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!
Happy happy!
Yeeha! Thanks for the chance to win such awesome prizes!!
Great birthday cards! Love the way you cut files for more than one card. Thanks for the chance to win!
What a great prize package of goodies! Thanks for the chance to win one!
Great prizes! Great cards!
Love American crafts and that foil looks like so much fun! Thanks for a great birthday celebration!
Love the birthday cards….happy birthday to SCT!
Perfect birthday cards, great for anyone! Thanks for sharing.
Always more wonderful opportunities!! Thank you
Lovely cards! Love the way you can cut more than one paper at the same time. The AC pack looks fantastic!
Loving the birthday celebration and all the talent (as well as the giveaway goodies)!! Party on!!
What a great way to plan ahead with cards!
Awesome inspiration here. Love the birthday card! Thanks for a chance to win.
You always have such amazing giveaways!! Thanks!
Love both the prizes! Could have lots of fun with either of these. Card was great too!
Love looking forward to each day’s inspiration! Those polka dots are fab!
I am swooning over today’s prize package! Somebody is going to be very happy when they find out they won these amazing goodies! You have such awesome sponsors! I am honored to be a part of this community of caring and generous companies!
Cute card. Great give away.
I agree, those polka dots are sweet! Thanks for a chance to win during the birthday celebration.
Yeah, it just keeps getting better! Thanks for all the amazing giveaways!
Love the card!!!
Great project! Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
Fabulous prizes – Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday – great giveaway – thanks for the chance to win
Wonderul card! Such wonderful sponsors to help celebrate!
Love the cards and the prize!
Thanks for all the great tips and for the chance to win!
Day four already!!! Happy 9th anniversary!!! Best wishes for another successful year!!! Thanks for the great prizes!
Love the way Laura made her cards! I need to try this mass production way of making Birthday cards! Love the prize packages offered today too! Happy Birthday S&CT!!
Cute cards. love the design and love these prizes too.
What a fun card. Happy Birthday to you….
Great card and great prizes!
Thanks for the chance to win an amazing prize. Happy Birthday.
Thanks for the chance to win :)
Happy birthday everyone at SCT. Best magazine ever!
I really should take a day to make a bunch of cards. Love these!
fun prizes! TFS!
Such fun birthday card designs, love them!!!
Wonderful cards and thanks for showing us how you mass produce! Great prize giveaways!! :)
Thank you American Crafts and Thermo O Web for the chance at some cool prizes! Love the card by Laura–so pretty! Happy 9th!
Love your card great giveaway thanks
love the versatility of this cut file. Happy Birthday SCT!
Well, it looks my first comment didn’t post. Sorry if it did though. I love Laura’s card today–so pretty! Thank you for the chance at the most awesome prizes from American Crafts and Therm O Web. Happy happy 9th!!
I love that cut file and I’m going to do this now. Thank you so much for the great inspiration and the beautiful cards!
Each day keeps getting better and better! Wonderful card, thanks for the great ideas.
Wow! I wish I were such a whiz with my cameo. I am learning. Thanks for the ideas and tips.
Love the prizes!
Happy, Happy, Happy! What a great card for the fourth day! And I loved seeing how Laura set up her Silhouette and the cutting mat! I feel a scraplift coming on!! Great sponsors – American Crafts is a staple in the industry and Thermoweb is always SO generous!
Oh my gosh, those card are so fun!! LOVE the different color combos!
Cute card!