Kich's Birthday!!! Surprise Hop :)

Hi Everyone!

Today is Kich's Birthday! She is the wonderful designer of the Kich N Bleus Designs Digi Stamps. Her sister Abby has organized this surprise hop for her birthday! I am happy to be on this Design Team and working for these two wonderful ladies :)


If you came from Kristen's wonderful blog then you are in the right place!!! I you want to start at the beginning you can go to http://www.kichnbleusdesigns.com/.


From the moment I heard about this hop for her birthday, I knew I wanted to use the Rock Princess Cartridge for her card along with a digi of her. She is a total Rock Princess :) I love the digi's that she makes and she is SO FUNNY :)

Here is the card I made her and will be sending off to her soon! I hope she likes it :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KICH!!!!!!!!!!!

Please leave a comment below, one lucky winner will receive the "Kich Celebrates" collection! It has fabulous birthday images in it, they can all be found here...in the store. 
(winner will be chosen using Random.Org and posted on Saturday July 30th.)

Supplies:Kich- Kich Goes Irish Collection
Stampin' Up Markers-Stampin' Up
White and gemstone cardstock
Stampin' Dimensionals- Stampin' UP
Glossy Accents
Cricut
Gypsy
Rock Princess Cartridge
Diamond Stickles
Metalic Gelly roll pen
ATG gun
Zig two way pen

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Magnets...for Sigrid, Ella and Valerie

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for the short post yesterday!!! The glue on the first set of magnets wasn't holding correctly so I had to do the magnets over again.. and finally got my project linked at the very last minute!!!

The first time I did the magnets I printed them on cardstock and glued them on with  clear Tacky glue but I did not like the way they were not drying and starting to seep through the pictures. The second time I printed them on Photo paper and they looked even better!  Once I used a 1" circle punch to punch out the images, I used some 1" epoxy stickers to place over the top of the images to seal them. If I wasn't in a hurry, I would have used Glossy Accents to put on top of them to seal them in, once dry , that leaves a 3D effect as well, but it takes 24 hours to dry. My daughter tried it on her magnets and key chains that she made before I bought the epoxy stickers. I bought almost all of my supplies on eBay through the same seller, they have great prices, customer service and fast shipping!!
The seller is "histrucks_herdolls ". I bought the bottle caps, epoxy stickers, bottle cap punch and flattened bottle caps from this seller. My daughter used the bottle cap punch to make a hole for her key chain and it works perfectly! This time I used glossy accents to glue them on and they are still drying but holding better. :) I then glued on a magnet that I got at Walmart. They are thicker black magnets and work perfectly for the bottle caps, I got a pack of 50 for $5.97 :)

I used the print only option on the Imagine machine and sized the heads to 0.7" and that seem to be the perfect size for the bottle caps. I tried just printing some of the backgrounds in a 1" inch circle but it made the images SO TINY :) so later I will try printing out other backgrounds at the normal size and then punching them with the circle punch.

I can't wait to try making other cool stuff with the bottle caps :)

Here are some more up close pictures of the magnets...and a shout out to the girls! :)

This magnet is for my awesome crafty friend Sigrid M.!!!

Sigrid makes the cutest cards ALL the time. She has sent me a couple

of her wonderful creations!!! I don't know how she has the time to do

as many as she does it is AMAZING!!! :) When I bought the stuff

to make magnets I knew I wanted to make one for Sigrid because she

is so sweet!!! Her favorite color is yellow, and this girl reminded me of her :)

I am sure she would love if you stopped by her AWESOME BLOG..to see her

wonderful projects :)

http://lovescrapreflect.blogspot.com

 This magnet is for one of my friends Valerie who can make just about anything

with a sewing machine :) She is currently making me several items!!!

She is a very busy lady!!! She is SO nice.. This magnet looks like a reddish brown hairstyle in the picture, but looks more brown style in person so that is why I picked it for Valerie! She works SO hard

all of the time to make her totes, purses, and wallets perfectly personalized for all of her customers.

That is how I met her, and she lives in the same area as I do, so we have had the chance to talk in person. :)

Here is the link to her store to see all of her wonderful items she makes with Uniforms and regular fabric. Currently she is NOT taking new orders but will be in the future :)

http://www.myherohandbags.webs.com/
Here is her FaceBook page http://www.facebook.com/myherohandbags

This one is for my friend Ella, who I met through Valerie's Face Book page. She makes

the most amazing bows, bow holders, TuTu's and Tutu dresses!!! I have ordered

a bunch of things from her and LOVE all them! I am so glad I got to meet

her online :) She is such a sweet person!!! This magnet reminded me of her and she LOVES

the color purple! Hopefully soon I will be able to post the card I am working on for her!

She is the reason why I decided to buy all the bottle cap supplies! She makes bows with bottle cap

images on them! I thought it would be cool to try and make some bottle caps after seeing her

bows so I bought all the supplies, and now can start making them for my friends.

She has a facebook page, her is the link

http://www.facebook.com/BooBearsDressUp?sk=wall

I am so glad that all of these wonderful ladies have come into my life and that we have become friends!!! I am so grateful for all they do :)

I can't wait to get these magnets mailed out to these special ladies!!!

Supplies:
Imagine
Best Friends Imagine Cartridge
4x 6 photo paper
Glossy Accents
1" epoxy seals
1" circle punch
colored bottle caps
magnets

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Creative Critterz Imaginations...Design Team Call Project

Hi Everyone!

I was so excited to see that Creative Critterz Imaginations was having a Design Team Call!

Here are the bottle cap magnets I made with my Imagine using the Best Friends Cartridge!

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Christmas in July (Guest Designer)

Hi Everyone!

I am one of the guest designers this week for the Christmas in July week going on at http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/. There are wonderful designers throughout each day all week.

I was to make a treat using the Cricut Cake for my Christmas in July project. Using the Cricut Cake was no problem...trying to think of an idea for Christmas...harder. :) I have been trying to figure out what I wanted to do for weeks.. A few days ago I saw a Disney ad in a magazine and thought of Mickey Mouse. When I was little and lived in Florida I remember going to Disney World  when it was all decorated for Christmas, it was ALWAYS so BEAUTIFUL... Disney never does anything small. One of the things I remember other than all the decorations and rides, was getting a Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Bar. I just recently bought some of the Cricut Cake Dark Brown frosting sheets and thought that would work perfect for my project. I have heard people have had a difficult time using the frosting sheets, but they cut out PERFECTLY! I love them! So much easier and faster than color and rolling out the fondant. I wanted to make them into Mickey Mouse Cookies on a ice cream stick of course :) Then I added a Santa hat to go with the theme! These could be used for any holiday and just change out the hat.
I made the cookie dough using Betty Crocker cookie mix in a pouch. I added a little bit more flour as it works better in the Cricut when I do so. After I rolled out the dough onto the mat, I put it in the freezer for 20 minutes. I then let it sit for a few minutes and then started cutting the Mickey Mouse head and Santa hat. I cut out two of the Mickey heads so I could make the cookie thicker. I laid out one Mickey head on the cookie sheet, put the ice cream bar stick on top and then laid the other Mickey head on top of that and pressed the top down a little. I put them in the oven until they were light brown on the edges. Once cool I frosted the Mickey Mouse head with Butter cream frosting and then I cut the Mickey Mouse head out with the Dark Brown Frosting sheet (I put shortening on the mat to make the frosting sheet stick to it), and laid it on top. I then used some red icing to ice part of the Santa hat and used the white butter cream to frost the rest so it looks like fur. I then put some icing on the back of the Santa hat and put it on top of the Mickey Head.
Here is the finished cookie.....

Supplies:
Cricut Cake
Gypsy
Betty Crocker Cookie Dough
Ice Cream Bar Stick
Dark Brown Frosting Sheet (Cricut)
Shortening
White and Red frosting

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Kich N Bleus Princess Collection

Hi Everyone,

It's time for a new release from Kich N Bleus Designs. It is their Princess Collection, which has some wonderful images in it! You can buy this collection HERE!


I chose to do Rapunzel from "Tangled" for my card, I LOVE that movie! My kids think it's hilarious that Rapunzel hits everyone over the head with the frying pan :)
I wanted to do some flowers because when I think of her I think of lots of flowers...

Supplies:
Kich N Bleus Princess Collection
patterned paper
purple, yellow and white cardstock
Gold and Diamond stickles
Mother's Day Bouquet Cricut cartridge
Cricut
Stampin' Up markers-Stampin' Up
Stampin' Dimensionals- Stampin' Up


Please be sure and stop by to look at what the other wonderful designers have created...click here!!!

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Scraps Blog Hop Winner!!!

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for all the amazing comments you left on my blog! My kids have been enjoying their pirates :)

Now on to the winner.....................

Juliana T.

I will be contacting her soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Scraps Blog Hop July 9-10

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Scraps Blog Hop! I would like to thank Jennifer  from the Crafty Card Gallery the wonderful Hostess of this hop for letting me once again participate with her and over 30 other awesome designers!

If you came from Gina's Blog then you are in the right place! If you want to start at the beginning head over to Jennifer's Blog.

The purpose of this hop was to be able to have see some wonderful projects made from scraps :)

Please leave a comment below to enter to win some Stickles. One lucky winner will receive 3 bottles of Stickles. Winner will be posted on Monday July 11th.
(Winner will be chosen using Random.org)


There is also a GRAND PRIZE on this Blog Hop!

So be sure to visit all the blogs and leave comments, as there will be a grand prize, a $50 credit to the Designs on Cloud 9 store,http://www.designsoncloud9.com/ sponsored by Michelle of Designs on Cloud 9. To win the grand prize, you must comment on and become a follower of all the blogs.

Now on to my project....

I had originally wanted to do one idea, but yesterday my 6 yr old son asked if I would play his cars with him. I knew I needed to work on my project so I asked him if he wanted to help me use the Cricut to make a project for the hop today. He agreed so I changed my plans on what I was going to do and ask him what he wanted to do. All of my kids have been watching a lot of "Jake & the Never Land Pirates" on the Disney Channel, so he wanted to make pirates. He wanted to make a pirate for each person in our family that lives in our house. So we went and got my "Scrap Bag" and started working on our "Pirate Family" (I save all my scraps and put them in one of my giant Joann's bags). The only regular piece of paper I used was for making the people so that they would all be the same shade of cream.

He even drew his own treasure map and wanted to make sure we had a treasure chest as well. He picked out all the colors for the clothes and what pieces to cut and use.

So here is the "Pirate Family" my sweet little Douglas and I made together! Daddy as "Captain Hook", Mommy as " The Pirate Queen", Rebecca as "Izzy", Douglas as "Jake", Erik as "Cubby", Baby Emma as " The Pirate Princess" and Thumper the Cat as "Skully".

The kids love  to act out this show every time it is on, so I am sure they will enjoy having their own paper doll character :)

Supplies:

Cricut

Various colors of cardstock scraps :)

Gold and Silver Stickles

Everyday Paper Dolls and Paper Doll Dress up Cartridges ( My absolute favorite cartridges)

Peachy Keen stamps for the faces

Markers

Zig Two way glue pen

Black gel pen

Thanks for stopping by!

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