Be sure to check my blog every day next week! May 13th is my birthday so the entire week I will be featuring Birthday card tutorials using lots of different materials and designs! I’m excited!

Also be sure to check out my new Card of the Month Club on my Etsy Shop! Get a full year’s (12 months plus TWO additional FREE cards!) worth of cards – one card for every month! Choose between receiving the cards put together or in a kit to do it yourself! The $48 includes all shipping for each of your cards! CLICK HERE or go to my etsy shop at L7Designs.etsy.com to find out more!

Friday Favorites!

  1. Confections Brads from Doodlebug Design

    2. Last week at Archivers, I found some new adorable paper and embellishments from Doodlebug Design Inc. I’m a sucker for cupcakes, whether they’re in my mouth or on paper. The assorted brad packs that came with this paper are just adorable. I took them all out of the packaging since I put all my brads in handy little compartment caddys, but if you click on the Confections Brads link above you can see a picture of them. Presents, glittery flowers, cupcakes (yay!), ice cream cones and some cinnamon roll looking ones! I’m excited to do something with them!

  2. Rag Quilt Pincushions from P and J Crafts’ Etsy Store

    3. Don’t get your hopes up, I don’t sew. Other than putting on buttons and doing a rough job on a split seam or two, you won’t see me at a sewing machine or sitting down with a needle and thread. But I do love Julie’s rag quilt pincushions! They’re square, made with adorable fabric prints, decorated with a beautiful button on both sides of the cushion, quilted (I LOVE quilts), cost effective, beautifully designed and made! They’re great!

  3. Score-It Boards from Score It

    4. My husband and I have two of these boards, a large one for bigger projects and a small one, perfect for my cards. I LOVE these score boards. They make scoring paper and folding cards soooo easy and simple! Not to mention take a lot less time than doing it by hand. When I first heard of these score boards, I thought they sounded kinda hokey and for lazy people. But then I started making my Christmas cards and realized how fantastic they are and how much more motivated I was to make my cards when folding them got a little more simple!

  4. Blizzards from DQ (Dairy Queen)

    5. Normally I stay as far away from fast food “restaurants” as I can, with the exception of the rare trip to Taco Bell or Arby’s. But DQ’s Blizzards (and Peanut Buster Parfaits) are a completely different matter. If you have never tasted a DQ Blizzard before (the McDonalds McFlurries are rip-offs and don’t count), you need to head out and get one right now. This months Blizzard of the Month is Raspberry Truffle.

  5. Stampin’ Up Stamps

    6. Some day I will do a larger post on a Stampin’ Up review, but for now, let me just say that I love these stamps! Stampin’ Up is, for all intensive purposes, the opposite of Close To My Heart. CTMH features acrylic stamps only, where Stampin’ Up sells only rubber stamps mounted in wood blocks. I only have a couple sets of Stampin’ Up Stamps (both Christmas-themed), but I love them and have my eye on some other stamp sets. Their stamps have great detail and like most acrylic stamps come in a set of multiple stamps. These stamps are also kind of Do-It-Yourself. They give you the blocks, the label stickers and rubber stamps, and you get to put them all together! It’s kinda fun – like putting together a puzzle!

Thanks for creating with me!