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Cooking With Cricuts Love is in The Air Blog Hop

2012-02-12T06:00:00.004-07:00

Welcome to Paper Crafting World and Cooking With Cricut "Love is in the Air" blog Hop. If you arrived from Nita's at Nita's Notes you are on the right track. If your joining us mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning please click Here to go to Paper Crafting Worlds Cooking with Cricut Blog and check out what Melin has made!

Today's hop is all about Love ( your favorite love song and valentine themed)

Although Elvis Presley has been gone for well over thirty years, it feels as if he never left. His music and image continue to be a vital part of the world’s popular culture. "Burning Love" is a song written by Dennis Linde and made famous by Elvis Presley in 1972.

The songs lyrics go like this:

Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature rising!
(and boy oh boy it sure was for these pictures!)

My layout today is for all Elvis fans and any one that likes to have a bit of fun!

This may not be my favorite Love song but it sure does match today's layout.

(don't we look happy?)

This picture was taken just inside of the Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas in 2010. My daughter Christy and I decided to go away for a couple days rest and some well needed bonding time. We were on our way to a dinner show when these two hunks came along and talked us into getting our pictures taken with them. We had so much fun, I never laughed so hard, that my belly hurt, I must have turned a thousand shades of red, but it is a memory I will remember for a very long long time to come.

For this 12X12 layout I followed a old sketch from StuckOnU
The chocolates were cut from Cricuts Everyday Pop up Cards at 2.5 inches. I used Say it with a Smirk 12X12 glitter and foil effect designer pack, along with Bo-Bunnys card stock. I just love all the little sayings and thought it would go perfect with the picture, chocolates and cute looking guys. What more could a girl want?
We hope you’ll join us and link up your favorite love song inspired project at CookingWithCricut. One lucky entry will be chosen by random.org to win a $10.00 gift certificate provided by PaperCraftingWorld.com! And make sure you leave a comment, too! One lucky commenter will also receive a $10.00 PaperCraftingWorld.com gift certificate!
I also will be giving my own Blog Candy to one of my lucky followers. Just leave a comment and I will pick a winner on Wednesday.

I hope you have enjoyed today's project and as always thanks for hopping with us.

Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Jill's blog to see what she has created for you today.

Cooking With Cricut "Go Canada" Cartridge Showcase

2012-02-09T06:00:00.005-07:00

Hello my crafty followers. Today I am going to showcase this amazing cartridge called " Go Canada" I was so excited when I saw that Cricut was coming out with this cartridge. As soon as it was released back in Oct, the hunt was on....this was a must have!

Yes......I am Canadian Eh!

Here our a few projects I came up with:

For my first project today I have a Diagonal Double Pocket card which you can find the instruction for at Splitcoaststampers.

As soon as I saw the coffee and donut cut it reminded me of our famous Tim Horton's Coffee Shop which you can find all over Canada serving the best coffee and donuts and delicious little timbits, so I added a gift card to my project since everyone love Timmys!!!

My second project I decided on a gift box which I added maple cookies to. Again instruction can be found at Splitcoaststampers for the box, I used both the maple tree and syrup cuts from this cartridge.

Canada is well know for it maple syrup....... Once you taste the real Canadian Maple Syrup, you will be hooked for life.

Next I have a 12X12 layout using a few more of the great cuts from this cartridge. I have used the Canadian flag to make it into a hidden journal tag with my Gypsy. This is my nephews son waving the Canadian flag in front of Canada House in Banff Alberta on Canada Day 2007. Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges and the animals that reside within them, such as moose, beaver, grizzly, geese and the common Loon.

Last is another 12X12 layout, this time showing the province where I live, which is Alberta along with our Canadian Beaver which is our National Animal Symbol, toques and again my nephews son enjoying some real fine Canadian Bacon.

Provo craft did a wonderful job when designing this cartridges....I just love it and think everyone should run out and get it.

Canadian or not!
I am going to enter the layouts into this weeks challenge over at Getting Scrappy: this weeks challenge is for the love of chocolate, scrap about chocolate or use chocolate supplies (twine, ribbon, paper etc.)

Thank you for stopping by my blog and checking out my showcase!

S.W.A.T. Valentine Card & Gift Boxes

2012-02-07T21:37:00.002-07:00

Once again my hubby had to go out of town for the weekend, so I had my sister Debby and my Daughter Christy over to do a bit of scrapping. My sister stayed over night but Christy had to go home. We actually got a lot accomplished . I wanted to share a few picture of the girls and then a couple of the projects we made. I cannot show to much of want I did but you will be able to see them later on this week. I am showcasing the "Go Canada" Cricut cartridge at Cooking with Cricut on Thursday so make sure you pop back in to see them, they turned out super cute and I just love this cartridge! I also would like to remind you that I will be in a Blog Hop this weekend over at Cooking with Cricut and I will be giving away some blog candy so make sure you stop in Sunday to check out my project and leave me a comment for a chance to win.

This is the valentines card I made with a freebie SVG file that was offered over at Designs on Cloud9.

My sister Debby made this great Valentines treat boxes. Didn't she do a excellent job! Pattern for the box can be found at Splitcoaststampers.

The monkey and frog were cut from Cricuts Sweetheart Cartridge.

These are the challenges I am going to enter my card in.

Designs on Cloud 9: Facebook challenge: Make a Valentine Card using one of their SVG files.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday: Love is in the air: Include a heart.

My Craft Spot: Make a Valentine Card or gift box.

More Than Favors: Love is in the Air

My Creative Time: Valentine
Terrific Tuesday Challenge: Heart themed
The Cuttlebug Spot: Sweetheart Challenge

Jurassic Park River Adventure! Exploring Cricut Guest Designer!

2012-01-30T00:35:00.000-07:00

Today I am very excited and honored to be a guest designer for Exploring Cricut I was tickled pink when asked if I would do a guest spot for this weeks challenge at Exploring Cricut and boy oh boy it is a good one!!!

This week challenge is a 1,2,3 challenge.

1 Ribbon

2 Cricut cuts

3 Jewels, brads or buttons.

The challenge starts today and runs till February 4th so make sure you head over to Exploring Cricut and join in the fun!

I decided on a two page layout for this challenge.

This is the first page of my layouts, using 3 Palm Tree Brads, 1 ribbon just below the mountains and 2.5 Cricut cuts from Dinosaur Track Cricut Cartridge.

I used Imaginisce Dinosaur Roar Collection with a beautiful varnish accent.

Can you see the look of terror on my face?

Rawr! A big T Rex

The top border is from a Martha Stewart punch, it has to be one of my favorite punches.

This is a shot of my hubby, the pictures were taken at Universal Studios May 13th, 2009. I don't know if you noticed, but along the top of the first page I used my computer to try and match page two dinosaurs border and if I say so myself, I did a pretty good job of it! LOL!

Thanks for stopping bye and don't forget to pop over and join in the fun at Exploring Cricut.

Winter Fun!

2012-01-26T19:25:00.003-07:00

This weeks challenge over at StuckOnUSketches is a Die cut challenge...How fun is that!

For Christmas this year we decided to buy our three granddaughters their first pair of skates.

The weather has been fairly nice this winter so I decided to take the girls out for the day, to try out their new skated, we had a blast!

The two younger girls were really scared and of course they were crying and really acting up for there mom so grandma took each one aside and just talked to them and told them they could do it, well before you knew it they were off and having a ball. Jan my oldest granddaughter has never been on ice skates before but she had learned to roller blade last summer so she had no problem at all. I had brought along two thermoses of hot chocolate and of course my camera. After skating we went to MacDonald's for lunch and called it a day! Today layout is all about our day of ice skating.

I used Camping Critters to cut the trees and pond at 8 inches, there were mountains in the back ground but I just cut they off.

My little ice skater is a SVG file called Bella and Baxtor sledding and skating which I purchased over at My Scrap Chick

I inked the all the edges added some stickles, flock, bling and some True Snow and embossed for the finale touches. I am also going to enter this layout in another couple of my favorite challenges.First is Getting Cricky: This weeks Simply Sunday Challenge: Let it Snow!
Next we have Die Cutting Diva: A recipe challenge: Buttons, Bling or Bows, and of course we can't forget Getting Scrappy Challenge: this weeks layout challenge is Flurries of Fun! Hope you enjoyed today's post.

Bee My Hunny

2012-01-23T16:16:00.000-07:00

It seems like forever since I have gotten around to doing a challenge for Fantabulous Cricut. So I decided this morning no matter what, I was going down to my scraproom and not coming out until it was done! This weeks, Challenge me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut is called Label it!

I used my gypsy to weld to Honey pot together from Pooh and Friend cutting it at 4.35 to form a shape card.

For my label I used Tags Bags and more also using my gypsy to fit it to the card front.

I then used a sentiment from Sweet Cheeks Stamps called Heartfelt Thoughts.

Finale touches to the card, are embossing, brads, bling, pop up dots for dimension and chalking the edges with Tim Holtz distressing ink.
Thanks for stopping bye and leaving me a bit of love!

Baptism card for "Anything Goes" Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

2012-01-21T19:39:00.002-07:00

Today we celebrated my Nephews little girl "Paige Gracie" Baptism.

I found this beautiful Gate fold SVG over at Monica's Creative Room As soon as I saw it, I knew I just had to make it.

The reason I choose this cut for the card is that the meaning of Baptism is

"The door to the church"

Once baptized a person becomes a member of the church and this will be Paige's first steps into church.

The shoes were cut at 3 inches using Kate's ABC's Cricut Cartridge.

I used coloured beads to create the baby's name and some pink satin ribbon for the bows.

The poem was created off my computer from a poem I found on the Internet. I love the way the card turned out and hope Theresa and Jesse are just as pleased as I am.
I will be entering it into a couple of my favorite challenge blogs.

Whimsical Wednesday this weeks challenge is "Anything Go's!"
My Sheri Craft Challenge #77 New things
My new things were a Gate Fold Card and using a text box in my word program, to create the poem. I am a little stupid when it comes to computers and was tickled pink when I saw this on another blog earlier this week.

Let's have some Fun! A couple of Fun Challenges I just found!

2012-01-14T17:23:00.001-07:00

Yippee! I just found another couple of great challenge blogs and if you know me at all, you must know that

I love a good Challenge.

The first is a Sketch Challenge Blog called Colourful Creations this is their first sketch for 2012.

This is a picture of the sketch.

My take on the sketch!

I used both Bo Bunny and My Minds Eye paper for this 12X12 layout. This is my Granddaughter Katie from a few years back. Katie loves to dress up and is a real ham in front of the camera.

I used Kate's ABC's Cricut Cartridge cutting the little girl at 3 inches.

This is of some of the rhinestones and pearls I used so I could enter this layout over at Cardz TV

There challenge this weeks is called the Three R's. Made a card or craft project using one or all three of the R's

Ribbon, Rhinestones or Rick Rack

The title is just some dimensional stickers I had in my stash. All edges were inked. As always thanks for stopping bye and have a wonderful weekend.

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #68 Little Angel

2012-01-11T07:19:00.003-07:00

Good Morning my crafty friends. This weeks challenge over at Cooking with Cricut is a photo inspiration, use the colors in the photo, a tree, or whatever this amazing pictures inspires you to make! As soon as I saw this picture, I knew I wanted to play.

Here is my take of the photos. I choice to use the colours in the picture to inspire me.

This darling little angel is a cutting file from Paper Crafting World. I embossed her dress with my cuttlebug and placed her on a cloud.

I just love her face, when ever I look at her I get a silly grin on my own face.

The title was cut from 3 Birds on Parade.

The tree and deer were cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. Finishing touches are flock added to the antlers and tree, bling to the tree, photo corners with brads and of course all edges were inked. So as always thanks for stopping bye and have a great week. Make sure you head over to Cooking with Cricut to see what the rest of the design have done and I look forward to seeing how you are inspired by this amazing photo challenge.
I will also be entering this layout into another couple of fun challenges first one is The Cuttlebug Spot. This weeks challenge is Winter Time.
The next one is Getting Scrappy: This weeks challenge is anything goes! Must be a layout and include a cricut cut or SVG.

Hush Little Baby!

2012-01-08T16:42:00.000-07:00

This weeks challenge over at The Paper Variety is to use Black and White with a wisp of colour.

I had these beautiful black and white photos of our newest member of the family so I decided to make a layout using them.
Both the bird on the paper and the picture of Paige with mommies diamonds rings on her little toes inspired this layout.

Hush, Little Baby.

Hush, little baby, don't say a word.
Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird

And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring
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The only cartridges I used on this layout were Tags Bags and More and George and Basic Shapes.

This is a picture of my Nephew and his daughter Paige Gracie.

Paige is being Christened on Jan 21st so I decided to frame the layout and give it to them for the nursery. I had a heck of a time getting a good picture of it in the frame, the spot is from the flash hitting the glass.

As always thanks for stopping bye, have a great week!

Over The Hill or Life Begins at 40?

2012-01-05T13:17:00.002-07:00

It's a Celebration!!!!!

OMG! I cannot believe my baby is turning 40 this year. It seems like yesterday that I was holding him in my arms smothering him with kisses and pinching his chubby little cheeks. So with this being said I decided to make a card in his honor. His Birthday is not till May 10th but when I saw this weeks Simply Sundays Challenge over at Getting Cricky with K. Andrews I thought this would be the perfect time to create his card, because I really wanted it to be special.

I created the card using my gypsy and Life's a Party Cricut Cartridge.

This is the inside of the card.

and what's a Birthday without the candles and a little bit of glitter!
I also would like to enter this card into this weeks challenge over at Whimsical Wednesday...because I can all ready tell this is going to be my favorite card for this year, it will be hard to top this little buzzard!

Thanks for stopping by and in case I haven't said it before

Happy New Years!!!!!!

Cooking With Cricut Challenge! Family Memories !

2012-01-04T07:32:00.003-07:00

This weeks challenge over at Cooking With Cricut is "Something New" We figured since Christmas had just finished it would be fun to have a challenge using one of the new crafty items you received this year, or if you didn't get anything just something new you have purchase would work to.

Well, Santa was very good to me this year so it was really a hard choice to decide just which cartridge I wanted to play with. But then I remember a picture that I have wanted to scrap book for a very long time so the decision was made for me.

This is a picture that was taken around 1982 in my parents backyard. It was shortly after Christmas and all the grand kids were over for a visit to see there Nanny and Papa. it was a beautiful winter day so the kids put on their winter clothes and outside they went to play. Papa had made them a bob sled for Christmas and they were just dying to try it out! My father was such a crafty man and so good with us kids and even better with the grand kids. We have so many wonderful memories that should be put down on paper so after we are gone our kids can remember him , since he died at such a young age.

My new item I choice to use on today's project is my Sesame Street Seasons Cricut cartridge, it has so many wonderful outdoor cuts to play with, and I don't know about now but Sesame Street was really big back then. I started my layout with some light blue embossed paper with snowflakes, I then took white paper and used the paper tearing method to make the hills of snow running them through my cuttlebug and then added some stickles which are not showing up in the pictures. All the characters were cut at 4 inches, the trees were cut from my Winter Frolic cartridge at 5 inches I added some flower flock to the trees to make it look like snow.

So that's it for today's project but just to let you know that the two kids in the middle of the bob sled our my baby's ( the two biggest) Some of you might know my daughter Christy from her blog over at christys_scrappin she would of been 12 in that picture.

Now it your turn to show us some of your wonderful projects using something new! Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team projects over at Cooking With Cricut.

I am also going to enter this layout over at Exploring Cricut, their first challenge of the New Year is called Winter Wonderland: create a winter scene.

Twas The Night Before Christmas! 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Showcase.

2011-12-22T07:30:00.004-07:00

Welcome to Day 22 of the 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Showcase. Can you believe that there are only 3 more days until Christmas! Today we were asked to make a project with a Christmas theme. I decided to make a 12X12 layout with a picture of my three granddaughters taken on Christmas Eve 2009.

The tree is a cutting file from Paper Crafting World, which was given to me to use in todays project. I used to make miniature Dollhouses and I had this set of miniature lights in my crafting supplies and decided to see if I could light up my Christmas tree. The pictures really do not do it justice, it looks so much better up on my mantel.

I used George and Basic Shapes to cut my circle at 10 inches.

The Noel, Santa and Twas The Night Before Christmas sign are all chip Board piece from my stash.
Papers are from We R Memory Keepers White Christmas
Sown Flurry, Holly Jolly and Santa's Helpers

I followed the sketch from this weeks challenge over at Stuck on U Sketches
so of course I will be entering this layout into their challenge.

Here is a picture of my layout in the dark all lite up.
Before I sign off for today I would like to take this time to wish all my followers a very safe and Happy Holiday. I hope Santa is good to you and that you get to spend some very special time with your families and loved ones.
Merry Christmas!
To All

Here Comes Santa!

2011-12-19T16:17:00.001-07:00

Today I have another cute card for a couple of challenges. The first challenge is for Exploring Cricut. This is their last challenge until the New Year. This weeks challenge is to make a project using a tree.

The second challenge is for The Cuttlebug Spot, this weeks challenge is to make a project with good Old St. Nick. I used Cricuts Jolly Holiday for the Santa, tree and the reindeer, cutting everything at 3.50 inches. I just love this cartridge, I had such a hard time finding it, but I finally scored one and I couldn't be any happier!

Thanks for stopping bye, have a great week!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday!

2011-12-18T13:47:00.000-07:00

Today I have a quick card I whipped up for this weeks challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut. I just love there blog and I try and make a project as often as I can...who knows I just might be lucky enough to win, but even if I don't I always enjoy taking part in the fun.

For this fun card, I used the mouse from Winter frolic cutting it at 3.50 inches. The paper was all from my scrap bucket and the ribbon was just some pretty ribbon purchased from the Dollar store.

Hope you enjoyed my project for this weeks challenge me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut. Thanks for stopping bye and have a great week.

25 Days of Christmas Crafting Fun! Last Minute Gift Ideals.

2011-12-14T07:37:00.016-07:00

Welcome to Day 14 and another fun project for Cooking with Cricut 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Fun. Today the Design team members were asked to created easy last minute Christmas gift ideals. This was really a fun and easy project that could be given to just about anyone, grand kids, teachers, mailmen or even the person who just lives down the street.

Lets face it who doesn't like chocolate!

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving, and the gift of chocolate is the most loving of all.

I think the hardest part of this project was finding the plastic shaped cone bags, but once I found them I was on a roll.
For my Hot Cocoa Cone I used the following cartridges to create the tags.

Tags Bags and More

Winter Frolic

and

Christmas Noel Cartridges
Sizzix Dies

Paper was from my scraps.
Cone shape plastic bags.
Cinnamon Hearts
Chocolate chips
Two serving of cocoa mix
topped with marshmallows.

I do have one suggestion if you decide to make the Hot Cocoa Cones, use a separate bag for the cocoa otherwise the cocoa mix goes over all the other ingredients ( these are the ones I will give to the grand kids!) LOL!

So that's it for Day 14 of Christmas Crafting Fun. Make sure you head over to Cooking With Cricut and check out all the other great last minute ideals and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win this weeks prizes and get your freebies for the day.
I am going to enter this project over at Cricut Cardz: this weeks challenge is to make two gift tags.
Next Challenge is Whimsical Designs:Winter Fun! Create a Christmas or winter theme project and include something sparkly.

25 Days of Christmas and Crafting Fun! Day 10

2011-12-10T07:00:00.001-07:00

Hello my crafty friends. Welcome to Day 10 of The 25 Days of Christmas and Crafting Fun with Cooking with the Cricut....

Today projects are all about Santa, Jolly O'l St. Nick.

I found the instruction for this darling treat box over at Splitcoast Stampers and as soon as I saw it I had visions of sugar plums dancing in my head! Well maybe not sugar plums but candy is always a good thing, and since everyone I know seems to be watching their weight I decided to whip up a few of these and add sugar free candy to them. What a perfect Christmas Gift!

I used Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge, cutting Santa and the tree at 4 inches. All papers were from my scrap bucket( I just love when this happens), I then added flower soft flock for the fur on Santa's suit and a little bit of stickles and glitter.

The sentiment is from a old Stamp set I have from Stampin up. I hope you have enjoyed today's project, don't forget to head over to Cooking with Cricut for your freebies. I know there is a real cute Santa's cutting file that I can't wait to get my hands on!

Thanks for stopping bye, have a great weekend!

I will also be entering this project into the following challenges.

Fantabulous Cricut: Present time

My Craft Spot: Christmas Treat

The Cuttlebug Spot: Leftover....Use Them!

25 Days of Christmas and Crafting Fun!

2011-12-08T08:00:00.002-07:00

Hello my crafty friends. Welcome to Day 8 of The 25 Days of Christmas and Crafting Fun with Cooking with the Cricut....

Today projects are all about April Showers and Easter.

I decided to make a criss cross card with a belly band for today project. Instructions for this card can be found over at Split coast Stampers. For my darling little bunny on top of the card I used a file that I got last year as a freebie from Cooking with Cricut. The Happy Easter was cut from Easter 2010 Cricut Cartridge.

I wish the pictures had turned out better, the bunny has a real shimmer to it but the camera just would not pick it up, I did notice the silly thing picked up the mess on my matt! LOL! So now it is time to say goodbye for today, but don't forget to stop by and check out the freebies, inspiration and details about the awesome giveaways that are going on over at Cooking with Cricut!

Sleigh Ride! Cooking with Cricut Challenge

2011-12-07T08:00:00.012-07:00

"Just hear those sleigh bells jingling,Ring-ting-tingling too,Come on, it's lovely weatherFor a sleigh ride together with you."

This weeks challenge at Cooking with Cricut is all about "Sounds of the Season" I have always wanted to use the sleigh from Winter Woodland and so my layout was born. After cutting the sleigh I called my sister and asked if she had any family pictures that would go with this theme, and low and behold she came across these wonderful gems of my grandmother and her brothers and sisters bringing home their Christmas tree in about 1916. She also sent a picture of the camera that took the picture and a little write up about the photo including the ox and dogs name. After receiving these fantastic photos I had no problem with creating my layout.

Recipe

Winter WoodlandHorse 4 inchesSleigh 3.5 inchesStorybook for background mattingEK Sucess PunchesFlocked Deco-Borderspaper is called Lost & Found By Jen Allyson

Bo Bunny

I hope you enjoyed today's project, now head on over to Cooking with Cricut and check out the rest of the design teams projects. I can't wait to see what you come up with this week.

I am going to enter this layout in a couple of challenges this week. The first one is for Wacky Wednesday Challenge. " Christmas Spirit" over at More than Favors.
Next Challenge is over at Exploring Cricut. There challenge is to use a sleigh.
The next challenge is for The Paper Variety there challenge this week is to create a paper project inspired by a Christmas song.
Next is Crop Stop there challenge is to create a project inspired by music.

Cooking with Cricut 25 Days of Christmas! Day 3!

2011-12-03T08:01:00.014-07:00

Good morning crafty friends,

Welcome to the Third day of our

2nd Annual 25 Days of Christmas and Crafting Fun Showcase.

This is how the event will work!

EACH DAY:

* Different Designers will be showcasing their projects for your creative inspiration.

* Will have a different theme and the themes will not ALL be Christmas or Holiday related. So be sure to visit everyday for creative inspiration you can use through out the whole year!

* We will be giving away FREE Digital Stamps, FREE Electronic Die Cutting Files and Other Printable graphics. There will be something for everyone. Please note: The freebies will expire at the end of their 24 hours and new ones will be available. You won’t want to miss them!

* We will showcase projects using your Cricut and Cricut tools.

* We will showcase projects using your OTHER electronic cutters too! Tools such as our Pazzles, Silhouettes, Gazelles and other electronic cutters. Along with all types of crafting tools and essentials.

* You will want to leave a comment for your chance to win one of our weekly prizes as well as one of our GRAND PRIZES!!!

* You HAVE to be a follower of the PCW & Cooking With Cricut blog in order to win a prize, sorry no exceptions.

So Without Further Adieu..

Here is my project for Day 3

I designed this darling 12X12 layout using the freebie cutting files being offered today. Don't you think these Elf's are just the cutest thing yet?????

The fireplace was cut using Christmas Cheer and the stockings were cut from Winter Frolic Cartridges.

Out of all the cartridges I own I could not find a scroll or Santa list and I just had to have one to complete my layout, so I used my computer and found the image I wanted and then just paper pieced it myself. I used a fine gel pen to write the Santas list starting with the toys I had placed under the tree, then I decided to add a few things I would like to see under my tree this year! Hint Hint Santa!

This Week (Dec. 1st through December 8th) enter at CookingWithCricut.com for a chance to win the following great prizes:

Spring Holiday Cards Cricut Cartridge
$15 Gift Certificate to Quick Quotes
Quickutz Embossing Folder & Dies
Snowflake Embossing Folder, Snowflake Die and Candy Cane Die (These will work in “other” machines too.)
$20 Download from PaperCraftingWorld.com
*Pazzles Craft Room 1 Year Subscription
*The Twinery Ultimate Sampler Pack
*Cutter’s Creek $25 Gift Certificate
*Stamp, Stamp Pad & Block Set

(* Indicates a prize that will be awarded at the conclusion of the 25 days event.)
Now don't forget to head over to Cooking with Cricut and get your freebie for today.

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #62. Candles, Wreaths and Pine Cones!

2011-11-30T08:00:00.003-07:00

Welcome to another fun challenge at Cooking with cricut. This week the design team were asked to make a project using Candles,Wreaths or Pine Cones.

I am a bit behind with making my Christmas cards so I thought this would be a good chance to get another one made.

I used scraps for my scrap bucket, some of you might remember the two page layout I did with this beautiful paper last week, I just couldn't waste any of it since I just love the way it glitters. The candle was cut from Christmas Noel and I used Swiss Dots embossing folder.

The ribbon is from My Craft Spot.

Now it's your turn!

Show us your project and you just might be the next Top Chef!

I am also going to enter this in card in this weeks challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut challenge me Monday #88 Holiday Cards

Thanks for stopping bye and have a great week.

Winner from the Disney Pixar Blog Hop! & Kissin Cousin layout for Handmade Halo!

2011-11-23T15:28:00.000-07:00

Wow what a great turn out for the Disney Pixar Blog Hop, I would like to thank all of you for stopping bye and for the wonderful comments you left me, you really make my day! But before I announce the winner I would like to share a layout I made for a challenge over at Handmade Halo. If you haven't check out this blog.....please do they have a great Design Team and such beautiful handmade embellishment for all your scrapping needs.

For this challenge you need to follow the sketch, use at least one Halo product and add a set of wings. Here is my take of the sketch, which I call Kissin Cousins.

I used these beautiful floral buttons which are from Handmade Halo and prima flowers.

I used my computer for the title along with my Martha Stewart punch.

For my winged item I found this stork banner, which can be found on Cricuts Nursery Rhyme Cartridge which I just received in the mail just the other day.

All edges were inked and I added some pretty satin ribbon. I hope you enjoyed todays project. Now on to what you all stopped bye for. in the first place!

I used Random.org to pick the winner.

cema1cema said...

Really cut layout@! You did a great job! Christina

Please email me at jennyplace26@gmail.com with your mailing information and I will get your d-stress tool in the mail.

Thanks for stopping bye. Happy Thanksgiving! Stay safe and enjoy your time with your family and loved ones!

Gone Buggy!

2011-11-21T18:19:00.003-07:00

What a great weekend, hubby had to go out of town for a few days, so I decided to ask a few girlfriends over for a scrap booking weekend. Both my sister Debby and my daughter Christy stayed over for the whole weekend but the other girls just came and went as they felt. On Saturday we had a yummy potluck supper and a couple of beers. Believe it or not we even got some scrap booking done. My BFF little sister came over and we gave Brenda her first lesson in scrapping......and yes another scrap booking monster has been created! This is one of the cards I made between all the laughing teaching and fun we had!

I had a couple of different challenges in mind when I made the card. One of my Blogging Buddies over at Pat's Scraps is having a challenge going on right now to celebrate her one year blogaversary. I thought what better card then a gone Buggy Card with the cutest Cricut head I have ever seen! This cut was part of a swap I was in a couple of months ago and it was created by Jenny over at Crazy About Cricut! I placed the head on top of a action wobble and OMG! It is just so cute when you wiggle it.

I used all scraps from my scrap bucket and made it into a easel card so I could enter it at My Craft Spot. challenge.

The gone buggy was cut from Everyday Cricut Cartridge Thanks for stopping bye and have a great week.

Disney Blog Hop Day 2

2011-11-20T06:00:00.001-07:00

Welcome to day two of the 4th Disney Pixar Blog Hop! If you arrived from Bobbi Jo you are in the right place, if you are a regular follower of my blog please go to Shawn's blog so that you can see the entire hop from the beginning.

For the hop I made a two page Disney layout using Happily Ever After and Winni The Pooh and friends cricut cartridge.

For this Hop I also have a little something for one of my lucky followers. Please leave a comment and enter to win a cordless d.stress tool by imaginise. I will announce the winner on Wednesday!
We have a GRAND PRIZE for this Blog Hop donated by ContainYa Crafts! You can have YOUR CHOICE of a Scrap'n Tote or a Scrap'n Easel! Each blog in this two day hop has a special letter, and when all of the letters are put together they spell out a secret phrase.

My letter is . . . . E

Once you have stopped at each blog in the hop and collected all of the letters, simply email the phrase they create to bloghopcontests at gmail dot com. All entries must be in by Midnight on Monday, November 21st. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 22nd at http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/

Now it is time to send you of to the amazing talented Jessica Blog.

My Creative Time and Peachy Keen Challenge! Merry Merry Merry Christmas!

2011-11-16T11:20:00.000-07:00

Wow! I am just getting this challenge done under the wire! For today's card, I decided to combine two great challenges into one card. I really wanted to enter My Creative Time "Throwback Thursday Challenge" it just seems like forever since I have entered one of

Emma's challenges, this week Emma asked us to use a "Kids Friendly" cartridge.
I finally got my greedy little paws on a Jolly Holiday Cartridge ( after what seems like FOREVER) so of course I just had to use it for today's card! I cut my little cutie pie at 4 inches using my gypsy for her adorable little face using the hide feature so I could use my Peachy Keen face stamps, I then added white flock for the fur.

Then low and behold, yesterday this great Sketch came along for this weeks challenge at Peachy Keen: This weeks challenge is to follow this amazing sketch and create a card or layout based on the sketch and use paper piecing in your project. How fun is that?

The sentiment is from Bug Bites All Year Round stamp set, which can be purchased HERE. The circle was cut at 2 inches using Storybook cartridge. I hope you have enjoyed todays project. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Merry & Bright 2 page Christmas Layout!

2011-11-13T11:17:00.001-07:00

On Friday night my daughter Christy came over to visit and do a bit of scrapbooking. We had no ideal what we were going to do until I found a wonderful sketch challenge over at Cricut Cutter Room. So we both decided it was time to start our Christmas layouts for this year.

I used My Minds Lost and Found Christmas paper for the layouts and the pictures really do not do it justice, it is very dull and gloomy out today but I wanted to get it on before the challenge was over

I followed the sketch for the picture mattes and then added a few little extras to spruce it up a bit. The Crinkled Ribbon is from My Craft Spot.

The camel and donkey are embossed with Hounds Tooth and Swiss Dots embossing folders using my cuttlebug.

This is the second page of the layout. I used Winter Frolic to make the cuts of the animals and shepard.
The Angel was cut from Christmas Noel.

I embossed the lamb with D'Vine Swirls also using my cuttlebug. This is a picture of the sketch we were to use. All in all we had a very enjoyable evening, it is always so much more fun to scrap when you have someone to share your passion with. Hope you enjoyed my project for today.

Have a great week!

A Berry Special Friend 12X12 Layout! Cooking With Cricut DT Challenge!

2011-11-09T08:00:00.001-07:00

Time for another challenge over at Cooking With Cricut! This weeks challenge # 59 is Fruits, Cornucopia, Harvest Time. I decided to go with another 12x12 layout, going with the fruit theme.

I used this darling cutting file called "shortcake bear" which you can purchase from Paper Crafting World.
I love working with SVG Files but I also love my 2 cricut expressions machine just as much so I tend to use a bit of both in my projects, that way none of my machine feels like they are being ignored.

I used Cricuts Preserve cartridge for the strawberries and Straight from the nest for the scalloped circles for the background papers. For the title I decided to continue with the strawberry theme and found this cute title in cricuts Everyday Pop up cards cartridge. I am ashamed to say it is the first time I even looked at this cartridge and I picked it up early this summer. I have tons of pictures of my grandson which I will add later, but I just didn't have time to find the perfect picture. Now it is your turn to show us what you can come up with. Make sure you visit the rest of the design team to see what they have whipped up for you. Thanks for stopping bye! Have a great week.

Birdhouse Gift Box! Card! and Winner! From the Fall / Halloween Blog Hop!!!

2011-11-06T01:41:00.003-06:00

It's time for a fun "Link up Party" over at Robins Creative Cottage. Please join in the fun and see some of everyones favorite projects from the last month. For this link up party I wanted to showcase something different then a card or layout so I have decided to show this beatiful Birdhouse gift box I made.

Before I get to the winner of the Halloween Blog Hop I would like to show you a card and gift box that I made for a couple of challenges this week.

The first challenge is Fantabulous Cricut: this weeks challenge is "For the Birds" I decided to make this card for their challenge. I used my gypsy to make the base of the card and welded two 4.5 inch circle together from George and Basic shapes. I then used Cindy Loo for the top part layers of the card, adding stickles and using my cuttlebug to emboss the inside of the card.

I then decided to make a matching 3D birdhouse gift box. This is a SVG file that I received from Jani over at Paper Compulsions, I have been dying to make it and so glad I finally got around to doing it! I used K.C. and Company pattern paper.

I did make a few changes to the roof by adding a little texture and cutting it in layers and using a scalloped punch. The flowers are from the dollar store. I am also going to enter both these projects into The Cuttlebug Spot Challenge.

and now for what you all have been waiting for!!!!!

I had 27 comments for the Fall/ Halloween Blog Hop

and the lucky winner is #8

lovescrapreflect said.

what a wonderful layout

could you please email me with your address, so I can get your goodies out to you.

Thank you for stopping bye! Have a great week!

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #57

2011-10-26T07:00:00.076-06:00

Today is my first posting as a new member of the Design Team for Cooking with Cricut. I am so excited to be part of this wonderful blog and look forward to all the upcoming challenges. This weeks challenge #57 is scarecrows, hay, crows and 3 Sketches. For my first challenge with this amazing team I decided to follow the fun two page layout sketch that was provided.

Last year we had these wonderful family photos taken as part of a fundraiser. It was hard to get everyone together at one time, but I am so happy we did. Page one is a picture of Myself, Hubby, our two children and of course our beautiful grandchildren, it is hard to believe that this group of people all came about because two people fell in love! The second page I have my daughter Christy and her family and below is my sons Russell and his family.

The cute little crow is from a cutting file called Silly Crows which can be purchased from Paper Crafting World

Cartridges used were:

Disney- Princesses Happily Ever After- Pumpkin Vine

Old West- Hay

Disney- Hannah Montana- Letters and numbers
Mini Monsters- The Fence

Embossing folders used were:

Cuttlebug: Tiny Mosaic for the corn, Swiss Dots for the letters and pumpkins, Pumpkins for the photo matts.

Craft Concepts- Wood grain for the fence.

So now it is your turn to go over to Cooking With Cricut and share with us what you can cook up with this awesome challenge.

Fall/Halloween Blog Hop! BOO!

2011-10-22T00:01:00.001-06:00

Welcome to the Fall/Halloween Blog Hop. First I would like to thank Nicolette for putting this wonderful Blog Hop together. If you arrived here from Kari Blog you are on the right track. If you are a regular follower of mine and would like to start at the beginning please click HERE I am sure you will not what to miss any of the wonderful projects along the way!

For my project today I decided to make a Halloween Layout. I will add pictures when I get back from vacation. I hear that you folks in the United States really like to decorate for Halloween so I am hoping to get some good shots to add to the layout.

This amazing BOO Tag was given to me in a parcel that I won as won candy. The tag was made by KinderstampO and the pictures do not do it justice. When I first saw it I just knew I would use it on a Halloween layout. It is like she just knew what paper I was going to use.

The only cricut cut on the layout are the two scalloped circle photo mattes and they were cut from a SVG file.

BLOG CANDY ALERT!!!

I do have some Halloween Thyme Blog Candy for one lucky follower, just leave a comment and I will draw for a winner when I get back from Beautiful Hawaii.

Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Amy-Jo to see what spooky project she has come up with. Thank you for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful weekend!

Just Another Day in Paradise! Hawaii 2011

2011-10-20T23:52:00.001-06:00

Just a quick post to say Aloha to all my family and Blogging friends. Right now hubby and I are spending 15 days in beautiful Hawaii celebrating both his birthday and our 41st wedding Anniversary. We have left the kids and grand kids behind to look after the dog and house while we spend their inheritance.

I made this digital layout tonight while sitting back enjoying a nice ocean breeze , a cold beer and watching the sunset.

Thanks for stopping bye!

My Last Design Team Posting for My Craft Spot.

2011-10-10T07:00:00.003-06:00

Welcome to another Mondays Challenge with My Craft Spot. Today's challenge is a colour challenge!Use the colours black with purple, orange or green. I decided to make these cute little treat containers for my grand kids which I found over at Hawaii Paper Party. If you would like the instructions on how to make them, here is the link for the video. The treat containers hold a eraser and a couple of spooky tattoos.

I used my Martha Stewart punch to make the blood border and then added 4 different sayings from My Craft Spots Happy Hauntings Stamp Set. The bats on the front were cut using Paper Dolls Dress up Cricit Cartridge

Today will be my last posting as part of the design team for My Craft Spot. I cannot believe that six months has already gone by. It has been such a pleasure working with Kim and I will miss her and the rest of the DT, but it is time for me to move on.

I do have some real exciting news to share! First off I am leaving for Hawaii next Monday to celebrate both my hubby's birthday and our 41st wedding anniversary. I am so excited I can hardly sleep, my second bit of good news is I am now going to be part of the Design Team for Cooking with Cricut.

As always thanks for stopping by, have a great week!

Winner! and The Beginning of something amazing!

2011-10-08T14:24:00.000-06:00

Today I just wanted to share a layout that I made using My Memories Suite Digital Program. I just love this program, it is so easy and fun to play with. I saw this picture of my nephew Jesse and his wife on face book and just knew I just had to do something with it. Theresa's favorite colours are purple and green, it was her wedding colours and it is also the colours of the babies room

Don't you think this is the most beautiful picture? This is there first baby and there little girl is due today! I cannot wait to hold this precious little girl in my arms.

I also wanted to remind my winner of the My Memories Suite Program to please email me with your information! If I have not heard from you by tomorrow, I will have to pick a new winner.You can email me at jennyplace26@gmail.com

Also if you are interested in purchasing the program and would like to save $10.00 there is a coupon on my side bar . Just copy the coupon and click on My Memories Badge and you will be ready to go. You will also get another $10.00 with this coupon to spend on anything in there storeThanks for stopping in. Have a great weekend. Now I have to go and start getting things ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow!

Hoo-ray for You! To Cute To Spook!

2011-10-05T17:40:00.000-06:00

Time for another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut, one of my favorite challenge blogs, I am so happy I get to play along this week. This weeks Challenge Me Monday #80 is called "Pumpkin Time", use a pumpkin on your project .
I decided to make a Halloween card for my project.

The pumpkins are 3D stickers that I picked up from the Dollar store last year. The owl was cut from Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge. I then used some beautiful black crinkled ribbon from My Craft Spot to finish the card.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges: Fantabulous Cricut "Pumpkin Time"

Tacky Tuesdays: Use a owl from any cartridge and the word "Hoo"

More Than Favors: Wacky Wednesday: Colour Challenge. Black, green, organge and purple.

My Craft Spot: To Cute To Spook!

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week.

Scrappy Jak's Card of the Month & Fantabulous Cricut Challenge: Falling Leafs

2011-09-30T18:27:00.001-06:00

Time to reveal our cards for Scrappy Jak's card of the month club. This month we were asked to use a Fall theme. Each person was given the same material, two card bases, one piece of ribbon and the Die Cut which is from My Creative Time.

For my first card I decided to follow a couple of different challenges and this is what I came up with. The first challenge is Fantabulous Cricut: Leaves are falling: use leafs.

The next is for Bitten By The Bug 2: They asked us to use the Wheelbarrow cut on page 107 from Walk in my Garden Cricut Cartridge. I used my new Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Decorative Strip to make all these beautiful leafs. I tried to give it some dimension by adding pop up dots every so often. The wonderful sentiment is from Bug Bites All Occasion Stamp Set.
The third contest I am going to enter with this card is at Cricut- the offical Blog for there Word Card Making Day contest. I am going to see if I can win a cuttlebug machine for my daughter in law.

For my next card I decided to make a Thanksgiving Card. Thanksgiving is next weekend here in Canada. So I am really looking forward to biting into some yummy turkey and visiting with all of the family. My turkey is a SVG File that I purchased from Creative Kuts , poor thing looks kinda scared. I added a chopping axe and a caution sign to jazz it up a bit. The sentiment is once again from Bug Bites All Occasion Stamp Set. I will be entering this card in.

Whimsical Wednesday: Anything goes and

Celebrate The Occasion: Any Occasion but you must use ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend.

Winner of The Disney Pixzar Blog Hop and a picture to share!

2011-09-28T21:21:00.001-06:00

Just a quick note to post the winner of the Disney Pixzar Blog Hop. Random.org picked lucky #1.

Pruttybird
I will send you a email.

Thank you all for leaving me such wonderful comments on my Finding Nemo layouts. I do love Disney and it really is so much fun to be able to share my love of Disney with all of you.

When we were in Florida in 2009 on this vacation I actually got a tattoo....yes there I was 56 years old getting a tattoo on vacation.
I thought I would finish my post with a picture of it.

When this was taken, it still was not healed completely, but I love my tattoo and I love Mickey!

Have a great week and take care!

My Memories Suite Winner!

2011-09-27T09:21:00.000-06:00

Just a quick post to announce the winner of My Memories Suite Give away. But before I do this, I would like to share a Fall layout I made last night using this wonderful program. Fall is such a pretty time of year with all the stunning colours and last year I was lucky enough to round up the kids and their familys and have some family photos taken. The kids were not to happy with me, they all seem to be so busy with their lifes, but I would not take NO! for a answer. After all was said and done I think they were pretty happy with the end results, I know I sure was.

So anyway!

I used Random. org and the lucky winner is

Scrappin Rabbit Designs.

Please email me so I can pass your information on to My Memories Suite and you can start to have some fun with this awesome program!

Have a great week!

My Craft Spot DT Challenge #27

2011-09-26T07:00:00.007-06:00

Once again it is time for another fun challenge over at My Craft Spot. This weeks challenge is to use ribbon somewhere on your project. I have been so busy that I just threw this card together. I am really not sure if I even like it, but I guess everyone feels that way now and then. I used Twinkle Toes Cricut cartridge to cut the fancy oval and then added some beautiful Golden Harvest Crinkled Ribbon that can be purchased over at My Craft Spot. The owl is just a sticker that was purchased at Walmart , the flowers were in a gift package I received from another blogger, I could not believe how they were the perfect match for the Crinkled Ribbon. Behind the owl I added some pretty bling and the sentiment "Just for You" from My Craft Spots Friends & Neighbors Stamp Set! So now it is time for you to head over to My Craft Spot and see what the rest of the DT came up with! Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments, they really do make my day!

Don't forget you still have time to enter my two give aways.

For the Disney blog Hop give away click Here!

For the My Memories Suite give away click Here!

Disney Pixar Blog Hop Day 2

2011-09-25T04:00:00.009-06:00

If you are looking for My Memories Suite Give away Please click HERE

Welcome to Day 2 of the Official Disney Pixar Blog Hop. First I would like to thank Shawn and Melissa for putting this wonderful blog hop together. If you arrived from Bobbie Jo then you are on the right track. If you are a regular follower of my blog please click HERE to start at the beginning.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to visit Disney Land 3 times and Disney World 2 times, which is pretty darn good since I live in Canada. These pictures were taken on our first trip to Orlando in 2009. For today's project I decided to make a two page layout.

I used three different cartridges for all the cuts:
Disney Pixar
Life a Beach
Pack your bags.

Along the bottom of the page I torn my paper and chalked the edges to give it a nice shimmer, trying to make it look like the bottom of the ocean.

There are 16 different cricut cuts in this layout, not counting the coral. I worked on this for over two weeks and I am just thrilled with the way it turned out.

I just love this cartridge!

The two bottom pictures are tucked in under the sand and I think it makes it look like part of the ocean floor.

Blog Candy Alert! Today I have a set of Disney Cuttlebug embossing folders and a package of 3D Disney stickers for one of my lucky followers. Please leave a comment and I will pick a winner on Wednesday.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Jessica Blog

Don't forget to join in on the Link up Party.

Link up Party - September 26th
You can link up Disney Pixar scrapbook layouts, cards and other items at each of the following sites

Shawn Link your scrapbook pages
Melissa link your cards
Amy Link any other Disney projects (cakes, decor, anything that is not a card or scrapbook layout)

Winner of the back To School /Fall Blog Hop and another Giveaway!

2011-09-15T10:00:00.006-06:00

Snow in Love Quick Page
Katie Marie

I am so very excited to tell you guys about the My Memories Suite giveaway that I am having.

If you are unfamiliar with the My memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software, please head over to My Memories website and take a peek. This is the #1 rated scrapbooking software. I never thought I would be into digital scrapbooking, but boy was I wrong.
Last summer my sister Debby and her daughter Gillian were lucky enough to be able to go over to Europe for a six weeks vacation, they took so many wonderful photos of their trip and my niece decided for Christmas to have her mother a photo album made of their vacation, what a beautiful gift. Let me tell you it cost a bomb but the memories in this book were worth it! Now for a fraction of the cost and a few hours of my time, I am able to do the same thing and and make my own scrapbooks with my very own memories and better yet, I am giving away one of these programs!!! to one of you lucky Girls!

Paetyn

Here is my very first digital scrapbooking page I would like to share with you, this one I designed on my own and I must say I am tickled pink with the way it turned out!
I know I still have a lot to learn, but I am having a ball doing it! This program does so much more then just make scrapbook layouts. You can also make DVD's, calendars, cards, posters and so much more! And how lucky am I to be giving a full program away to one lucky follower! All you have to do is follow these few simple steps and you are entered.

1. Become a follower (only my followers will be eligible for the prize)
2. Like My Memories on Facebook and thank them for sponsoring this giveaway!
3. Head over to My Memories website and browse through their digital paper packs.
4. Come back and tell me what is your favorite digital paper pack and what you will use it for.

Please leave a comment with what you did so I know how many times to enter you. I will be selecting a winner on Sept 27th!

As an added bonus to my followers, My Memories has provided me with a Share The Memories code, which provides a $10.00 discount off the purchase of the My memories Suite V2 software AND a $10.00 coupon for the My Memories.com store - $20.00 value!!!! The code is - STMMMS27977

This really is a wonderful program, I can see why it is listed and the #1 scrapbooking software. I cannot wait to make my very own scrapbook of my upcoming vacation, just think I will be spending 15 days in Hawaii, soaking up the sun by day and then be able to go on the computer in the evening and scrap away my memories with no mess and have my pictures all organized and in a album before I even arrive home from vacation, I will even be able to add beautiful Hawaiian music to my scrapbook, click on a picture in the album and have a matching videos to go with the picture and so much more. This will be a scrapbook just filled with so many memories and most of all love! How cool is that?

This will be one of the layout for our vacation.

Thank you to My Memories for sponsoring this giveaway!

Good luck everyone!

Oh and before I forget again! LOL! The winner of the Back to school /Fall blog hop is #16

Sandy S! Please email me a jennyplace26@gmail.com with your information and will get your goodies out to you as so as I can.

My Craft Spot Happy Harvest Challenge

2011-09-12T06:00:00.000-06:00

Today starts a new challenge over at My Craft Spot. This weeks challenge is all about Happy Harvest! For my project this week I decided to make a wall hanging for my front door.

My project started out with a piece of wood which I picked up at the Dollar Store. I removed the chain and added some beautiful crinkled ribbon from My Craft Spot. Now don't you all agree that the ribbon is much prettier then a silly old chain.I cut my paper to the size I wanted and then added mod podge to the board, then laid the paper over it and put another layer of modge podge over top the paper. Easy peasy! After this was all dry, I sanded the edges and then painted the sides and back of the wood. After this dried, I was ready to rock and roll. I used these darling SVG files called Fall Boy which I purchased from Treasure Box Designs. I just love them and I really do think it looks very harvest looking. Time to bring in the corn and get ready for the long cold winter months to come. I hope you enjoyed today's project. Please make sure you check out the rest of the design teams project, I know they will have something extra special to show you. Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful Happy Harvest Projects.

Have a wonderful week!

Back To School / Fall Blog Hop

2011-09-10T06:00:00.004-06:00

Welcome to the "Back to School / Fall Blog Hop". First I would like to thank Sylvia for putting this wonderful Blog Hop together. If you arrived here from Sandy S blog you are on the right track. If you are a regular follower of my blog and just popped in to say hi, please go to the start by clicking HERE so you can see the entire hop from the beginning.

For the hop today I decided to make a two page layout for my youngest grandsons first day of school. I will keep the writing short since I have so many pictures to share. If you have any questions just email me or leave it in the comments and I will get back to you.

Kindergarten tag and First Day of School tag were both cut from Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge.

The ABC tag was cut from Recess Cricut Cartridge.

The School House was cut from Recess Cricut Cartridge.

The Pencil Guy and Big Red (the apple) are SVG File that I purchased from
My Scrap Chick.

The Crayons are really journal tags that were purchased from Michael's. They can be opened up and you can leave little hidden message inside them. They also came with envelopes so you could write little message and send them to school in your kids lunch kits, but I like using them on my layout for tags.

Here we have another hidden tag which I made and then used my computer to print my grandson name, date and school on. I used pop up dots for dimension and two different colours of gel pen to do the faux stitching. I added some apple brads , some cute metal embellishments I found in my stash and some ribbon for the final touches.

Before I forget! I do have blog candy today for one lucky follower, please leave a comment and a way to get in touch with you just in case you are the lucky winner . I will draw the winner for the blog candy on Tuesday.

Blog Candy includes: 20 sheets of 6X6 paper

Paper Bliss accents

Grade School Glitter pop-up embellishments

10 Things I Love About School Pocket

Mini Lunch Box Messages

Metal Rimmed Stickers

Pewter Embellishments

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I hope you have enjoyed everything you saw so far, now it is time to send you off to the amazing Anita.

I will also be entering this layout in the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut: Back to School: Use ABC's or 123's on your project

Whimsical Wednesday: Scrapping School Memories with a twist! Use a clipboard element in your layout, which I added clipboard behind my Kindergarten sign to give it extra dimension.

Back to School Blog Hop!

2011-09-07T15:52:00.003-06:00

Please stop by my blog this Saturday for a Back to School/Fall Themed Blog hop , I have a awesome two page layout to share with you and may even some yummy blog candy! LOL! See you all then!

Srappy Jak"s Cards of the Month & Fantabulous Cricut Challenge!

2011-08-31T07:00:00.003-06:00

Each month I look forward to getting my little parcel from Scrappy Jak, I am just like a little kid on Christmas Day just ripping it open to see what fun stuff I will get to play with this month.

For this card we were all given a blue base and 1 piece of really wild looking paper! The colours were so bright and cheery that I decided to make it into a Summer card.

The second card I am just totally in love with. Yesterday in the mail I received a swap package and there was this darling little pig inside, made by Just Yolie. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to use it right away. The colours go perfect with everything else. I added a little sentiment from My Craft Spot stamp set to the bottom of the card..

I will be entering this summer card into Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week: A Splash of Colour.

Thanks for joining me today, hope you enjoyed the cards.

Winner of My Craft Spot Stamp Release Set!

2011-08-30T16:12:00.002-06:00

Thank you everyone for joining the party with us girls last week. I had a great time and sure hope you were all inspire to start creating some of the awesome projects that were show cased last week. I used Random.org to pick the winner and he picked #48 (sorry I could not get this to post to my blog) so the winner of the My Craft Spot Neighbor & Friends stamp set is

Anonymous said...
Absolutely adorable, everything is sooooo cute!!!
-sharon-
Sharon could you please email me at jennyplace26@gmail.com so I can get your mailing address and forward it to My Craft Spot.

Once again thanks for all your beautiful comments and for continue to follow me. Have a great week!

My Craft Spot Challenge #23. Sew much fun!

2011-08-29T08:00:00.001-06:00

Time for another fun challenge at My Craft Spot. This week challenge, Kimberly asked us to create a project using sewing somewhere on our projects. This was a easy challenge for me since most of my projects do have faux stitching somewhere. So I decided to step it up a notch and drag out my sewing machine!

My sister Debby came across this old photo of my mother doing the laundry back in the early 1950's and was kind enough to send me a copy.

Do you remember the old wringer washer and having to hang the clothes on the line no matter what the weather was like? This was when laundry was a all day chore, but oh my goodness the clothes did smell delightful. My Mother was so young in this picture and Maytag did not even introduce it's first automatic dryer until 1953, not that my parents would be able to afford one for many years to come.

I had a ball making the clothesline, which was cut from Country Life Cricut cartridge at 5.50 inches, I used some stickels and bling on the clothes and stitched around the edges just to add a little extra . The washtub was also cut from the same cartridge but at 3 inches. I used some of the new marmalade crinkled ribbon which can be purchased at My Craft Spot and the colour worked in just perfect with my layout.

I hope you will be able to join in the Sew much fun challenge this week at My Craft Spot . I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful projects!

My Craft Spot Big Release Blog Hop!

2011-08-26T06:00:00.004-06:00

Welcome to My Craft Spot BIG RELEASE BLOG HOP! Finally the day has arrived that we can reveal all 4 NEW Stamp Sets that will be ready to purchase and ship at My Craft Spot today. Each Design Team Blog on the hop will be giving away ONE of the NEW stamp sets!!! So make sure you visit all of My Craft Spot amazing design Teams Blogs and leave a comment on each blog for your chance to win one of these fantastic NEW Stamp Sets!!!!!! If you arrived from Aymee Blog you are on the right track. If you are a regular follower of my blog and just stopped in to say hi, please go HERE to start at the beginning!

For my project today, I decided to make a gatefold card which I found at Monica's Creative Room free SVG. I added the spooky little ghost to the front of the card which was cut from Everyday Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge.

For the inside of the card I decided to use my Happy Hauntings cartridge for the graveyard scene and then added the tree from Oct.31st. cartridge.

The cute little Bella & Baxtor Trick or Treater is a SVG file that was purchased at My Scrap Chic
and of course we cannot forget the cute little sentiment! from My Craft Spot "Happy Hauntings" Stamp Set.

So now for the fun part! Today! My Craft Spot has given me a "Friends & Neighbors"- Inside and out Stamp Set to give to one of my wonderful followers. So make sure you leave a comment! Now it is time to say goodbye and send you off to the next amazing Design Team member who just happens to be Marlene. I am sure she has something wonderful up her sleeve to inspire you all.
(Winners will be drawer on Tuesday)

My Craft Spot Stamp Realease Party! Featuring "Happy Hauntings"

2011-08-25T06:00:00.001-06:00

Today is day 4 of My Craft Spot Stamp Release Party. I hope you were able to check out all the sneak peeks so far. Today I will be showing you a sneak peek of the new stamp set called "Happy Haunting"

This set has so many cute sayings, it was really hard to pick just a couple! I cut this label using Recess Cricut Cartridge at 3.50 inches then heat embossed the stamp.

This label was cut at 3 inches and once again I used heat embossing for the stamp.

I cut these adorable 3D coffins from Happy Haunting Cricut cartridge. I just think they turned out so stinkin cute. I then lined the boxes with a couple of my hubby's hankies to make it look like a real coffin ( but we won't tell him that ) I took a couple of snicker chocolate bars and wrapped them in party steamers from the Dollar store and added a couple of googly eyes. I hope you enjoyed today project as much as I enjoyed making it.

Stamp Release Party Giveaways:
Each day this week Kimberly will have a fun prize for you from My Craft Spot! So make sure you head over there to see what the rest of the design team have made with this wonderful new stamp set and then, on Friday, we will be having a Blog Hop and each stop will be giving away one of the new stamp sets! (That is 9 stamp sets - Woohoo!) There are so many ways to win so make sure you stop by My Craft Spot to check out our Stamp Release Party! and don't forget to come back tomorrow and hop with us!
Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Birthday to Our Fairy Princess!

2011-08-24T15:48:00.006-06:00

Today's card was made for a bunch of different challenges and a very special granddaughter. I love when I can work a bunch of challenges into one card with time being so short. It seems like ever since I retired I just have so little time, I really do not know what I do with it, but I do know I am always facing a deadline somewhere. (Just ask my sister , she is always complaining about not seeing me enough! LOL!)

For today's card I used my gypsy and welded two circles together using George and Basic Shapes. Then I used Lacy Labels for the front of the card, it has so many beautiful labels that can be used for cards or photo mats. The Fairy and tag were cut from a Child's Year, the more I use this cartridge the more I like it. I think the fairy turned out so beautiful, just like our sweet little granddaughter.

The first challenge is Whimsical Wednesday: This was a tough one and I really hope I did it right. Their challenge this week is called Three Times a Charm! 3 cuts ( tag, fairy and mat 3 layers), 3 colours( pink, white and green) and 3 of the same embellishments( 3 pink pearls).

Next is Fantabulous Cricut Challenge me Monday: Birthday Bash-make a birthday project.

Celebrate the Occasion: Circle Card

Birthday Sundae's: Use Pink, White and green & a Birthday Sentiment

Tanks for Stopping by have a super good week!

My Craft Spot Stamp Release Party! Featuring " Neighbors & Friends"

2011-08-23T06:00:00.002-06:00

Welcome to My Craft Spot Stamp Release Party. Each day this week you will get a sneak peek of one of the 4 new stamp sets being released this week.

Today we are giving you all a sneak peek of " Friends and Neighbors"

When I first saw this stamp set I just new I had to use this SVG File"Bear Hugs"I had purchased from Precious Piecings I just knew it would go perfect with this new stamp set!

This card is called a Criss Cross Card and the instruction can be found over at Spiltcoaststampers.

Stamp Release Party Giveaways:
Each day this week Kimberly will have a fun prize for you from My Craft Spot! So make sure you head over there to see what the rest of the design team have made with this wonderful new stamp set and then, on Friday, we will be having a Blog Hop and each stop will be giving away one of the new stamp sets! (That is 9 stamp sets - Woohoo!) There are so many ways to win so make sure you stop by My Craft Spot to check out our Stamp Release Party!
Thanks for stopping by today!

Don't forget to add this this button to your blog and let Kimberly know for a second chance to win! So head on over to My Craft Spot now!

Back to School Goodie Jar! I Love My Teacher!

2011-08-17T14:32:00.007-06:00

My grandson will be starting kindergarten this year and I thought it would be nice for him to take a little gift to his teacher. I saw this ideal on one of the many blogs that I follow, but I will be darned if I can remember who's. If it was you let me know so I can give credit where it belongs.

This was a very fun project to make and took no time at all. I picked up the jar at the Dollar store and then just hot glued crayons around it. It did take 2 1/2 packages of the large crayons, but then I didn't use the blacks, browns and greys. I then tied a pretty ribbon around the middle and added a tag. I hope his teacher will like it, I know I do! I am going to put some sugar free suckers into the jar for a treat for the kids in his classroom.

I will be entering this in the following challenges:
Whimisical Wednesday: Back to School ( no cards this week )
Crop Stop: Back to School
Creative Cutter Room: A gift for teacher.
As always thanks for stopping bye. Have a great week!

Hugs and Kisses! My Craft Spot Challenge.

2011-08-15T07:00:00.003-06:00

Time for another challenge at My Craft Spot. This weeks challenge is to make a gift box or gift bag. I made a really cool 3D box, but you will have to wait until next weeks big release of My Craft Spots 4 new stamps sets to see it, so make sure you come and join the party! It is just the cutest thing since apple pie and I know you all will be just dieing to make one of your own! There will be some awesome prizes and super projects to get you inspired!

Anyway back to today's project. I used Tags, Bags and More and used the cut to size button on my cricut. I picked up the paper at Michaels on sale and it only used the one sheet for the box. I filled the inside of the box with chocolate covered pretzels and then tied some pretty chocolate truffle crinkle ribbon around the box. The tag was from a SU punch and then I stamped 2 sentiments on the tag from My Craft Spot sentiments. This was a quick and easy project. Hope you enjoy. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I am going to enter this treat box in this weeks Simply Sunday challenge at Getting Cricky with K. Andrew.

Come Join The Party at My Craft Spot!

2011-08-11T18:49:00.003-06:00

Your'e invited!

We are going to be celebrating My Craft Spot newest stamp release all week, starting August 22nd!

Each day you will get a sneak peek at one of the 4 new stamp sets. Kim's fabulous design team are cooking up lots of fun new projects and ideas - you won't want to miss it!

You will have a chance to win some blog candy each day! The winners will be announced on Friday!

Come join our blog hop on the last day (Friday) with fun prizes and great project ideas at each stop!

Add this button to your site and you will qualify for an extra blog candy entry each day of the party!

Sweet Pea Card! & Winner from Princess Blog Hop

2011-08-09T15:24:00.008-06:00

I made this card for a couple of different challenges I had in mind. So I started out by using my gypsy and my Lacey Labels Cricut cartridge to make the base of the card. The first challenge I found on face book and it was to use a cartridge that you just had to have but just never seemed to get around to using!

So I decided this would be a real easy challenge since I am addicted to buying the cartridges and have so many that have not been used! My nephews wife is having a baby girl in a couple of months so I decided to make a card for when baby Melenka is born!

I used New Arrivals for the cricut cuts and used Theresa's favorite colours which are purple and green. I then added some dimensional stickers by Studio 112 and some beautiful crinkled ribbon from My Craft Spot to finish the card off. The funny thing is, I cannot find this challenge anywhere! LOL! But, I will keep looking. The second challenge is over at Fantabulous Cricut: Their challenge this week is to use a bug on your project.
Update!

Yipee!

Thanks to my wonderful blogging friend I have found the 1st Challenge I was looking for, it is Kimberli's Creation's: make a project using a cartridge that you barely use, which would be my New Arrivals ( I hate to say this but I have only used this cartridge once) so now thanks to abusybee I can sleep tonight!

Now onto the winner of the Princess Blog Hop. I had 33 wonderful comments and I do thank each and everyone of you for them. I really enjoy reading them to my hubby, he thought I was so mean when I dressed Button's up for the pictures the night before the hop but he loved hearing your comments of his baby girl! Sometimes I think he loves her more then he loves me! Anyhow the lucky winner was # 31 Jaime please email me at jennyplace26@gmail.com If I have not heard from you in one week I will draw a new winner. Thank you for visting my blog, have a great week.

Princess Blog Hop

2011-08-06T07:30:00.005-06:00

Welcome to my blog and the Princess Blog Hop. If you arrived from Sandy's you are on the right track! If you happen to stumble upon my Blog and would like to play along please do so by starting at Sylvia's Blog .

For my project today I have decided to do layout of our little princess Button's.

The princess cupcake carriage and castle are SVG Files which were purchased from Designs on Cloud 9.

I used D'vine Swirls and Swiss Dots embossing folders. Tons of bling and my gel pen.

The paper is from Say it with a Smirk Brat Pack ( I loved the little sayings, I thought it was just perfect for our spoiled little brat!)

I hope you enjoyed today's project. Please leave a comment with a way to get in touch with you if you would like to have a chance to win some sweet blog candy. One lucky follower will have a chance to win this package of textured impressions Embossing Folders by Sizzix.

Now it is time to send you of to Patty's blog.
Thanks for stopping bye!

Bunning Crossing! Bug Bites Stamp Release Party!

2011-08-06T06:00:00.007-06:00

Are you ready for another sneak peak?
Barb over at BugBites has created a stamp set call All Year Round.
I used the Bunny Crossing sentiment on todays project.

Then I saw this empty spot on the bottom of my card and thought I should add another one of these adorable sentiments and added " Don't be blue I'm thinking of you

Bugs Bunny is a free SVG file that I got from Mardenz.
The little sign was cut using Disney Winnie the Pooh Cartridge. I used paper tearing for the hills , chalked the edges. added a bit of gel pen and pop dots and once again another adorable card for someone special.

I am going to enter this card in the challenge over at Scrappin It: The challenge is to make a summer card.
Don't forget!

Barb will be giving away a BugBites stamp set each day to one lucky follower who leaves a comment on the daily post, August 1-7. Drawing will be held August 8th for all days to coordinate with the reveal of the stamp set.
So to clarify, on August 8th, Barb will draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 1 post, then draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 2 post, etc.
So head on over and take a look at all the cute cards made with these wonderful sentiments and leave a comments for a chance to win your very own set of BugBites All Year Round Stamp Set!

Scrappy Jak Card of the Month! July 4th or Independece Day!

2011-08-03T06:00:00.000-06:00

Once a month Melissa from Scrappy Jak on Facebook sends out a Card of The Month package with a couple of projects for us ladies to make and then we all post them on the same day over on Facebook. It is a lot of fun and it is really amazing how many different cards are made from the same basic material she sends to us.

My first card I used A Child's Year Cricut Cartridge cutting my little guy and car at 3 inches. I used pop up dots to raise the imagine. The card is a A2 size card....Blue base with blue star patterend paper. We all must use the card base and a portion of each other supply that is sent to us, I just love the way it turned out.

My second card I used a free SVG file from Kadoodle called All American Bear. I also used pop ups dots to raise the imagine and inked all my edges. This is also a A2 card and we all started out with a red base with star patterned paper and a piece of red ribbon. Isn't he just the cutest little bear ever?

The cute sentiment is from BugBites new stamp set which is being released this week!

Barb will be giving away a BugBites stamp set each day to one lucky follower who leaves a comment on the daily post, August 1-7. Drawing will be held August 8th for all days to coordinate with the reveal of the stamp set.
So to clarify, on August 8th, Barb will draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 1 post, then draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 2 post, etc.
So head on over and take a look at all the cute cards made with these wonderful sentiments and leave a comments for a chance to win your very own set of BugBites All Year Round Stamp Set!

Thanks for stopping bye my blog and leaving your wonderful comments. Have a great week!

Rain or shine! Bug Bites Stamp Release Party

2011-08-02T06:00:00.005-06:00

All this week, Barb and her blogger friends, are giving you a sneak peek of Barb's first stamp set ever, "All Year Round".
This stamp set has sentiments for all season in one package. The stamp set will be available starting August 8th over at BugBites. Here's my sneak peak using this new stamp set.

I picked up this beautiful double sided card stalk by Minds Eye about a month or so ago and knew this would be just perfect for my first project. It was if it was made for this cute sentiment.

I used my gypsy to make this cool shaped card using Lacey Labels Cricut Cartridge. The sun was cut from Simply Charmed and the girl was cute from Kate's ABC's

This weeks challenge me Monday over at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project for a friend. I think Barbs stamps is just perfect for my BFF...Don't you?

Don't forget!

Barb will be giving away a BugBites stamp set each day to one lucky follower who leaves a comment on the daily post, August 1-7. Drawing will be held August 8th for all days to coordinate with the reveal of the stamp set.
So to clarify, on August 8th, Barb will draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 1 post, then draw a winner from all those that left a comment on the August 2 post, etc.
So head on over and take a look at all the cute cards made with these wonderful sentiments and leave a comments for a chance to win your very own set of BugBites All Year Round Stamp Set!

I will have another sneak peak of these awesome stamps on Saturday, so make sure you come back and have a look. I am sure you will not be disappointed. LOL!

My Craft Spot "Smile" DT Challenge & Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

2011-08-01T08:00:00.002-06:00

It's time for another challenge over at My Craft Spot! This week the Design Team were asked to make a project that would make you Smile. Now who wouldn't smile at strawberries and chocolate?

When I sit back and think of the things that make me smile most in life , I think of my Family, Friends and Food! With this being said, I decided to make a easel card to welcome my BFF home from vacation!

Kimberly from My Craft Spot had also just sent me some of her yummy new shades of crinkled ribbon and twine ( which can be purchased over at My Craft Spot), and I just fell in love with the new shade of hot pink, it is just so yummy looking and of course my all time favorite colour! All the papers used were from my scrap bucket. The strawberry was cut at 3 inches from my Cricut Sweet Shop Cartridge I then used my Swiss dots embossing folder to give it a bit of texture. Final touches on the card were the stickles, a few pop up dots and the stamp from My Craft Spots sentiments "Thinking of you"

I will also be entering this card over at Whimsical Wednesday. This weeks challenge #16: Fun with Folds.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team members and I look forward to seeing just what makes you SMILE!

Winner! Winner!

2011-07-29T14:34:00.005-06:00

Just a quick post to announce the winner of the Nursery Tail Cartridge from the Christmas in July Bog Hop. I took all the comments from my blog over the four days of the hop and I had a total of 125 comments, I then used Random.org and the lucky winner is # 68.

So the winner is................Shersl84bed.

Congratulation!

I sure hope that you will be able to whip up some great cuts from this cartridge and if you just happen to make any extras cuts you can send them my way! LOL. I was just so bummed when I saw this would not work in my machine, my loss but your gain!

Thanks to all my new and old for followers for visiting my blog and for all your lovely comments. I do read every single one of them.

Part 2 Of The Cookie Factory Layout! Day 4 Christmas in July Blog Hop

2011-07-25T00:28:00.006-06:00

Welcome to Day 4 of Memories in Tyme Blog hop! If you arrived here from Lori Blog you are in the right place. If you are a regular follower of my blog and would like to start at the beginning please start at Lynda’s blog.

Lynda will be giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person… In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower and leave a comment on all the blogs along the way.
I will also be giving away my own blog candy which will be a Cricut Nursery Tails Cartridge to one of my lucky followers! This hop is 4 days long so make sure you come by each day and leave a comment so you will get 4 chances to win the cartridge!

First I would like to say I am sorry for the pictures, we had no light today, so they did not turn out the best. So as you can see this is the second page of the layout I showed you yesterday. I just love this two pager and cannot wait to get some pictures of the kids baking cookies.

I would like to thanks you all for dropping by my blog and leaving such wonderful comments. You really know how to make my day.

The only thing I did different for this layout is I used My Mickey and Friends font cartridge to cut the letters for cookies. Other then that everything is the same as yesterday.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented
Brynn Blog

Cookie Factory Layout! Day 3! Christmas In July Blog Hop!

2011-07-24T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to Day 3 of Memories in Tyme Blog hop! If you arrived here from Lori Blog you are in the right place. If you are a regular follower of my blog and would like to start at the beginning please start at Lynda’s blog.

Lynda will be giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person… In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower and leave a comment on all the blogs along the way.
I will also be giving away my own blog candy which will be a Cricut Nursery Tails Cartridge to one of my lucky followers! This hop is 4 days long so make sure you come by each day and leave a comment so you will get 4 chances to win the cartridge!

For toady's project, I decided to make a Christmas layout. I am working on the second page and hopefully will have it done for tomorrows posting. I have both of my grandsons staying with me for a week or two, so I have be spending time with them, cooking ,baking and just doing Grandma things . They are old enough to look after them self's but they like to spend time with us, Adrian is 21 already and Jaime just turned 16. I have no ideal where the time has gone, it just seems like yesterday that I was holding them in my arms.

I picked up this paper by We R Memory Keeper at our local scrapbooking store in a package that had been marked done to $3.33 for 12 sheet called White Christmas Holiday Cheer coordinating paper. Now that is what a call a great deal.

The little gingerbread Doll on the oval frame is from Cottage Cutz , it comes with a unique & Fun Shaped Die and includes 2 clear PKS faces.

The cookie factory house and rolling pin is a SVG files that I purchased at Treasure Box Designs.

I used stickles for the snow to add a bit of glitter.

A little bit of bling for the buttons, and inked all the edges.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented
Brynn Blog

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday # 69 & Whimsical Wednesday Challenge # 15

2011-07-23T16:58:00.006-06:00

If you are looking for Day 2 of the Christmas in July Blog Hop and would like a chance to win a Nursery Tails Cricut Cartridge please click Here and leave a comment. I will be drawing for the prize on July 26th.

I made this cute card for the following two challenges The first challenge is over at Fantaublous Cricut this weeks challenge me Monday #69 is to create a project with a cool treat, and then the next challenge is over at Whimsical Wednesday: Challenge # 15 is create a project using all scraps! So I put my thinking cap on and went through my scraps and this is what I came up with.

All the paper used in this project were from my scrap bucket. You gotta love cards like that. I used my new Cricut Cartridge Sweet Shop to cut this yummy ice cream float at 5.5 inches. I then decided to add a yummy little truffle to sweeten up my treat card, just a wee bit more. I think I gained 10 pounds just making this card and dreaming about how yummy it would taste.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend.

Day 2! Christmas in July Blog Hop!

2011-07-23T05:00:00.002-06:00

Welcome to Day 2 of Memories in Time Blog hop! If you arrived here from Lori Blog you are in the right place. If you are a regular follower of my blog and would like to start at the beginning please start at Lynda’s blog.

Lynda will be giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person… In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower and leave a comment on all the blogs along the way.
I will also be giving away my own blog candy which will be a Cricut Nursery Tails Cartridge to one of my lucky followers! This hop is 4 days long so make sure you come by each day and leave a comment so you will get 4 chances to win the cartridge!

For today's project I decided to make a Christmas ornament. Another quick and easy gift. I started out with a clear Christmas ornaments which I picked up last year after Christmas for dirt cheap at Michael's. I then added a little bit of floor polish and swirled in around on the inside of the empty bulb , making sure to cover it well then threw out the extra polish in my garbage can. I then added about 1/3 of the bottle of glitter and swirled that around making sure to cover it all, it sticks to the floor polish like glue. Then if there is any extra glitter inside of the ornament I also threw that into the garbage can.

After letting it dry I cut a Cricut head at 3 inches using my Cricut cartridge A Garden of Words using 2 shades of vinyl. This is the first time I layered vinyl so I think with a bit of practice the next one will be better. I then added a bow to the top and there you have another cheap Christmas ideal. Last year I even added the person name, a Christmas greeting and the year on the back of the ornament. A keepsake for years to come. If you do not own a Cricut to cut the vinyl, I found that rub-ons work very well also.

Here is a picture of the blog candy that I will be giving away for this hop. It is a brand new cartridge, but the shell has been removed. I was so excited when I got this cartridge and did not realize it was for the imagine machine, which sadly I do not own.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented
Brynn Blog

Christmas in July Blog Hop! Day One!

2011-07-22T06:00:00.007-06:00

Welcome to the Memories in Tyme Christmas in July blog hop!! The ec...onomy is hard right now, so what better way to save money then by making wonderful things for your friends and family instead of spending a ton of money. Everyone has been working really hard on their projects, and we all hope you enjoy all the fun ideas we are sharing with you!!
If you arrived here from Lori Blog you are in the right place. If you are a regular follower of my blog and would like to start at the beginning please start at Lynda’s blog.

Lynda will be giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person… In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower of all the blogs and leave comments on all the blogs along the way.
I will also be giving away my own Blog Candy

and you say what would that be???

And I say a Cricut Imagine Nursery Tails Cartridge!

I will take all comments left on my blog for the next four days and pick one lucky follower to win , so if you would like a better chance to win make sure you come back to see what I have cooked up for you tomorrow!

For today project a took a old Cd Case and turned it into a picture Frame. This was such a quick and easy project to whip up and the cost was next to nothing!

Material used:

1 sheet of pattern paper

1 package of chipboard stikkers from the Dollar Store

1 used CD case!

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented

Brynn Blog

My Craft Spots DT Christmas In July Challenge!

2011-07-18T06:00:00.005-06:00

Time for another fun challenge over at My Craft Spot! This week the Design Team was asked to make a Christmas in July Project.

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year! I love the hustle and bustle, the shopping for the perfect gifts, making all the kids favorite Christmas cookies and having my family around me! I love putting up my three trees and decorating my house from top to bottom!

For my layout I used Christmas Noel to cut the doll out. I think she looks so much like a porcelain doll.

The tag was cut from tag, bag and more and the sweet little mouse is a SVG File I purchased from Precious Piecings. The twine on the tag can be purchased at My Craft Spot in every colour of the rainbow!

The Christmas Tree is also a SVG File I purchased from Precious Piecings.

Here's another shot of my darling little mouse!

The rocking horse, doll and bear were cut from Christmas Noel and the presents were cut from Celebrations. I am going to enter this layout in the challenge over at Simon Says Stamps. I hope you liked my layout and will join us this week in creating a Christmas in July project. Now go take a peek at what my fellow designers have created for you at My Craft Spot.

The Great Outdoors! Banff National Park!

2011-07-17T18:30:00.008-06:00

Just last weekend my sons family went camping to Banff National Park for the weekend. I had just picked up this wonderful paper by Imaginisce and thought it would go great with a outdoor theme.

I used Camping Critters to cut the trees and skunks and the ran it through my Cuttlebug embossing folders and inked the edges and then used some pop up dots.

This is a shot of the grand kids rock climbing in the mountains

I cut the tent from Summer Vacation

The fire was cut from create a critter and the moose was cut from Camping critters. This week the challenge over at The Paper Variety is a photo inspiration!

I just love all the bright colours in this photo and this is my take of it.

The second challenge is More than Favors: Wacky Wednesday Challenge: Fun in the sun challenge, what better way to enjoy the sun then camping! Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Merry Christmas! CTO Challenge #22

2011-07-14T17:12:00.006-06:00

Last weekend I picked up a few new Cricut Cartridges, well maybe a wee bit more then a few!

One of the cartridges that I did pick up was the new Lacy Labels from Walmart.

For this quick and simple card I used my Gypsy and welded two of the same labels together at 4.50. I am so proud of myself, I now have three Christmas cards already to go, If I keep this up I just might be ready for Christmas.

I am going to enter this card in the challenge over at Celebrate The Occasion. This weeks challenge is to create a Christmas themed shaped card. Thanks for stopping in and have a great week!

Christmas in July (no red) !!! Three Challenges!

2011-07-06T20:49:00.012-06:00

Today I have a super fun Christmas card to share with you. This weeks challenge over at both Celebrate the Occasion and The Paper Variety is to create a Christmas in July project! For the challenge at Celebrate the Occasion your project must not have the colour red in it! Boy was this a hard challenge for me, it seemed like every piece of paper I picked up had a bit of red somewhere on it. But after looking through my 1000 and some papers, I found this pretty blue paper from KC and Company I had picked up last year after Christmas for a super cheap price.

For the base of the card I dug out my Wild Card Cartridge and blew the dust off it. It was just one of those cartridges I just had to have when it first came out and then I just never seem to get around to using it. This weeks challenge over at Cricut Cartridge Chaso is to use the Wild Card cartridge which was picked by the followers. Over the weekend I stumbled upon another awesome blog that just happened to be having a blog hop over at Scrapmaster's Paradise. At the end of the hop you can enter your own blue project so I thought this would be fun one to enter also.

So I thought this would work out great .......four challenges for the price of one. I first cut the envelope out and used the fit to page button and it cut at 5 inches. So then I knew my card also had to be 5 inches to fit in the envelope. Earlier this week I had purchased this darling SVG file for the Elf from Precious Piecings and was just dyeing to try it out. After putting the little guy together I placed him on a action wobble. OMG! I just had to laugh...he is just so darn cute! The card still seem to be missing something so I looked through all my stash and found these white pointseta by Making Memories and used some stickles to finish the card it off. I just love this little guy I did a very short video just to show you him in action. Have a great week and thanks for stopping bye!

You are My Sunshine Layout for My Craft Spot Challenge!

2011-07-04T06:00:00.006-06:00

Time for another fun challenge over at My Craft Spot! This weeks challenge is to create a project showing us some Sunny Days ( anything that reminds you of summer). I decided to use the sketch from this weeks challenge at The Paper Variety. I love using sketches when I am having scrapbookers block!

I used KC & Company paper and a few odds and ends from my scrap bucket. I used my H20 Cricut cartridge for the pool and sea horse.

This adorable little girl is a SVG file that I purchased from Precious Piecings. When I saw this little girl I just had to have it, it looks so much like my sweet grand daughter Jasmine! Then I decided to add a button that was shaped like a popsicle to her cute little hand.

This picture is of my three beautiful grand daughters and they are not only sisters, but very best friends. So I used a rub on and a little clipboard piece I had tucked away in my stash to make the Girlfriends title.

The stamp in the middle of the sun, which reads
"You are my sunshine" is from My Craft Spot inside and out Sentiments Stamp Set, and
the sun was cut from my Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge.

Finishing touches on the layout were glitter gel pen, ink around all the edges, some Stickles which I added to the sun and a bit of embossing.

I am also going to enter this layout over at Getting Cricky with K.C. Andrew Simply Sunday challenge: Summer Fun!

and also FCCB Challenge Me Monday #67: Pool Time

So now it is your turn to show us your wonderful Sunny Days projects and have a chance to win some yummy candy over at My Craft Spot.

Happy Canada Day! And Winner from Zoe's Friendship Blog Hop.

2011-07-01T22:09:00.005-06:00

Just a quick post to wish my fellow Canadians a Happy Canada Day and to share the center piece I made for the table in honor of Canada's 144 Birthday.

This year I was lucky enough to have my kids over for supper , so I decided to whip this together late last night for the grand kids!

You should of seen Joshua, our youngest when he laid his eyes on it ...... he was right up on the table! I could not believe the reaction I got from the kids. They were just so excited!

This is the cake my hubby decided he was going to make, I could not believe it when Alf said he was going to bake a cake, Alf cannot even boil water! I know it doesn't look the greatest but oh my goodness it sure tasted yummy!

Last, I would like to share this picture of three of the grand kids waving their flags! and of course my beautiful daughter Christy, who is just waiting to cut into the cake.

I will be entering this project into the Happy Canada Day Blog hop. After finishing the hop they have asked us to make a Canadian Themed project . If you would like to see a bunch of great projects and have a chance to win some yummy blog candy the hop begins Here.

As always thanks for stopping in! Hope you all have a great Canada Day or a Happy 4Th of July to all my followers in the USA!

Oops! I just about forgot to say who won the Blog Candy!!

Silly me! It has been a very, very long day.

I used random.org

and the lucky winner is #8

mjblahik56 said

Love your layout and your story about you and your bff. TFS.

Zoe's Friendship Blog Hop!

2011-06-27T08:00:00.006-06:00

Welcome to Zoe's Friendship Blog Hop. If you arrived here from Melissa you are on the right track. If you just happened to stumble on my blog and would like to start at the beginning please click Here.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our live mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand, this is a true friend that cares. This layout is in honor of My BFF "Sharon"!

When I became ill about four years ago all of our friends walked away from us except for Sharon, she has always been there for me, it doesn't matter how rotten I feel or how miserable I get, I know I can count on her! I don't know if everyone else thought I was going to drop dead or what, but I really needed them and they were no where to be found. ( Don't get me wrong , I do have a wonderful supporting family, but I do need a friend once in awhile)

I found the poem on the Internet and I think it just sums up the way I feel about Sharon.

Sharon and I have so much in common, we both love Bingo, Vegas, good looking guys, shopping, reading and of course are Cricuts! I took this picture one night at Bingo when we were just joking around.
Sharon you are my BFF now and forever! Thanks for being there for me!

I DO LOVE YOU.
Now on to the fun stuff!

Who whats Blog Candy?

was a bit worried that I would not be able to give my wonderful followers a chance to win some blog candy for this hop, we have a Mail Strike going on here in Canada, but one of my Blogging Friends has stepped in and saved the day! Kimberly from My Craft Spot has kindly donated a $15.00 Gift Certificate for My Craft Spot! How cool is that?

If you have not been over to My Craft Spot make sure you go over there and visit. Not only can you purchase beautiful crinkled ribbon in so many stunning colours, twines and wonderful Sentiment stamp sets, every Monday Kimberly has a fun challenge with a awesome prizes to be won!

Thank you Kim for saving the day!

Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Rhonda.
Thank you for stopping bye! Have a great week and don't forget to check out the challenge at My Craft Spot.

Christmas In June! One Down!

2011-06-26T21:39:00.005-06:00

Thanks to a couple of the Blogs I follow, I can now say I have my first Christmas Card done and it is only June! Yippee!!

It all started with Linda's Creativity Blog. This weeks challenge is to make a Christmas project to get a head start on one of the busiest seasons of the year.

I also decided to make the card the old school way, with no cricut cuts! This way I could also enter it over at My Creative Time: This weeks challenge, create a cricutless project, following the sketch provided.

I used KC and Company Christmas Paper Pack from last year and some darling Chipboard pieces that I picked up at the Dollar Store. I then added a few snowflake brads and stamped a poem on the inside.
Hope you enjoy!

Good Times! Shine on Me!

2011-06-24T14:17:00.019-06:00

When I saw this picture of my Sister Debby's grandsons, I just new I had to scrap it.

The look on Evans face is just priceless!

I used Winni The Pooh and Friends cricut cartridge for the sun and film strip. The face on the sun was stamped with PKS.

I torn the paper and chalked the edges of the water.

The good times and Hot Hot title are chip board pieces from the Dollar Store.

Challenges that I will be entering are the following:

Getting Cricky: Simple Sunday: Shine on Me!

Fantabulous Cricut: Make a project with a sun.

Celebrate the Occasion: Make a project with a sun.

The Paper Variety: Summer has Begun.

Whimsical Wednesday: Fun with Colour

Must include the colours yellow and red .

Winner! & My Birthday Cake! A Must See!!

2011-06-22T09:19:00.008-06:00

First I would like to thank everyone who stopped by to help celebrate Sylvia's Birthday. I enjoyed reading all your wonderful comments and thank you all for visiting my blog . I also would like to thank Michelle from Design on Cloud 9 for donating my yummy blog candy for this hop. If you have not checked out her blog, you really do not know what you are missing!!! So with this being said. I used random .org to pick my winner and the winner is

#19!

But first I would like to share a couple of pictures from my Birthday.

It was on June 10th, but I have been so ill that the kids didn't make it over till Sunday to help celebrate. My son made this amazing cake for me! Everything on it can be eaten! The tree was made from Rice Crispies. Not only does it look good it even tasted better. I am a hug fan of Disney and this is what they came up with!

So with this being said, I guess you would like to know who lucky #19 is!

The winner is

Amy C

Please email me with your information so I can pass it on to Michelle at Design on Cloud 9.

Thanks for stopping bye, don't forget to check back next Monday. I am in another Blog Hop with more Yummy Candy to be had.

Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop & My Craft Spot DT Post!

2011-06-20T05:00:00.001-06:00

Welcome to The Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop. First I would like to say Happy Birthday to Sylvia , Hope all your wishes come true! If you arrived here from Becka Blog you are on the right track. If you just happen to stumble upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning please Click Here!

So whats a Birthday without a Sweet Treat?

Not only is this a cupcake, but look whats attached to the cherry! Direction for this project can be found over at Fabulously Artsy.
( Warning....be prepared to laugh)

For this hop I decided to do two projects, not only is it a blog hop but it is time for another wonderful challenge at My Craft Spot! This weeks challenge is to create a project with something Sweet!

So I kept with the Birthday Theme and added some very yummy looking candy!

These great photos were taken this year at Jasper National Park on my brother in laws 65Th Birthday .

I used twine for the banner, which comes in so many beautiful colour's and can be purchased at My Craft Spot along with the Happy Birthday sentiment which is also from My Crafts Spot Inside and out Stamp Set Sentiments #2.

I used Glossy Accents on both the sucker and candy apple to make it shine, just like a real candy apple would.

Cartridges used for this project were George and Basic Shapes, Paisley for the suckers, Celebrations for the candies and October 31st for the candy apple. Don't forget to check out this weeks challenge at My Craft Spot. I am sure there will be some yummy sweets for this weeks challenge.

Now if you have stuck with me this long, just wait to you see the Yummy Sweet Blog Candy I have for you today! One lucky follower will receive $25.00 in SVG files from Design On Cloud 9 ! If you have not checked out Design On Cloud 9, you do not know what you are missing! It seems like everyday Michelle just keeps coming up with more and more great designs and each one is better than the last. She has so kindly donated my blog candy for you today!....Thank you Design On Cloud 9....you are the best!

Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Sandy Blog.
Thanks for stopping bye!
Have a Sweet Day!

My Pink Stamper Birthday Challenge!

2011-06-18T18:41:00.004-06:00

I made this card for the challenge over at My Pink Stampers

Today's challenge is all about Birthdays. I decided to make a Center Fold card which is a blast to make and so quick and easy. Instruction for the card can be found at Splitcoast Stampers. I used 3 Birds on Parade for the sweet little bird on the front. All papers were from my scrap bucket. I inked all the edges in a light brown ink, added a bit of ribbon and bling, and now I have a cute little card for when I need it.

Thanks for stopping in. Have a wonderful weekend.

My Honey Bunnies Two Page Layout!

2011-06-14T16:25:00.016-06:00

I have been working on this layout for a couple of weeks now and I am just so happy with the final results!

Over on Facebook I came across this awesome Company called Design on Cloud 9 . When Michelle reached 500 followers she would be give away this darling SVG File Honey Bunnies for free!

Let me tell you I shared that link more then once with my friends because I just had to have it!
Michelle also has a blog with many wonderful SVG for sale at really good prices. If you haven't check it out make sure you head on over......you will not be sorry!
Click Here to go to Design On Cloud 9 Blog!

I will be entering this layout in the following challenges.

Design on Cloud 9 Facebook challenge: Create a project using the Honey Bunnies Svg
My Creative Time Throwback Thursday: Use any Cricut Lite Cartridge and incorporate some bling.
Cooking With Cricut: Pick Your Own Poison: use your favorite cartridge and colours.
Getting Cricky with K Andrews: Simple Sunday Challenge: Your Choice.

I used two cartridges for this layout both being my favorite!

Twinkle Toes and Storybook.

I love both these cartridges for my photo matting.

And here is a picture of the two pages together

My Craft Spot Challenge! Happy Fathers Day to My Sweetie!

2011-06-13T06:00:00.005-06:00

I cannot believe it is already Monday, which means it is time for another challenge over at My Craft Spot. This weeks challenge #12 is to create a project for fathers day.

I lost my father at a very young age. Dad was truly a great man and father, he was loved by everyone and even though we had very little money growing up he made sure that us three girls had everything that was important in life, especially Love! I have so many fond memories of my Dad and I miss him dearly. He was only 55 when he passed away. My hubby's father is also gone, so my card this week is for my wonderful husband ....... even if the old guy forgot my Birthday!!! That is two years in a row. I could understand if we had only been together for a few years, but we are talking 41 years in October.

I guess he can blame it on old age. LOL!

My card this week is called a Center Step Card, instruction for this card can be found over at Splitcoast Stampers, it was so easy to whip up and I just love the way it turned out! What is even better ........ is all the paper was from my very large scrap bucket.

Both the crinkled ribbon and twine can be purchased at My Craft Spot. Kimberly has so many lovely colours to choose from, in both the ribbon and twine. This week she has added some Beautiful New Ribbon colours to her collections and they look so yummy! How about Old Glory: which includes three great new colours, Cranberry, Vanilla Bean and Navy Blue or the 4th of July collection: Scarlet Red, Snow White and Navy Blue, last but not least she has the new Summer Vacation: collection which is Caribbean, Sandy Beach and Hot Pink! So make sure you pop over to My Craft Spot and check out the newest colours!

The bottom sentiment reads "You make my life sweet" which is from My Craft Spots Sentiment inside and Out Stamp Set which can also be purchased over at My Craft Spot .

Now it is your turn to show us all your wonderful Father Days Projects. Who knows what yummy candy Kimberly will have this week up for grabs .

I am also going to enter this card in the following Challenges:

Whimsical Wednesday #10- Dad's Day

Capturing A Moment of Time- Dad's Day

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you go check out the rest of Kimberly amazing Design Team projects!

Have a great week creating!

Winners! Winners!

2011-06-10T10:19:00.007-06:00

OMG! I forgot to post the winner from Nicolette's Birthday Bash Blog hop! I guess that's what happens when you get to be my age! Today is my Birthday...and that makes me......one year older....and that more forgetful. LOL!

So with that being said

The lucky winner is #20

Jenn said

Such an adorable layout!! Love the colours, TFS :)
hugs, Jenn

Please send me a email with your mailing information and I will get your Disney Fairy Stamp Set in the mail.

Now for the winner of the Cricut Cartridge to help celebrate both my blog anniversary and my birthday! I took all the comments from both the Grillin and Chillin blog hop and from Nicolette's Birthday Blog hop and put them in a hat and got Hubby to draw the winner for me. The winner is!!!!!!

#60 from the Grillin & Chillin Blog Hop

Anonymous said

LOVE, LOVE LOVE this layout! So much detail! The barrel of beer is such a cute touch. I'm a follower (Deborah) but I'm having trouble posting so I'm using anonymous.

Deborah did leave a contact # so I have already emailed her.

Thanks to all of you for leaving such lovely comments and for visiting my blog. You do brighten my day and make it all worth getting up each morning.

Four Challenges! Two page Summer Layout.

2011-06-05T10:30:00.016-06:00

I love when I can take a two page layout and work it into a bunch of my favorite challenges! It does take a bit of thinking and planing to make it work, but I always love the finished project.

The first challenge is over at Fantabulous Cricut. This weeks challenge me Monday is "Remember Me", this could be a special person, time, anniversary or just a wonderful memory.

These pictures were taken in July of 2007, it was a beautiful hot summer day and hubby was at work and just out of the blue I decided it would be a good day for a picnic. So I called my daughter in law to see if it would be O.K for me to take the kids for a few hours. I packed up a lunch and went and picked the kids up and took them to a neighbor hood water park. It was a lovely day and we laid the blanket out and went and played for a while, when we came back to the blanket the pigeons were eating the kids lunch right through the baggies! We still managed to have a wonderful time! and all had a good laugh over the silly birds!

The next challenge is another favorite of mine. Whimisical Wednesday, there challenge this week create a tag and add some bling!

The next is Bug Bites Grillin and Chillin Bug hop challenge. If you have not done this hop you should, there is so much wonderful talent to inspire you and then a super fun challenge at the end. Create a project with at least one cricut cut and one of the hidden bug which can be found a long the hop.

For this layout I was able to use up some of my old stash, which is a bonus! My cricut cut is the darling Caterpillar border which was cut at 2 inches from A Walk in My Garden.

I add a few fun buttons to bring in the summer theme a little bit better. These cute pictures are of my Grand daughter Jasmine. She is just so funny. All those really cute water things to run through and she found a pop bottle and played in a puddle. Gotta love them!

For the last challenge, I found another really cool blog hop with many talented ladies, It was the Summer Fun Blog Hop and can be found over at Blessed on the Bright Side you should check it out, once again there was tons of many wonderful summer layout, cards and projects along the way! At the end of this hop there was a challenge for you to create a summer project!
Thank you for stopping by my blog. Hope you enjoyed yourself, have a wonderful week.

Nicolette's Birthday Blog Hop!

2011-06-01T06:00:00.003-06:00

Welcome to my blog, and Nicolette's Birthday Bash Blog Hop. If you've come from visiting Paula Blog , you are in the right place. If you were just looking at my blog and want to join in on the Birthday Bash blog hopping fun you can go Here to the start at the beginning. This blog hop is in honor of Nicolette's Birthday.
For my project

I decided to make another layout, I will add the pictures later of one of my Little Princess 5Th Birthday Party.

The Sentiment is from My Craft Spot Sentiment #2 inside and out Stamp Set.

I used Tinkerbell Cricut Cartridge to cut Tinkerbell . I couldn't find the perfect birthday cake so I found a paper piece pattern and cut it by hand.

I added some bling and glitter, inked all the edges , added a few brads and a bow and there it was !

Now for the fun stuff!

BLOG CANDY!

One lucky follower with win this Disney Set of Tinkerbell Stamps and Disney Cinderella's set . Please leave a comment and a way to get in touch with you.

But wait!!!

Just a reminder!

On May 24Th my blog was one years old so it is time to celebrate! So with this being said.....I will take all the comments from this hop and all the comments from the the Grillin & Chillin Bug Hop I was in last weekend and put the two sets of comments together and draw 1 lucky winner to win a Paper Doll Dressup Cricut Cartridge.
So if you comment on both hops, it will give you two chances!
I will draw for the winner on my Birthday which is

June 10Th!
So make sure you our a follower!

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Kimmarie Blog.

Grillin & Chillin Bug Hop Winner!

2011-05-31T11:17:00.004-06:00

Just a quick post with the winner from the Grillin & Chillin Bug Hop!

Wasn't that a great hop with so many amazing layout , cards and projects? It is hard to believe there is just so much amazing talent out there and I was very honor to hop right along with each and everyone of you!

I would also like to thank everyone who left me a comment, I enjoyed reading each and everyone of them, I know a lot of you had trouble leaving comments. Thank you to all my new and old followers, with out you I would not have a blog.

So with that being said the winner is........

Sandy S

Please email me with your mailing information and I will get you goodies out to you!

Also

don't forget if you were unable to comment with all the blogger issues....there is still time to leave a comment for the Everyday Cricut Cartridge I am giving away. I will be picking a winner on June 10th!

Which just happens to be my Birthday!

Comment from the Grillin & Chillin Hop and Nicolette's Birthday Bash (which is this weekend ) will be combined and then a winner will be pick!

Don't forget you must be a follower! LOL!
This is my thank you blog candy to celebrate my 1 year Blog Anniversary and reaching 600 followers to you!

Grillin & Chillin Bug Hop Challenge

2011-05-30T17:54:00.005-06:00

Just a quick post so I can get this into the Bug Hop challenge before it is to late!

I left this one right to the last minute. I made this card for the Grillin & Chillin challenge over at Bug Bites.

Project must include at least one cricut cut ( clouds and sun) and one hidden critter!

Hope you enjoy!

Thanks for poping in and leaving me some LOVE!

My Craft Spots Mondays Challenge #10: Cute Critters!

2011-05-30T07:00:00.005-06:00

It's time for another fun challenge over at My Craft Spot. This weeks challenge is:

Cute Critters!

I think my Granddaughter Jasmine is a cutie and I also thought this would be the perfect picture for this challenge! If you look in the background of the picture, you will see many cute little critters in one of my many flower beds.
Yes! I have a addiction to garden ornaments, which is just about as bad as my Scrap booking addiction!

The matting and background papers are both from Bo Bunny. The Birds and Branches are a SVG File which I picked up for a couple of bucks a few months back, but I will be darned if I can remember which blog I purchased it from. ( Who says I am getting old! )

If anyone knows who created this daring file please let me know so credit can be given where it belongs.

I picked up the flowers and charms from the Buck or Two Store. Then a used button brads for the center of the flowers.

I cut the tag at 4 inches from Tags Bags and More Cricut Cartridge. I inked all the edges, then added some ribbon and twine.
I used Sweet Sentiments #2 ( which you can purchase at My Craft Spot )

Now it is your turn to see what you can come up with for this weeks challenge! Head on over to My Craft Spot and check out the other girls amazing projects! This weeks prize: All 11 Brand New Colours of Baker Twine from the Twinery!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful week.

Grillin' & Chillin' Bug Hop!

2011-05-28T05:00:00.010-06:00

Welcome to BugBites first ever Grillin’ & Chillin’ Bug Hop!
To celebrate the beginning of summer, Barb over at BugBites is hosting two consecutive weekends of Bug Hops.
This weekend it is all about the Grillin’, May 28-30.
If you've come from visiting Barb, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Grillin’ & Chillin’ Bug Hop, click HERE to start from the beginning.
Each designer along the bug trail is featuring a project based on the Grillin’ & Chillin’ theme. What’s more exciting is you can participate too by creating a project and linking it up over at BugBites for a chance to win a Big Prize.
But, there’s a twist. Your project must included at least one Cricut cut and at least one of the critters that have been hidden within some of the bug stop blogs. Be sure to visit all the bug stops to find all your critter choices.
While you are looking for the critters, be sure to check out the blog candy that each designer has to offer you. You don't want to miss out on any of it!

For my project I decided to make a two page layout, from one of the many summer gathering we had last year.

When I was in Florida in January I was able to pick up the Cricut Cartridge Block Party for a really good price. Most of the cuts for this layouts were cut from it.

The beer tub was cut from Country life the ovals were from George and Basic Shapes.

The bottles and ants are both brads ( which will be part of the blog candy)

I used my Cri-Kits Gel pen, and also inked the edges.

The beach ball is from Life a Beach and I added glitter.

The grass was cut from Zooballo and the font from ?

Now for the fun stuff! BLOG CANDY!

One lucky follower with win these BBQ items to make your own page. Please leave a comment and a way to get in touch with you. I know my last winner didn't and I still have not heard from her.

But Wait!

there's more!
On May 24th my blog was one years old so it is time to celebrate! So with this being said.....I will take all the comments from this hop and all the comments from the Nicoletts Birthday Bash Hop that I am also in on June 1st, put the two sets of comments together and draw 1 lucky winner to win a Paper Doll Dressup Cricut Cartridge.

So if you comment on both hops, it will give you two chances!

I will draw for the winner on my Birthday which is

June 10th!

So make sure you comment and make sure you our a follower!

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now it is time to send you of to
the amazing Kerie blog so lets go see what she has in store for you today.
Remember, once you have hopped to all the bug stops, it's your turn to show us your Grillin’ & Chillin’ project.
Make sure to include a Cricut cut somewhere on your project, include one of the hidden critters and link up your project over at BugBites by Midnight CST May 30 to be eligible for the big prize.

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #7: Friends Forever!

2011-05-19T20:12:00.011-06:00

This weeks challenge at Whimsical Wednesday is Back to Basic! Make a cricutless card or project! and include something old school. I used printed images which I cut out and then pop up using pop ups for dimension. I think I picked this up about 8 years ago at one of the Scrap Booking Stores and I forgot I even had it.

I had these great photos of my grand kids from my Hubby's Birthday from a couple of years ago and decided it was time to get them scrapped. These are my sons four children.

The papers was a deal I picked up at Costco many moons ago and I think I could live to be 110 and never even make a dint in the box.

I do love Costco!

I did a bit of paper tearing and chalking to finish the edges off, added a few brads and then found the sayings on the computer and just printed them off.

I love that saying Sisters by chance Friends forever........but I should tell you that little guy is my grandson with those big beautiful eyes.

As always thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #60: Elderly People!

2011-05-18T19:36:00.013-06:00

This picture was taken in Haddenham England in 2006. This is my brother in law Ian...... and if you can believe it, this sign is for real. Well, Ian is going to celebrate his 65Th birthday on May 21st. So I thought I had better get cracking and make him a Birthday card.

So this is what I came up with!

Ready to get into shape?

This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut.
is to use not just one shape....but two. You must use a triangle and a rectangle.
Next challenge I will enter is Creative Sisters Monday Challenge #8:

anything Birthday.

The card is 5X5. This awesome twine can be purchased from My Craft Spot.

Cricut cartridges used were: Disney Cars and George and Basic Shapes
I found the verse on the internet and used my printer and white cardstock.

I sure hope Ian likes the card, and finds the humor in it!
Happy Birthday Ian and here's to another 65!