DISNEY WORLD AUTOGRAPH BOOK -

Hey Bloggie Peeps! I am super excited to have some crafty time today. We had a lazy Sunday family morning and so I decided to get out my paper! I love my paper :) It just makes me smile and squeal with excitement! Today I took some time out to make a autograph page for one of my Getting Cricky design team sisters who is taking her little munchkin to Disney! (I am super jealous and yet super happy for her). I soooo can not wait to take my kids to Disney! Although most Midwesterners want to take their children to Disney World I want to take my kiddos to Disneyland! I grew up in Southern Cali and have some great memories of my trips to Disney. Plus I still have family and friends out there some of which have never had the chance to meet my kiddos and I would love to introduce them!

Okay enough about me! I tend to babble! ;) And this is about Jessie not about me! Okay so Jessie is taking her little munckin to Disney World and my fabulous Getting Cricky Design sister Shawn is doing a Autograph Book Challenge! I am super excited about this! What a fabulous idea!!!

So here is what you gotta do!!!

1) Autograph book page must be 8 ½” in length and 5” in height.
2) Leave a LARGE AREA of clear space for the character to sign the page.
3) Don’t place the character images too close to the edges of the page in case she would like to bind this book later on.
4) Post completed page on your site and link it to the Challenge at http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/
5) Email Shawn (click HERE) with the subject “Autograph Book Challenge” and I will send you Jessie’s mailing address.
6) Projects must be completed and mailed by May 1, 2012 so that Jessie will receive them before she leaves for her trip to Disney.

FUN! Right? So I got out my Micky and Friends and started playing!!! Here is the first one I came up with...

I cut Minnie at 3 1/2 inches and the large flower is cut at 2 iches and the smaller flowers at 1/2 inch.

AND WHAT WOULD ONE OF MY PROJECTS BE WITHOUT K. ANDREW STAMPS... BORING! (Okay I will stop yelling now ;)) I used the Fashionable Friends Stamp Set! And well of course it is now as the sentiment says "Simply Fabulous"!! 

Here is what the set looks like...

Fun right? You know you want to go order it... it is okay! You can! Just click HERE!!! It is Kristal's best seller right now! And just like a best selling book you MUST OWN IT ;)

Okay  so if you want to enter this challenge hop on over to Shawn's page and do it! Let's make the best autograph book for this munchkin so she always remembers her trip to Disney!!

That is all from me for now. Enjoy the beauty in each wonderful day!

Heather

Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge 3-11

Hello Bloggie Friends! I hope you are doing well on this FINE Sunday! Hope you didn't forget to Spring your clocks ahead an hour. I love that we "spring" our clocks forward because it means it is SPRING! And I love everything about Spring, the birds chirpin', the sun is out longer, no more snow (although this has been an amazingly calm winter) and of course the flowers blooming! I don't really like the losing an hour of sleep and trying to get the kiddos into the new routine though. Takes a little while for them to adjust. But I will get over it because it is SPRING :).

Okay enough of that soapbox! I am excited because today is the Simply Sunday Challenge over at Getting Cricky. Fun right? Well this week's challenge is about 3 colors. You must use the Green, white and one other color of your choice. So me being the IRISH girl that I am thought SWEET! I will make something that is Saint Patrick's Day! So I was messing around trying to come up with ideas. I was looking at digi's online because my amazing Design Team sisters have been using them and they are so stinkin' cute I wanted to give it a shot. There are some super cute ones out there too, and free I might add. But then it hit me! A little craft for my kiddos to take to school! So I came up with this.....

I made this little hat... with a surprise inside. I will be honest it was harder then I thought using just the three colors. I wanted to use some gold so badly!!! But I got it to work. The structure of the hat is a toilet paper roll to make it sturdy. I cut the bottom circle and put a card underneath the green to make it a little stronger. Then I took the toilet paper and a green piece of card stock (cut to the roll size) and hot glue gunned the paper down. I cut a little off the top of the hat (a little less then an inch) because the toilet paper roll stood a little to tall for my desired hat height. Then I used the hot glue gun and glued around the bottom of the toilet paper roll and attched it to the circle. I cut a little circle for the top of the hat (I used a little glue on this but did not glue it all the way so that I could add a special treat). I used my Stamping Cricut Cartridge to cut the shamrocks... the small ones are cut at 1/2 inch and the top one is cut at an inch. I used a strip of scrap black paper and added that to the bottom along with a little white square for the buckle (I so wanted to use Gold but what can you do? Rules are rules ;)) And wellll---ahhhh (if that is how you spell it, sounded right in my head) my little IRISH hat is finished. But of course what would a project be if I did not add a Kristal Andrew Designs Stamp? It will just be blah! So I used my wonderful Fashionable Friends stamp set (which by the way is her number one seller right now so if you don't have it YOU NEED IT! ;) ) and added the sentiment "Hats off to you". See it does add a ton of life to the project don't you think? Yeah me too!


Well enough of my babble! It is your turn to enter the Simply Sunday Challenge!!!
Here is what you do...

Challenge Requirements:

1. Post any Green, white and one color of your choice project of your choice & link up by 3/24/12
2. Post as many projects as you want that fit the criteria (the more you most the more amazing chances to win)
3. Make sure Kristal's blinkie is up on your sidebar, and your blog post entry is linked back to Kristal's  blog Getting Cricky
4. Leave a comment at Getting Cricky under this challenge
5. HAVE FUN & spread the word! (We love it when you scream Kristal's name of Getting Cricky from the roof tops)
6. The winner will receive a surprise K Andrew Designs stamp set!! (Lucky Ducks! These Stamps Rock)

ALRIGHT! You have some work to do! Go play with your paper and have some fun! Dr. Heather's orders! ;) Enjoy the week all! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Many wonderful blessings,
Heather

Psst... shhhh.... I am about to break the rules! DON'T TELL ANYONE! You saw my Simply Sunday Challenge project I only used the three colors (Green, White and Black)... but I could not resist showing you the next part!! I had to sneak another color it! SSSHHHH!!! Don't tell on me!

What good is a Saint Patrick's Day with out a little yummy Gold!

Okay now I really have to go because I have to go make about 40 more of these! Gotta any spare toilet paper rolls I can have? :)

Oh here is the stamp set I used...

Don't have it but want it.... Go HERE and order away! I just placed an order for three new stamp sets! Can't wait to show you what I come up with next!!!

Okay I'll see ya'll later! Enjoy the day!!

Stamping Tuesday fun!

Well Hello all my Bloggie Friends! Happy Tuesday to you! I hope you are having a stellar week this far! I made a little something something... otherwise know as a card! :) I was having fun with guess what... MY K. ANDREW DESIGN STAMPS! Crazy I know but they were just sitting there in front of me screaming PLAY WITH ME!!! So I did. I used four different sets for this one little card and they all blend so well together! So here is the card...

It reads "Everything is better with YOU Miss you!"

Just a fun little card to send a friend I am missing.

 The You comes from Winter Wishes

The tea cup, spoon and tea pot come from Coffee and Tea Time.. Aren't these fun images!!

 The Everything is better came from The Coffer and Tea Treats....

Miss you was from one of my personal favs Fashionable Friends

Like what you see and want to get your own stamps to play!??!?! Go and visit my friend Kristal at K. Andrew Design and order yourself some new toys!!! Go on you deserve it!

Don't forget she is pre-ordering her STELLAR Valentine's Day set... if you buy both sets you get a free mini and they are SIMPLY ADORABLE! Can't wait to get my hands on them!

Also wanted to give you a heads up of the things going on and coming up! Right now we have the Simply Sunday Challenge - Celebration going on! Loads of fun... link up your project that has to do with a celebration on the Getting Cricky Website. You have until Saturday at 11:59 pm to do this! See my Simply Sunday Challenge post or the Getting Cricky Website for all the details!

This Sunday (1-15) we will be doing a new Simply Sunday Challenge starting at 12 p.m. EST on the Getting Cricky Blog. Be sure to check it out and link up your project. Tuesday  (1-17) we will be doing the Getting Cricky Link Up the Love Party! You won't want to miss this! It is a great way to meet to crafty friends and have everyone seeing your amazing projects! ALSO Starting on Sunday (1-15) some of the Getting Cricky Design Team will be doing a week long blog about Kristal's stamps. We have chosen one stamp set to feature for the week and we will be posting project each day that are using the set we picked out. Then starting Friday (1-20) we are going to be doing our Monthly Getting Cricky Blog Hop! 

It will be a busy week full of amazing projects! I can't wait to share them with you all and hope you will follow along all week long! 

Thanks for stopping today and I hope you have a fabulous rest of the week! With all these projects coming up I am going to go lock myself in my scrap room now :) Later tators!

All my bloggie love, 

Heather  

Getting Cricky Blog Hop ~ Winter Wishes

Welcome to the "Holiday Wishes" Getting Cricky Blog Hop!!

Hello my wonderful bloggie friends!!! I am so happy you could join us for this month's Getting Cricky Design Team Blog Hop!!  I am UBBER (yeah that is right I said ubber :)) excited to be doing my first blog hop as a Getting Cricky Junior Design Team member! This hop is going to feature 10 of the new Junior Design Team girls (if you have not meet all the new girls be sure to check out my Getting Cricky page and check them out! Or you can find us all on Kristal's page as well! They are a set of AMAZINGLY talent girls and I highly recommend following all of their blogs) along with Kristal and all the amazing Senior Design Team members! Each of us, along with our Special Guest - Ellen from "a little bit of this...", are so pleased to have you here with us!!  Throughout the hop, you'll see NEW ideas for creating cards and projects with Kristal's stamps sets!!

If you've hopped along from Christel from One Scrappin Sista at  then you are in the right place!! If you are just joining me from your dashboard, or reading this via email, please be sure to CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Kristal's blog (you'll want to catch up on all the FUN!!)...

Now you may have heard me mention Kristal's stamps a time or two but here is a little more information! Each of Kristal's stamp sets benefit charity. At least $1 per stamp set goes to benefit the charity noted on the stamp set package. Kristal is donating to the following charities: Cancer Angels, Storefront Shelter for Homeless Children, Intrepid & Fallen Heroes, E. Glaser Pediatric AIDS  Foundation, Doorways Shelter for Women & Children (Domestic Violence), Wayside House for Women, Camp Good Days & Special Times, Adopt a Classroom, and Autism Research Institute. Kristal will donate $1 for every stamp set sold, retail or wholesale to the charity noted; and over time believes this will add up to some wonderful miracles for these special people. So you can feel good that each time you purchase a K Andrew Designs art stamp set, someone around the country is receiving some good help!

K Andrew's stamps are all made and assembled here in the USA, which is very important to Kristal. This ensures all product materials are safe and that jobs are being provided and maintained here in America.  You can learn even more about Kristal's stamps (and pick some up for yourself) by visiting her online store: K Andrew Designs:









Kristal's stamp sets are perfect for cards, layouts, and so much more... Here is THE BEST NEWS OF THE NIGHT/DAY (depending on when you read this) Kristal is offering 20% off all orders this weekend! (Nov18 - Nov 20) STOCK UP NOW! This is an amazing offer!!! They make great gifts for the crafters in your life (you know like me, please feel free to check my wish list!)  SO GO HERE Now and ORDER ORDER ORDER...Enter Promo code cricky20 .... WAIT I WAS WRONG.... check out my cards and then go order order order! ;)

For my project, I'm featuring the Fashionable Friends and Food for Thought stamp sets




 For this hop I have made two different cards

Ms. Snowomen loves to shop! But who doesn't at this time of year right? I love buy gifts for all my nieces and nephews! LOVE TO SHOP... as Kristal's stamp says... "Shopping is my therapy!"

The snowman was made from Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge as were the bags and ornament. I used a little gold glitter glue to dazzle the ornament up a bit. The ribbon was from Walmart as was the back drop paper. The stamp as I said was from the K. Andrew Fashionable Friend stamp set. I love the fashionable friends set. I have used it for sooo many different projects.

Santa is "The Original Red Hatter" my friends! Red Hatter is also a stamp from Fashionable Friends. I printed "The Original" portion off of my computer. Santa is made from the Christmas Cheer Cartridge as is his nice list. The alot of nice at the top of the list is from Food for Thought Stamp Set... see you can just put a ton of these stamps sets together and the projects are ENDLESS!!! :)

Okay Now what you have all been waiting for!! I will be offering Blog Candy.... Tonight's blog candy is a necklace lanyard and Itty Bitty Buttons to go with! What is this you ask? Well my very talented friend Julie makes these adorable buttons that you can attach to a lanyard... best part is you can mix them up. She makes a ton of different styles and you have one for everyday of the week/month or for the mood you are in! They are loads of fun. I will be sending you a couple of scrappy ones (shh... these designs are no longer available but I have an in with the owner!) Check out her wears at Say Cheese Design. I am sure you will love them as much as I do! You have until Sunday November 27 to enter! I will pick a winner and announce it here on my blog Monday November 28... So be sure to stop back and see if you are my lucky winner!!! How do you enter? Well leave me some bloggie love of course! Leave a comment if you would like to become a follow I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it but it is not required!


DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THE AMAZING DEAL ON STAMPS THIS WEEKEND!!! Be sure to hop over and order lots! Holidays are coming up and they make amazing gifts... just sayin! ;)
Thank you so much for stopping on by!

Now you can hop on over to your next stop: Jana at Raining Grace...... Have fun hopping everyone! :)

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