Triple Score Birthday

We have a wonderful group of friends that we love to hang out with. We are now entering the time of year where celebrating seems almost non-stop, a bazzilion birthdays, several anniversaries, and all of the spring/summer holidays, and even a few bbq's "just because." The best part is that the adults are just as silly and fun loving as the kids. Sometimes even worse than the kids. Besides all of the food, we love to play games. Lawn games, board games, card games...you name it we have a great time with it. About sun down a Scrabble Board usually comes out on to a table.

There are some pretty serious players in the group, which usually means a few disagreements as facts are checked...Then there may be a second board for those of us much less likely to take the game seriously. At this game you will find some interesting, if not quite valid words. But if you can make a sentence with the word, and give a definition - it is yours.

The card and bag I share with you has been made for one of our fun loving friends - a serious Scrabbler - for their birthday. (I won't say anymore or they might figure out it is for them)

First, for the card

The card base is 5-1/2 x 5-1/2 inch card stock.

I cut Letter Tiles from Printing 101 Cart:

   1 inch Tiles + shift (brown linen stripe paper -old CM paper pack)

   1 inch Shadow Tile (black card stock)

   Highlight edges with Copic Sketch pen # E71 Champagne

   Emphasis the cut lines on side of tile with an old CM brown pen)

The colored double/triple letter squares were cut from Pack Your Bags Cart

   1.2 inch Beach ball Stamp + shift

The H, Y in Happy and the R in Birth are adhered with pop dots

The bag:

I set some of the letters on a Kraft colored bag and a white bag so that I could chose one.

I chose the white 12" x 16" bag for this gift.

I marked the bag into 1-3/4 inch squares, first in pencil and then in colored pens - I chose to use the bright Close to My Heart "island" color set for the lines. I did not complete all of the lines to give it the illusion that the game board was sliding off the bag.

The letter tiles on this one are cut from Printing 101

   1-1/2 inch Tiles + shift (brown linen stripe paper -old CM paper pack)

   1-1/2 inch Shadow Tile (black card stock)
   Highlight edges with Copic Sketch pen # E71 Champagne
   Emphasis the cut lines on side of tile with an old CM brown pen)





The colored double/triple letter squares were cut from Pack Your Bags Cart
   1.7 inch Beachball Stamp + shift
The black start is a small CM punch.
All of the letter tiles were adhered with pop dots.
Here is one more close up of the letter tiles so that you can see what I did with the pens.

I loved making this gift set, and I can not wait to make another. But in the meantime, I have my first prize to give away.

CM's Disney Vacation Designer Prints (16 sheets); CM's Adventures of Pooh Album Kit (Printed papers, stickers and an idea book.

I will use random.com to pick the winner.Here's what you need to do:

   Leave a comment in this post by Friday, April 15th, at 10 pm (Pacific DS Time).