Hi everyone,
I have a bonus video for you all. It's my holiday stitchfix. I like it all but I want to get your opinion. Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know what I should keep. I am definitely keeping the black jeans and the striped top and I think the dress looks fabulous. Thanks for watching!
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I am back with another 25 Days of Christmas, Day 17. Today, I have some more packaging ideas because I am in real life packaging these projects up and you guys are along for the ride. I still have teacher's gifts to pack up and my Secret Santa project too. I also have roughly 2 more presents to wrap and wait a minute, dance team girl gifts. Yikes, I still have packaging to do but I have show you all with these videos just how I get crafty and use my stash to package up my gifts. It's a video for you all today and I hope that it helps you if you are looking for ideas.
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I am back with another 25 Days of Christmas project. We are on Day 16. I am struggling to keep up a little bit but I have some projects in the pipeline that I hope that I can get done in time! My project today are EOS lip balm holders. I have seen these all over Facebook and I really wanted to make some for gifts or as add ons for gifts. I am hoping that this post will help some of you avoid the mistakes that I made especially if you are using your Cricut Explore and importing an SVG File.
Now, I bought some cute files from SVG Cutting Files. When these files import, they import at a larger size than they should. The directions that comes with the cut states this and says that they have included a circle that you are supposed to help you size the hole that your EOS lip balm holder will fit. But...that circle gets resized too. After much research, the circle should be at 1.53. Then you resize your image so the holes match up and you are good to go. Trust me it works but it took most of my Sunday to make it work. Also, the Santa and Penguin are huge! The Gingerbread girl was just right!
Be sure to watch the video to see the project and I ramble through the information that I gave you above!
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Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 15. I don't know if any of you shop at yourscrapbooksupply.com. Anyway, they had a 30% off sale of their entire site and so I bought some Lawn Fawn stamps that were already 25% off so it was a nice little deal. One of the stamp sets I bought was this cute Fleece Navidad. Now, I am in the middle of using up scrap and getting through some old paper pads so the rule is I am not allowed to open up a new pad until I use up the old and it is hard baby. So these colors are a little funky but I am challenging myself to use my stash.
Today, was also the first day of our little Secret Santa at work. My Secret Santa got me a bar of William Sonoma peppermint bark my absolute favorite! Yum. Now onto my card:
I also have a video for you all too:
Thanks for visiting and see you tomorrow.
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Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 14. Today's project is in the form of a video. My baby is sick and is with her father an additional night and I hope that I don't regret that decision. It's just today, I have an important appointment that it took a month for me to get which I would cancel in a second if I had to but her father offered to watch her. I think that she has stomach flu, her cousin had it and its going around at their school. I also thought that it was a good idea to separate my son from her so he doesn't get it too as its airborne and very contagious. This is the last week of school and I would hate for him to miss his party because he's sick.
I'm going to be doing a lot of disinfecting when she comes home later today!
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Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 13. Today, was a quiet day at home which I used to get caught up on some projects which I worked on all day. I also cleaned my bathroom and meal prepped for the week. As I am writing this, I have some hot soup waiting for me. My card today is a fun shaker card.
I used scrap mostly from Echo Park and my favorite snowman from the Hello Kitty cartridge. I had a comment that someone didn't know this was even on there. There are some super cute images on there so check it out. My sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh and my sentiment is from CardzTV Snow Days!
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Welcome to Day 12 of my 25 Days of Christmas. I have a busy and fun day ahead. I am going to a Scholastic Warehouse book sale with my sister and then we are meeting a friend for lunch/afternoon tea. Then I come back home to clean my house a little bit, wrap presents and work on some holiday projects!
I have to do as much as I can this weekend because then I have my kids all the way until Christmas Eve including the first week of school vacation.
On to my card! I am apparently into snowmen this season. A little odd as there is absolutely no snow where I live in Southern California. I probably should put the snowman on a surfboard. One of my Dad's friends was complaining about the cold and the snow on Facebook and my Dad posted he was going surfing and going to wear sunscreen. Hah!
I also have a video for you too!
Thanks so much for visiting me today. I will see you all tomorrow!
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Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 11. Sorry this post is so late but its been a busy week!
Got a little bit ahead on my son's homework - he has a current event presentation next week, along with just the usual stuff!
I finally got a bit organized and wrote out a list of all of the people I need to send a card to. I am doing a mix of photocards and handmade cards and what I discovered is that I am very short on homemade cards so I really need to get a move on.
The card today uses Mama Elephant's Arctic Penguins and Pretty Pink Posh Sequins.
I also have a video for you all.
Thanks for visiting today and I will see you all tomorrow. Pin It Now!
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Welcome to Day 10 of my 25 Days of Christmas. I am having a little party for my student helpers and I have a quick and easy gift and an easy packaging idea. However, I struggled with the print and cut function on my Cricut Explore. I cut a label out and I made sure to attach everything but my label had two cutting areas and it cut both when I just wanted to cut the outside so I don't know if I need to weld that or what. Anyway, no pics as I am writing this post up at 11:00pm and it is my bedtime!
Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 9 of my 25 Days of Christmas. Today, I am sharing a video on how to make a simple wreath with a wreath form, paper, ribbon and hot glue!
Welcome to Day 8 of my 25 Days of Christmas. Today, I am continuing tags but I am doing shaker tags!
These are super fun. I hope to be able to make a few more for some other gifts because they are just fun, fun, fun and so easy. You can use any dies or cuts, even punches to make these as long as you have varying sizes to make your windows. For these I used stamps to make it go a bit faster.
I also have video for you too which goes over the supplies that I used and what I found to be the easiest way to make these.
Thanks for visiting today! I hope to have a bonus video for you guys this week on my Black Friday haul. I was waiting for some items to come in. Pin It Now!
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It's also Day 7 of my 25 Days of Christmas. Today's post is tags! This year I had the crazy idea of making tags for ALL of my gifts except the Santa ones and I think that I am going to do it somehow. The tags I am sharing today use a variety of Cricut cuts mostly from Doodlecharms, Create a Critter and the Hello Kitty cartridge.
I made a video but I couldn't get it posted in time so check back either here or sometime this week (probably Tuesday!) to see it.
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Today's post is courtesy of my cell phone. I just couldn't get to my computer!
Today is Day 6 of my 25 days of Christmas and I have a quick card that uses a cut from the Doodle charms cartridge and scraps from a Minds Eye paper pad.
Welcome to Day 5 of my 25 Days of Christmas. Yesterday was super busy with my son in a Christmas program and my daughter dancing in a Christmas parade!
Today is a review of Heidi Swapp's Marquee Love snowman. Now, in fairness, I will say that I struggle with these types of 3D projects but I picked this one up on Black Friday for a great price. Couple of things I would do differently - I would not use the tape at all! I think painting the piece would be the way to go. I would poke my holes for my bulbs and I would completely clean the holes of paper and I mean completely or the bulbs will not go through. Force will cause you to possibly break pieces of your snowman.
This video was filmed completely with me not testing anything so it's a real life review of me actually making this project. I had to stop the video a few times because my struggles were making the video really long and there is some parts that I left out because I thought that I had it but I didn't.
It reminded me a little bit of Pinterest fails where people try and make things they see on Pinterest and it ends up a giant mashed up mess!
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Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 4. This evening, my son is performing the a little Christmas program but I have to miss it because my daughter is in a parade. It's going to be cold tonight. I am not thrilled, especially with my cold! Anyway, today is the last CardzTV Cards challenge of the year.
The challenge this week is to make a Christmas card or a card for winter. Be sure to visit the CardzTV blog to see the other cards from the design team and join in the challenge. The winner of the challenge will win a set of CardzTV stamps.
Thanks for joining me for Day 2 of my 25 Days of Christmas 2015. Today's project uses the super cute Lawn Fawn Snow Days stamp set and paper from Echo Park. I have been suffering from sinus problems for a couple of weeks and have now developed into a full blown cold, scratchy throat and all. Hopefully, it will start getting better soon, better now than at Christmas.
Here is my card:
I also have a video to share with you all:
Thanks for visiting today. Be sure to visit tomorrow when I will be sharing a new holiday project. Pin It Now!
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I am attempting another year of 25 days of Christmas/Holiday projects and ideas. I hope that you will all join me each day as I show you how I plan on celebrating the season. Today's project is more of a tool that was an impulse purchase at Michaels. It's called the Bowmaker and its from EK Tools and it retails for $9.99. In the video, I give my impressions of the tool as well as a not very expert demonstration. Since I made the video a couple of days ago, I have made roughly 15 bows with it and I have to say I really like it!
Thanks for visiting today! Be sure to join me tomorrow for Day 2.
It's time for another challenge over at CardzTV. The challenge this week is Thanksgiving! I can't believe that turkey day is here. My 2nd grader has been reading a book at school called Turkey Trouble and she had to disguise a turkey. She decided on a hula girl disguise! This week's challenge is to make a Thanksgiving card and I used CardzTV stamp set called Beary Sweet and it's hands down still my favorite stamp set. I use this one all the time!
Be sure to join the challenge for a chance to win a set of CardzTV stamps!
Here is my card for the week:
I also have a video for you all. Be sure to watch to get the recipe and see how it all gets put together.
Thanks for visiting everyone. I hope that you all get a chance to join the challenge and if you are an American visitor, enjoy our holiday and don't get too stuffed! Pin It Now!
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So I am getting ready for Lily's first competition of the season and she is performing her first solo tomorrow. I just realized that I didn't plan my blog post very well as today is Cardztv card challenge and I am attempting this post on my phone.
The challenge for this week is pumpkins. Be sure to visit Cardztv and join the challenge so you have a chance to win a set of cardztv stamps.
Here is my project
I also have a video for you all. Be sure to watch to get the recipe and see how it all gets put together.
I'm a high school librarian by day and scrapbooker and cardmaker by night. I'm mom to two teenagers and you can find me at the baseball field or at the dance studio! Contact me at scoop71@yahoo.com
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