Christmas in July Blog Hop and Crop

Welcome Creative Friends to the Christmas in July blog hop and crop, hosted by the Cooking Up Creations Master Chef Challenge Team! 


The temperatures outside may say summer, but it's cool in here!!


We hope our projects and craft ideas will help you get a head start on your holiday crafting. If you have been following the hop route. Then you should have come from Annette's blog post over at the Cookin' Up Creations' blog. If not and would like to follow along the complete blog hop itinerary, Please start at the Cookin' Up Creations' Blog. So, you won't miss any of the fantastic projects and inspiration the Chefs have cooked up for you. 


On my part of the menu I have created a sweet mini album for you to enjoy.

It’s super easy to make and cute! I know that you creative friends can whip up a few of these in no time at all. You can make these as a little gift for grandparents, new parents, newlyweds, teachers, friends or yourself (you get the idea).

Now, this mini can be made for any occasion. Just by changing out the paper (see samples below).

Just click on this link---> Christmas Mini Tutorial for the easy to follow directions and make one of these cuties yourself. 


 Samples – The 1st - one is a mini I did showcasing the artist love the most on the world.

The 2nd - one is a mini I created as a gift for a friend of her famliy.

See additional fun information below :)

Here's the order for the blog hop just in case.
Cookin' Up Creations blogs
Annette - http://www.cookinupcreations.blogspot.com/   &---(you should have started here)

Annie - http://littlewingscreates.blogspot.com/ &----YOU ARE HERE!
Barb - http://www.supermamascraps.blogspot.com/  Continue here next.
Cassy - http://happyscrappin-altereddiva.blogspot.com/ 
Jan - http://www.janmosier.blogspot.com/
Jo - http://joluty.blogspot.com/
Michelle - http://lifescreativeadventure.blogspot.com/
Sandy - http://creativeblessings.blogspot.com/
Tamara - http://scrappinsmiles-myblog.blogspot.com/

Now, If you create one of these cuties be sure to post it in the Cookin' Up Creations gallery and link me here to be entered into my drawing for a Christmas page kit.

Be sure to leave a comment on each team member's blog, as well as on this one, for your chance to win a prize package valued at more than $50 from a*muse / studio consultant Renee Zieglmeier. The winner will be chosen at random from among the blog hop and crop participants. 

Additional prizes: To be entered to win more page kits do the following and earn points the more points the entries you receive.
2 Points - Join Cookin, Up Creations
2 points - Become a follower of my blog 
1 Point - Leave me a Comment


I would like to thank you for stopping by my part of the menu. Please hop on over to Barb's blog to see what holiday inspiration she has cooked up for you.


A quick menu note from the Head Chef *** Our blog continues through Sunday evening July 22. Also, be sure to stop by the Cookin' Up Creations forum for our Christmas in July Crop this weekend. There will be more Christmas and holiday inspiration, Challenges, and games.

Christmas in July Blog Hop and Crop

I hope you'll join us in the morning for our blog hop and crop.

Some Layout to share

I've been working on some Cookin' Up Creation challenges. You can see the list of challenge in the earlier post. Here are some of the layouts I created for them.

First one is my current challenge on the Cookin' Up Creation site.
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary : For this challenge we focused on the grow part of the nursery rhyme. I challenge you to grow your embellishments. Make a growing embellishment (well sort of). Bust out those punches, die cuts or machines and paper scraps and follow this easy directions and create you very own growing embellishment.


I made some flowers and butterflies (I made copies my oldest daughter’s favorite book from that time; Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Then I misted them and created my embellishments the maroon flower and butterfly HP & green LOTR) for my layout.
This is my layout.

Close up the flowers & butterflies

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Black & Cream - DCWV, Pattern Paper: DCWV - Snap Shot stack, Stickers Letters: Recollections Punches: Scallop Circle & Small Butterfly - Fiskars USA, Large Butterfly - McGill, Die Cuts: Label & Black Scroll - Cricut - Lacy Labels, Other: Copied Book Pages from Harry Potter & Lord of The Ring, Brads, homemade misters in Maroon and Leaf Green, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots

This Layout is for the Hey Diddle Diddle Challenge: Use a Crescent shape on your page. 

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Dark Blue, Medium Blue, Sunflower & Cream - TLC (top line creations) , Pattern Paper: Lt. Blue (star one) - Starry Blue- The Paper Company, Cream Wrinkle, Cream Plaid, & Medium Blue circles- TLC, Blue Plaid - SBW (Scrapbook Wizard paper stack # 2) & Vellum,  Stickers Letters: Lt Brown & Black Sticky Keys -Monenta, Blue - Thickers, Deco Scissor:- small Scallop-  Fiskars USA l, Die Cut: Moon TLC, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots, Other; Paint chips - Walmart, Paint:  Cream Paint drops - Plaid, Stamps: Chevron & swirls - Michaels ($1 section), Ink: Studio G.

This Layout is for the Humpty Dumpty Challenge : Use a Tiled photo (cut, show the space and re-make your picture) on your page. 

Close up of the title and mister

 Close up of phote tile

my favorite of the 

little cardinal is staring @ the squirrel 

like you better share!

 Close up of my stamped bird and seeds

For this layout I used the following products: 

Base of layout: Back side of a double sided pattern paper - not sure who, Cardstock: Green - Bazzil, Pattern Paper: Pink & Red Dot - MME (My Minds Eye) Red (back of the pink & red dot) - MME, Striped - DCWV - Pet Stack, 

Stickers Letters:Tall Black Thin one - EK Succes, Small Black - Recollections,

 Deco Scissor:- small Scallop - Fiskars USA Punch: Boarder Punch - Fiskars USA, Stamps: Bird & Small Circle - Studio G, Ink:Black - Ranger Archival, Walnut Stain - Tim Holz, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell,  Paint: Paint Drops - Plaid Acrylic paint in Dark Red and Green, Adhesive: Tombow, Aleene's Quick Dry Glue &  Glue Dots, Other; Corrigated Cardboard, Trimmer - Fiskars USA

Some More Fun......

I wanted to let everyone know that Cookin' Up Creations will be having a blog hop next week. I hope that you join us for all the fun.

Also, I wanted to remind you of the challenges we are doing over on Cookin' Up Creations site.

Nursery Rhyme Challenges on Cookin' Up Creations. Here is the list of challenges so far:

7/1 - Sunday - Start of Nursery Rhyme Challenges - Hey Diddle Diddle
7/2 -Monday's is make up day - a review day - no challenge. See our Cookin' Up Creations Blog
7/3 - Tuesday's Challenge is Humpty Dumpty
7/4 -Wednesday's Challenge is If All the World were Paper
7/5- Thursday's Challenge is Pop Goes the Weasel
7/6 - Friday's Challenge is Queen of Hearts
7/7 - Saturday's Challenge is What Little Boys are Made of (also a sketch see below)
7/8 - Sunday's Challenge is ABC 

7/9 - Monday is a Make up day - see above.

7/10 - Tuesday's Challenge is Mary had a Little Lamb

7/11 - Wednesday's Challenge is Hickory Dickory Dock

7/12 - Thursday's Challenge is Eeny, Meeny Miny Moe

7/13 - Friday's Challenge is Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Saturday's Sketch # 219 from Nuts about Sketches

I am Layout of The Week!

My layout Oh Mud is the layout of the week over at Cookin' Up Creations Blog! How cool is that!?! Thanks Tamara for choosing my layout I feel so honored. 

Layouts to share

We have been doing so challenges over at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme is Nursery Rhymes. I wanted to share a few of my creations for the challenges. I'll be posting one or two layouts everyday or so.

For the All the World Were Paper Challenge

Items I used on this layout:

Carstock: Tan - Darice, Light Pink -DCWV

Pattern Paper: Coffee Bean - Paper Pizzaz, Floral, Stripe & Dot - MME

Stamps & stamp Press: Fiskars - Latte Love, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell

Letters: Cloud9/Colorbok, Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black & Tim Holtz Distress ink - Walnut, Paints: Plaid - Brown, Pale Cream, Rhasberry & Black, Washi Tape: Target. Adhesive: Tobow, Pop dots: Recollections, Thread: Coats & Clark, Trimmer & Deco Scissors: Fiskars, Other: Coffee Sleeve - Joe Muggs - BAM 

For the What Little Boys are Made Of... Challenge

Items I used on this layout:

Cardstock: Green & Tan, Pattern Paper: Striped - Tim Holtz, Dot - Scenic Route, Plaid - 

MME & Mud - Colorbok,  Rounds: Pattern paper - Blue - MME & Striped - Scenic Route, 

Paints: Plaid - Brown & Pale Cream Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz - Tea Dye & Walnut Stain Letters:  Chipboard Colorbok, Tab: Autumn Leaves, Fabric tape: Cloud 9, Washi Tape: Target brands, Floss:  Brown & Blue -DMC,  Adhesive; Tombow, Glue-dots, Tools: Trimmer, Round Squeeze Punch - Fiskars, Sander, Distressing tool, Piercer - Making Memories

Thanks for looking. Leave me a comment. Stop by Cookin' Up Creations and join in on the fun! I challenge you!

Woohoo!

Boy, What a week and weekend! First, I am so happy that I got to see my sister and my nephews this weekend. I worked on some layout for the Nursery Rhyme Challenges on Cookin' Up Creations. Here is the list of challenges so far:
7/1 - Sunday - Start of Nursery Rhyme Challenges - Hey Diddle Diddle
7/2 -Monday's is make up day - a review day - no challenge. See our Cookin' Up Creations Blog
7/3 - Tuesday's Challenge is Humpty Dumpty
7/4 -Wednesday's Challenge is If All the World were Paper
7/5- Thursday's Challenge is Pop Goes the Weasel
7/6 - Friday's Challenge is Queen of Hearts
7/7 - Saturday's Challenge is What Little Boys are Made of (also a sketch see below)
7/8 - Sunday's Challenge is ABC

Saturday's Sketch # 219 from Nuts about Sketches

Then, On Thursday 7/5 - I watched the Ustream from Prima introducing their new collection Welcome to Paris with host Drew Scott (he has a wonderful youtube channel also Cardofmyeye). I am so excited to have won the goodie prize from them.

Prize includes: 6x6 Romance Novel paper pack, Primrosa Woodland 3pc pack, Shades of blue little roses 6pc pack, Cling stamps they are spool labels 13 pc pack & Buttons 12pc pack all so beautiful.

 Also a few weeks back Mommys Crafts Side was doing some prize giveaways on Facebook. I won one her prizes; a very cool  bottle cap kit. Actually 3  mini kits - a zipper pull, a necklace & a key chain.  She has a lot of wonderful items for sale in her shop. She also does a lot of workshops. Go check her site out. 

Now, my Scraptastic club kits were supposed to be here today but, my post office messed up and sent it to the wrong place. I hope it will be here tomorrow.

Over at Cookin' Up Creations we're having all sorts of fun with Nursery Rhymes. I have today's Nursery Rhyme Challenge. I chose If All The World Were Paper.

If all the world were paper,

and all the sea were ink,

if all the trees

were bread and cheese,

what should we have to drink?

I chose to focus on the Ink & paper part of the rhyme. I challenge everyone to use misters on their projects. It could be a paint or dye/ink mister. 

Here is the layout I created for the challenge

Items I used on this layout are the following:

Carstock: Tan - Darice, Light Pink -DCWV

Pattern Paper: Coffee Bean - Paper Pizzaz, Floral, Stripe & Dot - MME

Stamps & stamp Press: Fiskars - Latte Love, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell

Letters: Cloud9/Colorbok, Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black & Tim Holtz Distress ink - Walnut, Paints: Plaid - Brown, Pale Cream, Rhasberry & Black, Washi Tape: Target. Adhesive: Tobow, Pop dots: Recollections, Thread: Coats & Clark, Trimmer & Deco Scissors: Fiskars, Other: Coffee Sleeve - Joe Muggs - BAM

I hope you stop by and join us in all the challenges. If you do the challenge posted above link me.

Having Fun!

Wow, We're already in July! Can you believe it. I've been busy creating some layouts. I'll be sharing them soon. I wanted to share that we at Cookin' Up Creations are creating challenge based on Nursery Rhymes. We already have two challenges posted. Hey Diddle Diddle and Humpty Dumpty.  I hope you join us in all the fun activities.


We're working on some more fun things for this month. We are excited to have Petra Mutchler as our Chef of the Month. Read all about her, peek into her crafty space and see her work. 

I made the Team

I am a design team member of Cookin' Up Creations. I so proud to be a part of such a wonderful team. The ladies on the team with me are amazing and talented ladies. This is a incredible site full of challenges and fun. So, stop on by and join us.

Another layout for Cookin' Up Creations Birthday Bash. Challenge # 1 -- Use a list in your project. You should stop and join in all the fun. Lots of challenges and prizes.

Ok, so this layout need it's own video soundtrack to go with it. Here is the back story with it. My son Liam loves the Beastie Boys' song Sabotage. He loves the video even more - not sure if it's the cars, moustaches, sunglasses or the 70's vibe of it all. So, one night I hear him singing along to the song. I come into the dining room to find him making a video to this song. he stops it long enough to ask me to pretend to punch him for the drama part of his mini movie. 

Items used to create this layout are:

Pattern Paper: Tim Holtz - Retro Grundge

Polaroids, Camera & List Journaling block: DCWV Snapshot Stack

Letters: Thickers - Felt Pajamas

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Tea Dye

Trimmer: Fiskars USA

Adhesive: Tombow  Pop dots: Recollections 

Another layout for the Cookin' Up Creations Birthday Bash Challenges. For challenge # 8- Old Toys: you had to use your old stash and a paper piecing. The pictures I used are old also. They are of my eldest daughter she was 2 years old in the pictures. She is now almost 23yrs. old.

Items I used to create this layout:

Cardstock - purple, white & fushia 

Pattern Paper - (Didn't have a name on it. was gifted to me long ago)

Vellum

Heart doilie - Wilson Cake

Ribbon & Letters - Ki Memories

Fabric Tape - Cloud 9

Lace & Ric-Rac - Offray

Buttons, bead, heart pin.

Punch & Deco Scissors - Fiskars

Ink - Studio G - Fushia

Stamp - Autumn Leaves

Ticket - Free Printable from Sweetly Scrapped

As I mentioned I've been creating projects for the challenges over at Cookiin' Up Creations forum. For Challenge # 4 - (use 3 pictures of the same event and 3 hand cut embellishments) I created this cute layout of my girls and best friend Benymarie. These girls are so silly they fell in love with those glasses with moustaches on them.

Items used to create this layout.

Martha Stewart - Classic Woodland Pad -Double sided Pattern paper(Teal & White/Teal Floral)

DCWV - Snapshot Stack (Word Bubbles and sub-title)

Heidi Grace Pattern paper Reagan's Closet -(Teal with hearts)

KI Memories Pattern Paper- Time Graph - (white with dash lines)

Provo Craft - Summer Sky (Speckle paper)

Miss Elizabeth Pattern Paper - (Herringbone)-Dollar Tree

Photocopy of Moustache Duct Tape

Cardstocck - Black & White

Miss Tina - Journaling Card (Free Printable)

Miss Elizabeth - Chipboard letters - Dollar Tree

Studio G Ink - (Teal)

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - (Tea Dye)

Zig Millennium Journaling Pen - (Pure Black)

I created this layout for the Birthday Bash at Cookin' Up Creations.  The pictures of my neighbor's little boy were perfect for this challenge. The Have your Cake and Eat it too. You should stop by and join them in the celebration and challenges. Prizes and fun for everyone.

Friends, Birthdays and Betty Boop...

The month of May was filled with lots of fun activities for our family. We had Mother's day, school functions, Our youngest daughter was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. Then there was a few birthdays -- my hubby's, several other family members and 2 neighbor friends (One of which I have become so very close to). 

She (Norma) loves all things Betty Boop. So, for her birthday gift I created a mini envelope album. I decided to keep it simple because she doesn't scrapbook and finds it very intimidating. I figured this would be a great way to get her into scrapbooking. After, receiving her album she wants to create one of her children and grandson. 

I love the way envelope album give you pockets to hide journaling on minis. 

Thanks for looking. Leave me a comments.

Loving Fiskars New System!!

Die cuts & letterpress in one pass. It cuts paper, chipboard, balsa wood and much more. Check out it. Go to Fiskateers.com for more information

What a Week!

It's crazy here in our household. Our daughter is going to State History Fair. So, We've been preparing and packing for that. We had several appointments with Dr. etc. So, very busy; my head is spinning.

I hope to post a picture or two tomorrow of some flowers I have been making just for the fun of it.

I hope you have had a great week. Enjoy your weekend!

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