Thankful Thursday Made it Myself Blog Hop

Welcome to the Thankful Thursday Crazy About Cricut "Made it Myself" Blog Hop!! We've got some great projects to show you, so let's continue with the hop!

If you didn't start at the beginning of the hop, you can go back to Jenny's page at Crazy About Cricut so you can see everyone's fun projects! For this project, I made this cute little mouse for my youngest daughter. My older daughter and her friend have labeled them "friendship mice" and they have been inspired to make some coordinating mice so they will have a project to make together. How fun is that!



Make sure you go visit all these wonderful ladies and comment on their fun projects!

Here's the lineup:

Jenny - http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Sharon~ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

Cheryl ~ http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

Sandra ~ http://sweetpeascards.blogspot.com/

Amber ~ http://my3ekids.blogspot.com/

Bobbi Hickman ~ http://rockgirlcustomdesigns.blogspot.com/

Leah Pagliaroli ~ http://www.leahscarddesigns.com

Lola ~ http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/


Have a fantastic day!

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop St. Patrick's Day challenge

Welcome to the Thankful Thursday Crazy About Cricut St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop!! We've got some great projects to show you, so let's continue with the hop!


If you didn't start at the beginning of the hop, you can go back to Jenny's page at Crazy About Cricut so you can see everyone's fun projects! I made some St. Patty's Day decor using my Cricut. With the Stamping cart, I cut some shamrocks and hearts and inked the patterned paper with green. For the "Luck" I used some grunge board letters and inked those with green and blue and then added some bling. This great celtic looking frame was perfect for the project too!

Make sure you leave some comment love on all the talented design team pages when you see their awesome projects. Have a great day!!

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop Valentine's Challenge

Welcome to the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop Valentine's Challenge!! For this challenge, we're making a Valentine's project. I made this cute felt owl with my daughter for some new Valentine's decor this year. It was so much fun and now she's getting to be quite the little seamstress! :)
Make sure you start out our blog hop at Jenny's Crazy About Cricut site and then see what the rest of the awesome Design Team has in store for you!!

Here is the blog hop lineup:

Jenny ~ http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Sharon ~ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

Heather ~ http://paper-junkie.blogspot.com/

Bobbi Hickman ~ http://rockgirlcustomdesigns.blogspot.com/

Leah Pagliaroli ~ http://www.leahscarddesigns.com

Amber ~ http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Lola ~ http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/ **You are here!!**

Cheryl ~ http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

Sandra ~ http://sweetpeascards.blogspot.com/

Have a great day!

Thankful Thursday Christmas Challenge

Welcome to our Thankful Thursday Challenge at Crazy About Cricut! This week, our challenge is to make a Christmas themed project. I just love these glass tile blocks and after some vinyl, ribbon, and a big bell, I made a nice addition to my Christmas decor.

Now make sure and go over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have a wonderful holiday and Merry Christmas!!

Thankful Thursday Layout Challenge

At Crazy About Cricut this week, we're having a layout challenge! I took my pictures from last year's Christmas and made this layout "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." It seems like I'm hearing that song everywhere lately, so I thought it would be a good title for the layout too :) I cut the tree and packages out with my Cricut and used a little bling. I love remembering the looks on my kids' faces on Christmas morning, it really is the most wonderful time of the year!

Now make sure and go over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have a great day!

Thankful Thursday Fall Challenge

This week at Crazy About Cricut, we were challenged to make a project that Falls open. I chose to make a gate card, but you could also make a Jacob's ladder type book or an accordion book or something like that. Just use your imagination! I found this this adorable little turtle at www.whimsiedoodles.com/freebies.html and I made a birthday card for my sister in law who loves turtles.
I dry embossed the two panels on the front of the card and then inked them to match the turtle shell. Loved those fun dots! Then I used my pencils to color in the turtle and added some red stickles to the flower for some sparkle.

I added some button accents and a flower on the front of the card to keep it closed and it was a fun, easy card to make.

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have an awesome day!

Thankful Thursday Halloween Home Decor

Welcome to the Crazy About Cricut Thankful Thursday challenge! This week, we were challenged to make some Halloween decor for our SPOOKY homes :) I cut the letters out of vinyl with the Cricut and then used the Happy Hauntings cart for the witch and the hat.

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have a great day!

Thankful Thursday Monster challenge

Welcome to another Thankful Thursday challenge at Crazy About Cricut!! This week, we're working on projects that have Monsters on them! So fun! I made a little bag with my Cricut and then used some 3D embellishments from K & Company to decorate all the way around.

I finished it with a pretty ribbon and some yummy candy and it's ready to give to a friend or neighbor for a special Halloween treat!

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Challenges I'm entering:
Whimsical Wednesday
More Than Favors
Scrapalicious USAMy Craft Spot

Have a fun day!

Winner, Winner!!

It's time to announce a blog hop winner for my Making Memories prize pack!!


Kathy said...

This is just wonderful, great job. Love it! Great hop! Hope you have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Kathy
http://the3esblog.blogspot.com/

Congratulations Kathy!!! And thank you to everyone for hopping along with us for our Crazy About Cricut Fall and Halloween Hop!

Have an awesome day!!

Crazy About Cricut Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!!

Welcome to The Fall/Halloween Blog Hop featuring the Thankful Thursday Design Team! Hopefully you just came from the talented Sharon from Simply Sweet by Sharon. If not, please head on over to see our hop hostess Jenny at Crazy About Cricut so you can start from the beginning :)

For my Halloween project, I made a Happy Haunting garland. It's so hard to photograph garlands well because they're so LONG, but hopefully you get the idea :) This was all done using the Happy Hauntings cart on my Cricut, I love all the awesome Halloween images and fonts on there!
For each letter, I cut a tombstone then inked the edges in white, so they kind of glow a little, then tied the top with orange ribbon. Then I cut a spider web as a background and put the glittery letters up on pop dots. The whole thing is strung on black yarn and then in between the letters and bats I tied some white gauzy tulle and a black ribbon. When it's all hanging there, the tulle kind of looks spider web-like so that was fun!

I cut out each bat and then I added some red stickles to the eyes for something just a little different. My son was the one who gave me this idea to make a bat garland, and he was so excited that we now have "flying bats" in our living room!


The grand prize for this hop is the beautiful Celebrate With Flourish cartridge. To enter you need to leave a comment on ALL the blogs in this hop.

Well now it's time for some blog candy!! Because besides getting to see everyone's amazing projects, that is just the BEST part! This is the Memories Embellishment kit from Making Memories. It's so versatile, you could use it for any project! All you have to do is leave me a comment and don't forget to leave me a way to contact you in case you are the lucky winner! Also, if you happen to like what you see on my blog and would like to become a follower, that would be awesome too, but it's not required for your chance to win. :) I'll announce the winner next Thursday!!

Thank you for hopping along with us! Now head on over to see Ruby at Paper Junkie as the next stop on the hop!

Here's the whole lineup just in case you need it:
Jenny @ http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Cheryl @ http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/
Christel @ http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com/
Sharon @ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/
Lola @ http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE!!
Ruby @ http://paper-junkie.blogspot.com/
Leah@ http://www.leahscarddesigns.com
Tanya @ http://www.scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/
Jen @ http://mccalleyhouse.blogspot.com/
Sandra @ http://sweetpeascards.blogspot.com/
Gaby @ http://www.gabycreates.com/
Amber @ http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Have an awesome day!!

Thankful Thursday Pirate Project

The Thankful Thursday challenge at Crazy About Cricut for this week is to make a project with a Pirate theme! Arrgghh! For this fun pirate party, I started out by taking a picture of each child and then I made a tag for each of them to wear. They loved that they had their picture on them and it was like their badge for the party :)

I made my daughter a cute pirate bow since she is really into bows right now and it was a joint party for her and her brother.

I made a pirate cake and decorated it with Oreo tube cookies, Rolos, and square grid looking pretzels for the windows. I used my Cricut and the Life's a Beach cart to make the pirate flag and put it on a bendy straw. Then I dyed coconut flakes with blue food coloring and floated some Swedish fish in the water :)

We sent the kids on a treasure hunt for their goodies. I made each of the kids a shirt with the pirate logo on the front saying "Where there be Pirates, there be a Party!" and their names on the back. I even made Pirate Princess shirts for the girls. They loved them!

Such an awesome party, and girls and boys all got in on the fun! Now make sure to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your family's pirate project and don't forget Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th! Have a fun day!

Thankful Thursday Grandparents' Day Challenge

Welcome to Thankful Thursday and the great challenge over at Crazy About Cricut! This week, the design team was challenged to make a Grandparents' Day card. It was perfect timing, because we're about to see my parents this weekend who live out of state so they'll love to get this from my kids. I had each of them write a little sentiment and sign their names. It's so fun to see how their handwriting and spelling skills improve every year!

I just love the Create a Critter cart and my mom loves turtles so I thought I'd make my mom and dad out of the little turtles :) I used the bow and glasses from the Everyday Paper Dolls cart as accents.

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your family's project letting some much loved grandparents know how great they are! Have a fun day!

Thankful Thursday Lunch Notes

Welcome to Thankful Thursday at Crazy About Cricut! For this week's challenge, the design team made some Back-to-school lunch notes! It doesn't even seem like this summer has lasted that long, but here we are starting another school year. For this project, I used some cute Bo Bunny background paper and then found these cute little owl and apple images on Lettering Delights - they always have the cutest graphics! The kids love getting little notes kicking off a great first week at school!




Make sure to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your family's project! You can enter to win a fun prize pack from Post-It and some really awesome Create a Critter stamps to match the cricut cart!! Have a fun day!

Ribbon Bookmark

Welcome again to Thankful Thursday at Crazy About Cricut! This week, we're making bookmarks! For this ribbon bookmark, I found a really great tutorial on Such Treasures. First, we need to start out with a ribbon that is 42 inches long. I found that pony beads have the right size opening, otherwise you can ruin your ribbon trying to make it fit through the smaller beads, like I did trying to squeeze some littler beads on :)

To start your bookmark you'll need:
* 42 inch long bargain ribbon, 1/4” wide, grosgrain or satin
* Pony beads (6 or 8 for each bookmark)
* Charm (1 for each bookmark)
* Darning needle (optional but very helpful)

First, thread the charm and put it in the middle. Knot the ribbon at the base of the charm. Put a double knot at about 1-1/2 inches down from the charm. Thread the pony beads and another big fancy bead onto both ribbon ends. (Using a darning needle helps.) Put another double knot under the pony beads. Then finally, trim the ends of the ribbon cleanly and on the diagonal for a great finished look. I also burned the ends of the ribbon so that they wouldn't fray.

To use this great bookmark, you slip it through the cover of your book between the two ribbons. Keep the charm at the top and the beads at the bottom. Then you just slide the beads up until it fits the size of your book and it stays in place! And you have instant jewelry for your book!

You'll want to make sure to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your family's project! You can enter to win an AMAZING prize pack from Post-It!! Have a wonderful day!

Tinkerbell Bow Holder Board

Welcome to Thankful Thursday! For the project this week, we were challenged to make something with a favorite family movie theme. My girls love the Tinkerbell movies and my youngest daughter even has her room decorated with Tink everywhere, so I made her a bow holder board using some fun fabric and accents! I started out with:

* 16x20 canvas
* Fabric to cover the canvas
* Ribbon
* Trim for the top and bottom
* Coordinating buttons
* Staple gun

I cut the fabric so there was about 2-3 inches left on each side of the canvas and then I pulled it in back and folded it like I would wrap a present. Then I took the staple gun and stapled the corners, went along the sides pulling the fabric tight and stapled the sides too.

I then took ribbon and cut 4 of them at about 20" long and burned the ends so they wouldn't fray. Then I stapled those on at about 4" apart. I really LOVED the staple gun for this project! :)

I took my trim, cut one for the top and bottom and burned the edges. Then I stapled those around the back too and once in the center.

I glued some cute butterfly buttons on the corners and the centers to cover the staples and then stapled a piece of ribbon to the back for the hanger.

My little girl loves her new Tink board and her flowers and bows fit great!

Hope you're all having a fun summer and we have an awesome prize, the Post-it prize pack!! So don't forget to head over to Crazy About Cricut, and enter your family project! Have a wonderful day!

Challenges:
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog - alter it