Cooking with Cricut- Taste of Summer Blog Hop

Today is the first day of a two day Taste of summer Blog Hop at Cooking with Cricut.  

I can't tell you how blessed I feel to work with all the lovely ladies on the CWC/PCW team.  Besides being very talented and creative all these ladies are so caring and positive.  We are so lucky to create for the wonderfully talented Melin.  Also I want to say that we will really miss our DT member Jen this weekend 

who keeps us so organized.  

Jen we are praying for you, your dad and your entire family.  

God bless and big hugs.  

So on with the hop

This hop is all about our favorite "flavors" of summer. Project should include any type of food or drink that is a summer time favorite for you, your family or the recipient of your project.  
Our hostess with the mostest is the lovely and talented
Melin http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/ our fearless leader. Melin will start us off and if you get lost go back to Melin and you can get back on track again.

If you came from Olivia to my blog http://www.ormcraftynights.blogspot.com/ you are in the right place. So let's move on to my project for today.

This is my double page layout

Closeups

The lemonade is pop dotted and the hate is cut with a craft knife so the little journal piece fits in it like a card holder.  

Ribbon from a bag of tiny ribbon I got at Joann's. 

The pinwheel, the popsicle and the little pinwheels

 are pop dotted do add dimension

Recipe for my layout

Best Creations Summer Days paper 

Lemonade is from Just Because Cricut cart page 69 cut at 4 inches 

Popscicle page 61 cut at 4 inches

Pin Wheel Something to Celebrate cut at 4.5 inches 

Brads and EK Success Corner Adorner punch for corners of mats

Blog Candy

Starting today August 18th through August 30th I am going to draw one lucky winner by Random.org who leaves a comment and is a follower of my blog for a $10  Gift Card to Michaels.  

I will also draw one lucky new follower for a goody bag.  I just realized I am only 7 followers from reaching 600 followers.

Please check out Melin's Paper Crafting World.  She has so many wonderful cut files, kits, and digital files and she is having a great sale through this month.  So check it out.  I promise there is something for everyone.  

  

Now on to your next designer for more inspiration

Natt http://www.tinynatt.blogspot.com/

Whitney's Sweet 16

Today is another busy day here at Cricut craftin grammy. 

First I will have a post for Whitney's Sweet 16 Blog Hop.Click here for my post   

Second will be my Graduation DT post for Sweet Sassy Diva Click here for my post 

and last but not least will be my Lasting Memories "Celebrating Mom's" DT post. Cllick here for my post 

I hope you will check in at all these posts.  

Today we are celebrating a vibrant, beautiful 16 year old young lady who is a gift from the Lord. What better way to celebrate your 16th birthday than with friends. So I have asked several of my talented crafty friends to help me make Whitney's 16th birthday special. This hop is all about Whitney and I have asked my crafty friends to make card to send to her to celebrate her 16th- all celebrating that special time in life when a girl turns 16. I hope you enjoy each project along the way as everyone has worked very hard to help make Whitney's day special. Be sure to leave a comment at each hop stop to win blog candy.

If you've arrived from Shelly at kccroppersblogspot.com then you are in the right place!!  If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email please go to Rachelle's blog and start at the beginning...

First of all I want to wish Whitney a great big Happy Birthday. To celebrate Whitney's birthday I created the following easel card.

Recpe:

I used Something to Celebrate page 65 for the 16 cut at 5 inches

Rose from Shall We Dance page 69 cut at e inches.

Wow from Wild Card cut at 4 inches.

Used Stickles, yarn and gems.

Now you are on your way to the next party stop at Brenda - http://www.friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/

Here is the entire blog list if you get lost.

1. Rachelle ~ http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
2. Ashley ~ http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
3. Ellen ♥ CardMonkey ~ http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
4. Kimberly (KPKre8tions) Pate ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
5. Beth (M&Ddesigns) ~ http://motherandaughterdesigns.blogspot.com
6. Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
7. Angie- http://atuttletime.blogspot.com
8. Shelly-http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/
9. Suzanne-http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
10. Patti B-http://pattispaperfun.blogspot.com
11. Melissa Pinter -http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com
12. Brenda - http://www.friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/
13. Jenny http://cccjalessi.blogspot.com/
14. Kristy http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Birthday Whitney!

Which Came First? Scrapbooking or Stamping Blog Hop

We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop. The question we are asking is what came first for us and how we all started in the paper crafting world.  


Be sure to leave a comment at each hop stop to be entered in our Monthly Drawing (details available at http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com)

If you've hopped over from Lisa then you are in the right place!!  If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email an d you'd like to join our FUN, then please go to Lynda's blog (http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com) to start


Although I used stamps in my classroom I was not what I called a "stamper". I started over 20 years ago when I was invited to a "Creative Memories" party by a friend. I was hooked and started scrapping my daughters pictures like crazy. In those days we used stencils to cut out shapes, fancy cut scissors, and lots of stickers. I thought it would be fun to share a picture of my oldest daughters first birthday(and Easter) in 1983.

Here is my daughter 29 1/2 years later with her husband celebrating her daughters first birthday.  

If you look closely you can see how much Danielle and Kenzie look alike at  the age of 1.  

I used my Cricut and Baby Steps, Paisley, and Something to Celebrate for this layout.
Check at the top of my blog for my blog candy. I am giving away 3 gift cards on my birthday March 10th and maybe a few surprises. Thanks so much for stopping by and
now you are ready to hop on over to my crafty friend Michelle

Birthday table decorations for granddaughters Hello Kitty birthday

This Saturday we are having my oldest granddaughters second birthday.  I can remember her birth just like it was yesterday.  Boy was that a life changing moment.  So we are having a Hello Kitty party and here are the table decorations I made today using several Cricut carts.  

Cupcake from Baby Steps (recycled from last birthday), large 2 from Something to Celebrate, Kitty heads are leftover invites from Hello Kitty cart, Happy Birthday from Hello Kitty cart, name in vinyl is from Mickey Font

White buckets from Target and are resused for each birthday.  Used oasis, tulle, and sticks are painted kebob skewers which can be resused.  

Once the party is over the decorations can be used on birthday layouts.  

Entering in the Getting Cricky Celebration Challenge

Check this out I used birthday table decorations for Birthday layout

A few weeks ago I posted these 

  table decorations I made for my granddaughters first birthday.  I then saved the table decorations and use  the cut outs for layout pages.  I used Baby Steps, Paisley and Something to Celebrate for the cuts.  

  I started  entering the DCWV  challenge a couple months ago and it is a lot of fun and easy to do since I buy so much DCWV paper. I decided this would be a good time to start the birthday layouts with my cutouts and using the DCWV Sweet stack.  

Here is the link to the DCWV  Diary Monthly Challenge 

I am also entering this layout in  Amanda Crafts and More challenge which is to use embossing.  

The owl and the title are embossed.   

DCWV sketch 

Here is where I got the cutouts.  These are the table decorations I made for my granddaughters first birthday a couple weeks ago.  I then save the table decorations and use some of the cut outs for layout pages.  I used Baby Steps, Paisley and Something to Celebrate for the cuts.  

The sketch page and the matching page.  

Closeup

Closeup

Doily and ribbon closeup

Book Lovers Challenge Post Nov. 7th

Wow did I have a great weekend.  I spent Saturday at the Scrapbook Expo in Ontario, Calif.  I attended two awesome classes and got lots of cool stuff.  Then I got to go to my first Hobby Lobby.  I will be honest when I walked in the door I just stood there with my mouth hanging open.  My husband got me out of my daze by saying "Are you going to look or just stand there?"  Well it was a great fun day so now on with the 

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge.  This week the challenge is Book Lover

Make a book, project with a book on it or even a bookmark!  Well being a book lover a lot of ideas came into my head and then I settled on this one.  I recently took a class at my local LSS where we made a Christmas book with a Creative Imaginations accordian book.  I loved it so much I bought a few more blank books.   I thought it would be cute to make a birthday book for my granddaughter who turns 1 this week where her mom and dad could put a picture of her each year on her birthday.  

Here is the cover of the book.  I added some embellishments and Happy birthday ribbon.  The paper is DCWV Celebrations stack.  

Here is what the book looks like before decorating.  

I covered each page and on the last page I attached two resin buttons back to back which pulls out the accordian to look like this.  

The Happy Birthday letters were cut at 2 inches from Something to Celebrate.  

Here are some of the pages.  I used numbers from Something to Celebrate for each page ages 1-16.  

There is a frame on each page to slide the picture into decorated with Fiskar corner punches.  

I thought on each top mat they could write some notes about their daughter and her birthday and then place the picture on top.  

There are also two extra pages if you wanted to do years 17 and 18.  

I hope you enjoyed my project and will join us this week for the challenge.  I really look forward to seeing what everyone creates.  

I am entering this in the Cricut Circle Weekly Mini Challenge and Decorate to Celebrate

Thursday Tutorial- Making Table Decorations and Banners

This week at FCCB the challenge is 

#84 – For the birds Create a project with a bird (or anything to do with birds, 

such as a birdcage) on it.

So for the Thursday Tutorial I thought I would share how I made table decorations and a banner for my granddaughters first birthday using owls.    Please come on over to FCCB and check out the tutorial for these decorations but other decorations I have made in the past using my Cricut.  

Thanks for your comments and Happy Craftin.