Christmas In July Day 2 Treats and Favors

HI everyone today is Day 2 of our Celebration Of Christmas.  If you just happened to come across my post that is great. After you finish here you will want to go to Giselle's Blog for a chance at winning today's special treat ssponsored by My Pink Stamper!
The theme for today's project is Treats and Favors and here is what I made:



This is my treat box filled with Peppermint Soft Mint candy,

The box is Recollections card stock cut from the "Cricut Everyday" cartridge with the tabs cut off.

The ornament square is from a 12x12 scrapbook page titled "Christmas Balls" by Paper Adventure.

I cut a 3 inch wide strip of white card stock Embossed it with the Cuttlebug "Holly Ribbons Folder" used Anna Griffin Holly edge punch along both edges.

Scored it lightly to go around the corners of the box.

The Ribbon was from some I had in my stash.

I'm not a big "Bling" person but I added a few pearls in the corners of the Ornament cut out.

Fairly simple project.

Hope you like it.

" I will be giving away a PC " Your Story to one lucky winner. I am participating in 5 of the 7 days of celebration and will pick a winner from those who comment on my posts "HERE" on my blog for those five events ( 5 chances to win) I'd love for you to follow me but it isn't mandatory to win. Thanks again!

Big Blog Hugs,  Janet

"Christmas In July" Day 1

Hello everyone. Welcome to "Christmas In July" a fun week long celebration, that's 7 days filled with awesome projects for you to enjoy and get inspired! I am so lucky to be a  "Guest Designer"  for this celebration. The week long celebration is being hosted by my sweet friend from the "Florida Cricut Crop" Giselle of  Cross My Hearth Paper Crafts (one very talented crafter) and her good friend Nadia from Nadia's Beautiful Mess. Please join us for some amazing projects and some very SWEET blog candy

In order to win the candy from our hosts here are the rules

• NOTE: TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER OF BOTH NADIA'S AND MY BLOG. YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE A BLOG TO ENTER THE CHALLENGES OR COMMENT BUT YOU MUST HAVE A BLOGGER ACCOUNT AND BE ABLE TO FOLLOW BOTH BLOGS.

• LEAVE A COMMENT EVERY DAY ON EACH DESIGNER'S POST FOR EXTRA CHANCES TO WIN THE PRICES (ONE COMMENT PER PERSON PER POST PLEASE). THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF DESIGNERS PER DAY SO THERE ARE MANY MANY MANY CHANCES TO WIN.

• PARTICIPATE ON THE EVERYDAY CHALLENGES, WITH A MAXIMUM OF 7 CHANCES TO WIN THE PRIZE AT THE END OF THE WEEK (ONE PROJECT PER CHALLENGE PER PERSON PLEASE).

Now for today's project "Christmas Card Monday"

I wanted to make a shape card and I chose this image from the Cricut essentials cartridge (exclusive to the E2) I had to use the Cricut Craft room to weld it because it isn't linked to my Gypsy.

I used recollections CS for most of the cuts. The card when folded is 5 x 6 the white mat measures approximately 4,75 x 5.75 and was embossed with the "Holly Ribbons" folder. The Partridge in a pear tree was cut from "Joys of the season" at 2,25 x3.5. I cut all the layers the shadow is dark green, The blackout is brown, the base is a brighter green and the layer is a mustard yellow, added a 1 inch red strip punched along both edges wit an Anna Griffin boarder punch. The sentiment was from my collection of stamps, the shape for this was also from"Cricut Essentials" cut at approx 1 x 2 in white and framed with green shape cut slightly larger. Added some white doodling on both red pieces and a green bow to top it off. Both the sentiment and the partridge were on pop dots.

Hope you enjoy every ones projects

Big Blog Hugs,  Janet !

PS !!!  Forgot to mention I will be giving away a PC " Your Story to one lucky winner. I am participating in 5 of the 7 days of celebration and will pick a winner from those who comment on my posts "HERE" on my blog for those five events ( 5 chances to win) I'd love for you to follow me but it isn't mandatory to win. Thanks again!

My First Guest Designer Spot!!!

 Hi all I am so excited I won a ( my first ever) guest designer spot on Amber's Crafts and Stuff a couple weeks back. Here is my project:

I needed to include embossing ( any type ) on the card. The patterned and black paper was from a Colorbok stack from Walmart. I am hooked on square cards lately the white base id 5 1/2 in square out of Recollection Cardstock as is the white embossed piece.  The mats were cut from George and Basic Shapes

at 5 1/4 and 5 inches. the embossed center was from Accent Essentials cut at 3 1/4 and 3 inches and embossed with the Victoria folder. The "Mr & Mrs" was from the Sweet hearts cartridge cut at 1.65 along with its shadow and embossed it with the Swiss Dots folder (it's not very visible in the photo) I added some ribbon ( check out this link for the how to My Creative Time With Emma she has a video on how to do the ribbon. I added a little bling and some doodling. 

Hope you enjoy my creation

Thanks for stopping by! Janet 

“SUMMER THEMED BLOG HOP”

Welcome to my Blog and the Summer Theme Blog Hop. We are holding this blog hop in celebration of Summer Vacation . This is my first time participating in a blog hop. I would like to thank my friend Giselle for inviting me and Rebecca for including me. Hope you enjoy my project.

You should have arrived here from Amber's Blog (http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/) if so you are on the right path, if not please click on the link http://scrapersdelight.blogspot.com/ to start at the beginning as we'd hate you to miss  any of the letters.


There are a total of 3 questions, giving all participants 3 chances to win 3 different prices.
Following the link from the last blog you must post your comment on our main Blog with your answers and a link back to your blog so we can contact the lucky winners. Sign up to the Scrappers Delight Group (http://scrappersdelight.socialgo.com/) as we have many give always and monthly swaps and challenges going on throw out the year.

 You can have a chance at winning the candy by following our blog hop and collecting the letters from the Scrapbooking Elements along the way. Once you have reached the last blog and collected all the letters, some blogs may have 2 scrapbook elements so make sure you check there blogs very careful, unscramble the letters to reveal a well known Summer Theme Song. If you wish to be entered into the Summer Theme Blog Hop Draw make sure you post your answers onto the main blog page at http://scrapersdelight.blogspot.com/

The hop will close on 8th July 2011 and the winners will be announced on 11th July 2011. We have some wonderful blog candy available for those who would like to play along We welcome international participation on this hop.



Now for my project. I chose to create a card using the Cricut Lite “Savory” cartridge. My inspiration came from the background pattern paper. It came from a stack called “Raspberry Cordial” . I just love the colors and the pattern..

　
　

To make this card I used Recollections Cream Card stock

Recollections textured Card stock for the red.

All the cuts were made from my stash which is a collection

of Lots of different papers.

The card is 5 ½ x 4 ¼

The red mat was cut at 5 ¼ x 4

The patterned mat is 5 x3 ¾

The Pitcher and glass were manipulated with my Gypsy

And cut just under 3 inches

I uses an EK success punch on the red strip

added a piece of fun ribbon from Michael’s Dollar bin .

The sentiment I found on the internet and printed it out

Using “Curls MT” font at 16 points onto a white mat cut with

the Lite “Lacy Labels “ cartridge at 2 ¾ x ¾

I did a little inking with memento chocolate and

studio G Raspberry, doodled a little with a black gel pen.

　
　Now the really important part my piece of the puzzle is the letter “A”.
　

 Don’t forget to visit all the blogs and collect the letters to so you can be eligible for the Blog Candy!

I hope you are inspired by my project and are enjoying the blog hop so far, when you are ready please hop over to Jani's blog at http://papercompulsions.blogspot.com and continue the fun.

Just in case you get lost along the way here is a list to the blog line-up:

Rebecca http://scrapersdelight.blogspot.com/
Martina Brill http://stampinggoddess-stampalicious.blogspot.com/
Meesh AKA Michelle http://meeshskraftkorner.blogspot.com
Rhonda Miller http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com/
Ginger Williams http://memories-by-gn.blogspot.com/
Giselle Varela http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com
Danielle http://daniecreatief.blogspot.com/
Janell http://janellscreations.blogspot.com/
Trisha http://trishliciousandco.blogspot.com/
Leslie Krochta http://www.lesliekcreations.blogspot.com/
Carol http://www.butterflycardsbycaz.blogspot.com
Tracy http://queeniesscrapmad.blogspot.com/
Brandy http://allthingscrafty-brandy.blogspot.com
Amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/
Janet http://ladyLuvBug.blogspot.com (ME)
Jani Lewis http://papercompulsions.blogspot.com
Carrie http://paperglitterstamps.blogspot.com
Freda Thomas http://scraparama.blogspot.com/




Big Blog Hugs

Janet

Baby Boy Scrapbook Layouts.

One final post before I go to bed. A couple weeks ago I came across a request for some Layouts for a scrapbook being created for a family whose baby ( 8 mths old) was very ill. Some of you may have seen it posted on FB. I agreed to do a couple pages and I thought I'd share them with you.

Thanks for stopping by. Would love to hear your comments!
Big Blog Hugs  Janet

Party Banner and Favor boxes

I am submitting this to Decorate To Celebrate Blog . This isn't for a Birthday Party but I hope you will enjoy it anyway.
I've been MIA for a while. Been busy Planning and creating with my daughter for my husbands surprise
retirement party. I'm going to post a few pics for you to see'

This is the banner  as you can see golfing is his favorite pastime. I have a couple close ups of it for you to see,

I used Recollection card stock in green, red and blue jewel tones The green flag, red shield and letters were all embossed with different embosing folders;. The gold shield and golf club (fathers day cart) were cut from recollections metalic card stock. The ribbon I found at the last minute in Michael's dollar bin.
I used "Nate's ABC's" for the letters." Lovely Floral" for the banner cut at 2 different sizes, and "Sports Mania" for the golf bag and sentiment. I was very pleased at how it turned out.

The next pic is of the favor boxes with some of the items that were included in them. They were cut from the same card stock as the banner. The box was from everyday cricut and the embellishments were from Sports Mania

This last post is a card that my grand daughter made for her "poppop" I helped her to cut it out but she put it together. She did an excellent job.

Finally a couple pic from the party!

Hope you enjoyed my little presentation!

Thanks for stopping by

Big Blog Hugs  

Janet

Graduation and achievement!! and PKS LFIF Challenge

Good Morning everyone! Hope you all had an awesome weekend. Got a couple cards to share. The first is for my grandson who has graduated preschool and is on to the real thing in August. I used the graduation cart and actually cut the layer twice the first was with all the facial cuts ( not very pretty so using my gypsy and taking out the facial features and replaced them with a PKS stamp image from the Winter Assortment, much better look.

The second is a card for my grand daughter who finished the year with straight A's  Of course she was given an incentive (aka bribe) to work for.  My daughter promised her a trip up to MA to visit family and a day in Boston. So now mom has to make good on her promise! Here is my card, I'll be adding a GC to Justice her favorite store.

Of course her fav colors are purple and pink
Hope you enjoy my newest creations. Love to read your comments!
Thanks for stopping by.   Janet