#140 Baby's 1st New Year Layout

Hi everyone! I am so excited to finally get some scrapbooking done I have been super super busy the last few weeks and I'm trying to catch up lol! Here's a layout I made for Olivia's baby book I made this for our current New Year's challenge over at Cameo Creations you can use any Silhouette machine just make sure you are using an SVG, cutting pattern or anything from the Silhouette store and enter HERE for a chance to win some Lettering Delights goodies!!!!

Purchase KBD New Year Bunnies HERE you can get it for 50% off!

I made this layout using KaDoodle Bug Designs  New Year Bunnies original artwork by Kristi W. Designs. I cut her out using SCAL 3 along with my Cameo and added some Martha Stewart glitter to bling her out for the new year LOL!! The Peachy Keen Stamp I used is called PK-758 Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed 1 1/8 inch and is actually one of my favorite stamp sets to use it's very versatile as you can see I used this set for a bunny face! The title is from a pink foam glitter sticker set from Michael's that I had in my stash for a while.  The silver ribbon bow is Christmas ribbon and I also stamped the "2013" numbers using CTMH Glamour Lower Case ALphabet stamp set. Also, the beautiful pink flower with feathers is from this very talented new friend I found on Facebook she makes and sells these flowers I ordered a whole lot of them! I went a little flower crazy but hey you can never have too many flowers and plus I love using them on layouts and mini's! You can view her blog http://kayvycrafts.blogspot.com/ and order some from her she sells them much cheaper then Prima LOL and they are all so gorgeous OMG I love them!!!!

Be sure to enter your New Year's projects HERE!!!!

#131 White Christmas Card

Hi everyone! For today's Cameo Creations Challenge our theme is "White Christmas" when I think of white Christmas I think of the snow covered mountains here in So Cal. I got the tree and sentiment "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from the Silhouette store. I embossed the snowflake background using a Sizzix embossing folder in my Cuttlebug.  The papers are from Pear and Partridge Kit from Close To My Heart. Be sure to check out the rest of the DT's amazing projects HERE!

#48 Liz's Paper Loft Guest Designer

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be a guest designer for one of my favorite blogs.....  Liz's Paper Loft! I hope you are having a fast recovery Liz, and hopefully we can both get back to crafting soon! I am still taking a crafting break from having my baby just 11 days ago! Luckily I made this layout way in advance just for today's post.

This is a layout I made for my 2010 scrapbook album, this day we celebrated my mom's birthday at a local paleontology museum. The picture of us had a really ugly  background, so I edited the picture to black & white to make it look pretty! I used some old paper from a Summer DCWV paper stack and added some Prima flowers, bling, micro beads, glitter and butterflies. I also did some painting and stitching with my Sew Easy.

I used my lovely Silhouette Cameo to create the marquee shapes, butterflies, title, and the (brown) rolled paper roses.

Here's a list by name of the Silhouette files I used from the Silhouette store:

filigree butterfly set

rolled rose

party set (used for title)

7-page layout kit (used for marquee shapes)

I hope you all will come check out my blog which is 365 Days of Cricut where I post Cricut and Silhouette Cameo projects.

Be sure to leave a comment on all of the guest designer's posts on http://www.lizspaperloft.com/ to qualify for the blog candy!!

#47 Our First Cruise Layout and CAMEO HOP WINNER

Hi everyone! Today is a special post because I think this has got to be my all time FAVORITE scrapbook page of all time, I had this idea in my head of what this page would look like for a long time and it came out better then I ever imagined it! So you my friends are seeing history in the making LOL!

I made this for my 2010 scrapbook album, we went on our first cruise to the Mexican Riviera which went to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas it was a blast and after making this page I really really want to go on another cruise BAD!! Eventually I will get around to making my actual Cruise scrapbook album so stay tuned I have tons of ideas for my 100's of pics I took while on vacation.

For my layout I used my Cricut E2 and my Gypsy to cut everything out, I love using my Cameo so much but I need to balance them out so they don't get jealous lol! The carts I used for the Lifesaver, anchor, ship, and wave are from Life Is A Beach Cricut Cart. I designed the title using my Gypsy and the Birthday Cakes Cricut cart by welding everything together. I then placed everything upside down in my Xyron sticker machine and poured 4 different colored Martha Stewart glitters all over. I then added some silver eyelets to the anchor, lifesaver and of course had to add them to the windows of the ship to make them look like portholes on the cruise. I also added black and white twine from the Twinery and looped it around the page for a finished  look. Well I hope you enjoyed looking at my favorite scrapbook page so far!

Now onto the Cameo Blog Hop winner!!

The random winner of the crinkle ribbon is...... Michele from MS

Congrats Michele! You have 7 days to contact me at critterbugg365@gmail.com with your info so I can get your prize out to you

#44-46 Getting Crafty with the Cameo Blog Hop

Hi everyone welcome to the Getting Crafty with the Cameo Blog Hop hosted by the wonderful talented KRISTY!!! If you are here from CANDACE's blog you are in the right spot! This is going to be a super fun hop all about the most awesome cutting machine EVER.... the Silhouette Cameo!

There is so much blog candy to be won on this hop, all you have to do is leave a comment on all the blogs and stop by each Facebook page of each of our sponsors and let them know we sent you! Here's a list of prizes:

Scraptastical Kreations - $25 GC 

Silhouette America - $10 download card 

Chomas Creations - Adjustable holder for Silhouette

Jaded Blossom Stamps - Sweet Celebrations stamp set 

Expressions Vinyl - $25 GC

Oh! My Crafts (2) $25 GC (Two winners) 

Cut @ Home - Silhouette Heat Transfer Kit 

More Paper Than Shoes - Paper Roots Class Admission

Scrapbook Express - Silhouette Fabric Kit 

Tara's The Twinery Baker Twine - Bundle Pack 

Pink by Design - Stamp set 

Project 1: Halloween Layout

For those of you who read my blog and Facebook know that I have been working very hard to finish my 2010 scrapbook album before my baby arrives here in about 2 weeks! So I decided it would be a great excuse to buy some very cool Halloween files from the Silhouette store to make my layout. The title and the pumpkin/spiderweb border were all from my Cameo. They are very very intricate and super skinny but they cut out so perfect! I also added some Lavendar Stickles to the font, "Raven" colored Glimmer Mist, and some chunky fabric brads, the stamp sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps. The grey crinkle ribbon here was hand dyed by myself!

Project 2: I Love You Anniversary Shaped Card

I made this card pretty large about 5x7 for my hubby for our Anniversary which was on 2.28 well, I haven't given it to him yet since he's been on deployment the last 4 months, luckily I will see him next Friday and I can't wait! I hope he likes his "guy" card! I also embossed everything with my Cuttlebug.

Project 3: Altered Composition Notebook

I made this altered composition notebook for my best friend Melyssa's birthday, she loves yellow, pink and owls! It looks really complicated but it was super EASY!! This gift took me about 30 minutes or less! I also added a rosette, black tulle and buttons. I embossed the letters with my Cuttlebug.

BLOG CANDY!!!!!!! I am giving away 3 yards of the gray crinkle ribbon hand dyed by yours truly! (This is the same color ribbon I used in my Halloween layout above) All you have to do is be a follower and leave me a comment telling me which one is your favorite project here! I will announce a winner on Monday 3/26! Good luck!

Here's a list by name of all the Silhouette files I used in my projects:

-Owl Cutout

-matchbox notebook note overlay

-i love you card 

-halloween border

-happy halloween phrase

NEXT STOP is LISA****

#40 Cupcake Card for Cameo Creations Challenge

Hi everyone today is a brand new challenge over at Monica's Creative Madness AKA Cameo Creations! For this weeks challenge our theme is to make a square card using a digi stamp and buttons. For my card I used the SKELEKINZ-CUPCAKE from our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.

To cut and print my digi stamp first I printed the stamp in my home printer then I placed the image in my Silhouette Cameo and it cut out so super perfect! Here's the video I watched made by Monica which has helped me a lot! ***Print and Cut Video****  I colored the stamp with Prismacolor pencils and added Stickles. The scallop shape is from the Silhouette store and the sentiment is from Scrappy Moms, I also embossed the stars using my Cuttlebug.

I hope you all will come play along in our digi theme this week, you can use any Silhouette SD or Cameo for the challenge HERE for a chance to win 7 FREE BUGABOO digi stamps a $21 value!!

#35 Circus Layout

Good evening, I hope you all are enjoying your day so far! I have been busy making a bunch of layouts this past week and I haven't had time to post them yet.

Here's a layout I made of the Circus we went to back in 2010 believe it or not this was my very first time watching one, this one was Circus Vargas it was all people doing crazy stuff I have a bunch more pics but those couldn't all fit in one layout maybe I will make a Circus mini album in the near future!

For my layout I used the Celebration stack from DCWV, love this stack! You can use it for non b-day stuff which I've been doing a lot lately! The clown is from the Wrap It Up Cricut cartridge, and this beautiful font is from the Carousel cricut LITE cartridge. I added tons of Stickles to the clown he just looked to plain without it lol! I also added Stickles to the title and red bling. I did my journaling around the edges of the blue/red paper around the pictures.

Believe it or not this layout took me forever to create I was brainstoming for the longest time and nothing was working. Then when I was creating it last night according to a sketch I found it didn't look right at all! So I walked away for about 2 hours and watched Army Wives and boom!! It hit me I just knew what I had to do to make it better lol! Sometimes you just gotta walk away and you can't force art haha!

#32 Easter Peeps Layout for SVG Attic DT Day

Happy LEAP DAY!!!! It's SANDRA here and for this week's project  I made  a pre-made layout for this year's Easter pics, especially after seeing these super cute cuts from the NEW set called EASTER ELEMENTS by SVG ATTIC I could NOT resist using this set ASAP lol!

The patterned papers I used here were actually from a set I got from the $1 bins at Target last year these papers are teenager themed but I think they worked out good with my Peeps! The stickers I used are thick glitter foam stickers from Creative Imaginations. I also added green pastel ribbon, pearls, purple Martha Stewart glitter and sprayed everything with "Yellow Daisy" Glimmer Mist, I just love the shimmer on the peeps in the pic above.

I cut everything here including the bunny and chick peeps, and also the butterfly with SCAL 3 and my Silhouette Cameo.

Be sure to check out my post's and the rest of the DT's daily posts for inspiration HERE on the SVG Attic Blog, along with our new color challenge!

Here's the set I used Easter Elements

#31 Baby Blog Hop Alligator Layout

Hi everyone welcome to the baby blog hop hosted by Sylvia from http://bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com/ if you are here from Sylvia's blog then you are in the right spot! Here's a sweet blog hop all about babies, I really wanted to be part of it since I will be having my sweet baby girl here in about 5 more weeks, I am so excited it's going by pretty fast and before you know it I will be a mother of 2 instead of 1!  

 In honor of me having a new arrival soon I decided to finally make my baby her first layout for her baby scrapbook album. The alligator is from Lettering Delights called "Love Bites" which I cut out using my SCAL3 along with my Silhouette Cameo. I did some embossing on the alligator and also on the umbrella and added Stickles, inking and bling, I also stamped the eyes using PKS Winter Wonderland faces. The flowers are all Prima and I added pink pearls to the centers and used 2 different Glimmer Mist sprays. The glitter chipboard letters are from We R Memory Keepers. I cut the outer doily square shape and the scalloped rectangle for the mat using files from the Silhouette store.
Thank you for hopping with us today!
NEXT STOP is SANDY

#23 Mother's Day Layout

Good morning! I am excited to share with you my all time favorite layout I've made so far (well one of them lol!).  I used my Cricut E2 along with my lovely Cameo to create this masterpiece! The 3d ruffled flowers are a file from the Silhouette store I cut them around 3 inches each and sprayed them all with glimmer mist, ruffled them up and added a brad to the centers, the tiny flowers on the bottom right are also from the Silhouette store these are more like quilled flowers. Here's a list of the Cricut carts I used:

Title-Mother's Day 2010
Green flourish- Home Accents
White Flourishes- Storybook
Yellow Scallop Square- Just Because Cards

I was happy to be able to combine my Cricut and my Cameo for a fun little twist lol! I am so hooked on my Cameo at the moment that I sometimes forget that I already have 100,000's of images on all my carts!

*****Do you own a Silhouette Cameo or SD? If so be sure to come play along in the current Cameo Creations Challenge right HERE for a chance to win $15 in SVG files!!!!

#17 Birthday Boy Layout made with Cameo

Hi everyone! I feel like I have been neglecting my blog a little bit, I have so many new projects to share with you that I made over the last 2 weeks, but I've been too lazy to blog about them!

Here's a layout I made of my nephew Jacob's 2nd birthday. I got this fun and bright paper stack at Joann's a few days ago I forget what the collection is called but it's all about birthday's and it's adorable. All of the cuts here which include, title, stars, circles, tags, balloon and present are all from the Silhouette store. I did some doodling around with a black pen and embossed 2 tags, the sentiment "memories" is from Pink By Design stamps. I also added some glitter to some of the cuts.

I am entering in Creative Scrappers SKETCH #192

Also, just a reminder if you own a Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette SD be sure to enter in our first ever "Cameo Creations" challenge HERE for a chance to win some SCRAPPY MOMS STAMPS!!!!!

#6 Love Shaped Card

Hi everyone here's a quick card I made using the BE MINE SVG set from SVG ATTIC, using my Silhouette Cameo along with SCAL 3. I embossed the background with a rose embossing folder in  my Cuttlebug and glittered the sentiment. The inside sentiment is from My Creative Time stamps. Be sure to enter our "Glitter" challenge over at the Svg Attic Blog you have a chance to win a $25 or a $10 gift certificate to the Svg Attic store be sure to link up your glitter project HERE.

Also, the SVG Attic is having a Design Team Call!!! You have until Feb. 1st, to respond to the DT call, click HERE for more info.

P.S. Be sure to stop by my blog today at 5pm PST for the Crafty Sprouts stamps blog hop with some blog candy!

#260 Ornaments, Ornaments and More Ornaments Blog Hop

Welcome to

the KinderStampO Ornaments, Ornaments

and more Ornaments Blog Hop hosted by http://www.kinderstampo.com/. If you are here from http://scrappinpinkpiglet.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right spot!! This hop is all about beautiful ornaments that 24 designers will be giving away on our blogs!!

Be sure to leave a comment on all the blogs for some fabulous blog candy given by Kinderstampo, she will randomly select a winner from ANY random blog stop from the hop!

 For my ornament I used a Digi Stamp from Tiddly Inks and colored her with Prismacolor pencils. I used Martha Stewart glitter for the blue and white parts only and added silver ribbon to the backside to hang on a tree. To make this ornament more sturdy I layered it on 4 pieces of cereal box chipboard so it's pretty thick! You can use this ornament for other things too... like an embellishment for a mini album, scrapbook layout, etc. that's why I placed the ribbon behind the ornament!

Blog Candy!! I will be giving away my ornament here to one lucky follower who leaves me a comment here. I will select a random winner on Monday 12/19. This ornament is about 4x5 inches.

I hope you enjoyed the hop and Merry Christmas!!!

#256 Gifts from the heart Blog Hop/ Tiffany's Inspired Christmas Wreath

Hi everyone! I am pleased to announce I am the newest DT member of the SVG Attic, and I will be posting SVG Attic projects every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month! I am super excited because today is my first project ever using the SVG Attic's SVG files and it's also "The Gifts from the heart Blog Hop" hosted by the SVG Attic. If you are here from Katie's blog then you are in the right spot!

This hop is all about handmade Christmas gifts that we all made using SVG files. We also have 2 super fabulous GIVEAWAY'S!!! We are giving away 2- $50 gift certificate's to the SVG ATTIC STORE all you have to do to win $50 is leave a comment on everyone's blogs and also make sure to be a follower. For another chance at winning become a fan of our Facebook page HERE, and also another chance at winning you can share about our hop on Facebook/ and or your blogs about our hop this weekend.

For my Christmas gift I made a Tiffany's inspired Christmas wreath, I cut the wreath shape out on cereal box chipboard using the ALL THE TRIMMINGS Svg set. I also used All The Trimmings for the snowflakes, the heart was a basic shape I already had on SCAL 2. I cut all the snowflakes out on white glitter cardstock and added 9 pieces of bling to each snowflake, that's a lot of BLING!!!! I added silver tinsel Martha Stewart glitter to the heart and this Tiffany blue ribbon I found last year on clearance after Christmas at Michael's! The total size for the wreath is about 11x11 inches.

Here's the SVG set I used:

We are also having a 50% off sale in the store HERE just type in coupon code GIFT

www.svgattic.blogspot.com

Jessica B. - www.thecrafterscottage.blogspot.com
Ruthie - www.septemberninth.blogspot.com
Kasi - http://19eightyexpressions.blogspot.com
Jessica L - http://craftyrktsci.blogspot.com/
Laura - www.makinprettythings.com
Lisa B - www.our2angelsinheaven.blogspot.com
Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com
Corri - www.buglvr.blogspot.com
Katie - http://ktsangels.blogspot.com
Sandra - http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

I hope you have enjoyed our hop, and help spread the word about our hop to win one of our fabulous $50 gift certificates, you have all weekend to complete the hop have fun!

#248 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 10/ Easy! Christmas Ornament

Hi everyone welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog HopDAY 10 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.

I apologize for not posting the last 2 days, I have been very ill and pretty much in bed all day long :(  Luckily I am finally feeling much better and I will be posting Day 11's project later this evening thank you!

For today's gift I made something super fast that I think came out great! I made a Christmas ornament using the Serenade Solutions Cricut cartridge, the size is about 3x 4.5 inches, I cut it out on 3 layers of cereal box chipboard, and also for a 4th time I cut it out on gray cardstock. I placed the gray cardstock piece of the bird upside down in my Xyron sticker machine and poured Martha Stewart Christmas glitter all over it. I punched a small hole using my Crop a dile and tied a circle of embroidery floss through it to hang on the tree.

As soon as I was finished my son said he wanted to put it on our "Big" tree lol! No kidding it's 7 1/2 feet tall, and guess what I almost broke our tree while decorating it (don't ask LOL!) luckily my hubby was able to fix it, but I had to re-decorate the entire tree all over again because  of the way he fixed the tree all the "good" ornaments were facing the back. So it's like I decorate to huge tree's this year lol! Can you spot where I place my new ornament below??

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

#243 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 5 Vintage Altered Composition Book

Hi everyone welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop DAY 5 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.

This is the before picture of my sad, depressing composition book I got from the Dollar Tree!! LOL!

Here's the AFTER picture!! 100 times better then the before picture right ladies lol!

I covered the front and back of the book using 2 thin 12x12 sheets of K & Company patterned paper, I cut each piece into 9x12 inches and adhered with my ATG gun. I didn't feel like messing with modge podge! I added black ribbon to the side.

I stamped the sentiment "Listen to your heart" and frame using Tim Holtz stamps. I made this tulle flower myself and added a brad in the middle! I sprayed the frame with pink glimmer mist and added distress ink.

Dress form on left is from Forever Young Cricut cartridge, and the other 2 are from Summer in Paris seasonal Cricut cart. I added black Onyx Martha Stewart glitter to them, and added bling with my i-rock only to the larger dress form.

Here's a tag/bookmark I made I stamped the Eiffel tower using a Tim Holtz stamp, and added rose distress ink, and a pink silk flower that's from the $1 store, along with tulle and a black glitter button. I stamped the first page using a heart stamp from Joann's. I placed a paper clip behind the flower so that you can actually hold the bookmark in place. 

Here's the inside flap of the book, you can see how I folded down the front paper and added black paper and a pink border strip which is also a pocket to hold stuff, here's an example of the pocket holding the bookmark I made.

I went a little crazy with my Black distress ink..... there's no such thing as too much distressing or glitter that's my motto LOL! I covered all of the outside pages with black distress ink too!

I hope you enjoyed today's gift I made, it was a true work of heart, only took me 3+ hours but worth it!! I was really glad to make something vintage it's been awhile! 

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

#241 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 3

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Hi everyone welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop DAY 3 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 gift, I thought I'd make a cute gift box to hold some jewelry that I will be purchasing for my Aunt Rosemary, she is addicted to jewelry just like me :)  I made this box using the Life's A Party Cricut cartridge for the box, BTW-there's a lot of great boxes and party favors on that cart! I got the snowflake from the Winter Lace Seasonal Cricut cart that came out last year, I cut it out 3 times and poured Martha Stewart tinsel glitter on top of all 3. I placed a pop dot under all of them for some dimension and added a large piece of blue bling! For the label I hand cut it and stamped the To/From sentiment using Crafty Sprouts "HAVE A COOL YULE" stamp set and inked it up with blue chalk ink. For a final touch I added white lace to the bottom of the box to make it look more fancy!

Here's some major dimension, love it!

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