Rockin' Birthday Gift Card Holder

My sister asked me to make a guitar shaped gift card holder for my nephew, Joe, who is celebrating his 17th birthday on Saturday.  When did that boy get so old?!  

So, for inspiration, I've been listening to Def Leppard, Poison, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Van Halen and all of the Monsters of Rock!  I'm not sure my neighbors have appreciated my loud singing, but in order to fully appreciated Arena Rock, you have to let it rip!

Onto the details of my project....I used the Cricut Rock Princess Cartridge to make the guitar.  It's cut at 8 1/2 inches.  I cut several layers and sandwiched them with foam tape.  I kind of messed it up a little bit and I ran out of the metallic paper, so I fudged it a little.  I'm not sure Joe will be able to tell, so it's all good.  I cut two guitar pieces  for the back and adhered them together.  The neck of the guitar is a little flimsy and this helped make it a little more durable.  A simple pocket was made using my trusty Scor-pal and adhered with some Scor-tape.  The sentiment is computer generated.

(Hold on, I'm doing my guitar solo to Panama by Van Halen....)

The front and the back are attached using a tiny brad, so the guitar front sort of swings to the side to reveal the gift card inside.  I added a little bling to totally trick my guitar out.

It's kind of hard to photograph that shiny metallic paper without getting a glare, so I took several pictures.  It looks much better in person, I'm quite pleased with the way it came out, I almost want to keep it for myself and tell Laura that I didn't have time to make it!

Supplies:

Paper:  DCWV, Colorbok, Recollections, Wasua

Cricut Cartridge:  Rock Princess

Misc:  Foam tape, Nestabilities, black rhinestone bling, silver bling, Scor-pal, Scor-tape

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Teachers Rock Card

(Edit**You can vote for my card at Card of the Week here.)


I found a this great digital stamp store called Kenny K Downloads. It is awesome! They have a ton of rocker images, which I love. I originally designed this card for the Card of the Week contest. I hope I can still enter it, I'm running late, again!

Here's a shout out to my cousin's wife, Becky, assistant principals rock, too!

Supplies:
Stamps: Kenny K-Rock Chick
Paper: DCWV, Recollections
Misc: Ribbon, brads, rhinestones, nestabilities, copics, alphabet beads, pop up dots

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Beth

Rock of Love

While surfing on Splitcoast one day, I saw this really cool tri-fold card made by patsmethers using a Rubber Romance stamp. So, I cased it to make my Rock of Love Card. I've seen Poison twice in concert, both times totally cool.

The image is from the Hey, Chica set by BC Dzyns/My Favorite Things. I added the music note tattoo, it is from the Man's Ruin set by Bombshell. The sentiment is computer generated.

Supplies:
Stamps: BC Dzyns, Bombshell
Ink: Memento
Paper: Recollections, The Paper Company, Colorbok, Reminisce
Misc: Nestabilties, paper punches, rhinestones, guitar brads, music note eyelets

Thanks for stopping by,

Beth

Pour Some Sugar On Me

I can't believe how long it has been since my last post. I've been crafting, but not taking the pictures! It started off with the bridal shower favors I made, no, I didn't take pictures, then it was an explosion box gift card holder that I didn't take any pictures of, and we won't mention how I helped my niece make paper punch cats or the card that I helped my mom with that I didn't take any pictures of either.

In addition to being a sports fan, I am a rocker chick. I love classic rock music and absolutely love going to concerts. My ipod is one of my best friends! Before the invention of the music downloads, I was the person who bought cd's for just one song. Now, if I wake up in the middle of the night and I need more Skynyrd, I just go to itunes! It's totally wicked awesome.

I was watching VH-1 one night, and Bret Michaels was hosting the 100 Most Popular Rock songs, (or whatever it was called) and it started me thinking about rock-n-roll cards. By the way, I love Bret Michaels, I so want to be his rock of love! So, here is my first one. For Jennifer's birthday last August (my niece), we went to see Poison, Cheap Trick, and Def Leppard. While she is only 12, she loves rock music and was totally psyched for this concert. So, in honor of one of my favorite Def Lep songs...



I used a digital stamp from Victoria Case. I paper pieced the tablecloth. I printed the lyrics out using the computer.

Supplies:
Stamp: Digital Stamp, Sexy Chef-Victoria Case
Paper: Bazzill, Papertrey Ink, Moxie
Misc: Copics, paper punch, pop up dots, nestabilities, glitter, ribbon

Thanks for stopping by,

Beth