Canada Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the CANADA DAY Blog Hop hosted by Tara & Jacqueline!  If you are here from Kimberly's blog then you are in the right spot. If you would like to start at the beginning please click here In honor of Canada Day we are all making a project with a Canadian theme!

HERE IS MINE:

I decided to make a mini Canada Day album, and I am so happy with how it turned out!! The maple leafs are all cut from Create a Critter - my favorite cartridge, and so is the Beaver - isn't he cute?? All the words are cut with Robotz - my go to chunky font. The tags are all from Sweet Treats. Almost all the paper is from my scrap boxes. I am trying to use up what I have :) Most of the card stock is from Stampin Up or Close to My Heart. I have no idea who made the patterned paper, sorry - one of the problems with delving into my scrapbox. I used ribbon from Michaels, and my white and black gel pens to do the doodling. Supe cute eh??

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Next stop is ----->> Tracy

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE HOP.
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

Here is the hop list in case you got lost, and in case the link to Tracy's Blog doesn't work - my computer skills leave something to be desired:
Tara - http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/

Kate - http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/

Heather - http://princesspaperprojects.blogspot.com/

Kimberly - http://www.justwordz.ca/

Michelle - http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/

(you are here)

Tracy - http://thecroppingcanuck.blogspot.com/

Kerry - http://mommakcrafts.blogspot.com/

Avril - http://totallyscrapaddicted.blogspot.com/

Nicole - http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/
Cheri - http://graphicatdesigns.blogspot.com/

Courtney - http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/
Jacqueline - http://madebyjacqueline.blogspot.com/ 

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Holiday Baking Mini

Today is challenge day at Cricut Mini Albums. The theme this week was holiday baking. Thanksgiving was a month ago for us, so I focused on Christmas baking. Honestly, we don't do much other than cookies for Santa. Every year I set out with grand plans to bake, and they crash and burn, but I do have some favorite cookie recipies... Yummmm! This week I decided to make a toilet paper album. Each page has a tag tucked inside it. I followed THIS tutorial from Mary of CardzTV. Here is my little album"



The paper I used is all from a Chritmas stack from K & Company (I think...) I thought it was just adorable paper.



I topped each tag with black, and a ribbon. You can just see the edges of them, because they are tucked inside the toilet paper roll. Clever eh??



The side that has the patterned paper, will have some pictures on them. I have cute pics of the kids doing holiday baking from year to year.



I ran the toilet paper rolls through my Big Shot, to help flatten them. Then covered them with paper that was 6x4 (the width of my rolls).



The tags were cut at 4 inches from Sweet Treats. I will use them to put recipies on.



The rolls are held together with 2 eyelets at one end, for the rings to go through. The other end is left open for the tag.



I used lots of cartridges for this album. Sweet Treats for the tags, Cutting Up, From my Kitchen, Making the Grade, Sesame Street Font, for the words. Doodlecharms, Smiley Cards, Winter Frolic, Christmas Cheer and Mini Monsters for the little decorations on each page.

I think it turned out really cute! I may use it as a stocking stuffer for my mum. I think she'd really like it! Come back tomorrow for the winners of the blog hops!

Some challenges:
Bunny Zoe Crafts - christmas not a card
Easy Craft Projects - red
wee memories - use patterned paper
2 Sisters - christmas
Crazy 4 Challenges - christmas
Creative Cottage - for someone special at christmas

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Yummy!!

Another day, another challenge. I am so impressed with how much i have crafted this summer. Now if I could just get back to scrapbooking :) Here is today's card:



It is a bit hard to tell because of the dark background, but this is a shape card. It was hugely inspired by a card that Cristi made last week over at her blog Scrappin 5 Little Cupcakes. I decided to run the cupcakes sideways, rather than vertically, but other than that - pretty much the same...

This card was made with Sweet treats cartridge and my Gypsy to weld it all together and make the card. the paper is mainly StampinUp, and I used My Pink Stamper stamps for the sentiment. I blinged it up a bit with some stickles, and used a cuttlebug folder to Emboss the cupcake icing.

So, this card is being submitted for a couple of challenges:

The Pink Elephant - make something Yummy - what could be better than a good cupcake?

Cricut Cardz Challenge - make a birthday card for a teenager. A bit of a challenge to say the least. You don`t want it to be too kiddish, but still be fun. I hope this qualifies...

Ooh La La Creations - birthday challenge.

My Time to Craft - cake challenge.

Party Time Tuesday - Suumery birthday card - I used bright summery colors.

I will be back again tomorrow with another post - although I am working a 12 hour day tomorrow, so it might be later. I should try to figure out how to get something to post automatically for me. Hmmm... might be too technical :)

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A little late...

So I always try to enter Emma's throwback challenges. I just got home from the cottage and knew there was a midnight deadline, so I rush and get the card done. Only to discover the deadline was last night. Oh well, here is my late submission.



The Cupcake was cut at 3.3" from Sweet Treats. the colored paper is mostly from SU, though I used some stuff from my stash. the patterned paper is from Basic Grey. The brown ribbon is I think from Walmart and the sentiment from Stampin Up. I used one of Momo's favorite techniques (Made by Momo), layering a scallop edge. I love this technique and think it looks really pretty :)

So I am entering this into 2 challenges:

a) Emma's Thursday throwback http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ - which is on hiatus till Aug 12th - I may go into witdrawl!! We were challenged to use the Celebration cartridge - or a birthday card if you don't have Celebration. I used Sweet Treats (no celebrations cart. for me yet) and made this "grown up" birthday card - using pretty non-traditional colors for me.

b) Cricut Cardz Challenge - Challenge #34 - where we were challenged to make a card with a cake, cupcake, cookies or candy.

Hope you like my happy birthday card. I was pretty happy with how it turned out, given that I am exhausted after 5 days away with the kids, and didn't have much time to come up with something. I have a cute idea on my Gypsy, that I hope to cut out tomorrow, so please come back and check it out.

A la prochaine...