Disney Halloween Toss Across

Another quick post. My mom does a Halloween carnival - party for all of her grandchildren. She had an old Toss Across game that she wanted converted into a Halloween game. The kids loved it, so I would say it was worth all the time that it took to get the original X's and O's off. Enjoy!

Have a great day!

Items Used:

Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge

Mickey and Friend Cricut cartridge

Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge

Happy Halloween Mickey Pumpkin

Just a real quick post today. My friend Tami, told me that I needed to do another card with my Mickey pumpkin. I've been planning on doing it all month and finally got around to it. Enjoy!

For this pumpkin I used my Gypsy along with Mickey and Friends and Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge. The polka dot paper is PaperTrey Ink and the twin is from Trendy Twine. The beautiful happy Halloween sentiment is from the Mixed Holiday Sentiments stamp set by My Creative Time.

HERE is a LINK to my other Mickey pumpkin card. Have a great day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge
Stretch You Imagination Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - Mixed Holiday Sentiments
PaperTrey Ink - Bitty Dots
Twine from Trendy Twine

Birthday Boy Balloon and Winner

***If you are looking for my project for the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge scroll down of click HERE***

Hi friends. Today, I'm sharing a birthday card for one of my nephews but also my entry for the Let's Face it Friday Challenge over at the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog.

          
I made a shaped card with a hot air balloon shadow off of the Pop-Up Neighborhood Cricut cartridge. I cut all the balloon layers out at the 5.25" size. I cut the little boy out of the Everyday Paper Doll Cricut cartridge and he was cut at 1.75" and luckily my very smallest size of Winter Wonderland face stamps (from Peachy Keen Stamps) fit him perfectly. I also added lots of faux stitching with my Gellyroll pens. The darling sentiment and dinosaur are from Emma's new All Around Birthday Time stamp set and the circle it is stamped on is the circle die from her Scallop & Stitched Circle Die set.

I also wanted to announce the winner from my stop on the My Creative Time Blog Hop.

The winner is:

TyTynNiyasmom

she said: What a cute banner! I love all the details you put into it. Candace

 I have already contacted her and the All Around Accessories set will be on its way to her VERY soon.

Thanks for stopping by today. Make it a beautiful day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Pop Up Neighborhood Cricut cartridge
*Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - All Around Birthday Time
*My Creative Time Dies - Scalloped & Stitched Circle Die
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Winter Woodland Faces
*Sakura Gellyroll Medium point pens in black and white
*Versamarker

Whimsical Wednesday - Fall Cutie

Yay, it is time for another wonderful Whimsical Wednesday Challenge. Today we all made projects with a fall cutie (a little fall themed animal). This was Cathryn's idea and I love it.

I made a shaped card and my fall cutie is a little indian fox.

The fox and tee-pee are cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. The little indian headpiece is cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. I just sized it up for the fox in my Gypsy. The yellow and green ribbon on the tee pee is some more beautiful crinkle ribbon by Patsy at the Prairie Bird Boutique. The sentiment is from My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments.

I had a little extra fun with the fox and used some more fun flock. I go in phases with that stuff, but I seriously love the way it looks when I take the time to use it. Here is a close up so you can see the texture a little better. A few of you had asked what fun flock is, or where to get it. Well I've seen it called fun flock and flocking and it is usually located right close to the embossing powders and such at your local scrapbooking store. Kimberly from My Craft Spot has some awesome tutorials on using fun flock so I'm going to link to one of those post HERE if you are interested.

Today, we are all doing a second project featuring stamps by Tanner, AKA: Mr. Cricut Crazy. I had the chance to work with Tanner on Emma's design team for a while and I'm just loving this Halloween stamp set I bought from him. These stamps are manufactured by Peachy Keen Stamps so they are awesome quality stamps! 

For my card I used his Halloween Town set. I just love this 2 cute 2 spook sentiment.

This is another shaped card, the images come from the Simply Charmed cartridge. My only regret on this card is the stitching between the gray and the black parts of the headstone. I added the stitching before I had glued the gray piece down and then I truly realized how bad I am at drawing a straight line without a guide. Lesson learned on this one!!! Maybe you will humor me and just say that it looks like an old decrepit sort of headstone, so the pieces aren't straight anyway - LOL! The cute little face on the ghost is by Peachy Keen Stamps Monster Mash face assortment. The green bow is made with more of Patsy's ribbon and as mentioned before the darling sentiment is from Tanner's Halloween Town stamp set.

Another fun thing about this card is that the ghost is on an Action Wobble. She is so cute wobbling around on there. In fact, the very first project I EVER made with an Action Wobble over a year ago was on a ghost. It is a perfect motion for these kinds of things.

The prizes for this challenge are some ribbon from The Prairie Bird Boutique and one of Tanner's Stamp sets. I hope you will find some time to join in the fun. This is my last challenge being a part of the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge blog and I wanted to thank Stephanie and all the other sweet ladies on the team for their support and friendship! XOXO to all of you and I will still be stopping by to visit your blogs!!! You are all SO talented! Hugs- Glora

Items Used Fox Card:

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge

Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge

My Creative Time stamps - Mixed Holiday Sentiments

Crinkle ribbon from the Prairie Bird Boutique

Fun Flock

Glossy Accents

Brads

Versamarker

Sakura White Gellyroll Pen

Zig Marker

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Items Used Ghost Card:

Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge

Mr Cricut Crazy stamps - Halloween Town

Peachy Keen Stamps - Monster Mash 

Crinkle ribbon from the Prairie Bird Boutique

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Black and White Sakura Gellyroll Pens (medium point for both)

Action Wobble

Peachy Keen Connection Halloween Card Swap

Hello sweet crafting friends. Today I'm sharing wonderful Peachy Keen creations that were NOT made by me, but that I received in an awesome Halloween card swap I participated in over on the Peachy Keen Connection. All I have to say is THANK YOU so much Miss Lorie Souther (The Thinkin' Spot), for putting the swap together and being such an amazing HOSTESS!!!! This swap was AMAZING! Below I will show you the five cards that I received in exchange for 5 of THIS same card that I will link to HERE.

So here we go... If the person who made the card left a name and or blog then I will share that along with their picture so you can see what other beautiful creations they make.

This Jeepers Creepers card was made by Saundra of Luv Scrapping Together. I'm a huge fan of Saundra's she makes beautiful and detailed creations. Don't you love the details on this darling monster card?!! I know I do, embossing, glitter, glossy accents, inking, you name it!

This little darling was made by Andrea Asher and her blog is called A Pink Rose. The little details on this one are so fun. That little spider is dangling down and of course I love the darling faces on the pumpkins. And that bat bow tie that the bear is wearing is total genius. I love it!

This darling card was made by Dawn Gail and is a shaped easel card that is held up with that pretty rosette. It is so cute! I just love how the witch is wearing nail polish a ring and everything. These ladies really added those amazing finishing touches to these cards.

I don't know who made this one because they didn't include their name, but I love it. Those happy lashes faces just make me smile and I love the placement of the bat and sentiment. Plus the ghost and sentiment are PERFECTLY outlined in Stickles. This is a pocket card  and I love it. If you are the maker of this card, let me know and I will add your name and a link to your blog if you have one :).

And last, but MOST definitely not least is this beauty...

I don't know who made this card either, but it is SO cool. The image is colored and there is a shadow around the image and under some of the words. The edges are inked up and then the whole center piece is covered in glossy accents or a similar sort of product. It is SO neat. And then of course there is just the beautiful clean design of it too. So, once again, if you are the one who made this card send me your name and/or blog address and I will link you right on up.

Aren't these all AMAZING?! I just LOVE looking at these and I don't think I'm going to be able to part with them they will just have to stay here and give me added inspiration.

This was my first card swap and thanks to Lorie, everything went beautifully. I would definitely join in one of these again, especially if it was put together this well !!!! Thanks again Lorie and thanks to all of you talented ladies who joined in the fun too! Hugs- Glora

My Creative Time's October Stamp release BLOG HOP!

Welcome to the October My Creative Time Stamp Release Blog Hop! If you came here via the amazing Katie you are in the right spot, if not make sure you go to Emma's blog and get the whole hop in because you aren't going to want to miss a chance of winning some of these darling stamps.

For my project I'm showcasing the All Around Accessories set. I also used the XL Label Border stamps being released today and the XL Label Die. For my project I made another vertical banner. Hey, what can I say I'm getting ahead on my holiday decorating ;).

Here it is:

Here is a close up of the darling Santa suit, I used Fun Flock for the red and the white parts so that it is really soft and fuzzy. I love the way it feels, unfortunately a tiny bit of the red got on some of the white (even though I did them at separate times) but I still like it:

I also added Fun Flock to the Ho Ho Ho (don't you just want to reach through the screen and touch it - LOL)...

Well, that's it for my project for today. Short and sweet so you can get on your way hopping along :).

***GIVEAWAY ALERT***

For my giveaway today, I am giving away this set I showcased today on my blog~ which is All Around Accessories. All you have to do is leave me a comment here & you will have until Sunday @ midnight to do so!  EASY PEASY!!! GOOD LUCK!:)

Your next stop is the sweet and talented Leanne. Click HERE to go to her blog.

Here is the blog lineup in case you get lost along the way:

 Me ~ http://www.creativetimeforme.com/
Nikki ~ http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
Katie ~ http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/
Glora ~ http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Leanne ~ http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/
Cathryn ~ http://www.inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com/
Jen ~ http://jennyscards.blogspot.com/
Kate ~ http://www.scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Ruthie ~ http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/
Shar ~ http://scrapendipity.blogspot.com

Cindy~ http://cindylee77.blogspot.com/

Liz ~ http://www.lizspaperloft.com/

Veronica http://www.vkcreate.blogspot.com/

Items Used:

*Pooh Font Cricut cartridge (for the ho, ho, ho)

*My Creative Time stamps - All Around Accessories

*My Creative Time stamps - XL Label Borders

*My Creative Time Dies - XL Label Die

*Green patterned paper - DCWV Christmas Stack

*Polka dot patterned paper - Paper Pizazz

*Twine from The Twinery

*Fun Flock

*Stickles

MCT October Stamp Release Sneak #4

Hi My Creative Time friends. We are on our last day of sneak peeks and the new release blog hop will be tomorrow!!! For our final set we are all showcasing a set called All Around Birthday Time. This set coordinates with the Scalloped & Stitched Circle dies. I makes lots of birthday cards and I'm loving this set.

Here is my card for today:

The sentiment and smaller pirate flag are from the new All Around Birthday Time. The bigger flag is from the All Around Accessories set. I just added a little hand cut flag pole to it. I also used Emma's Scallop & Stitched Circle set. This darling octopus is from the Sea Animals set by Market Street Stamps. His eye patch is just one of the scallop's from Emma's scallop circle die and that hat is from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge (it normally goes with the octopus on that cartridge). The black pattern on the white paper is the Bit of Burlap background stamp by Market Street Stamps. 

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!
Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win some AWESOME prizes during Sneak peek week with a total of "6" winners to be announced during Friday's Stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE along w/the rest on the design teams blogs for a chance! These are prizes you do NOT want to miss out on!!

 1. SPREAD THE WORD TO THE WORLD ON FACEBOOK about this release & whatever connections you may have! Let us know on "My Creative Time's" FB page here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/My-Creative-Time/364568506334 that you did so! OR you can just tag me in your post!

 2. Just comment on ALL of the designers blogs EVERYDAY during Sneaky Peek week!  THAT's ALL you have to do to qualify for the giveaways!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, October 21st @ 12am pst in her video during the release & blog hop of this AMAZING new stamp collection! GOOD LUCK! Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

I had lots of fun making this card for the All Around Birthday Time sneak peek. I also wanted to use some Market Street Stamps so I could enter it for the current challenge over at Market Street Stamps blog. The challenge is to make a birthday or anniversary card using Market Street Stamps. I think this awesome birthday set of Emma's worked just right with these Market Street Stamps. These peachy tinted stamps work so well together! Anyway, it is their anniversary week and they have lots of fun stuff going on so drop on by and play along. 

I'm super excited to see what awesome goodies Emma and the rest of the design team came up with for this set. Thanks for stopping by and I will see you tomorrow for the My Creative Time October release blog hop :).

Items Used:

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge (pirate hat)

My Creative Time stamps - All Around Birthday Time

My Creative Time stamps - All Around Accessories

My Creative Time Dies - Scallop & Stitched Circle 

Market Street Stamps - Sea Animals

Market Street Stamps - Bit of Burlap

Patterned Paper for octopus - DCWV - Citrus Stack

Black glittery paper - Core'dinations

Gold glitter paper - from JoAnn's (no company name was listed)

Tim Holtz Distress Inks for inking

MCT October Stamp Release Sneak #3

Hello My Creative Time friends. We are already at sneak peek #3. Can you believe it? Today we are going to showcase the new set called XL Label Borders. This set is AWESOME! You know that beautiful XL Label Die, well this set gives you four more beautiful border options to use with it. The Whimsical Calendar Days set gave you one border for this die and this set gives you four more options. I've made either a small shape card or a gift tag using each of these new borders. There are also a hand full of other sentiment stamps that work really well for little gift tags or cards.

This one was a single line outline border. The sentiment is from the You're My Best Buddy stamp set. And the awesome Santa coat is from the All Around Accessories set.

For this gift tag, I used the single line border stamp in addition to a beautiful snow flake border stamp. I heat embossed the snowflakes with a pretty embossing tinsel. The snowman is also from the All Around Accessories set.

Here is the back of one of the tags so you can see the To: and From: stamps that also come with the XL Label Border stamp set.

This one is a mini shape card made with the XL Label Die. I've done a tutorial on this type of card before and will leave a link to it for you. I used the darling confetti border. This border is so cute. I accented some of the confetti pieces with a glitter gel pen. The For You! sentiment is from this XL Label Border stamp set and the darling little dinosaur is from the All Around Accessories stamp set.

And here is the last one...

Yes, that is right a perfectly stitched border. I seriously LOVE these fun border for the XL Label Die. These give you so many options for this die. And as far as the die goes, I can't say enough good about it. I've found that this die works beautifully for: gift tags, mini-cards, accents to a regular card, scrapbooking (journaling tag or embellishment) and I've even used it to make a banner! I LOVE this die and so I really love the extra options on dressing it up.

Here is a picture of this same mini-card showing what it looks like opened up (on the left) and what it looks like closed up (on the right). It is the perfect size for a little note accompanying a present.

If you don't know how to make a shape card out of a die, you can click HERE and it will direct you to a post I have with a short video that demonstrates making shape cards out of dies.

Sorry this post was so long but I just had to try out all of the border options and thought that you might want to see all of them as well.

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!



Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win some AWESOME prizes during Sneak peek week with a total of "6" winners to be announced during Friday's Stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE along w/the rest on the design teams blogs for a chance! These are prizes you do NOT want to miss out on!!

1. SPREAD THE WORD TO THE WORLD ON FACEBOOK about this release & whatever connections you may have! Let us know on "My Creative Time's" FB page here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/My-Creative-Time/364568506334 that you did so! OR you can just tag me in your post!

2. Just comment on ALL of the designers blogs EVERYDAY during Sneaky Peek week! THAT's ALL you have to do to qualify for the giveaways!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, October 21st @ 12am pst in her video during the release & blog hop of this AMAZING new stamp collection! GOOD LUCK! Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

Thanks for stopping by today. I can't wait to see what Emma and the rest of the design team came up with! Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - XL Label Borders
My Creative Time stamps - All Around Accessories
My Creative Time stamps - You're My Best Buddy
My Creative Time stamps - Anyday Crossword and Bingo
My Creative Time Dies - XL Label Die
Copic Markers
Stickles
Glossy Accents
Sakura Gellyroll Pen
Glitter Gel Pen
Twine from The Twinery
Eyelets
Snow Writer
Glitter

MCT October Stamp Release Sneak #2

Hello friends and welcome to day 2 of My Creative Time's 11th stamp release. Today we are all using a set called All Around Accessories. These are some awesome larger sized image stamps that fit beautifully inside the XL Label Die but they can used separately as well.

Here is just a little bit of a close up since the details are hard to see on a long card, I used the All Around Accessories (for the awesome chocolate truffles with a candle on top), the XL Label Die, and the Whimsical Calendar Days:

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!
Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win some AWESOME prizes during Sneak peek week with a total of "6" winners to be announced during Friday's Stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE along w/the rest on the design teams blogs for a chance! These are prizes you do NOT want to miss out on!!

 1. SPREAD THE WORD TO THE WORLD ON FACEBOOK about this release & whatever connections you may have! Let us know on "My Creative Time's" FB page here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/My-Creative-Time/364568506334 that you did so! OR you can just tag Emma in your post!

 2. Just comment on ALL of the designers blogs EVERYDAY during Sneaky Peek week!  THAT's ALL you have to do to qualify for the giveaways!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, October 21st @ 12am pst in her video during the release & blog hop of this AMAZING new stamp collection! GOOD LUCK! Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

Okay I think that is it for today. I'm so excited to see what Emma and all of my amazingly talented design team sisters came up with. Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*My Creative Time Stamps - All Around Accessories

*My Creative Time stamps - Whimsical Calendar Days

*My Creative Time Dies - XL Label Die

*Copic Markers

*Patterned paper - DCWV: Nana's Nursery

*Stickles

*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen

*Ribbon

Tanner Turkey is a Cutie

If you are looking for the My Creative Time Sneak Peek #1 scroll down or click HERE.

I made this card using the current Peachy Keen Challenge sketch. And I just had to use the darling Tanner Turkey from the newest Peachy Keen release. I was lucky enough to win him and LOVE him so much. If I wouldn't have won him I definitely would have bought him!!! This little cutie was drawn by the sweet and talented Lorie Souther of (The Thinkin' Spot). If you haven't seen the new stamps she drew you definitely need to stop by the Peachy Keen store and take a look.

I tried something a little different when I colored him up. I started with some high quality kraft cardstock as my coloring base. I kind of like how the fibers on the kraft cardstock show through. It was a fun experiment. I also colored him up like I would have in grade school. We always used bright colors on the tail feathers so red, orange and yellow it was. Oh yes and he is also on an Action Wobble and looks SO cute wobbling around.

I hope to see you tomorrow for another sneak peek from My Creative Time's 11th stamp release. Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Country Bumpkin stamps- Tanner Turkey
Action Wobble
BoBunny Double Dot paper
Copics
Glossy Accents
Sakura White Gellyroll

MCT October Stamp Release Sneak #1

Hello My Creative Time friends. It is time for another release week at My Creative Time. Today we are showcasing a set called Cherish This Moment. This set has a REALLY nice sized font and terrific sentiments. It is SO perfect for scrapbooking but terrific for cards as well. Today's project is an autumn layout (you can click on the pictures if you want to see the details better).



Here is a closeup of the top title section:

The 'life is beautiful' and the 'cherish this moment' stamps are both on this set. I cut the autumn word art out from the Stretch You Imagination Cricut cartridge. I stamped the acorn with a Simple Sally face from Peachy Keen Stamps and added some faux stitching with my gel pen.

I just had to show a closeup of that sweet little leaf. The darling face is from the Princess Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps.

And another fun thing I wanted to show you was my 'hidden' journaling tag. Do you notice the curvy yellow piece to the side of this photo mat? Well it is a hidden journaling tag that I made with Emma's XL Label Die.

All I have to do is pull the tab and I can remove it and read the journaling for this page (which has not been completed yet, I will do that when I add the pictures)...

Did you notice those beautiful and perfect journaling lines (I so need those because I can not write straight without them)? Well those beautiful journaling lines that fit perfectly on Emma's XL Label Die are included in this new Cherish This Moment stamp set. So fun! I hope you enjoyed todays project.

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!


Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win some AWESOME prizes during Sneak peek week with a total of "6" winners to be announced during Friday's Stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE along w/the rest on the design teams blogs for a chance! These are prizes you do NOT want to miss out on!!

1. SPREAD THE WORD TO THE WORLD ON FACEBOOK about this release & whatever connections you may have! Let us know on "My Creative Time's" FB page here that you did so! OR you can just tag me in your post!

2. Just comment on ALL of the designers blogs EVERYDAY during Sneaky Peek week! THAT's ALL you have to do to qualify for the giveaways!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, October 21st @ 12am pst in her video during the release & blog hop of this AMAZING new stamp collection! GOOD LUCK! Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

Alright that's a wrap for today. Make sure that you stop by Emma's blog to see what she and the rest of my SUPER talented design team sisters have made. Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps: Cherish This Moment
*My Creative Time Dies: XL Label
*Peachy Keen Stamps: Princess Faces
*Peachy Keen Stamps: Simple Sallies
*Versamarker
*Tim Holtz Distress Inks
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*Zig Writer
*Raffia

D. H. Scrubby's Tech Tips: Using an RSS Feed

Glora's husband fancies himself a writer and a technology enthusiast (code for "likes expensive toys"). As a guest writer for Glora's Crafts, he writes articles which might be interesting to the crafting and blogging community.

"So many blogs! So little time!" cried Glora, as she explained that she wanted to "follow" more blogs, yet clicking another Google Friend Connect "Join This Site" button was going to overload Google's Reading List and overwhelm her ability to catch up on everyone - especially on her most favorite sites.

The technology solution: Use a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed reader.

"Syndication" means the distribution of content, and "Really Simple" describes the way we want it! As new content is posted to a blog, behind-the-scenes a file (known as an RSS file) is updated. By pointing a RSS reader software to this file, it can scan the pages for you. When something new shows up, you are alerted in a way similar to receiving a new email in your inbox.

Our solution was to go ahead and publicly follow as many sites as she wanted. Blogger / Google's reading list would no longer be as relevant, because her feed reader would contain the updates she was most interested in seeing.

To make this work, you will need to know the secret RSS link for each blog.
Helpful hint: Almost all Blogger sites simply add this code to the end of the site address: /rss.xml
For example, the RSS feed for http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com is http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Bonus Computer Jargon Hint: Because computer people like to come up with new words, RSS Readers are also known as "Feed Aggregators."

Since the vast majority of Glora's Crafts readers use Microsoft Windows based systems, I will offer two Windows-based solutions.

Microsoft Office Outlook (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/)  

- If you already own a license for Microsoft Outlook, then it can do the job. If you don't own Microsoft Outlook, do not rush out and buy it only for this purpose! Skip down to Windows Live Mail for a free solution.

Step 1 for Microsoft Outlook 2007: Click the Tools menu. Select Account Settings.

Step 1 for Microsoft Outlook 2010:
Click the File tab. Click Account Settings, and then select Account Settings.

The remaining steps apply to both versions.

2.On the RSS Feeds tab, click New

3.In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type the URL of the RSS Feed. For example:

   http://simply-pam.blogspot.com/rss.xml

4.Click Add.

Repeat steps 2-4 and add as many feeds as desired.

5.Click OK.

Windows Live Mail (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mail)

- This program is free when you register for a Hotmail or Windows Live email account. (bonus tip: if you are using Microsoft Outlook Express, you really owe it to yourself to upgrade to this little beauty!)

When you start up Windows Live Mail, it will default to the Mail portion of the program.

In the lower-left corner, click Feeds.

To begin following a new feed, select the Feed button from the toolbar.

Enter the RSS feed address for the blog you want to follow. For example: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Click OK.

Just like that, your reader grabs the most recent posts. You may read them in the same way that you would an email.

Add a few more of your favorite blogs. For example:
http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/rss.xml

http://simply-pam.blogspot.com/rss.xml

http://simply-crafts.blogspot.com/rss.xml

These are the two programs that I have tried. If you don't like Microsoft, don't have a compatible version of Windows or Outlook, or just want to try something different, here is a list of additional programs to consider:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators.

Comments are always welcome - especially other tips, tricks, or recommendations of aggregators that work well for you. However, please know that I cannot provide technical support for your situation. If you run into trouble, seek out professional assistance (that is, invite the neighborhood nerd over and offer him a doughnut).

The Sweetest Halloween Pumpkin EVER!!!

Hello sweet crafting friends. Today I'm going to share a couple of cards that I made with some digi images that my friend Cindy of Cindy's Little Creations made. Cindy is super talented and I'm so proud of her and the beautiful designs that she has been making. Cindy had shared some images for me to use and I love them!!! Stop by HERE to see other creations that Cindy has made. You will not be disappointed she is amazing!

Now, I really am a novice at coloring with Copics but have some and I love how they look so I used them anyway (although I will admit that it took me FOREVER to do up these two images). I only have 36 markers that came in a set and I have actually found that it makes for some difficulty in blending since the colors are not as close in color as I would like, but for now they work. Don't pay too close of attention to my coloring, just enjoy the beautiful digi's for what they are :). I would also like to thank my friend Kate for some tips on working with digi's and Cindy gave me some awesome pointers too. Thanks ladies!

Here is my first card and I'm totally in LOVE with this pumpkin, I think she is the sweetest Halloween pumpkin EVER!!!!

Isn't she too cute?!!! I really LOVE her!!! Great job on this digi Cindy!!! I added some accent doodles to the image after I colored it with the Copics and then I also added some glossy accents to the eyes, nose and tooth. The black piece was cut from the Shall We Dance Cricut cartridge and I faux stitched around it with a white gel pen. The beautiful crinkle ribbon is by Patsy at The Prairie Bird Boutique. The darling green pattern on the green paper is an awesome background stamp by Market Street Stamps. It is called Punched Tin and I love how it looks on there. And last but not least the absolutely perfect sentiment for this cute pumpkin is from the All Around Halloween stamp set by My Creative Time.

Here is my second card using another digi by Cindy...

I think that kitty peeking out is just too darn cute!!!! For this one, I colored it with Copics and then cut it out. I printed a second copy on the blue background so I could glue my image down and still have the cute swirlies and such on the pumpkins and still have a dark starry sky. I added more doodling with my white gel pen and glossy accents on the cats eyes and nose. I used Emma's Stitched Oval Die and a sentiment from her Mixed Holiday Sentiments. A little bit of twine and inking and my card was done.

I hope you enjoyed these and thanks again Cindy. These were so much fun to work with!!!

Also make sure to join us for some sneak peeks with My Creative Time starting on Monday :)! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Shall We Dance Cricut cartridge
*Cindy's Little Creations Digi Stamps
*My Creative Time stamps - All Around Halloween
*My Creative Time stamps - Mixed Holiday Sentiments
*My Creative Time Dies - Stitched Oval Die

*Market Street Stamps - Punched Tin
*Crinkle Ribbon from The Prairie Bird Boutique
*Twine from The Twinery
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*Copics
*Glossy Accents
*Adhesive Rhinestones

Day 4 at Everyday Cricut

This was my final project on Everday Cricut. It was not supposed to post today, but it did - LOL. So if you haven't seen this fun double sided tri-fold card take a look and enjoy :).

A big hello to all of you wonderful Everyday Cricut Fans! This is Glora of Glora's Crafts, I can't believe how quickly my guest designer time has passed by. Today is my final day of guest designing for you and it has been amazing. I can not believe all the wonderful comments and support I have received. Thank you so much for the very warm welcome. Also thank you very much to Joy and Melanie for letting me share some projects with you.

Today, I started with a fairly simple scene card. I had it completely made and then I thought it would be awesome if it was a tri-fold card. Once I started to think about making it a tri-fold I couldn't get the idea out of my head until I did it. Has that ever happened to you? I hope you like it.

Here is the card all closed up:

This little scene reminds me of living in Utah. A beautifully starry sky, a full harvest moon and gorgeous mountains.  If you open the front flap the card now looks like this:

Here are a couple of close-ups:

If I open the one last flap this is what you see:



Believe it or not, this card came completely from two cartridges, along with my Gypsy. All of the pieces (except for the little girl) came from the Pop Up Neighborhood Cricut cartridge. This cartridge is a Circle Member Exclusive cartridge, but I could not resist using it because of all of its beautiful backgrounds and images. The little girl is from the Playtime Cricut Lite cartridge. The girl normally has a dog on a leash, but I cut off the dog so she could be pulling her little pumpkin cart. The Playtime cartridge came with some Cricut Expression Machines that were sold at Walmart.

I know that both of these cartridges are not easily accessible to the average Cricut user, so before you throw rocks at me or something, I wanted to offer some suggestions on a few cartridges that would be good substitutes for making a card similar to this. The Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge has a cute wagon and a couple of little girls that you could have 'pulling' it. Nate's ABC's also has the little boy pulling a wagon. The Paper Doll cartridges with awesome backgrounds, a wagon and cute children to pull the wagons (both Paper Doll Dress Up and Everyday Paper Dolls). I hope this helps.

I figure what is the sense of making a card, if you can't write a personal note in it. The tri-fold is just something fun and interactive on the front of the card. This is a standard A2 sized card.

The beautiful sentiments and dies on this card are all by Emma at My Creative Time. They are from her sets called All Around Halloween and So Grateful For You. The dies are the Stitched Oval Die and the Fancy Frame and Stamp Die. The cute faces on the girls are by Peachy Keen Stamps. The one on the front is called Wide Eyed Kids and the one on the inside is called Happy Lashes.

I made a very short video for you showing how this card looks and opens up. Here it is:

If you really love tri-fold cards I have a couple of others on my blog that you can look at if you are interested. They are much simpler than this one, but they are kind of fun all the same. Click HERE for a Halloween tri-fold. Click HERE for a VERY simple Saint Patrick's Day tri-fold. And click HERE for a gingerbread tri-fold.

Card Recipe:

Pop Up Neighborhood Cricut cartridge
Playtime Cricut Lite cartridge
My Creative Time Stamps - All Around Halloween
My Creative Time Stamps - So Grateful for You
My Creative Time Dies - Fancy Frame Die and Stamp Set
My Creative Time Dies - Stitched Oval
Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes
Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
Paper is Core'dinations and BoBunny
Twine is from Trendy Twine