#197 & #198 Winter Frolic Projects and Flaunt It Friday's Blog Hop

Thank you so much for joining us for our first ever Grand Opening BLOG HOP!  If you have arrived here from Flaunt It Friday's then you are in the right place!  If not, click HERE to start at the beginning. Remember to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps and Market Street Stamps!

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Now for our first ever challenge at Flaunt It Friday's we a "Flaunting" the WINTER FROLIC cartridge and the image is the SNOWMAN on PAGE 29 you will have one week to enter your project to Flaunt It Friday's

Just look at her makeup she is definately having fun!

For my first project I used the Winter Frolic cart for the snow"lady" and cut the boots from Paper Doll Dress Up, the Talk bubble is from Gypsy Wanderings. I had a vision for this card I wanted her to look like she was having fun playing dress up, the whole time I was creating her I kept singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" yep, now I have that song stuck in my head LOL!I stamped her face with Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Faces and put some makeup on her! She has to have the best glittery winter clothes and accessories so I put some pink Stickles on her ear muffs, scarf, and her snow boots. I also stamped the sent. in the talk bubble, did some inking, faux stitching and added some bling with my i-rock. Now onto my Winter Frolic Bonus project a Penguin Candy Cane Holder:

Here's how I attached the candy cane

This year I decided to actually dress up my candy canes before I give them out to people. I also cut the penguin from Winter Frolic, I cut him at 4 inches with my Gypsy. I was going to use my PKS here but I really wanted the yellow beak to be seperate so I cheated and used googly eyes, I think kids will enjoy the googlies LOL! I attached the back piece cutting a small strip that is 2 1/2inches x 1/2 inches and the candy cane fits perfectly this was super easy and fun to make and I think it's a perfect cut because the penguin is actually holding candy!

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 Now, I'm sending you to  Janis my Co-Founder who is your next stop on the hop.  Remember, if you get lost along the way, CLICK HERE to start at the beginning.  Don't forget to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps and Market Street Stamps!

Thank You all so much for hopping along with us on our 1ST EVER Flaunt It Friday's Blog Hop! Thank you all for your support on our new Cricut Challenge Blog it means the world to me =)  And a Special Thanks to Peachy Keen and Market Street Stamps for sponsoring our First Hop! Have a beautiful day and a nice weekend and don't forget to enter our 1st Winter Frolic challenge at Flaunt It Friday's

#179 Santa's Elf Layout

Good evening everyone! I feel like I haven't done a layout in forever. Here's a layout I did of my son when he was exactly 2 months old back in '07 I can't believe it was that long ago! I feel like I went all out on this page it took me hours but worth it I love the way it came out. I was inspired by his little outfit that says "Santa's Little Elf" I stamped the sentiment and added stickles to it, I stamped the vintage Santa on the upper right, I stamped the flourishes and also the "Christmas Memories" sentiment, I also stamped the face with a PK stamp on the doll from Paper Doll Dress Up. The present border was from Winter Frolic I also added stickles to them, I did some hand stitching under the presents and also used my punches for the 2 borders. The snowflake border on the bottom is from patterned paper. The scallop oval that I embossed and inked with my cuttlebug is from ACY, the circle scallop where my son's pic is is from AE. I also did some inking with my Fired Brick distress ink around the page.