Grandparent's Day Card and Anything Goes Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Welcome to the Anything Goes Blog Hop celebrating the one year Blog Birthiversary of our hostess Stephanie from Once Upon a Paper! You should have come here from Ali at Scrapping with Alicat.  If you didn't come from her - you can start over at the beginning of the hop at Once Upon a Paper. Stephanie is celebrating her Blog Birthiversary with Seven Days of Giveaways so make sure you check out her blog each day for the next week!

My creation for the Blog Hop is my very first Grandparent's Day card for my fiance's grandfather with is 91 years old! We never celebrated Grandparent's Day in my family, but my (almost) grandfather-in-law has been very sick for a few months and I know this card from me, my fiance, and his sister will put a smile on his face!

Materials needed for this project:

Card stock in blue, green, white, red, brown, yellow, orange, black, silver, and bright yellow.
Glue
Pebbles Inc. Metallic Chalk in silver
Pebbles Inc. Regular Chalk in various colors
Martha Stewart Fringe Scissors
Martha Stewart Bone Folder and Scoring Board
Inkjet Printer
GlueGlider Pro
Cricut Cartridges: Pop-Up Neighborhood (Inside tractor, card base, barn, and tree), Just Because Cards (sun), Jubilee (banner), Jasmine (rectangle for grass)

I wanted to make this card look a little like home for my grandfather-in-law since he is currently in a nursing home for the first time in his life. He owns a farm in rural Kansas so this scene seemed fitting.  I cut all the images on the front of the card and chalked all of their edges with normal Pebbles Inc. chalks.

I used Martha Stewart Fringe Scissors to cut the grass. I then glued down on all of the pieces except for the grass, which I used my GlueGlider Pro to attach.  After completing the front of the card - I used my bone folder and scoring board to score both the blue base and the inside white base and used my GlueGlider to attach them.

The inside was the tricky part - I have never made a pop-up card before, but decided to give it a go.  After cutting all of the pieces and chalking all of the edges (I used the metallic chalk on the middle of the tires) I glued together the tractor.

I wanted to show you what the tractor looks like cut out before you have folded anything or added anything to it.  Sorry that it is in a different color - I didn't think to add a picture of this stage until I was trying to explain the next few photos!

The tractor cuts in one length of a piece and you have to glue it together to make kind of a square with it.  Then you fold the edge pieces inward so it will close correctly.

I used my Cricut to cut the banner and then taped it to a piece of white paper and ran it through my Ink Jet printer to print my sentiment on it.  I used this process because I don't own a stamp that says "Happy Grandparent's Day!" and it seemed a little silly to buy one for 1 card.

The little flaps you see above just have to be folded in from the tractor length cut and have glue added to them.  You center them over the middle of the card and attach!

Also, I am excited to announce my very first Blog GIVEAWAY! I will be stuffing a USPS Flat Rate Box full of embellishments and other goodies!

The rules are:

1. You must be a follower of my blog.

2. You must leave a comment on THIS POST by next Thursday, September 8th at 5 PM.
3. If you add a post about this Blog Hop and my giveaway on your blog you can leave a second comment for another entry into the giveaway letting me know that!

4. When I post the winner next Thursday night you must respond to that post with your information by Sunday night or we will redraw!

I am going to use Random William (my fiance) instead of random.org - mainly because it seems more fun.  I will put all the eligible numbers into a bowl and let him pick one then post a photo of him with the winning number!

Thank you for stopping by my blog! Your next stop is Amber at My 3 E Scrapbooking. 

In case you get lost along the way, here is the entire line up:

1. Stephanie at Once Upon a Paper

2. Kristy at Craftin' on my Door

3. TX Scrapper Mom

4. Around the Block with Scrapalette

5. Renee from I Came, I Saw, I Created

6. Michele from Green Girl Scraps

7. Ali from Scrapping with Alicat

8. Carla from OCD Scrapology <---- you are here now

9. Amber from My 3 E Scrapbooking

10. Cassie from Scrappin' Palace

Thanks for joining me on my very first Blog Hop! What did you think of the card?

I am also linking this card up to the Thankful Thursday Grandparent Challenge.

Carla