#165 Flair and Frills Blog Hop

***If you are continuing on the Digital Delights Celebration Blog Hop CLICK HERE!!****

Hi everyone! Welcome to the color themed blog hop,30 on the 30th hosted by BRYNN. If you are here from SYLVIA's blog then you are in the right spot. This hop is all about the wonderful color combo pink, black, white and silver and we are also celebrating Brynn's 30th birthday which is today June 30th Happy Birthday Brynn!!!

For my card I stamped the background with the Vintage background stamp from Market Street stamps, the sentiment is from Kinderstampo stamps. The bird cage, bird and swirl were from the Serenade Cricut cart.

Here's a closeup of the bird cage and glitter. I sprayed the cage with Granite Glimmer Mist and added silver stickles to it. I Used my Zutter Distrezz it all to distress all of the edges of this card.

Here's the swirl and sentiment, I made a black paper rose with a small 1 inch flower punch and added silver stickles.

BLOG CANDY!!! I am giving away this brand new set of ribbon from Karen Foster Designs to one lucky follower, I will chose  a winner on Tuesday July 5th. Have fun hopping!

NEXT STOP is RACHEL

#164 Digital Delights by Louby Loo Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to the

Digital Delights

It's a Celebration Blog Hop

30June-1July   2011.

This is a 2 day hop with TONS of amazing prizes! Wendy (AKA LoubyLoo) is celebrating the migration to the new store and wants to celebrate with this fun co-design team blog hop! You have a chance to win the digital stamp used by each designer on the hop!! And then we have awesome prizes from our generous sponsors that you can win by playing our blog hop game!

Details of the Blog Hop Game:
1. Start with Anita A. and hop through the great projects of all of our designers--make comments on the way, follow their blogs if you are not already a follower as they are all talented ladies and you will want to be coming back for more awesome work from them!
2. Collect letters along the way--not all stops have a letter, but you will need all the letters to play the game!
3. Order the scrambled letters to build a word or phrase related to this hop. Return here to this post and add you name, link and email to the inlinks for your guess--DO NOT REVEAL YOUR GUESS JUST YET!
4. At the end of the two days, we will choose winners for the over $130 in prizes and contact them via email to confirm the winning word/phrase. If you have it correct, YOU WIN! How exciting is that!?!?

For my card I cut the base and scallop frame from the Slumber Party LITE Cricut Cartridge at 5x5 inches. The stamp is called Stars and Stripes Lara and I colored her in with Prismacolor Pencils and added Stickles to the stars on her hat. 

Blog Candy! I am giving away this really cute stamp that I used for my project, I will announce a winner on Tuesday July 5th. 

My letter for the hop is "T", have fun and good luck!!

NEXT STOP is SHELL

#162- #163 Red, White and Blue

This card was made using the Leslie Vacations stamp from Karber Digital, I colored her with Prismacolor pencils and inked up the white circle with chalk ink.  The scallop circle is from the Lovel Floral Cricut cart. I embossed the blue paper with my star embossing folder and inked it with white chalk ink. The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Yankee Doodle Dandy. This card was made for Scrapbookaholic by Abby challenge which is red, white and blue...you have 2 weeks to enter the challenge.

This image is called Ella at Peace from Ai Factory they have some really cute designs and also printable color graphics. I colored Ella with Prismacolor pencils and added red Stickles to her hair bows, and I also made a small white rose that she is holding. The sentiment says "God Bless The USA" and it's from 

Scrappy moms Stamps  new release- Yankee Doodle Dandy. Both cards were made especially for Paper Playtime red, white and blue challenge. You have 2 weeks to enter have fun!

#161 Beach Party Blog Hop

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Beach Party Blog Hop hosted by Abby if you are from her blog then you are in the right spot! This is a blog hop all about the beach and Summertime.... 2 of my most favorite things, I love going to the beach so much here's a 2 page layout of one of the most beautiful beaches I've been to where the sand is so white and soft like baby powder....Cancun!!

For my layout most cuts were from the Life's a Beach cart and the sun is from Summer Vacation 2010 seasonal cart, which I added a hat and stickles. I stamped the face on the mermaid with PKS laughy taffy faces and placed a Corona bottle in her hand. I also embossed the letters with my Cuttlebug and inked them up. The font and tag/banner are from the Birthday Bash cart.

I don't have blog candy at this time, but if you leave a comment on all the blogs Abby has some fabulous prizes which include... 

*** Market Street Stamps "Punched Tin" background

*** Sakura (6pack Gelly Roll Glitter Pens)

*** Kich N Bleus Designs (Last Collection)

*** KaDoddle Bug Designs (Collection of Choice)

NEXT STOP is Pammejo

#160 Red, White, and Blue Blog Hop

***This is my 2nd post today, please scroll down for my Digital Delights by Louby Loo project***

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Red, White and Blue Blog Hop hosted by Nicolette from Beyond Scrapin if you are here from Tammy's blog then you are in the right spot. Here's a hop all about the 4th of July's most famous colors...red, white and blue! I was pretty excited to be in this hop  because I never really make anything for 4th of July usually I'm just spending the day being lazy in the sun LOL! 

Here's a really simple card I made not using my Cricut at all!! For the rosette flower I used my Tim Holtz die in my Cuttlebug, and embossed the dots with my Cuttlebug also. I added a button on the rosette and some twine. This is also my #5th Scrappy Moms Stamps Sneak Peek since I am Guest Designer for them this month, the stamp is called Yankee Doodle Dandy. I also just made a 4th of July scrapbook layout 2 days ago, feel free to come check it out on  post #157.

Blog Candy!! One lucky follower will win this red/white and blue/white twine perfect for your 4th of July projects!! just leave me a comment telling me what you like to do to celebrate 4th of July! I need some more  ideas LOL! I will select a winner late tomorrow night 6/24.

NEXT STOP is BRYNN

#159 Summer Surf card

Good evening! Here's a sweet summer card I made for the Design Team over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo the stamp I chose was Surfin Pippn....isn't he cute!?! I just love all of the Pippin the Mouse stamps I'm a sucker for those huge ears LOL! I colored the stamp with my Prismacolor pencils, and added blue Stickles to the waves. I also added twine to the top corner and used some bright summer patterned paper, the patterned paper I used was perfect because it had a lot of different summer phrases  so I positioned it so it  says Summer Fun, I also ripped the paper a little for a distressed look. Be sure to mark your calendars because next week on Thursday 6/30 we are having a blog hop with everyone on the Digital Delights by Louby Loo Design Team, and Challenge Design Team I can't wait to see everyone's amazing creations!!

#158 Scrappy Moms Sneak Peek 4, Watermelon Layout and Hop Winner!!

Hi everyone I hope you all are having  a great day! I was so excited when I saw that Cooking with the Cricut was having a watermelon challenge, so I decided to make a pre-made sb page for pictures of my son eating watermelon last summer. I am so bad at getting my pictures printed out right away and I usually don't make a lot of pre-made pages, I guess I forget that you can do that LOL! 

For the background paper I used Kraft cardstock along with.......Christmas Paper!!! Yep! I can't believe I  was able to pull it off! I was scared to use Christmas patterned paper  at first, but then I thought it would be genius since a watermelon is naturally green/red and white. This Christmas paper is from the American Crafts Christmas stack that I got at Tuesday morning for less then $5. The watermelon cuts are from Simply Charmed and these ants invading the page are from Kate's ABC's. The title Mmmm is from Graphically Speaking, along with American Crafts  alphabet stickers. I stamped the "Juicy" watermelon with Scrappy Moms Stamps GOOD EATS which is my 4th Sneak Peak as a Guest Designer.  which is my  faces on the melons with PKS Boy Mates, and stamped the ants eyes with PKS Everyday Paper Dolls. For a final touch I added white rick-rack and did some REAL stitching with my Sew Easy!! 

I have to thank Marianne from Facebook her blog is Paper or Fabric Crafter she was so sweet and sent me a RAK which was embroidery floss for my new Sew Easy, I used a dark green color here for the stitching. Thank you so much Marianne!! That was so super nice of you, I felt like it was Christmas!! Make sure to check out her amazing talent HERE

Now onto the Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop Winner..... Becky Dunham!! Congrats Becky! Please email me at critterbugg365@gmail.com

#157 Scrappy Moms Sneak Peek 3, Uncle Sam Layout

Uncle Sam and PKS!!

Scrappy Moms Yankee Doodle Dandy New Release

Hi everyone!! I am so excited to show you all my layout, I originally made it for the Red, white and blue blog hop that I'm in this Thursday 6/23 but I thought it was so cute and I couldn't wait till Thursday lol! I am entering my layout in the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge which is to use PKS faces and with a Patriotic theme, the face I used was the Everyday Paper Doll Assortment, I only used the eyes and nose.

 The Uncle Sam cut is from the Billionaire LITE cart, which I cut several times to do the layering. The cluster of stars are from the Cupcake Wrappers LITE cart, the title and Liberty bell are from the Independence Day 2010 Seasonal cart. All of the loose stars that were from the star cluster I added them to Uncle Sam's hat, and also added to the bell. The sentiment on the bell is from Scrappy Moms Stamps Yankee Doodle Dandy from their new releases, I also made my own little scroll embellishment using Kraft paper, distress ink and stamped the stars with the Yankee Doole Dandy stamp set also! I added pop dots under the mustache and the star on the bell. This was us on 4th of July last Summer it, was too hot to wear makeup that day lol! 

I am a Guest Designer for Scrappy Moms Stamps this month, feel free to scroll down my previous posts to see my other sneak peek!! Have a fun day today! I will announce the Cupcake Birthday hop winner later today.

#156 Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone!! I am so excited to be celebrating Sylvia's birthday with her, this is going to be a sweet hop it's all about cupcakes!! If you just arrived here from Sylvia Bella Scrapbook Designs then you are in the right spot.  Here's a sweet little card I made for Sylvia's birthday:

I have been experimenting a lot with my coloring lately so I decided to use this adorable digi image from The Greeting Farm Stamps and she is called "Cupcake Anya" I printed her at a wallet size on my home printer then colored her using Prismacolor pencils, I also added yellow and pink Stickles to the cupcake. The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps- Sweet Somethings, I embossed the pink background with my Cuttlebug. The pink doily shape is from the Cricut LITE cart Cupcake Wrappers, I used a 3 inch Marvy Uchida punch for the cirlcle shape, and inked it up with Worn Lipstick Distress ink. I found the most perfect pink glitter ribbon in my stash that matches the cupcake and guess what......it's Christmas ribbon from Michael's that I got on clearance for .25 cents after Christmas score!!!

Blog Candy yay!!!  Since I am totally loving the stamps from THE GREETING FARM I am going to purchase ONE individual DIGI STAMP for one Lucky Follower!!! Just leave me a comment below telling me which digi stamp you would like to WIN, here's the store link again... The Greeting Farm Digi Stamps Store. I will announce a winner tomorrow evening on 6/21 good luck!

NEXT STOP is The Scrapbooking Queen

Happy Birthday Sylvia, have a great day I hope you enjoy all of those cupcakes!!

#154- #155 Scrappy Moms Stamps Sneak Peak

Hi everyone!! I am so excited to be a guest designer for Scrappy Moms stamps because I love their stamps!! I have purchased several different stamps over the past year and I have to say Scrappy Moms stamps are my favorite!! They are the perfect size and all of their sentiments are so fun!!

Scrappy Moms Stamps just released 2 new sets for June they are Yankee Doodle Dandy and Good Eats. For my sneak peak today I chose to make 2 cards using the "Good Eats" stamp set. For my first card, I used the "Chore Chart" Cricut Lite for the pot this was my first time using that cart lol! I used all of the kitchen themed paper from DCWV and added some twine. I also stamped the pots face with PKS Laughy Taffy Assortment.

For my 2nd card I colored this adorable digi from The Greeting Farm stamps with my Prismacolor pencils  and added ribbon and a border from a MS punch. I also added red  Christmas Stickles to her, I love when I can use holiday stuff on non-holiday projects lol! The stamp  is called "Cheer anya"

Below you can see the awesome new stamp sets!!! Guess what Scrappy Moms Stamps are having **FREE SHIPPING****  until June 30th!! Hooray!!! I Love free shipping!! Be sure to check out their stamps HERE

Here's a list of the DT's Sneak Peaks!

Melanie - http://scrappymel.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://scrappycritters.blogspot.com/
Laura - http://makinprettythings.com
Joanna - http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/
Lauren - http://laurenscreative.blogspot.com/
Liz - http://lizspaperloft.blogspot.com/
Bonnie - http://www.pinkbonbons.blogspot.com/
Sarah - http://www.liveloveandscrap.blogspot.com/
Corri - http://buglvr.blogspot.com/
Trish - http://techniquesbytrish.blogspot.com/
Nicole - http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/
Lezlye - http://www.lezlyes.blogspot.com/
Cristina - http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/
June Guest Designer - Sandra -http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

Be sure to  check back everyday this week for a new Scrappy Moms project with these new stamps! I have some pretty cool stuff to show you guys!!

#153 Cupcake Card for Scrappy Moms Stamps

*** This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for my Digital Delights by Louby Loo card***

Hi everyone! As most of you know I am a Guest Designer this month for Scrappy Moms Stamps and this week they are having a challenge and it's to use the Sweet Treats cartridge or any other similar cartridge. I made the large cupcake card with Sweet Treats, and the sentiment is from the Sweet Somethings Scrappy Moms stamp set, and the cutie with the cake hat is from The Greeting Farm Stamps and she is called Birthday Anya. I colored her with Prismacolor Pencils and added Stickles to the cake. If you would like to enter the challenge please click HERE.

Also, be sure to stop by tomorrow because Scrappy Moms Stamps is having 2 NEW RELEASES!!! Along with sneak peaks I'm excited!!

#152 Birthday Pippin Card

Hi everyone! Today is design team day over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo and this adorable birthday mouse is called Birthday Pippin and can be purchased HERE in non colored or colored form. Did you know that Digital Delights also has a new Freebie every Friday!?! They are so adorable, I just love this week's Gnome! I colored this digi with my Prismacolor pencils and added a Prima flower with bling.  Eventhough my card is very simple I chose a bright colorful piece of patterened paper for the background.

#151 Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge Card

Hi everyone! I feel like I haven't posted anything in forever.... I had a very busy last couple of days! Here's a simple card I made with one of the new stamp sets from PKS, I colored this sad mouse with my Prismacolor pencils and added chalk to the cheeks. I am entering the Tuesday challenge over at the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog

#150 Father's Day Card

***This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for my manly z fold birthday card!****

Hi everyone it's a brand new challenge this week at Scrapbookaholic by Abby and this weeks challenge is to follow a sketch with a manly/Father's Day Theme. I decided to make a simple card using my free Gypsy cart Indie Art for the star. I stamped the sentiment with My Creative Time stamps and added some twine. If you would like to play along in this weeks challenge please click HERE.

#149 Z Fold Birthday Card

Hi everyone! I am so sorry I am posting this a little late, I had a busy weekend and forgot to do my post last night *sigh*! Anyways I made this card for my hubby's 29th birthday which was on Friday. This is my first ever Z fold card and I used 3 different carts to create it. The cake is from Birthday Bash and the girl is from Once Upon A Princess. The scallop shaped numbers are from Tie The Knot. I stamped her face with PKS Princess faces, stamped the sentiment with My Creative Time Stamps and placed glossy accents on the icing of the cake. If you would like to play along with this week's challenge with us at Paper Playtime we have a fabulous set of Peachy Keen Stamps up for grabs!! Don't forget you have 2 weeks to enter our challenge HERE.

#148 Minnie Mouse Cutie Card for Scrappy Moms Blog Hop

***This is my 2nd post today please scroll down to next post for my DDLL DT project!!***

Hi everyone welcome to the Scrappy Moms Blog Hop!!! I am so super excited to be a Guest designer for Scrappy Moms for the month of June! Scrappy Moms stamps are celebrating their 1 Year Anniversary since they first released their awesome stamps!!

For my sweet Minnie Cutie card I used my SCAL 2 to create her! I still can't believe I was able to transform a .gif image to this SVG. I have been playing around with my Sure Cuts A Lot 2 lately and now I know what people are talking about when they say you never have to buy another cart again!! FYI- Sure Cuts A Lot 2 still works with my original Cricut Expression. I added some pop dots under Minnie and stamped the sentiment with SMS. I chose to use the Happily Ever After stamp set since this one is my all time favorite...ok I say  that all of them are my favorite but this one is special to me because it reminds me of Disneyland and I LOVE anything that has to do with Disney!!!

Here is the Happily Ever After Stamp Set that I used for my card:

Blog Candy!! The 1st Birthday Spectacular grand prize of ALL 18 current Scrappy Moms Stamps sets will be drawn from this hop so be sure to leave a comment at all the stops along the way to get as many chances to win as possible! We will draw the prize on Monday so you have plenty of time to get your comments in.

Melanie - http://scrappymel.blogspot.com/

Laura  - http://www.makinprettythings.com/
Joanna - http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/
Lauren - http://laurenscreative.blogspot.com/
Liz - http://lizspaperloft.blogspot.com/
Sandra www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com ME!!

Bonnie - http://www.pinkbonbons.blogspot.com/ NEXT

Sarah -  http://www.liveloveandscrap.blogspot.com/

Corri -  http://buglvr.blogspot.com/
Trish -  http://techniquesbytrish.blogspot.com/
Nicole - http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/
Lezlye - http://www.lezlyes.blogspot.com/
Cristina - http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/
Tammy - http://scrappycritters.blogspot.com/
Scrappy Moms Stamps blog - http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com

NEXT STOP is BONNIE

Thank you so much to Scrappy Moms Mel and Tammy for letting me join you this month as a Guest Designer!

#147 Birthday Gift Box

Top  and bottom of box.

Hi everyone! Today is Design Team day over at Digital Delights By Louby Loo and I decided to play around again with my SCAL2 to make this adorable birthday gift box. Did you know that DDLL is now carrying some awesome cutting files in their store?? This box is the 4x4 Square Box File and this dog is called Bongo the dog. Right now DDLL is currently doing matienance on their site just keep checking back through out the day. I colored Bongo the dog with Prismacolor pencils, cut the box in my Cricut Expression and embossed the background with the Happy Birthday embossing folder. I also gave Bongo a cute little ribbon bow and added pop dots underneath her. Please be sure to check out the rest of the DT's amazing projects HERE.

#146 Disney Freak Layout!

Hi everyone! Here's a Disney layout I made to describe myself lol!! I have been totally addicted to going to Disneyland and California Adventure, so I decided I'd start making some Disney layouts on my spare time. I made this page using the Mickey and Friends cart and also Lyrical Letter's for the font. I used my Gypsy to weld together the 3 borders on the bottom. I also added pop dots under the Mickey hat for dimension, and added some rick rack ribbon.

#145 Boys Will Be Boys Layout

***This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the DDLL New Releases!!****

Here's a close up of my painting and helicopter!

Hi everyone! This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the awesome new release from DDLL. 

Here's a scrapbook page about my son and nephew Jacob who were being silly boys on a hot summer day. I had just bought my son some Thomas the Train underwear for potty training and they both were crying to wear them so we put them on and then they were being boys and started jumping on the sofa and dancing when they heard the Justin Bieber song "Baby" LOL! It was pretty funny! 

All of the papers are from DCWV All About Boys stack. I used a border punch for the ribbon border and threaded the blue Christmas ribbon through it. I made my own chipboard pieces with a Ritz cracker box for the title and journaling spot. The helicopter is from the Boys Will Be Boys cart. I did some embossing and painting with green acrylic paint.  Also, the other funky zig zag shapes are from Gypsy Wanderings.

I am so proud to announce that I finally made an Etsy shop  after tallking about opening one for almost a year!! My shop is called DISNEY LOVER DESIGNS and I have a few things in there right now. I just added a layout pretty identical to this one. I will be specializing in lots of different things like....cards, layouts, mini albums, banners, party favors, party invites, wall decor and altered art.  Here is the link to my shop again http://www.etsy.com/people/DisneyLoverDesigns

Have a great day!

#144 DDLL Jungle Buddies Releases

Hi everyone today we have some very cute new releases at Digital Delights BY LOuby Loo.  The stamps I used here were Tim The Tiger and Safari Dylan. I colored them with my Prismacolor pencils and added pop dots under the tiger. I also added a little paw print border with one of my punches. Please be sure to check out the rest of the DT's amazing project's HERE.

#143 Train Layout

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be able to play in another Throwback Thursday Challenge and this week's challenge is to use green and yellow with any older cart. I took Aidan to Toys R Us back in November for a Thomas the Train Playdate and that's what this layout is all about. The older cart I chose was Joys Of The Season!!! I love when I can create a non-seasonal project with a seasonal cart!! The train is from JOTS and I added some black buttons as the wheels, the title is all stickers and I also did some stamping with the stars and also the "What a Day for a Daydream" sentiment.