Getting Messy With Birthday Sundaes

This weeks challenge (#45) at Birthday Sundaes is Get Messy. Here is the card I made.

Recipe:
Glimmer Mist
Glimmer Screen
VersaMark
Glitter
Stampendous - Dandelion Wish
ColorBox - Charcoal
Ribbon
Paper Clip.
Silver Recollections Paper

Baby Blog Hop

WELCOME

to my blog and the 

BABY BLOG HOP

If you're here from Evila's blog, you're on the right track. If you would like to join us from the beginning head over to www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com

I kept my card pretty simple but elegant by using Pink Paislee and October Afternoon papers. The thread is We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Brown. I just used a maker for his eyes and the buttons and bead have been floating around my craft room for years!

This duck comes from Sesame Street Friends Cricut cartridge. I used my gypsy to weld together two bases. I was originally going to use the backs of each of these papers until I turned the top duck over to add glue and decided I really liked how the pattern ended up on that side. So in a sense he's backwards, but he's beautiful. The images were cut at 4.06".


Thank you so much for stopping by today. I'd love if you became a follower (and if you're a Cricut lover you'll definitely want to follow me as I have a birthday giveaway coming up real soon).

Your next stop is Zenita.

1. Sylvia- http://www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com/ 
2. Sandra- http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/ 
3. Sandy- http://thecraftycreationspot.blogspot.com/ 
4. Patricia- http://creativediva98.blogspot.com/ 
5. Gaby-  http://www.gabycreates.com/ 
6. Anita -  http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/ 
7. Eva -  http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com/ 
8. Veronica - http://mommyscraftycreations.blogspot.com/ 
9. Diana - http://www.daisylovecreations.blogspot.com/ 
10. Esther- http://forthejoyofcreating.blogspot.com/ 
11. Pam ~ http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com/ 
12.Evila  - http://www.frenchconnectiondesigns.blogspot.com/ 
13.Tonya - http://www.ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/ <YOU ARE HERE
14.Zenita - http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/ <<<YOUR NEXT STOP
15. Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/ 
16.Jamie - http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com/ 
17. Vicki - http://mawmawsthoughts.blogspot.com/
18.Alina - http://www.neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/

Creative Cutter Room - Shape Card

Thank you for joining us for our new challenge! We loved looking at all the wonderful Valentine's Day projects! We appreciate you joining us and hope you will join us for this next challenge!

Theme:  Shape Card!

Create a new card using a shape no squares no rectangles!

Here is my project.

I kept is pretty simple but elegant by using Pink Paislee and October Afternoon paper. The thread is We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Brown. I just used a maker for his eyes and the buttons and bead have been floating around my craft room for years!

This duck comes from Sesame Street Friends. I used my gypsy to weld together two bases. I was originally going to use the backs of each of these papers until I turned the top duck over to add glue and decided I really liked how the pattern ended up on that side. So in a sense he's backwards, but he's beautiful. The images were cut at 4.06".

Submit your new project for a chance to win a prize! 

THE PRIZE

Two Acrylic Stamp Sets....One pictured above and the other a Surprise! 

Challenge Starts today February 22 and runs until March 7, 2012.

Follow the rules then submit your new  project over at the

Creative Cutter Room!

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

  

Some Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog

You have until March 7, 2012 to enter your project.

Here is the Line Up for some great inspiration:

Carri

Georgiana
Diana
Elaine 

Jessica 

Tonya (that's me!)

Challenges:

More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #65 - Circles

My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #45 - Birthday Shape Card

Shopping Our Stash - Challenge #40 - Inspiration Prompt - flowing colors and yellow

Die Cuttin' Divas - Challenge #53 - Favorite Pet - I don't have a pet, never have, but the farm down the road had ducks that wandered anywhere they pleased

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog - Challenge Me Monday #99 - Fancy Trims

My Cricut Craft Room - Action Cards

     I LOVE action cards so I was super excited to see the design team asked to create some. Whenever I'm looking for a fun fold or interactive card I always turn to YouTube and that's where I found the inspiration for most of these cards.

     The first card I have to share with you today is a telescoping card. It starts out as three layered circles and then swings out into a line.

     To make this card you'll need three circles (6", 5" and 4") and three scallops (5.5", 4.5" and 3.5"). I cut mine from Gypsy Wanderings. "Friends" is also cut from Wanderings. The butterflies and clouds are from Everyday Paper Dolls. The stamp is from My Creative Time, the Wow! So Many Candles set. The flourish is a random stamp I had floating around in the drawer. I stamped the sentiment once with chalk ink and then again with distress ink. (I encourage you to click on the pictures to get a better look at the cards.)

     This second card is a pop-up slider. There is a slider inside that pops up your image, or in my case, chipboard. I used the October Afternoon Sidewalks line to decorate this card.

     I'm not going to go into specific directions on this card because I tried to wing it from a couple of videos I watched. It works, but it's not very pretty. You can find great directions that will give you a more finished look by searching YouTube. I used Everyday Paper Dolls for the butterflies here too, but I modified them.

     Here are three other cards that I've featured previously on my blog.

     This card is a double slider that doubles as a hot cocoa slider. When you pull on the ribbon slides come out on both sides, one containing a hot cocoa packet.

     Here we have a stand-alone pop-up card. It lays flat so you can mail it without any extra postage, but when you pull on the ribbon and push down on the base it stands up.

     This is a spinner card. The track that you see is lifted off the page by a pair of foam squares. The bee spins because it is mounted on a sandwich of a penny, two round pop-dots and another penny. The weight of the pennies is what makes the die cut spin.

     Be sure to head back over to Erica's blog and check out the other action cards as well as the Mari Gras cards.

Challenges:
Celebrate The Occasion - Challenge #51 - Thinking of you
Frosted Designs - Fabulous Friday Challenge - Brad/Eyelets

Candy Has Candy, Again!

If you are not a follower of Candy from Candy's Craft Corner, you are missing out! She is incredibly talented and always coming up with fresh, new ideas. Right now she's getting close to 400 followers. To celebrate she has some very generous candy to share.

To find out what and how you can enter to win, head over to Candy's Craft Corner.

Crafty Friends Give Blog Hop

Welcome to the Crafty Friends Give Blog Hop. We are so glad you could join us for Day 1 of this very special hop. The mission of this blog hop is to raise awareness about bone marrow donations to help Leukemia patients. 

Bone marrow donation technology has come a long way, and is now as simple as giving blood. So we are trying to raise awareness and get people to register at http://marrow.org to be a bone marrow donor. And why are we doing this your might ask? To help a friend and fellow crafter, Liz Decade. Liz is battling 2 different forms of acute Leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. We are hoping that this hop will help her to find a match. You can see her story at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6RNwYj4BE&list=UUz-JkPSKRldHJNbbEotv8DQ&feature=plcp. 

Even if you are not a match for Liz, you can still help her. You see bone marrow registrations drives are expensive, you have to pay for each person who is registered, and Liz is trying to raise money for bone marrow drives and medical expenses (it costs a lot of money to get a transplant). You can donate to Liz at lizquesada.leukemia@gmail.com. All of the money donated will go to bone marrow drives or medical expenses. 

And we have some wonderful sponsors who have donated prizes for our hop. Sweet Stamping Treats Digital Stamps, Trendy Twine, MB Treasurista, Paper Piecings by Nikki, Inspired Stamps, My Pink Stamper and Peachy Keen Stamps have all donated prizes to this hop. In order to be eligible for one of these prizes you must comment on every blog in this hop! There are other requirements for the sponsors so please see Liz's blog post for more details. 

If you are coming from  Jamie, you are right on track. If you just came across my blog and would like to hop along, please start over with Liz.

Here is my project.

The milk carton came from the Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut cartridge. I used the sweets shop cut and hid the windows and folded the top tab under.

Recipe:
Cricut Cartridges
   Sweet Tooth Boxes
   Nate's ABCs
   Sesame Street Friends
   Gypsy Wanderings
Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids
Memento Alpha Stickers
Recollections Stamp Markers
Recollections White Pen
ColorBox Wicked Black Ink
Scrap Paper
Straw

Thank you for stopping by and don’t forget to go to http://www.marrow.org and find out how to become a marrow donor. 

Your next stop is  Angie.

Here is the entire hop list for day one in case you get lost: 
Liz - http://decadeofscrap.blogspot.com 
Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com 
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com 
Tiffany - http://creativeconfessionsoftiffanyleola.blogspot.com 
Leslie- http://ScrapOfArtDesigns.blogspot.com 
Liz C. - http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com 
Lina- http://sweetnothingspaperco.blogspot.com 
Jamie- http://jamiek711designs.blogspot.com 
Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com 
Angie - http://atuttletime.blogspot.com 
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com 
Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com

Challenges:
I Came. I Saw. I Created. - Color Challenge

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Happy Valentine's Day

     I have a quick, clean and simple Valentine for my husband to share with you today.

Recipe:
White CS
Black CS
Smash Tape
Winter Woodland Cricut Cart
White Ribbon
Brads
Seeing Spot Embossing Folder

Challenges:
Cooking With Cricut - #72 Grown Up Valentine
Frosted Designs - use the word love
Made Especially For You - card sketch
Whimsical Wednesday - colors of love
The Glamorous Side of Scraping - embossing
Die Cuttin' Divas - color challenge
Shopping Our Stash - use metal

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My Cricut Craft Room - Birthday Layout

     Welcome to another scrapbook Friday! Today I have a birthday layout to share with you.

     Now I'm guessing it looks a little off to you, that's because this is page one of a two page layout. On page two I'll extend the banner and finish the word "birthday".
     Let me also explain the words and bugs. We held our daughter's third birthday at the local gymnastics gym so I had the theme be Tumble Bugs.

Recipe:
Cricut Cartridges
   Elmo's Party - cake - 4"
   Kate's ABCs - word art made on gypsy - 2"
   Create A Critter - bugs - unknown size, I took these off of buffet table cards I made of the party
Paper
   Doodlebug Designs - cake & ice cream - hip hip hooray (bright), gift wrapped (bright)
   Scraps
Sew Stamper - purchased for an incredibly low price in Erica's Store - Use code 15 to get 15% off your order

Be sure to head back over to Erica's blog and check out the other layouts created by the design team.

Challenges:
LIttle Scrap Pieces - Anything Your Heart Desire
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Creative Cutter Room - Valentine

     Welcome to my first post as a Creative Cutter Room (CCR) Design Team member. For our first challenge of the year we are asking you to create a NEW project using Valentine's Day as your inspiration!
     Keeping our theme in mind the Design Team is showcasing We R Memory Keepers. We each received a stamp, piece of ribbon and 4x6 Albums Made Easy paper pad. I used my supplies to create this take-out box.

     I thought the closure looked like lips so I outlined it with my white pen and used stickers to make the phrase "sealed with a kiss".

Now it's your turn. Head over to Creative Cutter Room and submit your new project for a chance to win this 

A Cricut Tool Kit! 

(I personally have one of these and LOVE it!

I use at least three of these tools on EVERY project I create.)

Need more inspiration on what to create?
Visit the rest of the design team

Carri

Georgiana
Diana
Elaine

Jessica

Tonya (That's me!)

I can't wait to come to your blog

and see what you create

so link up to the Creative Cutter Room today!

Some Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog

You have until February 22, 2012 to enter your project.


Recipe:
Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut Cartridge
Paper
   AC Cardstock - Taffy
   Bazzill - Razzleberry Light
   We R Memory Keepers - Love Struck
Oriental Traders Flower Eyelet
We R Memory Keepers Stamp - Cupid
Ribbon
October Afternoon
   Sidewalks Buttons
   Alpha Stickers - Boardwalk Lime
Color Box Chalk Ink
   Yellow Citrus
   Rouge
Recollections White Pen

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Distressed Birthday Card

     I have something a little different to share with you today.

     I made this distressed birthday card using Graphic 45 and distress inks. This is very different from what I typically create but I had a lot of fun with this and I think it turned out well. Besides trying something new a getting a little dirty is always fun!
     It's a little hard to see in the photo but the sentiment is from My Creative Time's Wow! So Many Candles stamp set and says "so sorry these birthday wishes are a little late". I thought the sentiment went well with the Scarecrow - he is looking of a brain after all!
     One fun technique I used was to color my sheer ribbon with distress ink. I just wet the ribbon a little bit and ran the ink pad over the ribbon.

Recipe:
Recollections Gold CS
My Creative Time - Wow! So Many Candles
Graphic 45 Chipboard Tags - The Magic Of Oz Tags 1
Cloud 9 Designs - Olive Green Wood Title Stickers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
   Fired Brick
   Tea Dye
   Peeled Paint
   Frayed Burlap
Misc
   Sheer Ribbon
   Ticket

Challenges:
Celebrate The Occasion - #49 Anything Goes Birthday
Birthday Sundaes- #42 Birthday Card W/ Sentiment


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Valentine Door Hanger

     Today I have a couple of Valentine door hangers to share with you.

     I followed the folding directions on the Doodlebug blog. Gypsy Wanderings was used for the matting  and Target dollar spot items were used to embellish. I used both 1.5" grosgrain and 1/2" sheer ribbon.

Challenges:
Frosted Designs - Ribbon and/or Twine
FCCB - #97 Love Is In The Air
Ribbon Carousel - #39 Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash - #38 Hearts, Valentines or Lace
My Craft Spot - #43 Valentine's Day
Little Scrap Pieces - Use Pink


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My Circut Craft Room - 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

WELCOME TO THE 100 CRICUT CARTRIDGE BLOG HOP WITH MY CRICUT CRAFT ROOM!

     If you're here from Marji's blog, you're in the right place. If you're just stopping by please join us from Erica's blog and be sure to follow her so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

     Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore!

     This Friday she will announce February's Scrapbook swap.... She has a swap each week and you have two weeks to make your project each month. There will be a card, scrapbook, tag, die cut and embellishment swap each month on the swap blog.

     Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and yesterday to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge or K. Andrew Its Valentine stamp set that Erica is giving away today. Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

     If you get a chance please visit Erica's Webstore and enjoy 15% off your total purchase this weekend. Enter the code 15 during the third step of check out to see the discount.

     She has everything crafty.... Cricut cartridges, adhesive, papers, stamps and so much more.....

 www.Shop.EricasCraftRoom.com

     This month I'm using Mickey and Friends, Happily Ever After, Wild Card and Create A Critter to make my project. With those cartridges you're probably thinking I made some kind of Disney card, but you'd be wrong. Let me start by showing you the cuts I made from each cart before I share the whole project.

Mickey & Friends - 2.5", 2.29", 1.94", 1.47"

Happily Ever After - 3", 2.53", 2.18", 1.94"

Wild Card - 15.24"

Create A Critter - 20.92", 18.8", 15.97", 14.56"

Create A Critter - 2.41", 1.94"

Create A Critter - 2.41"

     All of these cuts came together, along with some ribbon; wire; fishing line and pop dots, to create this Valentine Wreath.

Thank you for stopping by today! Your next stop is KATHY.

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost:

My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/ 

Connie  http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/

Jenn lorist http://jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com

Sheila  http://squeakyscrapper.blogspot.com/ 

Marji  http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com/ 

Tonya  http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/ 

NEXT >>>Kathy http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/<<< NEXT

Sabrina http://sabrinabellabeautiful.blogspot.com/ 

Dana http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/ 

Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/ 

Mary http://mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/ 

Erica’s Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

Vicki O   http://luvmygypsy.blogspot.com/ 

Claire http://www.ThreeWatersCreations.com

Cori www.createdbycori.blogspot.com

Vicki’s http://stayathomemomof2inohio.blogspot.com/

Teresa  http://createenjoyshare.blogspot.com/ 

Gloria C  http://craftnthings.blogspot.com/ 

Tiffany http://angel4everthecraftyteacher.blogspot.com/ 

Miranda   http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/ 

Jessica K  http://homespunelegance.blogspot.com/ 

Heather m http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/

Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Inspiration for this project came from Mandy Leahy.

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Mini Tree Valentine

     I have another 3x3 Valentine to share with you today (that's the way it works when you have two kids!). This time I used my Cricut and Gypsy!

     The card base is cut from Gypsy Wanderings and the tree is from Create A Critter. I used chalk ink in olive, burnt sienna and rouge to ink all my edges.
     The little hearts on the tree came from a boarder punch by Martha Stewart and I used glimmer mist on the inside of the card. I used this weeks tip on FCCB to make my banner.

Recipe:
Cricut Cartridges
   Gypsy Wanderings
   Create A Critter
MS Boarder Punch
Glimmer Mist
ColorBox Chalk Ink
Paper
   Recollections
   Bazzill
We R Twine

Challenge:
Little Scrap Pieces - Use Red
FCCB - #96 - Valentiny Cards
Cooking With Cricut - #71 - Kids Valentine
Simply Crafts - February Challenge - Tree
More Than Favors - #64 - Love
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