Crazy about Scrappin, PaperCrafts,&Cards!: 2011-09-25

Friday, September 30, 2011

Mickey & Friends Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the first but not last Mickey & Friends Blog Hop. This hop is scheduled from Sept. 29 at 8:00 am through Sept. 30 at 11:00 pm.

If you have come from Janet's blog, you are on the right track. If not and you just happened to come to this blog, you can go back to the beginning HERE: Lisa http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com and hop along with us.

We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a fa...bulous lineup with some very talented ladies. There will be lots of fun projects, along with some great blog candy, and a great grand prize for this hop.

The hop is a 2 day hop so you will have plenty of time to make it through the whole hop lineup twice. Check out each blog and see what blog candy you can win at the individual stops. Please come back both days to see great projects.

Thank you so much for the wonderful comments on yesterday's post!! I'm so sorry today I wanted to have a 2 page scrapbook layout done but was only able to have time to do one. This week is Homecoming for my children and my son wanted me to help him make a super hero costume for one of the days. It turned out really good if I do say so myself! A no sew project because I am not good with sewing! I will post those pics later! For today's project I made a Mulan page. It is pretty simple, I had planned to do more with the second page. As I had expressed in yesterday's post I'm not quite good with the paper piecing but I gave it another try again today.
Here is my list of supplies:

My cricut (of course!), Happily Ever After cricut cartridge, various colors of cardstock (some from Stampin Up! some from Archievers, glue stick, black pen and a tool I forgot to mention yesterday which is an excellent thing to have for paper piecing (a pick me up) It is pictured a little further down in my post.

I cut Mulan out at 5" to start but she was a little small so I went up to 6" and she looked much better! This page is for my daughter, she went to Disney World a couple of weeks ago and we have some great pictures of her with Mulan. I will post the second page in a couple of days when it is complete. I just wanted to show you what I had done so far! I didn't get her nose right, the pen I had wasn't fine enough. I still think she turned out ok though!! Here are the pictures from the rest of my project:

Thank you so much for coming back today!! Thanks for the sweet comments and if you are a new follower I really appreciate it!! My mother introduced me to crafting at a young age and I love it!! She has passed away, but I have tried to pass down our love for scrapbooking/crafting to my children! We had many great times together with crafting and scrapbooking!

Here is the complete lineup:

Lisa http://handmadewithlove-l isa.blogspot.com
Shawnee http://blessedonthebri ghtside.com
Rachelle http://creationsbyrac helle.blogspot.com
Janet http://createatdreamscra pbooks.blogspot.com
Christina http://cema1cema.blo gspot.com < you are here!!
Catarina http://docerelacreati ons.blogspot.com/ < this is your next stop!!
Shannon http://www.purplelionp aper.com/blog
Lynne http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Indira http://craftyhomemade.b logspot.com/
Scrappin http://scrappindhilly .blogspot.com/
Jamie http://myamusinglife.blo gspot.com
Suzanne http://cricutcraftingr ammyblogspot.com/
Jearise http://lorbysworld.blo gspot.com/
Jamie http://jmecreations.blo gspot.com
Kristen http://fantabulouslypi nk.blogspot.com/
Susan http://susanascorner.blo gspot.com/
Scrapping with lisa http://www.facebook.com/pages /Scrapping-with-Lisa/130882060268842

There is going to be an overall grand prize sponsored by Lisa from Scrapping with Lisa and she will be the first and last stop in the lineup. In order to qualify for the grand prize, you must leave a comment on every stop in the hop, including Lisa's facebook page. You also must become a follower of my blog and of Scrapping With Lisa on facebook. The grand prize for the blog hop is a nice grab bag full of goodies. You won't be disappointed in this prize.

Your next stop is Catarina http://docerelacreati ons.blogspot.com/ . Thanks for Hopping with us today!!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Mickey & Friends Blog Hop day 1

My project for today is a photo holder using a big clothes clip. I really love these and have made a lot of gifts with them! They are great for a locker (just glue some magnet material to it), or your desk at work! I have one on my desk!

Here is a list of the materials I used: A large clothes clip, Happily Ever After cricut cartridge, My Expression, several different colors of cardstock, printed card stock, fibers, large pop dots, my favorite adhesive, rubber cement, blue glitter glue, red stickles, black pen, white gel pen, paper cutter,& corner rounder.

First I cut my black, yellow, blue, flesh color, and white card stock and placed them on my cricut mat. I cut the shadow out in black, then the next layer which was Cinderella on white. Then her hair, top of her dress, gloves and headband, face and arms/chest. All her pieces were cut at 4 1/2". I got rid of the earring and eye pieces they were too hard to work with. Then I started to assemble her here is a picture of some of my layers:

I am new to the layers so I was having a hard time with the white spaces between the layers. I know that you have to use your marker to outline but I was just having a hard time with the way it looked. After all the layers were put together I did the outlining, used my blue glitter glue to give her blue eyes, and a blue earring. Next I used the red stickles for her mouth. After it dried I used the white gel pen to give her a white mouth inside. Next I measured and cut blue polka dot paper and glued it to the front and back of the clothes clip. I tied white fibers to the sides, and cut a frame so a picture could be added later. Here is the end product:

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Here is the complete lineup:

Sunday, September 25, 2011

School Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the School Blog Hop! This is day two our blog hop in which we will feature different projects both days. I hope you enjoy yourself as you are hopping along. There will be a grand prize winner drawn from those who comment on all of the blogs both days. The grand prizes are from Cloud9 who is giving away a $20 gift certificate to their store. And Jens DigiStamps who will be giving away a $5 gift certificate to their store which is worth five digistamps. We would appreciate if you could take the time to check out their sites if you have time as we are happy to have them as our sponsors.

Cloud9
http://designsoncloud9.com
and their facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Designs-on-Cloud-9/189551027737837

Jens Digi Stamps
http://www.jensdigistamps.com

You should have come from Jessica's blog at http://scrappyluvs.blogspot.com/

Here is the line up in case you want to start from the beginning:

Jamie http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com
Berenice http://karbersweetescape.blogspot.com
Ashley http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
Jessica http://scrappyluvs.blogspot.com/
Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com
Amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/
Dena http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
Deborah F. http://www.scrappingmamma.net
Shelley http://shelleysland.blogspot.com
Clare http://cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com
April http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
Jearise http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
Kristy http://www.scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com
Brynn http://flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/
Janet http://createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Amy http://www.lovetocrop.com
Staci : http://preciousmem.blogspot.com
Lisa http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Cheryl http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/
Gina http://californiascrappin-gcinderella21.blogspot.com/
Paula http://www.scrapyourworld1.blogspot.com
Crafty Homemade http://craftyhomemade.blogspot.com/
JulieK http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/
Maria -http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com

Here's what I have for day two, hope you like it!! I don't know if you are familiar with the "Smash" book but my project today is loosely based on this idea. My daughter wanted to make this for a friend of her's from school. The idea is to create a book that you can post things about friends, school and life in general almost like a journal. Only cooler!

Here is a list of the supplies that we used: My Your Story machine and 1 cover, Cricut Expression, Fabulous Finds cartridge, cricut Phrases cartridge, Hello Kitty cartridge, Hannah Montana cartridge, various scrap cardstock and decorative papers, jewels, & adhesive.

I first warmed up my Your Story machine, while it was warming up I cut several pieces of cardstock for the pages of our "Smash-type" book. After they were cut we put them in the order that my daughter wanted them and placed them in the cover, slid them in the "Your Story" machine and pushed the start button. This was the first time I used my Your Story machine, LOVE it!! ** One thing I forgot to do before I binded the pages was to score each page. I had to go back and score the pages after, which was a little hard to do**

While it was binding the pages to the cover we cut several different phrases,images, and frames from the Phrases cartridge we cut them various sizes ranging from 2-3" the frames were cut at 4" from the Fabulous Finds cartridge. We also used the negative image from the Hello Kitty card from yesterday (I try to save my scraps you never know what you can use them for in another project) and my daugher stuck it down to one of the pages inside the book. (It looked super cute!!)

Then we cut a heart from Hannah Montana cartridge along with her friends name to decorate on the front cover. We ended up not using the ribbon, but it would be cute if you wanted to! There are so many great things you could use for this project! Here is a picture of the cover we left room on the front in case she wanted to put a picture on it:

Hope you like our project for today!! Thanks for hopping along with us today!! Now on to your next stop: Amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/