Winter and Snow Blog Hop

Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to the Winter and Snow Blog Hop!

Hopefully you have just arrived here from Erica at Erica's Craft Room. She is the first stop on this amazing hop so if you haven't gone to her blog yet, you'll want to check out the awesome project she made!
Our theme for this hop was, Winter and Snow!  Well we are in the thick of winter here (finally) in Illinois as we just about 6 inches of snow the other day after coming off 50 degree temps earlier in the week.  My kids were soooo excited and they are super excited to go make a snowman with Daddy today!  Anyway the project I am using is a page I made about my son going in the snow last year.  He was just under 2 in these pics.  As soon as he got outside last year he just had to taste all that fun white stuff! I couldn't resist snapping some pics.

I wanted to make this layout super simple so that I could really highlight these cute pics of him eating the snow.  I used the Cricut cartridge Joy of the Seasons for the snowflakes (large ones were cut at 2" and smaller ones were cut at 1") which is always my go to cart for snowflakes and I'm pretty sure that is Lyrical Letters for the title.  I inked around the edges of the larger snowflakes with Stampin UP Bashful Blue to give them some dimension and added some buttons. On the little ones I added a drop of Viva Pearl to the center.  The paper is Stampin UP!  Not Quite Navy and Whisper White.

Here is the full layout:

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  We have some AWESOME blog candy on this hop!  Be sure to leave a comment on all the blogs for more chances to win.

Your next stop is Teresa at the Scrappin Ts Place

Here is a list of the full lineup in case you get lost along the way.

Start- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Jessica - http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/  --> You are here

Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/ ---> Next stop

Carla - http://racincrafts.blogspot.com/ 

Indira - http://craftyhomemade.blogspot.com/ 

Erica- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/ 

Cori- http://createdbycori.blogspot.com/

Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/

Cindy - http://toolsofacropingqueen.blogspot.com/ 

Laurie - http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com/

Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/ 

Blog Candy- http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

It's a Small World Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Welcome to the It's a Small World Blog Hop hosted by Kinderstampo! If you came here from the Scrapbooking Techniques Blog then you are on the right track. If you just happened on my blog today and want to start from the beginning, head on over to Kinderstampo.

As you may know the theme of this blog was to make something that fit into a tradition that is celebrated this time of the year. Ever since I was little, I can remember celebrating the entire month of December with a fun German Advent Calendar. My family didn't have too many traditions outside of putting up a tree and decorating for the holidays. I loved this as a little kid, counting down the days until Christmas and of course getting that special little chocolate treat. I decided to make my own advent calendar to hang up in our house to count the days down.

I started with a black sign that I bought at Target during the after Halloween sales for 2.99. It had some silly saying on it and at the time I knew I would be covering that up! I needed to use some 12x24 paper as this is larger than 12 inches and I wanted the paper to flow nicely. I found this great paper pack from DCWV that has adhesive on the back, so nice! I used my gypsy to design the rest of it, using the font from Winter Woodland, the Santa from Christmas Cheer, the ornaments from Joys of the Season along with the Christmas from Merry Christmas (I hid the Merry so it wouldn't cut). I used velcro adhesive to attach felt numbers onto the ornaments for the countdown numbers.

Are you ready for some exciting blog candy? I have a wonderful sponser, her name is Emma from My Creative Time. She has a wonderful blog and I have learned so much from her on her videos. She uses her gypsy a lot and even has a few videos that you can purchase. The videos are great and her projects are always so CUTE! I am giving one of these videos away to a lucky winner.

Just leave me a comment on this post with a way to get in touch with you and I would love it if you became a follower if you aren't already:-).

If you would like to continue on this hop and check out the fabulous projects and enter to win some more blog candy, then check out DD's Crafts next!

30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop, Day 30

Welcome to the last day of the 30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop! I cannot believe this hop is over, there have been so many fabulous projects and I have gotten lots of ideas on what to make friends and family for Christmas. Now I just need more time to do it!:-)

Anyway, on to my project. I have been wanting to make a board book on my cricut for quiet some time now. One morning I had an idea and starting designing this one on my gypsy. I thought "Noel" would be the perfect thing to cut out for a Christmas book. At first, I had a hard time cutting the chipboard I used. I chose to use a cereal box with my deep cut blade but after cutting it many times and not having much luck, I gave up. My machine was making noises and the blade wouldn't move unless I had it on a pressure of 1. I decided to go at it again with some thinner chipboard on a pizza box and not use my deep cut blade. After one cut it cut out perfectly! I am thrilled with how it came out!

Here is the book standing up

The "N", I just love my little face ornaments:-)

The book opened to the first page

The second page

The third page

The back of the book

The book laying flat

Supplies and Directions:

Cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook for the letters and the rectangle. I welded a rectangle onto each of the letters and just stretched the rectangle until I was satisfied with the look of the letters overlapping each other. I used Joys of the Season for the ornaments.

Paper: Stampin UP! Jolly Holiday DSP and Very Vanilla for the ornaments and saying

Stamps: Stampin UP! Teeny Tiny Wishes and PKS Everyday Face Assortment

Ink: Stampin UP! Basic Black, Old Olive, and Cherry Cobbler

Misc: Silver Stickles, various ribbon, 3 gypsies rings, and Stampin UP! Old Olive brads

Please email me if you have any questions on this project. Thank you to Jill, The Scrapoholic for hosting this fun Hop!