MCT February Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the My Creative Time February Release Blog Hop. If you came here from Courtney's blog then you are in the right spot, if not make sure you start at Emma's blog so you can get the whole hop in.

Today I am showing you the awesome Treat Slider Die!

This really makes for a cute little treat box. I wanted to make little windows for each of these boxes so you could see the treat that is inside them. For this first one I cut a heart shaped window out with the Stitched Heart Layering Dies and covered it with some vellum. I added the Teeny Tag and a sentiment from You Had Me at Chocolate. It is filled with Sweethearts. It is tied off with some hemp from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

Next I made a St Patrick's Day one. For it I used the new shamrock die that comes in the You're My Pot of Gold set. The sentiments all come from an oldy but goody I Believe in Leprechauns. I filled it with chocolate gold foil coins (an idea borrowed from my fellow DT members) and I tied this one off with some more hemp from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

And last but not least is an Easter one. For this one the sentiments and die I used to make my window come from the To My Best Peep stamp and die set. It is filled with jelly beans and tied off with some twine from The Twinery. 

Here is a picture of this new set. PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW THIS PICTURE:

This is a PRE-ORDER item ONLY!!!

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery. 

***This item MUST be ordered separately from all other items due to new shipping costs***

DISCLAIMER: If this item is purchased w/additional items, My Creative Time will need to invoice you for the shipping costs on this item before shipping out to you. Thank you.

***BLOG HOP GIVEWAY ALERT***

For our Blog hop giveaway, there will be 2 winners chosen from ALL the comments combined!  Both winners will win a $25 Gift Card to my store!  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 us to contact you!  Emma will use random.org to pick the lucky winners!  All you have to do is leave a comment on all blogs in this hop for more chances to win! The deadline is Sunday, Feb 17th at midnight! I will announce winners on my blog on Tues, Feb 19th!  EASY PEASY!!! GOOD LUCK!:)

Your next stop is Katie. Click HERE to go to her blog.

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

Amy ~ http://www.scrappingmommy.com/

Cassandra ~ http://www.ctimz3.blogspot.com/

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

Cheryl ~ http://dragonflydesigns58.blogspot.com/

Cindy B. ~ http://www.cindybcreations.blogspot.com/

Courtney ~ http://courtscrafts.blogspot.com/

Glora ~ http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/

Katie ~ http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/

Kim ~ http://www.scrapinmomofoneinspiringlittleboy.blogspot.com/

Leanne ~ http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/

Liz ~ http://www.lizspaperloft.com/

Micia ~ http://yellowbirdcreation.blogspot.com/

Nancy ~ http://scrappingoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/

Nikki ~ http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/

Rosy ~ http://sweetdelightspapernmore.blogspot.com/

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

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

Tracy ~ http://tracyscricutcorner.blogspot.com/

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

Barbara (Guest Designer) ~ http://www.letsgocrafting.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and have fun HOPPING and SHOPPING! Hugs- Glora

Grandparents Day Card

***If you are looking for Angelica's Farewell Blog Hop click HERE or scroll down***

Hi, did you know that yesterday was Grandparents Day? It is not a very well known holiday, but my children have incredible grandparents and we wanted to let them know that we love and appreciate them. Today I want to share the Grandparents Day card that my kiddos helped me create. We made two card and they are ALMOST identical so I'm just going to post the one.

This is a larger card. It is an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card. I just love their sweet handprints on the card and they had fun with it, well everyone except for the baby, he didn't like it too much. The color combination is a little unique but I had already stamped my baby's handprint and the girls chose out the colors they wanted so I just went with it. The hemp twine is from Liz's PaperLoft Boutique. And the sentiments all come from My Creative Time stamp sets. The 'XOXO' is from 100% Sweetness, the 'made with love...' is from You Had Me At Chocolate and the 'Happy Grandparents Day' is from the More Gift Card Sentiments.

I hope you have a FABULOUS Day. I was SUPER lucky and found a Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge on SALE at JoAnn's on Friday. I'm dying to try it out. So hopefully tomorrow I will have a card to share with you using it. Hugs- Glora

Also, don't forget that it is Scrappy Monday at My Creative Time.

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - 100% Sweetness
My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me At Chocolate
My Creative Time stamps - More Gift Card Sentiments
Liz's Paper Loft Boutique - Hemp Twine

Cupid Brought Us Together...

I want to share one last Valentine card before February is over. I just finished this one up on Saturday so I will have to hold onto it until next year, but I HAD to make a card with this cute little cupid stamp I got from Peachy Keen Stamps. It is called Cupid's Sting.

I colored it with Copics, added gellyroll details and lots of glitter paint and stickles. I used a perfect sentiment from My Creative Time's You Had Me At Chocolate stamp set and I also used her Stitched Oval Die. I added a little bling and then I was done. Have a SUPER Monday! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me At Chocolate
My Creative Time Dies - Stitched Oval
Peachy Keen Stamps - Cupid's Sting
Copics
Stickles and shimmer paint
Gellyroll Pen
Adhesive Rhinestones

My Favorite Stamp of the Month at My Creative Time

If you are looking for Debbie (DD's Crafts) 50th birthday blog hop, please scroll down or click HERE!!!


Emma has started something new and fun over on her blog. She is doing a Favorite Stamp of the Month link up party with one of her older sets. This month it is the You Had Me at Chocolate stamp set. She wanted us to share a few projects using this stamp set. You can hop on over to Emma's blog and see what she and some of the other DT members made with this set.

"If any of you "My Creative Time" friends own this stamp set, feel free to link up a project of your choice on Emma's Blog using "You Had Me At Chocolate"! You have 2 weeks to do this. If you don't own it, you can purchase it here at a special "discounted" price!" 

Girly Birthday Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to Candace's Girly Birthday Blog Hop. If you came here from the birthday girl's (Candace's) blog then you are in the right spot, if not make sure to head back to Candace's blog so you can wish her a happy birthday and get the whole GIRLY hop in.

I have two little girls, so I love making cute and girly things. My daughter's are currently in love with Rapunzel.  When I saw these cute Rapunzel stickerz by EAD Designs I fell in love. EAD Designs was kind enough to donate a set for me to try out for Candace's Birthday hop.  

All of the pink and purple paper is full of glitter and my girls LOVE it. Now I just need to get a picture of them with Rapunzel the next time we are at Disneyland and my layout will be complete.

The darling 'happily ever after' sentiment is from My Creative Time's, You Had Me at Chocolate, stamp set. The beautiful blingy paper (which is SUPER glittery in person) is by Core'dinations and as mentioned above the stickers are by EAD Designs.

There are two awesome sponsors for the blog hop. The first is Pink By Design with a $15 gift certificate and the second is EAD Designs with a $20 gift certificate. Make sure to comment on every stop along the hop to be entered to win one of these prizes. You have until 11:59 CST on September 22nd to get your comments in.

**Your next stop is the talented Sarah from Pink Cricut herself. Click HERE to see what awesome girly project she has in store for you.**

Thanks Candace for asking me to join your girly birthday blog hop! I hope it is a WONDERFUL birthday! You are such a sweet and talented girl and I wish you the VERY BEST!

Just in case you get lost a long the way, here is the blog hop line up:

Candace from Scrappin' 2 Little Princesses
Glora from Glora Crafts
Sarah from Pink Cricut
Jenny from Crazy About Cricut
Michelle from Scrappin With My Bug
Candace from Paper Crafts By Candace
Ashley from Scrappin' Pink Piglet
Tanya from Nonna's Craft Corner
Elizabeth from 217 Creations
Sherrie from Sherrie Scraps with Passion

Lisa from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons

Emily from Create Serendipity
Paula from More than Favors
Kristi from Little Paper Sprinkles

Items Used:

*Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Cricut cartridge (font)

*Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge (grass)
*My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me at Chocolate
*EAD Designs Stickerz - Rapunzel
*American Crafts Black Pen
*Core'dinations cardstock

Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam #8

Hello sweet crafty friends. Today is the first Wednesday of September, which means it is time for another Simply Crafts with my amazing and talented friend Pam of Simply-Pam. If you are new to this, Pam and I take turns choosing a cut from a Cricut cartridge and make something with it. This month it was my turn to choose and I chose the gumball machine from the Sweethearts cartridge.

I made this card for my husband, in fact I have wanted to make it for him since I got the cartridge but never got around to it. This seemed like the perfect opportunity. To make a long story short, he hid my engagement ring inside a gumball machine (in his personal office) over 10 years ago. Little did he know that I was a sucker for gumball machines. Well I got the ring, he proposed and everytime I see a gumball machine I think of him 'my sweet love!'

For my card, I used twice as many gumballs to make it look more full, half of them are colored cardstock and the other half were cut on white cardstock and I colored them in with my Copics. I also added a piece of acetate to the front of the gumball machine to make it look more realistic.

Well, I hope that you make sure to drop by Pam's blog and see what awesome project she came up with using this cut. I know it will be AMAZING. Click HERE to go to Pam's blog.

Items Used:

Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me at Chocolate
Peppermint Stick Trendy Twine
Copic Markers
DCWV patterned paper

True Love Lasts Forever

I have another anniversary card for my parents to share with you today. This one is a larger one (8 1/2 x 5 1/2) so that everyone could write a little note in it for my parents. The sentiments are all from My Creative Time's 'You Had me at Chocolate' stamp set. I LOVE this set SO much. I've used it for way more than Valentine's cards.

Oh yes, and several of you asked about the clip art I used yesterday. They still have an active site and you can still purchase several of there clip art packages to download on your computer. I will put a link on yesterday's post, and I will also leave you a link HERE.

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful Independence Day weekend. Hugs- Glora


Items Used:

Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge
Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - You Had me at Chocolate

PTI Bitty Dot patterned paper
Heart punch
Sheer ribbon
Sakura shite Gellyroll pen
Zig Marker

Together Forever Anniversary Card

My parents recently celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. They are amazing! I love them with all of my heart! This is the card that I made them for their special day.

 
It is pretty simple, but kind of classy too. It is a heart shaped card with a scalloped heart attached at the back. The sentiment is one of my favorites from the 'You Had Me at Chocolate' set by Emma at My Creative Time.

Items Used:

*Sweethearts Cricut cartridge
*Gypsy

*My Creative Time stamps -  You Had Me at Chocolate

*Core'dinations cardstock

*Sakura White Gellyroll pen

Royal Wedding Blog Hop and Birthday Celebration Day 5 - Peachy Keen Stamps

Hello everyone and welcome to the Royal Wedding Blog Hop and the 5th day of my birthday celebration. If you came here by way of the creative and talented Angelica, then you are in the right place for the hop. If this has been your first stop on the hop please make sure that you take the time to go back and start at Heidi's blog.

Today I am spotlighting Peachy Keen Stamps. I LOVE my Peachy Keen Stamps SO much! They make EVERYTHING so much cuter. I could never say enough good about them. I just LOVE them.

For my project I made a ballerina princess birthday banner.

Here are some closeups and then the whole banner:

I wasn't sure if I was stretching the guidelines for the hop too much with my banner so I also made a wedding card for the occasion. I hope you like it. Aren't those Peachy Faces SO cute?! I LOVE them! I am also submitting my projects for the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge.



Giveaways: Peachy Keen Stamps has been so super generous and they donated some stamps for my birthday celebration. One lucky commenter will receive the Wide Eyed Kids 1 1/8 inch face assorment pictured below.

Another lucky commenter will receive the Happy Lashes 1 1/8 inch face assortment pictured below.

The rules remain the same for all posts this week. Your first entry is quite simply to make a comment on this post. Click HERE to link back to the first day's post and a full list of the rules.

Bonus Entry #1: "Follow" 'A Note From Kathy' on the Peachy Keen Blog. Kathy hasn't posted projects very often in the past but when she does they are absolutely AMAZING!!!! Click HERE to go to her blog. If you decide to follow her blog then come back and leave me a new comment telling me that you follow Kathy's blog. If you already follow Kathy's blog leave me a comment telling me so.

Bonus Entry #2: Leave me a comment telling me how you first heard about Peachy Keen Stamps and if you own any of their stamps I'd love it if you'd tell me which set you remember buying first.

Remember you have through Sunday night to leave a comment on any/all of my birthday posts for this week.

Alright, your next stop along the hop is the talented Theresa also known as The Scrapbooking Queen.

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

Heidi @ http://gotscraps.blogspot.com/
Viv @ http://craftinghaven.blogspot.com/
Lorie @ http://www.thethinkinspot.blogspot.com/
Janice @ http://stampingwithjanice.blogspot.com/
Samantha @ http://samanthacasey.blogspot.com/
Kim @ http://www.paperpunchaddiction.com/
Ruthie @ http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/

Joanna @ http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/

Kathy @ http://www.peachykeenstamps-kathy.blogspot.com/

Angelica @ http://www.handmadebyangelica.com/

Glora @ http://www.glorascrafts.blogspot.com/ you are HERE

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

Erin @ http://www.erinleecreative.com/

 

Items Used Banner:

 

*Sugar & Spice Cricut Lite cartridge

*Twinkle Toes Cricut cartridge

*Pooh Font Cricut cartridge

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids

*Sakura White Gellyroll pen

*Adhesive pearls

 

Items Used Card:

 

*Sugar & Spice Cricut Lite cartridge

*Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge

*My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me at Chocolate

*Market Street Stamps - Vintage Wallpaper

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids

*Glitter

*Sakura White Gellyroll pen

*Adhesive Pearls

More Treat Bags

Well my husband is finally back from his 2 1/2 week business trip to the Philippines. YAY!!! I have two last treat bags that I had made for him and had not posted yet. So here they are:

and he LOVE these Cadbury Creme Eggs so we had to send some of these too.

Like I said simple, but yummy.

Items Used:

*Smiley Cards Cricut cartridge
*Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me at Chocolate
*My Creative Time stamps - Color Me Happy
*Snack Size Bags
*Hershey Kisses
*Cadbury Creme Eggs

Mint to be Together Forever

Here is the first treat bag we put together for my husbands trip. They are super simple but he really is going to want the candy more than the toppers. You will probably see a few more over the next week or so.

Items Used:

*Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge (hearts)

*Papertrey Ink stamps - Favor it Weddings for the "Mint To Be"

*My Creative Time - You Had Me at Chocolate for the "Together Forever"

*Core'dinations Cardstock

*Kraft Cardstock

*Ziploc Snack Sized Bag

*Mint Lifesavers
*Core'dinations cardstock
*White Sakura Gellyroll pen
* Black Zig marker

Secret Notes

My girls helped me plan a little surprise for their Daddy who left on a business trip last week. They helped me color up some 3 x 3 note cards for each day he is gone. I colored Daisy and the little duck. My oldest daughter colored Mickey and my littlest colored Donald.

We also made up a few goody bags. I will post them later.

Items Used:

EK Success stamps (Disney)
Peachy Keen Stamps (Duck)
My Creative Time stamps (sentiments except on the duck one)
Copic Markers
Crayola Markers
Colored Pencils

Mickey Valentine!

If you are looking for Emma's Stamptastic Blog Hop scroll down or click HERE.

I wanted to share a Disney Valentine that I made for my amazing and sweet parents. They LOVE Disney stuff so it will be perfect for them.

I used Emma's beautiful 'You Had Me at Chocolate' stamps. I love how classy these look.

Here is a view of the inside of the card:

 This incorporates some of my favorite colors. So I thought I would post it for the Pink Stampers blog hop and it also has a heart on it for the Paper Playtime challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Items Used:

*Mickey Font Cricut cartridge

*Sweetheart Cricut cartridge

*My Creative Time stamps - You Had Me at Chocolate

*Twine
*White Gellyroll Pen
*Black Zig Writer

Throwback Thursday Design Team Project

Well it is time for another fun and exciting Throwback Thursday with Emma at My Creative Time. The challenge this time is to use either Wild Card or Just Because Cards and a stamped sentiment. I used Just Because Cards. This is my card base and the apple the girl is holding is also from Just Because Cards (they are even on the same function key).

I used Emma's super sweet stamp set called 'You Had Me at Chocolate.' These stamps are GORGEOUS! The design is beautiful and they are peachified so they stamp like a dream. I hope you all get the chance to join us for the challenge and take a look at what the other talented design team members whipped up.

Items Used:

*My Creative Time Stamps- You Had Me at Chocolate
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Critter Faces
*Just Because Cards Cricut Cartridge

*Twinkle Toes Cricut Cartridge

*Mickey Font Cricut Cartridge

*Opaque embossing powder
*White Gellyroll Pen
*Black Zig Marker
*Versamarker
*Small heart punch
*Yellow patterned paper Provo Craft
*Red patterned paper Hot Off the Press

XOXO I Love You More!

Hello sweet bloggy friends. I was finally able to get my Peachy Keen LFIF Challenge completed. I had lots of different ideas but I wanted to do something 'different.'  The cute little 'I love you more...' sentiment is from Emma's stamp set called You Had Me at Chocolate. This is a shape card that I made with my Gypsy. I hope you like my little cell phone valentine!

Items Used:

*Paisley Cricut Cartridge
*Gypsy
*My Creative Time Stamps- You Had Me at Chocolate
*Peachy Keen Stamps- Critter Faces
*Pink By Design stamps for the X's & O's
*Bic Ultrathin Black Marker
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen