My Creative Time - 12 Days of Christmas - Day 2

Welcome to the 2nd day of My Creative Time's 12 Day of Christmas. Today I have a fun gift idea for you that was inspired by a sentiment on the It's a Magical Season stamp set. I saw that 'snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled' sentiment and remembered seeing a snowman kit in a store a couple of years ago. I thought it would be fun to make one up for my girls.

I was in luck because I had this awesome box that my friend Pam had given me. It is perfect for this kit. The front part (by the button) is a magnetic closure and fits the scarf, mittens and hat inside PERFECTLY. and then there is a little drawer at the bottom that pulls out and holds the 'coal', huge googly eyes and some very large buttons. All that is missing are a couple of twigs that could be gathered outside.

Here it is with the drawer pulled out and the mittens, scarf and hat placed in front of the box instead of inside of it.

The sentiment is once again from It's a Magical Season, the die it is stamped on is called the Fancy Frame Stamp & Die set, and the ADORABLE snowman is from the All Around Accessories stamp set all by My Creative Time. The black hemp twine is from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

Well I hope you enjoyed my 'snowman kit.' Now we will be all prepared to make a snowman the next time we get some snow. I hope your day is terrific! Hugs- Glora

HUGE GIVEAWAY ALERT!

Okay, since it's Christmas, Emma decided to give away TWELVE of her FAVORITE things to ONE LUCKY person! She will announce one of the prizes for each day in her video! So by the 12th day, you will see ALL 12 items that ONE lucky person will be receiving! All you have to do is leave your comments each day! It's that simple! ALSO, **VERY IMPORTANT** Please leave your contact information so we can contact you "IF" YOU are the lucky winner! 

Scrapping the Little Things

Hello friends. Today we are scrapping the little things at My Creative Time. I have years worth of pictures and mementos that I have never scrapped not to mention the stuff for my children. For today, I decided to work on where I last left off on my college scrapbook. 

I went with a project life style page with clean lines and little fuss. It made this page really quick and easy. I think I could make some headway on my scrapbook if I did these simple sort of pages more often. It is really the pictures I will want to see anyway. I added some pictures and a postcard of a visit to The Alamo. 

For the top tag I used Just Tags along with the alphabet and numbers from Just Simply Live. For the bottom tag I used the Fancy Frame Stamp and Die set along with a sentiment from Just Simply Live.

Make sure to stop by Emma's blog to see what everyone has made. Hugs- Glora

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

Emma's Shipping Department Celebration Hop!!!

Happy, happy birthday to Emma's sweet Mommy - EMMA (yes, they share the same beautiful name)! If you came here from Katie's blog you are in the right place if not make sure to do the whole hop starting with Emma so that you can wish her amazing Mom and (shipping department) a VERY happy birthday!

I hope it is a truly wonderful day! Emma said that her mommy loves bears, pink and blue so that is completely what I went with.

I've been seeing a lot of these shaped easel cards around and had to try one for myself, here it is opened up:

And here is a side view:

I had so much fun making this and I hope that you love it Emma (Mommy Emma)! Happy birthday and many many more!!!

Your next stop on the hop is Miss Leanne!!! (HERE)

If you get lost along the way, here is the line-up:

Emma ~ 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/

Items Used:

Baby Steps Cricut cartridge (all cuts - but I did alter the dress since the one in the book had a bib and a 1 on it)
My Creative Time stamps - Wow! So Many Candles
My Creative Time Dies - Fancy Frame Stamp and Die set
Peachy Keen Stamps - Cute and Cuddly Faces
Bitty Dots patterned paper - PaperTrey Ink

Twine from The Twinery
Glossy Accents
Brown Zig Writer
Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
Chalk for cheeks
Ink for inking edges

My Creative Time's August Stamp release BLOG HOP!

Welcome to the My Creative Time August Stamp Release BLOG HOP! If you came here from Katie's Blog you are in the right place, if not make sure you start at Emma's Blog so that you won't miss a bit of information or inspiration.

For my card project today I used the 'Mixed Holiday Greetings' and the 'Fancy Frame Stamp and Die Set.'

I had so much fun making this card. I used Core'dinations Cardstock for everything except for the peach and black paper. I inked all of the edges before assembling and those darling scare-crow faces are Peachy Keen Stamps, this particular set is no longer available for purchase but believe there are others available that will make darling scarecrow faces. I used the beautiful Fancy Frame and Die Set (I just cut it in half which was something I had seen my design team sister Katie do before). For the co-ordinating stamp for this die I only inked up some of the dots so that the sentiment would fit without covering the dots. Other than that, I added some chalk to the cheeks and a little bit of doodling and voila, a fun card for the upcoming fall.

Here are the pictures of Emma's New Releases that I used on this project:

***GIVEWAY ALERT***
For my giveway today, I am giving away the "Stitched Oval Die"die (donated by sweet Emma)! All you have to do is leave a comment here along w/the rest of the design team's blogs AND also leave a way for me to contact you! You have "11" chances to win! All you have to do is leave a comment on ALL blogs in this hop! EASY PEASY!!! GOOD LUCK!:)

Your next stop on the HOP is the wonderful and VERY talented Leanne. Click HERE to go to her blog.

Here is the line-up in case you get lost along the way:

Emma ~ http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Nikki ~ http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
Katie ~ http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/
Glora ~ http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/ (you are here)
Leanne ~ http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/ (NEXT)

Cathryn ~ http://www.inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com/

Jen ~ http://jennyscards.blogspot.com/

Kate ~ http://www.scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Shar ~ http://scrapendipity.blogspot.com/

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

Thanks for stopping by, if you are interested I will leave a list of products used below...

Items Used:

*Just Because Cards Cricut cartridge (corn)

*Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge (scarecrows)

*My Creative Time stamps - Mixed Holiday Greetings

*My Creative Time Dies - Fancy Frame Stamp and Die Set

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Fall Faces (this set is discontinued)

*Core'dinations Cardstock

*Inks for inking

*Glossy Accents

*Chalk
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*American Crafts Black Pen

My Creative Time - August Release - Sneak Peek Day 2

Welcome to day two of sneak peeks at My Creative Time. Today we are using an adorable stamp set called 'Mixed Holiday Greetings.' We are also using a new die and stamp combo called the 'Fancy Frame Die and Stamp Set.' For my project I made a tri-fold card. Here is the front of the card:

When you untie the ribbon you can lift up the flaps to reveal the inside of the card:

I re-tied the bow from the outside on the inside just for the picture, but you can see where the holes where the ribbon is threaded through. 'Warm holiday wishes' is another sentiment from the Mixed Holiday Greetings stamp set and the darling shape it is stamped on is the darling new 'Fancy Frame Die and Stamp Set.'

I hope you will drop by Emma and my team member's blogs to see what incredible projects and inspiration they have for you. Once again, here are the rules for the sneak peek week.

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win the BEST PRIZES EVER 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 with the rest on the design teams blogs for a chance! There are some AWESOME prizes w/this release! Do you want to know what the "GRAND PRIZE" is? ONE LUCKY winner will be an "Honorary Guest Designer" for the "September" stamp release! YEP! you heard that right! One winner will receive ALL 4 of the new stamps along w/the dies for that month & you will be able to join us for the SNEAKY PEEK week along with the blog hop! ALL you have to do to qualify for this is:

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 Emma in your post! and.............

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 BEST giveaways EVER!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, August 19th @ 8am pst in her video during the release of this AMAZING new stamp collection & dies! GOOD LUCK! Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

I also made this card for the Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge. I LOVE my Peachy Keen Stamps and I think those darling Happy Lashes make those gingers SO much cuter!

Items Used:

*Just Because Cards Cricut cartridge (gingers)
*Plantin' Schoolbook (ric rac)
*Create a Critter (top note shape)

*My Creative Time stamps - Mixed Holiday Greetings

*My Creative Time Dies - Fancy Frame Stamp & Die Set

*My Creative Time stamps - Happy Mail (stamped hearts)

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes

*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*Black American Crafts Pen
*Heidi Grace designer paper
*Adhesive pearls
*Twine from the Twinery
*Grograin Ribbon
*Crystal Stickles