#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

#76 Yankees Card

Hi everyone here's a fun card I made for a Cutom order, my customer asked for a Yankees Birthday card and I first I had no idea what I was going to do especially since I know nothing about sports LOL! Then a lightbulb finally went off in my head and I thought "Yankees Logo"!! I am so glad that lightbulb went off because now I know what to make when I need Masculine cards, I can't make logo cards of their favorite sports teams.

 The baseball is from the new Life's A Party cart I love that cart there's so much on it! The hat is from Stand and Salute and the baseball bat is fromn Everyday Paper Dolls, I made this a few weeks ago and I am so sorry but I do not remember which cart this font is from.

Here what I found online when the lightbulb went off LOL! My Inspiration:

Be sure to mark your calendars for the IMAGINE THAT BLOG HOP hosted by me! This Sat. 3/26 @5Am PST

#146 My Hero

This is a page that I did for my handsome hot husband of mine!! This is when he was in the Marine's, also around the time when we 1st met, it was love at first sight....seriously! We fell in love with eachother instantly! I am making him a scrapbook of when he was in the Marine's, sadly I wasn't into scrapbooking in 2003 and I didn't take very many pics while he was in the Marine Cor. I really regret that =(    The tag I made is from Stand and Salute I tied a piece of wire/string to it. I added some buttons and some staples, the embellishments are handmade I actually didn't use my cricut for those. I did some distressing here and some embossing with the Fiskars Texturing Tool, I think I bought it at Target or Michael's (I see them everywhere). I wanted to emboss on the page but my 12x12 page doesn't fit in the cuttlebug, so I put the Fiskars plate under the paper and started rubbing the paper with the tool. Here's a link http://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-School-Office-Division-12-57777097/dp/B000FPYQ8W

I made this LO for the challenge at My Sheri Crafts for the Masculine theme, I think this is very masculine what do you think?? I just love looking at these old pics of my honey it brings back memories of when we were dating.