#43 Bunnies and Blossoms Banners Blog Hop

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the Bunnies and Blossoms Banners for the Kids Blog Hop hosted by the lovely ELLEN. If you are here from Jenny's blog you are in the right spot! For those of you who are new to seeing these type of banner blog hops, we make them for a children's hospital and donate them to be hung in the kids rooms how awesome is that!

Here' s a banner I actually made last year for Easter! Well I hope you don't mind me recycling it (Ellen),  I am in my last 2 weeks of pregnancy and my DR. just put me on bed rest so I haven't really been able to craft much because of this! So I decided to donate my Easter banner to the kids since I am not using it and it's been stored in a safe place lol!

The Cricut carts I used for this are Birthday Bash, Doodlecharms, Give A Hoot and I also used Peachy Keen stamps and embossed the letters with my Cuttlebug. The mushroom and flower papers are glittery  paper from DCWV.

I hope you all have a great time hopping around and be sure to leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win a GORGEOUS Cricut Dust Cover (secretly hoping I win it lol!!)

NEXT STOP is JEANNIE

#95 Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 14 Day 1

***If you are looking for my DT project's for Paper Playtime and Abby's Challenges please scroll down***

Hi everyone it's me Sandra 365 Days of Cricut I am so super excited that today is the start of my Guest Designer week at PEACHY KEEN STAMPS!! For my special week I thought I would challenge myself to make very different projects each day I can't wait to show you all of the special creations I have in store for you!

For my 1st project I made an Easter banner with the Birthday Bash cart for the font, banner and scallop circle shapes. I used Doodlecharms for the eggs and Easter basket. Below I took a couple close up shots since this banner is about 5 feet long.

I cut the bunny from Give A Hoot and stamped this cutie pie's face with PK-760 Super Simple Eyes and Noses which are originally made for Hello Kitty! I didn't plan to use these stamps for my banner it just kinda worked out since this bunny has a big giant head LOL! I also stamped the Easter basket bellow with the same stamps. 

I also did some inking, faux stitching, doodling and embossed the letter's with my Cuttlebug.

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

#30 Digital Delights by Louby Loo FEB New Releases

Hi everyone today is New Release day at Digital Delights By Louby Loo. For my DT project I got to play with the   ANGEL AND CAT SET. I colored with Prismacolor pencil, did some inking and added a pop dot under the cat. Here's a a list of the carts I used:

HERITAGE -fence

A CHILD'S YEAR -scallop ovals

GIVE A HOOT -clouds

Please be sure to check back for 3 big blog hops I will be in (Including one that I will be hosting!)starting on Friday 2/5.

#22 Ouch Lili Card

Hi everyone! Today is Design Team day at Digital Delights by Louby Loo I decided to make a get well/thinking of you type of card for a friend of mine who has been going through stuff right now. The very adorable skunk is called Ouch Lili and you can purchase her HERE, I also used the Skunk Sentiment Set also by Digital Delight's by Louby Loo.

For my card I colored her with Prisma Color pencils and added lace, bling, a border from a punch and the butterfly is from my Give A Hoot Cricut Cartridge. I also inked up the sentiment a little bit. I am entering Ouch Lili in a few challenges:

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/- DIGI

http://simplycreatechallenges.blogspot.com/-PUNCHES

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/-CUTE

http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.com/- GET WELL/CHEER UP

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/-ANYTHING GOES

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/-LACE

http://www.2sketches4you.blogspot.com/-ANYTHING GOES

Please make sure to make your calendars for the Celebrating Our Milestone's Blog Hop hosted by Yolie from Just Yolie this Friday and Saturday!

Also don't forget to enter our Give A Hoot challenge at my other blog Flaunt It Friday's we are giving away a cartridge!!!

#19 Soul Mates Card for Flaunt It Friday's

Hello everyone thank you all for stopping by my blog over the weekend and during the week. Also, thank you all who entered our challenge at Flaunt It Friday's you all did a fabulous job!

For this week's challenge we are featuring the GIVE A HOOT cartridge and the cut is the Bear and Trash Can on page 61. This was a real challenge for me and it took 2 days to make this card. Sometimes you just gotta walk away and then everything comes naturally! The bear in can is from GAH and the dump truck is from Boys Will Be Boys. I embossed the truck with a Sizzix folder in my Cuttlebug. I stamped the sentiment since they are "Soul Mates" no really! They see eachother every Tuesday morning at 6:30 AM LOL! I stamped the faces with PKS and added some ribbon. Please make sure to enter your project at the Flaunt It Friday's blog. For this month's Grand Prize we are giving away one Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge sponsored by one of our very own designer's Stephanie Always Crafting thank you Stephanie!

#187 Chocolate Cake Card

Here's my chocolate cake card that I made inspired by my birthday cake from The Cheesecake Factory mmmm! The chocolate cake cut is from From My Kitchen and the whipped cream topping is a cloud from Give a Hoot. I embossed the cake with my Cuttlebug and I put Glossy Accents on the cake to make it look like frosting mmmm! Can you tell that I am craving this chocolate cake from the Cheesecake Factory! I put a pop dot under the whipped cream, stamped the sentiment and used my i-rock to add the bling. I am entering in these challenges:

My Creative Time Food/ From My Kitchen

Mel Jen Designs Food

#141 My New Job As Mommy

Hello everyone!!! I'm so sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while I haven't been feeling very creative lately and I've been a couch potato all week long LOL! Well at least I am catching up on all my shows! I actually made this for the Fantabulous cricut challenge last week which was to make a job themed project but I never got around to posting it. I am also trying to use up some of my non-cricut supplies so I did part of the title with stickers and the rest I cut with Pooh Font and put silver Micro beads on it. The deer is from Give A Hoot I put white Martha Stewart glitter on it. I cut the butterflies from Serenade and put the gems on it with my i-rock. The scallop square is from Accent Essentials and I added 4 green metallic brads next to the picture. I added ribbon, metal accents (shown in the pic above) and cut a scallop border with my funky scissors. I drew a swirly line and did my journaling on it. I am entering this LO to the challenge this week at Paper Cutz their theme this week is to create a project with a critter on it, my critter is the momma deer!

#139 So Happy Tree Layout

Here's a LO I made of my son when he was only 2 weeks old, my mother in law came to visit us and see her new grandson. I've been wanting to make a LO with a giant tree on it so I did finally!! The tree and  bird are from GAH, I put MS Micro Beads on the bird and the title. The Title is from Pooh Font and also Walk in My Garden, I put lots of brads and buttons on the tree and did some stamping on the left side.

#127 Birthday Blinged Out Forest Tree gift card holder

Attached the gift card to the back of the blue paper.

I am going to write on the blue paper next to the tree.

This week my sweet dear friend Stephanie and her friend Nicole at  Always Craftinghaving a challenge to use bling, buttons and/or brads....I chose bling!! Yay I used my i-rock to put bling in the tree and also 2 purple blings under the cloud and added a pop dot. I stamped the tree in green and cut it out and stamped the black tree and the sentiment. The scallop rectangle and pink bird are from Wild Card, the cloud is from Give a Hoot which is really a flower layer. To make this card it was easy I just folded my 8.5x11 inch in half and cut it to be 5 inches so it is 4 1/4 x 5 to make the opening I used my circle border punch but only cut less than half. I glued the 2 sides down and only glued half of the top, so that the gift card holder will fit.  The blue paper was cut at 4 1/4x 4 then I punched with my corner punch. I am going to write on the side where I stamped the tree and I adhered the gift card to the back of the blue card. I am also submitting this Cricut cardz because their theme is to use a scallop shape I chose rectangle! I also submitted to wee memories for their forest theme this week.

#86 Beautiful World LO

I wanted to do a pretty LO for these beautiful pics I took while hiking on vacation, the views were breath taking. I hiked to the world's tallest lighthouse and it was worth all the pain LOL! The title, owl, flower border, butterfly border, leaf, and flower charm were all from GAH. I put the butterfly and leaf in the sticker machine and put glitter on top. The small butterflies were from a Martha Stewart punch. I used my 1st transperency here and filled it with butterflies and my journaling, I addded 2 different ribbons and a peaarl to the flower charm.

#81 Feathered Friends LO (For Throwback Thursday)

A close up of my handmade peacock and parrot!

I love making my own flowers.

For Emma's Challenge this week it was animal themed so we had to use Zooballo. I cut the birds from Zooballoo and created my own peacock, parrot and baby parrot! I used 2 different inks to color them, then embossed and added stickles. I embossed the little red plant from CAC. The title and the large paper flower embellishment are from Give a Hoot. To make the flower I cut it in 3 different sizes then put a pop dot under each layer.The circles are from Plantin Schoolbook.  The tiny flowers, butterfly, and border strip are all punches. I added stickles to the title and places several eyelets and washers on my page finally I sanded 2 corners of my page and misted with glimmer mist.

#67 Wish You Were Here LO

This was a pretty simply LO I made the title from GP and the pink and yellow flower from GAH. I added a blue button to the flower and blue stickles to the title. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the pink border and added a flower border strip on top of the pink paper. I cut blue strips of paper to do my journaling on.

#56 Tropical Drinks LO (Paper Playtime Challenge)

I was going for a groovy theme for the Paper Playtime Challenge http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/
The peace sign was from Cars, the title and heart are from HM and the flower is from GAH. This was a quick layout for me I added 3 vacation themed stickers on the left and I added distress ink behind the title. It was awesome being able to have a real drink out of a real coconut on the beach!

#53 Mexican Fiesta LO (3rd Challenge w/Joanna)

This was the 3 rd challenge with my sister Joanna  http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/  This time I choose, I choose this dress from Paisley I thought it was so cute and I was going to do something completely different with this cut. I wanted to make a paper doll with this dress but I didn't think it looked right so I did this instead. I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I CB'd the dress and did some distressing and added gold and green stickles to it since I didn't feel like cutting a shadow...yep I get lazy with my scrapbooking sometimes! I stickled the yellow Prima flower on the left side.  "Party Time" is from Stamping I also added gold stickles to the entire outline. The border flag thing on the bottom is from Give a Hoot, I added some red bling to the tops of the flags. "Fiesta" was cut from SB on white paper I drew the outline with a red pen and colored the inside with a yellow marker. The red patterened paper is from the Citrus stack from Joann's. I  added a strip of red lace ribbon to the middle and used my corner punch for the fiesta flyer that I got when I bought my ticket to this show.

#41 Senor Frogs Layout

I just had to make a layout of frogs since there were frog statues everywhere in Mazatlan Mexico. I wanted to make one of each frog from each cartridge. I have to say my fav's are the girl frog and the one with the tongue hanging out! I embossed the lily pads with a Fiskars plate in the cuttlebug. I stamped the background for the title. I also put my crop-a -dile to use for the flowers.