Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Guest Designer

Hello! Today I am guest designing at Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons. I love Lisa's cut files and I was so excited when they said I could guest design. I made a few projects to share with you today.

A special little boy just turned 2 so I thought this fun shape card would be cute for him:

This cute little boy and cake come from the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons file called Make a Wish Cutting File. Isn't he darling? I stamped his face with a Peachy Keen Face stamp called PK-1320 In the Garden Face Assortment. I also used a couple of My Creative Time stamp sets. The #2 is from Follow Your Dreams and the Birthday Boy sentiment is from Celebrate Good Times. I did some faux stitching with my Sakura Gelly Roll pen and added some Glossy Accents to the eyes.

Next up is a fun beach ball shape card for my niece's birthday next month. She loves swimming so I thought this would be the perfect summer birthday card.

The beach ball shape card and girl both come from the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons file called Little Swimmers. I stamped her face with another Peachy Keen Face stamp called PK-1200 The Moodies. I also added a sentiment from Craftin' Desert Divas. It is from the Simply Said stamp set. I did more faux stitching and added Glossy Accents to the eyes.

And my last project is a stick puppet for my girls. They LOVE it and I'm really hoping that Lisa comes out with some more princess costumes for these cute girl cuts.

I made a front side and a back side for her so she would be cute as they played with her coming or going. It was really pretty simple to do. All I had to do was rearrange the layers and voila. 

The cute little girl is from the PPPR Dress Up Girls 1 Cutting File and her cute princess dress is from the Dress Up Girl Princess Dress 1 Cutting File. I stamped her face with another PKS face stamp from the PK-1320 In the Garden Face Assortment. I also did a little bit of accenting with my Sakura Gelly Roll.

I hope you enjoyed my projects for today! 

Lisa, thanks so much for letting me guest design for you! Hugs- Glora

Quick Links:

MCT May Release Day #2

Hi and welcome to day two of projects from Emma's newest - special birthday - release over at My Creative Time. ALL of these stamps and dies are already available for pre-order and will be shipping out soon.

Today we are all using Here's Lookin' At You. This is a perfect set for the men in your life. I have a nephew that will be graduating at the end of this month so I just took his school colors and made this simple card.

Emma's stamps and dies made this SO easy. The GRAD Hats off to You! sentiment and the graduation cap die both come from Here's Lookin' at You. The beautiful stitched background tag is also new and it is called Tag Dies. The class of 2012 comes from Emma's Follow Your Dreams stamp set. And the background is a Cuttlebug embossing background.

This wouldn't be a party without GIVEAWAYS!

With all of our SAMPLES/ SNEAKS this week, Emma likes to do some FUN giveaways!

 ***All you have to do is leave comments on our blogs! You do NOT have to comment on every blog, BUT if you do, you will just have more chances to win!

 ***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!

Emma will randomly pick and announce all winners on Friday, May 18th during the blog hop  @ 12:01am PST in her video! GOOD LUCK!

 Log onto to your facebook now and let's start spreading the word!;)

Make sure to stop by Emma's blog to see what she and everyone else has created for you using Here's Lookin' at You!

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - Here's Lookin' at You!
My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
My Creative Time Dies - Tag Dies
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Congrats
White Chalk Ink
Sakura White Gellyroll Pen

DD's Crafts Fabulous Fifty Birthday Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to DD's Crafts Fabulous Fifty Birthday Blog Hop. If you just came here from.the awesome Gloria's blog then you are in the right spot if not make sure to go back and start at DD Crafts. You won't want to miss a thing.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE!!!

We were to make a project with any sort of a birthday theme. I have a darling niece that just turned one and I wanted to make her a special birthday card.

For this card I used the Baby Steps Cricut cartridge. The darling little face was made using the Cute and Cuddly Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps and the perfect little sentiment is from Emma's Many Greetings stamp set. I made my own patterned paper on the kraft paper using My Creative Time's Follow Your Dreams stamp set.

You will want to make sure to comment on all of the blogs for a chance to win the grand prize from Debbie's blog!

Thanks for stopping by today. I should be your last stop of the hop. I hope you had fun! Here is a list of the blog hop in case you got lost along the way.

 DDscrafts - http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/

Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Haidee - http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Vicki W - http://scrapbookingcreationsbyvicki.blogspot.com/

Paula - http://Scrapyourworld1.blogspot.com 

Crazyabout Cricut - http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Jamie - http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com

Melissa - http://timeweavers.wordpress.com

Theresa -http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Cricut Chick - http://cricutchick.com

Cheryl - http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

Lisa L -  http://craftylam.blogspot.com/

Shannon - http://my-o-scrappin.blogspot.com/

Zenita -  http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com

Angela - http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com/

Barbara - http://barbarab3.blogspot.com/

Tanner - http://www.mrcricutcrazy.com/

Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/

Gloria - http://gloriasgoofycraftspot.blogspot.com/

Glorajean - http://www.glorascrafts.blogspot.com/

Items Used:

*Baby Steps Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - Many Greetings
*My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Cute and Cuddly
*DCWV - Nana's Nursery
*Glossy Accents
*Gellyroll Pens
*Stickles
*Ink for inking

Gilby's Makeover Walk

Hello sweet friends. Welcome to Gilby's Makeover Walk. We are celebrating Wendy and Gilby's new blog look with a puppy walk and I'm so happy to have you here. If you came here from my sweet friend Emma's awesome blog than you are in the right place. If you just happened upon this puppy walk, make sure to start back at Wendy's blog to get the whole walk in.

We were each asked to do a 'makeover' project. I was excited because this was an idea my husband suggested to me a while ago but I just never got around to doing. Basically a before and after paperdoll makeover. What I mean by that, is I want to show you what my paperdolls looked like before discovering Peachy Keen Stamps and then what they look like now. Here is the before card:

I really loved this card when I made it 5 years ago and that is why I actually have a picture of it. I think she turned out pretty cute, but I always had the hardest time getting the eyes and mouth even. Plus it is a pretty simple card, nothing wrong with simple, I just like that I've learned to do more with my cards when I want to.

5 years later here is the 'makeover' card:

I hope you like it because I LOVE it!!! Isn't her sweet Peachy Keen Stamps face perfect?!!! This face comes from a set that I use a lot called Simple Sallies. I love Peachy Keen Stamps because I get perfect little faces for my projects!!!! In addition, when I discovered Peachy Keen Stamps I also discovered Emma and Nikki's blogs. Thanks to their inspiration over the past couple of years, I have started adding stitching and doodling to projects. It adds so much to a project. And about 10 months ago Emma at My Creative Time started making stamps!!! She has got an awesome variety of beautiful sentiment stamps that work perfectly for just about any occasion. The beautiful 'magical memories' sentiment is from her Fun in the Sun stamp set and the 'thank you' is from her Follow Your Dreams stamp set. I think they look just right on here. I can't wait to give this thank you card to my parents after our next trip to Disneyland. I know they are going to love it!

Well that's it for my makeover project. Make sure you leave a comment on every blog while you are walking along so that you will have the maximum chances to win an awesome puppy treat!!! Wendy and Gilby have some awesome sponsors for this walk including: VK Design Company, My Creative Time, Peachy Keen Stamps, Buggaboo Stamps, Jen's Digi Stamps, Cutting Cafe, Pink By Design, Our Craft Lounge, My Pink Stamper, and Gilbyscraftster. WOW, what a list of sponsors - good luck and THANKS so much to the sponsors!!!

Your next stop on the walk is Jana! Click HERE to go to Jana's Blog.

If you get lost along the way, here is the lineup:

Wendy: http://www.gilbyscraftster.blogspot.com/
Angie: http://atuttletime.blogspot.com/
Brynn: http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/
Edna: http://expressionbypinke.blogspot.com/
Emma: http://www.creativetimeforme.com/
Glora: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/ (you are HERE)
Jana: http://janabailey.blogspot.com/ (go HERE next)
Katie: http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/
Kendra: http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Paul: http://craftyblogocks.blogspot.com/
Princess Penelop: http://thescrapbookingqueen-princesspenelope.blogspot.com/
Shar: http://scrapendipity.blogspot.com/
Tanya: http://little-scrapper.blogspot.com/
Theresa: www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Tracy: http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/
Veronica: http://blog.vkdesigncompany.com/

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - Fun in the Sun
My Creative Tiem stamps - Follow Your Dreams
Peachy Keen Stamps - Simple Sallies
Peachy Keen Stamps - Extra Small Polka Dot
Sizzix Paper Doll and Accessories (old red and yellow dies)
EK Success Mickey Icon punches
Disneyland - smallest Mickey Icon punch
Glossy Accents
Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
Versamarker
Twine
Adhesive Pearls
Chalk

Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer - Day 5

Hello my sweet Peachy lovin' friends. I can not believe this wonderful week has come to an end. I have absolutely LOVED sharing my love of Peachy Keen Stamps with all of you and I'm so thankful for Kathy, Angelica and the whole Peachy Family for giving me this, dream come true, opportunity! Thanks a million times over!!!!

My last back to school project is a banner. I used my daughter's school colors of blue, red and white and have it hanging up in our house. My girls LOVE this banner and I hope you do too. First I'll show you a picture of the whole banner and then we will zoom in on some of the details...

Left side closer up:

Middle closer up:

 

Right side closer up:

Okay now here is my first little banner holding girl:



I think this little girl is such a CUTIE especially thanks to her darling Peachy Face! I used 'Princess Faces' for her super sweet face. I also used a background stamp called 'Punched Tin' by Market Street Stamps for her dress. I seriously want dresses with that same pattern on it for my girls!

Here is the cute banner holding boy:

For this sweet little boy, I used one of my favorite go to stamp sets called 'Wide Eyed Kids'! LOVE these! And for his sports team numbers I used the awesome chunky numbers from Emma's 'Follow Your Dreams' stamp set. If any of you are BYU sport fans that number should look familiar ;).

And now for the last little banner holder:

Doesn't she look SO happy! I just love the 'Happy Lashes' set by Peachy Keen Stamps. It makes everything look SO super cute! For the dress I stamped it with the 'Extra Small Polka Dot' stamp by Peachy Keen Stamps.

Well, I think that's it. What a wonderful week!!!! Thanks so much for being so supportive and encouraging to me! You are all so very sweet and I hope that I can help to encourage you in your creative work as well. Hugs- Glora

The Blog Candy for this week, which was generously donated by Peachy Keen Stamps, is the new Winter Wonderland Face Assortment.

If you leave a comment here and on the Peachy Keen Stamps Home page each day this week, you will have up to 10 chances to win these adorable stamps. I will be drawing the winner on Saturday, August 27th. Best of luck!

Items Used:

Playtime Cricut Lite cartridge (children)
Birthday Bash (banner and letters)
Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces (brunette girl)
Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids (boy)
Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes (blond girl)
Peachy Keen Stamps - Extra Small Polka Dots (blond girl's dress)
My Creative Time Stamps - Follow Your Dreams (#'s on boys shirt)
Market Street Stamps - Punched Tin (brunette girl's dress)

Twine from The Twinery
Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
American Crafts black pen
Navy Zig Writer
Glossy Accents
Adhesive Pearls
Versamarker (highlight hair)
Chalk (blush)

Happy 1st Birthday

Just a quick post. One of my sweet little nieces is celebrating her 1st birthday. I like using my stamps to make patterned paper sometimes, but I may have gotten a little carried away on this one. Anyway, here it is...

The 1's are from Emma's 'Follow Your Dreams' stamp set and the Happy Birthday is from her 'Many Greetings.'

Items Used:

Baby Steps Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
My Creative Time stamps - Many Greetings
Copics to color the flame
Crystal Stickles for the flame
Black marker for doodling

Congratulations Card for Market Street Stamps Sketch Challenge

Here is the card that I made for the current Market Street Stamps Sketch Challenge. I used the beautiful Vintage Wallpaper background stamp and embossed it in black. Then I inked it up with some Pink Posie Stampin' Up ink. I also heat embossed this beautiful sentiment and frame by My Creative Time. The sentiment is from Follow Your Dreams and the frame is from Inspiring Words {Accents}. I also used the My Creative Time Curly Label Die. That cute little paper bow was inspired by a lovely paper bow that I had seen Tifany from Ink Blots by TRD put on one of her cards. I'm not sure if I did it the same way but I love how it looks on the card. I'm sure I will be using this idea again. Thanks Tifany.

I hope you are having a WONDERFUL day! Take care! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
My Creative Time stamps - Inspiring Words {Accents}
My Creative Time Dies - Curly Label
Market Street Stamps - Vintage Wallpaper
Black ZING embossing powder
Pink Posie Ink by Stampin' Up
White Cardstock by PaperTrey Ink
Silver and black papers by Provo Craft

Vacation Countdown Chain

This is just a super quick post to show you a fun idea. Have you ever made the little countdown to Christmas chains? Well this is the same idea, it is just a countdown to vacation chain. I made this super simple because the chains were just going to be torn off and thrown away.

All I did was cut 1 1/2 inch strips of paper, I punched out some Mickey icons with my EK Success punch and I stamped the numbers on the icons with the numbers from Emma's Follow Your Dreams (graduation) stamp set. I LOVE these number stamps. They are an awesome size too. My kids were thrilled with this simple project.

I hope you will drop by tomorrow for my My Creative Time Design Team post :).

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams

EK Success Mickey Icon punch

Cardstock

Paper Trimmer

Stapler 

We are So Proud of You

*** This post disappeared during the BLOGGER problem. I though it might show back up but it hasn't so I've re-added it back **

Well I guess there is nothing like a last minute challenge entry. This challenge seriously closes in about one hour. Anyway, this card is for the Peachy Keen Let's Face It Friday Challenge. The challenge was to use a banner somewhere on your project and a Peachy Keen face stamp. Well I just went to the cutest spring dance recital and wanted to give some of the participants a little card telling them how proud we were of them. The youngest was only 3 years old and they were so brave to stay on the stage and perform their little numbers.

I think they will love their little cards. The sentiment is from Emma's graduation set called "Follow Your Dreams" This set has some awesome sentiments of congratulations that can be used for many cards beyond graduation. The cute pink patterned paper is actually a Market Street background stamp stamped with watermark ink. It is called 'Punched Tin'. Isn't it beautiful? And of course that cute face is from a darling Peachy Keen Stamp set called Wide Eyed Kids.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Items Used:

*Twinkle Toes Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
*Market Street Stamps - Punched Tin
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
*Pink Sorbet twine from The Twinery
*Sakura White Gellyroll pen
*chalk

Livestrong Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Livestrong Blog Hop. If you just came from Monica's blog than you are in the right spot, if not, the beginning of the hop starts with Maria.

Our projects for today are to focus on hope and encouragement. I wanted to make some small note cards that were simple, bright and cheerful for my project. I hope you like them. All of them were embossed with clear embossing powder.

This first one uses Follow Your Dreams stamp set by My Creative Time and the Loopy Loo Polka background stamp by Market Street Stamps.

This one uses Turn That Frown Upside Down by My Creative Time and Paisley by Market Street Stamps.

This one is My Favorite Sayings by My Creative Time and Sweet Lace by Market Street Stamps

This one uses Pain Pain Go Away! by My Creative Time and Punched Tin by Market Street Stamps.

Here is a picture of all of them together.

I have a small giveaway of Circle dies for your Cuttlebug (pictured below). All you have to do to have a chance to win is leave a comment on this post by Monday morning and have a US or Canada mailing address. I will pick a random winner on Monday, May 9th.

Your next stop on the hop is to Martha. Click HERE to go to Martha's blog.

I wanted to mention that Emma over at My Creative Time has just released a special stamp set that coincides perfectly with this hop. I wanted to post a picture of it and a link to her blog. By purchasing this stamp set, you are partnering with "My Creative Time" to help stamp out breast cancer. For each set that is purchased, My Creative Time will donate $2 to Susan G. Komen for the cure! Click HERE to check out this stamp set.

I'm glad you could stop by. Have a great day.

Items Used:

*My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
*My Creative Time stamps- Turn That Frown Upside Down
*My Creative Time stamps - My Favorite Sayings
*My Creative Time stamps - Pain Pain Go Away!
*Market Street Stamps - Loopy Loo Polkas
*Market Street Stamps - Paisley
*Market Street Stamps - Sweet Lace
*Market Street Stamps - Punched Tin
*Twine from The Twinery
*Grosgrain ribbon

My Creative Time's April Release Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome to another fun My Creative Time stamp release and blog hop. If you came here via the talented and sweet Katie's blog (Crafting With Katie) then you are in the right spot, if not make sure you start back at Emma's blog for a whole lot of inspiration and a look at some BEAUTIFUL new stamp sets. These sets are available for purchase NOW, so click HERE and check them out!

Emma asked me to use her new set called "Follow Your Dreams." This set is AWESOME! I absolutely love the cute images and the perfect sentiments. I made my cards with my nephew in mind. He is graduating from high school this year and these are his school colors. The banner is from a different one of Emma's sets called 'My One and Only' but the rest of the stamped sentiment is from 'Follow Your Dreams' even that ADORABLE little diploma he is holding is from that set.

I had such fun playing with the stamps that I ended up making another card in his school colors. Now I will have to decide which one fits my nephews style the best.

Thanks for dropping by and make sure you hop along to every stop along the way and make a comment so that you can be entered into the drawing for Emma's adorable little bonus stamp. She is giving one away at each blog stop. Isn't she the sweetest?! You have until Sunday morning, April 24th, to comment and be eligible for the bonus stamp.

You next stop is the talented Leanne.

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

Nikki http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
Abby http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/
Linda http://www.krazyquilling.com/
Katie http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/
Glora http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Leanne http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/
Vicky http://luvmygypsy.blogspot.com/
Tanner http://www.mrcricutcrazy.com/
 
Items Used:
 
*Everyday Paper Doll Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - Follow Your Dreams
*My Creative Time stamps - My One and Only

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Simple Simons

*Congratulations Cuttlebug embossing folder

*Core'dinations gold pearl paper

*Glossy Accents
*Sakura White Gellyroll pen
*Versamarker