The Creative Stamper Spot

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/

Superman Door Hanger

Hi all! This is just a quick post on a really simple project I did for my son's door. I designed this last night using Cricut Craft Room and cut it with my Imagine today Every since I got this cartridge I have been wanting to make this door hanger as I thought my son would love it! He is so into his superhero characters already (he's 2 1/2)! He loves to dress up as Spiderman or Superman and would wear the costumes every day if he could. I know he is going to love it when he wakes up from his nap shortly. My first design had the "Heroes Only" logo on it but I thought it was a little plain and he can't read anyway:-). I thought he would like it much better with the Superman logo and his name.

After gluing it all together I laminated it to try to make it last longer. There's a slight glare on the photo from the plastic, sorry about that!

I am also entering this into the Scrappy Moms Terrific Tuesday challenge this week. Thanks for looking!

Love Bugs Banners for Kids Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and Happy Saturday! It's an exciting day around my house as it's my daughter's 1/2 birthday! LOL, okay she is 5 1/2 and boy is she excited, you'd think it was her real birthday! Anyway, thank you so much for visiting my blog today, hopefully you have come here from Tammy at Tambo's Creations, if not and you want to start at the beginning of this awesome hop, please head on over to Ellen at The Cardmonkey's Paper Jungle.

I am so honored to once again be participating in this wonderful cause for the children at the Pediatric Specialty Care. This time we have almost forty very talented crafters who have come together for a two day hop to showcase handmade banners that will be donated. The banners bring smiles to the faces of all the children that are cared for at this facility and I am so happy that I could do that as well!

We have some awesome sponsors for the hop as well, you will be entered to win as long as you leave a comment, the more blogs you visit the more chances you have to win!

Jellypark Digital Stamps will award 2 free digi-images to one winner.

K Andrews Designs has donated a stamp set to one winner.

Robyn's Fetish will donate FIVE digital images of the winner's choice as a prize!

Okay, onto my banner. I used my new Cricut Imagine (love it) to create this banner. The cartridges I used were Yummy for the banner and patterns, Imagine More for the butterflies, and Storybook for the letters. I used a Tim Holtz die for the Rosettes with Stampin UP Chocolate Chip paper. I also used pink twine from the Twinery to tie it all together. The theme of this hop was "love bugs", I thought it would be fun to use butterflies as my "bugs" on the banner:-)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Your next stop is Robin over at Scrap and Chat.

Here is a list of all the participants in case you get lost along the way:

Ellen ♥ CardMonkey – http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com
Tami - http://tamboscreations.blogspot.com/
Jessica- http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
Robin – http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/
Theresa Neubaum - http://scrappyartcrafters.blogspot.com/
Nicolette - http://beyondscrapin.blogspot.com/
Vicki - http://scrapbookingcreationsbyvicki.blogspot.com/
Lisa T.- http://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com/
Jessica ~ http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com/
Jessica ~ http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com/
Jennifer ~ http://craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/
Nancie ~ http://alittlepieceofmebynancie.blogspot.com/
Tonya Wilson - http://creativeaddictiontopaper.blogspot.com/
Monica - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
Rachelle- http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com
Beckie - http://justbecreativecrazy.blogspot.com
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com

January 2012 (what?) Calendar Page

Hi all, Is it seriously January 2012? I CANNOT believe it! We had a great Christmas holiday with friends and family, now it's time for me to start living my New Years Resolutions! Craft more, eat less, and enjoy the time with family! Okay now onto that first resolution of crafting more. I think I have become Teresa Collins obsessed! Ever since I got her Baby Boutique cartridge for my Imagine I cannot stop playing with it. I just love her style, especially the black and white together with pops of color thrown in.

Here is my Calendar Page for January. I used the Baby Boutique calendar printout for the base, then I printed a whole sheet of the background paper from a pattern on the cartridge. I printed out the header from Baby Boutique as well (removing the blessings title) and then used the Designer's Calendar cartridge for the word January which I printed in black. I then punched out some snowflakes strung it with some silver string and added some silver dots with my pearl pen.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Disney Autograph Books

Hi all! I have been busy up in my craft room making gifts for all my family members for Christmas. I tried to make as many gifts this year as I could instead of buying gifts. I really love getting homemade gifts from the heart and I hope my family members too:-).

Here is an example of something I made using my new Cricut Imagine. I am seriously in love with this machine. I just love the possibilities with it and I love using Cricut Craft room (an online design tool). I also just loaded the Imagine app onto my gypsy for designing when I'm away from my craft room. It's just so much fun! I have also been buying up carts like crazy on ebay for around 10.00 a piece. One I just received was Baby Boutique. At first I glanced right over this one thinking I wouldn't need to do any baby pages since my babies are a little older now but once I saw it was Teresa Collins and I saw all the awesome papers I was sold! I used this one primarily for these books:

The frames and paper were cut using the Imagine Baby Boutique cartridge, along with the crowns. I used Mickey Font for the words along with the Mickey Mouse ears (filling in the colors from the Baby Boutique patterns). Sleeping Beauty was cut using the Disney Happily Ever After cartridge, I also filled in her colors on my Imagine based on the Disney "official" RGB codes. How cool is that? I used my cinch to bind them.

Here is how it looked when I pulled the mat out of the Imagine I just stuck in a white piece of paper and all the colors were done for me:)

Modge Podge is my friend when I make these books, don't want the paper to come off for anything and they need to be able to withstand a lot of hand holding by little ones. Notice my other two autograph books in the background? I was getting the photos around from our last trip to put in those for my son and daughter. :-)