Pins To Creation Christmas Blog Hop

Hi all!  Welcome to the Pins to Creation Christmas Blog Hop!  I hope you have enjoyed the hop so far and are here from Madge's blog over at the Scrappin Lounge. If not and you want to start from the beginning, check out the Pins to Creation blog.  The goal of our design team is to find things we have "pinned" on Pinterest and create them!  This time we are creating items that are Winter, Christmas or Hanukkah related.

I have decided to make a rolled paper Christmas tree like the one I pinned from the DCWV blog.  Here is the photo from DCWV.

 Here is my tree, I decided to frame it.   This tree was so easy to make!  I just started off with some Christmas paper from the DCWV Prints for the Year Ultimate Stack, cut one 8x3, rolled it around a pencil, glued the end and then glued it to the paper.  I then went down 1/2 inch on the next sheet and so on until I was down to a 1/2 inch sheet.  The star I cut from my scrap paper with my star punch and using two starts together I made the big star on top.  I then used an embossing folder to get some brown paper to look like wood, framed it in a frame from the dollar store and voila!  My 6 yr old daughter is in love with it!

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Your next stop is Jamie over at the Scrap Queen blog:-).

Pins to Creation Post - Snowman Door

Hi all!  For today's post I decided to go with something totally FUN!  We have been decorating our house slowly but surely the last few days, getting it ready for Christmas.  While I was going through pinterest thinking of what I wanted to do for this post, I saw this and remembered how much I wanted to do it last year.  Unfortunately, we do not have a white fridge, opting to go with stainless steel in our house but we do have WHITE DOOR!  WOOHOO!

Here is the website where I pinned the idea from, http://craftingmytalents.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-snowman-fridge.html, and here is a copy of the photo she had on her blog:-).  isn't it too cute?

Here is my version, my kids are in LOVE with this snowman:-).  It was SO simple to make!  I just used my Creative Memories Circle maker and cut out the eyes at the biggest circle I had.  Then I cut out 9 more little circles, 5 for the mouth and 4 for the buttons (I had some kid help putting those on the door:-)), Then I free hand cut the scarf using some 12x24 Christmas paper I had, I love the candy cane paper that came in the pack.  The nose was cut using a 8 1/2x 11 piece of orange paper from Stampin UP!

 Here's another photo from higher up on my stairs.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you would, please head over to the Pins to Creation blog and check us out.  We are a fun group of girls making projects from pinterest!

Project Life Softball Pages

This morning I was able to get a little scrapbooking done.  We actually didn't have anything going on until the afternoon and the kids were playing so nicely so I thought I'd sneak in a little time in my scrapbooking room.  A few hours later and I had done a bunch of project life pages and then worked on these pages from Ava's softball this summer.  She participated in softball for the first time over the summer and had a blast!

I used the Teresa Collins Sports Edition II stamps for everything but the title on these pages.  I love this stamps for anything sports related.  The colors I used were Stampin UP Marina Mist and Regal Rose, along with some gray for the strip on the page and Stampin UP Whisper White to stamp on.

 Each of these 12x12 pages were next to a Project Life page in my album.  I love how it all coordinates!

Thanks for stopping by today!

DCWV Scrapaholic Challenge for November

Hi all!  It's been so busy these last few weeks.  I have been working a lot at my new job and I also got to take a trip to Vegas with my husband to help him out with his job at a trade show.  It was a lot of fun getting to spend so much time alone with my husband.  We were able to go to dinners by ourself, see some shows, and even went horseback riding!  We did miss the kids terribly and were happy to get home to them.  Then before we left last week for Thanksgiving break to spend with our families in Michigan I made some time to get into my scrapbooking room and create a few layouts.  I had printed out some photos of my son on his first day of school and I really wanted to get those into his album and our family album.  I just recently purchased two new school stacks from DCWV and I was itching to use those!  I took the most recent sketch from DCWV and used it to create my pages.  Here is what I came up with:

I just love the Edumacation stack from DCWV.  I used only that stack to create this page.  

 I also used the Edumacation stack for this page.  I created two pages with the same photos for the two different books.  I just love these pages.   My little boy is getting so big!

 My pages were based on this sketch from the DCWV blog.

I LOVE banners!  Here is the banner that came right out of the stack.  So cute!

 This banner I made on my own from the paper in the stock.  I loved the crayon paper.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Pins to Creation

Hi everyone!! Welcome to our first Pins to Creation blog hop!  Hopefully you have arrived here from Jamie, the Scrap Queen, if not and you want to start at the begining head over to the Pins to Creation blog at http://pinstocreations.blogspot.com.    I am soooo excited to be a part of this team!  I have been addicted to Pinterest for over a year now and only made a handful of items that I've seen on there.  I LOVE Pinterest!  It is so much fun and so fun to look at all the gorgeous photos and craft items I can make.   But there are only so many hours in the day right?  It would be difficult to make everything so we do what we can:-).  I found some time to make something with my kids and I want to share with you some Halloween treats inspired by Pinterest.
I gave my daughter two options for what we could make for Halloween treats.  In true "Ava" fashion she said "..well, let's make these for the girls and these for the boys."  So off I went to the craft store to find some material to make these two items.
The first item I attempted was this cute little pumpkin, looks easy right?  This is what my daughter wanted to make for the girls:-).  http://www.parenting.com/gallery/witchy-ways-96936?pnid=101727

This is my version, not quite the same is it?  I got the tulle from the store, thought ooooh, glitter tulle is so much better.  It didn't quite come out as I imagined it.  oh and I couldn't find orange jelly beans either so I used reese's pieces.

Okay, it's not that bad right?  I added the McDonald's treat as I thought that would be fun for the kids to get.  I made most of these without the kids help as I thought it was a little too hard for a 6 yr old and a 3  yr old.

The second project I chose to do was to make these cute little ghosts out of white fabric with googly eyes. The kids were able to help with these by adhering the eyes. This was inspired by this photo from http://onecharmingparty.com:

The kids were so excited to put googly eyes on the ghosts!  They loved making these and I thought they came out super cute!  I used white fabric and rubber bands to hold them together.  I think napkins would have been much easier:-)!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, you're next stop is Scrappin Madge at the Scrappin Lounge.