Rain or shine! Bug Bites Stamp Release Party

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.


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

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!

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.



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