While the Cat's Away, the Mice will play!

Hey everyone!!! So excited for the hop today! Honestly today I am packing and trying to get some last minute stuff together for CHA! Are you going? If you are I'd LOVE to meet up. I'll be at the Craftwell booth doing make and takes 1788. So head on over anytime between 11-12:00 PM, 2-3:00 PM, and 4-5:00 PM. The make and takes are going to be so much fun so come over and say hi!!!

While the big cats are working away at the Winter 2012 CHA show, we will play and WIN BIG!

How big, you ask?!

BIG, BIG.

As in HUGE!!!
 
Come and hop with us, and fall in love with beautiful projects inspired by love & valentines.
 
There will be giveaways along the way, so jump don’t skip!
 
End on our blog to find out what the big cheese..er PRIZE is!

Okay onto the hop! If you just got here from my friend Lyssa's blog then you are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog then you will want to start at the beginning over at KimberlyRae's blog. :) I have a list lower on this post with the entire line up in case you get lost along the way.

So we are all showing you something with the theme "Love & Valentines". Well I decided to do something a little outside of the box. Also I'm really trying to work on scrapbook pages again this year so thats why I made this...

 I used the Peachy Picks kit for most of the paper and embellishments. The picture is one that I took using Instagram LOVE that program. If you have instagram let me know I'd love to follow you. My instagram is Ravenb28. :)

 Arent these tags adorable! Yeah I'm lovin them!!! GREAT JOB DOBEA!!!! She picks the stuff to go into these little gem kits!

Okay here is the line up!!!

http://kreationsbykimberlyraeblog/

KimberlyRae Forde

http://lyssa-beth.blogspot.com/
Lyssa Zimmerman

http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/
Raven Baca

http://auntielolocrafts.blogspot.com/
Lois Hale

http://www.firestormdesigns.com/
Jennifer McCrae

http://fabric-ecraft.blogspot.com/
Debi Tullier

http://purplepaperparadise.blogspot.com/
Denise O’Connor

http://blog.craftwellusa.com/

eCraft Blog
 

Ohhh wait one other thing...what is a blog hop without some candy right????

I am giving away a Peachy Keen stamp set called Cupid's Sting Cute right?!?!?!

In order to be eligible for this prize you must
1. Be a follower if you aren't already
2. Leave a comment on this post with a way for me to contact you.

Also Craftwell is giving away two prizes to two lucky winners so go on over and check it out here.

Peachy Keen~Leprechaun

Okay I am still getting everything in order and packed for CHA but...I had a little bit of free time and I just had to ink this baby up!

 I LUB him!!! I only wish he had a little leprechaun wife to match him ;) HEHEHE.

I used PK-297 Kiss Me Leprechaun and PK-299 Lucky Day Shamrock! I am soooo in love with these background stamps!

 I just love that little die from Emma!

This one I was just trying to get a picture of his glitter. lol. I hope y'all liked it! I'm going to be MIA for a little while but I'll still be on facebook checking in!!! Hope you all are having a great week!!!!

Inky Impressions Embellish me!

Hey everyone! I really want to inspire you to dress up your stamps.

So here we go...

And here is a little video to show you how it all came to be!!!!

I am entering this into the Splitcoast stampers challenge Twine it up! Oh also I wanted to announce the winner for the Surprise Birthday Party we had for Angelica. You can find that post Here. And the winner is...

CassandraJan 22, 2012 07:11 PM

Love the colors and the simplicity! Great job :)

cassandracaubleatyahoodotcom
www.Ctimz3.blogspot.com

Congrats Cassandra. Please send me your info at Thatsmerb at gmail dot com so that I can get your stamp out to you asap!! ;)

eCraft Goodness

Home Decor Week continues! Our design team was challenged to use our January sponsors (DCWV & Mr. Cricut Crazy stamps) materials to create a beautiful piece to enhance the beauty in your home! The DT rose to the challenge, and today is my turn to show you my project.

Here are all the details on how I made this project!

My tabs and width were both set at 0. I find that having the pressure
on 6 or 6.5 it cuts perfectly through the DCWV thicker stacks. This
set was embossed and dimesional so the higher settings work perfectly
with it.

Using Fundamentals 1 I cut out the heart at 3" I also cut out its
shadow using DCWV paper stack.
Next I cut out a frame as well as its shadow from lettering delights.
The sentiment portion was cut out using a die from Mycreativetime.com
Next using chocolate chip stampin up ink I inked up the sentiment as
well as the little puppy. I colored him in with copic markers and
adhered the pieces together.
Using a crop a dile I made holes in either side of the top and tied some twine.

I hope you all enjoy my super simple home decor project. I made this
for a good friend who has quite a few puppies. ;)

Have a great week!!!

Monster High

Hey y'all! So this is a post I've been meaning to share with you all for a while. My little girl turned 7 in September and she wanted a Monster high birthday. Have y'all heard of them? Well they are super dooper cute. Here is how her party turned out...

Ber in mind this is the first time I've done a real themed birthday. I mean other than the carnival, and the hello kitty, video game... and the well this is the only one that was really decorated. ;)

So this is the main part of the table.

 The blue and pink popcorn balls. :) Tied with pink twine.

 Pink gumballs there were baby blue ones as well.

 Pink and blue rice krispie treats.

 Sugar sticks. YUM

 Tulle Pink and blue tulle hanging from the chandelier.

Cupcakes

 Bones. OMGOODNESS these were soooo good. I wish I would have made more but I didn't. :(

 And the birthday girl in her Monster high shirt!!!!

Happy really late birthday baby lol. ;)

Scrapbook Monday3~Free Spirit

Hey everyone! So I think I am going to designate Mondays to Scrapbook pages. I am really trying to stick with my 52 Scrapbook pages for the year. I am hoping that I far surpass my goal and I think I just may as long as I don't get discouraged and give up lol.

To be honest I went online to walgreens.com the other day because they were having a sale 75 pictures for 9.99 I thought that was a good deal and I like the print quality of walgreens photos. (ADVICE WELCOME) Well anyway to get to my point lol (I ramble) it took me 5 hours to edit and upload 75 pictures. And 75 was a VERY VERY small amount of the pictures I have. That's what we do, us scrapbookers, we document everything through a photo. Half of the pictures I took I couldn't even remember why I had taken them or the significance of the occasion. YES that is something I am going to remedy, starting NOW. So if you'd like to join me come on over on Mondays and I'll have a new project up. If you've made a scrapbook page I'd LOVE to see it so please post a link in the comments so I can jump over there and check it out!

On a side note: I'm trying really, really hard to not buy new products. I realized that if I didn't buy another scrapbook product I would be able to make cards and scrapbook pages for the next 10 years without running low on material. I'm sure most of my fellow crafters are the same so I'm attempting to use up my products. Use old materials and embellishments in a new way. My problem is...I'm a pretty stuff HOARDER! If it's really pretty I don't want to use it because well the perfect picture or project might come up and by golly what if I've already used that perfect embellishment. So my other attempt this year is to USE IT!!!!!! 

Without anymore rambling here we go...

I've had these Anna Griffin embellishments and paper for about 3 years now (as long as I've been scrapbooking) You know the thing about embellishments...they lose their stick if you don't use them. Yeah learned that lesson the hard way! Anyhow all paper and embellishments are Anna Griffin and the black is Stampin up.

 Isn't this just a beautiful "flower" I had to put it on here.

My Free Spirit baby. I'd like to say that she gets this from her mamma but that would be a bold faced lie, so I wont. She amazes me everyday at how marvelous she is. I'll be sure to journal but I find the journaling very personal so it goes on after I take pictures of it. Perhaps someday I can share the journaling as well but to me the journaling is like a love letter I'm writing to my kids. :)

 Who loves Instagram raise your hand! ;) I do!!! I just discovered it and I'm in love! Its a really fun way to share photos. That's how this page came to be. This was one of the first pictures I took of the baby and I LOVE it. I think she is just so beautiful though so a funky photo setting can't really mess that up. I'm totally partial ;) My name on there is ravenb28 if you'd like to follow me. I'm pretty boring but its still a fun app. ;)

Hope you are all having a fabulous day!!!!

A Peachy Princess Birthday

Hey everyone! I am so excited to share something with you all today...It's Angelica's Birthday so if you are Angelica and you are hopping along

SURPRISE! ;) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

If you are not Angelica but you are hopping then come on over! If you just got here from Dobea's AMAZING blog then you are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog then you'll want to start at the beginning over at Ms. Kathy's blog!

So without further ado here is a little birthday card I made for Angelica.

 Yes I know it isn't all "birthday-ish" But it really reminds me of Angelica and what she represents to me. So that's why I picked this stamp set. Its called Compass. AND I am giving this stamp set to one lucky commenter as well. So just leave a comment on this post for a chance to win. If you'd like to become a follower even better but its not required. ;)

Just in case you get lost along the way here is a little hop line up for ya!!

Kathy-http://www.peachykeenstamps-kathy.blogspot.com/
Amanda-http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Amy Crockett- http://www.scrappingmommy.com/
Cristina Garcia- http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/
Lauren Brewer http://www.laurenscreative.com/
DoBea Alberts- http://www.dobeaalberts.blogspot.com/
Raven Baca- http://www.Love4stamps.blogspot.com/
Jennie Garcia http://earthyscrap.blogspot.com/
Heather Hoffman - http://housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com/
Lorie Souther- http://thethinkinspot.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Muzzulin- http://www.handmade75.blogspot.com/
Erin Schreiner - http://www.erinleecreative.com/
Brenda Weaver- http://www.sweetpapertreats.com/
Michelle Criswell- http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com
Michele Gross- http://studiomsg.blogspot.com/
Leanne Garner - http://www.createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/
Tifany DeGough - http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/
Samantha Casey- http://samanthacasey.blogspot.com/
Nikki Foraker- http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
Heidi Anne Giebel - http://gotscraps.blogspot.com
Glorajean Beardall - http://www.glorascrafts.blogspot.com
Vivienne Holden - http://www.craftinghaven.blogspot.com/
Janice Wilson http://stampingwithjanice.blogspot.com/
Saundra Rega http://luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com/
Julie Day - www.daydesigns.blogspot.com
Lisa Buttafuoco - http://our2angelsinheaven.blogspot.com/
Kristi Bennett - www.littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com
Mel Haas- http://doxiemeldesigns.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Washburn- http://sweetstephcardcreations.blogspot.com/
Kim Score -http://www.paperpunchaddiction.com/
Emma Aguilar -http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Okay a little side note...Angelica's birthday just so happens to be the same day as my anniversary! So HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my amazing husband. Marrying you was the best decision I ever made you were, are and always will be my best friend. I love you more and more every single day!!!! ALL MY LOVE!!!!

Hope yall have a fun and jumpin' day now hop along ;)

~PKS~Pockets

Oh goodness me I am so excited to show you today's project. Today is my first official post with the Peachy Keen design team and I am still on cloud 9.

Okay so this week we were asked to "Create a project with a pocket! Whether it folds, tucks, or hides a treat, pockets are a fun way to add something extra!"

So without further ado...

This is the card and the envelope. Its a slider card so it opens like a regular card and it also slides up like this...

 And then this is the envelope. Yeah I know I took a lot of pictures. This was my first time making an envelope and I think I am going to be making envelopes from now on. I really love it! 

Here's a list of What was used:
Ecraft- Svgcuts.com Waterfall Cards
Ink- Basic Black (Stampin Up) Tea Dye (Tim Holtz)
Embellishments- Pink ribbon (Stampin Up)
Stamps- PK-460 Happy Lashes Face Assortment, PK-754 Critter Faces SET A Medium, PK-264 Easter Egg Words and Bunnies, PK-263 Springtime Minis, and PK-858 Spring Words
Tools- Score board
Paper- Imaginisce (which I LOVE) and Stampin up!
Adhesive- ATG
Color Medium- YR07 and R20 Copic

Thank you all so much for stopping by. I hope you liked it as much as I loved making it! Please go on over and check out what the other amazing designers created for your viewing pleasure HERE.

"Woof" you!

Hi eCrafters! I am beyond
honored to be showing you another fun project made with DCWV paper and
Mr. Cricut Crazy Stamps. :)

This week I've made another fun little card using the awesome Collage
Musing stack from DCWV and another sentiment from Mr. Cricut Crazy's
stamp set called Razzel.

This sweet little dog was cut out from a Lettering Delights file
called Feliz-Navi Dog.

For all the deets please jump on over to the eCraft blog to see how I made this little gem. ;)

This was really fun to make. I hope you all like it.

Thanks everyone so much for stopping by and leaving comments I LOVE
reading all of them. ;)

~Valentine's Treat~

Hey everyone! How are you all today? While I'm writing this post I have my niece here and its just the two of us. I have really forgotten how awesome it is to have babies around! She is so silly and fun. While I was thinking of her (she's sleeping) I thought I had better get some Valentines treats whipped up right away before it February 15th and I'm kicking myself for not making anything this year.

Without further ado here it is...

Isn't it cutie pie?!?!? Yeah I'm partial. I love the new Valentines Treats set so I just had to use it on here. I also am IN LOVE with the wands so I filled them up with tootsie rolls. :) Everything was cut out using my eCraft and the Fundamentals 1 SD card.

Thanks yall so much for stopping by I hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as I enjoyed making them :)