Sunday, November 4, 2012

Glamorous Side of Scrapping 2nd Blogaversary Hop

So we are here celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the wonderful Ashley's Glamorous Side of Scrapping's blog!  I'm sure everyone here is super excited to help her celebrate.  If you've come from Jennifer's blog you are headed in the right direction, or start from the beginning at Ashley's blog.  This will be a two day hop to get all the celebrating in!  My project today is a "shaped card".  If you follow The Glamorous Side of Scrapping you know she is famous for her shape cards, so to show my appreciation for learning this from her I tried my hand at making my own shape card.

Because our family is in the throes of football and play - offs I decided to make a foot shape card for each of my grandsons to congratulate them on a fantastic season.

This is the football from the Cricut cartridge Everyday Paperdolls.  Using my Gypsy I  sized the football to just over 5", copied the image, flipped it horizontally so the two shapes would meet up evenly when folded.  I placed the tops of the footballs almost touching and placed a small rectangle between them and welded all three shapes together to get the base.  I then cut a slightly smaller football as the main shape.  I embossed the football with "tiny bubbles" to get the leather look - this was the closest embossing folder I had.  The stickers are from Paper studio.

I hope you like my shape card today and make sure you come back tomorrow for round 2!. Next on the hop list is Sandra but before you go, to show my appreciation for being a follower I have some blog candy for you.  Just leave a comment both days with a way to contact you.
A box of 56 Christmas chipboard shapes and matching red ribbon!


Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin'!

14 comments:

Unknown said...

i love the footballs you can customize them to your personal team what a wonderful idea. thanks for sharing

jessica said...

LOVE those footballs!! GREAT embossing and such a great idea to personalize them!
TFS :)

Janet's Planet said...

Love the embossing idea!! great cards, you must be the best grandma ever!! TFS
Janet Royer

Unknown said...

Love your shaped card, and all the embossing. Great job. Thanks for sharing

marianneDOTwanhamATgmailDOTcom

Unknown said...

Love your shaped card, and all the embossing. Great job. Thanks for sharing

marianneDOTwanhamATgmailDOTcom

Jamie said...

Love this, love the texture on the footballs!

TeresaK said...

You did a great job with those footballs...and the added embossing is really nice!
Teresa
www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

great football cards. I think that embossing folder was perfect!

Unknown said...

What great cards. You've inspired me to try shaped cards using my gypsy.

Melissa
iamapapermaniac.blogspot.com
scraplady202@gmail.com

Peneeeee said...

I would have never thought to use bubbles as the texture. Thanks for the process information...thinking outside the box with the gypsy!

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Pamela Lash said...

I felt like I could reach right through the computer screen and touch the footballs - the texture is amazing - TFS!
pam_lash at yahoo dot com

Heidi said...

I love the embossing on the footballs! What a great touch...I'm going to have to get that folder! Cute project. TFS! Live for Scrappin

Pink Dalmatians said...

very cute footballs. i love the embossing!

Unknown said...

Both cards are great but love the football ones best! Very cool!
Sorry for the late hop!
Jennifer