Back to School Blog Hop Day 6!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 6!!

Wow! This blog hop is into day 6 and is quickly coming to an end!! This will be my final project for this hop! I hope you have enjoyed my projects along the way and will continue to stop by and visit! Be sure to check back on August 16 when I will draw and announce the winner!


Now onto my last project! As some of you know I am a card maker, I love to make cards! But I decided back in February to attempt to make an 8 1/2X11 Scrapbook for a friend who is not so crafty and give it as a Christmas present. So through all the wonderful challenges that I have come across I have been able to complete many pages! But this one I made for the hop.

I ended up buying a Perfect Pages Grade School Kit to make this one! The apple cut is from DoodleCharms. You can click on the image to get a better view!


If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Our hop will soon be coming to an end! I hope you check back in!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

I also wanted to take this time to thank all of you that decided to follow me, even though it was not required to win my blog candy! I appreciate all of you that have been popping back and I will be coming around once I am caught up to visit!

I also wanted to answer a few quick questions that I received.


What did I use to adhere my projects together?
Mostly my ATG gun, I did also use my Scotch quick dry but this is what always happens when I use the Scotch:
Yes, that is a big blob of glue! I don't know why this happens! The top flys off! SO mainly my ATG gun!


Where do I find my acetate paper?

I usually buy it from Office Max, they carry it in their special copy and printing area.... but you can also buy the clear protective folders that you use as a report cover and that works perfect too!


The candy box is cut at 5 3/4 but is actually only 4 1/2 X 3 1/2 once assembled so it is to small to fit a set of standard A2 size cards.


The paper for the composition notebook was from DCWV Fun in the Sun Summer Stack.


Cookie the little hamster is alive!! Thank Goodness!! She recovered from complete exhaustion from being played with! And her friend loved the card!


How do I do it? I am abusybee! I love to stay busy! I am a night owl so I stay up super late, I do work full-time outside of the house, I do have a husband and children, I do cook dinner five nights a week, I am a list making control freak, my house is spotless except my craft corner... Don't hate me!! Here is my secret.... my big secret is.... I don't watch T.V.!! Only one show for one hour once a week and when it is in season.... MadMen!! That frees up a lot of time for me to craft! LOL!! So that is it that is how I do it! Feel free to contact me via my "contact me here" on my sidebar to chat, have questions or discuss Don Draper!



Thanks for joining in on the hop and a special thanks to Georgiana, Dorcas, Cheryl, and Jen! They all worked so hard and all the projects were amazing! Thanks Ladies!


Multi-task: Entry for Paper Cutz Challenge Back to School!

More Than Favors Challenge

This week over at More than Flavors the challenge is Halloween!

And it is perfect timing! I have been attempting to make my friend a scrapbook for Christmas! And I still needed to do a Halloween page, so here it is!

I used my Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Punch, Create a Critter for the Pumpkin on top, the other pumpkin is from Sizzix Jack-O-Lantern, all the paper is from Recollections Halloween. (You can click on the photos to see a larger image!)

Blog Hop Day 5 !!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 5!!

My girls have to read tons of books for school! They have an advanced reader program and you have to stick with a strict schedule to complete the reading requirements and every book has a level, a quiz number and a point value. Because I am a control freak, I labeled all our books with post it notes and wrote out all the info and stuck it to the inside of the book. ( I know I know I have a problem!) Anyways~~ I noticed them using my post it note as a book mark, and my problem with that is by the time they get to the end of the book, the post it note is no longer sticky and is lost.... so I decided to make them special book marks to use instead!!

These were fun and easy to make! All you need is some jumbo paper clips, some liquid glue and about a cut about 1 1/2" cut both ways.

I used DoodleCharms for the Apple cut at 1 1/2".
I cut it once in green for the leaf, then in brown for the stem, and then again in red.
I then hit the flip button and re-cut all the cuts so that I could glue the apple together around the paper clip and have both sides covered.
I used Scotch Quick dry adhesive to keep it all together.

I also did the same thing using Paper Pups, since our school mascot is the tiger, but because we are an elementary school we use the tiger paw and our colors are orange and black so I made these for my girls, and the apples for the teachers.

If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Our hop will soon be coming to an end! I hope you check back in!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Multi-tasking: My Creative time: Use Paisley with a back to school theme. I don't have paisley but the Apple from DoodleCharms should qualify!

Bitten by The Bug Challenge - Lizard

Bitten by the Bug 2 is having a fun challenge! It is to use the lizard from Life's a Beach, I don't have this cartridge so I made one using SCAL.

I love how this turned out!! I love to send out unique Christmas cards, and since I live in Arizona but my family lives in New York, I thought the Palm tree Christmas tree with the Arizona lizard climbing up it was so fun! The palm tree and present are from DoodleCharms. I used The safari kids stack paper for the lizard. I kept it flat with no pop dots, or goggle eyes because I am mailing these. I stamped it Merry Christmas from Arizona!



If you are passing through for the Back to School Blog Hop, please click here!

Blog Hop Day 4 !!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 4!!

Today I will be showing you a gift box that is so fun and easy to make!

This box is on page 80 of the Wild Card Cartridge, it is the giftbox 2 (so use the shift button)
I picked a 12X12 sheet of pattern paper from the Color Bok School Life pack, I did use a heavier paper because I am putting treats on the inside. I used the fit to page button so this would cut it as large as it can on a 12X12 sheet and it cut it at 5 3/4". I scored all the lines then I measured the open window and glued in some acetate paper that was 3"x4". I then glued the box together.

Here is the front:


Here is the back:
Then I filled it with LifeSaver Candies:
And added some red twine to help keep it all together!




I will have my chickie give this to her teacher so she can have some treats in her desk!

I'm sure you can tell I love super fast, simple and fun projects! I learned if I think about it, and think about it my projects look busy and I never like them. Now I just go with my gut and say less is more and now I always like how they look! It is easier to add than to take off!

** For those of you who have asked, I used my ATG gun to adhere all my projects together.**

If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Be sure to come back all week long for fun and exciting ideas!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Multi-taking: This is being entered over My Sheri Crafts: Back to School!

Back to School Blog Hop Day 3!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 3!!

My daughter needed a composition notebook this year for her journal so I decided to make it more fun for her. Here is a photo of the book before: Pretty boring!!


Here is the front after:
Here is the back after!
This project was soooo easy to make! I let her pick the paper she wanted from one of my 12x12 paper packs. Then I just measured and glued! I did add a colored spine border and some ribbon for extra bling. I wanted to add lots of bling but was afraid of what would happen to it shoved in her desk! She LOVED it and so did all of her friends!

If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Be sure to come back all week long for fun and exciting ideas!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Multi-tasking: This is also being entered into the Paper Playtime Challenge School Days

**Cookie is ok!! Hooray!! Thank you for all your sweet comments!!***

Blog Hop Fun Day 2!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 2!!

The start of a new school year always brings some nervousness and concern for my girls, so we always make sure to get together with friends right before school starts so they can communicate with each other about how they are feeling and feel reassured that they are each feeling the same.

So when we had a friend over she decided to bring her new miniature hamster with her, and oh my how cute this little thing was so tiny and adorable! Well after a few hours of playing with little Cookie, she wasn't looking so good :(

We had to call her Mom to come and get them both. I felt so awful handing over this poor little hamster and a little girl with tears welling up in her eyes!

We checked on Cookie and she was still hanging in there, so we decided to make her friend a card to let her know how sorry we are and that we are praying for her and Cookie. My daughter will deliver it to her friend today, on the first day of school!

Recipe:
Create a Critter for the hedge hog (Which looks just like the mini hamster!)
Accent Essentials for the circles
Cuttlebug folders swiss dots and spots and dots
scallop punch
all paper is from scraps!

Since I am a multi-tasker... This project is also for the following challenges:
Peachy Keen: Follow the sketch


and
Paper Cutz challenge:
For challenge # 53, make a card, LO or craft project using a digital, hand stamped or Cricut cut image of a monkey, skunk, squirrel or hedgehog and any colors you'd like.



If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy!

Be sure to come back all week long for fun and exciting ideas!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Thanks for visiting! Come Back soon!

Welcome to our Back to School Blog Hop!

Welcome!!

I am so excited to be included in this Back to School Blog hop! If you have hopped over from Jen's blog at Purple Scrapbooker then you are right on track! If not hop on over to the start at Georgiana's blog Carson's Cricut Creations so you don't miss anyone!


I will be your final blog for this hop, but be sure to check back all week, each blog will be posting many back to school ideas and everyone will be offering blog candy!

For my first project I made a Thank You card.

The card is a standard A2 size card.
Green Patter: 1 1/2" by 5 1/2"
Brown pattern paper at 3" by 5 1/4"
Brown card stock at 1" by 5 1/4"
Ribbon at the divider line and tied a knot.
Apple is cut three times from Doodle Charms at 3 1/2"
In green, red and brown.
Added stamp and pop dots!
I also added some additional pattern paper to the inside cut at 1" by 5 1/4

So simple, yet so cute!! I hope you enjoy this Thank You card! Be sure to check back for more projects including: Super Cool Paper Clip bookmarks, altered notebooks and A sweet candy box!

And now for the candy!

A fun mix of supplies:
Celebrate plastic tags
Chipboard Hearts
Baby Bubble Icons
Vacation Rub-ons
Love and Wedding Ribbon
Celebration Bubble Words
Pastel Fabric Flowers

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and a way for me to contact you if you win!! ( You do not have to be a follower)
Sorry Due to postal issues this is open to US and Canada Residents ONLY!
Canada residents may have to pay custom fees.
I will draw and announce the winner on August 16th!

**One entry per person please**

Be sure to come back all week long for fun and exciting ideas!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Thanks for visiting! Come Back soon!

Some Awards!!

I recently received some awards and wanted to do a quick posting! School is starting for us on Monday, so I will be back to pass them forward!

Thank you to Barb over at Crafty Girl, She is so sweet and makes the most amazing Lay-outs!


She sent me over the Versatile Award!
And Thank you to Melissa over at Moe Creations! You should check out her great cards!


She sent me over the Sweet Blogger Award!

A big THANK YOU ladies!! I love checking out your blogs and how sweet to think of me!

Sparkle Friend Card

I made this card for the following challenges:
More than Favors: Challenge # 3 Follow the sketch


Made by Momo: So this weeks theme is "Flower Shower". Basically, you just need to have flowers in your project!

And

My Sherri Crafts: Challenge # 16 Friends

I used Accent Essentials for the flowers, The Paper Studio flower border punch, and KI Memories ribbon.

Cricut Cards Challenge

Over at CCC:

For challenge # 36, make a teen birthday card using any cartridges or colors you'd like.

I had this cute and funky owl from a swap over at Serenity Scrappers and thought it would be perfect for a teen!
The pattern paper was in my scraps, I used my scallop punch, added some ribbon and buttons!

** Serenity Scrappers is hosting a holiday swap! Check it out here! Tell them abusybee sent you!

Don't forget to check out my blog candy! Check out my sidebar!

Bitten by The Bug Challenge - Dinosaur

Over at the BBTB2 they are doing Paper Doll Dress up Dinosaur challenge!

Here is my entry:
I used the Paper Doll Dress up Cartridge for all the cuts! I never have enough boy cards so I made this one a Happy Birthday! I used the Mosaic embossing folder for the dino!

Jitterbuggin' Challenge!

Jitterbuggin' Challenge! Sketch 11Follow the sketch and

Make it a children's birthday card.

Include something purple somewhere on your card!

Use your Cricut!

Here is my entry:

I used Create A Critter for the seal and the balls, I ran the purple circle through the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder. Paper is from Target. Thanks for looking!

Alphabet Challenge N - Nature

Alphabet Challenge N - Nature
For this week's challenge, we have N for Nature

Here is my entry:
I used Stamping for the tree, and KI Memories Family Time paper pack and ribbon is from Joann's Craft Essentials. (And I only know all this because I just bought it all!! They had a great sale!)

I LOVE this cut!! I think it is one of my favorites! I will add a stamp once I decide where it is headed!

** Don't Forget I have blog candy!! Click on the photo to the right to be directed to the correct posting!!**