Celebrations of The Heart Blog Hop

Welcome to the Celebrations of The Heart Blog Hop hosted by Alina @ http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/  her blog should be your start and end point and remember to leave comments along the way in order to be eligible for the giveaways.

This hop is in honor of people who are near and dear to your heart....I decided to make some note cards to give to a person who has been there for me through it all, just to remind him that I truly love him and appreciate his friendship.

And here is your next stop   Raven Baca http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Sponsors: 

Emma at My Creative time

Scrappy Moms Stamps

Peachy Keen Stamps

Alina (our wonderful host) with Life's a Beach Cricut cartridge and a set of stamps from Pink by design and Market Street Stamps

This is the line up and in order to be eligible to win you must visit each blog and leave a comment on their post, when you are all done go back to Alina’s blog and leave a comment to let her know you have commented on all the stops in the hop.

Starting point Alina http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/

Jessica Baker http://thatzuneek.blogspot.com/

Gloria Zuniga http://gloriasgoofycraftspot.blogspot.com/

Sarah Pink Cricut http://www.pinkcricut.com/

Crazy About Cricut http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Angelica Suarez http://handmadebyangelica.com/

Mary http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/

Scrapbookaholic Abby http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

That’s me…Nicole Simple Scrappin http://s0ldierswife.blogspot.com/

Raven Baca http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Restivo http://www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/

Nicolette Simpson http://beyondscrapin.blogspot.com/

Paula More than Favors http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/

A Scrap Above http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com/

Lisa Thorpe HTTP://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com/

Typical Scrapbooker http://www.typicalscrapbooker.com/

Jennier Anderson http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/

Amy Porthouse  http://amydesigns.blogspot.com/

Lezlye Hardwick-Lauterbach http://www.lezlyes.blogspot.com/

Martha Galvez http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

Mari (Momo) http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/

Alina http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/

Crazy About Cricut's Family Friday

Welcome to my first Family Friday as a member of Crazy About Cricut's Famiy Friday Team. I was very excited when I was selected to be on the team since I love love love crafting with my family. Well let's get started....

Of course Halloween is pretty much all about family so here is some of what my family has been up to while in the Halloween Spirit....

Here is a bag my 13yr old and I made for treats for her "BFF's"

We used the bag cut from Tags, Bags, and Boxes and the sentiment from Happy Haunting.The bag was cut at fit to page (12x12)

We then cut the sentiment and shadow at 2.60 height (on the Gypsy)

We used black glitter around the sentiment...and added googlie eyes to the spider.Then we just added a ribbon handle and of course the treats :)

Here is a project I did with my little guy (3yrs old)...we cute out a monster shaped body (free hand but we should have used mini-monsters) on some construction paper and decorated it with what ever we had laying around.Which turned out to be some feathers, pieces of a cut up q-tip for the teeth, marshmellows and googlie eyes for the eyes, and of course a button and a star.

Here is a Halloween slider card I made for my daughter. You can get directions for this on you tube...just search double slider card. It was super easy and super fun since I made this with a very close friend who is like a mother to me. 

And of course Halloween is not complete with out a day at the Pumpkin Patch and Pumpkin Carving

Momo's Hubby Challange

Momo has a hubby challange going on her blog, the challange is for hubby's to make a card, any kind of card...so yes I was able to convince my hubby to play along and he decide to make a bithday card for our son. So here is my Soldier with his home made card...shhhh don't tell his Army buddies LOL

First he browsed through images...

Then he drew his own sketch...

Then he picked out paper...

Then he took about 30 min trying to figure out the Gypsy...

Then he got his mat ready...

Then they watched the cricut cut...

Then he put together his layers...and added some googlie eyes to Elmo...

Whimsical Wednesday

Welcome back to another Whimiscal Wednesday, this week Stephanie and I decide to make something using buttons, bling, or brads.

Please remember to stop over at Stephanie's blog to see what she created and participate in this weeks challange. Stephanie will be having a giveaway please check out her blog for more details.

Whimsical Wednesday with Stephanie

Here is my project for Whimsical Wednesday hosted by Stephanie at alwayscrafting. This weeks challange is to use the Create-a-critter cartridge in any project, you can join in this challange over at Stephanie's blog linked above.

Haul from Scrapbook Expo

Here is what I got at the scrapbook expo...not much but some good prices...

140 Sheets of Cardstock...some smooth some textured all for 20.00

Prima Botanicals Mix...aren't they sooo pretty

Prima Chipboard Frames 1.50per tin :)

Buttons...the 3 on the bottom are for my friend who had to work :( so she could not come with to shop.

Misc stuff that was 15 for 20.00

Clear stamps 5 for 10.00 so what the heck I had to get some.

I got all of these from the 1.00 bins except for the K&Company halloween which was 1.50. The felt flowered paper clicps I got for my daughter to use as book marks, and the felt sasafrass I got for my Bestie

Ok what girl doesn't need pearls....lol especially at 1.00per pack

Some copics to add to the collection...3.22 ea

Ok I tried these at a free make and take...and let me tell you they are sooo much easier to use then regular scissors...so I had to have a pair

Whimsical Wednesday

Stephanie over at Always Crafting and I decide to both make something using the thinking of you frame on the Cricut Lite Lacy Labels Cart and here is what I came up with. Click here to check out Stephanie's project.

Birthday Card for Grandma

Here is a my little guy making a birthday card for his Grandma. We cut everything with the Cricut, he picked everything he wanted cut and the colors he wanted to paint it all. He said the dinosaur had to be pink because that's a pretty color for Grandma. He said he had to add jewelry (the pink gem) and he has been loving these googlie eyes lately, seems we put them on almost every project.

And here is his completed project...

12x12 digital layout

12x12 digital layout of my son

Chicago Millennium Park

Again another late one my computer was down...this was for Emma's Destination Challange

I made a 12 X 12 scrapbook page of my daghter playing at Millennium Park

P.S. The girl with the flowered top is my daughter, the others are my nephew and my baby sister.