My Craft Spot Stamp Release Party Blog Hop

Hello Everyone and welcome to the My Craft Spot Blog Hop!  Kimberly is releasing 4 new stamps sets to her store at My Craft Spot today and they are all so much fun!  I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with a talented papercrafter like Kimberly as well as the rest of the creative Design Team!  If you have come from Kimberly's blog then you are heading in the right direction!  If you are stopping by to see me today (thanks), then you will not want to miss out on this!  Head back to My Craft Spot to start at the beginning!  There are so many creative projects along the way, not to mention Kimberly has given each of us on the Design Team a new stamp set to give away...YAY!  There are only 9 stops, so please join us and hop!

We have been sharing our sneak peeks of the four new Stamp Sets all week and now we are ending the week with our best projects!  I have made two fun holiday party projects for you today!  Would you like to see what I have made for your inspiration?

My first project is a Halloween project using Candy Corn Kisses!  

I have been working on sets of these invitations for weeks!  I started back in July when Kimberly first told me there would be new stamps coming out!  

 I didn't know at the time that she would have these perfect party invitation stamps, but I knew there would be something adorable to stamp on them!  You can imagine my excitement when I saw the Candy Corn Kisses stamp set!

Here is a close up of these great stamps!

I made these Criss Cross style invitations and covered them with a homemade pattern paper (Click HERE to see my little tutorial on how to get this effect).  I added matching strands of Crinkle Ribbon to the invitation and adhered these fun googly eyes to the band!

The glitter on the bands is Martha Stewart's Glow in the Dark!   I still have another dozen or so to make, and I think I am more excited to send these out to everyone than I am to have the Halloween party!  These stamps couldn't have been any more perfect! 

My second project is a Thanksgiving project using the Happy Fall Stamp Set! 

I made little Thanksgiving treat boxes.  You know how there is always that period of time before dinner where there are people sitting at the table just waiting for the BIG dinner to be served.  I thought this could be a cute, tasty little snack before hand or it can be saved for afterwards (if there is room)! 

I filled a cello bag with these chocolate & yogurt flavored nuts and raisins then tied it closed with Chocolate Truffle Bakers Twine (that almost sound good enough to eat)!  I stamped the "Gobble Gobble!" stamp on a vanilla card stock and punched it out to make a tag.  I was thinking these could also double as name plates for dinner too by writing every one's names on the back side!

The "Turkey Time!" is another one of the fun stamps from the new Happy Fall set.  The papers are a retired Stampin' Up! DSP and the colors are beautiful.  Notice how the gorgeous Crinkle Ribbon matches perfectly!  I cut the turkey from Animal Kingdom and colored it with Stampin' Write Markers.  

The scalloped squares are from Plantin Schoolbook.  Everything is popped up and layered with either SU dimensionals or Helmar Zapdots.  Since Thanksgiving is still 3 months away, I only filled one bag for now.  I'll be munching on the rest of these until it is time to stuff the boxes and the bird...mmmmm!

Ok, so who wants some blog candy?  Kimberly has given me my favorite stamp set to give away to one lucky winner today,
Happy Fall!

BLOG CANDY RULES

1. You must leave a comment telling me your favorite stamp set of the release party!

2. You do not need to be a follower of mine, but if you like what you have seen this week, I would love if you were!

3. Because I love my friends (aka followers), followers may have an extra entry by adding a second comment letting me know that you are a follower (old and new)!

4. You must stop back on Tuesday Aug 30 to see if you have won!

I've taken enough of your time today.  There are so many more amazing projects to see, so hop on!  Your next stop is my very talented friend

Kate at Small Bits of Paper

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost along the way!

Kimberly

Amber YOU ARE HERE
Kate NEXT STOP

Amy

Joy

Aymee

Jenny

Marlene

Ally


I hope you enjoyed my projects this week and thank you for hopping by! 

Stamp Party Sneak Peeks

Native Pride Baby LO

Another layout to share for today.  Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #5 is Baby Love.  This LO is for my youngest Es baby book.  These pics were taken when she was just 6 weeks old and she is so tiny (well tiny for her, she was a 9lb baby)!  This is such a special LO because it is with her moccasins.  My children's Nokomis (grandmother) makes each one of the grandkids a very special pair of moccasins when they are born.  Each one is uniquely made for each kid.  E #3's were my favorite and they were brown, red and black.  I was so thrilled when I found this cute onesie that matched her moccasins perfectly that I took about 50 pics!  Here is the LO I made to match her attire that day! 

This LO is not completely true to the traditions of their family's tribe.  Their tribe built wigwams not tepees but like I said, I was making the LO to match the attire.   

I added a creasant moon just like the onesie and journaled on it.

I placed her Bear with her in the pics and on the LO because she is Bear Clan! 

Not your traditional Baby LO colors but I LOVE the way it turned out!  I'm busy scrapbooking today so stop back later for some more fun LOs!!

Products Used:

• American Crafts CS
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge



Piggy Thank You

This is the piggy thank you I made for one of my husbands employees.  Last week while I was sick, he made a batch of soup and sent home 2 qts with my husband.  This was a huge help because then I didn't have to worry about cooking for the kids during the day and they love this soup!  This man makes the best soup and he does it in huge batches for local Churches and club fundraisers.  I wanted to send him a special thank you so the girls and I made him a piggy(because it was Ham&Bean soup)!  I'm sure he'll love it!

Once again, I am using my scraps of paper from my scrap pile for this card!  I am following the Challenge at Sonia's  Scraps 4 Fun.  The challenge is to organize your scrap pieces of paper and use them up over the next 2 months.  It's great recycling!  Check it out and join in the fun!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS (Card Base)
• Scrap Pile Papers (gingham and textured pink patterns)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart
• Martha Stewart Punch
• My Pink Stamper Even More Punnylicious Stamp Set
• Google Eyes (instead of buttons)

Challenges:

Jitterbuggin' Go Hog Wild Challenge 

**** The link was closed so I missed this challenge but their new challenge is going to be a lot of fun****

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

It's A Zoo in Here LO

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Challenge is Zoo Theme!  I thought this would be a fun way to use up some scraps from my 3 year old's second birthday scrapbook.  She had a jungle party and I had made her an 8x8 book.  I couldn't find the 8x8 jungle pad when I made her book so I had to buy it in 12x12.  This left me with a lot of large scraps!  I saw this as a perfect opportunity to follow Sonia's Challenge to use my scraps up over the next 2 months.  Here is my new Zoo LO made with mostly all leftover treasures from the Jungle scrapbook!  Isn't recycling great!



Products Used:

• Scrap Pile Paper (everything but the blue background which is Bazzill)
• Leftover brads and stickers are most likely Sandylion
• Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge (Monkey)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart (Hippo)
• Create A Critter Cricut Cart (Alligator)
• Sugar and Spice Cricut Cart (Elephant)
• Paper Dolls for Everyday Cricut Cart (Zoo entrance and fence)
• Cuttin' Up Cricut Cart (Title)
• Stampin' Up! Ribbon
• White Signo Gel Pen

Challenges:

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Zoo Theme Challenge

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

Parade Creatures

For this past years Halloween Parade, the girl's Preschool Float theme was "God Loves all the Little Creatures of the World".  Of course I was excited to volunteer to make little Creatures for the float!  At first I was going to use Create a Critter but then I decided these little creatures needed to look like the kids, so I got to work cutting all these little guys out from Paper Dolls Dress Up.   I finally opened my 12x24 paper for this project.  It was hard to use it but it was starting to collect dust, so it was time!  The little kids were cut using white CS and I had the preschool kids color them with skin tones.  They had fun and it gave them a chance to participate in the decorations!

These two were cut using other cartridges and my Gypsy (my first project using my Gypsy).   They ended up being my favorite!   I just loved their google eyes!  You can see the twist ties we used to adhere them to the float sticking up from the tops of their heads.

Then since it was a Halloween Parade, and I knew there would be all kinds of costumes, I decided we needed to represent them too.  I used my girl's Laminated Paper Dolls for the school banners.  I think everyone really enjoyed all the "Little Creatures"!

Knoebels Scrapbook

Here is the scrapbook I am currently working on.  All of the pages are very simple because I have a lot of pictures to fit into this book.  We go to Knoebels Amusement Park several times every year.  These pics are from one of our trips in 2009 (I am a bit behind).

For this page, I actually visited the Amusement Park's website to get the details of this ride correct.

                                     

 I plan on working on this book this weekend.  If I ever finish this scrapbook, it will be huge!