#242 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop DAY 4 Mickey Christmas Frame

Hi everyone welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog HopDAY 4 hosted by Sylvia Bella Scrapbook Designs. If you are here from Sylvia's blog then you are in the right spot!  This hop is all about making 12 different Christmas gifts 12 days in a row and the last day we will be posting is on December 6th.

For today's Christmas gift I made a cute Mickey Mouse Christmas frame to give to my sister Patty, she loves Disney as much as I do! I plan on surprising her and giving this frame to her with a picture already printed out of her and her son at Disneyland during Christmas time!

I got this blank frame at Michael's for $1, and got Mickey from the Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge, the Santa hat is from the Pooh and Friends Cricut cartridge. ( Can I just say that I am totally loving my E2, it cuts so much better than my original Expression, with my old Cricut I wouldn't even attempt to make a Disney cut this small because I knew it would tear my paper even after playing around with the settings and blade.)

I added pop dots under Mickey and added red rick-rack ribbon to the top and placed 2 white buttons on top, and made my own chipboard shape using a sticker and 3 layers of cereal box chipboard for the sentiment.

Here's a close up of the clean lines on Mickey using my new E2! I also found the perfect green paint to match the paper.

BLOG CANDY!! In honor of me creating 12 projects 12 days in a row, I will be celebrating by giving away ONE $10 gift certificate to one of my favorite online stores......  PEACHY KEEN STAMPS!!! All you have to do is leave me a comment on all 12 of my 12 Days of Christmas post and be a follower. The last day will be on December 6th. I will announce a random winner on Wed. 12/7 good luck!

NEXT STOP is PATTY

#236 Crafty Sprouts New Release Blog Hop! Grumpy Card and Baby Boy Card

****Big Announcement HERE**** Guess what everyone I found out I'm having a baby GIRL and I am soooooo excited I can't stop smiling and I feel like the first time I ever went to Disneyland when I was a kid LOL! Yesterday was one of my most happiest days in my life you have no idea! I feel so blessed that God has blessed me with a little boy and now a baby GIRL!!! Our family is complete!! I can't wait until she comes in April!

Ok now onto the hop, I just had to keep my lovely followers up to date on my pregnancy status LOL!

Hi everyone!! Good morning and welcome to the much anticipated Crafty Sprouts Stamps New Release blog hop, hosted by Erika AKA Crafty Sprouts! If you are here from Kristi's Blog then you are in the right spot! Erika has come up with some FABULOUS new awesome stamps the our DT is going nuts over LOL!! Believe me you will not be dissapointed you will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Them all!!

The first set that we will be previewing is called "SMILE ON" it's a stamp set with some very smiley and happy thoughts!

When I first saw this sentiment "A Smile A Day Keeps The Grumpies away" I automatically thought of Grumpy from Snow White.... isn't he so cute!?! I've always liked Grumpy and thought he was so serious and so funny haha! I wanted to make this card unisex in case any of my friends are going through a tough time, or in case my hubby is being a little grumpy himself haha!

I stamped the background stamp with Market Street "grid" stamp, and added a border with my Fiskars punch and some yellow buttons, I really wanted this card to be bright and cheery! I also added pop dots underneath Grumpy. I used the Happily Ever After Cricut cartridge for the die cut.

A close up of this awesome stamp and the entire "Smile On" stamp set. You can Pre-Order it HERE!!!

Now for my 2nd sneak peek "ROCK THAT BABY BUMP" I made this card for one of my oldest friends Regina, I've known her since 2003 and both of our hubby's used to work together in the Marine Corps. and we made a pregnancy pact last year LOL (so true!) well, guess what.... we are both pregnant at the same time Omg!!! She is due 3 weeks before me and she is having a little boy!

For this card I used 2 layers of Kraft paper and embossed one with the large dots embossing folder with my Cuttlebug and did some inking with Antique Linen Distress ink. I got the booties from my New Arrival Cricut Cartridge and added some brown ribbon bows and blue buttons. The eyelet lace I used here I got at Wamart for like $1 and it's actually white! I sprayed the lace with blue Glimmer Mist, the color is "Cornflower" and it's one of the "Chalkboard" Glimmer Mist inks. I LOVE the way the ribbon came out, because it looks like jeans, and plus now I can make and lace into ANY color yay!!!

I love this Bootie Call sentiment haha!! Hey that's how we get babies in the first place from "Bootie Calls" from our hubby's or boyfriends LOL!!!!!!! My friend will get a kick out of this one! Here is the close up of the "ROCK THAT BABY BUMP" below, and you can Pre-Order it HERE

A special thanks to Erika, you are so amazing and talented and I am so happy to be on a DT with such talented sweet DT sisters! Love you guys! 

I hope you all have enjoyed my baby stories and a little history LOL! And of course the New Releases!! be sure to stop by tomorrow for the other 2 releases by CRAFTY SPROUTS STAMPS!!

NEXT STOP is GLORIA

#179 Princess Blog Hop/ Cinderella Layout

Welcome to my blog and the Princess Blog Hop.  If you happen to stumble upon my Blog and would like to play along please do so by starting at Sylvia's blog over at www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com. I was super excited when Sylvia asked me to join her amazing hop, it's all about Princesses and of course I automatically thought Disneyland!! 

Most of you know that I am a Disney Freak (LOL!) and I am an annual pass member and I plan on scrapbooking everything that Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure have to offer! One of the attraction at Disneyland is called "Princess Fantasy Faire" and it a place where you can meet all of the Disney Princesses and Cinderella is one of them! I will be placing a photo here of the day I finally get to meet her!! If I never get to meet Cinderella I still have a backup photo.... I saw her in a recent Disney Parade!!

 

Ok so my creativity has been a little blocked lately since I've been ill these past few weeks and I needed a boost, so I did a search for "Cinderella Scrapbooking" and here's what was the inspiration for my Cinderella Carriage. I cut the carriage from the Disney Happily Ever After cart, the border and font are from the Cricut Cake cart- Elegant Cakes..... and good news, you can use your cake carts in your regular Cricuts a I did here! I stamped this Princess #3 stamp on tan and shimmer blue paper and paper pieced them together. I colored her hair with Bic markers, chalked her cheeks and eyes and added Stickles and bling. I also added lots of bling with my i-rock, the larger bling I bought at the Dollar Tree, it was a HUGE pack of bling!! I think it had 300-500 pieces! The butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch.

Here's a closeup of my detail work! I also added pop dots under the carriage and Cinderella.

I don't have blog candy at this time, but I would love it if you became a follower you won't be dissapointed!

Have a fabulous Day and have fun hopping with us!!

NEXT STOP is THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN

#128 MPS NSD #9 Glitz, Glam and Glitter

***This is my 9th post tonight!!! Please scroll down for my Robot Mini Album, Toy Story Layout, Birthday Cupcake Layout, Breast Cancer card, Groovy card, Altered Tag, Hawaiian card and more!!****

Hi everyone! Here's my last project for MPS NSD challenges, I really tried hard to make it to 12 projects but  I ran out of time. I cut this heel from Happily Ever After Cart, it's Cinderella's glass slipper! I stamped the sentiment with PBD, and added stickles to glam it up on the heart. This is challenge #9.

#126 MPS NSD #7 Toy Story Layout

Here's a closeup of my stitching from my Sew Easy:

Hi I am so excited I was able to get a few layouts done during these challenges. For MPS NSD #7 the challenge is to make a Layout! I made this one using my Toy Story cart for Woody and for the title. I also used my Sew Easy for the Stitching.

#119 Disney Blog Hop

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the Disney Blog Hop hosted by Sylvia from Bella Scrapbook Designs, I am super excited to be in this hop because I love Disney! If you are here from Giselle's Blog then you are in the right spot!

 Here's a little card I made for my nephew Jacob who is actually celebrating his 3rd Birthday today! Happy Birthday Jacob!! Him and my son Aidan are actually only 7 months apart and it's so cute watching them play for hours and fight over the same toys, boys will be boys LOL!

For my card I cut this character named "Sulley" from Monster's Inc. which is a Disney movie and the cart that I used is my newest addition to my Cricut "Collection" Best of Pixar I love this cart! Instead of cutting I actually tested out my new Cri-Kits gel pens for the very first time and the color I used was the neon blue pen, you can view them HERE. I am super happy that I finally got some Cri-Kits they are so easy to use and it's kind of like making your own stamps. For this Disney character I only had to cut 2 layers out then I hand cut around the edges to make a small white shadow and colored him in with Prismacolor pencils. If you have any questions about Cri-Kits don't hesitate to ask!

Blog Candy! I am giving away this super adorable octopus cutie stamp to one lucky follower! Just leave me a comment and I will chose a winner on Monday.

NEXT STOP is JENNY

Have fun hopping and thank you Sylvia for letting me be part of your first hop ever!

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!!

#116 Cinco de Mayo Blog Hop

***If you are looking for my DDLL DT project please scroll down to next post***

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Cinco de Mayo Blog Hop hosted by Abby! If you are here from  Raven Love 4 Stamps then you are in the right spot. I am so excited to be in Abby's Cinco de Mayo Blog Hop especially since she's had it planned for months and the time is finally here and there are several sponsors on this hop be sure to start at the beginning HERE so you don't miss a thing!

Yay I had a lot of fun making this card I have had this idea in my head for a while now and I finally got to put it to good use. I am so proud of myself because I used several different carts to make this Mexican Cactus! And I also got some good use of my scraps, every piece of paper here was a scarp, hey I can't be wasteful...right ladies!?! I stamped his eyes with the Monster Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps, I created my own sentiment with KinderStampO stamps, I also used 3 colors of Stickles and added pop dots under the hat. Here's a list of the carts I used:

Cactus: Toy Story Cart

Guitar: Spongebob Squarepants Cart

Mustache: Billionaire LITE Cart

Sombrero Hat: Designer's Calendar

Blog Candy!! I am giving away one Cloud 9 4x8 clear stamp set to one lucky follower! Just leave me a comment!

NEXT STOP is XOCHITL