Amber Ink Project 1: Birthday Banner & Princess Wands

Hello! Welcome to my first project for Amber Ink.  I am so very excited to showcase what their products can bring to your crafting projects.  I have lots of different types of projects lined up for you this month, starting with today's post: Birthday Banner and Princess Wands using Amber Ink iPaper.  I used Tiny Picnic Gingham Whisper and for the first time ever using digital paper I am thrilled to death at how easy it was and how wonderful it was to coordinate my projects!

As most of you know I am a working mom of two kiddos.  October is a crazy busy month around my house.  Throw in a birthday for my youngest and that just escalates the chaos.  This year my dd chose "Princess Theme" and I went all-in (don't I every year??  We won't revisit the hours I stayed up creating Gotham City for my son in 2010).

Anyway, banners are HUGE and I had just bought the Cricut Princess Party Event cartridge so of course I needed patterned paper for the banner.  I ended up printing 2 sheets since the first sheet wasn't enough... that's right... I made the cardstock banner a bit too big (and we ALL know I had enough cardstock to make my banner 4 times larger!) but I just went to my printer and out pops another perfectly coordinating gingham patterned paper.  The cricut did all the work after that, of course.  I just assembled and bam, the banner was done!

Well, then a few days passed and I was putting together the "goodie tins" for the girls (the boys will be knights and they get silver tins... I know, cute) and realized that the cartridge had wands in it.  Well, it's a princess party and I wanted wands.  I showed my dd and so I started cutting out the wands.  The "coordinating layer" *had* to match my banner since it will all be on display on the same table.  Out came a couple more sheets of pattern paper!  SO EASY!!!

I am completely sold on digital paper now.  I'm telling you it's the best thing that has happened to me since clear stamps... and that should scare my poor husband's wallet! :)

I'll be back next week for another project. Check out the Amber Ink Blog for more eye candy!

Enjoy!

Kristin