#113 Grad Bash Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Grad Bash Blog Hop hosted by Nadia and Giselle. If you are here from Giselle's blog you are in the right spot. I am so excited to be part of Giselle's exciting Graduation hop. In case you didn't know Giselle just graduated from college that is a major accomplishment, I am so excited for her! Here's a sweet little card I made for her:

For my card I cut the female Cricut bug head with the Car Decals cart and the graduation cap is from A Child's Year. I did a little faux stitching and stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design stamps. I embossed the Kraft paper with a flourish type frame embossing folder and inked it up with my Black Shoot Distress ink.

Blog Candy!! I am giving away 5 of these cute Cricut Bug Head's to one lucky follower (without the graduation cap). I will cut them at 3.5 inches in any 5 colors that you wish. You can choose between male and or female bug head's. I will choose a Random winner on Monday.

NEXT STOP is Kristy

Congrats Giselle!!!!!!!

#111, 112 Lettering Delights Cards

Hi everyone here's some more cards that I made with Lettering Delights Graphics. I printed the images from my home printer on white non-textured cardstock. I embossed the 2nd card with my Cuttlebug and added twine on both. The sentiments are from Pink ByDesign. I hope you have a great weekend and be sure to stop by tomorrow for the Grad Bash Blog Hop!

Also be sure to check  out the new Flaunt It Friday's Cricut challenge which is to use the Nifty Fifties cart! You can enter the challenge HERE

#110 NIfty Fifties Cruisin Car

Hi everyone!  There's a new challenge this week at my other blog which is a Cricut challenge blog called Flaunt It Friday's and the challenge is to use the NIfty Fifties cart and the cut choice is this fabulous car on Page 24! I decided to make a masculine card by using this color combo. The sentiment is from Pink By Design, I also did faux stitching and added twine.

Be sure to play along with this week's challenge for a chance at winning a Joy's Life Lot's of Pun stamp set sponsored by Cravin Scrappin. You have one week to enter your project HERE.

Be sure to stop by my blog tomorrow for the Grad Bash Blog Hop hosted by 

Nadia www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com and Giselle www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com

#109 Mother's Day Card

Hi everyone! Here's a card I made for a custom order. The bird is from Lyrical Letters, marquee shape... Storybook, and the cloud is from Going Places. I embossed the background with my Cuttlebug and added faux stitching and stamped the flower with PKS.

#108 DDLL Bear Card

Hi everyone today is Design Team day at Digital Delights by Louby Loo and the stamp I used was  this cute bear from the Baking Bears Set. I thought I would try a new technique which is Paper Piecing I have never tried this and I love it! If you are wondering what Paper piecing is I printed this digi stamp on  6 different colors of cardstock and cut each layer out with my scissors and glued all of the pieces together  on the brown bear with my Zig glue pen. I also punched the border with my apron lace punch. I left the sentiment blank that  way I could always go back and stamp any sentiment for whatever occassion I need it for like birthday, just because, thank you, etc. I hope you can come check out the rest of the DT's amazing projects HERE. Have a good night and be sure to stop by my blog tomorrow for an all new project.

P.S. Don't forget to enter the Flaunt It Friday's Cindy Loo Cricut Challenge for a chance to win a Joy's Life Lot's of Pun Stamp set! Only one more day left!

#107 Easter Treat bags and Hop Winner's

-Hi everyone this is my 3rd post today please scroll down if you are looking for my Mother's Day card and my Karber Digi Monday card.

Here's some Easter treat bags I made yesterday to give to the adults at Easter! These very cute images can be found on the Lettering Delights website, I used all scraps for the bags and stamped the sentiments with Pink BY Design and My Creative Time Stamps. I also used my most favorite punch ever the MS Border Lace punch. I also stamped 2 faces with PKS. My fav bag is the "You Crack Me Up" egg isn't it funny! LOL! Reminds me of that old movie called "Cone Heads" LOL! I hope you all had a sweet Easter! I had so much fun watching all of the little kids literally fight over the candy in the eggs...kids lol! I am entering my Easter Treat Bags in Paula's More Than Favors awesome Easter Challenge HERE!

Now onto the Winner's!! First I would like to say thank you to everyone who has stopped by my blog for all of the hops I've been in recently. Also, I would really like to apologize for announcing the winner's so late past the date I originally said, I'm so sorry ladies I guess things in my life have been happening so fast and I've kind of been putting blogging on the back burner I hope you understand I still love you guys!!!! I will contact the winner's personally if I do not hear from you soon. ***Winners please email me at critterbugg365@gmail.com with your addy to claim your prizes***

Disney Easter Egg Hop Winner:

Creative Diva said...Wow! What a great idea! Already a follower! Thanks for a chance to win! HUgs,

Pattycreativediva98.blogspot.com

Peachy Keen GUest Designer Week Winner:

Maureen Reiss said...

Awww!! How adorable is this card!!? I love him and his little tie!!
reissfam10 at aol dot com

Royal Digi Easter Hop

Maria Matter said...

totally adorable Sandra!!! love the embssing on the tag, really adds a special touch!
Happy to be hopping with you today!
hugs

Love Your Pets Blog Hop

Celeste said...

oh wow your card is absolutley adorable.

CONGRATS EVERYONE!!! I am doing the happy dance for all of you! =)

#106 Mother's Day Card

***Please click HERE for my Digi Monday project***

Hi everyone I hope you had a wonderful Easter! Here's my Mother's Day card I made for Abby's Design Team challenge the theme is Mother's Day and use faux stitching you have 2 weeks to enter the challenge HERE. I recently discovered this wonderful sight called Lettering Delights and that's where I got the flower graphic. It was pretty easy I just printed it out on a 3.5x3.5 size on my printer and cut around the edges and did some faux stitching. The sentiments are Pink BY Design and My Creative Time Stamps. Be sure to check back later today to see if you won the Disney Easter Egg Hop blog candy and to check back for another project today that I made with Lettering Delights!

#105 Digi Monday Friends Card

Hi everyone! Today is Digi Monday at Paper Playtime and our theme is "Friends" I colored this cute stamp from Karber with Prismacolor pencils, stamped the sentiment, and added twine and a button. If you would like to enter the challenge you have 2 weeks please click HERE to see the rest of the Design Teams projects!

#104 Disney Easter Egg Blog Hop Day 2

Hi everyone!!! Welcome Day 2 of the Disney Easter Egg Hop hosted by MONICA and I! This is a hop all about Disney and Easter, and some of us are posting on both days so be sure to check out everyone's amazing projects!

For my project I thought I would honor my all time favorite character....Minnie Mouse! I cut the Mickey head and Minnie Mouse bow with Mickey and Friends cart and cut the same bunny ears that I used for yesterday's mini album project which were from 3 Birds on a Parade cart. I placed the bow in my Xyron sticker machine upside down and poured Martha Stewart Glitter over the top. This is my favorite technique to use when I play with glitter. I did some faux stitching and found some matching ribbon and played around with My Creative Time Stamps to get this "Bunny Crossing" sentiment!

BLOG CANDY!!! I am giving away a set of Peachy Keen Stamps CUTE AND CUDDLY to one lucky follower. To qualify you must be a follower and leave me a comment on both posts, be sure to check out yesterday's mini album project HERE! I will announce a Random winner on Monday.

Monica: http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/
Sandra: http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Elsa: http://www.cricutlvr.blogspot.com/
Carley: http://the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/
Norma: http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/
DD's Crafts:http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
Nicole: http://www.creationsbymommy.com/
Glora Jean: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Janis: http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
Lauren: http://laurenscreative.blogspot.com/
Melissa: http://disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/
Scraps to Treasure: http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Olga: http://www.threebutterflykisses.com/


Have fun hopping and have a wonderful Easter!
NEXT STOP is ELSA

#103 Disney Easter Egg Hop- Mini Album

Hi everyone!!! Welcome to the Disney Easter Egg Hop hosted by my sweet, talented and fellow Disney freak like me...... MONICA!! I was so excited when Monica asked me to help Co-Host this fun Hop because she know's how much I love Disney! I would like to thank ELSA for making this super cute hop button, thank you Elsa!

For our Disney Easter Egg Hop our theme was Anything Goes just as long as it's Disney and Easter, pretty cute combo if you ask me! Some of us will be posting on both days SAT/SUN so be sure to stop by again tomorrow.

Now onto my project! I made an Easter mini album for my son Aidan (age 3), he was so happy that I let him pick all of the cuts it's pretty funny that he didn't want Minnie Mouse or Daisy LOL, he chose all of the boys! I made this so I can place just pictures of him and his other little cousins on Easter this Sunday. I wanted it to be an "All Kiddie" mini album I figured that it would be nice for him to look at and see other little kids which are his family.

This is the front cover, I made the entire mini out of one 12x12 sheet of blue textured cardstock. I just played around with the folds and this is what I came out with. I didn't plan on making a mini I actually made a pre-made 2 page layout with these same exact papers and I just didn't have the vision since I normally do not make pre-made LO's. I feel like I need to have my pictures in my hands since I like to crop them a lot. I scored the 12x12 paper at every 3 inches to make 4 sections and scored down the middle at 6 inches. The font is from Robotz cart, and I made my own book binding with a sheet of patterned paper cut at 2x6 inches and folded in half. All papers are from SEI.

Here's what the back and front covers look like. You can also see the bottlecap I made on the left side.

For this bottlecap Idea I orginally saw an epoxy maker at the scrapbook expo in Anaheim and Monica gave me this idea to use Glossy acents instead to save money...thanks Monica!! Well I actually stamped Pluto (my son chose!) and colored him with Bic Markers and placed the paper in the UTEE Melting Pot, then I hammered down and distressed with a Meat mallet!! Yes a kitchen tool! Well I just discovered that I can use that instead of pounding chicken, it has been sitting in my kitchen drawer for years waiting to be used LOL! I added twine behind the front and back covers as a closure and punched a whole in the bottlecap with my Crop a dile.

Here's the first 2 pages all cuts are from Mickey and Friends cart, the bunny ears are from 3 Birds On A Parade, and all stamps are Pink By Design. I also did faux stitching all all pages.

To create a circle opening I just punched a half circle with my 3inch circle punch. For the triangle opening I just folded over the paper.

I cut these tags from Sweet Treats and added some Spring looking ribbon. This is where I will place the photos and I also have the option of placing anywhere from 4 to 12 wallet sized photo's in this mini if I use all empty spaces.

BLOG CANDY!!! I am giving away a set of Peachy Keen Stamps CUTE AND CUDDLY to one lucky follower. To qualify you must be a follower and leave me a comment on both posts, be sure to check out my new Disney project tomorrow! I will announce a Random winner on Monday.

Monica: http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/
Sandra: http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Elsa: http://www.cricutlvr.blogspot.com/
Carley: http://the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/
Norma: http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/
DD's Crafts:http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
Nicole: http://www.creationsbymommy.com/
Glora Jean: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Janis: http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/ 
Lauren: http://laurenscreative.blogspot.com/
Melissa: http://disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/
Scraps to Treasure: http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Olga: http://www.threebutterflykisses.com/


Have fun hopping and have a wonderful Easter!
NEXT STOP is ELSA

#102 Cat Tag for Flaunt It Friday's

Hi everyone today is a brand new challenge over at my other blog Flaunt It Friday's and this week we are flaunting our Cindy Loo Cricut carts and the theme is easy...."Anything Goes"! For my project I made another tag for my collection, lately I have been making a lot of vintage tags because I have a secret shh.....I am making a tag mini album it's a work in progress so that means if I have any extra time I squeeze in a tag or two LOL! I think I may go up to 20 pages of tags and place photo's behind every tag. I will post pics of the completed project.

For my tag I cut the cat from Cindy Loo, stamped the face with Peachy Keen Stamps, placed Stickles on the cat's face, stamped the frame and stamped the sentiment with KinderStampO stamps, and added more Stickles on the fram. I also added some pretty pearls, Glimmer Mist and Distress ink. It's kinda neat to see how you can alter a plain tan tag into something like this!

Please be sure to enter your Cindy Loo project HERE, you have one week to enter the challenge

 The wait is almost over! Just one more day for some Disney Inspiration!

DDLL Pirate Girl

Hi everyone I am so sorry I haven't posted in a few days I felt like I needed to take a little break in posting/blogging but I have been making a ton of cards that I can't wait to show you all! Here's a card I made for Digital Delights by Louby Loo design team, I am sorry about the picture quality something happened to my computer today so I had to take this picture with my cell phone. The stamps I used are Prissy The Pirate, Pirate Sentiments Set, and Pirate Accessories Set. I colored everything with Prismacolor pencils, added Stickles, faux stitching and ribbon. Please be sure to check out the rest of the DT's amazing projects HERE.

I am so happy to announce that I will be co-hosting the Disney Easter Egg Hop along with my awesome friend Monica from Simply Cricutting be sure to stop by this weekend for some Disney Inpiration!!

#101 Peachy Keen Guest Designer Day 5 /Mini Album

***Click HERE for the ROYAL DIGI EASTER HOP***

***Click HERE for my FIF DT project***

Hi everyone is Sandra here and I am so sad to announce that today is my last day as a Guest Designer for Peachy Keen Stamps, I am so glad that I was able to play along with the rest of the DT for their Let's Face It Friday Challenge. Since the theme for this week is "Mother's Day" I decided to make a mini album out of one single 12x12 piece of paper!! Woo-hoo I am so excited just looking at this mini it opens up like magic LOL!

Here's the front cover all flowers in this mini are from the Forever Young cart. I created my own sentiment with  KinderStampO stamps. I was originally going to make this to give to my mom for Mother's Day but I decided it was too cute to give away and instead I am going to put pictures of my son Aidan and I on Mother's Day. I know I am horrible, but hey I'm a mom too! I will probably make my mom a fancy/vintage themed one. All papers where from American Crafts and all faces where from  my all time favorite PK 640 Princess Face Assortment. I added ric rack under the flowers as stems and adhered a blue strip of ribbon to the back cover so it can tie together to close.

I double layered the flowers with pop dots for dimension.

This is what the book looks like when you first open it. For all of the pages I went with the same color scheme that was on my patterend paper. I added ribbon to all Kraft paper photo mats and some of the same flowers just alternated the colors. I wrote the sizes that way I can just add the pictures after Mother's Day. I stamped all sentiments with My Creative Time stamps and also stamped the little frames from a Martha Stewart stamp set.

*Note* You can zoom in the picture by clicking on it

Here's how the next part looks after opening the page that was pictured above this one. I love this paper set especially the pink wood grain paper and the bird paper.

On the back cover I stamped both flourishes and also you can see where I adhered the ribbon under the yellow paper which will wrap around to the fron to tie a bow.The final size of this mini is 6x6 with a total of 6 pages for decorating.

Now for some blog candy! I am giving away one PK 757-Wide Eyed Bushy Tailed Assortment all you have to do is leave me a comment , you do not have to be a follower but I would love it if you did! I will chose a Random winner on Saturday April 16th.

For the challenge -Design must be new

-Project must include Peachy Keen Faces
-Link up before April 28th *Enter your project HERE  on the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog
**One Random winner will  win a Princess Face Assortment (Like the one's I used in Today's project!)
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments you left for me during my fabulous Peachy week! I adore all of you! I am so thankful for Peachy Keen Stamps for giving me such a wonderful opportunity!

#100 Royal Digi Easter Hop

***If you are looking for my FIF DT project please click HERE***



Hi everyone! I was so excited when the QUEEN asked me to be in her hop showcasing this fabulous digi's sponsored by Karber Digital Images you have to check them out they are just way too cute I love them! If you are here from Lisa's blog then you are in the right spot. If you would like to start from the beginning please click HERE

For my project I made a cone shape treat bag from the Tie The Knot cart and added some malted eggs inside the candy bag. I hand cut the tag, stamped the sentiment with My Creative Time Stamps, and did some embossing with my Cuttlebug.

Here is a close up the EASTER BUNNY STAMP that I colored with my Prismacolor pencils.

Blog Candy! I am giving away this journaling stamp from Inkadinkado which I thought would be the perfect for your mini albums or scrapbook layouts, all you have to do is be a follower and leave me a comment telling me your favorite Easter memory. I will start first...my fav memory was in 2008 which my son was only a 1 year old and he looked so cute looking for eggs and sitting next to his Easter basket!

Now Karber being our wonderful sponsor has offered to give a Grand Prize of 3 Digi Images of your choice and a pack of Glitter Pens to be enter into this awesome giveaway we need you to do the following:

1} become a follower of everyone blog on hop...
2} comment on everyone's post
3} go to Karber Digital Stamps Store and tell us your favorite Digi

Now your next designer on The Royal Easter Digi Hop is BERNICE

#99 Gift Card Holder

Hi everyone this week's challenge at Flaunt It Friday's is to use Simply Charmed, Fish 2 (Shift button) Page 41 of your handbook. I wanted to make something different from a card so I decided to make a gift card holder for a guy! I cut the box from Spring Holiday Cards Seasonal cart, fish from Simply Charmed, the sentiment is Pink By Design. I also did some embossing with 2 different Cuttlebug folders. Please be sure to stop by the Flaunt It Friday's blog and enter the the challenge for a chance to win a Joy's Life Stamp set.

#98 Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 14 Day 4

*** If you are looking for my DDLL DT project CLICK HERE***

Hi everyone! It's Sandra 365 Days of Cricut  here on my 4th day of being a Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer, I am getting so sad because I only have one more day left with you all. I have enjoyed every minute of it and thank you all for stopping by my blog and supporting me on my fun week as Guest Designer! Thank you to the Peachy Keen Stamps family for letting me share my projects with everyone!

For my 4th project I decided to get a little caught up on making my birthday cards, for some reason I always feel like I never have enough birthday cards in my stash. Here's a little card I made for my nephew Jacob who turn's 3 in a few weeks. The cut is from the Baby Steps cart from Joann's and the face stamp I used was PK 643- Boy Mates 1 1/8, I also made my own polka dot paper on top with PK 100 Large Polka Dot stamps! I also added a border from a Fiskars punch and some ribbon and also gave the little guy a bow tie.

Now for some blog candy! I am giving away one PK 757- Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment all you have to do is leave me a comment , you do not have to be a follower but I would love it if you did! I will chose a Random winner on Saturday April 16th.

Thanks for stopping by I will see you tomorrow!

Sandra

DDLL Frog Card

Good evening everyone! Here's a happy frog card that I made for the Digital Delights by Louby Loo Design Team. The frog/toad is from the Dylan Accessories Set and the sentiment is Have A Toadally Great Day Sentiment. I colored the frog with Prismacolor pencils, embossed the background with my Cuttlebug. The 3 flowers on the bottom left are Prima, and the large flower on top is actually a silk flower from a bouqet of flowers from the $1 store!

#97 Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 14 Day 3

Hi everyone it's Sandra here again from 365 Days of Cricut on Day 3 of my Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer week. For my 3rd project I decided to make an Easter basket for my son Aidan (age 3),  a treat bag filled with jelly beans which I will be making more to hand out to the adults, and some very personalized eggs for Easter Egg Hunting.

Here's Aidan Easter basket he's all ready to go Easter egg hunting except he has his holiday's confused he kept saying "Happy Halloween!" LOL! When I showed him his basket.

First I added some blue/green polka dot paper I adhered with my ATG gun. FYI first I tried using a thicker cardstock/patterened paper and it did not work well, and also I tried a liquid glue and that didn't work well either. I found out that thin paper and an ATG adhesive worked best for this project. Next step cut the bunny head's from EASTER 2010 seasonal cart and stamp the faces with the new release stamps PK -441 Cute and Cuddly and I stamped the little green flowers with PK 530 Simple Simons Face Assortment.

Here's a little side view and here you can see where I added an orange border strip with my scallop punch. For the basket I used 6 bunny heads and 6 green flowers.

Here's a picture of some of the eggs. My son's favorite eggs where the Monster eggs and the bubbly tongue face from Happy New Year! Here's a list of the stamps I used for the eggs  PK 690 Make A Monster Face Assortment, PK 471 Happy New Year 1 1/8, PK 756 Critter Faces Set Extra Large, PK 757 Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment. I stamped the faces with StazOn ink and colored some of them with Bic markers. It was also challenging to stamp the faces on the eggs but very worth it! Some of them did smudge the trick is to roll the stamp from left to right and do it very slowly! The easiest one's to stamp where the bird one's and monster ones.

For the Silly Rabbit treat bag I used a jewelery bag from Michael's it's about 3x4 and used my Martha Stewart punch and added my extra bunny I originally cut for the basket, I love how it all worked out eventhough I wasn't planning on making a treat bag LOL! I also stamped this guy's face with PK 441 Cute and Cuddly 1 1/8. P.S. it was so hard not to eat some of these yummy Starburst jelly beans, I am warning you stay away they are so addicting!

Here's what I orginally started out with a plain Easter basket AKA Easter "bucket" from Walmart and it was only $1!

Now for some blog candy! I am giving away one PK 757- Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment all you have to do is leave me a comment , you do not have to be a follower but I would love it if you did! I will chose a Random winner on Saturday April 16th.


Thanks for stopping by I will see you tomorrow!
Sandra

#96 Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 14 Day 2

Hi everyone it's Sandra 365 Days of Cricut here again for another awesome day here as a Guest Designer for Peachy Keen Stamps. For my 2nd day I decided to make something that I have been wanting to create for months...an altered food jar! I had it all planned out especially once I saw these awesome mustache stamps I just knew I had to create a salsa jar with a mustache!

For my "Hot Stuff" mustache tomato guy I cut him from Block Party Cricut LITE, stamped the face with 2 different PK-451 Wide Eyed Kids 1 1/8 I used the mad face for the eyes and used a happy one with a tongue for the mouth. For this mustache I used PK-150 Accessories ONE Assortment, I did have to practice stamping the face with the different size mustashes to get it perfect, In the end I think it was worth all of the tries because I love it! I cut the circle for the lid and also the tag from my free Gypsy cart (Tags, Bags, Boxes and More) then I embossed in my Cuttlebug with a Woodgrain embossing folder. The font is from the Birthday Cakes cart, I added ribbon and embroidery floss, the green polka dot paper is actually Christmas paper!

I think these would make a perfect little hostess/party gift or maybe I will make some more and give them away as Father's Day gifts to my dad and grandpa shhh don't tell LOL!

Here's a close up of my hot and spicy tomato guy LOL! 

Now for some blog candy! I am giving away one PK 757- Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment all you have to do is leave me a comment, you do not have to be a follower but I would love it if you did! I will chose a Random winner on Saturday April 16th.

I hope I inspired you to use your stamps in a different way, see you tomorrow!
Sandra