Love Bugs Banners for Kids Hop

Welcome to the “Love Bugs Banners for Kids” Hop.

Forty very talented crafty people have come together for a two day hop (Friday, January 6th and Saturday, January 7th) to showcase handmade banners that will be donated to the children at Pediatric Specialty Care. The hope of these banners is that they bring smiles to these children's faces and awareness of Pediatric Specialty Care to all those that hop along.

The “Love Bugs Banner for Kids” Hop has some awesome sponsors and prizes to give away to all those that hop along and leave comments. The more blogs you visit and leave comments at, the more chances you have of winning. That means if you hop through all 20 blogs each day and leave a comment on each blog then you are in the drawing 40 times!

Our Generous Sponsors are:

Jellypark Digital Stamps will award 2 free digi-images to one winner.

K Andrews Designs has donated a stamp set to one winner.

Robyn's Fetish will donate FIVE digital images of the winner's choice as a prize!

Now on with the hop....If you have come from Vicki's Blog then you are on the right track but if you have come here by chance – great! but please start from the beginning at Ellen's Blog and continue through from there.

Please leave a comment below to be entered to win some blog candy from me :) (Pictured Below) One winner will be chosen using Random.org .You will have until Jan. 14th to enter.

I want to thank Ellen for inviting me to be part of this very special hop!!!

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for my banner. Then a couple of weeks ago I was looking at stuff online and saw a birth announcement with a Caterpillar on it. I thought it would be cool to do a Caterpillar for this hop since it is a Love Bug Hop. Of course I wanted to incorporate hearts as well :) I wanted to do a banner for a girl and for a boy. So I made two adorable caterpillars :) It was really fun to make and I got input from my sons and daughters, I have 2 of each  :) of course my Birthday Girl who turns two today didn't have much input for me :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA :)

I used the Create A Critter Cartridge to make the Caterpillar head, I put it on the bottom of the page on my gypsy so it wouldn't cut out the rest of the body. Then I used George Cartridge for the circle and the tiny rectangles for where the ribbon goes. I used Paper Doll Dress up and Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridges for the legs that I welded to the circle and for the cute shoes :) and of course everything is better with sparkles, so I added some Stickles :) The kids and I couldn't decided which embossed hearts we liked best so we used both :) A heart one and a Dot one.

Here are a few different pictures of both the banners :)

Supplies:

Gypsy

Cricut Expression

Diamond Stickles

Black and White Ribbon

Green, Blue, Black, White,Pink and Purple Cardstock

Heart Shaped Hole Punch

ATG gun

Zig Two way glue

3-In-1 craft glue

Bow- Build a Bear :)

Create A Critter, Paper Doll Dress up, Everyday Paper dolls and George Cartridges

Sizzix Dots and Flowers and Valentine Set #4 Embossing folders

Texture Boutique

Thank you for joining us today on our “Love Bug Banner for Kids” Hop for the children of Pediatric Specialty Care. Please continue on to Jessica's Blog and have a wonderful day

Kich N Bleus New Year's Collection

Hi Everyone!

Here is the newest collection from Kich N Bleus, the New Year's Collection.

Check out Kich N Bleus Designs to see all the other FABULOUS projects from the rest of the Design Team!

You can buy the collection HERE!!!! 

FOR ONLY 2.99!!!!

There are some really cute images in this collection! One of them stood out the most! If you have ever seen Grease 2, then you will know which one :) My sisters and I always used to watch this growing up and we still do, just not together.  I don't drink, but I still wanted to use this image for my project.

Since my good friend Sigrid always sends me cards, I wanted to send this one to her!!!!  I actually send it off last night, so I will finally be early for sending out a card before the occasion actually happens :)

Sigrid makes the most amazing projects and lots of them!!! She posts something new all the time, most of the time DAILY! you should totally check out her blog it is http://lovescrapreflect.blogspot.com/.

Thanks Sigrid for being so AWESOME! :)

Supplies:

White, Black, and purple glittered cardstock

Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page set

Kich N Bleus New Years Collection

Glossy Accents

Stampin' Up Markers

Stampin' Dimensionals

Corner Rounder

Thanks for Stopping by!



Secret Santa Blog Hop Winner!!!

Hi Everyone!

I appreciated all the comments that were left for the Secret Santa Blog Hop!

The winner of the 2 bottles of Stickles is.....................
(winner chosen using random.org)

Sdelong1228!!!!

I will be sending them an email shortly :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Kich N Bleus Christmas Collection

Hi Everyone!

Kich from Kich N Bleus Designs has designed some wonderful Christmas Digi's. There is a Christmas Mini Collection that released today! Stop by and check out all the beautiful creations that the other ladies have made :)

There is also a another Christmas Collection available.

There is a Challenge going on as well! It is the "Anything Christmas Challenge" and of course there is a freebie that you can use for the challenge!

Click Here for info on the challenge :)

Click Here to buy the collections in the store :)

Here are the projects I made for these collections....

 

I love this one! It is SO adorable! I love the way the liquid pearls look on the Christmas tree.

 

 

Supplies:

Red, Green and White Cardstock

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Liquid Pearls -Ranger Ink

Kich N Bleus Digi

Stampin' Up Markers

Copic Marker for skin tone

ATG gun

 

 

 

This image is so adorable :) I made the background using the Imagine. I finally got the Black and White Pattern cartridge !!! It hasn't been available for months...but they now have it available as a Digital Cartridge at cricut.com :) SO since I love polka dots I made a black and white polka dot square and put a pink square behind it using the Cricut Craft Room. Then added Christmas Morning and had it match the background and then printed it as one layer. Then I used a scallop circle punch to punch out the image and added stampin' dimensionals to the back of the image and applied it to the background layer.

Supplies:

Cricut Craft Room

Cricut Imagine

White cardstock

Scallop Circle Punch-Stampin' Up

Stampin' Dimensionals

Stampin' Up markers

Copic Marker for skin tone

Black and White Patterned cartridge

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Secret Santa Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

I want to welcome you to the Secret Santa Blog Hop! This was a fun hop to participate in :) We will all be showcasing our project that we made for our Secret Santa! I can't wait to see what all the talented ladies made :)

If you came from Carol's Blog then you are in the right place! If you want to start at the beginning head to Lisa P's Blog.

I would like to thank Lisa for coming up with this wonderful hop and letting me be part of it!

To be eligible to win 1 of the 5  grand prizes, which is $10 worth of files at Creative Kuts, you MUST:

1. Go through the entire blog hop and leave a comment on EVERYONE'S post.

2. Become a FOLLOWER of everyone's blog including Creative Kuts blog which is http://creativekuts.blogspot.com

3. Visit Creative Kuts store (you will need to do this to meet the last requirement) http://creativekuts.com

4. You MUST visit Lisa P.'s blog and leave a comment on her blog for the day and also become a follower at "Scrapping With Lisa" and her facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapping-with-Lisa/130882060268842

5. At the end of the day you will end at Creative Kuts

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Kuts/130937843644274?sk=wall

You will need to leave them a comment stating you have made it through the entire hop and you will also need to leave in your comment what is your favorite pattern set in their store.

Be sure to hop through the entire hop to be eligible for the grand prizes, as well as the other blog candy throughout! We hope you all enjoy this hop and find a lot of great ideas, inspiration and most of all have loads of fun!

Now on to my project....

I like making personalized projects for people, like cards, shirts or other projects. For this project I wanted to make my Secret Santa a charm bracelet. I had a lot of fun making a charm bracelet recently and wanted to put her name on it and add some cute chandeliers all from the Baby Boutique Cartridge for the Imagine. I love being able to print fun projects on the Imagine. So I couldn't show you the whole bracelet because that would give away the surprise of who I have, so I will show you one of the chandeliers and one of the letters of the person's name :)

Here is how to make them. I first picked the images I wanted to use and put them on my mat in the "Cricut Craft Room" I love it! You can do a lot of stuff in the new Cricut Craft Room :) I added some color to one of the charms and layered a chandelier on top. Then I printed and cut them out using Ink Jet Shrinky Dink paper. Then I punched a hole at the top before heating them with my heat gun. (it works better than in the oven) I just hold it now on the corner with tweezers. Then once cooled which happens very quickly... I then coat them with clear nail polish to seal them. Then I add the charms to jump rings and attach them to a chain and add a lobster clasp to the end of the chain. It was so fun to make and it would be easy to add more charms to it later :)

I love sparkles, so please leave a comment below to win 2 bottles of Stickles. You will have until December 10th to enter to win.
(winner will be chosen using random.org)

Supplies:
Cricut Imagine
Ink Jet Shrinky Dink Paper
Baby Boutique Cartridge
hole punch
Cricut Craft Room
heat gun
Jump rings
Lobster clasp
chain - Michael's
clear nail polish

thanks for stopping by!

YOUR NEXT STOP IS...Mickie's Blog

Pixie Dust Studio - Twilight Inspired Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

I am VERY EXCITED to be part of this AWESOME hop!!! I would like to thank Pixie Dust Studio for letting me participate in the best hop ever :) I can't wait to see all the incredible projects on this hop! 

 If you came from Carol at Carolee's Scrappin' Spot then you are in the right place!

If you want to start at the beginning of the hop go to Pixie Dust Studio Challenge Blog!

PIXIE PRIZES...

Please remember stop at all the blogs on the hop to be included in the Prizes given away on the Pixie Dust Studio Blog.

The Grand Prize will be awarded to the person who plays along with the Twilight Inspired Challenge which will end on Wednesday November 23rd at Noon CST.

They will win their choice of a Pixie Pack!

The 2 other prizes will be awarded to those who have completed the hop and leave a comment on the Pixie Dust Studio Blog. Comments will close on Saturday November 19th at Noon CST.

They will win 3 images of their choice!

All 3 winners will be chosen using Random.org and will be announced during next Thursday's Challenge (11/24).

My daughter (she is 10) and I LOVE the Twilight movies... of course we both have yet to read the books :( We have them, but have not read them except for the first few chapters of the 1st book. But I am going to try to start reading them again. We weren't Twilight fans from the beginning but last year we finally watched Twilight and LOVED IT! So then we watched  New Moon and then couldn't wait for Eclipse! Luckily we only had to wait about 2 months before it came out! Now it feels weird having to wait an entire year for Breaking Dawn to come out!!!! We SO can't wait to see it :)

We are TOTALLY TEAM EDWARD!!!!!!

ok on to my project .. So I was going to use my Immortal Love stack to make a project but then decided I wanted to try making my first charm bracelet!

 

Supplies:

Chain, Jump Rings, Lobster claw clasp and jewelry tools- from Michaels

Shrinky Dinks for Ink Jet Printer

Stampin' Up Markers

Clear Nail Polish

Hologram embossing powder

Hole punch

Scallop Circle Punch- Stampin' Up

"Marry Me Bella"&"My Sparkle Edward" Digi Stamps- Pixie Dust Studio

Thanks for stopping by!

YOUR NEXT STOP IS THERESA THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN

Kich N Bleus Thanksgiving Collection

Hi Everyone!

Here is the newest release from  Kich N Bleus Designs. It is the Thanksgiving Collection and it is SO CUTE :)  Be sure to stop by and take a look at the other projects from the other amazing designers.
You can buy this collection in the Kich N Bleus Designs Store.

I wanted to create a bag that can be used to take home some leftovers on Thanksgiving. So I used a white paper bag and added some cardstock, then patterned paper and then the Kich N Bleus Digi. I stamped "Happy Turkey Day" and added it to some cardstock before added it to the bag.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Patterned paper- Paper Adventures

White paper bag

Kich N Bleus Thanksgiving Digi

ATG gun

Stamp- Studio G

Stampin' Up Markers

Copic Marker for skin tone

Thanks for stopping by!