My Craft Spot Stamp Release Party Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to your final stop of the Stamp Release Party Blog Hop for My Craft Spot!!  This hop is a little bitter sweet for me.  This will be my last hop as a My Craft Spot Design Team member.  I have been blessed to work with Kimberly on her Design Team since the beginningand I have learned so many great paper crafting tips from her... but I've made the decision to stop posting on my blog by the end of the year in order to spend more time with my family!  I will really miss my bloggy friends especially this incredible group of talented ladies but it is just something I feel my family needs right now.
 
Thank you to all of you who have stopped by and left your sweet comments! I hope you have enjoyed all of the sneak peeks this week! The DT have worked so hard for this Stamp Release and today we are ending with a bang! Are you thrilled to see each of the new sets today?  You should have arrived here from the talented Heather!  If not, jump over to My Craft Spot to start from the beginning for your chance to win a set of the new stamps or dies at each stop! You will not want to miss a stop!

I made a cute little 6" giftie box with the adorable penguin from Create A Critter. 

I added a little scarf using Maraschino Twinery Twine available at My Craft Spot, then made a simple box and popped the penguin off of it with pop-dots.

 

I filled this little guy with some cold weather neccesities...tissues, lip gloss, hand santitizer, and hand lotion!

My daughter thinks the tag is the best part of this guy!  The adorable sentiment comes from the new Think Snow Stamp Set!  The little tag is cut with one die from the new Lacy Banners Metal Dies and one from the Tiny Doilies Metal Dies. 

Speaking of the Think Snow set, who wants to win one of new Think Snow Stamp Sets!!!  I am giving one set away to one lucky winner!!!  Please leave me a comment letting me know which is your favorite new stamp set this week for your chance to win them! I'll announce the winner on Monday 11/12 so stop back to see if you've won!

Thank you so much for hopping with us today! We hope you have been inspired!!  There is a copy of the Blog Hop line-up below in case you got lost along the way or you can head to My Craft Spot to start shopping for these new beautiful stamp sets!  Have a great day!

 

 

Blog Hop Order:
Kimberly
GiGi
Ally
Gwen
Robin
Kate
Heather
Amber

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #65 - Invitations and Announcements

Good morning!  Today we have another fun challenge for you at My Craft Spot along with a great prize to be won!  We are challenging you to create fun Invitations or Announcements for parties, weddings or babies!  Here is my Baby Shower invite!

I made these cute little Cowboy themed invitations in the shape of cowboy hats!  I used my gypsy to stretch and weld the hats from Paper Dolls Dress Up and added a little sheriffs star from Create A Critter.  I then outlined the entire invite with my black journaling marker.  The little star is stamped with part of a sentiment from My Craft Spots New Arrival Stamp Set.

Inside I used the entire "Baby Shower" sentiment and the invite stamps from New Arrival.  These invitations are a little simple but I needed to make a lot in a small amount of time so they will do!  I can't wait to share the fun pics for this Little Cowboy Shower!   

You have until next Monday to share your creative Invitations and Announcements with us at My Craft Spot!  Make sure you check out the rest of the amazing invitations and announcements the DT created for your inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Piggy Birthday Card

Hello Everyone!  Today is my day to post over at My Craft Spot.  Today I am sharing a cute little shape card made for a Piggy Birthday Party! 

I used my Gypsy and Create A Critter to weld and cut this darling little piggy using American Crafts textured cardstock! I outlined the entire card front to make her stand out and some cute little googly eyes.  Her nose is popped with a dimensional and I added a little rhinestone necklace for more a little more dimension!

 

 I added a little flag and the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from My Craft Spot's Inside & Out - Set #2 stamp set which is attached using a glue dot.

 

The little birthday hat is trimmed in My Craft Spot's Candied Orange Crinkle Ribbon and Orange Divine Twine and adhere with glue lines. 

I even added a little curly tail to the back made with Cotton Candy Divine Twine!  I used scotch brand quick dry craft glue and rolled the twine around a pencil to get the curly effect.  After it was semi dried, I pulled it off and adhere it to the piggies bottom!  I think the birthday girl is going to love it!

The inside of the card is finished off with this perfect sentiment from My Craft Spot's Birthday Wishes Stamp set!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit today!  Be sure to visit My Craft Spot again tomorrow for another fun Flashback Friday! 

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #61 - Hot Summer Colors

Good Morning Everyone!  Summer is in full swing and we have a hot challenge for you this week at My Craft Spot!  The temperature is getting hotter and hotter around here and we want to see your projects using HOT SUMMER COLORS!!  Here is my inspiration for you!

Make sure you stop by this week and check out the other Hot Summer Colors the DT are sharing for your inspiration at My Craft Spot! We hope you have fun playing along! Thanks for stopping by today!

Products Used:

• My Craft Spot
• Birthday Wishes Stamp Set
• Stampin' Up!
• Cardstock
• Whisper White
• Real Red
• Daffadil Delight
• Retired DSP
• Dimensionals
• Cricut E2 with Gypsy
• Create A Critter
• Doodlecharms
• Singer Sewing Machine
• Scotch ATG Adhesive
• Archival Brilliance Pigment Ink
• Graphite Black
• Recollections Bling
• Google Eyes

End of the School Year Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Good morning!  I wanted to share some of the fun End of Year gifties that we made for my daughters teachers.  She just completed Kindergarten and I can't believe how quickly the year passed!  She was inspired every step of the way so we wanted to make sure to show all her teachers the appreciation they deserve!  My daughter and I starting by looking on Pinterest for some ideas (yes that site is sooooo addicting...hehe)!  She picked out several of the projects she wanted to make from there! 

First are the gifts she made for her Art and Gym teachers.  They both love sewing so she picked out little sewing baskets for them!   The awesome tutorial for these cuties came from the little blue room!

The card for her Art Teacher was cut from the Locker Talk Cricut Cart and stamped with a sentiment from My Craft Spot's Tiny Tags Stamp Set.  The soccer ball card for her Gym Teacher is cut from Life is A Party cart.

Next is the gift for her Music teacher.  He was the hardest to find a craft for.  We ended up coming up with our own gift for him. 

We made him some page clips with music notes on them.  She made these mostly by herself.  The scallop circles are punched out with SU punches and I'm not sure which cricut cart the music notes came from.  She found them on the Gypsy. 

 

She had fun working on her gifts for the librarians!  She LOVES the little bookworm so naturally she wanted him on their cards!  She made them little 3x3 note cards because she said they like to write notes : )  The sentiment for these comes from My Craft Spot's Sweet Sentiments Set #1.

She also wanted to make sure she had something special for each one of her classmates!  She LOVES reading so she wanted to make sure to make something each of her friends could use for their Summer Reading, so bookmarks it was!

Their class are know as the T-Birds and being a T-Bird is A BIG DEAL!!   We used the little birdy from Four Legged Friends and welded it to a bookmark from Animal Kingdom.  Then we added the lettering and laminated them so they would last longer.  She kids thought they were so cool and even her teacher asked for a few extras for his special stash!

Our last gift to share is the one she made for her homeroom teacher.  He is an absolutely AMAZING Kindergarten Teacher and such a caring person!  He is hard to make gifts for but the second she found this one Pinterest, she knew she wanted to make it for him. 

The tut for this one can be found HERE.  We revamped a little to be fitting for him.  He is a big environmentalist so recycling is part of everything they do in the classroom.  We used as many recycled items as we could.  The container is one that can be re-used in the classroom.  Instead of floral foam, we used the packaging from the markers to stick the markers to and the grass is cut up newspaper.  Even the flowers were punched from my cardstock scrap pile!  She made a fingerprint card and wrote inside "Thank you for helping me grow this year!  I will miss you!"

We had so much fun making these projects together!  She was so proud of each of her little gifts and each of her teachers enjoyed them.  We hope you found some crafty inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by to check them out!



My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #50 - Easter Projects

Goodmorning!  What did everyone think of the Stamp Release Party last week?  My mind is still cranking with all these new ideas.  Well, it is time for another Monday Challenge at My Craft Spot!  We want to see all your Easter projects this week!  Here is my inspiration for you!

My daughter and I made these cute little pencil toppers for her classmates. 

I stamped this fun sentiment from the new MCS Happy Easter stamp set.  I cut it out with an oval spellbinders to look like an egg, added some white glossy accents, bubblegum crinkle ribbon and Cotton Candy Divine.  We added it to a little pink bucket and filled in with the pencils.

The bunnies are cut from Create A Critter, outlined, inked with a PKS Critter Face, and blushed up!

The pinwheels are created from MME Happy Go Lucky pattern paper.

We just cut a 3" x 3" piece of paper, cut a 1" slit at each corner, folded toward the center and held them down with brads.

A little close up of the details.

My daughter is thrilled with how they turned out and is excited to take her buckets to her class. 

The design team have created some amazing projects so stop by My Craft Spot this week for more Easter inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #30 - Fall Colors Birthday

Good morning!  It is Sunday which means another fun challenge at Birthday Sundaes!  Today is the start of our 30th challenge!  I can't believe it!  Time flies when you're having fun and we have another fun challenge for you!  This week we want to see Fall Colors on your Birthday Cards!  The Birthday Sundaes Design Team has come up with some gorgeous cards for your inspiration!  Here is my card!

My girls have been enjoying all the squirrels scurrying around collecting nuts!  I thought this card would be fitting for a Fall Colors Birthday Card!

I just love the colors for this challenge!  I had to mix a few different stamps to get the right feel for this belated birthday card!  The "Awwww Nuts" is from My Pink Stamper, "Happy Birthday" is from My Craft Spot and "(A little late)" is Stampin' Up!  The gorgeous Crinkle Ribbon is My Craft Spot!  Speaking of My Craft Spot, Kimberly is looking for a few new Design Team members but the call ends tomorrow!  Click HERE for more info! 

Please join us for our Fall Colors Birthday Card challenge at Birthday Sundaes this week!  You have until next Saturday to link up your card!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Other Challenges:

The Paper Variety Forest Friends Challenge

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #27 - Belated Birthday

Hello Everyone!  Despite my love for making Birthday Cards, I have been missing a lot of Birthday's lately.  This week's challenge at Birthday Sundaes is perfect for me right now!   This week we are challenging you to make some Belated Birthday cards for your card stash!  Since I needed a few of them, here are my cards for your inspiration!

One for my non-Cricuting friends (even though I did use a cricut cut on it).

I used an adorable Tiddly Inks image on this one and MME paper.

A card for my Cricuting friends inspiration.

I used Create a Critter, a MPS stamp and a PKS face.

Please join us at Birthday Sundaes this week!  The DT and Guest Designer have come up with some AMAZING cards for your inpsiration!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Back to School Blog Hop

Hello Everyone and welcome to the Back to School Blog Hop Hosted by the talented Jovan at Cards by Jovan!  If you arrived here from Girlia's blog then you are heading in the right direction.  She is so creative, isn't she?  If you just stopped by to see me today (thanks) then you'll want to go back to Jovan's blog to start at the begining, you won't want to miss a stop!  There are so many talented blogs in this hop, blog candy to be won and there's also a fun challenge at the end too!  I hope you'll join us!
 I am so excited for Back to School time!  As much as I love the fun summer brings, I also love the structured schedule of the school year (yes, it is part of my OCD, I need my schedules) and I LOVE fall!  This year is very special because my Oldest E is heading to Kindergarten.  As much as I'll miss her, I know she is going to LOVE Kindergarten and I know she'll thrive there!   I am also a preschool teacher, so I can't wait to meet the new students and to see the kiddos who are returning!  Such an exciting time and who doesn't love NEW SCHOOL SUPPLIES!  There is nothing like fresh crayons and un-sharpened pencils....hmmmm!!! 


For my Back to School Project, I decided to make a gift for my girls to give to their Auntie K for her classroom (she is not really their aunt but that is what they call her). 

I had seen these at a local craft show a few years ago and thought they were soooo cute!  I made a few of them last year for Christmas gifts and they were all well received!    They are such a cute addition to any classroom and very easy/inexpensive to make! 

I've seen the crayon wreaths in many sizes and colors but here is how I made mine.  I started out with a 6" and 8" hoop.  I've made them bigger before but I like this size the best!  You get two wreaths out of these hoops! 

I used two boxes of 24ct crayons on this size wreath (minus the neutral colors).  I started out by lying the crayons in a pattern where I wanted them.  Then I hot glued them to the hoops.

After adhering all the crayons, I tied ribbon around to hide the hoops.  At Christmas time I think I used red ribbon.  I really like the green better, but then green is my favorite color too!   

Once the wreath is wrapped I added a hanger ribbon, a large bow and some fun decorations!

I cut a chalkboard, personalized it, added a little bookworm with a Peachy face (I'm sorry, I know I use this little worm way too much, but I can't help it...he's too cute) and a rolled piece of white for the chalk.

A little school bus from Doodlecharms with a "hello" stamp from My Craft Spot.

The glue is from Simply Charmed and the scissors are from Locker Talk.  I hope you like my crayon wreath!  They are very easy to make and can be decorated to fit anyones classroom style!  You could always make it with pencils to be more fitting for a Middle/High School Teacher too!

So, who wants some blog candy?  I have an assortment pack of 8.5 x 11" Stampin' Up! cardstock that I think includes the colors Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Early Expresso, and Daffadil Delight.  I was going to include the bottle of Stickles too, but my little darlings got a hold of it today (that was a fun mess, sorry for the teaser picture).  I'm sure I'll find something else to throw in there by time I pull a winner!

BLOG CANDY RULES

1. You must leave a comment telling me what Back to School means to you.

2. You do not need to be a follower, but 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 Monday Aug 15 to see if you won!

I have taken enough of your time today.  Thank you Jovan for hosting this fun hop today!  There are so many more wonderful Back to School projects to see, so have fun and thanks for hopping by today!  Your next stop is my talented friend

Jayne at JayneDesigns!

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

Jovan  

Cindy   

Amy  

Girlia   

Amber   You are here

Jayne   NEXT STOP

Adrain   

Sherrie K   

Amanda   

Melissa  

Theresa   

Amber  

Carri  

Jovan   to participate in the Back to School challenge!!

Products Used:

• 2 pks of Crayola Crayons 24ct box
• 6" cross stitch hoop
• 8" cross stitch hoop
• Ribbon from Michael's
• Stampin' Up! Cardstock
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments Set #1
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces
• Crystal Effects
• Stampin' Write Markers

Challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #25 Back to School

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #72 Let's Get Buggy

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great weekend!