Shaping Up Blog Hop and Giveaways

Welcome! I was one of the Top 20 girls in the Paper Crafts Magazine Gallery Idol 2012 Contest. One of the other girls, Laurie, created a Facebook group for us to meet and chat. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

We had so much fun and wanted to do something together to say thank you to Paper Crafts Magazine and the craft community for supporting us during the competition. We know many of you are participating in the Paper Crafts July Gallery Challenge, so we put together this blog hop to provide each other, and you, with some inspiration. You should have arrived here from Jocelyn's site.

Each of us is also offering up a little giveaway. Here's what you can win from me:



All you need to do is leave a comment.

AND if you are participating in PC's challenge too, please leave a link to your card below. We'd love to be able to come by and take a look! (Please only link up cards created after July 9th - you only need to link up on one blog, we'll all be able to see the cards, and some of the girls are offering some extra giveaways to linker uppers.)

So here's my card. The PC challenge was to create a summer themed shaped card. Nothing says summer to me more than Slurpees!



It was harder than I thought to execute this card. For the Slurpee cap, I used a page protector, but those are kind of flimsy, so I had to find a way to stiffen it up. I just KNEW that the laminating machine I bought last Christmas would come in handy! The top part of the cap is laminated. The bottom part, that attaches to the cup is a 1/2" strip of the page protector. It's folded in half lengthwise and then sent through my paper crimper. The straw is a piece of Gypsy cardstock wrapped with some purple cellophane wrapping paper.





I'm trying to keep this short as it's a relatively long hop, so if you have any other questions about the card, please ask.

You have until July 29th to leave comments, and winners will be announced July 30th.

Your next stop is Anita, but the full hop order is listed below in case you get turned around:

JJ Bolton
http://rgcards.blogspot.com/

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

Joscelyne Cutchens
http://www.cutchens.com/

Jennifer Ingle
http://justjingle.blogspot.com/

Amy Kolling
http://stamp-n-paradise.blogspot.com/

Agnieszka Malyszek
http://justmadefrompaper.blogspot.com/

Wida Miller
http://beachorado.blogspot.com/

Jocelyn Olson
http://redballooncards.blogspot.com/

Miriam Prantner
http://mprantner.blogspot.com/

Anita Recksiedler
http://craftygrldesigns.blogspot.com/

Elena Roussakis
http://justmeprints.blogspot.ca/

Erin Lee Schreiner
http://www.erinleecreative.com/

Dana Warren
www.kraftpaperstamps.blogspot.com/

Laurie Willison
http://soapboxcreations.blogspot.com/

Tessa Wise
http://www.craftygrl.blogspot.com/

Nina Yang
http://waffleflower.com/

Supplies Used

Paper/Cardstock: Pink Paislee - Hometown Summer paper; CTMH - White Daisy, Holiday Red, and Gypsy cardstock
Stamps: CTMH - Enjoy Life
Ink: Black, Holiday Red
Other: CTMH - Sponge Dauber, Memory Protector; EP - Season's Greetings Stickers; Paper Crimper; Tombow - Mono Adhesive and Vellum Mono Adhesive; Scotch - Thermal Laminator; Purple Cellophane wrapping paper