Cocktails and Tacos

 Happy Cinco de Mayo friends!  I don't know about you, but my plan for today certainly calls for cocktails and tacos...because adulting IS hard!

I had fun creating this special birthday card for my Texas BFF.  I am hoping that some day we can enjoy some cocktails and tacos together once again...it's been far too long since we've seen each other!

I created the tasty little taco by using the Layering Circles Dies to cut out a circle.  I folded it (not quite in half) then stuffed it with ground beef (using the scalloped heart from the Heart Punch Pack), some lettuce (Stawberry Builder Punch) and some cheese and salsa (Sprig Punch). I always love some fun punch!

I die cut two "cocktails" from Nothing's Better Than dies, cutting one apart to form the word tacos.  How fun is this?!?!  This bundle is too much fun with all of it's endless possibilities!  I finished the card off with a colorful cocktail and some matching confetti and streamers to match (thanks to the Hey Birthday Chick bundle).

I hope your day is filled with your favorite flavor of tacos (and maybe a cocktail or two!) and a whole lot of Cinco de Mayo fun!

Happy Stamping!

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Happy Birthday Spring Chicken

Happy Monday friends! I'm back today with another super cute chicken card...can you tell how much I love these sets?!?

Today's card was inspired by the latest Freshly Made Sketches sketch.  

I created the background by stamping the adorable little chick egg from Hey Chick in Crumb Cake, then added some Pool Party Pinewood Planks 3D strips.  Say that fast 3 times!! 

I stamped the Hey Birthday Chick baby chick in Memento, then colored the little cutie in shades of Pool Party and Daffodil Delight, with a Granny Apple Green and Magenta Madness party hat.  Oh, and I can't forget the tiny Pumpkin Pie feet and beak! The little guy was popped up on top of some Magenta Madness confetti.  What's a birthday without confetti?!?!

I heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment on Magenta Madness and "you're still a spring chicken" on Granny Apple green.  I fussy cut each word out and arranged them in a fun little pattern under the party chick. 

I can't wait to share this card with my club next month.  They are going to love it!

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Magenta Madness, Granny Apple Green, Whisper White

Ink ~ Crumb Cake, Magenta Madness, Memento, VersaMark, Stampin' Blends:  Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Magenta Madness, Pumpkin Pie

Stamp Sets ~ Hey Chick, Hey Birthday Chick

Other Supplies ~ Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder, White Embossing Powder, Birthday Chick Dies

After doing school from home for over 10 months, my youngest was finally able to go back to in person school for half days today.  He was so excited and happy to see his teacher and some of his classmates!  They are doing an AM/PM scheduled, so only have of their class is in the building at a time, which is kind of a bummer.  We hope that by next fall ALL of our students will be back in the classroom ALL day!

Happy Stamping!!

Party In The Hen House ~ Monday Montage

Hello and welcome back to an all new Monday Montage Blog Hop, with an all new look!  What do you think about our new badges?!?  Our fearless leader, Wendy, spruced things up for us and I LOVE it!  Be sure to hop all the way through so you don't miss any of the great projects we have in store for you!

Being the crazy-chicken-lady that I am, of COURSE I had to get the adorable new Birthday Chick stamp set. You can only imagine how excited I was when Stampin' Up! released coordinating dies for this stamp set AND brought back the Hey Chick stamp set with coordinating dies.  There's a party in the hen house!  I had to have it all!

I love these fun and festive party chickens!!  I was so happy to see the crazy, fuzzy head chicken make a comeback to help celebrate birthdays, along with a cute little chick and a big fluffy hen with her birthday balloon.  All of the chicks were colored with my Stampin' Blends and popped up on a Granny Apple Green Oh So Ombre piece of DSP stamped with some fun bits of confetti.  A couple Happy Birthday die cuts and a couple Bermuda Bay Oh So Ombre banners finished things off!

I loved the Hey Chick stamp set the first time it came out, and I love it even more now with the fun coordinating dies that include some super cute cornstalks and chicken coop.  I die cut 3 chicken coops in Poppy Parade, Whisper White and Soft Suede, then snipped away to create a farm friendly chicken coop! Aren't the corn stalks super cute?!?  Some of the pieces are pretty tiny, but were easy to put together with my trusty Glue Dots.

I'm hoping that I can talk my hubby into building me a new chicken coop like this one this spring or summer.  Our current coop certainly needs a facelift...gotta keep the hens happy!!!

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Oh So Ombre DSP, True Love DSP

Ink ~ Granny Apple Green, Memento, Stampin' Blends:  Smoky Slate, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay

Stamp Sets ~ Hey Chick, Hey Birthday Chick

Other Supplies ~ Birthday Chick Dies, Chick Dies

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

We've added a list of everyone's home pages so you can hop along in any order you wish!  Just make sure you don't miss any!

Amy O'Neill - Amy's Paper Crafts

Breelin Renwick - Craft-somnia Momma <-- You are HERE

Cathy Casey - Sugar Shack Designs

Charlet Mallett - Painted Orange

Cheryl Curtis - Pomp and Sustenance

Dani Dziama - Dani's Thoughtful Corner

Elizabeth Price - Seeinginkspots

Julie Warnick - Creating on the Run

Melissa Stout - The Stamp Doc

Wendy Weixler - Wickedly Wonderful Creations