Cricut Card Fairy THANKFUL blog hop!

COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED AS OF 538 AM EST on November 22. Thank you for hopping with us. I will pick and verify a winner for the HK cart sometime today and post a new post, so come back and see if it is you!!!!






Welcome to the Cricut Card Fairy Blog Hop. This month we are practicing being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. What are you thankful for? Do you stop daily and thank those around you for blessing you? Do you appreciate the small things in life? I sure hope so! With that in mind my wonderful fairies have put together some awesome THANKSGIVING/THANKFUL themed crafty items. Along the way there will be opportunities for inspiration, and blog candy. So make sure you hop all the way through, leave comments on every blog, and then a comment here on my blog when finished. I will be giving away a BNIP Hello Kitty Greetings cart to a person that comments on ALL the blogs and here too! Happy hopping! If you are interested in becoming a cricut card fairy (we send cards to anyone that needs a lift, currently we have sent close to 700 missions out in a little over 2.5 years! AMAZING! If this sounds like something you are interested in please email me your cricut messageboard name and email address to cricutcardfairyarmy at gmail dot com.

For this hop I made a simple layout for my good friends KarelJ's blog challenge, it does double duty. All month long I have and will continue to take time each day to post what I am thankful for that day. But when all is said and done I am the most thankful for two very special people in my life, my wonderful best friend and husband and our lovely spirited daughter. Of course I am thankful for ALL my family and friends but I celebrated these two in my layout. Enjoy! Your next stop is SCRAPPING DEB!!!


Here is the order in case you get lost along the way.

Caitlynsmommy: http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/
ScrappingDeb; http://tidbitsplace.blogspot.com
AJoy713 http://adreatravis2008.blogspot.com
RachelMutchler http://trickut-rachelscrafts.blogspot.com/
Kisatrtle http://www.kisatrtleskreativekorner.blogspot.com/
ScrappyJess http://scrappyjess.blogspot.com
PennyLight http://lightwhimsy.blogspot.com
KarelJcreations http://karelj.blogspot.com
Shellie http://shelliescreations.blogspot.com/
GRKIDDO http://ginathorntonstamping.blogspot.com
JamieFitzgerald http://www.jamieisacraftymomma.blogspot.com
Iluvsnowmen http://wandaswhimsicalwonders.blogspot.com/
blondemommy26 http://blondemommy26.blogspot.com/
SherylGreene http://sherylscraftingcorner.blogspot.com/

How I like to distress-for Frosted Designs!

Crystal decided to alter an 8X10 artist stretched canvas for today's project. She used the distress techniques of lots of ink, paper crumpling, and distressing/tearing the edges of her photos and accents. Even the canvas is distressed. She first painted it brown, removed some paint with a textured cloth, added some silver, scraped some away with a nail file and the ran the same nail file around all edges of the canvas for some more definition.

30 days of Thankfulness: November 18th

30 days of Thankfulness: November 18: I am SO THANKFUL for my vanilla, stable, no drama life. I love it! Give me boring over dramatic any day!

After reading the news this morning from the past few days I love my simple, uncomplicated, vanilla, boring and stable life! We are so blessed and I am glad to be reminded of it today!

Cricut Card Fairy Blog Hop coming soon!

Mark your calendars, there is a great hop going on this weekend. We will have 14 or so blogs participating featuring things they are grateful/thankful for and amazing projects along the way! Come and hop along with us Saturday and Sunday! A little turkey told me that there is a cricut cart to be won!

30 days of Thankfulness: November 17th

30 Days of thankfulness: Today I am thankful for my parents, without them I would not be the woman I am today or the Mom I hope to be. I love you both and admire your 30 plus year marriage, that is the example I hope to set for Caitlyn. These days in our society marriages come to an end too quickly and are treated with flippant disregard. You have taught me that marriage is a life long commitment and although it is not always perfect it is worth it to fight for it. You taught me to be responsible, self sufficient, strong, voice my thoughts and opinions and to be giving and kind to others. Dad you taught me to always remember and acknowledge the kid in my soul, Mom you taught me to be kind and respectful to others but to always stand your ground. I appreciate everything you all have done for me. I love you!

30 days of Thankfulness: November 15th and 16

I missed yesterday but

November 15th I am thankful for yummy dinners made especially for me by DH. He made my all time favorite and pretty time consuming dinner. I really appreciated it. He originally made it for our first date anniversary but it kept in the frig for yesterday!

November 16: I am thankful for two things: rain and fall leaves. Rain because we need it and I consider it an 'excuse' to calm down and breathe and fall leaves because they are beautiful and give my daughter hours of joy and fun!

30 days of Thankfulness: November 14th

SCROLL DOWN FOR A COOL TUTORIAL FOR FROSTED DESIGNS I DID. You can make your own pushpins/tacks with bottle caps!

Today I am thankful for first dates. This date seven years ago DH and I had our first date. We were broke college students and it was a rainy and cold Friday night. We ordered Pizza Hut pizza, and watched two movies at my apartment. Little did I know such a seemingly innocent date would lead us to where we are today. My life truly turned a corner on that day. I love him more than I did then and hope to have 50 more first date anniversaries or more! SHMILY!

Show me Sunday November 14- Bottle cap Push Pins

This is my first tutorial for Frosted Designs. I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think!

Happy Sunday! I hope you all are enjoying your weekend! I am so excited to be here and show you how to make your own bottle cap push pins. Now this idea is NOT originally mine, it came from Hip Chicks but I loved it and wanted to share it. Please excuse my messy Basic Grey work mat, I had to take all the pictures myself! Here we go!

For this fun project you will need the following items:

• bottle caps
• a hammer of some sort
• Glossy Accents/Crystal Effects or Diamond glaze
• a circle hole punch that coordinates with how big your bottle caps are (mine were one inch)
• FLAT backed plain pushpins OR tacks
• Patterned paper scraps
• E-6000 adhesive

Step ONE: Using the hammer of your choice flattened the bottle cap. You can also make these without flattening the caps but in my experiment they looked better flattened.

STEP TWO: Centering the design you want on the pushpin, use your circle punch to punch out pattered paper.

STEP THREE: Apply a thin layer of crystal effects/diamond glaze/glossy accents to the entire bottom of the bottle cap. Make sure to cover it all and remove any air bubbles.

STEP FOUR: Gently lay your patterned paper circle in the bottom of the bottle cap while adhesive is still wet. Gently push down to make sure it adheres and to remove any air bubbles.

STEP FIVE: Apply a generous amount of glossy accents/diamond glaze/crystal effects to the top of the patterned paper. Make sure to cover it all but do NOT overfill. Set aside and let dry overnight at least!

STEP SIX: After the glossy accents/diamond glaze/crystal effects has COMPLETELY dried flip the bottle cap over. Using a small drop of the E-6000 adhesive to the back center of the bottle cap.

STEP SEVEN: Adhere the FLAT SIDE of a tack/push pin to the E-6000 adhesive. Allow to dry.

This is what it should look like while drying.

Front when all finished!

Back view. You could also use flat tacks but all I had were these clear pushpins. I did not want to buy anything for this project!

And finally the side view!

This is a side view on the cork board. Again if you use the flat silver tacks you will not get as much protrusion.
Finished product!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. These were so fun and EASY to make. You could also add buttons, ribbon, flowers, glitter or whatever other embellishment you wished. Make a set of four or six, place in leftover foam from product packaging, wrap and there you go easy peasy Christmas/whenever gift for a favorite friend. I love them. They add so much pop to your cork boards! Thanks for learning with me!

Winter Woodland Scrapbookpal.com

Good morning. I hope you all are doing great. Scrapbookpal.com was gracious enough to send me Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge to create with this month. Well you know me, always trying to think outside the box. This time it is no exception. I needed a gift for one of Caitlyn's friends. I made his sister something similar and did not want him to feel left out. It will hang up in his room. I hope he likes it.

Now down to business.
Ingredients:
Green card stock
Yellow card stock
White card stock
brown card stock
cloud paper
Scraps for leaves

1. Cut out trees on page 36 from white card stock at 1/75, 2, 3, and 5 inches.
2. Cut the shift of the same trees in the same sizes.
3. BEFORE you adhere the shift image color the white card stock to the desired colors. I used my Bic Markers orange, red and brown to get a fall look.
4. Adhere the brown trunk to its respective tree.
5. Cut off the bottom "snow drift" of each tree, layer and adhere to torn Swiss dotted hills.
6. Using leaf punch and scraps punch out about 18 leaves and randomly adhere with mini glue dots.
7. I hand cut all three clouds and ran them through the D'vine swirl cuttle bug folder.
8. Ink with French Blue Cats Eye and Stardust Clear glitter pen.
9. Adhere with foam tape.
10. Hand cut yellow sun, ink with orange chalk ink, use border sticker to make 'rays' doodle with Bic markers.
11. Cut Shadow FONT "Nathan" at 2 inches in white card stock.
12. Cut FONT "Nathan" at 2 inches using cloud paper.
13. Adhere together using Xyron 150.
14. Using doodlebug stickers create barn scene at top of hill. Adhere elements with foam tape.
15. Frame and enjoy!

30 days of Thankfulness: November 12th

Nov 12: Today I am thankful for something that others see as a bad attribute in my personality. I am thankful that I am able to handle and initiate if necessary confrontation. Our neighbor's car alarm has been going off 2-5 times a night for two weeks. I am DONE! I am ANGRY! I am going to confront him today. Do you know how hard it is to get an almost 3 year old back to sleep when she is excited and thinks there is a fire truck outside (don't know why!). Sometimes confrontation has to happen and I am grateful that I was taught how to do it and get results (Thanks Mom and the Army!)