Make Something Fun...

...that's the theme here at SweetSassyDiva this week! I chose a quick and easy little candy holder. I made mine for Valentines Day, but it will work for any occasion.

Start with a piece of card stock that is 3" x 7 3/4"

Score as shown below:

Fold on score lines and add adhesive

To make the rosettte I used Ribbons and Rosettes. I welded 4 - 1.26" sections together.

I scored this piece every 1/4" and attached the ends together with hot glue.

I punched out 2 - 1" circles , inked the edges and glued to the center of the front and back of the rosette. I stamped a heart from Stampin Up and cut out and pop dotted to the circle.
The rosette is attached to the front of the box with hot glue.
I cut a piece of ribbon about 7" long and used heart brads to attach to the box.

I put Ghiradeli squares inside and it's ready to give to my one and only valentine... my husband !

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Humpty Dumpty B'day Card

This is a special card for our grandsons 2nd birthday. Pictures and details will be listed below the video.

Humpty Dumpty - A Child's Year - 3"
Hillside - Pop Up Neighborhood  -
Balloons - Birthday Bash - 2"
Various Stickles
White Gel Pen

I hope you enjoy the video and card .

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Vintage Valentine

is the theme for this weeks challenge at SweetSassyDiva.
To make this simple card all you need is the Birthday Bash cartridge for the card base cut at 5". The image is something I found online years ago (before I figured out that I should be keeping the websites where they came from) so I can't give you a source... so sorry... and some ribbon to finish it off.

Please check out all the other vintage Valentines project that the design team have made this week. You still have time to make some of your own !

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

CWWC Challenge #11

Happy Thursday !! The weekend is in sight ! Can't wait as I have LOTS of projects to get finished :)

The new challenge at Crafting When We Can is Valentine/Love and is sponsored by

Fresh Brewed Designs

My image is called Lasso My Heart and is full of great card possibilites!

The card base is cut from Cricut Wild Card at 5.25" The patterned paper heart is the liner layer and is cut at 9.32". I drew around the inner heart with liquid pearls, added stitching with a white gel pen , tied bakers twine from Stampin Up with the sentiment and tag from Stampin Up. I colored the image with Copics, cut him out and popped him up with dimensionals.

Very quick and easy card !!

I hope you will check out all the great projects the rest of our design team have for you to get inspiration from and then join in the challenge,... there are prizes !!

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

My First Video!

Well. I bit the bullet and did my first video! I had fun doing this and hope to do more!
This is for the SweetSassyDiva challenge Hidden Journaling/Sentiment.



The details for this card are:
Card stock 5 1/2 " x 11 15/16"
Card stock 3 1/4" X 4 1/2"
Border ~ Paper Trimmings 1 x 11"
Birds ~ Celebrate with Flourish 1.25 "
Heart Topper ~ Cricut American Alphabet .80"
Template below:

This is an easy project that has many uses. I  hope you will give it a try.

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Welcome

to my new followers !! I am so glad you stopped by, from the weekend hop or just stumbled across my blog ! I hope you will come by often and stay a while to look around. Please feel free to leave me a note and let me know what you think :)

I have a project coming on Friday that has my very first video !!!  I look forward to your visit and maybe leaving a comment to let me know how I did !

I hope the rest of your week is a great one !! See you Friday !

Cricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop Day 2

Cricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop 
Celebrating Cricut Craftin Grammys 1 year
Blogaversary

We're so happy you could join us for this hop celebrating the one year blogaversary of Cricut Craftin Grammy. I have asked a few of my Cricut Messageboard friends as well as my Design Team friends (Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, Lasting Memories and Sweet Sassy Diva )to join her in this two day Blog Hop. The participants are allowed to share anything creative they wish to share using a Cricut (or other die cut machine if they do not have a Cricut.)

Overall Blog Candy

I hope you will hop along with us and leave comments along the way. Forthe overall blog candy you need to leave a comment on each blog each day.

If you leave a comment on all the blogs both days your name will be entered into the Random drawing twice. The random winner will receive a $25 gift card from their choice of Michaels or Joanns.

This is a TWO-DAY hop, so be sure to check out both days so you don't miss any creativeness. Because there is a large number of participants I will give you until January 30th to post your comments for the two days of the blog hop.  Thanks for joining us!

Let's get hopping!! If you've hopped over from Lori, then you are in the right place!! If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email and you'd like to join our FUN, then please CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Suzanne's Blog

For the hop today, I've created .......

A simple Birthday card

The cupcake ~ From My Kitchen  ~ cut at 2.5 inches

The sentiment is from Stampin Up

I put Glossy Accents on the cherry and white gel pen stitching on the stem.

I used the ticket punch from SU and gems were applied with the I-Rock.

I finished it off with more gel pen stitching.

Thank you again for checking out my project... Now hop to the next stop:
Tina

Remember to visit all the stops for MAXIMUM ideas and LOTS OF FUN!!

Suzanne http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Also posting for Cindy who does not have a blog

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Friends
Charlotte http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com/
Melanie http://melaniemakes.blogspot.com/
Beckie http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
Faith Abigal http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/
Kate http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/

Lasting Memories
Stacia http://happyandscrappytoo.blogspot.com/
Michele F http://fishmememoriesandmore.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/
Karen http://creationsbykw.blogspot.com/
Denise http://thruthelookingglass-glassgraffitix2.blogspot.com/
Michelle http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com/
Jennasa http://findtimetocreate.blogspot.com/
Kimberly http://leokc34.blogspot.com/
Amy http://www.lovetocrop.com/

Message Board Friends
Terri http://craftmeaway.blogspot.com/
Brenda http:// friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/
Rachelle http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
Shawnee http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/

Sweet Sassy Diva Blog Friends
Lori http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
Mindy http://grammiescraftroom.blogspot.com/
Tina http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com/
Jen http://3catsandabug.blogspot.com/

Cricut Craftin Friends Blog HopCricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop"...

Cricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop 
Celebrating Cricut Craftin Grammys 1 year
Blogaversary

We're so happy you could join us for this hop celebrating the one year blogaversary of Cricut Craftin Grammy. I have asked a few of my Cricut Messageboard friends as well as my Design Team friends (Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, Lasting Memories and Sweet Sassy Diva )to join her in this two day Blog Hop. The participants are allowed to share anything creative they wish to share using a Cricut (or other die cut machine if they do not have a Cricut.)

Overall Blog Candy

I hope you will hop along with us and leave comments along the way. For the overall blog candy you need to leave a comment on each blog each day.

If you leave a comment on all the blogs both days your name will be entered into the Random drawing twice. The random winner will receive a $25 gift card from their choice of Michaels or Joanns.

This is a TWO-DAY hop, so be sure to check out both days so you don't miss any creativeness. Because there is a large number of participants I will give you until January 30th to post your comments for the two days of the blog hop.  Thanks for joining us!

Let's get hopping!! If you've hopped over from Lori  then you are in the right place!! If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email and you'd like to join our FUN, then please CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Suzanne's Blog

For the hop today, I've created .......

A name banner for a friends new grandson.

The background is from Paper Trimmings cut at 6.75 inches

Then bear is from A Child's Year cut at 5.31 Inches

The elephant and Zebra are from Nate's ABCs cut at 3.25 inches

The letters are also from Nate's ABCs cut at 1.75 inches

Papers are Stampin Up and DCWV Glitter stack

The button brads and ribbon are Stampin Up.

I added some white gel pen stitching and called it done.

Thank you again for checking out my project... Now hop to the next stop:
Tina  

Remember to visit all the stops for MAXIMUM ideas and LOTS OF FUN!!

Suzanne http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Also posting for Cindy who does not have a blog

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Friends
Charlotte http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com/
Melanie http://melaniemakes.blogspot.com/
Beckie http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
Faith Abigal http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/
Kate http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/

Lasting Memories
Stacia http://happyandscrappytoo.blogspot.com/
Michele F http://fishmememoriesandmore.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/
Karen http://creationsbykw.blogspot.com/
Denise http://thruthelookingglass-glassgraffitix2.blogspot.com/
Michelle http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com/
Jennasa http://findtimetocreate.blogspot.com/
Kimberly http://leokc34.blogspot.com/
Amy http://www.lovetocrop.com/

Message Board Friends
Terri http://craftmeaway.blogspot.com/
Brenda http:// friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/
Rachelle http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
Shawnee http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/

Sweet Sassy Diva Blog Friends
Lori http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
Mindy http://grammiescraftroom.blogspot.com/
Tina http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com/
Jen http://3catsandabug.blogspot.com/

Scene It

 This weeks challenge at SweetSassyDiva nearly had me sitting on the sidelines 'cause I'm not a scrapper.... I know, I know, how can that be??? I love making cards and other paper crafts, but I leave the scrapbooking to my daughters! But Bobbi Jo took pity on me and is allowing me to follow the Scene It challenge in my own way. So I decided to make a wall hanging.

The base for this is a wooden plaque that I bought years ago from the Dollar Spot at Target. I put it on the shelf in the closet and pretty much forgot about it. Until this weekend when I decided to use it for this project.

See why am choosing to cover it up :)

I started out by covering it with a pale blue, layering it with the rolling hills, house, tree, fence and grass.
The tree is a stamp from Stampin Up that I cut out. The hearts are from a Stampin Up Punch
I popped the birds up with dimensionals and added some white gel pen dots.
I sponged the edges of the grass and the hills and did black stitching on the fence.

I think I am going to hang this in my craft room.... It could use a little wall treatment :)

After seeing these pictures, I think I am going to be adding some stickles and glitter and maybe some glossy accents... It looks a bit to plain to me :)

The details:
House ~ Pop Up Neighborhood ~ 4 inches
Fence ~  Pop Up Neighborhood ~ 1.6 inches
Rolling Hills ~  Pop Up Neighborhood ~ 4 inches
Grass ~ Paper Trimmings ~ 2.5 inches
Birds ~ Holiday Cakes 1.5 inches.
All paper is from Stampin Up

So, do you have something put away that would make a good background for a scene using some of your favorite Cricut cartridges??? If you are a scrapper, then jump in with a one or 2 page 12 x 12 layout. But if you are layout challenged, like I am, then find something to cover with a scene of your choice. When you are finished, I hope you will put a link to your creation in the comment section so we can stop buy and check it out !
A always... thanks for stopping by :)

CWWC Challenge #10

This weeks Crafting When We Can Challenge is to use something not made for crafting on your project.
 Our sponser for this challenge is

My image ~ Ashley ~ is so cute.... just like all the digi's found a Spesch Designer Stamps !

I decided to make an easel card so I could make this adorable image as large as possible. For my non-crafting item I used aluminum foil and punched out using punches from Stampin Up. I colored the flower and leaves with Copic markers and used a brad to hold them together.

The sentiment is from Stampin Up.

I hope you make a card or other project that uses anything that isn't a regular crafting item....then go link it up at the challenge site .... remember to read the rules.... and have FUN!!

As always, thanks for stopping by :)