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Welcome to Texas Tuesday, a Texas-themed crafty post on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month. Today, I’m sharing favor bags I made for my nephew’s Cowboy themed first birthday party. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to go since Jessica caught Foot-Hand-Mouth Disease, a contagious virus. Thankfully, my brother and his family were able to take the favor bags up to Keller for the party.

Favor Bags All Lined Up

My sister decided to do a cowboy theme for Trevor’s party since at his school, he had the most adorable picture of him taken on a pony. I offered to help. For the favor bag topper, I used this Rope font and the Texas flag carrying cowboy. I then stamped a boot on the paper lunch bag itself. My sister then stuffed the bag full of goodies and put it in a straw cowboy hat. I think they turned out super cute. Thanks for taking the pictures for me Sarah.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the posse’s creations: Libby, Mark, Betty, Danielle, Tina, Karen, and Geeta.

Single Favor

Stamps: Deadbeat Designs Texas Rider; Texana Designs Boot
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers

Good morning Texans and good morning to those not blessed to be born a Texan. Of course, you could always have one of those bumper stickers that read “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.” I wonder, do other states possess a similar kind of bumper sticker? Anyway, my musings aren’t why you’re here today. You’re here for Texas Tuesday, a wonderful phenomenon that occurs on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month, where myself and the rest of the Texas Tuesday posse make Texas themed cards to inspire you.

Today’s Texas Tuesday card is for the Hope You Can Cling To Four by Four Challenge, HYCCT04. This challenge was to use four layers of paper and four different embellishments. My four layers are the white card base, the blue strip, the red square, and then the barbed wire Texas stamped on white. My four different embellishments are ribbon, the star glitter window, the red star brads, and the cowboy boot button. I ended up using two layers of dimensionals on that boot, because of the round button part on the back. Does anyone have any better suggestions for using those kind of buttons? I also used the OWH Stars and Stamps Sketch #41.

Don’t forget to visit the rest of Texas Tuesday posse: Mark, Libby (who is having hand surgery today so go give her some love), Geeta, Betty, Tina, Karen and newest member Danielle.

Texas Thinking of You Card

Stamps: Texana Designs Lone Star State; Stampin’ Up Background Basics (stars on blue strip); Hero Arts Clear Design Playful Animals (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Real Red, Brilliant Blue
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Craft Whisper White
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up Real Red 1/2-in striped grosgrain ribbon, white chunky glitter sprinkes; red star brads; boot button
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers

I tried to take a close-up of the glitter window (done on the blue strip), but I’m not sure the close-up does it justice.

Card Close-up

Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Welcome to the first Texas Tuesday of October (Texas themed cards on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month). October is breast cancer awareness month. October 2nd was World Cardmaking Day. Put those together and you get some fun challenges for a good cause over on Splitcoast Stampers. My two Texas Tuesday cards were made for the Hope You Can Cling To: Bring in the Brown challenge. The cards are being sent to the UT MD Anderson to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their families. My Nanny got breast cancer  when I was kid and had a mastectomy followed by a brief remission before succumbing to the cancer. It is so important to do mammograms and catch the cancer early enough so that is easily beatable. Some one else I know found it so early that treatment wasn’t too extreme and she is now cancer free.

I decided to do Texas themed brown and pink cards and I decided to do two, because I had some difficulty coming up with the layout. Part of that difficulty stemed from the large size of the sentiment. On the second card, I couldn’t make the sentiment work, so I stuck it on the inside. Which do you like better?

Have a Boot-Scootin' Day

2nd Card

Stamps: Texana Stamps Boot; JAM’N Stamps Boot-scootin’ (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa, Regal Rose
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Raspberry Tart
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 15/16″ Chocolate Chip satin ribbon
Coloring Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils
Tools: Nestabilities Standard Circles Large and Labels Three; corner rounder

Make sure and check out the other Texas Tuesday team member creations: Mark,  Tina, Betty, Karen, Linda (who has an awesome jeans card), Libby, Geeta, Shannan and Steph.

It’s the third Tuesday of the month and that means it’s time for another edition of Texas Tuesday (Texas themed cards on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month). Today’s card uses two new stamps that I picked up at Scrapology when I went shopping with Kristy the weekend before last. I met the designers of the two stamps I bought (well three, you’ll see the third new stamp in use another time). I wanted to give the boot a weathered look, the kind of look that boots that see a lot of outdoor action have. Do you think I succeeded? I stamped the boot on cardstock, cut it out and then crumpled it up. I also used last Saturday’s Sketch for You to Try by Jen del Muro. Overall, I’m pretty happy with how this card turned out. I promise I will try not to use “dirt” colored cardstock on the next Texas Tuesday card or you might think Texas doesn’t have other colors.

Check out the other Texas Tuesday cards: Geeta, Libby, Mark, Betty, Tina and Shannan.

Boot-scootin' Texas Tuesday Card

Stamps: Texana Designs boot; JAM’N Stamps Boot-scootin’ (sentiment); Stampin’ Up Weathered (background)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, So Saffron, Very Vanilla
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Paper Prints So Saffron
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown, So Saffron (inked edges of sentiment panel)
Accessories: Stampin’ Up twill ribbon; star brads
Markers: atyou Spice Silver