Welcome to Day FOUR of our fabulous 9th birthday celebration! We have loved reading your comments these last few days and cannot thank you enough for the kind thoughts! Keep them coming! Today design team member Laura Vegas is here to share a great birthday card idea along with our friends from Spellbinders and American Crafts!
"First, I want to wish Scrapbook & Cards Today a very happy 9th birthday! There's been a TON of inspiration and creative goodness packed into the last 9 years and I can't wait to see all that comes next!
Supplies - Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned paper: Basic Grey; Letter stickers: Lily Bee; Ribbon: Pebbles; Mist: Heidi Swapp; Die cut machine: Silhouette, Cuttlebug; Embossing folder: Sizzix; Staples: Tim Holtz
Second, the one type of card that I always find myself needing more of is birthday cards, which is why I love to mass produce them a few times a year. My Silhouette Cameo comes in super handy for this, as I can cut pieces for numerous cards at once, and then simply piece them together.
I picked out a few designs from the cut file that Nicole put together for us HERE, and arranged them in my Silhouette software so that I could cut all of the pieces for 6 cards at once.
Supplies - Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned paper: Basic Grey; Letter stickers: Lily Bee; Ribbon: American Crafts; Mist: Studio Calico; Die cut machine: Silhouette, Cuttlebug; Embossing folder: Sizzix; Staples: Tim Holtz
I picked out a few different patterned papers (one set for girlish cards and one set for boyish cards), and cut strips of each paper to place on my cutting mat: one pattern for the sentiment, one pattern for the scalloped borders, and 3-4 patterns for the little banner flags. So after running my cutting mat thru twice, once with each set of papers, I had everything I needed to make 12 cards, assembly style!
Happy birthday SCT!" ~ Laura
9th birthday loot bag - Day FOUR!
Our first prize today is from our friends at American Crafts! Always a large and supportive part of all that we do at Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and of course they have delivered a fabulous $50 prize package!
The next prize in today's loot bag is from our friends at Therm O Web!
"To celebrate Scrapbook & Cards Today 9th Birthday we’re giving away some of our NEW iCraft® Deco Foil™ to a lucky winner! They’ll receive 6 colors of Deco Foil™ Transfer Sheets, our Deco Foil™ Liquid Adhesive, Hot Melt Adhesive and Foam Sheets! Along with some extra goodies! All of us at Therm O Web wish Scrapbook & Cards Today a very Happy 9th! Thanks for letting us be part of the celebration!" ~ Therm O Web
Thank you American Crafts and Therm O Web for joining our celebration! What a great day! For an opportunity to win each day's prize package, just leave one comment (only one!) each day before 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4th and on and on Sunday, April 5th we will announce all the winners right here. Good luck!
As always, we love it when our readers hop on over to the Facebook pages of our partners to give a big "SCT thank you!" Our partners love hearing from our readers and love how much appreciation comes to them for the prizes they offer so please take a minute each day if you can to show them some love!
Thank you so much Laura, American Crafts and Therm O Web! Join us on day FIVE! It's an exciting one! If you are just joining us for the first time, be sure to start HERE on day ONE!
So useful to have one of those cutting machines to make cards, I don't have any but plenty happy with my little Big Shot :-)
Posted by: Kialaya | April 02, 2015 at 12:48 PM
Happy birthday and congratulations! Thanks for the chance to win
Posted by: Nena Micinovac | April 02, 2015 at 02:43 PM
That card is awesome! I love the embossing!
Posted by: Maddie | April 02, 2015 at 02:47 PM
Looks like spring!
Posted by: Barbara Slater | April 02, 2015 at 06:06 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Rebecca Simon | April 02, 2015 at 07:13 PM
Love the way you utilized your Silhouette. Great idea having an assembly line!
Posted by: Sharon hack | April 03, 2015 at 01:07 AM
Great card. Thanks for the chance to win some great prizes.
Posted by: Liz | April 03, 2015 at 01:34 AM
Fantastic card. Thanks sponsors.
Posted by: Carolyn | April 03, 2015 at 03:39 AM
Love this card! Great ideas! Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: Scrappy Barb | April 03, 2015 at 08:19 AM
I really love the texture on this project it really adds that extra something.
Happy Birthday SCT!
Posted by: Terri W | April 03, 2015 at 09:01 AM
More awesome inspiration from awesome companies! Thank you to them & happy 9th birthday to SCT!!
Posted by: Julie A. Shearer | April 03, 2015 at 09:25 AM
Hooray for SCT! More crafty years to come!
Posted by: Sheena | April 03, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Beautiful card and the prizes are amazing!!! Thanks for the chance!
Posted by: Anelsie Ramos | April 03, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Awesomely cool cards - love the fun techniques and cuts used!! Super fun!!
Posted by: Taunya Butler | April 03, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Love all the ideas on how to use the cut files! Thanks for the chance to win another amazing giveaway!
Posted by: Amy B. | April 03, 2015 at 12:38 PM
Cute card!
Posted by: Laura | April 03, 2015 at 12:52 PM
Thank you for such great inspirational ideas. Happy Birthday SCT!
Posted by: Pamela Morton | April 03, 2015 at 01:01 PM
awesome prizes today and thank you for the cut files!
Posted by: Cindy W | April 03, 2015 at 02:51 PM
What a great prize! Thank you to American Crafts and Therm O Web, your products are awesome. I especially love the shades of greens and yellows in the American Crafts prize.
What fun it has been for the last 9 days of celebration!
Posted by: Pam Kubala | April 03, 2015 at 03:36 PM
Awesome card!!
Posted by: Denise I | April 03, 2015 at 08:51 PM
Awesome prizes today. Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: PammyKay | April 03, 2015 at 09:21 PM
Super fun cut file! Super project too!! Happy 9th Birthday, too!!
Posted by: Beverly Jordan | April 03, 2015 at 10:31 PM
Love Laura's cards! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Rachel V | April 04, 2015 at 12:36 AM
Dang... you make me wish I had a silhouette! Being able to mass produce a card with all those cuts do easily, I love it... and that amazing green goodie box. ..wow!
Posted by: Brittany | April 04, 2015 at 03:40 AM
Love all of these products and the card is so beautiful!!
Posted by: Janet Lamkin | April 04, 2015 at 09:53 AM