"Ringing in the New Year Blog Hop"

Happy 2014 & welcome to 3 Twenty Craft's "Ringing in the New Year Blog Hop"!

Today's blog hop is very exciting full of awesome projects to help inspire your creativity for the new year and to help you reflect on this past year and all the wonderful blog hops that you have participated in and hopped along with! Make sure you visit each blog on the hop and leave a comment letting us know how you plan to ring in the new year for your chance to win a set of 3 Twenty Crafts Stamps!

If you arrived here from Kellie- alittlebitofkellie.blogspot.com then you are on the right track. If you have not arrived from Kellie's blog, then head over to

 Jo's Scrap Shack and start at the beginning.

Here is my project for this hop:

  The card's background is made using 3 Twenty Crafts stamp set Winter Wonderland.

The background inspiration came from this picture I found when I googled New Year 2014, loved the whole snowflake effect for it

The card base and the square is from the cardstock pack Seaside (the paper co.) the stamped layer iis from DCWV Stack 8 and the scalloped background is from my scrap pile. I used the Spellbinders Classic Square/Scallop Small for the sentiment block. The sentiment was generated from Word-Script MT Bold and Braggadocio fonts and the 2014 was also stickled with Diamond sticles for the glitter effect (came out almost a goldish color) added the wine glasses from a fiscars stamp set and the noisemakers for a cut out of an old scrapbooking 2008 calendar day sheet (you'll see more of this use this coming year :)

 

Well my friends, I hope you have enjoyed my project. I want to wish you a very happy and safe new year! Your next stop is Tina M.- last stop of the hop-denamiaddict.blogspot.com/.  Remember to leave a comment on each blog letting us know how you plan on ringing in 2014 for your chance to win! The winner will be announced on January 3rd!

Enjoy hoppin and Happy New Year! 



Merry Christmas to All My Blog Friends

I wish all my blog friends a Merry Christmas

This is a little tree we got at an auction, that made the cutest decoration for this stand and it was good way to give the dogs a treat each day leading up to Christmas.

I hope that you all found what you wanted under the tree this year, Wish you all peace during this Holiday season

The Winner of the 100 Follower Giveaway is

Hi you all and welcome to the posting of the 100 blog follower winner, I took a video of the winner being picked, sorry that the camera wasn't up during the time that it was actually happening, lol I was paying more attention to what my fingers were doing and what was happening on the computer than to notice that the camera wasn't pointed at the computer oh I'll learn all this stuff yet :) so here is the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoAo9WuG0JE

I have yet to figure out how to get the video into the post, cause I tried just about anything I could think of and it wasn't working.

Number 7 is the winner and that is Janice of Janice Jems, congrats Janice! Contact me with your address and I will get this prize off to you as soon as I can :) 

Now onto getting 200 blog followers, thanks to all my followers.

Come back Monday, I'll have some new posts for you all. Made some Christmas tags for a swap, a layout or two and also some cards for swaps too. Only a few weeks and we'll be into 2014

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world....

Let it Snow

 Good Morning and welcome to my blog. Today I am the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is snow:

We've gotten some snow but I know other parts of the states have gotten alot of snow. This is my last post for Card A Day Blog this year and the theme was timely, with snow in the forecast for Saturday. This was one of my first cards I ever swapped with the local girls, I learned a new technique with this one

The dark blue strips were wet embossed with the snowflake cuttlebug folder ans then embossed with blue embossing powder, it gives a bit of a shiny look to the cardstock, the stripe was cut at 1 X 3.75 and it was layered on lighter blue cardstock that was cut at 1.5" X 4". The snowman was stamped with French Blue Ink and it was something I had received from a friend when she was getting rid of her stamps, I think it's a Stampin Up stamp. It was stamped on white cardstock cut at 3" X 2.75" and layered on that same blue cut at 3.5" X 3.25". the Let it Snow stamp is from a Christmas clear stamp I got that is from Scrappy Cat and was stamped with the same ink as the snowman. This was stamped on white cardstock and cut out with the Classic squares-small from spellbinders and I added dimension to that with the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder and then layered on snowflake paper die cut with the scalloped squares small. Added 3 small punched snowflakes, I'm thinking it's a fiskars punch to finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the word ans stop back later this afternoon to see who won the 100 blog follower giveaway :)

Day 12-Scallop Tree Card

Good Morning and I want to Thank all the people that left comments for my 100 blogger giveaway! As per the post of this giveaway, today is the day I let random.org choose the winner, tomorrow it will be announce. You will see two posts tomorrow, a Card A Day Blog-Winter theme post and a Post announcing the winner's name of the giveaway. For this 12th day I have the last card I made at the class of cards I made:

My local gal can really come up with some creative cards. This tree is made with a half scallop piece that was punched out of this pretty cardstock, here is the link for the folded tree tutorial. You fold it in half (don't crease) just to get the middle of the piece. Now she had us fold it in 3 places instead of 4 that the link shows. The card starts with gray card base, then a layer of yellow that was scallop punched on one edge. The a patter paper layer. The tree is attached to a small rectangle piece and a finished up with a square piece with 2 corners clipped to make it look like a pot. Added gold stickles to decorate the tree and a fun sentiment stamped in gray ink. Easy card to make.
Stop back tomorrow to see who won the prize pack given away for the 100 blog follower giveaway......

Day 11-The Hanging Ornaments Card

Good morning all and welcome to Day 11 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post. Today is it, the last day to leave a comment on the 100 blogger post. Over the next few days I'll be showing more of the cards I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

This was a fun and interesting card to do. On a white card base is the dark green cardstock that was first embossed with cuttlebug's candy cane embossing folder and then die cute in variety of places with Stampin Up Holiday Ornament Framelets and then stamped with the Ornament Keepsake stamps, adding some diamond stickles to the inked stamps, gives it a nice sparkly look. Add some sparkly twine to hang the ornaments on the tree (green background) tape to the back of the card stock add a ribbon and a bow and you have a super cute card. The green backgound is popped up to give depth to the stamped images. A sentiment from the same stamps, stamped in green on kraft cardstock that was punched with Modern Label punch.

Day 10- A Star of A Santa

Good morning all and welcome to Day 10 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post. It's getting closer :) Over the next few days I'll be showing more of the cards I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:
My local girl she finds some of the cutest ideas for cards:

This is a star shaped card made to look like Santa's face. All the white pieces except the mustache was dry embossed with Cuttlebug's folder divine swirls. Red triangle for the hat, and white parenthesis bracket for the mustache. Some peach color pieces for the face inked with red rouge ink and some Viva black pearls for the eyes. She has a pazzles so I'm assuming that the pieces may have come from there. Cute card.
 Stop back tomorrow for Day 11 of my 12 days......

Day 9-The Ornament Card

Good morning all and welcome to Day 9 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post. It's getting closer :) Over the next few days I'll be showing more of the cards I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

This is one of my favorites from the class. A white card base with a layer of pattern paper. The main attraction on this card is the Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornament cuts is a variety of sizes each layered with foam tape to pop it up and give dimension to the ornament. The sentiment is added to the card with 2 copper brads and the a die-cut swirls for extra texture. Sentiment not sure of the stamp set but was stamped in gold ink. Just a sweet card, love the new paper that she has in stock too. Got a few pieces for my own tag making this year or maybe some cards for next year.
Stop back tomorrow for Day 10 of my 12 days......

Day 8-Leaves and Berries

Good morning all and welcome to Day 8 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post.
I've been busy making tags, but not ready to show here yet so today I have another card I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

 I just love the simplicity of this card, it's on a white card base, 2 layers to hold the stamped image and the embossed mark on both white layers is traced around with a red pen. Not sure if the stamped images are a Close to my Heart stamp or a Stampin up stamp for both the image and the sentiment. Both die-cuts are spellbinders, ribbon going through the sentiment die cut and attached to the gold background, used a corner punch for the corners of the gold layer and liquid pearls for the berries in gold. An easy one to mass produce for to hand out at Christmas if your into that sort of way of doing cards for your family, I just love to do cards so most of my family gets a different one :)
Stop back tomorrow for Day 9 of my 12 days......

Day 7-Music To the Ears of All

Good morning all and welcome to Day 7 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post.
Today I have a card I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

Very easy card to make abut makes such an impacted. The card base is purple, then add the while background that was embossed (sorry don't know the embossing folder). Stamp the sentiment one of Close To My Hearts stamps cut around the stamped sentiment. Punch out the border and attach to the back of the white piece, apply the whole thing to the cardbase. Then stickle the embossed images outline and you have a really nice card. The reason for the season, we were all blessed one Christmas morning.
Stop back tomorrow for Day 8 of my 12 days......

Day 6-Just About Time-CADB post

Good morning all and welcome to Day 6 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post., I have a card I made for Card A Day Blog the theme this week in New Years.

Civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of each new year for at least four millennia. In the United States, the most iconic New Year’s tradition is the dropping of a giant ball in New York City's Times Square at the stroke of midnight. Millions of people around the world watch the event, which has taken place almost every year since 1907. Common traditions include attending parties, eating special New Year’s foods, making resolutions for the new year and watching fireworks displays. One of our customs is singing songs to welcome the new year, including the ever-popular "Auld Lang Syne"also to kiss the one you love at midnight.
This is what helped me come up with my card today, the time to ring in a New Year. I chose the cricut cartridge Celebrate With Flourish to create the die cuts for my card. I did the clock and hat at 3" and the sentiment at 2". All cuts came from scraps I had on hand and the card base came from the cardstock pack DCWV-Collage Musings Stack, spiced it up with silver glitter (Studio G style sticles) and few stars for the stars in the sky while watching the ball drop :) I wish you all A Happy New Year!
Stop back tomorrow for Day 7 of my 12 days......

Day 5- Easy Holly Card

Good morning all and for Day 5 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post., I have a card I made at my local scrapbook gal's home/shop this past November.

Sorry for the bad picture :) You got a slight preview of the other cards. This card was so fun to make and so easy. I took a class of 8 cards and it's actually just coming in the shop and putting them together and chatting with all the ladies.
This card has some of the new product on it that she had gotten in (the green dotted cardstock), and of course I had to get some of it in. The holly leaves came from a punch that she had where we trimmed off the extra leaf. Stickles for the berries. Border created from a Martha Stewart scallop doily punch (this is my favorite punch) and a lace border. All of it put on red cardstock card base. Super easy and still looks good.
In a week and we'll know who wins the giveaway, don't forget to join in for a chance to win. Stop back tomorrow for Day 6 of my 12 days......

Day 4-Happy Holidays Card

Hello and so sorry for the delay today, Wednesdays I have Bible Study and with Thanksgiving I got a little behind in my Study so I had to catch up before I could post, so since I'm in hurry I'll bring back one of my favorite cards this was early in my card making and I was learning a new technique:

I enjoyed doing this card, I worked through a new technique on this Double Embossing it was a fun technique to learn and it didn't turn out to bad.

Happy Holidays card the snowflakes were cut from the Holiday Cakes cartridge. It and the snowflake border was cut from the DCWV Christmas Combo pack. The embossed blue card stock was done with double embossing. Dry embossed with cuttlebug snowflake folder and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The stamp was one I received from a friend of mine.

 

This is  Day 4 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world :)

 

Day 3-Tis the Season to Sparkle

Good morning all and for Day 3 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post., I have a card I made at Close To My Heart club this past November.

This was a super fun class when we made this card! It sold me on getting the Sparkle workshop so I can get this fun paper and a cute stamp set too. We made the background using from the monthly stamp set one of their subway stamp using Ruby ink to give a tone on tone look. The tree base was cut out of I think Artiste cartridge, but not absolutely sure, then 1" strips punched with a scallop punch and all the pieces staked up on the base to give the looks of layers, just so easy! Added a bow to the tree top and the sentiment in the ruby ink popped up on the card with a couple of rhinestones for some bling. That's it just that easy and you can do it with any choice of background paper and scallop punch.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world

Day 2-Gingerbread House-Creative Cutting Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to Day 2 of the Christmas Days on my blog. Today I'm one of the designers for Creative Cutting Challenge. Just some very simple rules to enter this challenge.  
You MUST use a SVG or similiar electronic cutting file in your project.  CRICUT CARTRIDGE ONLY ENTRIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE.  Please make sure that you mention somewhere in your post what part of your project was created with a cutting file. That's it so we hope you'll join in for the fun.

The inspiration of this card came from an Etsy card I saw. It seems blogger won't let me link up the post of it on Etsy.
I created the gingerbread card using the cut from The Creative Pointe's GINGERBREAD SET.  This is a great cut and can be used for so many different ways.
 
I wanted to make a fun shape card with this set so I brought the file into the silhouette software and made it into a shape card:

I've been taking a class with Jessica Sprague on Silhouette Basics class, so this is what I learned in the 1st class was how to replicate a cut and you can mirror it then just group together and weld, easy peasy once you know where to do it. 
From there it was just putting the pieces on the mat, making them into cut files and cut. So the shadow came from dark brown cardstock, the card is from kraft cardstock and I cute the other pieces from white textured card stock and red glitter card stock (used an old blade and cut at 8 on the cameo and it sliced it like it was butter). I popped up the candy piece that was attached to the roof and added green sequins from my stash. 
The inspiration card had a Gingerbread Man so I cut that file out too:

Here he is I used the same cardstocks with the inclusion of red cardstock and red sequins. Now he needed a place to go and the one place I found to put him was on the inside of the card:

This is how my shape card opens, this is where I put the little man with a sentiment stamped with momento tuxedo black ink with CTMH Very Merry Christmas stamp set, found the perfect green cut in my stash drawer to hold the stamp. Added some stickers and some white sequins.

Now the card is ready to go and get mailed to someone special, maybe my sister-in-law spending the winter in Florida. I was glad to have access to some fantastic cuts from Creative Pointe and check out her store for some cuts of your own to purchase or better yet link up a card here for a chance to win some files from the store.
This is day 2 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway. To learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post.
Stop back tomorrow for Day 3 of my 12 days......

Day 1-Bringing a Gift-leading up to Dec 12

Hi you all and welcome to my blog. I was thinking with all the blogs doing 12 days of Christmas, that I would do something similar. My 12 days leads up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post. As I bring a gift to you this card seemed fitting to start it off:

This is a card I made for a swap-Christmas in July in 2011. I started with a white A2-card base, added some red background paper from my stash and that border that is ribbon I found at a local store thought it would be great for borders. The sentiment I'm thinking is from Stampin Up. The little snowman bringing the gift is from the cricut cartridge Jolly Holidays. This cartridge has so many fun die cuts for this time of the year. The Snowman was cut out of black cardstock, White glitter cardstock, red and yellow cardstock and then added xmas red sticles to it.

Tomorrow I will have a cute card for the Creative Cutting Challenge post of Christmas Cards, where you can link up a card that is made from the other die-cut softwares out there-not a cricut cut allowed.

Thanks for stopping by today, go and comment on the giveaway blog post and stop by over the next 12 days for more Christmas creativeness to help you with your holiday crafting.

Top Smaher Challenge #1

Good Day to you! I have joined in on a challenge event on FB called Top Smasher (based off Top Chef, sorry never seen it) This is my submission for this past week's challenge:

The challenge: TOP CHEF CHALLENGE 1 : Red, pink, glitter, letter stickers and stars!
As soon as I seen the challenge I knew exactly what pics I wanted to smash. I think I got all the ingredients covered and I also used parts of my counterfeit kit to make the 2-page spread-that's a win-win for me :)
Up close shots:

 From the kit I used the pink hexagon paper for a border, red back ground paper that I brought into the kit later, the best friends came from the one cut out sheet, and the flower came from the die-cuts I gathered up. Added was the stars needed for the Top Smasher challenge.

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The black glitter lettering and hearts was brought in for the Top Smasher challenge too, the red arrow came from some of the items I puled for the kit

 This page has attached to the red pattern background paper the booklet we got from the show. I attached the tickets that we received on it and a up-close picture of Isabelle all dressed up and ready to dance :) The journaling tag came from the same cut up paper as the Best friends tag, added a vellum tag for one of the sheets I had chosen for the kit. Added another star and some pick gems for the Top Smasher part of the challenge.

 See that tab-that tab (which is in pink for the Top Smasher challenge) opens to the page that has mention of the dance they are performing, hence the title of the 2 pages and :

 to a page that has another picture that pointed out Isabelle by way of some post it notes that I got in a package from Walmart that is from EK Success that has lots of goodies (note pad, post-its and stickers). Hidden under the tickets the name of the challenge and the date I smashed it.

 Bullet the write up with pink stickles. The pages were done in my green-eco smash book that I have dedicated to the grandkids functions. Just love how this turned out and it was great to do some smashing again. Now the 2nd challenge is a bit more trickery  and has for one of the ingredients a Shakespeare quote, so I'm off to Google to find one I like, and work from there. 

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing the view form my little corner of the world and don't forget to sign up for the goodie giveaway you need to comment on that post and become a follower: to enter for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.

Old German Honey Cookies

Good Morning,
It's been awhile since I've done a recipe swap layout on the blog, thought it would be good to do one today. Next month is our last month with the recipe swap we decided to try to do something different and get together each month and one girl is to be the teacher and will do something crafty with the group so I'm looking forward to that.

This is the swap I did in September and the theme was honey. I chose a very easy layout cause I just loved that pattern background cardstock and I wanted that to show through. The honey jar cut came from the Just Because Cards Cartridge, page 53 is the sticker with the circle edge cut off. The negative I added to the bottom of the recipe paper to emphasis the theme. I look forward to trying the cookies over the Christmas holiday.
Thanks for stopping by today and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.
Entering this in Challenge: Stuck on U Sketches: Die Cut challenge: Food

Don't forget about the big prize for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.

H2O

 Good Morning and welcome to my blog. Today I have my first layout done from my Counterfeit kit challenge for November, Yay me! Wow where did this month go! and I got a little over a week to kill this kit, guess I'll be doing lots of scraping this coming week:

Mostly everything on this layout came from my Nov. Kit. My goal this coming week is to finish up this album and give it to Katherine before the new baby arrives. I got enough layouts left to knock out this kit, I brought in the blue water paper as an added addition to the kit and the frame to complete the page. It's a layout within a layout, see the At The Pool section is a layout I got at the Silhouette store and most of the pieces cut are from Design #20249 (Lori Whitlock design) and I included Design ID #1383 for the title on that section of the layout and Design ##29024 (Sarah Bailey design) for the layout title: H2o. Zachary enjoys the water and I wanted to include the other Grandparents in the album too. I used the plaid for a neutral background, then went to work on that 8 X 8 layout cutting a variety of the pieces from the kit. Brought in the green cardstock to separate the photo from the paper and to give a bit of a design triangle with the photos on the side. While trying to bust my stash and looking for some glue dots on my clip it I came across a pack of frames and decided to use one for the sprinkler pictures. Layout 1 completed :)
I enjoyed working with this kit and it didn't take to long to pull it all together, cutting the pieces in the morning and putting the layout together last night in just a couple of hours.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.

Don't forget about the big prize for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.

12 Days of Christmas Blog

Good morning all! You get 2 posts today. I need to tell you about Damaris's blog it is having a 12 Days of Christmas blog event going on! Lots of inspiration to check out each day since yesterday and some cool prizes too. Here are the particulars

I'm happy to finally share some info about my 12 Days of Christmas blog event.

Everyday, starting Wednesday, 11/20 - 12/1/13, I will be sharing handmade Christmas projects here on my blog to inspire you to clean off your kitchen tables, pull out your craft carts and MAKE SOMETHING FUN that you can share with your family & friends!

You can join in with the fun at Studio D: http://atstudiod.blogspot.com

A Digital Happy Hanukkah Card

Good Morning all and welcome to my blog. Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme is Hanukkah. Mine today is a digital card that will be made into a regular card, time got away from me on this one ;)

 I created this card in Photoshop elements, here is where you can get your first start with a card. You can make all the layers in the program and shift, move and change how you want it to look.
Sometimes when I'm stuck on a card, I will check out google images or Pintrest, of cards for inspiration and then I go from there to my PE program and start creating shapes that I may want to use, add clip art and some digital papers and you can come up with a card fairly quickly. From there I will transform into a paper card to give to someone over that holiday. This way I have a visual sketch of what I want to make.
First I start with a new Blank file and put in the dimensions of the card size and then I get to work. Pick and choose all the elements that I want in the card, then decide on the various shapes and clip art I want to use for the card. The candles here are similar to the Silhouette Design ID #1532 that I will be using in my card. The digital papers I got from Sweet Nothings (free) and these are very similar to the papers I will use. The card itself will go together relatively fast now that I have a map to follow.
Do you have Photoshop Elements or another program similiar? Have you ever done any digital crafting either cardmaking or scrapping? There is alot of information out there on the subject, how tos ( here is where I found out how to first create the card: Finally Friday-How to Create a Digital Card) She uses Photoshop, but alot of the same rules apply to Photoshop Elements. Just another fun way to be crafty :)
Have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world

Don't forget about the big prize for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.
 

Hanging Ornaments: A Creative Cutting Challenge

Good morning and welcome to Creative Cutting Challenge Monday here at my blog, the theme over the next 2 weeks is Christmas--Not a Card. I put together a 2 page scrapbook layout.

These are pictures that I had taken Dec 24, 2011. I didn't have a chance to look it up in my journal, but I'm assuming we must have been having a busy week before that we waited till Christmas Eve Day to put up the tree. I used Creative Pointe's: Christmas Set 2 for this 2-page scrapbook layout. It's a great set for all your Christmas crafting.
 
The set had a cute ornament and stocking that I used for the border along both pages. I used them to mimic decorating the tree with hanging them along the glittery silver trim. I pulled out my trusty box of stashed Christmas papers to create the die-cuts. I found just the right green, red and a diagonal striped paper for the die-cuts.

Some up close shots of the die-cuts

The left side of the 2 page layout:

I'm not exactly sure where the background paper is from and a quick google search didn't help me neither. The border was done with silver trim in my ribbon stash. The die cut papers used were from receiving of happy mail I had got from a girl on a FB group I belong too. The green dotted paper came from a Christmas paper pack (DCWV 180pack) I got a few years ago and knew that this paper would cut best at a larger size. I also added Larvy applique stuff to white part of the stocking to give it a fluffy texture. The title came from fussy cutting it out a Creative Imaginations word paper collage sheet. To cover the silver trim ends I added a 1 inch border strip of that green dotted paper. I added the current date of documenting the layout and stamped it with CTMH Holiday Red ink.I also added journaling right to the page this is not something I normally do but thought this was a good place to add it and I also can say I finished one of the challenges from an Art & Science Challenge class I took from Big Picture Classes.
The right side of the 2 page layout:

I drew from the red in the left side to come up with the 2nd page of the layout. The red background paper is a Creative Imaginations paper and I added another fussy cut sub-title and a strip for the trim ends covering. The holly paper that I layered the photos with came from that same gal that sent me such cute happy mail. I added candy cane stickers (EK Success) for the other droops in the trim that didn't have any die-cuts and I really like how that turned out.

I really enjoyed making the layout over the weekend and was glad to get out some old photos from the drawer to scrap.
We would love to have you join in with the fun and link up you Christmas project the only stipulation is the cut has to be from an electric die cutter and not a cricut cartridge cut. Have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.
Also comment to have a chance to win my 100 blogger prize pack you can find out about it here on this post

A Little Bling for the Tree

Good Day to you all, welcome to my blog today I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog, with an Ornament card. Christmas is in the air this time of the season and we like to prepare a bit early for the card giving season

 Lots of bling on this card, the blue and red piece tied up with a nice bow could also be used for an ornament for the tree too.
I have a nice collection of Christmas paper in my stash and that is where I went to get the background piece for the card. I started with a 5.5 X 5.5 card base from Close to My Heart Kraft cardstock. Added a layer holly leaves/candy canes kraft paper I got in some happy mail I received. The ornament is a design file I got at the Silhouette store for my Cameo: Snowflake Doily. That was cut out of blue foil cardstock and red glittler cardstock with red and green ribbon laced through one set of holes and tied at the top for the bow. The sentiment is on natural color cardstock, inked with Walnut Stain and stamped with Brilliance Cosmic Copper ink. Added some Holly stickles and it's ready other than a sentiment in the inside for mailing this year.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out this post (100 Blog Followers Giveaway) for a chance to win, Have a fantastic day! Stop back Monday for the new Creative Cut Challenge project.

100 Blog Followers Giveaway

100 BLOG FOLLOWERS GIVEAWAY!

Wow I am speechless I reached 100 followers and I am now over that number!  Thanks to the last few that joined, as well as the first few and all those in between!!  I am humbled by your presence. I say lets have a party! I will be providing the prize.

So, here's the deal:

• If you have not already done so, sign up to follow my blog (must be a follower to win the giveaway).
• Leave a comment on this post, letting me know you were here (make sure I have contact information, in case you are the winner).
• On December 12 , I will let random.com draw the winning person (that is approximately 5 weeks from now) it will make a nice Christmas gift for someone.
• I will announce the winner on my blog on Friday Dec 13 .  If you have signed up also to "follow by e-mail," you won't miss the announcement!

Here's a picture of some of the items in the giveaway:

 It's on it's way please keep checking back this prize is huge!

November Counterfeit Kit Challenge

Hi you all, have you heard about a blog called Counterfeit Kit Challenge? I didn't till last month when I stopped by Cindy's Creations Blog and check it out. Really thought now this is a cool idea and a smart one too. To have everything ready for the month of scrapping, that is a win-win if I ever seen one. All the choices are made just need to raid your stash for similar products and some not so similar if you want and get those pictures out of the drawer, out of the envelopes and on to the pages. So I decided to tackle the kit this month too. So this is the November kit:

They are focusing on the October Jenni Bowlin kit (this is the main kit but you can also work with the add on kits too). So with this kit up on my computer screen I went thru my stash and a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon I have to say :)

 This is what I came up with ^^^^^^^

The papers came from a few sources the bottom row the 5 pattern papers came from Recollections Graceful collection, it's nice to pull the papers from the same line I know then that they will match well. The cardstock came from DCWV Neutrals pack. The top 5 came from the 1st pink one came from te DCWV Collage Musings Pack, figure with the only diagonal that I came across had pink in it so thought best to bring in another for added color. The diagonal, the navy, the grey plaid came from DCWV dots, stripes & plaids pack (my husband gave me nine paper packs for Christmas last year that I am still working through :) ). A sheet full of journaling blocks and sayings in pinks, blues and greens plus other neutral colors to work with the rest of the papers is from 2011 Cosmic Cricket upcycle elements and looks like a really fun page to use.

I have no transparencies, at least not that I know of so I went with some vellum sheets for that, I got out a alphabet sheet that I had last year from Simple Stories Harvest collection, the die cuts are coming from many sources from my stash and I only had the white speech bubbles that are also very small so I added the die cut pack to go with it too and I can see this being inked on grunged up and maybe some paper covering too.

Up close shot on some of the die cuts/stickers that I will be using

The speech bubbles and the raw chipboard pieces

I figured I had better pull in some pink die cut pieces since I have pulled in that diagonal stripe paper that has pink in it. My 4 labels, 2 stamp sets, s spool ribbon that has stitching down the middle for the stitched jute that was in the main kit and some leaves I found in my stash rounds out the embellishments.

I'm looking forward to using the kit this month and getting those pictures out of the drawers, out the envelopes and onto these pages. As I do the layouts I will showcase what I have done here on my blog.

This month I'm also working on Zachary's first year album and a Cruise Album they are both goals I have for this year that I want to finish up this month. The Cruise Album is a Mets Fan Appreciation Cruises that my Mom and I went on in 1985 and 1986, I was glad to get the pictures out and get them scanned into the computer so I can scrap the originals and get them out of the box and onto the pages of an album.

You all have a fantastic day and stop back tomorrow for the news about a 100 follower giveaway