Thank you Card Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to my posting for the New Year's Thank you Card Blog Hop!
If you've come here from Madison's blog over at Funky Cards you are in the right spot! I'm so glad you are joining us today! This blog hop was so easy for me to participate in. I do a lot of fun thank you cards after the holiday season to give thanks to the many people in our lives that went out of their way to give us gifts or host us over the holiday. Here are the two I chose for this hop today.

I just love the snowmen in this card and I love the stamped snowflakes in the background to make it look like it's snowing. This is similar to the Let it Snow card I did earlier in the week.

This ribbon from Stampin UP! is my favorite! It just makes the card and I love these three colors together! Stampin UP! Cherry Cobbler, Basic Gray, and Old Olive. The ribbon is the 1 1/4" Striped Grograin, also in Old Olive.

...Okay, now how about some blog candy? We all love that right?:-) I am giving away a Stampin UP! stamp set called Country Morning. This was a previous hostess only set and is no longer available. Just leave me a comment on this post letting me know if you still believe in sending out Thank you cards. That's it and oh I would love if you became a follower if you aren't already, but it's not a requirement:-).

Click here or below for the next blog on the hop:

http://jamieisacraftymomma.blogspot.com

If you would like to order any of these Stampin UP! products, check out my website:http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/creativestamper

Market Street Stamps

Today I had absolutely no intentions of creating anything. We have been gone since Christmas Eve visiting family and just arrived home last night. It was a wonderful Christmas celebration with family but when we got home I was a little overwhelmed with how much cleaning and organizing I needed to do. My intention today was to clean, clean, clean, and maybe organize a little. Well after doing that all morning, I needed a break. I put down my youngest for a nap and thought maybe I'll create a few thank you cards...Needless to say, I created a few and I also got a chance to break out my latest purchase of the Simply Stitched Stamps from Market Street Stamps. I am in love with these borders. They are so cute and fit perfectly around my little Let It Snow stamp from Stampin UP!

Anyway, I feel much more relaxed now that I got to create a little:-) I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Market Street Stamps Simply Stitched Borders, Stampin UP! Big on Christmas

Ink: Stampin UP! Classic White, Basic Black, Pacific Point

Paper: Stampin UP! Basic Gray, Whisper White, Bashful Blue

Stampin UP! Whisper White Organza ribbon

Fabric Portfolio and Cards

Normally I don't blog about things I have done where I got the ideas or designs from someone else as I usually like to keep everything on here fresh and my own design. I know, I know, alot of what we do usually is a mix of a bunch of different things we have seen over time but I like to think that "most" of what I put together is my own creativity. Anyway, I just have to share this project as I am so over the moon, thrilled with it. This is a card portfolio made out of the fabric sold by Stampin UP! in their latest mini catalog. The original design came from Shelli, the owner of Stampin UP! and some of this is also from my upline, Glenda Travelstead. I did take some liberties with the cards and used different stamps if I didn't have the specific ones called for in the instructions so it's a little bit of my own take on it as well. I made three of these to give away as Christmas gifts and I LOVE them!!

The front of the portfolio.

Inside of the portflio

1st card

2nd card

3rd card

4th card

This really took me out of my comfort zone as I had to sew (yikes) I can count on my hand the number of times I have sewn so this was a whole new learning experience! (of course now I want a sewing machine:-)) It was a lot of fun and I really hope the special people I give them to like it! Message me if you want directions on how to make this or would like to order any of the product.

Exciting Announcement!

Hi everyone! Today I finally get to announce that I have been selected as a guest designer for Peachy Keen Stamps in 2011. I am so excited as I LOVE Peachy Keen Stamps! Over 300 applicants were sifted through and 46 were chosen!! I am thrilled to be able to create some special projects with their stamps. I will be "designing" projects for a week on their blog along with their other permanent designers. I am scheduled for some time in October which seems so far away right now but as we all know it'll be here before we know it. Maybe I should start planning them now, LOL! Check out their blog for a list of all the designers.

Kathy's SUPER Secret Surprise Birthday Blog Hop

Hello everyone and a BIG Happy Birthday to Kathy from Peachy Keep Stamps! Here is my card in honor of the birthday girl!

If you haven't had a chance to check out Peachy Keen Stamps you MUST! Kathy comes up with the cutest stuff! They are so adorable, the face stamps are perfect for Cricut projects. I love my Princess faces stamps and the Critter faces stamps. I also love this adorable set I used above called Vivienne and Friends. The look on the little girl's face is so sweet and I love how she's pulling her turtle on roller skates:-). I hear we have lots of prizes to give away on the hop so be sure to to start the hop at the beginning at the Peachy Keen Blog and leave a comment on each blog to get more chance to win! If you are following along on the hop you will want to visit Glora's Crafts next! Thanks everyone and Happy Birthday Kathy!

Winner of the It's a Small Word Blog Hop

Good morning everyone! It's beginning to look A LOT like Christmas around my neck of the woods. We received lots of snow these last few days here in Chicagoland and it is bitter cold. Perfect weather to sit inside and get some crafting done:-) Anyway, onto the winner of the Gypsy Magic and More DVD. Congratulations to Monica!

Monica said...

I love that sign! I love Emma's videos. I"m a new follower.

http://happyscrappn2.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Monica! Thank you to everyone who hopped this weekend. I love reading all the sweet comments and hopping along as well to see everyone's projects. Have a great week!

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!

Winner of the 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Just wanted to take a quick time out from Christmas gift making, card making, and taking care of kids to announce the winner of the blog hop over the weekend. The winner was #28, picked by random.org.

I am a follower and these tags are wonderful. Love your blog :)

Happy Scrappin'

Sue B

Sue, I will be in contact soon.

Thanks so much for playing everyone!! I have something VERY exciting planned for this weekends blog hop! See you on Friday;-).

'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Welcome to the 'Tis the Season Blog Hop!

If you came here from Bonnie's Blog then you are on the right track, if you just happened to visit my blog today and want to start at the beginning, head to Iva's blog.

It's getting so close to Christmas, my kids are getting more and more excited each day. (Well at least my 4 yr old is, my 1 1/2 yr old just gets excited along with her, LOL!) I'm not sure if they are going to last the next 20 odd days to Christmas! We have been having so much fun decorating the house and crafting in all things Christmas. For this blog hop I decided to show off a few tags I made. I normally don't make my own tags for Christmas but I thought this might be something fun to try out this year. It's super easy and lots of fun!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Stampin UP! Delightful Decorations

Ink: Stampin UP Cherry Cobbler, Versamark, and Old Olive

Paper: Stampin UP! Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla

Ribbon: Stampin UP! Chocolate Chip

Supplies Used:

Stampin UP! Real Red and Basic Black paper, silver brads and retired Stampin UP! Gingham ribbon

Now, onto some blog candy I am giving away this December calendar page from Simple As ABCraft.

Calendar pages are a great way to organize your scrapbooks, especially when you are trying to "catch up". Wait, do we ever really catch up on scrapbooking?? Anyway, if you would like to win this page, please become a follower and leave a comment on this post with a way for me to get a hold of you by Sunday night, Dec 5th. Super easy!

If you would like to keep going on the hop, please stop by Christine's blog next. Take care, and have a very Merry Christmas!!