Favorite Project of the Year Challenge at Cooking with Cricut.......

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Welcome to Cooking with Cricut Challenge # 66- Favorite Project of the Year.
 The baby shower decorations I made for my sister is definitely my favorite project of this past year.   Crazy thing is, I live in Nevada and my sister lives in Kentucky so everything had to be mailed across country and I didn't even get to attend the shower to see how pretty everything looked!

I used the Animal Kingdom cartridge for the entire project.  I made a word book, 16x20 shadow box, door hanger, thank you cards, welcome baby banner, and table centerpieces. 

Here's my original post:  A Jungle Baby..... for more photos and details. 

I made this word book on my Gypsy with the baby's name Wylder, cut from cereal boxes.

This is the 16 x 20 shadow box that I made for her and I incorporated the cute little giraffe wall hanger that I found into box also.  The shadow box is in a white frame which was removed for the photo do to glass glare. 

One of the 3 table centerpieces.

"Welcome Wylder" banner.  I wish I had a better photo of the banner.   My sister loved it so much she hung it up in her house.    There are more photos of the banner on  my original post  A Jungle Baby .  

My inspiration photo from little Wylder's nursey before he was born.  

 

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I'm a Member of The Paper Variety 2012 Design Team!

Wishing everyone a safe and blessed Christmas! 

I have some exciting news to look forward to in the New Year.  I'm officially a member of the 2012 Paper Variety Design Team! Yeah!  TPV has always been one of my favorite blogs to link up with and I almost always played along with their challenges. I even had the privilege of being a guest designer for there Nature Color Challenge. 

Here are the other new members of the 2012 Paper Variety Design Team. Please check them out!

Kate Vickers- Ontario, Canada
Theresa Neubaum, Texas, Texas
Carolina Schultz, Chile
Marcia Dehn-Nix, Minnesota
Sandi Pressley, Florida
Sara Zenger, New York
Jenifer Evans, Nebraska

The Paper Variety Founders

Abby Laubenstein, Illinois
Suzanne Spokus, Pennsylvania

The Paper Variety has changed there challenges to host bi-weekly challenges, on the 1st and 15th of each month instead of a weekly challenge.

We would love for you to become a follower of the  TPV  and play along with our bi-weekly challenges . The Paper Variety offers awesome prizes from generous sponsors.  We'll also be providing you tutorials, techniques, videos, and guest designer posts.

Hope to see you soon at The Paper Variety and keep your eye's open for our extremely talented 2012 design team!

Angel Of Peace...

If your here from the Getting Cricky "Snow Much Fun" Blog Hop click-HERE

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    Welcome to day #17 of  the 25 Days of Christmas Crafting at Cooking with Cricut. Today's creations are based on Angels and Messenger's of God.  When I think of angels I think of Peace so I decided to design a Christmas card reflecting this message.

Here's how I made it:

Christmas Solutions- Angel cut at  3.25 inches.

Storybook- Font and layers cut at 2 inches.

Cardstock-Cream, Gold and Martha Stewart Christmas paper.

Pop-Dots and adhesive brads. 

Thanks again for joining us at CWC, Day # 17 of Christmas Crafting. . Please continue to join us each day for more designs and holiday craft ideas. There are lots of prizes and free digital images being given away daily. Our generous sponsors are offering discounts codes for purchases you make during this event too. Check out the CWC page HERE for all the details!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

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Getting Cricky Snow Much Fun Hop- Holiday Pinwheels.........

     Welcome to Snow Much Fun Blog Hop with Getting Cricky!. If you've came from Debbie's   page then you're in the right place, if you've just fell upon my post then head over to Getting Cricky so you can start from the beginning

Each of us, along with our Special Guest - Patty from "Creative Diva", are so pleased to have you here with us!!  Throughout the hop, you'll see NEW ideas for creating cards and projects with Kristal's stamps sets!!

For this Snow Much Fun Hop, I decided to make Holiday Pinwheels showcasing Kristal's fabulous Winter Wishes Sentiments stamps.

Pinwheels are a simple and easy way to make a quick decoration or could be used as a centerpiece for a holiday table.

The pinwheels are cut and folded from a 6 x 6 inch square. I glued the pinwheels on painted dowels then wrapped Christmas ribbon around them. I added buttons and twine and stamped each fold with various K. Andrews-Winter Wishes Sentiments.

You can check out Kristal's Winter Wishes stamps and all of her other sets HERE

Winter Wishes

Now hop over to Laura's blog to see what's she made.
Thanks for hopping and Merry Christmas.

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Tuesday Tutorial at Getting Cricky.........Coffee Time

Thanks for joining us for Tuesday's Tutorial here at Getting Cricky with K. Andrews.   I'm sharing a tutorial today on how to make these coffee cups that can be filled with warm Christmas treats.  

I made these cups on a score board and cut various tags using Gyspy Wanderings.  I used K.Andrews Designs- Winter Wishes Sentiments to stamp a little Christmas Cheer.

Want to make these cups for yourself?   Follow my simple steps below on how to make your own.  This isn't my original idea so I'll give credit to  the original designer.

To make these cups you will need:

*Score board,

*Score tape

 *a piece of cardstock cut at 9" x 4.5"

 *piece of matching scrap paper about 4"x4" (for handle)

Score the 9" x 4.5" paper opposite side up
at 1",2",3",4",5",6",7" and 8"



Rotate the paper 1/4 turn and score
at 1.5"



Pre-fold at score lines, cut tabs on the score
lines at the bottom and cut 2 notches on the
last tab of the cup so the cup can be adhered
on the inside.

Simply fold and tape each bottom tab on top of
one another.  Use your scrap 4"x4' paper to make a
circle for the cup handle.  Score the ends of the handle
to make little tabs which will adhere to outside of cup.

There you go! A fun little cup to fill with lots of treats.

You can view out all of K.Andrews Designs Stamps HERE . Make sure you check out Kristal's  

 Coffee & Tea Stamps For You  for other ways to decorate your cups.

Thanks for looking and joining us for Tuesday Tutorials at Getting Cricky.  Merry Christmas!

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Ho Ho Ho.....Good Ol' Saint Nick Banner

I just love Christmas music, I'm one of those people that could listen to it all year round.   I decided to create a hanging Santa door banner that reminds me of the classic Christmas Song:

Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go?

Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go?

Up on the housetop, click, click, click

Down thru the chimney with good Saint Nick

Here's how I made Ol' Saint Nick on my Gypsy:

Paper Doll Dress Up- Santa head  & hat cut at 15.94".
Elegant Edges- Banner base cut at 6.02".
Gypsy Wanderings- Banner base layer cut at 4.65".
Alphalicious- Ho Ho Ho font cut at 3.35".

I choose to attach the banner together with a large black grosgrain ribbon and used white glitter paper for the layers and hat to add a little sparkle.

 I used  K. Andrews Designs- Winter Wishes sentiments to stamp various sayings that you may hear Santa say.

Thanks for looking & Merry Christmas!
You can check out all K. Andrews Designs stamps- HERE

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Santa and Friends Treat Bags.......

How cute are these little guys?  My idea started with  Snow Cute then I wanted to see who else I could create so I added and Rudolph, an Elf and of course Santa to my treat bag family.

Here's what I used on my Gypsy:

Life's a Party- Backpack cut to make bags

Paper Doll Dress Up- Elf and Santa

Doodlecharms- Reindeer

I decorated the treat bags heads with buttons, glitter, google eyes,and  twine then attached them on the front flap of the bag.  The stamped sentiment's are from K. Andrews Designs- Winter Wishes Sentiments and then I attached Velcro under the flap of the bag to keep it closed.

Here's a photo of the whole family.

You can check out all of K. Andrews Stamps- HERE!

Thanks for looking!

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Simply Sunday Challenge at Getting Cricky....Gingerbread House

     Welcome to the Simply Sunday Challenge with Getting Cricky . The theme this week is to create a project reflecting the Joy's of the Season's showcasing K. Andrews Winter Wishes Sentiments.
    

It's become a tradition with my kids to make a Gingerbread House or Tree during the holidays.  When my kids were real little they called it a "KiKi House".  I'll be honest, the Gingerbread Tree has been made more than the House.  There seems to be very little patience waiting for the sides of the house to dry before the candy decorating can occur.  That's why I really like this paper house, no icing needed just a hot glue gun and a Cricut of course!

I used a variety of cartridges to decorate this house, 6 in total along with 4 different embossing folders.
To showcase how K. Andrews stamps sets can be mixed and matched, I incorporated a few stamps sets into my Gingerbread House too.

Here's what I used to decorate the house:

Sweet Treat Boxes- House/Windows

Plantin Schoolbook- Scalloped Roof Layers & Ground Snow

Paper Doll Dress Up-Window Snow

Mini Monsters-Candies

Just Because Cards-Gingerbread Man

Christmas Cheer-Candy Canes

Embossing Folders-Dots, Dominoes, Swirls and Circle Flowers

 

 

 

 

I assembled the house and decorated it like a real Gingerbread house using different texture embossing folders, ric-rac ribbon, various stickles and glitters.   

 

 

 

 

To make the "Sweet Treat's" sentiment I mixed and matched Kristal's Fall-O-oween, Winter Wishes Sentiments and Sweet Wishes Bonus Stamp Sets.  

 

 

Guess what the red peppermint's are on the lollipop and the roof? There actually a stamp! I used the peppermint stamp from Kristal's Sweet Wishes Bonus Set that she'll be promoting again soon with her stamp orders. 

  

 

One good thing about a paper house is I actually get to keep all my hard work!

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Thanks so much for looking and check out all of K. Andrews stamps HERE! 

We look forward to you linking up your Joys of the Season project with Getting Cricky- HERE.

 

 

 

 

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Cooking with Cricut on the Second Day of Christmas....Snow Cute

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut 25 Days of Crafting Fun-Day #2,  Snow Theme.  Today's designs are all about those adorable snowman or snow projects.

I'm sharing a snowman gift bag that can be filled with cozy treats. 

 

 

Don't you think he's Snow Cute!  Here's how I made him on my Gypsy:

Bag- Back pack cut from - Life's a Party at 8.65 inches

 Snowman- Doodlecharms cut at 5.71 inches. 

Top Hat- cut from Paper Doll Dress Up

Scarf- cut from Everyday Paper Doll

I attached the snowman to the front flap of the bag, decorated him with texture, buttons, glitter and holly. The stamped sentiment is from K. Andrews Designs- Winter Wishes Sentiments.

Thanks again for joining us at CWC- 2nd Annual  25 Days of Christmas & Crafting Showcase.  Please join us each day for different designers and holiday craft ideas.  There are lots of prizes and free digital images being given away along with a Grand Prize.  Our generous sponsors are offering discounts codes for purchases you make during this event too.  Check out the CWC page HERE for all the details!

Thanks for looking!

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