Trendy Twine's Birthday Celebration Weekend Hop

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Trendy Twine's Birthday Celebration Weekend.

This weekend is not only Lesley's Birthday but her Mom's Too
and

she has asked several of us to be her Guest Designers to help with the Celebration.

Happy Birthday ladies!!!

Now if you're here from 

Janice   
then you're in the right direction, but if you're just passing thru you may want to start at the Trendy Twine Blog
because you don't want to miss out on the Blog Candy.

Here is what I made for Lesley's Mom:

I can not send cupcakes through the mail so a yummy twine NON Fat one will have
to do...LOL!!

Supplies Used:

Paper~ Kraft, 

October Afternoon~ Campfire

Stamps~ The Alley Way Stamps~

Framed, Get the Point, Cupcake (freebie)

Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics

Other~ Trendy Twine~

Berry Red

sewing machine

stickles

homemade skittles

BLOG CANDY!!
Now to be eligible for the Blog Candy:

• "Like" the Trendy Twine Facebook Page
• Be a Trendy Twine Blog Follower
• "Like" the Jaded Blossom Facebook Page
• Leave a Comment on Each Blog Hop Participant

If you can't wait to see if you have won and I know I usually can't

Visit our Trendy Twine Store to purchase some Twine and Sales that we have going on.

BTW~ Don't forget the challenge that is going on right now over at Trendy Twine. 
 You have until the end of the month to link up your project.

Next up on the hop is Kat

Thanks so much for hopping through!!

Have a GREAT day and again

Happy Birthday Lesley and Janice!!
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Blog Line-up...incase you get lost :)
  Trendy Twine 
 Candace 
 Dawn 
 Janice 
 Jessica ~ ME~
 Kat ~NEXT~
 Trixie 

October Blog Hop~ TAWS New Release

Morning Everyone!!!

It is blog hop time with

The Alley Way Stamps!

There are 3 super adorable stamp sets being released

~Trees Company

~It's Fall About You

and

~Kid n' Caboodle

and you have the chance to win all 3...

so

You should be coming from the very talented

Danielle

if not you will want to head on back to 

The Alley Way Stamps Blog..

Now onto my project....

I used the sketch from this weeks

iSpy Sketches

and the adorable image and sentiment from the new

Kid n' Caboodle set

and came up with this....

I must say I LOVE this card...between the image and sentiment,

the papers and sketch and the embellishments I am totally in love :)

Supplies Used:

Cardstock~ Kraft, PTI Stampers Select White

Designer Paper~ Echo Park~

Paradise Beach

Image and Sentiment~ The Alley Way Stamps~

Kid n' Caboodle Stamp set

Extra's~ Copics

brad

homemade skittles

GIVEAWAY!!

One person will win ALL 3 NEW SETS!! 

All the details are on The Alley Stamps Blog

HERE

You have until September 30th by 9:30 PM TAWS time to leave comments.

You are now off to see the very talented

Kim

Here are the DT Blogs to visit

Alison

Annette

Arielle

Audrey

Danielle

Jessica

Kim

Lyndal

Tracy

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

iSpy Sketches~ISSC34

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Anything Goes

Baseball Coach's Thank You~ Challenge Card and Blog Hop Winner!!

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

Before I share my card I want to announce the winner from this past weekends

Well Owl Be Blog Hop!

The lucky random.org winner of the beautiful Crinkle Ribbon from

3 Girl Jam is......

 ~amy~ said...

okay, you know how much I adore owls...this is adorable!!!!!

Congrats Amy!

Please email me at  eschfamily@yahoo.com

with your address and I will get this in the mail to you ASAP!!

Now onto my card for today....

a thank you for my son's baseball coach's

who has done an awesome job with our kiddo's this season!!

We are now in the Semi~Finals

playing tonight against the #1 team

but our team has done a GREAT job the past few games that

hey you never know!!

 (we were ranked #5 at the beginning of playoffs and now there are only 4 teams left!)

So GO RANGERS!!!!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock~ PTI~

Kraft, Select White and Pure Poppy

Cut File~ Baseball~

Silhouette Store

Sentiment~ Paper Smooches~

Sentiment Sampler

Stamps~ Peachy Keen Stamps~

Simple Sallies Face Assortment

Lawn Fawn~

Flying By

Extra's~ Skittles~

Homemade...colored with B37 copic

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Entering this into the following Challenges~

Peachy Keen Stamps~ Anything Goes

Jessica's Crafty Shaque~ Red, White and Blue

DL.ART~ Thank You

Pile it On~ Make your Own Embellishments (homemade skittles)

Paper Playtime~ Anything Goes + Sentiment

2 Sisters Challenge Blog~ Anything Goes

Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely

The Kraft Journal~ Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Sporty or Patriotic

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT day!!!

Birthday Card for Birthday Sundaes: Challenge #21~ Another Bugaboo Image

Hi Everyone!

It is Sunday and usually we have something planned...some sort of job around the house to get done but today is a LAZY day~ at least for me and I have been crafting all day.

Most of what I have been doing is DT work that I cant share at the moment but I did squeeze in some time to make a challenge card.

I know...Halloween is a ways away but I just love this skelekinz~Birthday digi from Bugaboo.

I colored her with my copics (I think my cricut is jealous...my copics have been getting tons of love lately) and layered her on a new paper stack I just picked up at Joanne's.

Cloud 9 Designs~Seasonal Stack.

The entire pack is Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas paper.

I stamped the "boo" with Fiskars Halloween Night Stamp Set

and the "birthday girl" with MPS Pinka-licious Stamp Set.

I added some homemade skittles and distressed the papers with my Tim Holtz paper distresser.

So there you have it...

I will enter this into the following Challenges:

Birthday Sundae's~ Challenge #21
Catch the Bug Challenge~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT night!!

~~~Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop~~~

 Morning Bloggers!

 Welcome to the Cupcake Birthday Blog Hop.

We are celebrating Sylvia's Birthday!!

We hope to inspire you with our Sweet Creations!

If you happen to stumble upon my blog and would like to play along. Please start at www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com.

 

Here is my Birthday Card....Happy Birthday Sylvia!!

 

I was inspired by this month's edition of Scrapbooks etc and a photo of an Accordion Fold Card with a pull tab. Since the photo showed a birthday card with a cupcake I knew I wanted to give this card a try.

Here is one side of the card. Believe it or not this is a A2 size card with lots of added details

You can see my pull tab on this side of the card. Such a fun card!

 

 

This again is an A2 size card. The card base is 5 1/2 x 12 and it is scored at 1,2,4, 6 and 9"

Each of the pattern papers are from K & Company's Confetti paper pack.

The sentiments are from Fiskar's Birthday Cheer set.

I used the Simply Charmed Cartridge for the cupcake and that was cut at 4.75".

All the ribbon is from my stash and the embellishments are homemade skittles :)

If you want to see how to make these, I did a picture tutorial and you can see it here.

 

Now for some Blog Candy!!

I am giving one lucky commenter a bunch of handmade by me skittles!

 

All you have to do to have a chance at these is leave me a comment  and a way to contact you.

That's it!

I would love it if you became a follower but it is not necessary :)

I will pick a winner on Tuesday 6~21.

 

 

Thanks for visiting and helping me celebrate Sylvia's Birthday! 

I just heard she had some extra special blog candy....make sure you hop through the whole blog lineup and don't forget to wish Sylvia a VERY happy birthday!

Your next stop is Tiffany at Sparkled Memories.

Have a Sweet Day!

 

 

In case you get lost....here is a list of all the participants:

 

Sylvia- http://www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com/

Sandra- http://www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

Theresa- www.thescrapbookingqueen.com

Giselle- www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com

Brynn- http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/

Bonnie- http://www.pinkbonbons.blogspot.com/

Sherrie- www.sherriescraps.blogspot.com

Lisa- http://www.prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

Becka- www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com

Jenny- www.jennyplace26.blogspot.com

Sandy S. www.thecraftycreationspot.blogspot.com

Jessica- www.chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com ~~~ YOU ARE HERE :) ~~

Tiffany- www.sparkledmemories.blogspot.com

Diana- www.daisylovecreations.blogspot.com

Anita- www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com

Jazmin- www.Jazzyscards.blogspot.com

Tami- www.tamboscreations.blogspot.com

Lissi- www.littledetails-lissi.blogspot.com

Kristi- www.kreations-by-kristi-crafting.blogspot.com

Coralyn- www.sweetlilscrapper.blogspot.com

 

 

My 200th Post! ~Picture Tutorial on How to Make your own Skittles~

Morning Bloggers!

Wishing all the wonderful father's out there a VERY Happy Father's Day!

This is my 200th post! Whoo Hoo :)

I have an easy make it yourself picture tutorial on how to make your own Skittles.

I have had a few messages and inquires about how to do this so I thought I would share how I make mine.

Start out with some ziplock bags, alcohol ink in any color you want and some of these floral gems. I bought mine at Michael's in their floral department. You get a HUGE bag for I think $9.99 and I used a coupon :) There are tons in the bag to make probably more skittles than you could use LOL!

Take a baggie full of as many of the gems as you want to color and add the alcohol ink into the bag. Use as much or as little color as you want. You can always add more color.

I just squeezed about 5 drops in...maybe alittle more

Once you have the color in the bag, mix it up until the gems are coated. I made 6 different colors using all the alcohol inks I have. A pretty rainbow of color!

Next dump the gems out to dry...I put mine on some scrap paper. Spread them out so they have the room to dry completely. Let them set for at least 6-12 hours to ensure they are completely dry. You can speed up the process by using your heat tool but be careful that you don't shoot the gems all over the place :)

Here are all the completed colored gems. They are still in the drying phase.

They are so much fun to use on all sorts of different projects.

Have fun with these!

Hope you like this and will give it a try. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day :)

Whimsical Wednesdays Color Challenge

Morning everyone!

It is time again for another Whimsical Wednesdays Challenge!

This weeks challenge is a Color Challenge!

Your inspiration for this challenge is to use the colors Red and Yellow and you can choose another color or colors from the photo.

Isn't this such a fabulous craft room? Wish mine looked like this :)

So for my project I made a "sweet" card

My card is a standard A2 size and I used paper from Jillibean Soup~Chilled Strawberry Soup Collection in Whipped Cream.

I just LOVE this paper and the fun polka dots.

My cherries were cut at 4" using the Preserves Cartridge. There are 2 different red papers for the cherries and 2 different green papers for the stems/leaves. Both were scrap from my stash.

The sentiment is from Emma's My Creative Time ~~This and That~~ stamp set. This is such a great stamp set with great everyday sentiments.

Not too long ago I watched a video on how to make your own skittles. I gave it a go and made a bunch in different colors using Tim Holtz alchol ink.

I used some watermelon ones for the embellishments on this card.

I also used my favorite white gel pen for some added details on the cherries.

Hope my card, the DT's projects and this great craft room photo gives you lots of inspiration to join into this weeks challenge. Remember you have 2 weeks to link up and join in on the fun!

Make sure you check out the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge Blog for all the other great ideas!

Have a GREAT day and happy craftin' :)