30 Days of Xyron Holiday Goodness + Giveaway day 7!

Hello and welcome to more of the 30 days of Xyron Holiday Inspiration!!! :) 

I made two SUPER fast and quick projects for you. The only tool you will need besides your Xyrons..... a paper cutter!!! :) 

First up is a stocking stuffer. Our family travels.a.lot. I knew these would be put to good use! I cut out a part of the journaling card as I definitely wanted a pattern that was "year 'round" and boy friendly. Loved this pattern! Hated cutting up that adorable card! ;)

 Next time I will add die cut shapes underneath, some layering and some stitching. But this was a first attempt and a quick one at that! 20 minutes start to finish! :) Give them a try! :) 

Recipe:

Xyron: Luggage Tags

Xyron: 1.5" Sticker Maker

American Crafts: Peppermint Express "Dear Santa"

American Crafts: Crate Paper: Bundled Up "Jack Frost"

Recipe:

Xyron: 5" Creative Station

Xyron: 9" Creative Station

Doodlebug: Home for the Holidays "Here Comes Santa Claus"

Today's giveaway! :) I LOVE Core'dinations and Kraft Core is easily my favorite pack they make! The Vintage Collection is also fabulous... actually everything they make is fabulous. 

and....

a Xyron Mega Runner! Thank you XYRON!!!! 

The previous days for giveaways. 

Day 1 Giveaway

Day 2 Giveaway

Day 3 Giveaway
Day 4 Giveaway
Day 5 Giveaway
Day 6 Giveaway

Xyron and Maya Road!

Hello and welcome to the Xyron and Maya Road blog swap blog hop! 

We got a scrumptious amount of goodies from Maya Road (THANK YOU!) and I was particularly excited about the little birds and their cages. I am sure you will see some more on future projects. 

I used my 3" Sticker Maker to make putting these projects together a snap!

Adhesive dots held the tin with all of the embellishments to the card.

Designer's Notes: 
I used three different techniques on the chipboard: 

1. Cover in Ink (the red)

2. Trace and cut the patterned paper and use my Xyron to adhere.

3. Run it through the 3" Sticker Maker and cover in glitter. Then run it through on the reverse side to adhere. :) 

Recipe:
Xyron: Foam Adhesive made with the 9" Creative Station.
Xyron: 3/8" Adhesive Dots
Xyron: 3" Sticker Maker
Maya Road: Love Words Mini Chipboard Set
Maya Road: Granny's Mini Wood Doilies
Maya Road: Birds w/ Cages Mini Chipboard Set
Maya Road: Kraft Gift Card Envelopes
Maya Road: Vintage Metal Heart Tins
Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue "Pine Nut Diner"

Now be sure to check out what the other Xyron girls made with the Maya Road goodies! Make sure to check out the Xyron blog all week as there will be GIVEAWAYS!!!! 

Xyron Blog

Jessica

Jennifer

Gini

I mustache you a question...

Check out Thrifty Thursday over at My Creative Time! This Random paper pad was down to scraps but I was able to find a few big pieces to put behind my cards! I should have taken a picture of the black piece - it BARELY fit the dies and I was so thrilled to use  up that scrap and throw it in the trash! :) The brad was also a "leftover". Isn't it darling though? Pretty perfect for a birthday card. I just want to caption it "say cheese!"

I made this for my co-dad (father-in-law). He always has his mustache and wears his glasses when he needs them and is just too darling for words. He will like this card! Inside it says, "Hope you're be-shaving yourself!" :) :) :) I know. I know. I'm so cheesy. 

I used my 1.5" Xyron Create-a-Sticker to adhere the glasses. I didn't feel like getting my hands dirty with the liquid glue and these dies fit PERFECTLY into the machine! :) love it!

Recipe:
MCT: What's Growing On?
Paper: Crate Paper: Random 6x6 Pad™
Xyron: Mega Runner
Xyron: Foam dimensional tape made with the 9" Creative Station
Xyron: 1.5" Create-a-Sticker

MCT - 3D Wednesday - Jar of Love

Hello and welcome to My Creative Time 3-D Wednesday!

I made this for my friend's baby shower that I threw in Montana. Her baby girl was just born and she is just too precious!!!!

Make sure you pop on over to My Creative Time and see what the other girls created. :)

Here are the jars for people to write wishes on.

Recipe:
My Creative Time: Stitched Jar Accessories™
My Creative Time: Stitched Chunky Jar Dies™
Patterned Paper:
Echo Park: Sweet Girl " Lettering Stencils" (chevron on top)
Echo Park: Sweet Girl "Quilt Blocks" (yellow background of label)
Jillibean Soup: Chilled Cucumber Soup "Peeled Cucumber" (both the striped label and the fussy-cut butterflies)
Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue "Cashew Shop" (aqua small chevron jars)
Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue "680102" (yellow water color jars)
Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue "Peanut Deli" (blue water color jars)
Little Yellow Bicycle: JB 102 (wonky grid)
Little Yellow Bicycle: JB 106 (grey lace)
Thickers: American Crafts: Macaw™ (161)
Paper Flower: Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue Paper Flowers™
Twine:
My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Out of the Blue "Smile" Twine™ (turquoise)
My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Out of the Blue "Playful" Twine™ (yellow)
Corner rounder
Adhesive:
Xyron 5" Creative Station

Scrapping the Little Things - Spring

Today at My Creative Time we were supposed to make a scrapbook page or project life page with a theme of Spring or Easter. I LOVE St. Patrick's Day. This is the outfit she will be wearing and while I was just going to prep this layout an insert pics, I hated the look of it without the pictures so we took these yesterday! I think that being within a week of St. Patty's should be just fine. I know, I know. I totally cheated. ;)

I hope you enjoy it! :)

Just a few of the details. I stamped directly on photo paper for the "I love your smile!" I love the way it came out! I was surprised given that I am a stamping-goober that it came out so cleanly! Rockin' stamps!

The "Oh so lucky.." was stamped on the "treat wrapper".

Check out my stitching! It's getting better, right? :)

Recipe:

• Dies:
• My Creative Time: Treat Slider Box™
• My Creative Time: Stitched Chunky Jar Dies™
• My Creative Time: Stitched Doily Die™
• My Creative Time: Curly Label Die™
• My Creative Time: Stitched Curly Label Die™
• My Creative Time: Lowercase Fun Dies™
• My Creative Time: You're My Pot of Gold™
• My Creative Time: What's Growing On?™
• Stamps:
• My Creative Time: You're My Pot of Gold™
• My Creative Time: More of My Favorite Sayings™
• My Creative Time: Turn that Frown Upside Down™
• Patterned Paper:
• Crate Paper: Little Bo Peep "Alice"™
• Crate Paper: Little Bo Peep "Sophia"™
• Crate Paper: Pretty Party "Invitation"™
• Crate Paper: Pretty Party "Streamers"™
• Twine:
• The Twinery in Cappuccino™
• The Twinery in PeaPod™

Don't forget to play along with Cathryn's challenge going on right now! :) Create something spring with a die cut: easy!

My Creative Time: 3D Box

Hello and welcome to my post for My Creative Time today! 

This is 3-D box day and I wanted to make her Bubble Gum Treat Box!

This will be stuffed with something good to go in Emmaline's Easter Basket. No, she won't be getting any candy, but I have already bought her finger paint (it's edible!) and crayons. 

Designer's note: if you look closely, you'll see outlines of bunnies on the egg. I inked up a My Creative Time stamp with chalk ink and it gave me this vintage-y outline. I loved it. 

Recipe:
MCT: Bubble Gum Treat Box Die™
MCT: Hello Spring™ (easter egg and bunny shadow)
MCT: Turn That Frown Upside Down™ (sentiment)
Crate Paper: Acorn Avenue™

Don't forget about the super fun challenge going on HERE! It's a 1, 2, 3, challenge!  1 bow, 2 pattern papers, and 3 buttons!

Little Boy Blue baby card

Hey everyone!

At this time in my life, I feel like I cannot have enough baby cards on hand! :) 

This one was made using Little Boy Blue by Crate Paper. Of course I got this at Shop Pumpkin Spice! It was my first time buying a Crate Paper collection and it comes with TWO of every double sided paper and a ton of stickers! There are three of them on this card and they are so cute!!! Anyway, check it out because it is DEFINITELY worth the money and there is a sale going on at SPS!! - Talk about sweet! 

Recipe:

• Little Boy Blue by Crate Paper
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Lush 2 Navy Buttons™
• Off-white paper base
• Off white ribbon: No longer available! But check this link out because now she has mini spools available!!!
• And I admit... the jute twine is from the December kit coming up.. shhh... It will be announced on December 1st! 

Crate Paper October Color Challenge

I made this for the Crate Paper October Color Challenge. It was due today so I whipped this up! Whew! :)

Color swatch/inspiration:

Crate Paper Thank You's Take 2!

This is my Shop Pumpkin Spice blog post for today! :)

Well, I really liked the layout of the cards that I did HERE and I needed more thank you notes, so I just copied them. I find that sometimes we over-think and want to create a whole new design. But sometimes it's enough to just tweak one you have already made! 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Crate Paper: Little Bo Peep "Adelaide" (birds)
• Crate Paper: Little Bo Peep "Charlotte" (pink)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™

Crate Paper Color Challenge

Hello everyone! :) 

Thank you SO much for all of the super sweet comments about Emmaline. We adore her. She is SUCH a good baby. She is sleeping next to me at the moment so I thought I would sneak in this post as I made this before she was born for the Crate Color Challenge. 

Now, these colors looked really pretty in the inspiration photo below, but I admit, they were a challenge for me to put all on a card. I really like how it turned out and I really LOVE being challenged - win-win.

Sorry the lighting is so harsh. I had my husband take the pic and I keep forgetting at good times of day, so here it is! I did not have that third color anywhere in my stash so I tried to get as close to it as possible. 

I made this for our friends who just found out that they are having a boy! 

Crate Paper's Inspiration Photo and Color Palate:

Recipe:

• Crate Paper: Little Boy Blue™
• Crate Paper: Pretty Party™
• Sticker (banner): Little Boy Blue™
• Cartridge: Everyday Pop-up Cards™
• Splatters: Smooch Spritz
• i-rock by Imaginisce™

Crate Baby Thank Yous

Hello and welcome to my Shop Pumpkin Spice post for the day. 

I made these as I needed more thank yous from the baby shower gifts I received. 

I ordered Crate Paper's Pretty Party from Shop Pumpkin Spice and knew I wanted to use these little strawberries and striped patterned papers on my cards! 

This was my first time ordering the 12x12 Crate Paper collection. What I didn't know was that not only are all the stickers inside (and adorable), but there are TWO of every patterned paper in the bunch! So while I used to think that the collection packs were a bit pricy, now I realize what an AWESOME DEAL they are! I've already ordered Little Bo Peep and Little Boy Blue! I am so excited to play with them! 

Recipe:

• Crate Paper: Pretty Party 12x12 Collection Pack™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl™
• White Cardstock™
• Cartridge: Heritage™

Core Challenges #1 - Hexagons, Whales, and Colors, oh my!

Okay, so when I started this challenge I felt super inspired. When I finished this challenge, I felt super defeated. I pulled this card apart like 4 times trying to get it right, but I'm not super duper pleased with it. I LOVE what Lydia did with the challenge. Hmm. Oh well. It's still okay. :)

Here is the inspiration photo:

Recipe:

• Core'dinations Roy-G-Biv 6x6 stack™
• D-stress by Imaginisce™
• Cuttlebug Folders:
• Swiss Dots™
• Seeing Spots™
• Tiny Bubbles™
• Argyle™
• D'vine Swirl™
• Glossy Accents™
• Crate Paper: Little Boy Blue™
• Cricut Cartridges:
• Gypsy Wanderings™
• Art Deco™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™

Best Wishes with my old jeans!

Hello! I hope your Christmas was fantastic! I am still up in a cabin in Idaho so this is pre-posted for your delight! :) 

Pop on by Shop Pumpkin Spice to get more inspiration all week long! 

I ripped my jeans and didn't want them to be a total loss, so I turned them into this card! 

The sunlight was so harsh on this card, but hopefully you still get the gist. 

Recipe:

Cartridge: Everyday Pop-up Cards™

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper Random 6x6 paper pad™

Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Two of Us" Pearls™

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fancy Phrases™ 

Buttons from my stash and twine from my stash.

Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop and *giveaway alert*!

Hello and welcome to the Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop! Today we are showcasing Crate Paper!!! 

You should have gotten here from Lenae's blog. If not, start HERE at Pumpkin Spice's blog! 

I wanted to leave the sentiment on this blank as I thought it could be used as a "thinking of you", "birthday", "sympathy" or "thank you" note. So until the need arises, it will be blank. :)

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Crate Paper: Portrait Collection "Honeymoon"™ (both sides - stripes and yellow flowers)
• Solid Paper:
• Core'dinations: Vintage Collection "Asparagus"™
• Martha Stewart Crystal Tinsel Glitter™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Pewter
• Flowers: Prima Mini Rose Mid Release Sunrise™
• Glossy Accents

Here is the sneak peek from June's kit for November! It's a Christmas card and treat box kit! Keep hopping along to see the sneak peeks and then June is last on the hop to show you a piece of the kit! 

Now hop on over to June's blog! Don't forget to leave comments on the way and also on Shop Pumpkin Spice's blog so that you can be entered to win the $25 gift certificate to Pumpkin Spice!!!