Let's Celebrate with a Birthday Blog Hop

July is my birthday month so I’m celebrating by joining in the Crafty Collaborations Birthday Blog Hop.

There are a few friends and family who actually share the same birthday as me, including my nephew. But, this blog hop is designed to celebrate and share birthday ideas in general. I hope you enjoy checking out all the ideas, and, you’ll find the links to those taking part further down this post.

I had my friend, Lorrie, in mind when I designed my card using the Les Shoppes 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. There was a fair bit of fussy cutting involved but I think she’s worth it.

This Bendy Card is fun to make and is surprisingly easy. It starts as two pieces of card, cut to the same size. One is then cut on the short side so that one piece is wider than the other. You’ll find the basic cutting and scoring instructions below.

The great thing about the card is that when the two bendy front pieces are unlocked, the card will fit into a standard size envelope.

Basic Cutting Instructions

	UK A4 size	US Letter Size
Base Card	2 pieces – 10.5 x 14.9 cm Cut 1 piece on short side at 6.5 cm	2 pieces – 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ Cut 1 piece on short side at 1-3/4″
	Score the 2 cut pieces at 1.0 cm on one end and 0.5 cm the other end	Score the 2 cut pieces at 1/2″ on one end and 1/4″ the other end
	Create a tab in the 0.5 cm end on both pieces	Create a tab in the 1/4″ end on both pieces
Designer Series Paper	10.0 x 14.4 cm 3.5 x 12.0 cm 6.0 x 12.0 cm	4″ x 5-1/4″ 1-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ 2″ x 4-1/2 “
	Additional pieces to fussy cut shops, flower pots and easels.	Additional pieces to fussy cut shops, flower pots and easels.

Here are the links to all those taking part in this Birthday Blog Hop. Please take a moment to leave me a comment before you hop off around all the other participants.

Blog Hop Index

Supplies

Details of the supplies used to create my card are below. If you live in the UK or Ireland and don’t already have a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator I would love to help you.

Don’t forget that during July you can earn a £4.50 (€6.00) bonus code for each £45.00 (€60.00) spent. The codes are redeemable in August.

Any questions? If so please get in touch – fiona@oakfieldcrafts.com

Happy Stamping.

Fiona xx

Please note

(i) When shopping online and ordering less that £150 (€200) worth of products, don’t forget to use the host code – YW9VUJBK (valid until 31 July). I’ll be sending you a little something extra if you do. 

(ii) Spending £150 (€200) or more, please don’t use the code. You will have your own rewards to spend. This means you can order extra products for free from any of the current catalogues or clearance rack.

(iii) If you have a large wish list of items why not join the Acorns? During you select £130 (€175) worth of new product and pay only £99 (€129). Your kit ships to you for free. You can find out more information here.

Using the Les Shoppes paper for some Stamping & Creating

The Les Shoppes paper was one of the packs I bought during the recent paper sale.

The 12 sheets (2 lots of 6 different double sided sheets) have really sweet images of shops, food, books and paint on one side. The other sides have patterns and houses to coordinate.

There is a bundle to go with the Les Shoppes paper called Let’s Go Shopping.

But I have yet to purchase it. Mind you, if you enjoy fussy cutting then the paper lends itself to some very cute cards. This is what I did for a recent Stamping & Creating facebook live.

These are the cards I designed and made prior to the live.

The only stamping on these Les Shoppes cards is a couple of sentiments. Both sentiments come from the Go To Greetings stamp set and I used them as the shop signs.

The forth card was made live and looks like this.

You can find the video on YouTube or view it here –

My supply list for these Les Shoppes cards (including the bundle) is

Don’t forget that during July you can earn a £4.50 bonus code for each £45.00 spent. The codes are redeemable in August.

Any questions? If so please get in touch – fiona@oakfieldcrafts.com

Happy Stamping.

Fiona xx

Please note

(i) When shopping online and ordering less that £150 worth of products, don’t forget to use the host code – YW9VUJBK (valid until 31 July). I’ll be sending you a little something extra if you do. 

(ii) Spending more than £150, please don’t use the code. You will have your own rewards to spend. This means you can order extra products for free from any of the current catalogues or clearance rack.

(iii) If you have a large wish list of items why not join the Acorns? During you select £130 (€175) worth of new product and pay only £99 (€129). Your kit ships to you for free. You can find out more information here.