Something a little different...

Hello,

I really debated on making this post because this blog is really about crafting, but after I thought about it more (and talked with my fellow Bloggers) it's really about what we love. We love crafting, but we love so much more than just that. Our family and friends are a big part of why we make cards and crafts, we do it to make them happy.

Right now a friend of the 3Chick family has been handed a heavy hand; their amazing son, Maddux, has been diagnosed with cancer. You can visit GiveForward.com to see the full story on how they discovered that this brave 6 year old boy has Sarcoma.

He has been giving a fantastic battle, but there is always the unfortunate matter of how to finance such an endeavor. So many people have been coming up with great ideas on how to help this family raise money so that their only worry will be who gets to read Maddux a story at bed time. There is still a long road ahead and there will be more bills, but we're all confident that they will get taken care of.

The reason for this post is to try and help raise some money for the Hescock family. While working with someone from the Etsy website, we created some inexpensive but very nice quality window decals that boast the hashtag of our pride for this boy. #TeamMaddux shows that we're standing behind Maddux in his fight, no matter where we live. 

For $5 (plus shipping), we can send you the 2" x 7" water and weatherproof window decal displayed in the picture below. (To be clear, these are not clings and these are not stickers. They are decals which are more permanent and meant to be used on glass. With effort, however, they could be removed if that was something you wanted to do.)  

After sending your e-mail and shipping information to teammadduxfundraiser@gmail.com you will be sent a secured invoice via PayPal. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me (Joyce) at the e-mail I just mentioned. 

100% of the money made from this fundraiser will go to the Hescock family. I know it won't bring a ton of money, but every little bit helps. You can also forward this information on via Instagram if you search the username: teammadduxfundraiser

Even if all you do is visit the GiveForaward website and send a hug or a donation there, we'll all be grateful for your time and consideration. We hope all are well in your lives!

Sincerely from the 3Chicks,

Joyce, Hannah & Marisol

G I V E A W A Y!

UPDATE: Congratulations to our follower Beth who won the challenge! She guessed who made the cards correctly! 
The correct order was: A: Marisol, B: Hannah, and C: Joyce!
Thank you to everyone who played and we hope to do another challenge in the future!

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Hello! We're really excited about this post because it's our first ever giveaway! We have been talking about doing a giveaway for a long time but we just couldn't figure out what the best way to go about it was. So we finally decided to play a little game with our viewers and Instagram followers. So keep scrolling down for the official rules and prize information!

When we first started making cards, we couldn't really tell the difference between a Stampin' Up card to a Fancy Pants Design but over time, each of us girls gravitated towards styles that spoke to us and eventually we started creating our own styles of card designs. Over the last 8 months (Can you believe it's been 8 months since we started this blog?! Neither can we!) you've all had a chance to see our posts of various card styles and some of you may have even received some of these cards in your own mailbox! We're really curious if you've been paying attention to which cards belong to which Chick. Do you think you could decipher it?! We'd love to see you try!

Below you'll see a card designed by each Chick and they'll only be labled by Card A, Card B and Card C. Here you can see the full image to really get a good look at them. Then head over to our Instagram page and cast your vote! Here's what we'll need from you for your vote to count:

1) Subscribe to our ThreeChicksWithGlueSticks Instagram page. (Pretty please!)

2) Leave a comment with who you think created each card next to the letters A, B and C. (Hint: The only possible answers will be Hannah, Marisol and Joyce .... but probably not in that order.) Example of how it should look: InstagramName: A: Hannah, B: Marisol, C: Joyce

3) Only one entry per Instagram name.

4) Voting will be closed on November 29th at 5pm Central Time

5) From all of the correct answers, a random name will be chosen. The winner will be announced on our Instagram page to recieve shipping information.

We hope you all enjoy this little quiz we've made up and that a giveaway will become a regular part of our blog/Instagram schedules. Thanks again for following us and have fun!

Card A

Card B

Card C

Well now you've seen them, do you think you know which card belongs to each Chick?! Then head on over to our Instagram page and leave your vote! The winner will get each of these cards along with matching envelopes! Enjoy!

Thank you from the 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce

Cute As A Button!

Hello! How is everyone?! 

We've got some exciting things to talk about! First of all we're so excited to announce that we've had over 1,000 visits to our blog! Thank you so much! This has been such a fun experience for the three of us. We love that we can share what we love and we hope that we spark some creativity in our viewers  Thank you again so much for supporting us!

Secondly, in honor of our hitting 1,000 views, we're gearing up for our first giveaway! Depending on how much of a response we get, we're hoping this will be a semi-regular thing. We'll be posting more information on the giveaway very soon!

Finally, we've settled on our new theme for October: Buttons!

Buttons are getting very popular in the crafting world for so many reasons. They are so cute and so versatile in how they can be used. All three of  us decided to make a new card using buttons to show how many different ways that buttons can be used!

Marisol took an adorably animal approach to this challenge! The zebra paper and stamp make this card pop! She has a fantastic ability with blending! This is a great example that you don't have to use the same paper pattern throughout the entire card. The black ribbon accented by her green button gives a nice break in the card to change things up! The color scheme really is fun and creatively used here!

Hannah made this beautiful card! She used her well loved cloud punch in a variety of paper to create these dimensional rain clouds. The use of black was so smart! The streams of rain were created using a pen and some glitter! And the best part, the button rain drops! Her umbrella sentiment just gave the card the sweetest touch.

This is Joyce's take on the button challenge. In this card she used a pretty lace punch and a coordinating paper patter to give the inside and back a unique finish. Lastly, she strung some buttons on a string around the front of the card with some baker's twine. 

We all really enjoyed this challenge and we're going to be posting more cards we make throughout the month on our Instagram page so follow us there to see what else we come up with!

And don't forget to keep an eye out for our giveaway coming up VERY SOON! Thank you again to everyone for visiting our page! Let's make it 2,000 views very soon! 

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce

What's up with Washi Tape

                                What's up with Washi Tape?

Washi Tape. Its all over Pinterest and taking over our favorite craft isles. If your like me I couldn't pass up the adorable prints. So I took some home with me and did my research ;) Just a little background info Washi is a style of Japanese paper tape. The manufacturing has spread throughout the world! Washi tape is reusable, biodegradable, and tree free (usually made of rice paper) In a few short minutes I came up with 4 cards and all together it took me under 10 minutes! Take a look at my results 

 I used a Border stamp for the top and bottom of the card and added my Washi Tape and gems to the middle

The focus of this card is the shine street lamp stamp and i added 3 strips of tape to the right for embellishment

Its a little hard to see from the lighting but the stamp in the middle is the Eiffel tower with a chevron background. This time I added the tape haphazardly. I love how it turned out!

I found this cute bike stamp at the bottom of my craft bin and thought it looked adorable with the matching tape

Washi Tape....You can tear it, cut it, stick it,reposition it,and write on it... The possibilities are endless!!!! I am now a Washiholic :) So the next time your in Michael's and the cutest printed tape is calling your name and telling you to take it home, It might be worth it! 

3 chicks,

Hannah, Marisol, And Joyce 

From the Scrap Pile to High Style: Starburst!

Hello everyone!

We're very excited about this post, so we're going to get right to it! In our last post we talked about using scraps the whole month of August and it's been such a fun challenge! We hope you're keeping up with our Instagram page to see all that we've been doing.

We have a new video tutorial on how to turn your scraps into a beautiful sunburst card. So click the link below and head on over there to see how to make your own versions of this great technique!

Click Here to see our new video!

Thank you for coming by and we hope you'll stop again soon!

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce

Things We Love!

Hello Craft Lovers!

How is everyone doing?! We hope the answer is great! We're doing pretty great ourselves. Summer has been such a busy time for all of the Chicks that we've barely spent anytime on our computers or even in our craft rooms! *Gasp!* We have been creating a little here or a little there so if you're feeling the withdrawal from our blog or our YouTube channel, make sure to subscribe to our Instagram page. We keep that updated much more often! We do have some pretty fun things planned, so we're hoping to be doing more tutorials and blog posts in the coming months. 

One of the fun things, is this new segment we call "Things We Love." Here we'll showcase our favorite crafting tools, papers we swoon for and all the other things that made us open our wallets so we could take them home! We hope these posts will inspire you to get crafting!

Not too long ago, Hannah and I (Joyce) we're out killing some time at our local craft stores with my nephew, Jayden. He's only two and a half but he's a crafting deal spotter already! While we were at Michael's, Hannah spotted these great little ink pads by ColorBox Mix'd Media Inx on clearance for less than $2 each! We just had to have them!

I took home the (in order from left to right) Pewter, Patina, and School House. I just love them! I wish I would have taken home one in every color because they are such nice inks! The pads are nicely saturated and the colors are very vivid! (I'll show a stamp off sampling in just a moment.) Another thing I love about these stamps is that they are easily stackable which is awesome for saving space and keeping my favorite inks together!

The next place we went to was Hobby Lobby and we just love their clearance section! I think I can safely say that all three of the Chicks much prefer the cling stamps to the rubber block mounted stamps. The cling stamps are easier to clean, stay crisp longer and store away with much less space taken. But they are not really something you find in the clearance section too often. So in these instances, I love rubber block mounted stamps! I found these little gems on our last trip there:

The sentiments read (again, from left to right): Good friends don't spill the beans, a sail boat picture, The heart that loves is always young - Greek Proverb. I think they are all adorable  Where I might not have taken the plunge for the original $8 and up stickers, I'm more than happy to take them home at the very discounted prices. 

So with these new ink pads and these new stamps I did a little stamp off test for everyone to see why I LOVE the new inks! For those who may not recognize the term "Stamp Off" it refers to the action of saturating a stamp with ink one time, then making multiple stampings before re-saturating the stamp again with more ink.

You can see that inks held up really well the second time and even the third time with the School House red and the Patina blue colors! The Pewter grey color did very well, and I think if the stamp had not had such a flat surface for LOVES that it might have looked just as crisp. Also, a darker color paper would probably have done more justice to the Pewter, but I was still very happy with the result. 

I did make a card using the Patina blue color ink. My nephew wanted to send a card to a family friend of ours who gave him a bunch of hand-me-down clothes that he loved. (He didn't know he wanted to send a card, but we knew he did.) Even on bright green paper, the blue still was the focus and I just love the results! What do you think?

The glittery strip was a scrap from some previous card albums I had made. It just adds a little something! I love the sentiment and the tiny turtle, I think both make it a great card from a kid. 

So that's it for this edition of Things We Love, we hope you enjoyed it! Keep on the lookout for more installments of this segment! Also, for the month of August we'll be making cards and other things using our scraps! We know you've got them and we're going to show you how to use them! Look for the headline post: From the Scrap Pile to High Style!

Take care and enjoy your summer!

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce

Hot for emboss month

Hi Friends!

 

No joke with the heat this month thus far.   Speaking of heat, this month us girls are "hot for embossing" this month.  What does that mean?  It means we will be making some projects using embossing. The two kinds of embossing are dry embossing or heat embossing. We hope to have some tutorials up this month distinguishing the difference from these two. 

 

Also, we would like to remind you that we are regular in posting projects on our Instagram account.  Follow us (threechickswithgluesticks) so you can see what we have been up to.  Hannah, our baker, has been busy making the most awesome cakes. 

 

Today, we would like to share a card tutorial using embossing powder (A.K.A. heat embossing).  Oh, and did I mention it was another interactive card?  They are so much fun to make!
 

Click here to see tutorial of this card

 

We hope everyone is having a safe summer so far.  Thank you all for your support!

 

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Joyce and Marisol