"Oh Say Can You See" 4th of July Blog Hop

Heeeelllllllloooooo everyone! Happy 4th of July! I am Grace Lauer, Scrapbook News and Review's Marketing Director, which means I am a SNR STAFFER and I have part of the secret code further down within this post. I want to welcome you to yet another blog on the Scrapbook News and Review Card Universe's "Oh Say Can You See" 4th of July Blog Hop. It's a big one isn't it? The more to inspire you with!

Want to know when where it begins... click here. If you came from Helen Dooley's blog: http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com/ you are on the right track! This is one large blog hop and I hope you are enjoying yourself. Lots of wonderful projects to make and learn from. What a wonderful way to get inspired on our countries birthday. I have a freebie for you and the piece of the code for the contest to win the 1 year subscription for Scrapbook News and Review!

I have a 4th of July fireworks card for you. This was a crazy card I created that was a little outside my box. Yet this was so fun to create and I had a blast mimicking a firework explosion. Here is a little explanation and instruction for you if you would like to create this card.

4th of July card Instructions:

1. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock, fold in half with bone folder
2. 3 3/4" x 5" piece of red cardstock
3. Draw along the edge of red cardstock with gold ink pen
4. Stamp 13 - 15 small 4th of July images with red pigment ink on extra white cardstock
5. Heat emboss with red glitter embossing powder
6. Color in with blue, red and gold markers
7. Cut around images leaving 1/16" of white around embossed image
8. Adhere all cut out images onto blue cardstock
9. Cut around all images leaving 1/16" of blue around the white
10. Cut 7-9 1" strips of white fibers
11. Adhere red cardstock in the center of the folded card base
12. Choose the main embossed image and adhere it to the center front of the red cardstock with two layers of pop dots
13. Choose five embossed images and adhere them around the center image with one pop dot
14. Adhere remaining embossed images with mono adhesive around the embossed images from the previous step
15. Roll the 1" strip of fibers into a ball, try to keep the fibers out of the adhesive, and adhere under the popped up layers of embossed images.
16. Spread extending fibers into place before adhesive drys.

I hope you enjoy creating a card similar to this. I can this design in several ways. How about creating a Birthday card or New Years card? I hope you have been inspired a bit not only here at my attic but during your journey through the largest blog hop SNR has ever had almost 100 blogs! Big kudos to Anne House for putting this all together with the support from the Scrapbook News and Review staff. Don't forget all the wonderful bloggers who have signed up and participated for this holiday event.

We are having a summer full of paper crafting goodness and just for this event I am going to give you a sneak peek of the class I will be teaching one week from today for Scrapbook News and Review's Spring into Summer Event. My class is

Now, I promised you some freebies! As you read before I am SNR's Marketing Director so I will ask nothing more of you then to spread the word of our up coming event. If you leave a comment here on my blog telling me that you have posted on your blog or Facebook or twitter... about Scrapbook News and Review's up coming Spring into Summer Event and leave me a link to where you posted it, you will be entered into a drawing for a ONE MONTH FREE subscription to Scrapbook News and Review! You will need to post this by 10PM CST on Monday July 6th. How easy is that? Just spread the word about this amazing event! There is a graphic below for you to share!
Next, for you I have your code... yes here it is... are you ready? ................ "NOT WHAT" got it? Do you know what it is yet? Continue to play our code game by hopping through our Scrapbook News and Review Card Universe's “Oh Say Can You See 4th of July Blog Hop”. Your next blog is...

Lorie Ames' blog: http://www.live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com/

Go check her out!

I would like to say thank you to all the heroes around the world. Here is a little something honoring my personal Hero and please take a moment to honor those who have been lost and who have fallen.

Thanks for viewing my blog I hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July!!!

Happily Ever After

Happy Saturday Everyone. Today I have been pretty busy. I am working on scrapbooking all weekend for a cyber crop with Scrapperie.com. I am loving the challenges. This one was for a tag team relay game for scrap lifting and oh my the fastest layout I have ever done!!! It took me less then an hour and a half! I would give you more details on this but I just wanted to share with you where I have been and a glimpse of what I have done this weekend. The crop does not end till Monday night so I will be pretty busy till then.
Oh on a side note I did get to run to Costco for food today... came home and decided to empty and clean my refrigerator... I hate doing that. However I feel I got something major accomplished other then scrapping ...lol. Have a great weekend!
I would love to know what your plans were this weekend. What did you do? Did you have fun? Who did you do it with? Love to hear from you all!!!

Enjoy the Little things - Mother's Day Gift

Happy Hump Day Everyone! I have an exciting project to share with you all today. I have been working on this all week. I hope you enjoy the little things with in this mini album. I created this for my Mother for Mother's Day ... good thing she never reads this blog... lol. It pays sometimes to have a mother who hates technology. I can only get her to learn one new thing online every few months or so. Anyhow, this was the perfect project for her. I just love how it turned out.
I created this mostly out of one of the beautiful April kits from Coordinates Collections. This is the Petals kit for April and OH ME OH MY I loved every inch of this paper and the embellishments in the kit were so fun and adorable. I don't have time to go into all the details of an entire album but if you see something and want to know how it was done please feel free to post a comment an ask. I am happy to answer.