Christmas in March? Layout forhristmas 2010

I have been working on this layout for a couple of day to enter it at Always Crafting- Whimsical Wednesday Challenge. This weeks challenge was to make a layout winter related. It can be anything, even the holidays. I have two great pictures of my boys from this Christmas so it was a perfect excuse to make my layout that I have been putting off.

Hope you like it!

Be back tomorrow....so until then have a great night! I am busy with a PTO meeting tonight..it's a late one but we have been told it wont be a long one. We will see :)

Red Hatter's Blog Hop Winner---Tiffany!

Using Random.org the winner of my Red Hatter's Blog Hop candy is Tiffany!!

Tiffany said "Wonderful Little Cards. Excited to start following you. Thanks for sharing"

Congrats Tiffany!! I will be sending you an email shortly.

I don't know how to get the numbers to show up. If anyone reads this and can help me it would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks and congrats to Tiffany



Day 3-- Red Hatter's Blog Hop & Smile Crocodile Fun Card

Hope everyone remembered to Spring Forward. It is great to know that spring is right around the corner! I am tired of the snow and looking forward to the flowers, the nice weather and of course starting my garden!!

If you are looking for the Red Hatter's Blog Hop click here. There are so many great projects so please hop along with us! Don't forget to become a follower also and leave me a comment under my Red Hatter Blog Hop post (Friday's) for a chance to win my blog candy!

On to my card of the day!

This is the card I made for today. I just got the create a critter cartridge and I think this is one of my favorites! There are too many cute cuts to just choose 1 but I have to start somewhere. I got a hero arts stamp set that had this saying "smile crocodile"  and a card was born. With some extra doodling and some fun brads I like how this came out.

Red Hatter's Blog Hop & A St. Patty's Day Card

Morning! If you are looking for the Red Hatter's Blog Hop click here or scroll down to yesterday's post. You should see the amazing projects everyone has made.

For today's card I made a simple St. Patty's Day card. I found a tutorial on how to make these paper pinwheels and had to try it out. The link to the tutorial is here. Talk about an easy project!!

I am off to the movies with 3 kiddo's today. Going to see Rango. Hope it's good. I took these same kiddo's to see Yogi Bear and let me tell you....It was horrible!!! Of course the kids liked it but the adults felt the same... they were all walking out of the theatre saying what a waste of money it was..I read the reviews also and they weren't good but that's what the kids wanted to see. Now Rango is supposed to be better. I'll let you know later :)

Have a GREAT day and don't forget to Spring Forward tonight..
Until tomorrow......

Happy Friday...Red Hatter's Blog Hop!

Happy Friday!

I am so exciting to be joining these wonderfully crafty ladies for the Red Hatter's Blog Hop. If you happened upon my blog and want to join in on the fun, hop over to the start... Dusti over at Scrappin with Cricut.

So I have to say I did not know what a Red Hatter was when I joined in. I did a little web seaching and friend asking and more web searching thanks to a site Dusti sent me and now I don't feel so young, left out  and alittle more informed. Part of joining in on these is to learn new things and I have definetly learned something new!

You probably want to see my project..right?!?

Here it is...I made a mini Hat Box with 4 mini "friend" cards





My project started with a 4" mini wood box. I painted the box with white acrylic paint and used fire brick distress ink on the top and sides. When all was dry I mod podged my sentiment and hat to the lid.

They as well as all the stamps came from Whimsy Doodle Graphics. How cute are they!?! I attached purple ribbon to the box and decorated with cooradinating paper. (I just realized I don't have a picture of the outer lid to show you..sorry)

For the cards I cut 4 circle cards at 3.75. I welded 2 together for each card and used the circle cut from George and Basic Shapes. Once I had all my cards cut out the fun began...decorating them :)
Part of the digi cuts from Whimsy Doodle Graphics was these cute ladies. I cut them out and colored over the purple which came out after I printed it a blue/purple. It didn't match any of my paper..nothing alittle marker couldn't fix :)
I had made some skittles not too long ago in watermelon and came across them again. They were used  as well as some basic purple ribbon. The second card is the flower cut from again Geoge and Basic Shapes in 3 different shapes. I stamped the red petals with a Stampin Up flower stamp..just to give it alittle more..

Theses notes are cut the same size as the others with again matching papers. The flowers are Prima flowers with a sparkly red brad attached in the middle. Finally the red hat is a cut from PDDU. I just attached the ribbon and a purple button.

Inside each card is a different sentiment stamped. They say..Always Friends, Thinking of You, Just Because and Hello Friend.

So this is my project. I hope you all liked my interpritation of the Red Hatter's. I had a blast making this and hoped you all enjoyed seeing my pictures.

Now for alittle blog candy...we all love candy right?!?!

I have a pack of recollection paper in pastels and 3 sets of Prima flowers. All springy because "Spring" has almost sprung and I can't wait!

To be entered to win this all you have to do is become a follower and leave me a comment with a way to reach you.

Simple, Simple!!

I will draw the winner using Random.org on Monday morning.

Hope you had a blast on this hop!!

In case you hit me first here is the list of all the other bloggers participating. Make sure you go and check out all their projects. I know there is candy there also :)

Dusti at Scrappin With Cricut

Deanne at Deanne's Creative Juice

Deanna at Deanna's Paper Crafts

Lindsey at La Georgia Paperie

Sue at Sue in CT

Ruby at Handcrafted Simply By Us

Bunny at Bunny Runs with Scissors

Jillian at The Princess and the Paper

Jessica at Chick-n-Scrap---That's Me :)

What's the Word, Bird

Morning all! A quick welcome to all my new followers. I love waking up in the morning to see new faces following me. I also LOVE reading your comments so please keep them coming :)

This is going to be another quick post. I am busy working on my project for the Red Hatter's Blog Hop that starts tomorrow. I hope you all join in the fun. I know there are going to be lots of giveaways :)

I just got the Give a Hoot cartridge the other day and a I-rock so I wanted to give them a try. Make something for any occasion.
There are so many cute cuts on this cartridge. I wanted to try them all!!

Sorry for the quick and not informative post but I have TONS to do today. I will see you all tomorrow!

Until then.....

Spring is on my mind...in a TALL way :)

Good Morning fellow bloggers. I am feeling up to the challenge...to make a card for more than one challenge. After blog hopping last night and this morning I found my one card I made can be entered into 8...yes 8challenges. That is the most I have done with one card since I started blogging 2 months ago. Happy Happy Joy Joy :)

Here is it! I made a Tall card...my first ever! The card base measures 9X4 and can fit into a #10 envelope. How much fun is that?!?!
Anyways I was at Michaels...surprise, surprise (my home away from home) when I found a package of Tim Holtz fragments. They were on clearance so I bought them :) I didn't know what to do with them so I went to Tim's website to watch a tutorial on these so cute clear tiles. He being the master (right!?!?) of all things altered took scraps and attached them to these tiles. I then knew what I was going to do with them. I went through my scrap container and pulled out my springy paper. What a great way to use up those little pieces of scrap. I usually just give my too small pieces to my boys so they can cut and paste and make things. I attached my scraps with glossy accents and tada this is how they came out!!
The spring cutout is from Stretch your Imagination cartridge. I cut this out and cut off the spring flowers that are attached to this cut. Instead of the dotted "i" I put a button.
I scalloped the purple paper using my corner rounder with the guide removed (another tutorial idea). With alittle stitching aound the spring sentiment and circle and my card was finished.
I hope you like my spring card!

Challenges entered at:
Pause Dream Enjoy- Fun Fold Challenge
Claudia & Company- Recipe Challenge #77
Papercraft Star- Challenge #36- Spring and Color Challenge
Cricut Cardz Challenge-#65 Make a Tall Card
For Fun Challenges- Spring
Tuesday Throwdown- #39 Scraps
Cropstop: Challenge #10- Spring is in the Air
Patti-Lynn Creations- Creative Sisters Challenge #3 Spring

So Until tomorrow....