What's One More Candle? Birthday Blog Hop April 14th

Hi Everyone!


I wanted to thank Janet for letting me be part of her BIG BIRTHDAY BASH :)

Welcome to the What's One More Candle? Birthday Blog Hop!

If you came from Lisa P.'s Blog, then you are in the right place! If you want to start at the beginning then head to Janet's Blog she is the BIRTHDAY GIRL! :)

Happy 60th Birthday Janet!!!

Be sure to stop by all the fabulous blogs! Everyone has made some type of birthday project, so I am sure you will have tons of ideas for upcoming birthdays!

Please leave a comment below to enter to win a $5.00 Amazon Gift Certificate. One will be chosen using Random.org. You will have until April 21st to Enter!

For my project today I wanted to make a card for Janet! She is such a sweet and thoughtful person! I hope her day is full of fun and special memories!

When I found out she was turning 60, I immediately thought of the Sweet Treats cartridge that has the number candles. Her favorite color is blue so I wanted to incorporate that as well. I also saw recently that someone used Reynold's Foil to emboss and I loved the look of it so I wanted to use that technique on this card.  I cut out a card that was 8" across, and 5" tall. I scored it at 2" and 6" and then folded it. I glued the pieces for the 60 together and put stampin' dimensionals on the back of it . I cut out my foil and then used my Texture Boutique to emboss it and then I applied it to my card and then the 60. I made a belly band so the card would stay closed and added a bow with Stampin' dimensionals to the belly band. Then I added Stickles to EVERYTHING :) I LOVE diamond stickles because it enhances what ever color you are putting it on top of.

Supplies:

Cricut

Gypsy

Sweet Treats Cartridge

ATG Gun

Zig Two way glue pen

Cardstock

Reynold's Heavy Duty Foil

Bow- Build a Bear :)

Stampin' Dimensionals

Diamond Stickles

Texture Boutique

Spots and Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Thanks for stopping by!

YOUR NEXT STOP IS....

MICHELLE'S BLOG

Inspired By A Song Blog Hop April 7th

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Inspired By a Song Blog hop!

I wanted to thank our lovely hostess Gill for letting me join in on another one of her fabulous hops!

If you came from  Lisa G.'s Blog than you are in the right place! If you would like to start at the beginning then head to Gill's Blog!

I was SO EXCITED for this hop and signed up several months ago and I thought for sure that I would do my project on "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel, cause I LOVE that song. But then I was thinking maybe I should do it on "Rebecca Lynn" by Bryan White. Because we named our daughter after that song, as it was the first country song I got my husband to like when we were dating :) So I have been so indecisive on what to do.... I finally decided to combined all my favorite memories that have to do with songs since when I met my husband. We have been married almost 14 years and starting dating in High School, so we were able to go to both Junior and Senior Prom together :) (Of course Uptown Girl didn't make it to the list as I don't have a memory attached to it :) I just love the song)

For my project I wanted to use the Hannah Montana cartridge because you can make your own words go on a music "thingy" :) So I cut that on my Cricut and it was a pain to get it off the mat because I had to take sooo many little pieces out and then it was very fragile :( I then cut out some music notes and added stickles to EVERYTHING :) For my background paper, I printed it off using the Black and White cartridge on the Imagine. I then typed up my songs and memories of those songs and I wanted to make sure I printed it without spacing so it would look like the way they print the song lists on the CD's .

Here is a closer look

Here is what my memories say:)

1. "I Can't Take My Eyes off of You"...When my husband kept staring at me when we first starting dating, and then he played me this song :) 2. "More Than a Woman To Me", my husband said this song reminded him of me :) 3. "American Pie", I heard this when we were setting up for a dance and I found out he liked me :) 4. "Macerana" he would smile whenever he saw me dance to this :) 5. "Because You Loved Me", Upclose and Personal was our first date movie, and this became "Our Song" :) 6. "One Sweet Day" the theme  of our Junior Prom, It makes me think of how much fun we had that night. 7. "Rebecca Lynn", It was the first country song I got my husband to like and we said we would name our daughter after it, and WE DID! :) 8. "From This Moment On", Our Wedding Song  9. "Moments" I heard it when my husband was at the Police Academy and it was his moment to shine then :) 10. "Life Is a Highway" since he is a cop 11. "Bring Him Home Santa" he was at the Academy at Christmas Time, but was able to come home for Christmas and weekends 12. "I'm Already There" , I had the radio station play it on Our Anniversary while he was still at the Academy 13."Fall", I heard it when I was pregnant with my son and was awaiting Amnio results, and when my husband was at the academy. 14. "I Saw God Today" I heard it on the way to the hospital to deliver my baby. 15. "Then", my husband said it reminds him of me.

Supplies:

Black and White Cartridge

Quarter Note Cartridge

Cricut Imagine

Gypsy

Cricut

Zig Two Way glue

ATG gun

Cardstock

Diamond Stickles

Please leave a comment below to be entered to win a $5.00 Amazon gift card. One winner will be chosen using Random.org. You will have until April 13th To enter.

Thanks for stopping by!

YOUR NEXT STOP IS DENA'S BLOG!!!

Love To Crop Challenge

Hi Everyone!

I want to Thank Amy from Love to Crop for inviting me to be a Guest Designer on her blog!

There is a new challenge over at http://www.lovetocrop.com/!

It is "Say Anything", so be sure and make a project with a Title or sentiment or anything to do with words :) This will be a 1 week challenge and you will have until Next thursday night to enter! Please be sure to go to her blog to link up your project for the challenge.

As soon as I heard the topic for the challenge I knew that I wanted to make a card for a sweet little girl.

I am friends with her mom on Facebook. I have heard SO MANY great and wonderful things about this awesome family! I enjoy reading all the loving posts that her mom writes. Her family and faith means so much to her and it shows! :)

I wanted to brighten this sweet little girls day, so I wanted to make a card for her. Her favorite Princess is Belle, I thought that was so cool, because that is my favorite Princess too! :)

So here is the card I made for
Princess Carleigh!
(of course I had to cover it in stickles!!!)

Supplies:

Cricut

Dreams Come True Cartridge

Pink Glitter adhesive paper

Cardstock

Diamond Stickles

Liguid Pearls

Martha Stewart Alphabet punch

Stampin' Dimensionals

ATG gun

Zig Two way glue pen

White Gel pen

 Black Sharpie

Thanks for stopping By!

Blog Hop winners!!!

Hi Everyone!

Here are the winners for the last two blog hops

The winner from the the Destinations Blog Hop is.............

#18 Maria

The winner from the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop for Special Needs Children is .........

#6 Janet's Planet

I will be emailing them shortly!

Thanks for stopping by!

Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop for Special Needs Children

If you are looking for the Destinations Blog Hop, my post is below this one :)

   Welcome to the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop for Special Needs Children.

• Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), 30+fantastic papercrafters have come together to create Spring-themed banners.They will then donate these banners to Ellen (CardMonkey), who works as Admissions Coordinator at Pediatric Specialty Care (PSC), www.pediatricspecialty.com.
  
  PSC is a long-term care facility for special needs children who are medically-fragile and/or technologically-dependent. The babies, children and youths at PSC range in age from birth to 21, and are admitted from all over the country.
  Some are infants, born prematurely and before their lungs have had a chance to mature. Others have serious birth defects,illnesses or injuries from accidents that cause them to need tender loving care in a home-like environment -- many for their lifetimes.
  
  Our banners are meant to cheer the young patients, their families, and the staff at PSC. Here is the banner that I made and will be sending to Ellen to decorate a child's room:

For my banner I FINALLY decided on which rabbit I wanted to use. It was an adorable one on the Nursery Tails Imagine Cartridge. Then I decided to use all 5 of the animal icons on this cartridge. I wanted to make a flower or a rosette for the animals to go on. I finally decided on one on the Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge. I like how it almost makes it look like a flower.

For my papers, I knew I would need 2 full pages per rosette and I wasn't sure if I had 10 pieces of paper that coordinated well together and fit with the animals. So I decide to print my own paper with the imagine using the Nursery Tails cartridge and then I used my gypsy to cut out the rosettes. They were super easy to fold and went together easily. You will need to cut out the rosette 6 times and glue the ends together. Then I used hot glue to hold the rosette together and glued on the animals.


Supplies:
Cricut Imagine
Gypsy
Cricut Expression
Nursery Tails Cartridge
3 N 1 glue
hot glue gun and sticks
white ribbon
white cardstock
circle punch

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• We DO have a tasty bit of blog candy to thank you for visiting us today! What's the prize??!
  
  How about a beautiful handmade (courtesy of our Blog Hop Hostess, CardMonkey!) Cricut Cozy Covers?! Each one is individually styled in your pick of colors and embroidered words! These are RARE because CardMonkey does not make them for sale and she usually sticks to paper, not sewing!!
  
  To qualify, there are two steps: 1. Comment on as many Bunny & Blossoms Blog Hop blogs as you wish -- the more blogs on which you comment, the more chances you have to win. There will only be one winner, picked at random by Random.Org.
  
  2. Follow and comment on the CardMonkey blog ... Leave a comment on our Hop Hostess's site (http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com) and let her know if your name is picked, what 2 accent colors you'd like on your Cricut Cozy Cover, and what text you'd like embroidered (up to 3 lines). You MUST be a follower of the CardMonkey blog to win and you MUST leave a way for her to contact you if your name is picked.

I also have some blog candy of my own, just leave a comment below by Saturday March 31st to enter to win a $5.00 gift certificate to Amazon. One winner will be chosen using Random.org


So now .... onto your next stop on the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop

 CINDY'S BLOG

Destination Blog Hop March 24th & 25th

Welcome to our adventure! We're off to see great things! Perhaps by car, train, or plane, or maybe by boat, no matter what-it'll be a great trip! No pesky security pat downs, or pesky luggage to deal with, or those extra fees that seem to mount up!

You won't need your cameras, or money for gas, but you will want to watch for souvenirs to pick up! So grab your favorite drink and curl up and make yourself comfortable! No need to share your seat unless you've invited guests to take part!

Here at our ports of call, you'll need to leave your comments! Many of them will offer souvenirs (blog candy) and our Travel Director Janet   has lots to be had!
1. A Destination Cricut Cartridge
2. A travel album filled with embellishments to remember your trip
3. Misc. goodies to numerous to mention!

Now be sure to be a follower of her blog! It's easy you'll see, just click on the link! Leave your comments at every port! They've worked really hard make your trip pleasurable!

Here's the entire itinerary in case you get lost!

Janet Royer- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com
Cathie W - http://cathiescafe-scraphappy.blogspot.com/
Liz Mullen - http://scrapiliciouslife.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/ ....JUST CAME FROM
Lisa T.- http://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com/ ..... HERE
Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/ .....NEXT
Alina- http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Angela-http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com/
Tricia ~ http://www.mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Michelle- http://craftychelle.blogspot.com/
Janet- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

But leisure at each port and enjoy where you are!

Here at my port we're in:

DISNEYLAND!!!

It was super easy to choose my destination for this fabulous hop! As my family will be going to DISNEYLAND in 1 month!!! :) I have so much to prepare before the trip!

My first project I will show you is the countdown calendar I made for my daughter. I am making one for my boys also but haven't finished them yet :( I will be making Mickey for one of them and The Genie for the other one. :)

Here is my daughter's calendar, I used the DCWV Chalkboard paper so she can change the day everyday. I printed the words using the Imagine. I was going to add a border along the edge but my daughter wanted to just leave it the way it was :)

Supplies:
Cardstock
ATG gun
Zig Two Way glue
Cricut Craft Room
Cricut Expression and Cricut Imagine
Mickey and Friends and Mickey Font Cartridges
DCWV Chalkboard Stack
Blue Chalk


For my next project I wanted to make a few shirts for everyone to wear on our trip. So I will be showing you the first one I have made, it is for my daughter. She LOVES Donald Duck but there aren't very many shirts of Donald Duck in girls sizes.

after printing it out on my Imagine

Here is her shirt..

a closer view :)

Supplies:
Iron On Transfer Paper
Cricut Craft Room
Cricut Imagine
Mickey and Friends Cartridge
shirt

I created this using the Cricut Craft room and printed it on my  Cricut Imagine. It took some time to do, as I had to piece everything together and some parts come as two so I had to hide some and resize some. Then finally I had it all done and then realized that I still had to flip the design since I was printing it on an Iron On transfer, so then I had to move some things around again :) I than printed it out using the Imagine and after letting it dry I cut it out and then ironed it on a white shirt.


I want to dress up the white shirt a bit so I am going to get some blue and yellow ribbons to tie on the sleeves :) I remember people used to do that a few years ago. I haven't got the ribbons yet as I want to find the ones that match my daughters bow :)

I bought this bow from one of my good friends I met on Facebook. I just told her what I wanted it to look like and she made it PERFECTLY! :) She makes FABULOUS bows! She is the only one I buy my bows from :)

Here is her Facebook page if you want to take a look

https://www.facebook.com/BooBearsDressUp

Please leave a comment below to enter to win a souvenir from my blog . You will have until Saturday March 31st to leave a comment. One winner will be chosen using Random.org and they will win a $5.00 Amazon gift card.


Thanks for visiting us today!

  You're next port will be: AMBER'S BLOG


Our travel director- Janet will pick the winners of her prizes Monday!

Thank you Janet for letting me be part of this wonderful trip :)

Disney Gives Back Blog Hop winner!!!!

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for joining in our our special "Disney Gives Back Blog Hop", I really appreciated everyones comments :)

the winner is..................


#14 Jennyplace2

I will be contacting her shortly :)

thanks for stopping by!