Christmas in July - Challenge #7 Advent Calendar

Hello my crafty friends,

Happy Saturday! I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Here's another challenge entry for the Christmas in July hop at Giselle's blog . We were to create a project inspired by one of the designers. It doesn't need to be just like one of them, but use one of their ideas & translate it to your own creativity.  I was inspired by Sarah . She made a advent calendar by using 25 thread spools which you could put them on your Christmas tree.

I cut out 25 doilies and de-stressed them with green color box ink. I also stamp them with some snowflake stamp with red ink and stamp the numbers in the middle. I used an acorn to place my doilies on. At first I was thinking of putting some ribbon to hang them on the Christmas tree but then decided to add my twist to it. I hope you guys like and I hope this will inspire you to create something for Christmas.

I also added glitter on the tips. I wanted to make it look like snow lol

Christmas in July - Challenge #5 and Challenge #6

Hello my Crafty friends,

Yay finally the weekend is here. I hope everyone has a great weekend. I plan to relax over the weekend. I had a busy week. We went to Sea World on Wednesday and that was so much fun. It was my first time being there. Today I made some time to create some projects for the Christmas in July for Giselles hop . Here they are I hope you guys like.

Challenge #5:
Theme: Create a holiday gift of your choice using paper to decorate and using non traditional colors. Avoid red and green.

I made a snowman out of a clothes pin. I colored it with white paint and I drew the face in with markers. I cut the hat and the scarf at 2 1/2 in. I added a piece of magnet on the back so that we could put on the frig. I think that make a cut gift right? Im sure they could use it to hold a pic on hte frig.

Challenge #6
Theme:  Wrap it and Tag it!
Create a holiday tag that has a 3D element on it. The element could be anything your could think of.

I created a blue tag that was cut at 3 1/2
The To and From was cut out at 1 in.
Snowflake was cut out:
1st layer 21/2
2nd layer 21/4
3rd layer 2 in
added a jewel in the middle.
The snowflake is my 3D element.

Christmas in July - Challenge #4 Planners & Shopping List

Hello my carfty friends,

Yay its friday!! I hope everyone has a great weekend. Heres another challenge entry for Giselle's hop .
The challenge is to create your own planner or shopping list, add a feature used by one of the designers (a receipt pocket, gift list, pockets for stamps, ect.)
So heres my holiday planner. I added a pocket for my receipts and made two sections: one for section for my wish list and the second one for the christmas cards list. I hope you guys like my planner.

I used the Winter Woodland for the tags

Green tag: 2 1/2

Red tag: 2 in

Flower fabric, red ribbon, white ribbon

I used white fabric to make the receipt pocket and red ribbon

First section is the wish list.

 Second section is the Christmas cards list. I stamped the snow flakes and used embossing powder.

Christmas in July - Challenge #3 Home Decor & More

Hello crafty friends,

Heres another project that I made for Giselle's hop . We need to create something to decorate our homeby scrap - lifting/borrowing ideas of the designers. You can add your own twist to it!
So I scrap-lifted the idea from Made by Momo. She made a wall hanging/door hanging project. Heres my project I hope you guys like it.

Carboard 4in by 8in
cardstock
Season's Greetings at 3 1/4
Big Ponsetia 2 1/2
Small Ponsetia 2in
Yellow flower 2in
red ribbon

Christmas in July - Challenge #2 Treats and Favors

Hello my crafty friends,

Happy Wednesday! Yay we are in the middle of the week lol. Well heres another project I made for the Christmas in July Ch #2 Treats and favors over at Giselle's blog Cross my heart paper crafts .  She had her guest designers make treats or favors for Christmas. We need to create a treat or favor for the holiday gathering. You must add some embossing. It could be dry embossing or using embossing powder.  Here is my project. I put together a favor and added a tag to it. I use the Simply Charmed cart and cut out the stocking at 2 1/2 in and powder emboss the top.  I hope you guys like it!

My first side step card

Hello my crafty friends,

Happy Tuesday! I would love to share with your all my first side step card. I saw this card on Giselle's blog Cross My Heart Paper Crafts .She is having a week long blog hop and is having guest desingners. One of her guest desingners Melissa from Adventures in Heels. She made this card and I loved it!! I just had to try it out. So here it is hope your guys like it! 

I got the mesurements of this card on  a youtube video.
Snowman at 4in
Tress 3 1/4
Big Snow Flake 2 in
Small snow flake 1in.

Awards

Hello my crafty friends,

Yay the weekend is almost here!! lol I would like to take the time to say Thank you my blogging friends that send me these awards.

The first award is A Thing of Beauty Award. This award was given to me by Sandy S. Thank you so much Sandy for thinking of me for this award. This is the second time I get this award so I just going to add your name to the award on my sidebar. Please take the time to stop by her blog and become a follower of her blog is your not already. You will love her blog because she has such great projects.

The second award is The Irresistably Sweet Blog Award. This award was given to me by my BFFPatty

The rules for this award are the following:
1) Send a Than you to the person who nominated you and include their link.
2) To accept this award, answer 7 random facts about yourself.
3) Pass the award onto at least 8 other awesome blog buddies.

1) Thank you so much Patty for thinking of me for this award.

2) 1.  I just bought the sugar & Spice cartridge
    2.  I love to spend time with my daughter
    3.  Love to shop for crafting stuff
    4.  I love to eat Pizza
    5.  I love to drink Coca-Cola
    6.  I love to have girls night out with my friends
    7.  I just bought my first boarder puncher and I love it!!

3)  Now onto selecting 8 blogs: ( this is so hard since ebryone is so talented)
     1.Norma
     2.Pam
     3.Sherrie K
     4.Yolie
     5.Girlia
     6.Shanne
     7.Mistyrose
     8.Adri

The third Award is the Stinkin Cute Blog Award. This award was given to by my BFF Patty . Thank you so much amiga for passing this CUTE award. Please take the time to stop by my BFF blog and become a follower if your not already. She is always trying to make new stuff and is very talented.

Now there is no rules to this award but I would love to pass it down to my faithful followers. Be sure to follow all the wonderful crafter's blog. You will be amazed at what you will see.

* Patty I would pass it back to you since your always comenting on my post but since you passed it to me first I will just pass it to my other faithfull followers.

Thank you all for always being their for me and always stopping by my blog and leaving your sweet comments. I love to read them all.

Here they are:
1. Norma
2. Amber
3.Julie K
4.Tami

Goddies that I have bought!

Hello my crafty friends,

Happy wednesday!! Yay it's thr middle of the week!! lol I hope everyone is having a great week. I wanted to take some tilme to share with you all all my goodies that I have bought in the last couple months.

First it was the Colorbok warehouse sale back in June 4th. Thanks to Yolie at http://www.justyolie.com/ .She posted a blog about the sale and I just couldnt resist lol. So thank you Yolie for sharing your info with us. Here are pictures of what I got.

This is my BFF patty a.k.a Creative Diva and I. This is our two heavy boxes lol

This is my box full of goddies!

This is all my goddies from the Colorbok sale

Second one was this past friday 7-8-11 at the Prima Warehouse Sale. Once again thanks to Yolie, we found out of this great sale. So my BFF Patty and I had to go to it lol. We had so much fun and best of all loved the prices on all our goddies. Here are pictures of the day and our goddies.

Patty and I making line to pay

This is how it looked like at the sale oh and it was a really HOT day! Thank God they were kind enough to give us free water lol

This is all my goodies that I got at the sale. I love their flowers but the best part was the prices. They had the bags of flowers for 50 cents to a 1.00, the jars for 2.00 and  the other stuff for .50, $1, $2,

Thanks Yolie for always sharing your infor with all of us.

Enjoy the rest of your day my crafty friends!

A thank you card for 2 challenges

Hello my crafty friends,

I hope everyone is having a great and cool weekend. I also had some time to make a thank you card for two challenges. Hope you guys like it!

Challemges:

Die Cuttin Divas at http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/
Theme: Circle Sketch

Cricut 360 at http://cricut360.blogspot.com/2011/07/cricut-360-challenge-2.html
Theme: Ch #2 Design a thank you card but it has to be a circle card.

Materials:
Cricut Essentials Dollie 7 size: 3.5
2nd layer Circle: size 2.5 in
Cuttlebug forlder Sports & Dots
3rd layer Circle: 2 in
white gelly roll pen
Prima flowers
jewels

Cricut 360 Challenge #1

Hello my crafty friends,

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. I sure did! Well I finally had a little bit of time to make an invite card for the first challenge over at Cricut 360! http://cricut360.blogspot.com/2011/07/cricut-360-challenge-1.html . I wish I had more time but I didnt. My card is pretty simple but I hope you guys like it. I made it for my BFF Patty from Creative Diva http://creativediva98.blogspot.com/ . I made it for her so that she could remember that we are going shopping on friday to the Prima wearhouse sale. So it should be a day full of FUN!!

What I used:
Sweetheart Cart for the card at 4 in.
Ribbon
Blue paper

Challenge #1:  Make any kind of invite with any cut of cricut or imagine.

Look what I got in the mail!

Hello crafty friends,

Happy 4th of July weekend!! I hope everyone has fun weekend. I wanted to share with you all what I got in the mail yesterday. I had won some blog candy from Julie K  A Little Bit Of Bling @ http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/2011/06/whimsy-is-essential.html . I won some cool stamps from K Andrew from Getting Cricky @ http://www.gettingcricky.com/ . I love her blog!! So when Julie told me that I had won one of her stamps sets I was soooo excited!! I won the Fashionable Friends stamp set, wich K Andrew donated $1.00 from the sale of every stamp set to charity. I thinks that is so awesome! Thanks Julie for my stamp set. I cant wait to used them.

                                 This a the stamp set along with the beautiful card Julie send me.
                                                               Thank so much Julie!!

                                                           a close up of the stamp set.