**CASE ANOTHER CARD FROM THIS HOP** My Favorite IG Hop

Greetings crafty friends, this week on “My Favorite Hop” we are CASEing a favorite card from this hop from another designer. We love to support each other and this was the perfect way to give a friend a spotlight. We will be sharing our version of their card and a screen shot of their card so you can see how we were inspired.

I was extremely excited about this theme because I am so inspired so much of the time by other card makers. I wanted to choose a card to CASE that was unlike something I had made before.

This is the card I made.

This is the card I CASEd.

I searched through so many amazing cards before I finally chose this fabulous card from @thecraftacularcreator I loved how it was an atypical shape or size (I made mine close to a slimline card) and all the pink! Thank you Vicki for the fabulous inspiration!!!

We create fun and inspiring projects, and hop along every Sunday at 12 noon EST, so if you would like to join us and share a craft featuring your “favorite”, please contact @sarae.furr_thecraftyfarmchick .

Just a few challenges:

DLArt Linky Party

A Perfect Time To Craft - #3 Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge - #02-2026 Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe - #327 For The Girls

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 2/5

Ally's Angels - #103 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping!  Laters!!

**MY FAVORITE HOP** Favorite Fun Fold

Happy Sunday everyone!  It's time another My Favorite Hop on Instagram hosted by @sarae.furr_thecraftyfarmchick.  This week our theme is Favorite Interactive Card!

My favorite is definitely an easel card.  It had been awhile since I'd made one and this was so fun.  This paper is from Spain and isn't it just GORGEOUS??!  I'm getting serious live action BATB vibes rather than the cartoon and I'm totally here for it!

This image, though CLEARLY Belle, also gives slight Ever After vibes, right?? The painting?  You see it too, don't you?

I thought that sentiment was perfect for the prettiest princess.

The rose in the cloche, I love it.  Super sentimental for me.

I wanted to show the whole inside of the card where I put a space to write.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #02-2025 Anything Goes
• The Crafter's Cafe - #316 Anything Goes
• Dream Valley - #331 More Than One Fold 1/3
• Crafty Calendar - More Than One Fold 1/3
• Crafty Catz - #688 Anything Goes 4/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #689 Anything Goes 4/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 4/5
• As You Like It - Feminine or Masculine 3/3 (feminine!)

Be sure to hop through all the cards on Instagram!  Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping!  Laters!!

STAMPtember - Day Thirty - Beau-TEA-ful Birthday!!!

I can't believe I got here!  The last few weeks have been ultra ultra challenging.

A whole bunch of challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Classic Design Challenge - #9 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 4/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #667 Anything Goes 4/5
• Mix It Up - #73 Anything Goes 7/8
• Love To Craft Challenge - #82 Anything Goes 7/8
• Love To Scrap Challenge - #169 Anything Goes 7/8
• We Love Stamping - Anything Goes with a handcolored image 3/3
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes 3/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #259 Anything Goes 3/3
• The Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes 3/3
• Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for accompanying me on my crazy stamping journey!  Onto 2025 😂😂😂. Laters!!

I'm A Creative Influencer for Kat Scrappiness!!

Hi everyone!!  I'm so excited today to share that I'm now a Creative Influencer with Kat Scrappiness!  I've been obsessed with Kat's shop since I discovered it a few years ago, she's got amazing dies, shaker bits, paper pads and more.

She recently released a whole Magical themed collection, and you know how much I love allllll things Disney so of course I'm obsessed with it!

Check out all the little Minnie and Mickey shaker bits 😍

This paper pad has such a luxe look and feel to it, it's almost glossy.  I know I'm going to go through a ton of them because I am obsessed with it!

Products Used:

• Birthday Quokka die set
• Birthday Quokka stamp set
• Magical Clubhouse Background Craft Die
• Magical Memories Paper Pad
• Magical Mickey Layered Border Die set
• Magical Mickey Shaker Dots
• Mickey Mouse Sprinkles
• Minnie Mouse Sprinkles

Just a few challenges:

• DL Art Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #8 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. - #730 Anything Goes 1/2
• Creative Inspiration - #17 Anything Goes 1/2
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - #578 Anything Goes 1/3
• Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes 1/3
• A Cut Above - Anything Goes 1/3
• Cut It Up - #311 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #258 Anything Goes 1/3
• Dragonfly Dreams - My Favorite Things 1/3 (ALL DISNEY ALL THE TIME)
• Polkadoodles - #33 Anything Goes 1/4
• Digi Tuesday - #33 Anything Goes 1/4
• Creative Fingers - #283 Anything Goes 1/6
• Paper Funday - #68 Anything Goes 1/6
• Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes 2/3
• Love Those Pretty Papers - Anything with Patterned Paper Goes 2/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #662 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy shopping at Kat Scrappiness!  Laters!!

**SUMMER SOIREE IG HOP** Week Three - Fireworks!

(everybody sing the [slightly annoying] Katy Perry song with me:  Baby you're a fiiiiiiiiiiiiirework!  Come on let your collllllllllllors burst!)

Don't mind me, just rocking out over here 😎 

Anyways, welcome to our Summer Soiree Cardmaking Hop, hosted by @createwithkas.  For Week 3, we are enjoying celebrating all things patriotic!  Fireworks, BBQs, 4th of July, your country's colors or Red, White and Blue.  This theme was suggested by Kelly and if it inspires you, please use the hashtag #summersoireecardmakinghop2024.  To join us, message @createwithkas

I am, as you probably know, a HUGE Disney fan.  To me, Disney and fireworks are synonymous.  I got this die on Etsy a few years ago, and I absolutely love how the patterned paper poops behind the white glittered die cut.  The yellow-gold windows in the castle remind me of how Walt's office is always lit up at the theme parks.

Just a few challenges:

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes
• DL Art Linky Party
• Colorful Options - Flags
• Die Cut Divas - Add Some Glitter 1/4 (glitter cardstock)
• Word Art Wednesday - #655 Anything Goes 1/5
• Creatalicious - #278 Anything Goes 2/3
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Red, White and/or Blue 2/5
• Polkadoodles - #26 Anything Goes 3/4
• Crafty Catz - #675 Anything Goes 3/5
• Mirtillamente - #33 Anything Goes 3/5
• Creative Fingers - #281 Anything Goes 3/3
• Through The Purple Haze - #216 Anything Goes 3/3
• A Gem of a Challenge - #13 Anything Goes 4/4
• Digi Tuesday - #25 Anything Goes 4/4

Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping.  Laters!!

Magical Birthdays

I love anything Disney.  And I love birthday cards.  Echo Park always has the most amazing Disney inspired product lines, and I'm obsessed with their Magical Birthday lines.  Most of the time, I can't choose between Magical Birthday Boy and Magical Birthday Girl, and this is one of the times when I couldn't pick.  So I made one card with each!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Fab N Funky - #553 Celebrations 
• Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge
• Crafting Happiness - #124 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #6 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes 1/3
• Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Fingers - #233 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Catz - #600 Anything Goes 1/3
• Corrosive Challenge - #6 Anything Goes 1/4
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 1/4
• Jan's Digi Stamps - Anything Goes 1/5
• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - #232 Sketch 2/3
• Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes 2/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #232 Anything Goes 2/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #548 Anything Goes 2/5
• Mirtillamente Challenge - #10 Anything Goes 5/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!!

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirteen - 1200 Posts!!!

Celebrating a milestone on my blog today!  1200 posts!  Wow!  I made a slimline card because that's my favorite right now.  I chose to make a Disney themed card because I LOVE me some Disney.  And I made it a congratulations card because I'm celebrating my blog accomplishment :)

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #3-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #3 Anything Goes
• Mirtillamente Challenge - #7 Anything Goes
• Pattie's Creations - #192 Anything Goes 2/3
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #177 Anything Goes 2/3
• As You Like It - Interactive or Not (NOT!!) 2/3  (These are faster, easier, and less stress if I think the recipient is tossing it!)
• Jan's Digi Stamps - Anything Goes 2/5
• Corrosive Challenge - #3 Anything Goes 3/4
• Ike's World - #154 Anything Goes 3/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #534 Anything Goes 4/5
• Love to Craft - #66 Anything Goes 5/8
• Love to Scrap - #154 Anything Goes 5/8
• Though The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 2/2
• Polkadoodles - #10 Anything Goes 2/2
• Morgan's Art World - #3 Anything Goes 3/3
• Creative Fingers - #226 Anything Goes 3/3
• Craftalicious - #230 Anything Goes 3/3

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

It's Fun To Do The Impossible with Dies R Us!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Lisa here, with a magical easel card.  I wanted to break out an oldie-but-goodie die from my collection, so I grabbed my Spellbinders Polka Dot Frame Die set and started brainstorming. 

Now I said this is an easel card, so when you bend the top up and rest it on the sentiment tag inside, it looks like this:

This die cuts and embosses, so at first I cut and embossed a frame out of white Neenah 80lb cardstock.

After picking out my die, I knew I wanted something Disney inspired, so I dug through my Echo Park paper collection and pulled out a sheet with cut-apart sentiments.  As you can see though, the white didn't really pop.

So I switched to red cardstock and it made a huge difference.  I glued the white one to back of the red for stability.

Almost looks like chipboard with the dimension.  I love it.  I decided to add even more detail to the frame with paint pens.  The ones I used are by Dylusions but I'm sure that any would work.

I did go over the white a couple of times to make the dots bolder.  This is why I love die cutting so much, there are so many things you can do to cardstock to make it suit your project.

Onto the easel card itself.  If you've never made one before, they're actually really easy.  You just make a top-folding card--mine is 5"x7"--and then cut another piece of cardstock to 5x7, that will be the easel topper.

Here you'll see my top-folding 5x7 card on the left--I scored the front panel in the middle at 3.5".  On the right is that flat 5x7 panel where I'll be adhering my frame.

I took this last photo too to show you how I made the top-folding 5x7 card.  If you were thinking I had cardstock that was at least 14" long, I don't!  I cut two pieces from an 8.5x11 sheet of 110lb cardstock and pieced them together to create my card base.  That seam is in the back, you don't even notice it.

The easel stand of the card was created with another sentiment from the same sheet of patterned paper I showed you earlier.  Just matted on some cardstock and popped up on foam tape.

I hope this card inspires to try making an easel card with any of the fun and amazing dies that Dies R Us carries.  --Lisa

Products Used:

• Spellbinders Polka Dot Frame Die set
• 1/4" Scor Tape
• 1/2" Scor Tape
• Neenah Solar White 80lb and 110lb cardstock
• Echo Park Magical Adventure 2 paper
• 10mm glitter cabochon stones
• Red cardstock scraps
• Mini glue dots

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.  

 

 For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

click below for:

STORE

CHALLENGE BLOG

FACEBOOK

INSPIRATION BLOG

FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Love To Craft Challenge Blog!!

Happy New Year all!  It's time for a new challenge with Love To Craft Challenge Blog and our theme is always Anything Goes!!  I love Disney stuff like I love Christmas, and I've been making kind of Disney-bounding projects lately.

Just a few challenges:

• A Bit More Time To Craft - #131 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #1 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft Extra - Anything Goes **WINNER**
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Celebrate 4/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #472 Anything Goes 5/5

Be sure to visit the blog and see what the other DT members have created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

**SUMMER** New Challenge with A Snowflake's Promise!!

Hi everyone!  It's a new challenge at A Snowflake's Promise and as always our theme is Summer!  Our lovely sponsor is A Day for Daisies and I'm working with All Will Be As It Was!  I'm a HUGE fairy tale and Disney fan, so this was an obvious choice for me!!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Artistic Inspirations - #180 Anything Goes
• Creatalicious - #116 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #286 Anything Goes 4/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT have created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!