Flaunt It Fridays: Martini Glass

Good Morning Bloggers. It is the last day of the year and it is time to party!!! And to officially freak out. Ahhhh, lol. I hope you have a fun and safe evening :)

Today we have a new Flaunt It Fridays challenge for you. We are working with the Martini Glass from the "From My Kitchen" cartridge. Like always, if you don't own the cartridge you can use a similar cut just like I did. I used the glass from the "Smiley Cards" cart. For my project, I decided to make a fun invitation for a Girls Night Out a la Sex and the City mode (My all time fave show).

Picture 1: Martini Glass - Smiley Cards

City Background - Cricut Sampler

A2 size

Picture 2: Inside Peek

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT work. I hope you play along with us this week.

Thanks for stopping by/commenting.

My Christmas Tree (aka My Sister's love for Disney)

Merry Christmas!!! I hope that you enjoyed your big morning and that you opened a lot of goodies. Since I'm auto posting, I cant share with you yet what Santa brought me this year but I'm thinking its going to be something good :)

Today I wanted to share with you the obsession my sister has with Disneyland. My tree is blinged out with all Disney ornaments (with the exception of a new Starbucks ornament and a few crafty ones made by my niece).

Picture 1: I couldn't avoid the glare from the sun. 

In the background you can see a 4ft Mickey Mouse stocking my sister bought.

Picture 2: Here are some closeups, including my fave ornament: Woody.

Picture 3: She even bought a mini Mickey Mouse tree from Disney.

Picture 4: But wait.. there's more. The ornaments wasn't enough.

She decided to begin her Mickey Mouse themed village.

Now she's on Ebay looking for some from the past years.

She's a nut. Lol.

But of course I love her.

Picture 5: Closeups of the different houses and some of the characters.

Anyone care to share their Christmas decorations/traditions. Let me know, Id love to see it.

Have a great Christmas day. And see you after the holiday sales :)

Flaunt It Fridays: Turtle

Happy Christmas Eve!! This is it! The last day to get everything wrapped and ready for the Big Morning. Im personally freaking out because Im NOT ready. Ahhhh! lol. Christmas just snuck up on me. Anybody feel that way?

So onto today's card... This week's Flaunt It Fridays cut is the Turtle from Create a Critter. I had fun playing with the cut this week. I feel as if I can relate to the turtle. I sometimes feel that I work slow. Sometimes I'll take over a day to work on a card when it would take someone else an hour or so. And since I thought it would be funny to exaggerate my point, I placed  my tiny turtle in a scenery with big rain drops and semi-high grass to slow him down even more.

As always, if you want to play along and you do not own this cart you can use a similar cut. When you are done, go over to Flaunt It Fridays to link up. In the meantime, tho, hop over to the rest of the DT's blogs and check out their beautiful work.

Picture 2: I used my Prismacolor Pencils, Ink Pads and White Gel Pen to add depth to the cuts.

Inking the edges can work great when you want to cover up your mistakes, especially like I did. I got heavy handed with my Prismacolor pencil on the circle base. I didn't like the look/flow of it so I used my ink pad to distress the edge and blend in the colored pencil.

My concept was for this to be a "Sorry, I'm so Late" card. This is the reason why I placed the turtle in this scenery. The turtle is already slow as it is but add the huge rain drops into the mix, the poor little guy doesn't stand a chance. :)

Thanks for stopping by/commenting. I can't wait to see how you will Flaunt your cut.

Holly Jolly Hop Winners and Christmas Cards

Happy Hello Thursday Everyone!!! It is that awesome day of the month when our Visa cries just a little bit. How are you liking the new carts? I definitely want 2 of them.

First, I want to thank all you that came out to hop with us this weekend. I really hope that we gave you plenty of ideas and that you enjoyed our projects. I also want to thank all my new followers, as well as my old ones. I do hope you return to see what else I have to offer you.

I am posting my winners at the end of the post... first I would like to share a project with you. These cards are for my brother. He "commissioned" 6 cards to give to his daughters, gf and sisters (including me,lol). I told him that I refused to make my own card, mainly because I'm running out of time :), but I'll prob make a tag. Oh and commissioned is in quotations because his commission doesn't mean he will pay me, it just means that he is my big brother and I need to do this for him. Big brothers are big bullies sometimes, lol.

Picture 1: I decided to use this cute Peachy Keen Snowman.

I wanted to use the same image but colored differently and use different dp/cs to show how an image can be versatile.

Picture 2: This one is my favorite of the set. 

This one was made for the gf.

DCWV Cardstock

DCWV Winter Wonder Stack

Picture 3: I cuttlebugged certain parts of all my cards.

I like the effect it adds to the card.

Picture 4: I used my Prismacolor Pencils to color in these Snow cuties.

Picture 5:  I'm playing along with:  Peachy Keen Stamps - #42 Emboss It.  GabbyAbby Challenge with SEI - #10 Santa or Snowman. Paper Playtime - #29 Snowmen.

And now for my winners ....

Day 1: (Cat Scrapbook & Kit) is

DONNA MUNDINGER from POPSICLE TOES

Day 2: (10 cuts from Twinkle Toes Cart) is

BONNIE C. from A SCRAP ABOVE

Ladies if you can please send me your info, I'll get this out to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for stopping by!

As always I love to read what you have to say.

Holly Jolly Blog Hop - Day2

Welcome back to day2 of our Holly Jolly Blog Hop. Thank you to all of you that came out to hop with us last night. I'm happy to see that you enjoyed day 1. I hope you are ready for more :)

Before I continue on, I want to remind you that you must hop along to every blog in order to qualify for the 3 Grand Prizes. Our Sponsors for the hop are Scrapadabadoo (a scrapping care package), Sarah Pink Cricut (a new holiday stamp set) and Always Crafting (the Mystery Prize-Peachy Keen Certificate).

You should be hoping over from Sandra's blog. Since I'm the last stop you can stay here and then loop around until you come back.

For my 2nd project, I decided to create a DVD cover. I know that during the holidays people like to send out newsletters to their friends and relatives. I decided that a DVD version of a newsletter would be a nice upgrade. So I will be creating a DVD for my sister. I will compile all videos and pictures of my niece and create a movie for her. This way she can have something to look back at in the future years.

Picture 1: Front of the Project

Picture 2: For my main image I used this cutie from Twinkle Toes. I just realized that she has a big head. They all do, Lol. But they are still super cute!!! I drew the face in myself. I was going for a peachy keen look. I also used a couple of my Prismacolor Pencils to shade in her skin tone. From time to time I like to use my pencils on my cuts. I find that it can give it a new look. I made a mini tutorial on how you can use your color pencils with your cricut cuts here.  Other carts used were Lacy Labels, Mickey Font and Winter Frolic. The sentiment reads, "Sweet Memories".

Picture 3: Final Product

I am the last stop on this hop. Tank you for hoping with us last night and this morning. I hope that you enjoyed our projects and walked away with plenty of new ideas for your holiday gifts. If you are interested in looking at a few more ideas, here are some projects I have worked on:

Altered Project, Bookmark, Gift Wrapping Ideas One and Two.

Remember: In order to qualify for the grand prizes you must leave bloggy love on every stop. You have until midnight Eastern Standard Time on Sunday 12/12. All winners will be announced on/or after Monday.

**For my personal blog candy of the day, I am offering 10 cuts from the Twinkle Toes cartridge. You don't have to be a follower but I would love it if you would be. I have plenty of projects I would love to share with you. Im hoping to have another project for you tomorrow.

In case you come across a broken or missing link, here is the lineup:

Stephanie

Glora

Carri

Deb

Kristal

Marianne

Erika

Margie

Sandra

Jess (ME)

For Day1 of the hop, scroll down. Come back again and Thanks for stopping by!!

Holly Jolly Blog Hop - Day1

** Edited: A Huge THANKS to Kristal from KAndrew Designs for having my piece published. You can click here to go to the link **

Good Evening Jolliers. Welcome to our 2Day Holly Jolly Blog Hop. We are happy to have you hoping along with us. We have over 20+ holiday gift ideas to show you over the next 2 days. There will lots of blog candy along the way. In addition to that, we will be having 3 Grand Prize winners in total. Our 1st grand prize is sponsored by Scrapadabadoo, our 2nd grand prize is sponsored by Sarah Pink Cricut and our 3rd grand prize is a mystery prize sponsored by Stephanie from Always Crafting.  The mystery prize will be revealed at the end of my post.  ** In order to qualify for the grand prizes, you must hop along to all the blogs and leave some bloggy love.

The hop begins with Stephanie and ends with me.

You should be hoping over from Sandra, if not you can continue from here and loop around until you come to me again or start from the beginning.

For my first project, I created a Tea Candle Holiday Card. Now from the front, it looks like an overly done card :) but when you open it, you get a nice little treat.

Picture 1: Front of the Card

Picture 2: I used this critter from Winter Frolic as my main image. I used Winter Frolic for the sentiment: "Warmth and Joy" and Lacy Labels for the Frames.

Picture 3: When you open it, tada. You have a nice little box.

Pictures 4 and 5: Closeups of the little box. The purpose of the box is for the Tea Candles. For this project you need 4 candles (I only had 2 on hand :) but you get the idea)

Picture 6 : Final Product

I am the last stop on this hop. Thank you for hopping with us tonight!! And I hope that you have enjoyed the projects and have walked away with plenty of ideas for you to work on.

Don't forget that we will begin Day 2 of our Holly Jolly Hop tomorrow Dec 11 at 9:00am Eastern Standard Time. We will have a whole new set of projects for you to drool over :)

In case you get lost along the way, here is the lineup of all the Sweet Ladies

Stephanie

Glora

Carri

Deb

Kristal

Marianne

Erika

Margie

Sandra

 Jess (ME)

REMEMBER TO COME BACK TOMORROW AT 9AM EST

Oh that's right, you are waiting to find out what the mystery prize is. :) Like I said, Stephanie is sponsoring the 3rd grand prize. She is offering a $15 gift certificate for Peachy Keen Stamps. Now remember, in order to qualify you must hop along to every stop and leave some bloggy love.

For my personal blog candy, I will be offering a super cute scrapbook. I don't have a picture at the moment but I will soon. You don't have to be a follower, but I'd love it if you would be.  

Thanks for stopping by and come back tomorrow!!!

Blog Hop Coming Tonight!

Quick Reminder to you all!!

Our 2Day Holly Jolly Hop will begin Tonight

at 7:30PM Eastern Standard Time.

We are very happy to announce that we will have 3 Grand Prize Winners:

• Grand Prize 1 is Sponsored by SCRAPADABADOO
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• Grand Prize 2 is sponsored by SARAH PINK CRICUT
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• Grand Prize 3 is a Mystery Prize that is sponsored by my co-host ALWAYS CRAFTING

In addition to that, there will be delicious!!!! candy througout the hop.

YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!!!!

*For my Flaunt It Fridays post, please scroll down. Thanks.*