My Pinkalicious Blog Hop ~ March 2012

I am so glad you could join us for this evening's My Pinkalicious Blog Hop!   You should have arrived from Tx Scrapper Mom's blog.  If you are just joining us, you can start at the beginning at Robyn's (My Pink Stamper) blog,

Theme for Project: St. Patrick's Day! Think Green! Show us a card, layout, mini book, party idea, home decor--anything!

For my project, I created a St. Patrick's Day kissing ball...better to be kissed then pinched, right?

Material Used:

• Cricut digital cartridge St. Patrick's Day
• Cricut cartridge Hannah Montana
• My Pink Stamper From the Heart stamp set
• Moss covered sphere
• Core'dinations cardstock
• Stampin' Up! cardstock in Early Espresso, More Mustard, Garden Green, Naturals Ivory and Whisper White
• Stampin' Up! Early Espresso classic ink
• Stampin' Up! Square Lattice embossing folder
• Stampin' Up! 1 1/4" grosgrain ribbon in Old Olive and Early Espresso
• Stampin' Up! Kiwi Kiss corduroy buttons
• Stampin' Up! gold cord
• Ranger distress ink in Crushed Olive and Antique Linen
• Gold Smooch Spritz
• Jewelry Fundamentals in Antique Brass
• Seed beads in green and gold
• Tiger eye chips
• Hot glue gun/glue

I started off by cutting about 125 shamrocks in two different sizes and colors and embossed the lighter color shamrocks with an embossing folder.  I then hot glued all the darker green shamrocks onto the moss ball. 

Once they were adhered, I added the lighter color shamrocks.  Next, I sprayed the ball with gold Smooch Spritz and added my ribbons.  For my bow, I first wrapped the ball with the Old Olive ribbon and added a sewed hook made from the Early Espresso ribbon before tying the bow.

Once tied, I added a button to each side of the hook and tied them on with gold stretch cord.  I glued down the middle of each side of the bow for added interest.

  I cut the bannered sentiment from the digital Cricut cartridge St. Patrick's Day twice.  Once, leaving all the layers as is and again, using the hide/contour feature in the Cricut Craft Room to hide the sentiments and clover so that I could add lips (from Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge)  and the sentiment SWAK from My Pink Stamper's From the Heart stamp set.  Once the image was cut and adhered, I added gold Smooch Spritz to it as well. 

I added seed beads and Tiger eye chips to the jewelry fundamental and added it to the bottom of the ball using hot glue.  Lastly, I added a jump ring to a 1/8" punched hole in my image and added it to the kissing ball.    Now I am all ready to be KISSED!  ;)

To thank you for visiting my blog and for hopping along with us, I am giving away the My Pink Stamper set "Love-alicious". 

All you have to do to win  is leave a comment on this post.  I will select a winner on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 using Random.org.  The winner will have until Friday, March 16, 2012 at midnight (central) to claim the prize by contacting me.  If contact has not been made by this time, the stamp set will go back into my prize stash for a future hop.

To purchase Robyn's stamps sets, please visit HERE and don't forget to go back to Robyn's blog at the end of the hop to link up your own project.  Your next stop on the hop is with the talented Missy.

And here is the complete Blog Hop List:

Robyn 

Tracy (CraftJunkieToo)
Shelley (Cricut Cuteness)
Roberta (TX Scrapper Mom)
Renee (I Came, I Saw, I Created) *** You are HERE
Missy (Quick Chick Designs) ******************** Go here NEXT
Michelle (Meesh's Pieces)
June (Simply Elegant Paper Crafts)
Helen (Crafting Cricut Mom)
Edna (Create With Expression)
Cristi (Scrappin 5 Little Cupcakes)
Courtney (Court's Crafts)
Chelle (Paper Krate)
Carissa (Sprinkled with Glitter)
Angela (Simple Creations)
Andrea (Divine Domesticity)
Alex (You Had Me At Craft)
Maria

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Cricut Circle Blog Weekly Challenge 40: Glittery Card Sketch

The Challenge: This week we want to see your interpretation of the following card sketch. Please include some kind of glitter or bling on your card.

I just bought the Imagine patterns cartridge Heirloom and couldn't wait to use it!  The butterfly paper was my inspiration in creating a project from the sketch.  I also discovered a new technique by default in creating the 3D butterflies.  I will add a tutorial on how to make these in the next few days. 

Materials Used:

• Cricut cartridges Hannah Montana for the butterflies and Flower Shoppe for the flower
• Stampin Up Small Script stamp set
• Stampin Up cardstock in Ruby Red and Very Vanilla
• Stampin Up craft ink in Ruby Red
• Stampin Up printed vellum
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
• American Crafts brad

Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge: Scraplift a Circle Blog Project!

JANUARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: SCRAPLIFT A CIRCLE BLOG PROJECT!
It’s been three months since we first began the Cricut Circle Blog. We LOVE bringing you new projects and hope that you enjoy reading the blog each day. It is also our hope that we have inspired you to try something new in your crafting. For this month’s challenge we would like to see you scraplift one of the projects you have seen us present here on the blog. It can be anything! And feel free to add your own creative twist to the project. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include the following elements to qualify.

•Use 2 or more Cricut Cuts on the project.
•Use a project you have seen on the Cricut Circle Blog as inspiration for your project.
•Use products from atleast two of our Sponsors (click on the “Sponsors” along the top of the page to see a list of manufacturers).

I scraplifted my layout from this "Brilliant" scrapbook page by Jana Eubank. I loved the colors and the hand embellishments - sewing and the outlining in white. This page inspired me as soon as I saw it. Thanks Jana!

(Sorry...I know it's crooked, but I wanted the link from the blog to still take you here and wasn't sure if it would if I deleted the unrotated version )

The sponsor products I selected were from creating Keepsakes and Imaginisce. The pink camo paper, pink ribbon and fabric flowers are creating Keepsakes. The rhinestones are Imaginisce. My cuts include the frame from French Manor and the phrases and rose from Hannah Montana. The pictures are of me, my Mom and my sister on our "girls only" cruise. What fun we had!