My Guest Designer: Katie!

Hi, this is Katie from Crafting with Katie, and I am so honored to be Liz's guest designer today!  She is an amazing crafter and a wonderful friend, and I hope she can get back to crafting her gorgeous creations soon!  For my project, I made a little gift for my niece, who is in love with her puppy, Blua.  I thought Liz would enjoy this too, since she has an adorable new addition to her own family!

This doghouse was made with the new Cricut Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 cartridge.  I just thought it was so cute, and it was fairly simple to put it together.  I cut it at 5".  The letters on the doghouse are cut at 1/2".

For my card, I used an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" rustic white card base, scored at 4 1/4".  My polka dot layer is 4" x 5 1/4", and I added strips of red and ruler patterned paper to it before stitching around the edges.  I then distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz Paper Distresser and adhered it to the card base.

To make the note paper, I just cut a square of rustic white cardstock and edged it with the ekSuccess Binding Edge Punch.  I added the lines with the Papertrey Ink Library Ledger stamp set, the dog from My Creative Time's Keepin' it Classy, and the sentiment from My Creative Time's Classy and Fabulous.  A pretty button and some twine finished it off!

Now, Liz has some exciting news to share with you, but not quite yet.  However, in the meantime, while she's recovering, she is reading every comment!  Not only is she reading them, but she's counting them too, because at the end of all of this she will have two big announcements!  The first will be a winner of some exciting BLOG CANDY!  The second, it's a big one... and no, she's not coming out with stamps... you'll just have to wait and see!

Products used on this project:

Cricut Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 Cricut Nate's ABCs Pink Paislee Hometown Summer Green Acres Crate Paper Farmers Market Paper PTI Rustic White Cardstock PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock Core'dinations Cardstock ekSuccess Binding Edge Punch MCT Keepin' it Classy Stamp Set MCT Classy & Fabulous PTI Library Ledger Stamp Set PTI Dark Chocolate Ink PTI Fine Linen Ink PTI Pure Poppy Ink PTI Pure Poppy Buttons PTI Rustic Jute Button Twine Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Brother CS6000i Sewing Machine

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Thank you Katie, for filling in for me!  This is so DARLING!!!  And very funny with the dog theme, but I know she is going to love it!!!! 

For those of you that don't know, Katie also just recently had surgery.  Make sure you head over to Katie's blog and shoe her som love too!

Enjoy!