#111 Pixie Candy Treat Holder

Hi everyone! I started making a bunch of Halloween Treats to surprise my son on Halloween after I'm done making them all I will make a video for you guys!

I make this Pixie candy treat holder using my Artiste Cricut Cartridge along with KaDoodle Bug Designs Halloween Bears pattern original artwork by Kristi W. Designs. I cut the bear out using SCAL3 and my Silhouette Cameo, the pocket card is from page 47 from the Artiste handbook. The stamp sentiment and skull are Pink By Design stamps, and I also used Peachy Keen Stamps for the faces.

Close To My Heart Products Used:

Cricut Artiste Collection

Harvest Assortment Twine

#107 3D Halloween Owl Card

Hi everyone I'm finally back to crafting and blogging. For those of you who don't know my grandma passed away on September 28th :(   I felt very sad and wasn't in the mood to do any crafting or blogging. Yesterday I woke up and actually felt happy for my grandma that she is in a better place then here. And I know she would want me to get back to crafting, she loved looking at all the things I would make and all the cards I would give her.

I made this card for Cameo Creations challenge which is to make anything 3D! I found this cute 3D owl card in the Silhouette store and cut with my Cameo. It was very easy, I LOVE fast and easy cards! Everything came together as a kid and already had score lines in it.... even better LOL! I stamped all the sentiments using Pink By Design stamps.

Be sure to link up your project at  the Cameo Creations or share on our FACEBOOK PAGE for a chance to win $10 gift certificate tohttp://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Kelleigh-Ratzlaff/

#41 SVG Attic DT Day Easter Bunny Treat Box

Hi everyone it's Sandra here and it's my day to post on the SVG Attic Blog , hope you are having a great St. Patty's Day so far! For today's project I made an Easter Bunny Treat Box holding Whopper Egg candies for my son's Easter basket. I LOVE the way this box is shaped, while I was assembling it a thought came to my mind...... this box would also be perfect to hold cards and envelopes and/or 4x6 photos! This box measures 4x6 inches and I stamped the sentiment and also added a little cotton tail using a Christmas pom pom from Joann's. I cut this box out using my SCAL 3 along with my Cameo.

The set I used here is called EASTER FUN and comes with a bunch of cute 3D Easter items!

#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.

#142 Father's Day Gift Box

HI everyone! Here's a little gift card holder box for Father's Day that I made with my new Sure Cuts A lot 2 software. I found this SVG file box online and cut in my Expression. The paper is DCWV and the tage is hand cut my me! The sentiment is Pink By Design. Hope you are having a great day, be sure to check back later for a layout that I made! Here is the link to get this adorable box at MY TIME TO CRAFT

#139 Memorial Day Blog Hop

Hi everyone welcome to the Memorial Day Blog Hop hosted by Sylvia of Bella Scrapbook Designs. If you are here from Sylvia's blog then you are in the right spot! I was super excited when Sylvia asked me to join in her wonderful hop because it's for such a great cause.......

For this hop Sylvia has asked us all to donate our  cards to this sweet 10 year old boy named STEPHEN who is trying to collect 180,000 cards to send to the troops!!! That is so amazing!! I can not believe that someone so young can make a difference, he really has me thinking about making some changes in my own life too!! Stephen if you are reading this you are truly an inspiration to us all!!

For my card I was going for a Memorial Day themed card which I had my hubby help me create it, he told me which cuts and stamps to use for my card, thanks honey!  For those of you who do not know my hubby is a Marine Veteran who served at Camp Pendleton for 5 years, and now he is working as a Government Contractor who has to deploy overseas very often; so anything military related is very close to my heart.  

The cuts are from Stand and Salute which I added pop dots underneath, I stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design "Our Heroes" stamp set and embossed with my Cuttlebug.

I am so touched by Stephen's story and plan and sending him some cards. If you would like to help out by thanking our troops you can send a card Here or if you don't want to fill out all of their information  you can send your card directly to me and I would be happy to mail it out along with mine email me at critterbugg365@gmail.com for more info.  They have a sweet trip up for grabs to the winner and I would love to win a trip especially since it's not to far from my home!

Now for some blog Candy! In honor of Memorial Day I am giving away 5 cuts of your choice from the Stand and Salute Cricut cart OR  5 cuts  of your choice from the Independence Day Cricut cart.

NEXT STOP is KRISTAL

#134 Nate's ABC's Lion

Hi everyone I am so excited that everyone got a chance to vote on my little poll, it looks like Nate's ABC's won, so that means I will give you plenty of Nate's ABC's inspiration this week. This cut little lion is from Nate's and I stamped the face with PKS Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed stamps and added bling with my I-Rock and stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design. I am entering in the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge which is to follow the sketch, and use PKS if  you have them. Be sure to check back later tonight for another card I made using Nate's ABC's cart! Have a great Saturday afternoon!

#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.

#121 MPS- NSD Challenge #2

Hi everyone!! I am so excited to be entering in a few of the NSD challenges at  MPS. For challenge #2 the theme is to use Kraft paper. Here's a sweet little card I made for my sister with the Groovy Times cart, I even found some groovu looking paper that reminds me of The Brady Bunch show! Here's the link to challenge #2

#118 Late Easter Card

Hi everyone, I thought I'd share with you an Easter card I made that I totally forgot to post! The bird is from 3 Birds on A Parade, and I stamped the face with PKS. The sentiment is Pink By Design and I embossed with my Cuttlebug and added some twine and Stickles.

Be sure to check back later today for the Disney Blog Hop!!

#114 Pink Cricut Guest Designer card

Hello everyone I am so excited to be a Guest Designer today for Sarah PINK CRICUT! I thought I'd share a card I made with Nate's ABC's cart and the Hopsctoch Cricut Imagine Cart. I cut the main image along with the small butterfly with Nate's ABC's and I printed the cloud paper on Kraft cardstock with my Imagine. The large butterfly punch is from Martha Stewart. I also did a little faux stitching and added pearls to the butterfly. The sentiment is GO GREEN from Pink By Design..

#113 Grad Bash Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Grad Bash Blog Hop hosted by Nadia and Giselle. If you are here from Giselle's blog you are in the right spot. I am so excited to be part of Giselle's exciting Graduation hop. In case you didn't know Giselle just graduated from college that is a major accomplishment, I am so excited for her! Here's a sweet little card I made for her:

For my card I cut the female Cricut bug head with the Car Decals cart and the graduation cap is from A Child's Year. I did a little faux stitching and stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design stamps. I embossed the Kraft paper with a flourish type frame embossing folder and inked it up with my Black Shoot Distress ink.

Blog Candy!! I am giving away 5 of these cute Cricut Bug Head's to one lucky follower (without the graduation cap). I will cut them at 3.5 inches in any 5 colors that you wish. You can choose between male and or female bug head's. I will choose a Random winner on Monday.

NEXT STOP is Kristy

Congrats Giselle!!!!!!!

#111, 112 Lettering Delights Cards

Hi everyone here's some more cards that I made with Lettering Delights Graphics. I printed the images from my home printer on white non-textured cardstock. I embossed the 2nd card with my Cuttlebug and added twine on both. The sentiments are from Pink ByDesign. I hope you have a great weekend and be sure to stop by tomorrow for the Grad Bash Blog Hop!

Also be sure to check  out the new Flaunt It Friday's Cricut challenge which is to use the Nifty Fifties cart! You can enter the challenge HERE

#110 NIfty Fifties Cruisin Car

Hi everyone!  There's a new challenge this week at my other blog which is a Cricut challenge blog called Flaunt It Friday's and the challenge is to use the NIfty Fifties cart and the cut choice is this fabulous car on Page 24! I decided to make a masculine card by using this color combo. The sentiment is from Pink By Design, I also did faux stitching and added twine.

Be sure to play along with this week's challenge for a chance at winning a Joy's Life Lot's of Pun stamp set sponsored by Cravin Scrappin. You have one week to enter your project HERE.

Be sure to stop by my blog tomorrow for the Grad Bash Blog Hop hosted by 

Nadia www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com and Giselle www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com

#107 Easter Treat bags and Hop Winner's

-Hi everyone this is my 3rd post today please scroll down if you are looking for my Mother's Day card and my Karber Digi Monday card.

Here's some Easter treat bags I made yesterday to give to the adults at Easter! These very cute images can be found on the Lettering Delights website, I used all scraps for the bags and stamped the sentiments with Pink BY Design and My Creative Time Stamps. I also used my most favorite punch ever the MS Border Lace punch. I also stamped 2 faces with PKS. My fav bag is the "You Crack Me Up" egg isn't it funny! LOL! Reminds me of that old movie called "Cone Heads" LOL! I hope you all had a sweet Easter! I had so much fun watching all of the little kids literally fight over the candy in the eggs...kids lol! I am entering my Easter Treat Bags in Paula's More Than Favors awesome Easter Challenge HERE!

Now onto the Winner's!! First I would like to say thank you to everyone who has stopped by my blog for all of the hops I've been in recently. Also, I would really like to apologize for announcing the winner's so late past the date I originally said, I'm so sorry ladies I guess things in my life have been happening so fast and I've kind of been putting blogging on the back burner I hope you understand I still love you guys!!!! I will contact the winner's personally if I do not hear from you soon. ***Winners please email me at critterbugg365@gmail.com with your addy to claim your prizes***

Disney Easter Egg Hop Winner:

Creative Diva said...Wow! What a great idea! Already a follower! Thanks for a chance to win! HUgs,

Pattycreativediva98.blogspot.com

Peachy Keen GUest Designer Week Winner:

Maureen Reiss said...

Awww!! How adorable is this card!!? I love him and his little tie!!
reissfam10 at aol dot com

Royal Digi Easter Hop

Maria Matter said...

totally adorable Sandra!!! love the embssing on the tag, really adds a special touch!
Happy to be hopping with you today!
hugs

Love Your Pets Blog Hop

Celeste said...

oh wow your card is absolutley adorable.

CONGRATS EVERYONE!!! I am doing the happy dance for all of you! =)

#106 Mother's Day Card

***Please click HERE for my Digi Monday project***

Hi everyone I hope you had a wonderful Easter! Here's my Mother's Day card I made for Abby's Design Team challenge the theme is Mother's Day and use faux stitching you have 2 weeks to enter the challenge HERE. I recently discovered this wonderful sight called Lettering Delights and that's where I got the flower graphic. It was pretty easy I just printed it out on a 3.5x3.5 size on my printer and cut around the edges and did some faux stitching. The sentiments are Pink BY Design and My Creative Time Stamps. Be sure to check back later today to see if you won the Disney Easter Egg Hop blog candy and to check back for another project today that I made with Lettering Delights!

#103 Disney Easter Egg Hop- Mini Album

Hi everyone!!! Welcome to the Disney Easter Egg Hop hosted by my sweet, talented and fellow Disney freak like me...... MONICA!! I was so excited when Monica asked me to help Co-Host this fun Hop because she know's how much I love Disney! I would like to thank ELSA for making this super cute hop button, thank you Elsa!

For our Disney Easter Egg Hop our theme was Anything Goes just as long as it's Disney and Easter, pretty cute combo if you ask me! Some of us will be posting on both days SAT/SUN so be sure to stop by again tomorrow.

Now onto my project! I made an Easter mini album for my son Aidan (age 3), he was so happy that I let him pick all of the cuts it's pretty funny that he didn't want Minnie Mouse or Daisy LOL, he chose all of the boys! I made this so I can place just pictures of him and his other little cousins on Easter this Sunday. I wanted it to be an "All Kiddie" mini album I figured that it would be nice for him to look at and see other little kids which are his family.

This is the front cover, I made the entire mini out of one 12x12 sheet of blue textured cardstock. I just played around with the folds and this is what I came out with. I didn't plan on making a mini I actually made a pre-made 2 page layout with these same exact papers and I just didn't have the vision since I normally do not make pre-made LO's. I feel like I need to have my pictures in my hands since I like to crop them a lot. I scored the 12x12 paper at every 3 inches to make 4 sections and scored down the middle at 6 inches. The font is from Robotz cart, and I made my own book binding with a sheet of patterned paper cut at 2x6 inches and folded in half. All papers are from SEI.

Here's what the back and front covers look like. You can also see the bottlecap I made on the left side.

For this bottlecap Idea I orginally saw an epoxy maker at the scrapbook expo in Anaheim and Monica gave me this idea to use Glossy acents instead to save money...thanks Monica!! Well I actually stamped Pluto (my son chose!) and colored him with Bic Markers and placed the paper in the UTEE Melting Pot, then I hammered down and distressed with a Meat mallet!! Yes a kitchen tool! Well I just discovered that I can use that instead of pounding chicken, it has been sitting in my kitchen drawer for years waiting to be used LOL! I added twine behind the front and back covers as a closure and punched a whole in the bottlecap with my Crop a dile.

Here's the first 2 pages all cuts are from Mickey and Friends cart, the bunny ears are from 3 Birds On A Parade, and all stamps are Pink By Design. I also did faux stitching all all pages.

To create a circle opening I just punched a half circle with my 3inch circle punch. For the triangle opening I just folded over the paper.

I cut these tags from Sweet Treats and added some Spring looking ribbon. This is where I will place the photos and I also have the option of placing anywhere from 4 to 12 wallet sized photo's in this mini if I use all empty spaces.

BLOG CANDY!!! I am giving away a set of Peachy Keen Stamps CUTE AND CUDDLY to one lucky follower. To qualify you must be a follower and leave me a comment on both posts, be sure to check out my new Disney project tomorrow! I will announce a Random winner on Monday.

Monica: http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/
Sandra: http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Elsa: http://www.cricutlvr.blogspot.com/
Carley: http://the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/
Norma: http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/
DD's Crafts:http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
Nicole: http://www.creationsbymommy.com/
Glora Jean: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Janis: http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/ 
Lauren: http://laurenscreative.blogspot.com/
Melissa: http://disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/
Scraps to Treasure: http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Olga: http://www.threebutterflykisses.com/


Have fun hopping and have a wonderful Easter!
NEXT STOP is ELSA

#99 Gift Card Holder

Hi everyone this week's challenge at Flaunt It Friday's is to use Simply Charmed, Fish 2 (Shift button) Page 41 of your handbook. I wanted to make something different from a card so I decided to make a gift card holder for a guy! I cut the box from Spring Holiday Cards Seasonal cart, fish from Simply Charmed, the sentiment is Pink By Design. I also did some embossing with 2 different Cuttlebug folders. Please be sure to stop by the Flaunt It Friday's blog and enter the the challenge for a chance to win a Joy's Life Stamp set.

#93 Card full of Sunshine!

Hi everyone here's my card I made for the Paper Playtime DT challenge which is "Weather" so that means you can make anything that has to do with weather...rain, sunshine, clouds, lightning, snow, rainbows, etc. I chose sunshine since I am hoping for sunnier days here in not so sunny Southern California lol! It's actually been raining almost all week long here!

For my sunny card I cut/print the sun from the Better Together Cricut Imagine cart and stamped the sentiment with Pink By Design stamps. I also added some Valentine's Day ribbon that worked out perfect with my color combo! If you would like to play along with Paper Playtime's challenge be sure to click HERE. Also just a reminder that I will be a Guest Designer for PEACHY KEEN STAMPS all week long (4/11-4/15)!!

#75 Winner and Birthday Layout

Hi everyone thank you all for hopping with us over the weekend for the Birthday Bash Bunny hop for FLAUNT IT FRIDAY'S the Random winner of the Peachy Keen Wide Eyed and Bushy Tail Assortment is L.B. said...

Great projects. Love the clown!! March 18, 2011 7:29 AM
Congrats L.B.! Please contact me at critterbugg365@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Now onto my layout, if you are also a friend or fan of me on Facebook today I asked everyone which cart would you like me to use today and I had a huge response for Simply Charmed!

I have been working on my 2010 scrapbook album eventhough I haven't even started on 2008 or 2009 LOL! Sometimes I don't want to go in order and I like to just jump ahead to the present! These photos are about my hubby's 28th b-day last June 10th he didn't want to have a birthday party or get together but I forced him, it was a very spontaneous thing for me I told him that day while he was at work that I was going to make him Greek food and bake a cake this was my first "Fancy" cake LOL! We normally buy the cakes from Target they have some yummy cakes at Target in the bakery!

I used all DCVW papers and the cartridge I used was Simply Charmed, and  http://www.peachykeenstamps.com/ Happy New Year and Simple Simons. I used Simply Charmed for the blow horn, confetti, balloon, circle and sentiment. I used my EK border punch for the borders and Pink By Design "WISH BIG" stamp which I stamped repeatedly for a border.

For my layout I used this sketch from STUCK ON U SKETCHES

I am also entering in FANTABULOUS CRICUT "Happy Birthday" theme.

THROWBACK THURSDAY Use green with an older cart/ I chose Simply Charmed

Have a great day and be sure to make your calendars for this Saturday 3/26 "Imagine That" Blog Hop hosted by Me! .....A blog hop all about the Cricut Imagine...