MCT - Sneak Peek Day 3 and a giveaway!!

I am SOOO excited to share a tiny bit of this HUGE release with you here on my blog today!

If you are new to my blog, welcome!!! I am sorry I have not been around, but my 6 month old Emmaline is teething and is being very needy right now. Coupled with traveling, I have been comment-terrible!!! 

My friend HezzyMae (my nickname for her) is having a baby and we don't know what the sex is (I'M DYING TO KNOW, but I know I know... it's her decision... But I feel like breaking in and stealing the medical records to find out!!!). I am throwing her a baby shower in Montana and wanted to make a little banner for the occasion! She had everyone drinking out of mason jars at their wedding and they also served to hold the flowers for center pieces so this is RIGHT up her ally! I knew I had to stay pretty gender-neutral and I hope she will like the country theme! :) 

LUCKILY My Creative Time had my back and voila! She made two chunky mason jars dies and accessories. 

Designer's Notes: 

1. I stitched the two pieces of vellum together so I didn't have to worry about vellum adhesive. I'm a cheater! :) 
2. I inked the die before running it through for the jar tops to get the extra detail - the light black marks.
3. The handles aren't actually glued on. They are actually holding the twine (which is attached) up so they are "supporting" the jars. I took a few pics of this and this one is flat on the table, so that's they they are not supporting the weight in the photo. 

Recipe: 

• My Creative Time: Stitched Chunky Jar Dies™
• My Creative Time: Chunky Jar Accessories™
• My Creative Time: Stitched Button Dies™
• My Creative Time: Lower Case Fun Dies™
• Patterned Paper: Echo Park: Sweet Girls™
• Solid Cardstock: Core'dinations™
• Adhesive: 
• Xyron Glue Stick™
• Xyron Mega Runner™
• Clothespins: Canvas Corp™

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!With all of our Sneak Peek weeks, Emma likes to do some FUN giveaways!

 *** This time around we are doing something a little bit different this time around!;)  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! The thing we are switching up this time, Emma will be picking a winner that night & announcing the winner the next morning! Example: for Monday's sneak, leave your comments here & share on facebook, then Emma will annouce the winner (for Monday) Tuesday morning! That means a winner will be anounced every day during sneaks! 

 ***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 me in your post!

 GOOD LUCK!

 Log onto to your facebook now & let start spreading word!;)

Emmaline's Rocking Horse

This is another project that I did pre-baby for post-baby scheduling. :)

Here is a new picture of miss Emmaline! I have been on bed rest for over a week now (torture for a busy body like me!) and I cannot wait to do everything for myself again. I am a terrible patient! I also cannot wait to get into my craft room! But I love every minute with this little girl so much. I seriously just stare at her for half hours at a time. She was just in my belly!!!

She just got changed. Happy baby! She loves to be clean!

Her first Janie and Jack outfit! (I LOVE Janie and Jack!!!) The large bump on her head is a cephalhematoma. It should be gone in 2-12 weeks but you can see it in some of the pictures. Poor thing. It's seriously the size of a baseball but I keep trying to take pics from the other side! haha.

Sleepy smile!

The background 12x12 burlap frame is from Canvas Corp. I wanted to make something with it as soon as they sent it to me and I have been hoarding it for MONTHS in order to make this clean and simple wall hanging. I hope you like it!

Hmm.. This pic makes it look like the little thing underneath doesn't match the curve of the horse, but I fixed it after this photo was taken. The mini spools are from Jillibean Soup.

I'll have to show pictures of the baby room soon! :) 

Recipe:

• Canvas Corp 12x12 Burlap Frame™
• Cricut Cartridge: Heritage™ (rocking horse)
• Paper:
• Bazzill Basics (brown)
• Bo Bunny Double Dot Chiffon Dot™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Rose
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Brads:
• Echo Park Paper: This and That "Graceful" Decorative Brads™
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Delightful" Decorative Brads™

For the new mommy...

A HUGE happy birthday to MY mom! It's her birthday today and I am SO lucky to live close enough to her to celebrate with her! I am very excited! My birthday is on the 10th so we usually do something together. :) We like to eat. It will be some place with good food. :)

Another Canvas Corp card. LOVING their products! Make sure to check them out a craft store near you!

I went to a friend's baby shower on the 19th and she is having a little girl. She is all about being girlie, so I made this card girlie too! :)

Recipe:

• Canvas Corp Gift Cards in Chocolate™
• Canvas Corp Clothespins in Red/Rouge™ (but they are like dusty rose pink)
• Patterned Paper: Canvas Corp in Pink and Ivory Swirl Reverse™
• Cricut Cartridge: Everyday Pop-up Cards™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Ink: Memento in Rich Cocoa™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™

Canvas Corp Thank You!

Another card made with Canvas Corp goodies! I love their products and the combo with 7Gypsies is always so much fun! 

I simply grabbed the stamps and put them all on one block and stamped them right onto the canvas. It stamped beautifully.

The twine is from the tags and twine combos that Canvas Corp has. I didn't even have to cut it. Perfect length! 

Lastly, I have always stamped my sentiment onto a plain colored background for the most part. I am just starting to get into stamping on a patterned paper background. Sometimes it comes out more vivid and sometimes it hides it more! It's really fun. Give it a try! It works beautifully on this 7Gypsies paper though! 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• 7Gypsies: Conservatory Paper: Mesofauna™
• 7Gypsies: Conservatory Paper: Butterfly™
• Card base and envelope: Canvas Corp: NTC/envelopes in Speckle™
• Canvas Corp: Tags & Ties Triangle - Kraft™ (the twine)
• 7Gypsies Conservatory Clear Stamps™
• Ink: My Pink Stamper in Darkest Night™
• Sentiment Stamp: My Pink Stamper: Around the Corner™

Make sure to stop by the Canvas Corp blog and let them know I sent you please! :) 

I will be giving away some of their goodies in my 500th post celebration! :) 

Fashionably late. Hope it was great!

***Note: I am SOOO sorry, but I am getting super spammed with super bad stuff. So I have turned on word verification TEMPORARILY and will be taking it down in a week or two - hopefully weeding out the anonymous spammers. I hope you understand! I personally hate word verification, so it won't be up long!***

Hello! This is my Shop Pumpkin Spice post which means I got almost EVERYTHING on this card from Shop Pumpkin Spice! It looks like she is sold out of one of the On the Bright Side Paper Pads, but the other one is the one I have used more anyway! I love them both. 

I had a GREAT time making this card and actually spent two days working on it (of crafty time... I didn't stare at it the WHOLE day. lol.) So I am really pleased with the result! I hope you like it too! 

I chose to use the two different embossing powders on this card and line them up - a tricky thing, but it was really fun from concept to execution. 

***SORRY! Taken down for publication in Cricut Magazine - the December issue!***

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - One 6x6 Paper Pad™
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - Two 6x6 Paper Pad™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• White Gel Pen
• Brads:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Breeze "Everywhere" Decorative Brads™
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Sunshine "Sunshine" Decorative Brads™
• Card base: Canvas Corp Square Cards with Envelopes™
• Cartridges:
• Sweethearts™
• Everyday Paper Dolls™
• Create-a-Critter™
• Cuttlebug Folder: A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Ribbon: From Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Light Teal

Canvas Corp Bunny - Thank You!

Canvas Corp recently sent me SO much of their product!!! THANK YOU!!! So you will see some cards for them coming up! 

They also purchased 7 Gypsies recently and Tattered Angels so whatever they have planned must be super exciting!

If you are not familiar with Canvas Corp, I HIGHLY encourage you to check them out. I use their canvas shapes, cork board card stock, burlap shapes, clothespins and many other non- paper (as well as their paper) supplies. 

Here is a picture of the products that I used for this card. 

If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you should be able to read what each of the papers is on the top of the label.


Click HERE for the Canvas Corp website.
Click HERE for the Canvas Corp blog.

Mother's Day with SPS's April Kit

Well, Mothers Day is fast approaching and I wanted to make a special Mother's Day card for my mom.

I made this whole thing using SPS's April Kit (going fast! Make sure to pick yours up! It is PACKED with goodies!)

Don't forget to play in the April challenge for SPS where you could win May's kit! It will be BRAND new stuff! :)

I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day! The sun is shining here (finally) and the flowers are blooming! 

I am entering this in the challenge for Burlap and Buttercups: work in quilting squares into your project.

Items not in the kit that were used:

• My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™
• Twine
• Buttons (other buttons are included)
• 4 3/4" square card base from Canvas Corp

Wyatt's banner

**If you are looking for the My Pink Stamper Blog Hop, then please scroll down! :)**

 Do you remember Kylie and Alyssa's banners HERE.?. Their younger brother Wyatt was just born and Anina asked me to make another banner for him! What an honor! They were waiting until he was born to find out if it was a boy or a girl, so I had to wait a little bit, but I was so excited to make another one for them. 

Last time she got to see the girls' banners on my blog before they got to her so this time I wanted to wait until she received them to post this. I really hope she likes it! :)

The Glossy Accents made it a little hard to photograph so I took pictures from different angles. 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridge: Birthday Bash™(on sale for $39.99)
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Boxer Stripe"™ (striped background)
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Sailboats"™ (blue polka dot)
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Buttons"™ (orange houndstooth background)
• Ink: Colorbox in Chestnut™
• Corkboard adhesive-backed cardstock: Canvas Corp™ (LOVE this stuff!!!)
• Canvas triangle pennants: Canvas Corp™ (LOVE these shapes too!)
• Glossy Accents
• Bazzill Basics in Java™(brown behind letters)
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Foam dimensionals
• Eyelets: American Crafts™ (thanks to Lori for helping me open the package! LOL!)
• Linen rope from Canvas Corp™

My Pink-alicious Blog Hop

Welcome to the My Pink-alicious Blog Hop!!! You should have gotten here from my good friend Cristi's blog! If not, start here at My Pink Stamper's blog to join in the fun and see what prizes you can win along the hop! 

Well I did a layout for the last My Pink Designer showcase and Lisa from Lisa's Creative Niche left me a really nice comment and encouragement to keep scrapbooking! It meant a lot to me and I marched into my craft room to make another! Lisa wasn't the only one. I received a lot of wonderful encouragement from a bunch of you. Thank you SO much!!! 

This week we were challenged to make something that had to do with St. Patricks' Day, Cricut, My Pink Stamper Stamps and to "think green!" My husband Hans is going to be running his first 5K on St. Patrick's Day with our friend Josh Wilson. He has been diligently training for it and I am SO proud! 

Although, I must say... I do find it a tad bit rude that my already skinny-as-a-twig husband is getting skinner every day from training and I am getting larger from pregnancy! How is that fair!?! ;) 

Anyway, I'll be putting in the pictures. The top will be of him with his number. The middle will be of him running and the last one will be him with Josh... probably holding a beer. :) The journaling on the card and shamrock will have to wait for the time that he finished in and the place. I am so excited!

I have to say that I LOVE the font My Pink Stamper chose for this sentiment. Perfect!

I based my layout on this sketch HERE. The challenge is expired, but I still liked it! :) 

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• Patterned Paper: 
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Classic Broadside"™ (newsprint)
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Date To Remember"™ (black with numbers)
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Lovely Notables"™ (green background)
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Journaling Cards"™ (notepad paper on shamrock)
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Red/Cream"™ (cream strip)
• Echo Park: Times and Seasons "Green/Blue"™ (green shadow of shamrock)
• Cricut Cartridges: 
• Designer's Calendar™
• Birthday Bash™ (flags and font for Hans)
• Cricut Craft Room (title and flags)
• Cork Cardstock: Canvas Corp™ (love this stuff!)
• Tag and twine: Canvas Corp™
• Ink: 
• Colorbox Chalk Ink in Chestnut™
• Momento in Rich Cocoa™
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Memories" Buttons™
• Toothpicks 
• Mini Clothespins from Jillibean Soup™
• Twine from PTI
• Foam Dimensional Tape - Colored Foam Tape by Imaginisce™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Black by Imaginisce™

Here is the complete list in case you get lost! 

Robyn

Tracy (CraftJunkieToo)

Shelley (Cricut Cuteness)

Roberta (TX Scrapper Mom)

Renee (I Came, I Saw, I Created)

Missy (Quick Chick Designs)

Michelle (Meesh's Pieces)

June (Simply Elegant Paper Crafts)

Helen (Crafting Cricut Mom)

Edna (Create With Expression)

Cristi (Scrappin 5 Little Cupcakes)

Courtney (Court's Crafts)

Chelle (Paper Krate)

Carissa (Sprinkled with Glitter)

Angela (Simple Creations)

Andrea (Divine Domesticity)

Alex (You Had Me At Craft)

Maria

Now make sure to hop back to the My Pink Stamper blog at the end so that you can join in the challenge and the fun! But for the moment, hop along to Chelle's blog!

My Pink Designer Post: Valentines!

Whew! Sorry it's been so long since I have posted! I've been creating up a storm though and I think you will like the projects! 

We are busy unpacking in the new place and it took a while just to get to my crafting supplies! We just got a table on Sunday so I am done scrapping on the floor (yippee!). When the room is done of COURSE I will take pictures! :) 

Here is the valentine that I made for my husband! I was trying to go with non-traditional colors and make it "not too girly". How did I do? :) 

Recipe:

• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: From the Heart™
• Cricut Cartridge: Wild Card™
• Patterned Paper:
• Canvas Corp: Chocolate and Ivory Mini Dot Reverse™
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Out of the Blue "Boy" Train Paper™
• Solid Paper:
• Core'dinations Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Nostalgic Collection™
• Mini-spool: Jillibean Soup
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Lime™
• D-stress tool by Imaginisce™
• Glam rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™
• i-rock tool by Imaginisce™
• Burlap Heart: by Canvas Corp Burlap Basics
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa™

I used My Pink Stamper's: From the Heart™. It's a biggie stamp set!

Happy Birthday Dad!

I made this for my dad's birthday card! None of you tell him otherwise he will come and peek! :) His birthday is not until December 17th. We are going as a family to the Sharks game I think! :) We are celebrating a part of his birthday this weekend by going up to San Francisco to see Totem - a Cirque de Soleil performance! I am really really excited!

Anyway, I wanted to participate in the Imaginisce Color Challenge for December. It will be my last color challenge as a member of the DT. :( Aren't the colors beautiful!?! You have all month to participate and they give away about $75 in product!!! It's definitely worth playing for!

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Birthday Bash™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Geek is Chic "Chalk Talk"™ (grey)
• Imaginisce: Santa's Little Helper "Peppermint Stick"™ (red and white stripe)
• Imaginisce: Bon Voyage "Postcard From Afar"™(blue)
• Solid Paper: Core'dinations™
• Star: Canvas Corp: Canvas Minis in Star™
• Mini Alphas: My Little Shoebox: Mini Alphabet Stickers in Red Lipstick and White™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma Tac™
• Imaginisce: Colored Foam Tape in Red™
• D-stress by Imaginisce™
• White Gel Pen
• Stickles in Silver™

Thanksgiving Wine Bottle

This week over at the Imaginisce Blog we were asked to inspire you with Thanksgiving ideas! I chose to decorate a wine (or sparkling cider for our non-drinking friends) bottle as a thank you gift for someone who is hosting. 

We are also showcasing the i-Top 2.0 in each and every one of our projects! I have to tell you, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the 2.0!!! The improvements they made were SO thoughtful and exactly what we all wanted! I know you spent money on the i-Top 1.0 (I did too), but I have to say - UPGRADE! It is WELL worth the money. You will LOVE the changes. The grip is more ergonomic (it's closer together for those of us with little hands), it's lighter all together and now both pads have rubber so nothing slides around! I am very very impressed! 

Here is my project:

 I tried to d-stress the Kraft-Core on the i-Top Brad so that it looked like worn leather. I like the effect. :) 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridge: Flower Shoppe™
• Patterned Papers:
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Apple Crisp"™ (green polka dots and variegated apples)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Caramel Apples"™ (red polka dot)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Fall Into Fun"™ (orange stripes)
• Tools:
• i-Top 2.0 (LOVE it!)
• Brad Daddies in Medium™
• D'stress™
• Imaginisce: 22mm punch™
• Solid Paper:
• Core'dinations Tim Holtz Kraft-Core™ (LOVE this!)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™
• Canvas Corp Fabric Shapes in Jute Fabric in Regular: Diamond™
• Raffia from Michael's 
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa™
• Xyron Tape Runner™
• Tag from my stash

Blue Bird Santa

Hello and welcome to the product swap with Glue Arts and Imaginisce!!! We were super blessed to receive some product from them and I used everything they sent me in this project! THANK YOU GLUE ARTS!

I was surprised how much I liked the "Raisen's". Since they were clear they really disappeared and gave just a slight amount of dimension. I really liked it! 

 Hmm... This one didn't show up as ell as I wanted it to. It's the Glue Glider Pro on the white, but I guess that's a good thing! It's invisible! :) 

Well, you all know how much I love Extreme Adhesive Squares so I was jumping up and down when these were attached to the back of a Glue Glider refill! I loved them!!!

 I just wrapped the extra back onto the clothespins and they were AWESOME at sticking to my paper! Very impressive for something so small! 

Finished product. I just love this little fat blue bird! He's SOOOO cute!

The U-Cut-It foam is really tall. Which is awesome because I LOVE the dimension it brings. It made his fake beard really look like he had just added it to his face! FUN! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges:
• 3 Birds On Parade™
• Create a Critter™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Animal Crackers "Hot Buttered Popcorn"™ (blue on the bird)
• Imaginisce: Santa's Little Helper "Cinnamon Snowflake"™ (red with white snowflakes)
• Imaginisce: D-stress™
• Solid Colors: Core'dinations Roy-G-Biv™
• Glue Arts 3D Combo Pac™
• Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma-tac™
• Glue Arts Mini Adhesive Squares in Perma Tac™
• Stickles in Christmas Red™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Tiny Bubble™
• clothespins: Canvas Corp Home Basics mini clothespins in white™
• Corrugated cardboard: Canvas Corp 12x12 Flute in white™

Be sure to hop on over to Imaginisce and then to Glue Arts to see what we have all made for your inspiration! I hope you enjoy! There are prizes up at BOTH locations! :)