#98 Pirate Blog Hop Card

Yohoho mateys and welcome to the Pirate Blog hop in honor of "Talk like a pirate day" today. Captain Lorby (http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com) is head of these here ships and the captain of this ship and ye would be starting ur hopping aboard by vessel. My mateys have worked hard getting their ships in tip top shape for this hop so ye

better stop by and see what they have done or someone along the way may make ye walk the plank. So grab ye eye patch and your best bottle of coffee, tea, or water and let's do some pirate hopping and talking.

Our Blog Candy for this event is a digital pirate stamp from Captain Lorby. To be in the drawing for the digital stamp, you must comment on ALL blogs and become a follower of Lorb's World.

You should have come from Lucy's Blog then you are in the right spot!

Ahoy matey, here is me project for this hop.

For my pirate card I made a shaped card using my ART PHILOSOPHY Cricut cartridge for the shape and the very cute Teddy Bear Parade Cartridge! These 2 carts go so good together since Art Philosophy has 100 card shapes... yes 100!! That's a whole lotta cards LOL! I have really been trying to stock up on my birthday cards since those are always the first to go. I stamped the sentiment "Walk the Plank" using Pink By Design stamps, and the inside says "It's Yarrrrr Birthday!" I thought this would be perfect for any little boy and I guess I was right because my son saw it and instantly thought it was his LOL! I embossed the white papers using a Tim Holtz woodgrain stamp and inked it up and crumbled the blue paper and also inked it up.

***CLICK HERE FOR MY CLOSE TO MY HEART GIVEAWAY***

I thank ye for stopping by me ship and now ye is to journey on to  SYLVIA's

ship.

#59 Hollywood Scrapbook Page

Good afternoon! Here's a 2 page layout I made for our Hollywood photos I took last year from our little day trip. The cuts I used here are from Twinkle Toes, Formal Occasion and Lacy Labels Cricut cartridges.  I used PKS stamps on the faces, and Glossy accents on the limo's windows, and also red fuzzy flock on the "red carpet"!

If you are wondering where I got this fabulous title from I can proudly say........ I made it myself!!!! That's right! I downloaded a free font online called "Showtime" and just welded everything together in my Silhouette Studio and also cut a rectangle for the background. I love my Cameo! Ok I love my Cricut too LOL!

#8 (Video) Gamer's Layout

CLICK HERE for the Crafty Sprouts Blog Hop

Hi everyone I hope you are having a great Saturday so far! Here's how I spent my Friday night last night I made a scrapbook layout of my gorgeous hubby and my beautiful son. For those of you who don't know my hubby is currently on deployment right now until 2 weeks before I give birth in April! We miss him dearly, he is in a safe place actually here in the states, but still he is away from us and not at home it sucks!!!!

For my new year's resolution this year I promised myself to make more layouts and use up some of my crafty supplies and enter in more challenges, who knows hopefully I can win a prize (keeping my fingers crossed lol!).

This page was made to add to my 2010 album here's a pic I took of my son and my hubby playing a PS3 game, scrapbooking is my addiction and gaming is my hubby's addiction lol! All of the patterned papers I used are from the Generation Tech stack from DCWV along with the embellishment at the bottom.  The font is from the Feeling Groovy Cricut LITE cart, controller is from the Father's Day Cricut cart, and the marquee shape is from Cindy Loo Cricut Cartridge. Below you can see I added black buttons and some blue metallic clearance Christmas ribbon that I got over a year ago! I love it when I can use Christmas supplies for non-Christmas projects!

I am entering in a few challenges below:

Fantabulous Cricut- MAN THEME

More Than Favors- SKETCH CHALLENGE

#251-254 Crafty Sprouts Blog Hop/ Kitty Stationary Set

(Scroll down for the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop)

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Crafty Sprouts Blog Hop!! We the DT thought it would be fun to have a hop showcasing Crafty Sprouts Stamps and we will be giving away our projects how neat is that! If you are here from the awesome Raven Love 4 Stamps then you are in the right spot!!

(You can also click on the pics to zoom in)

For my project I wanted to challenge myself to use a cart that I have NEVER used before since I have about 5-10 that are untouched :(  The cart I used was the Meow Cricut LITE for all of these cut kitty's, the shaped cards, background circles, and all envelopes are from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge. I cut all of the cards and envelopes at 4x4 inches. I stamped all of the faces with Peachy Keen Cute and Cuddly Faces and also Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Faces, of course I had to give them all blush and eyeshadow lol!!

Here's the awesome stamps I used from Crafty Sprouts, which are also on sale right now for $12.50 with FREE shipping, just in time for Christmas gifts!

I also stamped the back of the cards with the Happy Wishes barcode stamp.

I adhered all of the envelopes with my ATG gun, and stamped the flowers pink with a Cloud 9 stamp from Joann's. I added an adhesive tab on every envelope that way it's ready to go!

I also stamped the To/From using Crafty Sprouts HAVE A COOL YULE stamp set.

BLOG CANDY!!!!  I will be giving away this entire Kitty Stationary set  (which can be for yourself or to give as a gift to a loved one!) to one lucky follower, just leave a comment telling me which Crafty Sprouts stamp set is your favorite (I will be giving a set a away on my next blog hop coming up!) you can view all the stamps HERE! I will announce a random winner on Monday 12/12

Erika http://Craftysprouts.com

Carley http://www.craftycarley.com/

Elsa http://cricutlvr.blogspot.com/

Gloria http://omascrafts.blogspot.com/

Jess http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/

Kacee http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com

Kristi http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com/

Raven http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/ 

Sandra http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/ You are HERE

Zeni http://www.scrappyzeni.com/ NEXT!!!

NEXT STOP is ZENI

#223 Buggy For Birthday's Blog Hop + The Hop Blog Hop w/ Jacob the Scrappy Assistant!

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Buggy For Birthday's Blog Hop hosted by the birthday girl herself... Corri! If you are here from Cassie's Blog then you are in the right spot! I was so excited when Corri asked me to join her hop, I have gotten to known her better over the past few months and she is such a sweetheart that is in love with her bug!! Cricut bug like the rest of us!! This hop is all about cute birthday bugs and there a 3 grand prizes which are a Cricut cart, Scrappy Moms Stamps, and a gift set from Paper Issues, just make sure to leave a comment on all the blogs! Hope you have a great birthday Corri!!!!!

For my buggy b-day card I made a bling snail card with a Peachy Keen face on it!! The snail is from the Cricut LITE "Live Simply" cart, it's really sad because I think this is my 1st or 2nd time using this cart ugh I'm so terrible! i just wish there were more hours in the day for crafting! I used We R Memory Keepers paper and used kraft cardstock for the base and added a scallop border with a Recollections punch from Michael's.

Time for The Hot Blog Hop with Jacob wth Scrappy Assistant!! Plese scroll down to view my last 3 Jacob post to win a $15 Peachy Keen gift certificate!

For those of you who have been following my Jacob posts and leaving coments all week long I really appreciate it, and you ladies are making me crack up so much LOL!

 Today Jacob really wanted to take a shirtless picture modeling this bling snail card I made for the hop!! Just look at those muscles and enjoy the "Eye Candy" on this beautiful Saturday morning LOL!!! Wake up and smell the "Hotness" haha!!

GIVEAWAY #1............

 Giveaway Time!!! In honor of me having Jacob as my hot Scrappy Assistant Chloe (Jake's owner) is letting me giveaway a $15 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps woo-hoo!!!!! All you have to do is leave me a comment everyday on each Jacob post! Check my blog everyday for a new picture of Jacob helping me! I will announce a random winner who leaves me a comment on EVERY post on Monday October 17th!

 

Giveaway #2................

I am giving away 1- Crafty Sprouts "Let's Go Blog Hopping" stamp set to one lucky follower who leaves me a comment  below and on my post #212 HERE, I will announce a random winner on Monday Oct. 24th.

NEXT STOP is my lil' sis JOANNA

#192 U Rock B-day Card

Hi everyone!! Here's a sweet lil' card I made for CRAFTY SPROUTS DT day, Erika asked us to make a project with the theme "Are you Ready to Rock!" anyone can enter the challenge HERE. For this cute critter I cut him from the Birthday Bash Cricut cart, the scallop shapes are from Lovely Floral Cricut LITE cart. I added some twine and buttons an stamped the sentiment using 2 different stamp  sets from CRAFTY SPROUTS called Monster Kisses and Text Talk. I stamped the face with PKS Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment.

Here's the 2 stamp sets I used for my card:

I am also entering my project in a few challenges:

Sassy Lil Sketches- August week 4 Card sketch

FANTABULOUS CRICUT- Birthday project

PEACHY KEEN STAMPS- Furry Friends (I used Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assrt)

***If you would like to come win some Simply Betty Stamps click HERE***

 Just a friendly reminder that the Summer Halloween blog Hop starts tomorrow 8/27 at midnight PST starting on Abby's Blog!! I hope you can hop along with us! I can't wait for Halloween time, I want chocolate LOL!!!

#189 Hawaii Blog Hop Day1 Note Card Set

Hi everyone welcome to the Hawaii Blog Hop hosted by Nicolette Beyond Scrapin if you are here from Pam Scrapbook Flair then you are in the right spot! This hop is all about Hawaii! I decided to make a set of 4 matching notecards;

All stamps are from The Greeting Farm stamps which I colored with markers. I stamped all sentiments with the brand new CRAFTY SPROUTS "TEXT TALK" stamp set! I embossed with my Cuttlebug and used a border punch on the edges.

I also made envelope to go along with the cards and stamped the sentiment which is also from CRAFTY SPROUTS "TEXT TALK" stamp set. The envelopes are from Slumber Party LITE Cricut cart.

Here I added some adhesive tabs on the envelope.

I bundled all of the cards and envelopes together and added twine to tie them all together.

NEXT STOP is LISA

#174-177 Butterfly Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone welcome to my Butterfly Birthday Blog Hop hosted by me in honor of my 28th Birthday which is on Sunday July 31st! I thought it would be a good idea to make a butterfly themed birthday party in real life and a virtual b-day party! I made all of the decorations for my party at my house which is also today!!  I asked everyone on my hop to make anything butterfly and birthday themed and some of us will be posting on both days (Sat/Sun) so be sure to come check out the stops again on Sunday. You will have until midnight PST on August 1st to complete the hop, enjoy!

Welcome to my party!!! Here's a sign that I will be hanging on my front door I got the font from designer's Calendar, and sign with butterfies from Lacey Labels. It measures 6x12 inches.

Here's a banner I made for the living room, the shape and butterflies are from Storybook cart, and the font is from Lovely Floral.

Here you can see my black lace ribbon and I embossed with my Paisley and Swiss Dots folder in my Cuttlebug.

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Ok now you are in my kitchen who's hungry!?! LOL! I made some pop up butterflies for my cabinet doors I cut them from Hannah Montana (Love that cart!)

Close up of the pretty butterfly!

Ok can you guess what these are for.....? I am going to decorate my own cake with paper butterflies! these are also from Hannah Montana!

I purchased this pre-made cake from the grocery store, it's actually really huge! Chocolate and strawberries yum!! I made sure they wrote the sentiment in hot pink to match my theme.

I just grabbed the butterflies and pressed them into the cake and they actually stayed there. My party isn't till this evening so I'll have to see if they will stay in place all day.

Here's a close up of my Cricut butterflies!!

Blog Candy!!!! I am giving away a $20 Gift card to Joann's to use In store or Online at Joanns.com and also a Quirky Quotes stamp set sponsored by Scrappy Moms Stamps!! All you have to do is be a follower and leave a comment here and all blogs and also on my 365 Days of Cricut Facebook Fan Page!! I will select a random winner on August 1st and post it on my Facebook fan page!! Good Luck!

Here's the master hop list incase you get lost:

1. Sandra http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/ ME 

2. Joanna http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/  NEXT STOP

3. Abby http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

4. Erika http://www.craftysprouts.com/

5. Mel http://scrappymel.blogspot.com/

6. Raven http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

7. Carley http://the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/

8. Giselle http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/

9. Monica http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/

10. Nadia http://nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/

11. Liz http://www.lizspaperloft.com/

12. Jess http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/

13. Lauren http://www.laurenscreative.blogspot.com/

14. Mary http://cardztv.blogspot.com/

15. Vivi http://vivienpapel.blogspot.com/

16. Saundra http://luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com/

17. Bonnie http://www.pinkbonbons.blogspot.com/

18. Sylvia http://Www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com/

19. Marianne http://www.paperorfabric.blogspot.com/  

20. Lisa http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

21. Stacey http://CreatingACraftyLife.blogspot.com/  

End Hop on 365 Days Of Cricut FB Fan Page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/365-Days-Of-Cricut/172906779387802

Thank you to all of the amazing designers who are joining my birthday celebrating and thank you sto Abby for making this beautiful hop button, you are so talented girl!!

NEXT STOP is my sis JOANNA

#170 Christmas in July Guest Designer!!

Hi everyone! I am so excited to announce that I am a Guest Designer for the Christmas in July week hosted by Giselle and Nadia. Today they are featuring many talented Guest Designer's who made some very fabulous cards! Everyday they are going to post a new project and I will also be a guest designer this Saturday 7/23. They are giving away several prizes, to be eligible to win the prizes you must leave comments on all of the designer's posts over on Giselle's BLOG.

For my card I cut this sexy snow mama (LOL!) from Jolly Holiday's Cricut LITE and stamped her faces with Peachy Keen Stamps... Happy Lashes, and colored her mouth with burgundy, and red, carrot nose is an orange color they are all Bic markers. Since I am so girly and such a makeup addict no snow girl would be complete without her makeup lol! I gave her some pink blush and brown/gray eyeshadow isn't she so stylish!?! Diva Snow girl haha! I used 3 different bottles of Stickles for all of the glitter. For the snow on the bottom I ripped white paper to make it look like a pile of snow, stamped the sentiment with Scrappy Moms Xmas stamps, embossed the snow with my snowflake cuttlebug folder, and rubbed stickles all over with my fingers. The tiny snowflakes are from negative pieces from a snowflake border punch. 

Be sure to check out everyone's cards today on Giselle's Blog

#168, #169 County Fair Layout, card and Winners!

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting as much over the last 2 weeks. I have been extremely busy and have been suffering with horrible back pain, it's so horrible that I haven't  even been crafting at all or going on the computer much.

Here's a layout I made all about the L.A. county Fair last summer with my son, we had a blast and it only cost $1 to get in!!  I made this layout for this weeks Summer challenge theme at PAPER PLAYTIME.

All of the cuts are from the Carousel Cricut LITE cart, the title is alphabet stickers and I added Prima flowers with brads in the center.

The Happy Summer stamp next to the corn dogs is from Pink By design stamps.

For my little seahorse card I made using the SEAHORSE from Digital Delights by Louby Loo for the design team, be sure to check out everyone's amazing projects HERE.

Now onto some Winner's!! Again, I apologize for this being so late, I will personally contact all of the winner's and get them mailed out ASAP! Or you can email me at critterbugg365@gmail.com with your address to claim your prize.

 the Red, White, and Blog Blog Hop winner is Patricia Hurlburt

Flair and Frills Blog Hop Winner is Joyfullyorangepapercrafts

the winner of the Explosions Everywhere Blog Hop is Autumn

The winner of the Digital Delights celebration hop is Lovescrapreflect

you won a digital stamp from Digital delights by Louby Loo (the same stamp I used for the hop)

#167 Pinkalicious Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Pinkalicious Birthday Blog Hop hosted by Melissa @ Adventures in heels if you just arrived here from Kathlee's Blog then you are in the right spot! This hop is all about the colors pink, black and white and also Melissa's birthday!! Happy Birthday Melissa!!!

For my card I used my Lovely Floral Cricut LITE cart for the black scallop circle, I stamped the sentiment with My Creative Time stamps, then placed in my Cuttlebug with a Tim Holtz embossing folder. I also made this beautiful pink flower with the Songbird Cricut cart, I think that's a great cart because there's so many different flowers on it. This flower had the letter "q" in it and I hid the letter with my Gyspy and cut it out in 3 different sizes and sprayed with Glimmer Mist, added a brad to the center and crumbled it to get this result.  The final size of the flower is about 3x3 inches.

NEXT STOP is ANITA