HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!!

The red carpet season is fast approaching here in the US and I love watching all the Awards shows!!  I absolutely love movies and these award presentations help me celebrate all the movies I've loved, or should have seen-and loved, throughout the year!  Plus, who doesn't love seeing all the glamorous women in their beautiful gowns and the men looking so coiffed in their tuxes??  For those of you who love them as much as I do, here are the scheduled air dates:

People's Choice Awards:  January 9

Critics Choice Awards:  January 10

Golden Globe Awards:  January 13

Screen Actor's Guild:  January 27

Academy Awards:  February 24

Saturated Canary's current challenge is called "song inspiration" and it's only appropriate that my song be "Hooray for Hollywood". "Hooray for Hollywood" is a song first featured in the 1937 movie Hollywood Hotel, and which has since become the staple soundtrack element of any Academy Award ceremony.  I have a link to a quick video of the song performed by Doris Day and I added the lyrics just for fun.

Hooray for Hollywood
That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood
Where any office boy or young mechanic
Can be a panic, with just a goodlooking pan
Where any barmaid can be a star maid
If she dances with or without a fan
Hooray for Hollywood
Where you're terrific, if you're even good
Where anyone at all from TV's Lassie
To Monroe's chassis is equally understood
Go out and try your luck, you might be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood
Hooray for Hollywood
That phoney, super coney Hollywood
They come from Chillicothes and Padukahs
With their bazookas to get their names up in lights
All armed with photos from local rotos
With their hair in ribbons and legs in tights
Hooray for Hollywood
You may be homely in your neighborhood
But if you think that you can an actor
See Mr. Factor, he'd make a monkey look good
With a half an hour, you'll look like Tyrone Power
Hooray for Hollywood

Onto my card now.   I made this for my sister Jo, the co-owner of this blog.  We recently celebrated her 50th birthday in Las Vegas and I wanted to make her a card that showed how fabulous she is!!  I love and miss her so much and she so deserves the red carpet treatment!!

This card is huge measuring 8X8.  But again, I wanted it to be fabulous and over-the-top for this special event!!  I started with a Simply Sassy rubber stamp called 5th Avenue and she definitely fits the theme.  The background stamp is from Make It Crafty and is called Red Carpet.  How appropriate right?  They go so well together.

So much bling was added to this card to give it an old Hollywood feel:  

feathers, leopard print, diamonds, gold, mirrors (paper), and plenty of red and black!  

Red felt became her carpet...

some black netting and flowers...

I drew in some extra long lashes for added glamour and glittered her shoes gold.

and what red carpet event would be complete without a dramatic curtain?

a close-up of the embossing was tricky on this gold mirrored paper...

I hope you enjoy this post and if you are so kind to add a comment,  I would love to know what were some of your favorite movies this year?  Or favorite movie of all time?  (Not required obviously, just if you have a little time to join in on the fun).  Some of my favorite movies from this year are Skyfall, Brave, The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, Rock of Ages and Argo.  One of my favorite movies of all time is Legends of the Fall.  Yes, this movie can be quite depressing.  Especially if you've watched it 20 times like someone who will remain unnamed. (ok, it's me:)  But I love period pieces and I LOVE Brad Pitt in long hair!  hehe

 Ingredients:

Stamps: listed above

Embossing folder: Cuttlebug

Dies: lots of spellbinders, magnolia doohickey

Punch:  MS Crafts edger

Flowers:  Recollections, Prima, WOC

Feathers: Michaels

Fabric, ribbon, diamond slide: Joann's

Netting sprays: Hobby Lobby

Challenges I would like to enter:

saturatedcanarychallenge.blogspot.com:  song inspiration

creativemomentsbloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk: embossed anything goes

inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.com: anything goes

nutcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/challenge-33lots-of-layers-and.html: lots of layers/sparkle&bling

bythecuteandgirly.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-challenge-cute-and-girly.html: cute & girly

sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/12/challenge-39-anything-goes.html: anything goes

emeraldfaeries.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-39-celebration.html: celebration

partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2013/01/ptt-101-celebrate.html: celebrate anything

craftdoormagazine.com/2013/01/ttcrd-challenge-51-january-1-7th-2013.html: anything goes

bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/monthly-challenge-celebration.html: celebration

crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/12/cch-135-easel-card.html: easel card

cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/2012/12/celebrate.html: celebrate

thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com/2012/12/challenge-34-party-time.html: party time

craftymesschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/24th-challenge-show-some-sparklebling.html: sparkle

xx
Angie

Red Cups Are Back!!

Everyone who knows me knows how much I love Starbucks.  I can truly say I'm addicted.   I love the aroma, the taste, the warmth. I love the feeling I get when I walk into a Starbucks and I know I'm going to leave with my cuppa Joe.  And I especially love the Christmas red cups!

Oh and I love my Bucks app too.  I love not needing my wallet or cash to get my cup.  All I need is my phone.  And I always have my phone. Only trouble with that is I tend to buy more than just my coffee when using my app.  It feels like I'm getting something for free so those salted caramel cake pops and bistro boxes always seem to leave with me too!!

Well the other thing people who know me knows is that I absolutely L-O-V-E eggnog!!   I mean I'm a total FREAK about it.  Seriously. I gain like 7 lbs. every year during nog season because I have it every single day.  Again.  Seriously.   I will make everything I can with nog during the season.  Nog cookies, cake, cream puffs, popcorn. You name it.  I'd try it with egg nog!  NO joke!

Sooooooo,  the relationship between the two things that people know about me is that the Red cups are back at Starbucks and that means EGGNOG LATTES!!   I will have one almost daily from November 1 to January 1.  Red cups also mean all the yummy holiday flavors are

back.  Which one is your favorite??  Peppermint mocha, creme brulee, gingerbread, eggnog??   The website even had a countdown to when the red cups were going to back this year!  So clearly more people than just me are excited about it!

Well finally onto my card.  I wanted to give a Starbucks giftcard to a special person for Christmas and I wanted it to be super cute so here it is!

This is a Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy stamp called Luv a Latte. I printed out a small red cup so she can enjoy her holiday latte also!!  

The snowflakes are MS punches and smothered in glitter.  The oval is Spellbinders and then woven with Christmas "Joy"  ribbon.  The XL scallop square is also Spellbinders.

Inside the card...

I cut one of the holiday red sample cups and used it to hold my giftcard.  I hope she loves it!!
And lastly, the back of the card...

Challenges I would like to enter:

sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com: sketch with an optional color palette

delightfulsketches.blogspot.com: snowflakes

craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com: Reds

paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com: snowflakes

platypuscreekdigitals.blogspot.com: Christmas red & white

ribbongirls.blogspot.com: sparkle

craftuscrazy.blogspot.com: favorite color and/or holiday theme

southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com: Christmas

kraftyhandschallenge.blogspot.com: Christmas

thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.com: red

craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com: Christmas anything goes

whimsyinspires.blogspot.com: traditional Christmas colors

Happy Birthday Katelyn

Happy Birthday to my daughter Katelyn.  I may not see her today but I made her a card to let her know I love her no matter what.  The stamp is called "Let Them Eat Cake" from wwww.sugarnellie.com.  Isn't she sweet looking?

xx,
Jo