Welcome to The Queen's Royal Digi Monday Challenge #2!

Hi Everybody!

Welcome to the THE QUEEN’S ROYAL DIGI MONDAY CHALLENGE!!  This challenge will be held on the LAST Monday of each month and has a LOT of VERY talented designers, wait till you see the lineup!

Each of us gets to work with a digital stamp company, and I was happy to get Bugaboo Stamps!! You can check out their blog HERE and can purchase their stamps in their store here HERE. I will be sharing more images from them during the next couple of weeks, but today I have to share the placecards I made for Thanksgiving with the CUTEST little pilgrim girl!  Here's how they turned out:

*I love how easy (and relaxing!!) it is to just sit and color these images in!

If you use the assembly line method (making multiples of each step at a time), you can have these made for the entire clan in no time!

Now head on over to THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN'S BLOG to enter the challenge with some fantastic prizes!

Haaaaappy Halloween!!!

Hi Everybody!

My family and I found these hilarious videos you can make online.  We've done them for Christmas, and they really get a laugh out of them!  We made this one for Halloween.  We also would like to wish everybody a very

Happy Halloween! 

Be safe, and have fun, and most of all......get loooooooootsa candy!!  Enjoy :)

Welcome to Raven's Birthday Blog Hop!!

Hi Everybody!
First, if you came from seeing Kristi, then you came from the right place.  If not, please head on over to see out hop hostess Raven so you can start from the beginning! 

I am so happy to be helping Raven celebrate her birthday!  She is one of the NICEST, and coolest people I know, and I hope she has the "craftiest" birthday ever :OD  Ok, so now onto the project.  I decided to make a pillow treat box to fit the cutest little present inside.  Here's how it turned out:

*Girl's Makeup Party cartridge (Event cartridge)

*Pink By Design = Guess Who set

*Cosmo Cricket patterned paper = black

*Stampin' Up! patterned paper  = orange

*Martha Stewart = spiderweb corner punch, spiderweb deep edge punch

*Bugaboo digital stamps = witch

*I used some twine to use for the broom, and was happy with how it turned out!

*And I liked this sentiment to help me wish Raven bday wishes :OD

I hope you liked it!  Now head on over to the talented

Jennifer Anderson 

as the next stop in the hop!!  

Here's the lineup in case you get lost, or need to stop along the way:

Raven Baca www.love4stamps.blogspot.com
Vanessa Torres http://banessa-nessa.blogspot.com/
Theresa http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Stefani Chastain http://www.stylesbystefani.blogspot.com/
Ruthie Nixon http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/
Percilla Gurule http://scrappin3angel.blogspot.com/
Misty Littlejohn http://abusyplace.blogspot.com/
Michelle Criswell http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/
Kristi Bennett http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com/
Jenny http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Anderson http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/
Haidee Shableau http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/
Erika Valdez http://www.craftysprouts.com/
Christel Young Bonner http://www.onescrappinsista.blogspot.com/
Cheryl Valadez http://inktrap.blogspot.com/
Brynn Thornburgh http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/
Abby Scrapbookaholic http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

Thankful Thursday - Halloween/Fall Home Decor Challenge

Hi everybody!  Welcome to another Thankful Thursday Design Team Challenge.

First off, I'd like to announce the winners of the last challenge.  Our wonderful Random.org friend selected....drum roll please...number 9.  Carol of Carol's Creations, you are our winner. Congrats!!! Please email Jenny at crazyaboutcricut at hotmail dot com to claim your prize.

Now for our new challenge.  Our theme for these two weeks is halloween decor.  Show how you're making your place spooky!  No cards please this time around. 

And as usual, the design team has some amazing inspiration for you. Please hop on over to their blogs for project details and to show them some love. 

Tanya

Sandra

Lola

Leah

Cheryl

So....I know you want to know what you'll win right?!?!?! Well, here's a picture of the cool prize pack. The color may vary but the goodies are just the same.  It's sponsored by our friends from the Post-it paper company.  This stuff cuts like butter. So be sure to link up your project so you'll have a chance at winning this wonderful prize pack.

So just a reminder, here are the challenge details:

*The project must not be made more than a week before the challenge.

*Please link directly to your project, not just to your blog.

*E-mail your project to me at crazyaboutcricut at hotmail dot com if you don't have a blog and I will be happy to enter it for you :o)

*I will post a challenge every other Thursday and at the end of the month I will choose a winner.

*Join in on both challenges for that month, get more chances to win.

*People will have 2 weeks to enter.

*You can now enter on Facebook!

You can now double your chances to enter! Click HERE to go to the Thankful Thursday Challenge Facebook page.

*I can only send prizes in the US right now. I'm sorry :(

ANYONE/EVERYONE CAN JOIN IN THIS CHALLENGE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE KIDS. IT JUST NEEDS TO FIT THE CHALLENGE, AND WILL HOPEFULLY HELP YOU SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY/LOVED ONES :O)

Countdown to Christmas with Easy Canvas Prints

Pictures on Canvas

Hi Everybody!
ONLY 60 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!  Normally this would send me into a bit of a panic, but that is why I'm so excited for my post today!  It seems every year I am scrambling at the last minute to get meaningful holiday presents for my family. I recently was contacted by a company with a product that I think any family member, friend, and loved one would love
 to get as a present!  Easy Canvas Prints is this amazing company that turns your photos to canvas portraits!  Any picture you have, you can easily upload to their website, and turn it into a beautiful professional looking portrait to hang on your wall. 

As everyone who has seen my blog header knows, I have 4 kids and while I have tons of pictures of them individually, I don't have enough of them together.  So I chose this very special picture to use.  Here's how my canvas portrait turned out:

*I recently bought a new house and just moved in this past week. I was very excited to FINALLY have a mantel to decorate. I knew this would be the perfect spot for this beautiful portrait!

*I chose the 8" x 10" canvas size.

*I took handprint molds my kids made to put next to the picture.  I thought these made great accent pieces for this photo!

*I used some 12" x 12" paper behind the pictures to give some color.  I used Christmas paper for the holidays, but this can be easily changed to fit any season or holiday :)

*There are 3 different options for you to choose from for the borders of your photos to canvas.  I chose Image Wrap, since that worked best for the picture I was using.

*You also get different options for the depth of the canvas.  Mine is a 0.75" Border Wrap.

*This is standard wrap width, default on all canvases. Ideal if you plan on framing your canvas. No extra charge!  I like this depth, as I may want to frame this in the future.

*The details come out so crystal clear!  You can see the detailing of the stripes on my son's shirt are perfect.  They're not fuzzy, or distorted at all!

This whole process only took me about 15 minutes, including uploading the picture!  And I was really happy with the quality of the canvas, speed of the shipping, and affordability of this product.  Make sure you head on over to the Easy Canvas Prints website, and their Facebook Page (let them know I sent you!), to check out all of the great deals they have going on over there. If you "like" them on Facebook, you will automatically receive 50% off of your next order, and free shipping as well!!  Whooo hooo!  TFL, and I hope this helps you get started on your holiday shopping early!

Easy Canvas Prints

Pictures on Canvas

Hi Everybody!

Are your ready for the holidays?  And I'm not talking about Halloween!  It seems every year I am scrambling at the last minute to get meaningful holiday presents for my family.  I recently was contacted by a company with a product that I think anybody would be over the moon to get as a present!  Easy Canvas Prints turns your photos to canvas portraits!  This is just a teaser post.  Come back and join me on Tuesday October 25th to get my full review, see how amazing this product is, AND I will have a special offer for all my "crazy" followers!  In the meantime, please go check out their website and see all that they have to offer :) 

Eeek! It's a Spider Card using Pink By Design Stamps!!

Hi Everybody!
It's my turn on the Pink By Design team blog today, and I want to say hi.....my name is Jenny and I'm a twist-ease-card-aholic, lol!! I am totally hooked on making these!  I've made a couple of different sizes in these cards. For this one, I found the measurements HERE. This size will fit in a standard envelope, so it's easy to mail! Let's get started:

Here are the supplies you'll need:

*Mini Monsters cartridge

*Pink By Design = Ghostly Greetings

*Peachy Keen Stamps = Wide Eyed Kids Assortment

*Martha Stewart = patterned paper, spiderweb corner punch, spider web deep border punch

*twine = The Twinery

*Stampin' Up! = yellow paper

*button

*Stickles = orange, purple

*Cut the base layer for the card @ 4 1/4" x 9 3/4" (yellow colored cardstock).

*Fold the top portion into a triange by folding the top left corner to the bottom right side.

*Cut the top layer @ 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (spiderweb patterned paper).

*Using the spiderweb corner punch, punch each of the four corners of the top layer.

*Cut the spider (p.54) using the base shadow feature @ 2.18".

*Using the Gypsy, hide the cuts for the spider face using the hide contour feature. This will allow you to use a face stamp.

*Cut the spider layer (on mine the purple layer) @ 2.18".

*Wrap the twine around this layer two times, or as many as desired.

*Loop twine through the button.

*Adhere the black patterned paper down.

*Depending on the size of the sentiment you choose, cut cardstock leaving 1/4" border around the sentiment.

*Cut second larger layer 1/4" bigger.

*Adhere to the base using foam dots. **VERY IMPORTANT** This is what will be holding the card up in the easel position.

*This is the perfect sentiment for this sweet little spider!

*Using the deep edge spiderweb punch, punch a strip about 4".

*I added purple stickles to the middle of each spider web. This also highlights the purple of the spider :)

*Here is the card closed.

*I think the twisted easel cards really give a wow factor once they're opened!

This is the perfect card to send to a friend, and decorate your mantle. I hope you try one and share it with all of us at PBD on the messageboard! Thanks for looking, and please check back tomorrow on the Pink By Design blog for another amazing project from the PBD Design team :OD

Welcome to Kimi's Baby Shower Blog Hop!



Hi Everybody!
Ok, first you should have come from Haidee over at www.created2bunique.blogspot.com.  If not, please head over to Lovebug Creations to start from the beginning. 

I am so happy to be a part of this special blog hop!  We're celebrating Kimi's special delivery due in December..........unless Mother Nature decides otherwise, lol!  I did the layout that starts out the year, January!  And the new year to me means bright colors, and newness.  So here is how my layout turned out:

*Creative Memories Baby Girl Bright pack = patterned paper, and stickers

* Inque Boutique = January month stamp

*Joann's = kraft colored paper

*other papers from my scraps

*Me & My Big Ideas = photo mat overlays

*Stickles

*Michael's = ribbon

*Using my Scrap 'N Easel makes it so much easier to take pictures of my layouts!

*I drew in the stitching with a pink Zig marker, then added some Stickles dots.  Gotta have the bling!

*These overlays make it super easy to add pictures to this layout.  All Kimi has to do is just slide in a picture.  She won't even need adhesive!  Gotta make it as easy as possible with a new baby :)

 

*I added this spot for some hidden journaling, and some sweet words for new baby girl :)

That's it!  I really hope Kimi will like it, and even more importantly help her actually complete a baby album!  (Let's not even talk about how I have 4 kids and only 9 months of kid #1's album done.  Yikes!!)

Wait!! One more thing before you go!  We all have a message for Kimi and each blog will have a letter and you must continue through the blogs to get the full message. Leave your message on the last blog for a chance at even more blog candy!!

My letter is:  R

Now head on over to see Lisa and her beautiful layout :)

www.lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com

www.scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com

www.papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com

www.created2bunique.blogspot.com

www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

www.prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com

www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com

www.mandiesscrappin.blogspot.com

www.pattisscrappingtime.blogspot.com

www.pinkcricut.com

www.scrappinwithmybug.com

www.scrappyzeni.com

Scrappin' Sista Birthday Celebration Guest Designer

Hi Everybody!
I am so SUPER happy to be a guest designer for one of my best bloggy friends Christel aka Scrappin' Sista!! She has been a great friend who is helpful, and keeps it real with me. I can always count on her to listen. Ok, now to put the tissues away :P Here's the project I made to help her celebrate:

*Mini Monsters cartridge

*Pink By Design = Ghostly Greetings

*Peachy Keen = PK-691 Make a Monster Face 1 1/8"*Martha Stewart = patterned paper, drippy goo punch

*Stampin' Up! = yellow paper

*twine from the Twinery

*Here's the card closed.

*I am TOTALLY hooked on twisted easel cards!!

I am so thankful to have so many bloggy and Facebook friends that I can share my crafty passion with. I hope to meet her one day and give her a "Huge Monster Hug!". Thanks for letting me celebrate with you Christel :OD

Thankful Thursday - Monster Mash Challenge

Hi Everybody!
First, let me apologize for completely missing the last challenge.  It's been a LOT busier than I had anticipated moving, and I just wasn't able to get to the challenge last Thursday.  I've made a back up plan so this will never happen again!!  Since I am working on moving into my new house this month.  Christel (Scrappin' Sista) from the Thankful Thursday Design Team is helping me out with the TT Challenge posts this month.  Thanks Christel!!  Here she is..........


First off, I'd like to announce the winners of the last challenge.  Since we only had 3 entries last week, Jenny, our fearless leader has named ALL entrants winners. Congrats!!! Please email Jenny at crazyaboutcricut at hotmail dot com.



Now for our new challenge.  We'd like to see all those cute little monsters! Create any project featuring some type of monster.  We encourage you to involve children (they don't have to be your children) in your project. 


And as usual, the design team has some amazing inspiration for you. Please hop on over to their blogs for project details and to show them some love. 

Tanya
http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com

Sandra

http://sweetpeacards.blogspot.com

Cheryl
http://cardsbyCG.blogspot.com

Amber
http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com

Leah
http://www.leahscarddesigns.com

Sharon

http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com

So....I know you want to know what you'll win right?!?!?! Well, here's a picture of the cool prize pack.  The color may vary but the goodies are just the same.  It's sponsored by our friends from the Post-it paper company.  This stuff cuts like butter. So be sure to link up your project so you'll have a chance at winning this wonderful prize pack. 

So just a reminder, here are the challenge details:

*The project must not be made more than a week before the challenge.

*Please link directly to your project, not just to your blog.

*E-mail your project to me at crazyaboutcricut at hotmail dot com if you don't have a blog and I will be happy to enter it for you :o)

*I will post a challenge every other Thursday and at the end of the month I will choose a winner.

*Join in on both challenges for that month, get more chances to win.

*People will have 2 weeks to enter.

*You can now enter on Facebook!

You can now double your chances to enter! Click HERE to go to the Thankful Thursday Challenge Facebook page.

*I can only send prizes in the US right now. I'm sorry :(

ANYONE/EVERYONE CAN JOIN IN THIS CHALLENGE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE KIDS. IT JUST NEEDS TO FIT THE CHALLENGE, AND WILL HOPEFULLY HELP YOU SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY/LOVED ONES :O)

Welcome to the Scrappin' Sista Birthday Swap Hop!!

***CLICK HERE FOR MICKEY AND FRIENDS MONDAY***

Hi Everybody!
Welcome to Christel a.k.a. Scrappin’ Sista’s Birthday Swap Blog hop where we’re celebrating Christel’s birthday with her. Each month, she hosts swaps on her blog and we are highlighting projects that have been created using the swap items that we’ve received.

If you’ve arrived from Jessica B. at http://jessbippitystamps.blospot.com/ you are in the right place. If you just dropped by my blog today, we don’t want you to miss not one project. Go ahead and go to http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com to start from the beginning.

I COULD NOT wait to get this hummingbird onto a project after receiving it in the swap!  Thank you to Celeste Lombas (who has an awsome blog HERE) for sending this gorgeous cut :)  Here is the birthday card I made for Christel using a few of her favorite colors (purple, orange, and turquoise)!

*Pink By Design = Scripted Year set

*K & Company = patterned paper, tag shapes

*EK Sucess border punch 

*This cut was already beautiful!  I just added a little bit of shading to the tail and wings.

*I inked the edges of each of these label stickers from the paper pack.

*I then layered two of them together.

*I added pop dots under the hummingbird.

*Here is a side view so you all can see the dimension on this card.

***HOP GRAND PRIZE CANDY ALERT***

We have some wonderful prizes up for grabs. 

*In honor of Christel's birthday, I've donated the Birthday, Birthday set from Pink By Design as one of the prizes for this hop! This is a must have set!

Here are the rules.

1. Be a follower of Scrappin’ Sista’s blog.

2. Leave a comment on all the hop participants’ blogs.

3. Include an email address in an internet safe way.

4. Have a U.S. address. We love our international bloggers but we’re unable to cover postage at this time.
5. I'd love for you to follow my blog, but you don't have to to be eligible for the prize :OD

Here's what's up for grabs:

1. $30 gift certificate to HL, M, or J - sponsored by Anita

2. beaded butterflies - sponsored by Celeste

3. My Memory Suites Digital Scrapbooking Program - sponsored by Barbara & Liz

4. handcrafted flowers - sponsored by Jani

5. CTMH products - sponsored by Shalana

6. Birthday stamp set - sponsored by Maria

7. Pink By Design Birthday Stamp set - sponsored by Jenny

8. $20 Dee's Bugaboo gift certificate - sponsored by Dee

9. $20 Paper Crafting World gift certificate - sponsored by Melin

Those are some fantastic prizes!!   Now head on over to see the talented

Bonnie C. at http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com 

as the next stop on the hop!!

Here is the lineup in case you get lost or need to stop along the way:

1. Christel - http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com

2.Jennifer B. - http://jlbzlittlecorner.blogspot.com/

3. Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

4. Kari S. - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/

5. Anita C. -http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com

6. Jani L. - www.papercompulsions.blogspot.com

7. Shalana G. - http://scrappinwithshalana.blogspot.com/

8. Tammy G. -www.fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com

9. Jessica B. - www.http://jessbippitystamps.blospot.com/

10. Jenny J. - www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

11. Bonnie C. -http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com

12. Melin B. -http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/