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!!