Wishing Your Day is Colorful, Bright and Cheerful

Hi friends, I just wanted to share the Easter spinner card that I made during my Everyday Cricut guest designer week!

For a spinner card you basically turn the little notch at the bottom and change it to the next image. Here is the first face for my bunny spinner card:

The face here is from a stamp set called Wide Eyed Kids by Peachy Keen Stamps and the perfect sentiment is from My Creative Time's Happy Hunting stamp set.

When  you turn the little knob at the bottom this is the second face you will see:

This beautiful polka dot paper is from Doodlebug Design and is called Petite Prints. I had a super sweet crafty friend send this to me and I'm totally in love with it. If you love polka dots you will have to look into this paper.

When  you turn the knob the final time this is what you will see:

The face stamps I used for the last two are called Happy Lashes by Peachy Keen Stamps. And I just love how Emma's Happy Hunting sentiment ties it all together.

This is a standard A2 sized card meaning 4.25" x 5.5". The bunny is from the Simply Charmed cartridge, and the card base is from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge. I also got the grass and eggs from the Everyday Paper Doll Cricut cartridge. I inked ALL of the pieces with similar colors as the paper and did lots of stitching with my Sakura Gellyroll pen. I tied a couple of twine bows with twine I got from a company called Trendy Twine and that was it.

IF you are interested in the picture tutorial I made just click on the link below:

Bunny Hugs Card and Picture Tutorial

Items Used:
Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
Everyday Paper Doll Cricut cartridge
Wild Card Cricut cartridge
My Creative Time Stamps - Happy Hunting
Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes
Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
Doodlebug Design - Petite Prints

THANK YOU!!! {Very EXCITING news}

I don't even know where to start, I've been on cloud 9 the past couple of days since I learned that I was chosen as a new Peachy Keen Stamps Design Team member for 2012. This is absolutely a dream come true!!!

Here is a quick card that I made to say Thank You!!!

I have a huge list of THANK YOU's to give out! First of all I want to thank Angelica and Kathy for giving me this amazing opportunity! Peachy Keen Stamps is the whole reason that I started my blog. I found them, wanted to join in their brand new challenges and so I started a blog! Angelica and Kathy have been so sweet to me and I can not wait to work with them more closely!

I also want to thank the ORIGINAL Peachy Keen Design Team! I just LOVE you girls. You have enabled me like crazy! You have each taught me SO much! And you have always been some of my #1 cheerleaders! I'm glad to know that you will NEVER be very far away! Thank you so much!

I also want to thank Emma in particular. She noticed me when I was basically a no one in the blogging world. She saw something in me I didn't see in myself and I will FOREVER be grateful for her faith in me! She asked me to join her team last year and I can't tell you what a blessing that has been! Thank YOU EMMA!

I want to thank my husband and family for being my VERY best cheerleaders and supporters! YOU ARE THE BEST EVER and I LOVE YOU!!!

And last of all, but most definitely not least I want to thank ALL of you crafting buddies! I can't tell you how many of you sent me e-mails and messages hoping I would try out for the team and cheering me on! I think you are all amazing!!! There are too many to list, but you know who you are and I LOVE and appreciate you!

I also know that a lot of you tried out for the team and I REALLY hope you will try again next year because you are ALL so talented!

Much love & Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Twinkle Toes Cricut Lite cartridge
My Creative Time stamps - So Grateful For You
My Creative Time Dies - Stitched Oval Die
Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
Sakura White & Black Medium Point Gellyroll Pens
Adhesive Pearls

My Little Athlete - My Creative Time Sneak Peek Week

Well as I'm sure you know it is another sneak peek week over at My Creative Time. Well today wasn't my day to do a sneak but I couldn't resist sneaking a card in today with the new Sports Sentiments stamp set. I used this set to stamp a sentiment on the little outfit the boy is wearing.

I also made this card for the current Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge that goes through tonight. I used Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids face stamps for this little boy. I used the largest stamp in the assortment set and the little boy is from Baby Steps (cut at 5"). This card is also an easel card, so here it is opened up.

For the part that keeps the easel up I used Emma's Scallop and Stitched Oval Die set along with stamps from the All Around Birthday Time stamp set. All the patterned paper is by DCWV.

Now make sure to go to Emma's blog if you haven't already so that you can see all of the awesome projects and inspiration from her and the Design Team. Have a great day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Baby Steps Cricut cartridge

*My Creative Time stamps - Sports Sentiments

*My Creative Time stamps - All Around Birthday Time

*My Creative Time Dies - Scallop and Stitched Oval Die

*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids

*Patterned paper- DCWV

*Sakura Gellyroll Pens

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

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)

Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer - Day 1

Hello, Peachy Keen Friends. Today is the first day of my guest designer spot for Peachy Keen Stamps and I'm thrilled. When I realized that my Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week and the start of school (in my neck of the woods) would coincide it seemed only natural to plan 'back to school' projects. At the time I didn't realize how popular that theme was going to be this month. Nevertheless, I'm VERY excited to share with you some fun projects that I made with a 'back to school' theme in mind.

Today, I have one of my favorite kinds of cards to share with you. I call it a spinner card and was originally inspired to make this kind of card when I saw THIS card on Nikki (Scrappin' Navy Wife's) blog. I have a picture tutorial for this kind of card HERE if you are interested in making one of these yourself. If you do make one, let me know I'd love to come and see it!

So here is the first face of my back to school girl:

I had to start with this sad face because I have to admit that the very first day of school can be scary or sad at first for the child (in my case for the MOM)! But don't worry because it gets better, as you turn the dial...

You  get a smiley face. Yes, the little girl finds out that school really is fun and she is having a great time (and that makes this whole school thing easier for Mom too) and then turn the dial one last time and we find...

This little girl leaves school SO happy and she is super excited just thinking about the next day!

Don't those darling faces just bring this girl to LIFE?! I seriously LOVE my Peachy Keen Stamps to pieces. For this project I used one of my favorite sets called Wide Eyed Kids. I also used the adorable Princess Face stamps.

The darling Back to School sentiment is from the My Teacher Rocks! stamp set by My Creative Time as well as that cute stitched circle in the corner. It is from the Scallop and Stitched Circle Die set (I just cut it down to fit in the corner).

Here is a VERY short video just showing how the card looks as you turn the dial. If you are interested in the picture tutorial on making this card click HERE.



The prize 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. Good luck and thanks for stopping by today! I hope to see you tomorrow! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Wild Card Cricut cartridge (spinner card base)
*Twinkle Toes Cricut cartridge (little girl at about 5")
*Gypsy (to design and weld card)
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids (faces on first two images)
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces (face on the third image)
*My Creative Time Stamps - My Teacher Rocks! (sentiment)
*My Creative Time Dies - Scallop and Stitched Circle Set (sentiment background)
* Paper Pizazz - blue Disney patterned paper
*DCWV - Grade School Stack (green patterned paper)
*Disneyland - bitty Mickey Icon paper punch
*Versamarker (to highlight the hair)
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen (for eye whites and faux stitching)
*Chalk (for rosy cheeks)

My Creative Time Design Team Day - "Shaped Card"

Hello friends. Here we are with another fun Design Team day over at My Creative Time. Today Emma wanted us to make a shaped card. For my card I used the "All Around Christmas" stamp set.

I just LOVE that darling Merry Christmas sentiment on Emma's All Around Christmas Stamp set. It is such a fun font. I love it! And if you have followed my blog for a while you will know that I can't make a 'rocking horse' project without attaching it to an Action Wobble. It is just the perfect motion for these sorts of things. Although they can be fun to add to just about anything. And as always I made a VERY short video demonstrating how cute this little elf looks rocking on his rocking horse.



Make sure to drop by the My Creative Time blog and see what Emma and the other Design Team members have made. I'm certain there will be some beautiful inspiration to be seen. Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day! HUGS- Glora

Items Used:

*Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite cartridge - (elf)
*Easter 2010 Cricut cartridge - (card base)
*My Creative Time stamps - All Around Christmas (sentiment)
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids (elf face)
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Critter Faces (horse)
*Action Wobble to give rocking horse motion
*DCWV - Christmas Stack - all patterned paper
*Glossy Accents  - used for the eyes
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen - used for doodling and whites of eyes
*Zig Marker- used to hand draw mane and tail hair

Proud to Be an American

Well, here I am getting in another Peachy Keen Let's Face it Friday challenge at the last minute. I was gone on vacation and have been busy with sneak peeks but I wanted to hurry and squeeze this one in. I also wanted to make this for the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge that started up yesterday. It was also a patriotic theme but we needed to add buttons, brads or bling. I added buttons.

That super cute sentiment is on the 'My Little Firecracker' stamp set by Emma at My Creative Time. These are the cutest patriotic sentiment stamps. And the super adorable face is Wide Eyed Kids. I just LOVE these faces! I find myself using them A LOT!!!

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you will come by tomorrow for Emma's awesome June release blog hop! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Twinkle Toes Cricut Lite cartridge

My Creative Time stamps - My Little Firecracker

Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
Sakura White Gellyroll pen
Glossy Accents
Versamarker
Chalk
Buttons

LFIF - Happy Happy Birthday

It is time for another fun Peachy Keen Let's Face It Friday Challenge. For this challenge we could make anything we want with our favorite Peachy Faces. I really couldn't choose an absolute favorite. However, the one that I have been using the most lately and which I love SO much are the Wide-Eyed Kids. I also got the Baby Steps cartridge for my birthday and finally got a chance to use it. It is SO flippin' ADORABLE!!!! I know it will get a lot of use.

The adorable sentiment on the balloon is from Emma's (My Creative Time's) stamp set called Wow! So Many Candles.

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you have a fabulous day! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Baby Steps Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - Wow! So Many Candles
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids

*Patterned paper - SEI
*Glossy Accents
*Sakura White Gellyroll pen
*Black Zig Marker
*Adhesive Pearls
*Pop Dots
*Chalk

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

Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam #4

Wow, another month has come and gone and it is the first Wednesday of May, which means it is time for another Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam challenge. If you are new to this, my crafty friend Pam and I challenge each other to make a project with a specific Cricut cut each month. It is a lot of fun. This month it was my turn to choose. I choose the girl singing with a microphone in her hand from the Rock Princess Cricut cartridge.

This card is business envelope sized. I saw this tall, skinny girl and wanted to make a tall card for her. I love this sentiment from Emma's (My Creative Time's) Wow! So Many Candles stamp set. I thought it was perfect because it is like she is singing Happy Birthday to the recipient.

And I was THRILLED to see how cute the Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids face stamps look on her.

I'm so excited to see what Pam came up with on this one. I'm positive it will be AWESOME. You won't want to miss it. She has a beautiful and clean style that I absolutely LOVE. She is so talented. Click HERE to see her card!

Oh yes and a Happy Birthday wish to Miss Nikki (Scrappin' Navy Wife).
                       
Items Used:

*Rock Princess Cricut cartridge
*My Creative Time stamps - Wow! So Many Candles
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
*White Sakura Gellyroll Pen
*DCWV - Citrus Stack
*Chalk
*Markers

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