Die Cut Crazy Birthday Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Die Cut Crazy Birthday Blog Hop! The Die Cut Crazy Contributors have created some amazing birthday projects to inspire your own die cut creativity and make any birthday special.  If you just joined the Birthday Hop at my site, be sure and go back to the Die Cut Crazy for the hop kick off, then hop along the list to each of our designers. You won't want to miss any of the special birthday projects in this hop for sure. 

What can you win for hopping? Stephanie at Die Cut Crazy is giving a 3 month subscription to DCC magazine to one lucky winner!  To be entered to win, you need to leave a comment on each of our hop blog posts AND to LIKE the DCC Facebook page, then leave a comment on the DCC blog post once you have completed the hop. The hop will run from August 15 until Monday August 18th. Stephanie will draw the winner and announce it on the DCC blog and FB page on Tuesday August 19th. AND some of the blogs along the way will have surprise blog candy as well that you might win!

I am sharing two personalized birthday projects today. I love how easy it is to create special personalized cards and gifts with die cuts! For my projects today, I used my Silhouette Portrait cutting machine and Silhouette America cutting files. My first project is the birthday card in a box I made for my grandson Nate who just turned 8. I shared how to make a card in a box in the July issue of Die Cut Crazy and there are many tutorials available on line with different sizes of the card in a box concept. Nate loves Batman and super heroes so I printed and cut Batman on a motorcycle and the Batmobile from Silhouette America. I also cut some Batman logos and his name in a fun font and created this fun card that folds flat to send and then pops up for the special birthday boy.

My second personalized birthday project is the card I created recently for my son-in-law who loves soccer. The soccer cutting file from Silhouette America is designed for a wall decoration with the space cut out of the middle. I sized it for a card front and stamped the fun sentiment from Cas-ual Friday Stamps in the center. The top Happy Birthday was created with a punch by Martha Stewart.

Thanks for stopping by.  Next up in the Die Cut Crazy Birthday Blog Hop is Holly.

To make sure you don't miss any of the birthday projects, here is the list of all our blog hop designers: 

Die Cut Crazy  - http://diecutcrazy.com/   START OF THE BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP

Debbie - www.scrapmequickdesigns.com   

Deepti -  http://deesartutopia.blogspot.com/
Tina -   tinamarie9971.blogspot.com
Kelly -   http://kelsmakes.blogspot.com/
Lisa  - http://craftingwithprincesslisa.blogspot.com
Jennifer-  www.CaffeinatedPapercuts.com
Karen - http://karenskreativekards.blogspot.com/  (YOU ARE HERE) 
Holly  - http://www.hollybeary.com/
Mary  -   www.blackflowercreative.wordpress.com   
Dianne  - Grayson Creations hosted at DCC
Kymona - http://kreativekymona.com

I am entering these cards in the Masculine Birthday challenge at Mod Squad and the Anything Goes challenge at Wonderful Wednesday.