Sprinkled With Love

Hi everyone, hope you're having a great day! A few weeks ago, during my regular hopping of blogs, I stumbled across THIS card. I thought it was adorable and knew I had to make one. Here is what I came up with:

Cute eh? I cut the base from Birthday Bash - I need to use that cartridge more often - the salt and pepper are from From My Kitchen. The adorable faces are from Peachy Keen - the girl is from Princess Faces and the boy is from Boy Mates. I was trying to decide what sentiment to use, and then I remembered that I had the PERFECT sentiment for this card on my Whimsical Design stamp set With Love:

I'll be back tomorrow with my Cricut Cardz Challenge DT card, and some exciting news, so I hope you all come back then!

A few challenges:
Whimsical Wednesday - colors of love
Cooking with Cricut - use black and a brad
Cupcake Craft Challenge - entwined
Stamps R Us - anything goes
Totally Gorjuss - love
Card Crafter's Circle - valentines
Crafty Catz Weekly - valentines
Glitter Geeks - to the one I love
4 Crafty Chicks - love is in the air
Do You Stack Up - love

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Peachy Monday

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and that you all enjoyed my Hello Kitty party week last week. I had so much fun creating all of those projects and my daughter loved them! So, on to today's project. This week, the Peachy Keen challenge was to use this photo as inspiration:

Here is what I came up with:

I decided to make a little set of cards thank you cards, featuring fruit with cute little peachy faces. The paper is all from Stampin Up and I embossed it with my D'vine Swirls cuttlebug embossing folder.

The melon is cut from Preserves, the face is from Princess Faces and the stamp is from Simply Sweet Set - it isn't available anymore, but I do love it.

The strawberry is from Simply Charmed, the face is from Everyday Character Assortment, and the stamp is from Simply Sweet.

I think the blackebrry is my favorite... It is cut from Preserves, the face is from Happy Lashes and the sentiment is from Simply Sweet.

The strawberries are from Preserves, their faces are from Wide Eyed Kids and the sentiment is also from Simply Sweet.

Aren't they cute?? I was really happy with how they turned out. Be sure to come back tomorrow, I have a really cute Valentines card :) Thanks for popping by.

A few challenges:
Peachy Keen - inspiration picture
Fantabulous Cricut - fun with puns
Pile it On - heartfelt thanks
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes

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Hello Kitty PartyWeek - Day 7

It is the last day of Hello Kitty party week here on my blog. I am almost sad to see it go. The girls had so much fun, and I loved making all the treat for them :) SO here are the last three things I have to show you:

This was another one of the crafts we made at the party. They were simple and fun and the girls all wore them and I took a picture, it was adorable!

These were easy to make. I cut 2 - 1 1/2 inch x 12 inch strips in white. Then I cute two triangles from George and Basic Shapes. I made the ribbons by welding together 2 triangles and a circle, and then cut another circle again, to give it some dimension.

Here is the cake I made for my girlie. It is a Wilton design, and is probably the easiest cake I have ever decorated - gotta love that :) She was a hit!

This is the last thing that I put in the girl's goody bags. I googled Hello Kitty Coloring pages on the internet, printed them off and personalized each one for the girls by putting Hello Kitty with the first letter of their name. I used these coloring books at the start of the party. There was about 15 or 20 minutes when the girls were arriving, so as they arrived, we gave them each their coloring books and they colored on the living room floor until everyone got there. Then I popped them into their goody bags, so they could take them home.

All in all, the party was a HUGE success! I will do some sort of home party again. It was lots of fun for all concerned :)

Thanks for hanging out with me this week. I hope you all liked Hello Kitty Party week, and got some ideas that you can use. I'll be back again tomorrow to show you a Valentine's Day project.

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Hello Kitty Party Week - Day 6

It's Day 6! Hello Kitty Party week is almost over. Today I am showcasing on of our party games. Pin the Bow on Hello Kitty. I thought I was brilliant, coming up with this, then when I was on Pinterest, I realized that there were some other very smart ladies, who had come up with it before me :) here is the version I came up with:

I used my 12x24 mat, and cut Hello Kitty's head as large as possible. I then cut out a bow for each little girl, using the same pattern as I did for the Hello Kitty goody bags/ I wrote their names on the bow, so we would know whose was whose.

Here is one of the little girls playing it. They had so much fun!

A few challenges for my little project:
Allsorts Challenge - free and easy February
Catch the Bug - inspiration photo
Fun With Shapes and More - birthdays with die cuts


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Hello Kitty Party Week - Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 of Hello Kitty Party week! Pinterest was a great source of ideas for me. We don't have as much Hello Kitty stuff here in Canada as there seems to be in the US - at least not that I could find. I ended up making almost all the party things. I wanted the girls to have a Hello Kitty Goody bag. Shockingly I couldn't find one here, but then I found THIS on Pinterest. I knew I could make that for the girls. We decided to make it one of the party activities. The girls would all design and make their own Hello Kitty goody bag!

So, this was the sample bag I made for the girls. I used my Gypsy girl to make all the parts. everything is cut from George and Basic Shapes. I made ovals for the eyes, 2 slightly smaller ovals for the nose, one cut in black and the other in yellow. The whiskers are made of skinny rectangles. I made the bow by welding together 2 rounded triangles with a circle in the middle. I cut out ons of these! As you will see over the next few days, I used these bows alot! I bought the bags at Walmart.

Here is what the girls came up with. Tell me that's not ADORABLE!! Their goody bags were filled with lots of Hello Kitty stuff and a candy kabob that they made. Fun, fun, fun!

A challenge or two:
If the Shoe Fits - anything goes
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
Moving Along With the Times - cute critters
Alphabet Challenge - animal antics
CAS-ual Fridays - paper piecing (this may be a bit of a stretch...)


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Hello Kitty Party Week - Day 4

Welcome to Day 4 of Hello Kitty Party week here at my blog. I hope you have been enjoying all the ideas so far. Today's idea is not an original one. I was on Pinterest a few weeks ago, hunting for Hello Kitty ideas and found THIS. I thought it was FABULOUS and knew that I could recreate it, so I did. Here is my Hello Kitty bouquet:

Isn't it awesome??!! Gabrielle and her girlfriends loved it, and so did I! All the cuts are from Hello Kitty Greetings. I cut them all nice and big. Anywhere from 3.5 - 5.5 inches. I mounted them all on wooden skewers, and stuck them all into some of that green foam you can find in the fake flower section at Walmart. I tucked the whole thing into a box that I made using my Martha Stewart Score board. I chose all of Gabrielle's favorite colors. I was so thrilled with how it came out!

A few challenges:
The Crafty Pad - fresh spring colors
All Sorts - free and easy february
Catch the Bug - anything goes
Cutie Pie Challenges - anything but a card
Make It Monday - anything goes
City Crafters - colors of the rainbow
Celebrate the Occasion - anything goes birthdays
Craft Room Challenge - cute and cuddly (is anything cuter than Hello Kitty?)
Crafty Sentiments - let's get girly
Made By You Monday - linky party

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A Peachy Valentine

If you are looking for Day 3 of my Hello Kitty Party Week, click HERE. Can you believe I have another post today? I have been such a good blogger lately! When I saw Peachy Keen's current challenge, I knew I had to play along. The challenge is to use a toilet paper roll - toilet paper roll albums are one of my favorite things to make! I gathered 4 toilet paper rolls from my stash (is it sad I have a stash of TP rolls?) and set out to make a Valentine's Day album for my husband. here is what I came up with:

All the hearts in this mini album are punches. The 2 smaller hearts are from Creative Memories, the larger from Stampin Up. The sentiment stamps are all from Whimsical Design's With Love set. The Peachy Keen faces throughout are from Happy Lashes, Boy Mates, wide Eyed Kids and Princess Faces.

This page is the one my daughter chose to be hers. So on one side, a cute little puppy, the other side, a pic of "the girl", as we lovingly refer to her... The heart's face is from my Princess faces.

The pup is from Create a Critter, and the face from my PK Critter faces. The sentiment, is again from Whimsical Designs. I was really impressed with how crisply they stamped!

The next page is for "the boy". The heart right above his picture has another Princess face. All the doodling, throughout the book, is done with my Sakura pens - LOVE them!!

The "XO" is from Smiley Cards cartridge, with faces from the Princess Faces and Boy Mates. The sentiment is another from Whimsical Designs

This last page is for me. I need to find a picture of him and I - I have one in mind, but I need to develop it. The heart has another Princess face one it. Love my PK faces :)

The cute little buggy is cut from Create a Critter, her cute little face is from Wide Eyed Kids and the stamps, from Whimsical Designs. All the paper on the TP rolls is from K and Co's Valentine stack from last year. That paper is beautiful! All the cardstock, came from my scrap boxes.

These are the tags that go in the slots created by the toilet paper rolls. The tags are cut from Sweet Treats. I decided to do a special thing for Mike. I asked the kids all the things they love best about him, and then wrote down what I love about him on three separate tags - kind of like little love letters to my honey. Each of those tags will slip into the roll with our pictures, and when Mike is upset, or down or mad at us, he can look at this little album, and the tags, and hopefully it will make him smile.

Some challenges for my little album:
Peachy Keen Challenge - use a toilet paper roll
Scrappy Moms Stamps - hearts galore
Crafty Boots - valentine's day
Creative Stamp Friends - valentine's day
Lexi's Creations - love
Make My Monday - love letters
My Craft Spot - valentine's day
Ooh La La Creations - be my valentine
Stamp and Create - valentine's day/ love
Stamp with Fun - love
Stamps R Us - valentine's day/love
Secret Crafter - hugs and kisses
Sweet Stampin - for the one that I love
Dream Valley Challenge - valentine's
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - say it with love
Sentimental Sunday - feel the love
Addicted to Stamps - love/valentine's
Forever Friends - animal valentine
Little Miss Muffet - valentine's and love
Sarah Hurley - love is all around
Always Something Creative - valentine's
Scrap It Girl - love
Clear it Out - use scraps for valentine's
Deep Ocean - love you
Everybody Art - love
Shopping Our Stash - hearts, valentine's
Try it on Tuesdays - for your true love
Tuesday Throwdown - valentine's day
Creative Crafts - ribbon, pink, gems (bling on the pup and on the love bug)
Fab 'n' Funky - love is in the air
Simon Says - love is in the air
Papercraft Star - heart
Creative Inspirations - lots of love
The Kraft Journal - La-la-la love you


Whew! That is a lot of challenges! Maybe my most ever :) It is so fun to find challenges to play along with! Be sure to come back tomorrow, for Day 4 of Hello Kitty Party Week...


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