Showing posts with label Blog Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Hop. Show all posts

Monday, 19 March 2012

Spring Has Sprung! What a Ride Birthday Card!

Spring Has Sprung!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a Blog Hop! The theme is dimensional cards!
To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize giveaways...so make sure you pop in! Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, because at the end of the blog hop, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog, and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog! The grand prize is your choice of a pdf pattern book, valued up to $20, from http://popupcards.com/shop-patterns.html ! Make sure to check back at Card a Day Blog March 23rd, to see who won!
So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

Now for my entry!
I’m so excited to be a part of the third blog hop from the Card a Day Blog! The theme of the hop is “anything dimensional” – I know that you’ll be inspired by what we’ve designed for you! Make sure to leave a comment on the participants pages, and the Blog Hop announcement post, and every comment will give you an entry for the grand prize of a pdf pop up book (up to $20 value) from popupcards.com!
Information on my blog candy is at the end of this post!
About my card:
Someone dear to me is turning 50 years old this year! She loves roller coasters and similar rides (and is trying to talk me into doing a some bungie jumping!) – when I saw the rollercoaster design from pop up cards.com , I just had to try to make my own design!
The card is made totally with my Sihouette Cutter. I used Silhouette Studio to design the card with some of the elements in my library.  The actual roller coaster was snagged by a google image search, but I did extensive adjustments to make the cross bracing larger, and therefore easier to cut IMHO :-)
The outside has layered elements:
Card Outside
  1. Ribbon base
  2. Bow base
  3. Bow details
  4. Bow center
  5. Name
I used a ball tipped floral tool to add some dimension to the bows.
The inside is composed of a sentiment printed “base”, which I glued the roller coaster on:
Inside card backgroundCard inside coaster

I’m quite pleased with how it turned out!

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Now for blog candy Smile
On top of being automatically entered into the grand prize of the blog hop for commenting on my post, I’m also going to have a draw for:
A personalized card for you of this blog post (with custom “year” and “name”), so you can give it to someone too! 
The random draw for my blog candy will be held on March 22nd. Final entries accepted  until 12am March 22.
Blogger doesn’t forward your email to me when you comment, so to maintain your privacy, please just check back here on March 23rd to see who has won! The winner has until March 31st to claim their prize by contacting me after the announcement!

Monday, 6 February 2012

And the winner is…..

I’m so excited to post the winner of the blog candy offered on my blog entries for the Card a Day Blog hop February 4th and 5th! There were 38 comments! WoW! Thanks for all of the encouragement!

I used the draw straws generator at http://www.dsrw.org/~dlg/web/straws.php to choose the winner.

Kelly S!!! You are the winner of the blog candy from Gardens, Crafts ‘n’ More! I’ll be emailing you today to get more details to send you your prize!

For everyone…. remember your names are also being entered in the grand prize for the blog hop at the Card a Day Blog… so check back there to see if you won! Remember that we have other contests going on there too, as well as great ideas for cards – everyday!