Hello, Cupcake! Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to my little stop on the "Hello, Cupcake!" Blog Hop. If you came from Liz's Blog you are on the right path! If you just happened to pop in and see what I had for today and you want to play along in the hop just start back at Janis' Blog! Many of the blogs are offering some yummy Blog Candy (including mine) so make sure you are commenting along the way!

For today's project I wanted to make a Cupcake Birthday Card. I'm not much of a baker and my cakes and cupcakes tend to come from a box... but they are still YUMMY! Here's a look at my card:


I used my Gypsy to weld two of the cupcakes from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge together. I set the height at 5" so it would be easy to make the other cuts just using my Cricut. I used a double sided pink cardstock so the inside of my card would be cute too! Then I used just my Cricut and cut the black base layer, purple wrapper, silver glitter cherry and pink glitter frosting all at 5".


Because the purple cardstock wasn't blingy at all, I decided to grab my Pop Rocks Glimmer Mist to add some shimmer. It really added just the right amount of sparkle to my card. I also added some Christmas Red Stickles to the fruit of my Cherry cut. I just love the way it turned out!


To finish off my adorable little cupcake I added some Googly Eyes! I think they add just the right amount of whimsy! I hope you enjoyed my card... Now before you hop along to Laura's Blog I wanted to offer you the chance to win some Blog Candy!!!! Just make sure you are following my blog and that you leave me a way to contact you if you are the winner! What am I giving away.....


This fabulous Punny-licious Stamp Set from My Pink Stamper!!! Thanks so much to Robyn for sponsoring my blog!!! I will leave comments open until Monday at midnight and announce the winner sometime on Tuesday! Ok, now leave your comment and check out the fantastic project on Laura's Blog!

Cricut Circle February Challenge: Banners!

Banners are hot, hot, HOT in the papercrafting world so this month's Cricut Circle Challenge was to create a banner! I've been wanting to make one for a while now and this gave me the perfect excuse. Is it my little girl's 5th birthday on Sunday so I wanted to make her a gift that we could not only display at her party but also hang in her room.


I used the Country Life Cricut Cartridge to cut all of my banner shapes at 10". Then I used Nursery Rhymes to cut the letters in her name at 4" (I think). Then I used Once Upon a Princess to make Princess Penny and a sort of Ariel (hey, she needed to be pink). I used my brand new Peachy Keen Stamps "Wide Eyed Kids" for the faces, aren't they ADORABLE? I just want to make a TON of dolls now! Finally the birthday girl and I went through my mounds of stickers and embellishments to pick out stuff to represent her favorite things: Ballet, Princesses, Hello Kitty, Littlest Pet Shop and Dress Up. I'm really happy with the results and she is too! Here's close-ups of all of the letters to see what we did:

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #21: Animal Magnetism Challenge!

So the challenge for this weeks Cricut Circle said, "This week in we have been paying tribute to the critters in our lives and now we want you to do the same! For this challenge your project must include something related to an animal. You can create your project for or about an animal, include an animal cut, use animal print, etc. Project must also contain at least 2 Cricut image cuts to qualify."


I created this fun card for my brother and sister-in-law doe their wedding showers. He loves penguins so I used the Jolly Holiday cartridge and cut the penguin with umbrella two times, flipping one of them. Then I cut away one umbrella so they could share :) The background I Glimmer Misted and them used a piece of packaging from a new cartridge and embossed it with my Snowflakes Cuttlebug folder. I hand cut the hills from some glitter paper and added some Snow Tex to the umbrella for snow. Then I attached the clear sheet with brads and glued everything else down!


I'm just so happy with how this card turned out!

Cricut Circle February Everyday Cricut Challenge

This month's magazine challenge for the Circut Circle is to use at least three cuts from the new, exclusive Cricut Circle Cartridge, Cricut Everyday in a project to define yourself at Meet-Ups, Crops or other events. I decided that I would make a little sign that I could hang in my scraproom or take places with me.


My nickname at work is actually Cricut Girl because I'm the go-to gal for any questions regarding the machine or cartridges. I might even take it to hang on my locker there.... but it's so stinking cute, I may have to enjoy it at home for a while!


I used one of the layers from the "Cricut Imagine" logo to get just the word "Cricut". I set my dial to 1 1/2" and turned on the Real Dial Size function. Then I cut "girl" at 1" from the All Mixed Up cartridge at 1".


The Bug Head is a cut from the cartridge and the background is actually the Cricut Cake logo! I just didn't cut the last layer with the words on it. I have a feeling I will be using this cut a LOT! Then I added a little bling with my i-rock and attached the ribbon so I could hang it up. A fun and easy project!

Castle Queens Layout

I just love being a part of the amazing Scrapbooking community. I have met some really wonderful people both at crops and on-line and the support and encouragement is incredible! When I heard my friend Pinky was going to be taking over the website Tally Scrapper I gave some thought to joining up. Then when she announced Tally Survivor I decided to join up and play along. Basically every week they present a challenge and you make a layout to fit those requirements. I thought that it sounded like a lot of fun and would help me to experiment with my art in a new way. I don't normally create one page layouts but I think I will do an album of my layouts for this challenge!


This is what I came up with to fill this week's requirements which are:
Must have WHITE SPACE or NEGATIVE SPACE
Must have at least one Photo with MORE than one person in it.
Must have Tan/Brown AND Blue!
Must have at least 2 staples and a piece of recycled scrapbook packaging.

I used a sheet of Glossy Cardstock for my background. Then I took some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam in Tide Pool and kind of just dripped it all over my paper. It's funny, I was going to just brush it in "waves" randomly on my paper and then before I could even start it went, "drip, drip, drop" and I said "COOL!" and kept dripping it all over my page. Then I grabbed my Puerto Rico and Sapphire Glimmer Mists and spritzed them on my background. I sped up the dry time a bit by using my heat gun carefully. I didn't want to blow the drops around... just dry them quicker. Once it was dry I grabbed the packaging from my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher and trimmed it a bit. I was going to mat my photo on it but decided that the flourish looked like waves so I just offset it a bit. I decided to use my brand new D'Stress Tool by Imaginisce to distress my photo and the packaging piece. Then I used my Tiny Attacher to add the staples to my photo and fill that requirement. I love the way that it just added a little something to it! After adhering the photo and packaging to my layout with my Pink ATG gun I cut my title. I used some Kraft Cardstock and cut it using the "Skinny" font feature on the Ashlyn's Alphabet Cricut Cartridge. Next I added my ribbon to to bottom with some Scor Tape. The ribbon and the flower both came from my Precocious Paper March Sampler Kit. After adding a tiny bit of journaling (hey, I've gotta remember where we were) I used my I-Rock tool to add some bling to the flourish.

I'm so proud of this layout! I didn't start with a sketch like I normally would. I just sat down with my stuff and started playing.... I can't wait to see what our next challenge entails!!! Don't forget to come check out Tally Scrapper sometime soon!

A Wedding and A Winner

I am so happy to share that my brother's wedding was BEAUTIFUL! My oldest daughter was a flawless flower girl who distributed her petals like a pro! Yes, I colored out the faces of the ring bearers, out of respect for their privacy.


My youngest also behaved beautifully. No flowers actually made it out of her basket but when the ceremony was over she picked up every single petal and added it to her basket. It was adorable!!!


I'm looking forward to scrapping the photos from the wedding. I'm making them a scrapbook for their gift and I'm so excited to be doing it!!! I sure hope they LOVE it! I will share the pages as I complete them.

Here's a look at the handsome groom with his beautiful bride:


I took this during the ceremony and uploaded it to Facebook before they even finished the vows, LOL! Isn't technology amazing? I'll post some better pics eventually....

Anyway, I'm sure you're here for another reason... like maybe to find out the lucky winner of the Cricut Magazine Premier Issue....

Well, as usual I enlisted the help of the Random.org Random Number Generator and it came up with....



And that means that our winner is:


Congrats, Mary!!!! I will be e-mailing you for your shipping info shortly! Watch your inbox!

Thanks to all of you who commented! I will be posting more blog candy soon. I have SO much fun stuff to giveaway... and when I hit 500 Followers it will be a HUGE prize... I promise you that! I already have the prize secured. I will be in a really fun blog hop this weekend and will be giving away a My Pink Stamper Stamp Set so don't forget to check back here often!

Please Help Baby Aiden

Tanya from Scrappin KY Momma needs help from all of us crafters. She knows this little boy and his family and would like to send him cards. Here's his story...

Aidan is a sweet lil 2 year old who was recently diagnosed with T Cell Leukemia. On Wednesday, he had a port installed in his chest, spinal tap, bone marrow, and chemo in his spine. He did GREAT! This lil guy is such a trooper. His parents have accepted that their BABY has Leukemia.. NOT the easiest thing to accept, but their faith in God and their support system have kept them going. T-Cell Leukemia has a high cure rate although chemo will be continued for quite a while. Lil Aidan LOVES mail, like any 2 year old does. So....


Let's get our crafting supplies out and send this lil guy some LOVE!!! Pass this on to all your crafty friends. I think we can all take a couple minutes and make something special for him that will bring LOTS of smiles and he can look at over and over. We all know how laughing and smiling can be good for the soul. Let's give him this much for him to enjoy while he's battling this horrible disease. I have no doubt in my mind that God can perform a miracle in this beautiful child. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

You can mail your cards to:
AIDAN
c/o Tanya Stilwell
P.O. Box 143
Cecilia, KY 42724

Thanks to Sarah at Pink Cricut and Zeni and Scrappy Zeni for posting this!!!

I will be back in a bit to post the winner of my blog candy....