Pink By Design Halloween Hop!!

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Hello Everyone!! If you are coming here from Lisa`s Blog Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons - Welcome!! If you are just stumbling upon this hop, head back to Sarah`s blog to start from the beginning!! Pink By Design is also having some giveaways for the hop!! They are giving away one stamp on each blog along the way, as well as a grand prize - A Cuttlebug!! I would LOVE a cuttlebug! It`s the next thing I `need` to buy for my scrap room... Be sure to comment on this post - and for an extra entry become a follower (and leave an extra comment letting me know).

Here is the lineup for the hop today...

Sarah @ http://www.pinkcricut.com/

Jenny @ http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Tanya @ http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/

Paula @ http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/

Bryan @ http://scrapguy.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth @ http://217creations.blogspot.com/

Meriah @ http://tatteredtime.com/

Michelle @ http://scrappinwithmybug-scrappinwithmybug.blogspot.com/

Lisa @ http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

Candace @ http://www.scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com/ (you are HERE)

Emily @ http://www.createserendipity.net  (next stop)

Candace Pelfrey @ http://www.papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com/

Now that Bria is getting a little older, decorating for the holidays is getting so fun!! She gets so excited and when she see`s the decorations she tells me how beautiful they are! :) So sweet.... 

Here is my project!! I got part of the idea from a magazine and the other part of the idea from Sarah`s (from Pink Cricut) Halloween Wreath. (HERE to check it out!) 

I know it`s hard to see in this pic, so I took some close ups of all the parts.

I used the September Pink By Design stamp of the month, Guess Who, for my project, along with the Mini Monsters cartridge. The paper I used for the rosettes was from a package of Recollections paper. On that note, if you plan on making rosettes, make sure to use the thicker paper... When I was scoring this is would tear if I wasn`t careful. 

 I cut a bunch of felt circles (traced the rim of a cup on some cardboard, cut it out, then used the cardboard circle template to lay on top of a couple sheets of felt to cut around) and used my new sewing machine to sew around the outside. And yes, I realized I need a lot of practice!! Some of these circles look like they were sewn by a 5 year old! Then I cut a bunch of circles in regular white cardstock and stamped the Guess Who characters onto them using StazOn ink. I colored them in with my Glaze pens by sakura. Then I used Tim Holtz black distress ink to ink the edges. 

I made 3 different sized rosettes. The middle sized rosettes had the Guess Who stamps in the center. 

I used some epoxy brads from Wal-Mart for the centers of the smallest rosettes. 

The biggest rosette had another smaller rosette in the center and then I cut the spider from Mini Monsters and glued him onto the center. I used some stickles for her cheeks and some googly eyes from the dollarstore. I strung the felt circles and rosettes together using twine from the Pink By Design store. 

Hope you like my project!! My plans are to make a matching banner for another wall in this room!! Now hop on over to see what Emily has to show you!! 

Emily @ http://www.createserendipity.net

EAD Designs Color Challenge

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Hi Everyone!!! It's MONDAY!!! And my little girl starts Playschool today!! So bittersweet.... I know she is going to love playing with all the kids. It'll be good for me and her. I'm still a little worried about her allergies while she is there, but I'm sure it will be fine.... Take a look at how excited she was this morning!!

Such a big girl...

My project today is using EAD Designs stickers. I have a lot of these stickers and I like them so much I couldn't bring myself to actually use them!! They're having a color challenge over at their blog right now (only a couple days left!!) and I just received these Halloween stickers from them so I thought I would use them to make something to help decorate our house for Halloween.

I made a framed picture to put up in the house. Bria hasn't seen it yet but I know she will love it. 

I took the picture/mat out of the glass to get some pics without glare.

 Along with the EAD stickers, I used a Peachy Keen dotted stamp and some orange ink to pattern the mat in the frame. I also used Birthday Bash and twine from the Pink By Design store to make a banner that says 'Happy'.

The haunted house, fence and tree in the scene all came from the Mini Monsters cartridge. 

The black sky background paper is from a new Recollections Autumn stack. Love this paper. (If you want to see the rest of the paper in this stack, check out my haul video)

I am also entering this into the Link Up Party over at You Had me At Craft!!!

I hope you like!! I have another small project to show you tomorrow! I've been spending a lot of time in my craft room lately, and I'm realizing that I don't think I could EVER be sick of it in there!!!! 

I ALSO wanted to remind everyone that TOMORROW the Girly Birthday Blog Hop starts here, in honor of my Birthday!!!! Great Prizes from EAD Designs as well as Pink By Design!! Don't miss it!!! 

Mud Monster!!!

Hey Everyone!! Well, I have a little confession to make... One of my "2 Little Princesses", is not such a Princess... As hard as I try to keep her hair done and her cute little outfits clean, she usually ends up looking like she just got finished rolling around in a pig pen!! So you may have "heard" me mention once or twice before that my husband and I just built a new house on an acerage this past year. This is our first summer on the acerage and because there is still so much black dirt to be moved around we have no grass.... Now if you combine my "Princess" with our yard, which consists of a lot of dirt (and sometimes mud), this is what you get.....

I loved these pics and couldn't wait to scrap them. I know they are not your typical cute pics of a little girl in a frilly dress with barrettes in her hair, but this is Bria! At least she still loves nailpolish! :)

As soon as I took these pics I had an idea... I've been waiting to use my Matha Stewart "dripping" punch (I don't know what it's really called...) and I thought if I combined it with some glossy accents I could make the perfect muddy layout:

I don't usually make a layout before I have the pics developed and in my hands, but I wanted to run with the ideas I had for this layout so I tried this method. It definitely has its pros and cons... I take a LOT of pics and when I developing my pics I never know which ones I want to scrap.. I pretty much print them ALL so I can figure it out later. Doing it this way makes me realize I would print a lot less pics (that end up in a box anyway...). On the down side, I find it harder to lay out the pics without having them in my hands... That being said, I think I'll keep trying to scrap before I develop the pics, I'm sure I'll get better at it the more practice I get.

Here are a couple more closeups of the layout...

Details!!!

- Background polka dot paper is from the DCWV Playtime Stack which is awesome!!

- 'muddy monster' is from Mini Monsters. I cut the top layer of the monster twice - once in blue and once in brown, and then trimmed the brown layer to make it look like a bit on mud on the monster's bottom (??? LOL), I also added some glossy accents to make it look like real mud! I also used googly eyes from the dollarstore and OH I just realized I forgot his mouth!! Oh well, he doesn't NEED a mouth, does he?!

- to make the 'MUD Monster' title I used Cuttin' Up for "M-U-D". Usin my gypsy, I put a rectangle around each letter so that I could pull the rectangle off and the shape of each letter would be inside the brown square. Then I used my Martha Stewart border punch and punched along the bottom of the rectangle and added some glossy accents. "Monster" is cut from the Gypsy Font and welded together using my gypsy

- Twine from The Twinery, buttons from my stash and some stitching with my white gelly roll pen!

TA-DA!!! (This is Bria's fav. saying right now, so cute!)

I'm also entering this into the Throwback Thursday Challenge at My Creative Time - Use Green (the green is in the background paper!!) and Yellow

Hopefully I'll be back soon!!!

SWEET!!

Hello!! I finally worked on a scrapbook layout!! YAY!! I quickly realized I am super rusty at these. I haven't done a layout for months! I've been wanting to scrap these pics from last summer so bad. As soon as I saw twine used in a layout on someone's blog I knew I had to get some just for this layout in particular. I knew it would make the cuteset lollipops!! I got mine from the Twinery but since I've bought mine I've seen it being sold in quite a few places (Scrappy Mom's & Pink By Design just to name a couple...). It comes in allll kinds of delicious colors.

The layout definitely didn't turn out how I had pictured... It got a little crazy! Starting with the sugar buzzed monkies! :)

 I remember doing this photo shoot with my daughter so clearly, even though it was 9 months ago... It was our last shoot before her little baby brother or sister made an appearance!

Bria has had severe allergies since she was born. When she was 7 months old she had a VERY scary anaphylactic reaction to some dairy in a pablum I gave her. After we got allergy tests done we found out she had a looooong list of about 7 allergies. Needless to say, she had a very restricted diet for a really long time. This sucker was the very first taste of any kind of candy she had ever had. It took us sooo long to convince her to even lick the lollipop. She was just happy to carry it around with her! After a hour or two she was finally starting to take licks of it on her own. I usually wouldn't push my kids to eat candy but this was a really special occasion...

 I have recently discovered a few crafting supplies that I can't believe I had ever crafted without in the past!! One of those things is TWINE.

Doesn't the twine make the perfect lollipops? I think so... :) To make these I covered the candy part of the lollipop with tape with my ATG gun and then just wound two colors of twine around and around.

Here are some other details...

- Sugar crazed monkeys are cut from Paisley and their googly eyes are from the Dollarstore

- 'Sweet' title and lollipops are from Mini Monsters

- shadows behind title, monkies, lollipops are embossed with the Tiny Bubbles cuttlebug folder

- bright green circles were cut using a simple circle within another circle - I can't remember which cart the circle was from but I'm sure it's on quite a few...

- doodles with my white Gelly Roll pen

There is a neat blog hop going on over at the Crafting Misfit blog. Check it out HERE!! It's all about new techniques, ideas and materials/supplies!!

This is going to be a super busy weekend coming up, we're going to have family staying at our house so I'm not sure how often I'm going to get into my craft room... :( I will have a few projects for you this week though!!