Disney/Pixar Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and welcome to another FUN blog hop.  Hopefully you are here from Kristal at Getting Cricky, if not and you want to start at the beginning, head on over to Shawn at the Crafty Chics Blog.  This blog hop is just so exciting as I LOVE all things Disney.  Mickey Mouse was my favorite growing up and I even handed down a few stuffed Mickey's to my kids to play with.
If you have been following my blog, you will know that my son turned 2 on April 17th.  If you want to check out the cute invite I made for him using the stair step fold design and the Toy Story Alien, click here.
This weekend we are throwing a party for him with some family and friends. His absolute favorite is Toy Story and I knew I wanted to make something Toy Story themed for him.  For both my kids birthdays I make them a special layout to hang up on the wall in celebration of their birthday.  I have a really nice area set up in our kitchen/family room to display scrapbook pages.  Here is the layout I made for him:

I still have to find photos of the birthday boy to put on it:-)

 Putting together Woody and Buzz was like putting together puzzle pieces but I was soo happy I did it in the end!

I also made this cute banner to hang on our fireplace:

I just love how both these came out!  I used the Cricut Toy Story cartridge to cut out the images and Make the Cut to cut out all the letters along with the larger banner pieces.  I used my Pink Persimmon Large Banner stamps for the banner on the layout and Stampin UP! Schoolbook Serif Alphabet for the letters on the banner.

Have you heard? The grand prize for this hop is a Gypsy so make sure to start at the beginning to get all the "rules" on how you can win that:-).
I also have some exciting blog candy to give away this weekend.  This is a stamp set from Emma over at My Creative Time.  Emma makes the cutest projects on her blogs and she just happens to be one of the sweetest people as well.  She sells stamps on her blog that are just so cute!  This one is called So Grateful For You.

I am offering up two chances to win this.  First leave a comment below with a way for me to get a hold of you and if you want a second chance to win, stop by my blog post from yesterday for the Mom's Day hop and leave another comment.  I would also love it if you became a follower:-). I will choose a winner Tuesday morning.

You next stop is Kaye at Yesterdays Tomorrow.

Stampin Daisies Design Crew Creations

Good Morning Everyone!  Today is the first post for my new design team for Stampin Daisies.  I will be posting a new project using these stamps every other week on Tuesdays.  I just love all the stamps she has created so far and you should see the ones she has coming up!  Soooo cute! Anyway, onto my card.  While visiting my local Michael's with my daughter looking for googly eyes for son's birthday invites, we found these cute eyes with eyelashes.  My daughter thought they were just hilarious so we knew we had to get them!  I wasn't sure what I would end up making with them but soon found out!  We were flipping through the Toy Story cartridge book when we saw Mrs. Potato Head and knew that a card needed to be made with her and those eyes!  Here is what I came up with:

I used the Happy Birthday stamp from Stampin Daisies "Just the Basics" set.  I also used the latest MOJO Monday sketch to complete this card.  Sometimes I need something to get me going when creating a card or scrapbook page and sketches really help!  This sketch has so many elements to it!  It was hard to keep up.  Here are some of the different additions I made to this card:

 I hand stitched around the edges of the pink paper using the Sew Easy tool to make my holes.

I added glitter to her earrings to give them a little sparkle:-) 

The flower has a flower brad through it from Stampin UP! then it has another silver faux brad set by my i-rock.

I used some twine on my button from the Twinery (my new favorite thing)

I inked some red ink around the birthday sign to give it some dimension.

Whew!  That was a hard one but I love how it came out!  I crack up whenever I look at it.  Mrs. Potato Head was cut out at 4 inches using the Toy Story Cartridge. 

Don't forget to check out the other design team bloggers to see what they came up with today and the Stampin Daisies site for info on these fun stamps!  

http://www.stampindaisies.com/

Design Team stops:

Monica at http://www.stampindaisies.com/
Jenny at http://papercutcreations.blogspot.com/
Jessica at http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/ --->you are here!

Linda at http://www.fancyframework.com/

Stair Step Fold Card - Toy Story invite

This past week I have been working hard on completing invitations for my sons second birthday party.  After I got over the fact that he is turning 2 (yikes!) I decided to have some fun with it!  I only had about 20 to make so I thought "let's try something fun and a new technique"...okay what was I thinking?  They took me a lot longer than I thought they would.  I think the hardest part was actually cutting and gluing all the shapes together that I cut on my cricut.  My son loves Toy Story so I picked out an easy figure from this cartridge, the alien.  It was also perfect because he had his arms wide open and I knew I wanted to do a banner on the card.  I also wanted to try my hand at a stair step fold.  Here is what I came up with.

Doing the fold was easy!  I just looked over a couple tutorials on the web and kind of made it my own.  My paper was 12 x 4 1/4.  I scored it using my Martha Stewart scoring board at 1 1/4, 2 1/2, 4 1/2, and 6 1/2.   Once folded the card came out to the normal 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 size.

I wanted to layer each fold, here are the sizes for the layer.  The first layer of blue was 1 x 4 and the first layer of white was 3/4 x 3 3/4.  The second layer only had the blue on it which was 1 3/4 x 4.  The third layer is where I put the wording and the first layer of blue was at 5 1/4 x 4 and the white layer was at 5 x 3 3/4.

I used googly eyes on the alien and the Look Who's Turning stamp set from Stampin UP! for the front of the card.  At one point I was going to string the banner but I thought it looked cute just like this. 

Here's another look at my cute alien!  He is cut at 3 3/4.  The banner was cut using a Make the Cut file at 1 inch.