Happy Birthday Sweetie! - Card

One of my nieces is having a birthday soon. She is in the Mandarin Chinese immersion program at her school and loves Mulan. I thought it would be fun to do a Mulan inspired birthday card for her. I was just trying to figure out the design of my card when the new Peachy Keen Stamps sketch challenge came up. It made it a breeze to put together with the sketch as inspiration. 

Below is the sketch (and there is still a ton of time to join in the challenge so you should join in too). You can find the details HERE.

And here is the card that I made. I changed things a tiny bit but stuck pretty close to the sketch.

I got the Mulan inspired cut file from Too Cute By Jessica's Pretty Little Princesses 2. The perfect little face I stamped on is from Peachy Keen Stamps Princess Face Assortment. The oval die and sentiment are both from My Creative Time. The oval comes from the Surprise Pop-Out Card die and the sentiment is from Celebrate Good Times.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Quick Links:

 
 

It's a FROZEN Celebration!

I just wanted to share a fun poster and some cake decorations that I made. I love how these turned out and I hope you do too.

Here is the poster:

I used some new files from Lettering Delights for this poster. They are called Ice Princess and Ice Princess Party. I used the print feature of my Silhouette Cameo for these and I just hid the faces so I could stamp them with some Peachy Keen Face stamps. I used the Princess Face Assortment.

And for the cake:

For this one I used the same Lettering Delight Files along with the print and cut feature on my Silhouette. I once again stamped their faces with the Princess Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps. I also used a bunch of awesome My Creative Time products on here. Emma came out with her Winter Flake Dies just in time. I also used the Build a Banner and All Around Birthday Time sets for the middle snowflake with the '5'. For the banner I used the Teeny Tags Layering Dies and the Anyday Bingo and Crossword stamp set, also by My Creative Time.

The celebration was a hit. I hope you enjoyed these too. Hugs- Glora

Pictures and links of stamps and dies I used for this project:

 

 

 

MCT January Stamp Release Sneak Peek #3

Hello My Creative Time friends, are you ready for sneak peek day #3? I just LOVE this awesome little set that includes two mini dies and a bunch of sentiments. It is called Teeny Tag Greetings. I think you will just love this die set and the great variety of sentiments too.

For my project I made a card. This is a long card that will fit in a business sized envelope. I wish you could see the whole card a little better but I will show you the whole thing so you can see how it looks and then I will show you a couple of close ups too.

So here is the whole card...

A closeup of the Princess with her Princess Face from Peachy Keen Stamps

And a closeup with the wagon. The sentiment on the heart is from Emma's existing stamp set called 100% Sweetness and that darling little tag and sentiment are from her new set called Teeny Tag Greetings. 

Don't these tags look like so much FUN?!!!! 

 Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!
With all of our Sneak Peek weeks, 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 and 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, January 20th during this AWESOME release happening @ 12:01am PST in her video! GOOD LUCK!

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

Have a terrific day and make sure that you check out what Emma and the rest of the team did with this set! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Playtime Cricut Lite Cartridge

Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge

My Creative Time stamps - 100% Sweetness

My Creative Time stamps - Teeny Tag Greetings

Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces

SEI paper pad

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Sakura Gellyroll Pens

Twine from the Twinery

Chalk

Just for You, Teacher!

I've got a fun little project today that I made for my daughter's dance teacher. And there just happens to be a little bit of a 'sneak peek' of one of Emma's upcoming stamp sets as well...

The gift card holder is Emma's Embossed Gift Card Holder Die, the little girl was cut out of the Twinkle Toes Cricut Lite cartridge, and her darling little face is from the Princess Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Twinkle Toes Cricut Lite cartridge

*My Creative Time Dies - Embossed Gift Card Holder

*My Creative Time stamps

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces

*DCWV - Nana's Nursery

*Glossy Accents

*Adhesive Pearls

*Gellyroll Pen

*Chalk

La bûche de Noël

For the current Let's Face it Friday Challenge over at the Peachy Keen Challenge blog we were asked to make a card or layout with you favorite holiday recipe. About 12 years ago I lived in France for 17 months. I spent two Christmases in France and my favorite Christmas treat was une buche de Noel. It is a yummy chocolate and cream filled creation rolled up and decorated to look like a log. It was often decorated with cute little decorations like holly and such. I am told that they are traditionally served with mushrooms made with meringue and that is why I have added cute little meringue colored mushrooms to my recipe layout.

 
Here is a little bit of a closeup:

The holly is actually a hidden recipe card. You just pull it up and the front has the ingredients on it and the back will have the directions on it. Here is a picture with the recipe card pulled out.

Have a terrific day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces

DCWV - Christmas Stack

Tim Holtz Inks for inking

Sakura Gellyroll pen

Chalk

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

Fall Banner

If you are looking for my Whimsical Wednesday - No Tricks Just Treats post scroll down or click HERE.

I had made a mini banner for summer and when I took it down my oldest started to plead with me to make a fall one. Her requirements were leaves and the word fall. I had wanted to put the word 'autumn' but she insisted fall was better so fall it is. This is also my project for the current Let's Face It Friday Challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps.

Here is the whole banner strung together with raffia. I think raffia is such a fun fall look.

This is a close up of the first girly leaf:

I inked all of the leaves and added a few doodle dots. The leaves come from the Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge and are cut at 5". The darling face is from the Princess Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps.

Here is a closeup of one of the fall letters:

The letter is cut from the Gypsy Font cartridge and is cut at 1.5" (base and shadow layers).

Here is the cute little boy leaf:

The face for this one is from the Boy Mates stamp set by Peachy Keen stamps.

Well I hope you enjoyed my little fall banner. Have a terrific night friends! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge

*Gypsy Font Cricut cartridge
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Boy Mates
*Tim Holtz Distress Inks
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*Raffia

My Teacher Rocks - Basket

If you are looking for the My Creative Time sneak peek #4 scroll down or click HERE.

Hello sweet crafting friends, I wanted to submit a project that I made for the Peachy Keen Let's Face it Friday Challenge. It has been a busy week so this is going up right at the last minute.

I made a fun little container to put some pencils and other supplies in. My daughter's teacher asked for some pencils, erasers, glue sticks, etc. I thought they would look cute coming in this basket.

This basket is super easy to make and only requires a sturdy piece of 12 x 12 paper. This was some cute paper by Me and My Big Ideas. HERE is a picture tutorial that I found a while back on  Kristal Andrew's site (Getting Cricky) blog. These are super easy to make.

The AWESOME sentiment is from the My Teacher Rocks! stamp set by My Creative Time. I've used this set A LOT and absolutely LOVE it!!!

The ruffle along the top is crepe paper. I got this fabulous idea from Kimberly over at My Craft Spot. I love the way it dresses things up. The pencils are from the Smiley Card Cricut cartridge. The adorable faces are by Peachy Keen Stamps - Boy Mates and Princess Faces. The twine at the top is by Trendy Twine.

This also seemed to fit the criteria for the Pinkalicious Blog Hop and Challenge so I wanted to enter it there as well.

Alright I think that about wraps it up. I hope to see you in the morning for the My Creative Time September Release Blog hop!!! Have a fabulous night! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Smiley Cards Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - My Teacher Rocks!
Peachy Keen Stamps - Boy Mates
Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces
Patterned Paper - Me and My Big Ideas
Twine from Trendy Twine
Sakura White Gellyroll Pen

Sneak Peek #1 - My Creative Time - September Stamp Release

Hello My Creative Time friends. Today is the start of another awesome stamp and die release from My Creative Time. Today we are showcasing the stamp set called Game Night. My family is really into playing games together. We have all sorts of fun board games and I lovingly refer to my mom as the Yahtzee Queen. So with today's set I thought it would be fun to make a game night invitation, something that I would actually love to make for our next big family game night.

Doesn't this little cutie look excited to play Bingo? This girl cut is from the Beyond Birthday's Cricut cartridge (she is on button #4 across the top of the overlay or on page 93 of the booklet). She is just supposed to be a silhouette image, but I thought it would be fun to cut her out three times, once in peach, once in yellow polka dots, and once in brown. From there I hand cut the dress, hair and barrette. I must admit that I did not like the way the hair turned out the first time so I used part of a hairdo from the Everyday Paper Doll Cricut cartridge to make it look better. The face is from the Princess Faces stamp set by Peachy Keen Stamps. And last but most definitely not least the darling bingo board and sentiment are from Emma's new Game Night stamp set.

I also did the inside of this card up just a little bit:

I want to make sure that you know that the 'Date:' and 'Time:' stamps are NOT on the Game Night stamp set they are from the "Honey Do" List stamp set that has been out for a while. I just thought that they coordinated PERFECTLY on here. See how the fonts match and everything. The darling dies and 'Let's play!' sentiments ARE on the new Game Night set.

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!



Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win the BEST 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! There are some AWESOME prizes w/this release!

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! 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 giveaways!;)

All winners will "randomly" get chosen and Emma will announce all six winners on Friday, September 16th @ 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!;)

AND because I am guest designing over at Everyday Cricut this week, Emma has generously donated her stamp set My Favorite Sayings for me to give away. All you have to do is comment on THIS post by midnight on Friday, September 16th and I will randomly select a winner. So, if you haven't stopped by Everyday Cricut yet today please stop by to say hi and see what I made. Also, please make sure to drop by the My Creative Time blog to see what Emma and my design team sisters have made with the Game Night stamp set. Thanks for stopping by! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Beyond Birthdays Cricut cartridge
*Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time Stamps- Game Night
*My Creative Time Stamps - "Honey Do" List!
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces
*Patterned Paper - Piggy Tales
*Yellow polka dot paper - DCWV

Monday Madness... Imagine That!

Welcome to  another Monday Madness... Imagine That! with Emma at My Creative Time. This week we were to make anything we wanted so long as we used our Imagine or patterned paper. I don't have an Imagine, so it was patterned paper all the way!

I was super excited to break out my new Cricut Everyday cartridge that I got with my 3 month Cricut Circle trial membership. I had a really sweet friend give me the membership and this is the cartridge that they sent out to us.

Can you tell that it is a Gypsy?! I thought it would be fun to give her a cute Peachy Face too! I used Emma's 'Paper Princess' stamp set along with her 'Stitched Oval Die'! I love how many sentiments fit onto these dies. They are perfect! I LOVE them!!!

I hope you will hop on over to Emma's blog (if you haven't already been there) and see what she and the rest of the design team have in store for you! I'm hoping to find all of you sweet friends happy and well! Be safe and make it a good day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Cricut Everyday Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - Paper Princess
My Creative Time Dies - Stitched Oval
Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces
PaperTrey Ink - all patterned paper
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)