flower

to lift it off the page some.

Here you can see that I put swirls under the oval, punched out a butterfly, again 

using Martha Stewart's punch and hand cut the sentiment tag and used black

stickers for the word Mom. I know that if my mother was her she would absolutely

love this card.