Paper Girls Party Decor Blog Hop

Good Morning, everyone! We are hopping at the Paper Girls Challenge Blog today, hope you will come join us! You won't want to miss it, we've got a generous prize sponsored by Unity Stamp Company! See all of the details below.

Have you noticed that many of the major scrapbooking manufacturers have added Party Decor to their product line ups?  Well, if you've got a little time and a little paper and other crafting supplies (ok ok, I have a LOT of paper).... you can easily make your own decor like I have here.

I put my Cricut to use to cut out most of the shapes in my party decor. The cartridge I used is called "Once Upon a Princess"

To make the teapot and teacups stand up, I just folded and adhered a little piece of card stock to the back to make my own stand. And then to make the garland I adhered punched circles and stars cut with my Cricut, sandwiching some twine in the middle. 

To turn the bow and crown into photo props, I just taped a wooden skewer to the back. This little holder was originally packaging for several rolls of washi tape. I simply chose some coordinating washi colors to wrap around it and now I have a cute prop holder.

And that's it for me today, I hope you enjoyed my projects!

PGCB PARTY DECOR BLOG HOP DETAILS:

Visit all of the blogs listed below for your chance to win a fabulous prize pack from Unity Stamp Company (worth $86!!):

1. Paper Girls Challenge Blog - http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/
2. Cathryn H. - http://www.catscrapcreations.blogspot.ca
3. Brittany M. - http://craftypaperbee.blogspot.com
4. Amber S. - http://allamberallthetime.blogspot.com/
5. Michele D. - http://about-the-paper.blogspot.com
6. Erica B. - http://stampingstarlette.blogspot.com/
7. Karrie S. - http://sweetscrapsbykarrie.blogspot.com/2015/03/pink-tie-party.html

To be eligible to win, you must do the following:

1. Comment on each of the blog posts along the hop 
2. "Like" the Paper Girls Challenge on Facebook
3. Follow the Paper Girls Challenge Blog

For your chance to win, blog comments are needed by Sunday, April 5th at 11:59pm MST to comment. We will announce the winner on Wednesday, April 8th at 9:00am MST.

Enjoy the hop and good luck!!

Paper Girls - Shakers

Hey everyone! I'm here with the newest challenge at The Paper Girls Challenge Blog.  Today Cristine is challenging us to create a project with a shaker.  If you're not sure how to do this, go to Cristine's blog, she has a little tutorial up to show you.

I took a look through my supplies and found a frame by Sweet Stamp Shop that I thought would work nicely as my shaker base and created this card:

It really came together much easier than I expected, so if you've never tried a shaker card I encourage you to give it a shot!  You've got just about 2 weeks to create your project and link up, hope I see you over there.

I haven't blogged much since December, but don't worry, I'm still crafting. I spent much of December creating my December Daily album. And then in January I started to do Project Life on a weekly basis. I have to say I am loving it. I resisted it for a long time because I thought it would be overwhelming, but I really enjoy writing down little stories of what we are doing in our family each week. Let me know if you'd like me to share DD and/or PL pages here, and I can do that.

Hope you all have a fantastic week!