#213, 214 Thank You Cards Blog Hop

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Thank You Cards Blog Hop! If you are here from Jennifer's Blog

http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/  than you are in the right spot. If you just started the hop and would like to start at the beginning then please go to Crafty Card Gallery http://www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/. I am so happy to be part of this hop because I have never done a hop all about Thank You cards and it's something that I always need to have on hand. Now onto my project:

I decided to make 2 Thank You cards with my forgotten cartridge....Hoot N Holler! I love that cart so much and I don't know why I don't get to use it more often I guess because there are so many cute carts that keep coming out and I think I have way too many options LOL! Here is the girl owl I stamped her face with my favorite owl face stamp from Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces XL. I used my Gypsy to hide all of the little pieces so that I could stamp the faces. For the beaks I put a white gel pen...let it dry and went over it with a yellow marker. I stamped the sentiment and put some bling on her belly because I think this bird is pregnant by her husband below......I think she got pregnant here in the wood's (The patterned paper I used!)LOL!Now here is her husband!!

For Mr. Lover owl LOL! I also cut him from Hoot N Holler, stamped the sentiment and also stamped his face with 2 DIFFERENT face stamps from Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces XL. I stamped the glasses part seperate and stamped the beak part seperate, I also did the same technique on his beak as the other card.

Here is my 100% hand made envelopes! I cut the envelopes, the actual card base, and all of the scallop sqaures from the Slumber Party Cartridge I LOVE that cart by the way!! I used my ATG gun to adhere the envelope and I cut it on plain computer paper! I stamped the same sentiment on the envelope. These cards and envelope are around a 4x4 inch size.

On the inside of the envelope I put this adhesive square thing I dont know what its called, I just know I got a whole bunch of them from Big Lots. All you have to do is peel off the blue part and it has a very strong permanent bond.

Here is the two lovebirds together with their baby on the way LOL! Aren't they such a cute couple I thought they were so cute that I didnt want to put them on my cards I wanted to use them on a layout! Hmmmm maybe I will next time!

For my blog candy I am Giving away a Brand New in Package Zig 2 way glue pen all you have to do is BE a FOLLOWER and then tell me your favorite moment in 2010, I will draw a Random Winner sometime on Monday Jan.3rd. Please check back tonight at midnight or sometime this weekend for my sister's blog hop that I will be in right here you won't want to miss it! My favorite memory of 2010 was when I went on my 1st Cruise EVER! WE went earlier this year on a 7 NT cruise to the Mexico, we stopped in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas, it was me, my hubby and my son (he was 2 at the time). I will never forget that trip it was a life changing experience and I loved being so spoiled and pampered by all of the staff they were excellent!
 Here's some photos from my trip!

Yep that's a real Donkey!!-Puerto Vallarta Mexico

My son feeding the a giraffe at the Puerto Vallarta Zoo

What a beautiful sunset!

Here we are in our comfy robes, I love this pic of us!

I just wanted to thank everyone for being a follower and being with me through my exciting journey of my 365 Days of Cricut Blog, I am going to try super hard next year to make 365 projects or MORE! I didnt quite make it there this year because I took a 4 month break from the blog world. I wish I could send all of my followers so owl Thank You Cards! Thank You!!!! You guys are the nicest sweetest people and I just LOVE the crafting world and the blog world! I wish you the best of luck in love, life, and crafting in 2011!! I can't wait for next year....only 10 more hours for me!

Your next stop is Deb from DD's Crafts please CLICK HERE.

#212 Martini card

Happy New Year everyone! today is Friday and you know what that means....time for everyone to "Flaunt" their Cricut Carts over at my new challenge blog http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/. For those of you who are new to my blog welcome! At Flaunt it Friday's we have a new Cricut cart that we will be featuring every week and you have one week to complete the project. This week we are flaunting the Martini on Page 60 from the "From My Kitchen" Cartridge, if you do not own this cart feel free to use a similar cut from any cart.

For my card I used some black glitter paper...it was really hard to work with this type of material because I have actually never used it before....yes I am a Hoarder of all things scrapbooking related I have so much untouched stuff its sad....well at least that could be one of my New Year's Resolutions to use up my stuff I already own! I cut the Martini and cherry from FMY, the cherry was actually supposed to be an olive. I added stickles to the cherry and black bling to the "Pimp Cup" LOL! And I stamped the most perfect sentiment to go along with my Martini, the stamp is from Pink By Design. I inked the edges of the sentiment with pink distress ink, and added a strip of sequin ribbon. I hope you all can play along this week with us especially since we having a GIVE AWAY sponsored by our fabulous Dorcas 4 Crafty Angels!

Please make sure you check back tonight at 7pm and Midnight PST for 2 amazing blog hops that I will be in including some blog candy! Have a safe and Happy New Year and may all of your dreams and wishes come true in 2011!

#211 Birthday Owl Card, Christmas Pics, & 2 Blog Hops

Hi everyone thank you all for the sweet Christmas Wishes I hope you guys had a good one! Here is a card I made for my little baby sister....yep she's the baby out of the 4 of us girls, and she turns 20 tomorrow big 2-0! She's officially old LOL j/k! Okay maybe not old but she's not a teen anymore!

I cut this very adorable owl, frame, and banner from one of my favorite Lite's which is Twinkle Toes. I stamped the entire frame with the oval shape with a very large woodgrain stamp from Michael's. I stamped the sentiment on the banner with Pink By Design and added blue and white buttons underneath the banner. I also stamped her face with Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces.

I also have some very exciting news for you....I will be in 2 Blog Hops this weekend the first one will start on New Year's Eve at 7pm PST starting at Jennifer's blog  http://www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/ the theme will be Thank You Cards, you will have all weekend to complete the hop.

Also, for my 2nd blog hop it will start on my sister Joanna's blog http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/ and her theme is Let's Celebrate! We are celebrating her 25th birthday, and also her one year blog Anniversary! This is going to be big because she is doing 6 days of GIVEAWAYS before the start date of the hop! Today she is giving away an i-rock!! Hmmm what will she giveaway tomorrow?? Be sure to stop by and leave her a comment everyday so you have a chance to win some awesome blog candy!http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/  My sister's hop will begin at 7AM PST on Jan.1st, and you will also have all weekend to complete the hop.

Now onto my Christmas pictures:

Here is a Christmas pic of my son and I at my grandma's house, it's the best one LOL, I have one where he is looking at the tree and another one where he is picking his nose LOL!

Nose picker caught in the act ha ha! He rarely ever picks his nose, I don't know why he chose this moment to do it LOL!

Isn't Aidan cute with is little outfit! I love it so much and it matched perfectly with my $5 dress!! Yep I love a good deal, my Christmas dress is actually a summer dress that was in the Clearance section at Charlotte Russe in the mall I got lucky!

#210 My first gift bag!

It's Friday! You know what that means! Time for a brand new challenge at my new blog called Flaunt It Friday's this week we are featuring one of the most popular and best ever Cricut cartridges.....Create A Critter! The TURTLE on Page 64. I decided to try something new that I have NEVER ever done before and it's so simple...a gift bag! Can you believe that I've never made one I feel so guilty LOL! I had a lot of fun flaunting my little turtle girl I named her Sasha LOL! I am a dork because I love naming my little Cricut cuts. I gave her a makeover with Peachy Keen Princess faces and a cute little ribbon bow. The sentiment is from Create A critter also, I have to say that I am really loving my little turtle girl named Sasha and her super fabulous pink couture turtle shell LOL! I crack myself up sometimes! The bag was all white and I put K & Co. patterened paper on there and used my MS punch on the blue paper all around and cut the layers of the sentiment to match little Sasha turtle. I hope you guys are able to squeeze in our Flaunt It Friday's challenge sometime this week, and don't forget about our monthly prize which is the Dinosaur Tracks Cricut cartridge! Please click HERE for our Create A Critter Challenge.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!  I am so happy and excited that it Christmas eventhough I really won't be fully celebrating until my hubby comes home next month, let's not forget the true meaning of Christmas the birth of Christ! I hope that you guys have a wonderful loving time with your family and friends!

#209 Happy Anniversary Abby and Mr.Scrapbookaholic!!

Hello everyone I am so excited that I was asked by Abby....you know the Scrapbookaholic Abby!!! To be her Guest Designer for today to celebrate her and her hubby's 15th wedding Anniversary congrats Abby!! Way to go 15 years....now that's a milestone, you'll have to share your secrets and marriage tips with me LOL! I had a lot of fun making this card I cut the two lovers aka Abby and Mr. Abby LOL! from  Nifty Fifties and I decided I didn't want to use all of the layers because I just wanted the silhouette of the two. I inked up the edges with Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick Distress ink, stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design Stamps and I sprayed some shimmery mist from the Smooch sprays that I got from Michael's. I also used a border punch for the border and added some yellow ribbon, a silk flower from the $1 store and a yellow brad.

Abby I am so honored that you asked me to be your Guest Designer on your special day that is so sweet of you. Your hubby is one lucky man to have such a beautiful talented woman in his life! Congrats!!!

*Please make sure to stop by Abby's Blog to give her some love on her special day she has a wonderful GIVEAWAY!!!

Monkey Lover's card

***This is my 3rd post today! Please scroll down to see my Rainbow and Robot cards***

Hi everyone!!Are you all excited about Christmas!?! It's right around the corner and I am so happy that I was able to squeeze in some crafting time while my son has been napping! Here is a card I made to give to my hubby. I can not wait to see him, he will be coming home in a month and lets just say that I truly really really really miss him so much and these monkey's remind me of us LOL! I always like to rest my head on his chest when we lay down or watch TV since he is my nice strong man LOL! Just like the card says I am Wild about him! I think I am going to start a new thing next year when he comes home....when i pack his lunch (almost everyday) I will ocassionally slip in a card in his lunch bag with either a card from myself or one from my 3 year old son. I am sure he would just love that and it would brighten his day whenever he misses us, since he works so hard he always works 10 hour days and he commutes 2 hours each day. We love him and miss him. Now let's not tell him about my little secret LOL! Have a great day everyone!!!

P.S. The challenge at Flaunt It Friday's is still going on now and the cart we are flaunting this week is Simply Charmed.

#208 Follow Your Rainbow

***This is my 2nd post today please Scroll down to see my Robot card***

I am so excited to share with you this card. It is special to me because I made it the day I found out when I was going to be a Guest Designer for the Peachy Keen Blog I still can not believe that I get to design along with the actual designer's on the PK site and also with all of the other 46 Guest designer's what a wonderful Christmas present! I am happy to say the I followed my Rainbow LOL! Oh by the way have you guys heard this amazing song FIREWORK from Katy Perry? I just love this song sooooo much and I can never play it enough! Hey maybe I should make some Peachy fireworks cards next!

Ok onto my card....I get side tracked often please forgive me LOL! I cut the rainbow/cloud from Simply Charmed and stamped her face with Peachy Keen Princess faces, and tied a cute little bow in her rainbow hair!! I also embossed the purple paper with my Cuttlebug and inked it with white ink. I stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design Stamps and embossed with white embossing powder. I am entering my card into Momo's Challenge which is to use a RAINBOW, CLOUD, OR SUN. Make sure you check out her DT's projects because that beautiful baby girl in the layout is my GORGEOUS niece Natalie I love her!! Here's my card again!

I hope you guys have a sunny beautiful happy day!

I'M A PEACHY KEEN GUEST DESIGNER & PKS Blog Hop WINNER HERE!

Hello everyone I hope you guys are getting some crafting time in this crazy weather we are having! I made this cute Robot card from a very large Robot stamp that I got in the $1 bin at Michael's....it's a kids stamp but I love him! I colored him with my Bics and stamped the sentiment &  planets with Pink By Design stamps and used my border punch for the circle's border. I embossed the yellow and white papers with my Cuttlebug. The yellow embossing was does with my Robotz Cuttlebug Companion folder. I then inked the edges with black ink. I am entering this card into the Cute Card Thursday Challenge which is to MAKE A CARD FOR THE KIDS.

Thank You everyone who hopped with us this past weekend for Kathy's Surprise Birthday Hop I was so honored to take part in that historical Blog Hop! Now onto my winner......My RANDOM winner of the 21 assorted papers is.....

CA Scrapper said...

Your card is so cheerful! Beautiful.
Yes, Peachy Keen should make memorabilia for sure. Wouldn't some of those faces be adorable on a baby's bib?
Happy Birthday Kathy!

Congrats CA Scrapper! Please contact me at critterbugg365(at)gmail(dot)com and I will send your blog candy out shortly! Congrats!!

Now onto my Fabulous news!!! I am so happy to announce that I will be one of Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer's for 2011!! Woo-hoooooooo!! Yippeee!!! You don't understand how excited I am to be part of this it's a big deal to me! My heart was racing so much when I found out, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the acceptance letter! Thank You Peachy Keen Stamps I wish I could give you guys a big giant KISS because I am so HAPPY!! Please make sure to mark your calendars for my BIG EXCITING WEEK as a Guest Designer it will be April 11 to April 15th!! Please click HERE to see the complete list of all of the 2011 Guest designer's!

#207 Christmas Tree Mini Album

Hello everyone I made a Christmas Tree Mini Album. Please scroll down to read my description.

Here is the front cover . The bell is a necklace and my title is a bling embellishment. The large ribbon bows are from an old christmas card that I removed along with the tiny tree. I added a large red cloth-like brad to the bow.

Here is a top view of the front page and all of my ribbon I used. I put the bell necklace on there so it can close.

Here is the 2nd and 3rd page. I added a snowflake embellishment and a red bow with a pearl. I also added a candy cane embellishment from the Jolees line.

Pages 4 and 5 I put red bows on top with another brad on the left side. All of the candy like stickers on the left side are also Jolee's. Right side I put a candy hanging embellishment and attached it to my binder ring. I sprayed the small envelope which also went with an old card with Glimmer mist and stamped the sentiment that says "It's the most wonderful time of the Year". On the bottom you can see my candy cane colored twine.

Here is a closeup of my Jolees candy cane stickers on page 4.

Here is a closeup of my little envelope with Glimmer Mist and red paint, also my stamping.Page 5.

Page 6 and Page 7 I added snowflake embellishments to the top. Left side I put a Merry christmas sticker on it that had Micro-beads, I also added a faux chipboard button and ribbon that says Naughty or Nice. This is the other side of the page with the candy cane twine. For the right side I wanted this page to hold a pic from a house nearby my house that goes all out for Christmas I found out about their house from watching HGTV and they were on it! So I found these cute Christmas lights also from an old card and I just attached them with regular clear scotch tape.

Here are the light on Page 7....they look real huh?

Pages 8 and 9, left side I added a red bow and a chipboard piece that says Jingle Bells, along with a brad. Right side I put a snowflake embellishment and more hanging candy.

Page 10 (back cover) I love this beautiful red vibrant shimmery paper. I put sitckles on all the white parts and put a large piece of bling on all of the larger white areas of the snowflakes, then I put green bling in the center of all the snowflakes. I also put a large embellishment snowflake on top.

Here is a close up of my bling work!

Here is the top view of the ribbon from the back cover.

Here is the side view you can also see here that I painted every single page edge with red acrylic paint. I am so proud of my self for making this mini this is my 2nd mini album ever! I was so stressed out last time I made one because they were very intimidating to me. I think I got over my fear of mini albums and now I feel like I can conquer the world LOL! My last one took me 2 whole weeks, and this one only took me about 1 day and a half to complete it. In case you were wondering where I got this mini I got it from Michael's $1 bin, it did not come with that large green binder ring (that was in my stash).

I made this Mini especially for Paper Playtime since our challenge this week is CHRISTMAS ANYTHING GOES!

Also if you have not heard of my new challenge blog that I created with my friend Janis it's called Flaunt It Friday's and this weeks challenge we have a cute summery theme going on this week...a little break from this cold wintery weather!

#206 Santa Bird

Hi everyone I hope you all are having a great weekend! Here's a quick card that I made but love it! Inseat of Santa Clause he is Santa Bird LOL! I love the  3 Birds on Parade cart the birds just make me crack up especially this Santa wanna be bird LOL! The complete bird is from 3 Birds on Parade, the scallop shape is from Gypsy wanderings, I stamped his eyes and the sentiment from Peachy Keen Stamps. I also added some ribbon that looks like candy. I am entering in the GABY AND ABBY CHALLENGE which is to use Santa or Snowmen.

I hope you all have a good evening and make sure to check back tomorrow to see if you are the winner of the Peachy Keen Blog hop, and also for an awesome project I made you guys will love it!

Please scroll down to continue the PKS hop!

#205 Lime & Maragrita's Anyone??

****If you are looking for the PEACHY KEEN BLOG HOP CLICK HERE****



This week's challenge #3 at Flaunt It Friday's is to use the CUP & Lemon from Simply Charmed page 48. If you do not own this cartridge please feel free to use any similar cut from any cartridge For those of you who are new to my blog Flaunt It Friday's is a new cricut challenge blog that I created with my friend Janis, and we have a total of 11 design team member's flaunting their cricut Cartridges every Friday!

The cup (Margarita) and limes are from Simply Charmed, I stamped all of the faces with Peachy Keen Stamps, and I also stamped the sentiment that says "If life gives you limes make Margarita's" I love that sentiment! The sentiment is from Pink By Design Stamps, I stamped with my Versamark ink and poured some white embossing powder on it and did some embossing because I really wanted to make it pop. I added a strip of blue ribbon and a pop dot underneath one of the limes. The scallop shape is from gypsy Wanderings.

#204 Wild Flower B-day Card for Kathy's PK BLOG HOP!

Hello everyone welcome to Kathy's Super Secret Birthday Blog Hop!! If you do not know who Kathy is she is my role model!! Seriously! She is the creator of Peachy Keen Stamps! Happy Birthday Mrs. Peachy Queen!!!! I am so happy and forever thankful that Kathy created these wonderful stamps it has changed my life forever! I will never go back to my Pre- Peachy Keen days LOL! I feel so spoiled when I use these very addicting stamps.....yes they are very addicting. I hope that one day before I die I will own all of their stamp sets! Now onto the hop:

If you are here from Kimmy's Blog http://scrappinwithkimmy.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right spot. If you are just starting out and you would like to start from the beginning please go directly to http://peachykeenstamps.blogspot.com/. Please make sure you leave comments and all stops on the hop to have a chance at winning 10 Grand Prizes from Peachy Keen you will have all weekend to complete the hop and  the winner's will be chosen on Sunday Dec. 19th.

For Kathy's birthday card I was orginally pulled out my Sweet Treats cart handbook and I was going to do a cake or cupcake card, but I really wanted to do something different. Then I saw this flower in the handbook and instantly I thought of making a flower replica of a PK stamp set that I have been eyeing out for a while you can see it here-> Fun Flower Rosemary I have been wanting that one forever! So here is my faux Rosemary stamp!! The flower and all of her layers are from Sweet Treats I stamped her adorable face with one of my favorite sets for winter called-> Winter Face Assortment, and I colored her nose pink and chalked her cheeks and gave her some white freckles! I stamped the sentiment "Have a Wild Birthday" because I am calling this flower a Wild Flower. The paper is from K & Company and I a embossed the Kraft paper with my Cuttlebug and added some green ribbon.

Kathy I hope you have a fun suprise birthday hop and I hope you enjoy your Rosemary flower replica card that I made just for you! We all love you and we all support Peachy Keen, and I really want you guys to make Peachy Keen Memorbila because those faces are the cutest!! I think you should make t-shirts, landyards, oven mittens, aprons, magnets....yes and I would buy it all! Hey I could decorate my whole kitchen with Peachy Keen memorbila ha ha!

For my blog candy which is 21 of my favorite papers from different companies from American Crafts, K&Comapany, DCVW, Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye, & Recollections. There's is fancy, glittery, cardstock, regular paper, and embossed paper. I have already cut them for you and they are ready to be made into cards at 4.25in x 5.5in.

To win this candy all you have to do is be a FOLLOWER of my blog and tell me if you think Peachy Keen should make memorbilia because I think they should! And tell me what kind of memorbilia you would like to see. For a second chance at winning you can be a fan of my Facebook page and comeback and leave a second comment telling me you are a fan and a follower.

I hope everyone enjoy's seeing all of the Peachy projects just for Kathy! Next stop on the hop is Sarah click here-> http://www.pinkcricut.com/. Thank you Angelica for letting me be in your sneaky surprise birthday party Blog Hop!

Tango the Skating Bird Card

***Click HERE for my NEW Cricut Challenge Blog Flaunt It Friday's we are giving a way a Cricut Cartridge at the end of the month!***

Good evening my lovely bloggy friends! I hope you guys are taking time for yourselve's to get some crafting done. This is a very busy time of the year but I have finally manage to be creative I was missing my scrapbook room and my Cricut LOL!

I have been having fun experiementing with Digi's this one is Tango the Skating Bird from Digital Delights by Louby Lou right now all of their Christmas digi's are 50% off and they are all super cute!

I made this card for the Delightful Challenge which is Louby Lou's challenge blog. This week the challenge is embossing! I am so excited about this because I got to use my cuttlebug, I feel like I haven't really used my Cuttlebug in 2 or 3 weeks and I having withdrawls LOL! I colored Tango with my Bic markers. Embossed the white paper, added stickles to his scarf and I used my MS punch for the snowflake border and the negative snowflakes I adhered to the bottom. I stamped the sentiment from Pink By design Stamps, and added a strip of ribbon to the top. 

*****Please make sure you check back here at midnight PST tonight for a very special blog Hop with awesome blog candy!! It will be going on all weekend long!!!!

3 Blog Hop WINNER'S Right Here

Hi everyone thank you all so much for taking the time to come by my blog for all 3 hops that I was in over the weekend I am so happy to say that we all survived WOW LOL! There was so much talent on all 3 hops I really loved everyone's Christmas gift idea's and now my brain is flooded with ideas, I already made something last night that you guys are going to love! I will post it a little bit later. Now on to the candy!

The first prize from the Holly Jolly Hop DAY 1 goes to the RANDOM.ORG winner Teela said...


So glad for this hop and meeting new crafters! Love you site, yep, I'm a follower and your banner is so cute. Thanks for reminding me that I don't have to invest tons of time to make something so darn cute!

Congrats Teela!! You won this set of Fiskars stamps

Now onto my 2nd RANDOM.ORG winner of DAY 2 Jolly Holly Hop is Jamie said...

this turned out sooo cute. love the colors.
-jamie

Congrats Jamie!! You won the Making Memoires flowers and brad set


Now onto the Stocking Stuffer Blog Hop from Paper Playtime

The RANDOM.ORG winner from the Stocking Stuffer Hop is iluvmybugs said...

These organizers are so much fun to decorate and use for so many things...candy being the best of all LOL!!! My favorite treat at Christmas are Tootsie Rolls (it's my favorite year round!).

Congrats iluvmybugs!!! You won these Fiskars stamps

I just wanted to take a moment and thank Stephanie from http://www.alwayscrafting.com/ and Jess from http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/ for letting me join in on their Holly Jolly 2-day Hop Thank You ladies!

Also I would like to give a special thanks to my dear friend Janis of http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/ who is the creator of http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/ thank you so much for making Paper Playtime your special baby I love being part of your DT it's nice to be QUEEN!!

For those of you who won the blog candy please email me at critterbugg365(at)gmail(dot)com  I will get your candy out to you sometime this week =)

And don't forget to enter our Paper Doll Dress Up Challenge at my NEW challenge blog http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/

Snowman Challenge at Paper Playtime

***Click HERE for my Cricut Challenge Blog, the current challenge is Paper Doll Dress UP***

I just wanted to thank you all for stopping by my blog for the 3 hops I was in this weekend. I will announce all 3 winner's this afternoon so be sure to come back check to see if you won good luck!!

For this week's challenge the Queen's were required to do a Snowman Project at http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com//  and we are sponsored by Digital Delights By Louby Lou with the Candy Cane Jingles Snowman digi right now he is on clearance for only $1!!!! Actually all of their adorable Christmas Digi's are on sale now click HERE. You do not need to use a digi to participate in Paper Playtime.

For my card I got my patterned paper from the Joann's Christmas DCVW 180 stack and I colored Candy Cane Jingles with my Bic markers added some stickles to his hat. I stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design stamps, and added 3 Prima flowers with some i-rock bling. I also put a little bit of chalk on his cheek to look like he is blushing. Please make sure you also stop by the Paper Playtime blog if you participated in the Queen's Stocking Stuffer Hop over the weekend, the winner's will be announced between Mon-Tues.

#203 Day 2 of the Holly Jolly hop

***IF YOU ARE CONTINUING ON THE PAPER PLAYTIME STOCKING STUFFER HOP PLEASE SCROLL DOWN OR CLICK HERE ***

Welcome to Day 2 of the Holly Jolly Hop if you are here from
Margie: http://bellabugcreations.blogspot.com then you are in the right spot. If you just started the hop and would like to start from the beginning please head over to Stephanie Always Crafting. We are so excited to show everyone our 2nd gift idea projects and I am so happy that Stephanie and Jess have invited me to be part of their amazing hop. I hope that everyone was able to get inspired by all the wonderful projects from DAY 1, if you would like more inspiration and you would like to win some more candy feel free to scroll down a few posts here on my blog. 

For my 2nd project I made a Christmas Ornament to hang on a bottle of Sparking Blueberry Grape Cider that I found at Walmart for $2.50. I thought it had such a pretty blue and silver combo so I just had to buy it and make a gift out of it! First I cut the snowflake from Accent Essentials on cereal chipboard, and on white cardstock then I put the snowflake in my Xyron sticker machine upside down and poured MS (tinsel) glitter over it. I punch a hole at the top and put some blue ribbon through it to make an ornament. I put a small strip of ATG adhesive to the silver ribbon and it stuck to the bottle. I put a blue glittery bell ornament (from Big Lots set of 12) and put my snowflake ornament on the ribbon. I then tied a knot to make my faux bow, Since I am not gifted in the bow department LOL! I think this came out very pretty and expensive looking too! Some other ideas you can do is make one with a wine bottle, pre-made cocktails, or liquor!

Here's my blue glitter bell

Here's a close-up of my tinsely snowflake oooh ahhh! (Martha Stewart)

Now for some CANDY! I am giving away a set of designer brads, and an 18pc set of flowers from Making Memories. All you have to do is LEAVE A COMMENT and tell me if you have ever experienced a WHITE CHRISTMAS!

Please make sure you leave a comment on all stops of the HOP because we have some amazing Grand Prizes! Today we are sponsored by Sarah Pink Cricut with one of her stamp sets!

Now onto the next stop http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/ or click on the picture