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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Taste of Summer Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of Cooking With Cricut's Taste of Summer Blog Hop! 




If you hopped here from Charlotte's blog A Little Bit of Detail you are in the right place!    

If not, click HERE if you'd like to start the Blog Hop from the beginning! 

For today's Taste of Summer Blog Hop I created this colorful card.....




with a little surprise inside.....



This was a little tricky to photograph, but I just love the way 
the lemonade pitcher turned out by using transparencies for the "glass".



Recipe: 
Cricut Cartridge - Savory
Stamps - Inkadinkado 
Something for You Mini and Positive Pop Mini
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black 
Cardstock - American Crafts - City Park - Balboa Park
Recollections Shimmer (lemonade)
Stickles - Yellow
Embossing Powder - not marked (??)

Thank you for stopping by, your next stop is Becky at Scrap Circus.  

If you use "Cutting Files" make sure you check out the first page of our 
Taste of Summer Blog Hop --at CWC

There is a FREE  "tasty" treat there for you!





Hattie

14 comments:

  1. I LOVE this card Hattie! What a great idea! I love that your pitcher is "clear" how clever to use transparency!!!! Thank you for the refreshing inspiration!
    -Melin

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  2. CLEVER!! What a nice surprise!
    Evelyn

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  3. Oh hattie,

    This card is so cute and colorful and yes, there is a big surprise inside. I love, love, love, the way you created the pitcher to look glass. And how creative to have it hold the lemonade mix.

    Charlotte

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  4. Hattie,
    This is just the cutest idea! The pitcher turned out amazing.
    Hugs,
    Larelyn

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  5. This is such a cute idea!!! Love it

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  6. you did a FANTASTIC job on this card. love how your lemonade pitcher looks so real. you also included the most yummiest crystal light. the color combo is PERFECT.


    craftingwithblue @ gmail.com

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  7. Such a creative idea! My friend ran a 10k yesterday and this would have been a perfect good luck to her.

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  8. Hi - Such a Clever, Thoughtful Card-Gift! Great pitcher! ;-}
    Lynden
    http://aneleganttouch-lynden.blogspot.com
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/An-Elegant-Touch-/162889457132788

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  9. This is a great card. Love how the pitcher worked out. Never thought of doing something like that!

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  10. I like the cute blinged up cup. Great gift iddea.

    marg0006 at verizon dot net

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  11. That is so cute!! I love it and would love to be the on the receiving end!

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  12. What a sweet card!!! :) That was a great idea to use the transparency for the lemonade pitcher!

    Thanks so much for sharing,

    Jennifer
    partridgelu at yahoo dot com

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  13. Hattie, what a sweet card..inside and out. So clever :)

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