Such a Sweet Box!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug. The theme for this week at sweetsassydiva's is something fun, but not a layout or a card. I found this Tutorial; over at Splitcoaststampers. While I don't have all the heart spellbinders they used ~ nor could I find them at this time of the year! ~ I was able to use my Sweetheart and MS Elegant cartridges. They do such an awesome job at SCS on their tutorials. I can't come close to explaining as well as they do, so I will just explain what I did differently. :) I made two boxes, one with the lid attached and one without. From MS Elegant cartridge, I cut 3 white hearts at 4.13 x 4.31 and 2 cardboard hearts the same size.

From the Sweethearts cartridge, I cut 1 heart out of patterned paper at 4.43 x 6.40. I cut 2 smaller hearts of patterned paper at 4.08 x 5.89 and 2 of chipboard at the same size.

I also cut 1 piece of patterned paper at 2 x 12. (I did have to trim that piece to fit at the end.) On the scalloped hearts, I attached a white heart to each side of 1 scalloped chipboard and 1 white heart to one side of the remaining scalloped chipboard.

I attached the 1 large patterned paper heart to the top of the first heart.

I attached the small patterned paper to one side of each small chipboard heart. On the Tutorial; there is a short video at the end that explains everything.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Because I ended up with a fair amount of paper scraps left over from this project, I decided not to add them to my already huge collect. I used what was left to make up some blank cards. (The butterfly 3D stickers are from K&Company, of course! lol)

I also did the inside of the cards.

I did NOT glue down the inside pieces. There have been several times where I've wanted to add a type written note, but I already had the inside done and it wouldn't look good with white on white. The insides are all ready to go and inside the card, but I can switch out the white piece if I need to. To make things even easier/faster, I have a Modular stacking box with blank colored cards already made up.

It took me less than 10 minutes to make up 5 cards! The people I usually send cards to prefer the more basic cards. Not as much fun to make, but they like it and that's what counts. :) Thanks for looking!

Love is in the Air!

Hi Crafty friends, Brenda here from Friends Craftin with Friends.  This week on Sweet Sassy Diva the DT was asked to make something fun, no layouts, no cards.  So after thinking about it for a while I decided that I wanted to make a kissing ball.  I started with a 5" styrofoam ball.  Picked out my paper-old stack in my stash that was called Love Letters from Little Yellow Bicycle and then deciding on what flowers I wanted to use on my kissing ball.  I decided on some spiral flowers from the Flower Shoppe, the spiral on page 12, the spiral on page 13 and the spiral on page 15.  I my flowers at 2.25, 2.50 and 2.75.

There are around 160-170 flowers on my ball.  So I started cutting and rolling flowers, and cutting and rolling.

I placed a piece of ribbon on my ball for my hanger using to straight pins with heads. After having a pile of flowers done, I started gluing them onto my ball. 

Taking care to get them as close to each other as possible, I kept working around and up the ball. After I got to the top I glued flowers to each side of the ribbon hanger making sure to glue tight up against it so the pins wouldn't show.

Here it is with all the flowers in place. 

Now I thought that I would add a heart from the Sweethearts Cart, with the lips from Hannah Montana and the "muwah" from Smiley Cards.  I glued this to the side of the kissing ball. Then I took some pink twine and punched to hearts using some old Creative Memories punches.  I sandwiched the twine between the hearts and glued the other end in a crack of the kissing ball on the bottom.  Here it is handing from my ceiling. 

Thanks for joing us here at Sweet Sassy Diva, be sure to keep checking in to see lots of inspiration from our fabulous design team, you won't be disappointed! You may even walk away with some inspiration!

Disney Blog Hop!

If you arrived here from Kim then, you are in the right spot!  I am honored to be a part of this blog hop that Shawn and Melissa so graciously are hosting.  If you arrived at my blog first, please after enjoying my project, go to Shawn's site.  I know you will not want to miss any of the amazing projects that all the creative and tallented bloggers have created over the two days.

For this hop, I created a 12x12 scrapbook page layout titled "Here Comes..".  I am working primarily with the colors of yellow, black, white and red.  I did however throw in some blue this time around. 








I used cricut cartridge sweethearts for the font and my trusty hide contour that is on the Gypsy. I really like this feature. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a shadow feature. I cut out one in black and yellow. To mimic a shadow feature, I off set the two and viola! The clear rhinestones gave some additional bling to the title.







I took the straight candy striped ribbon from my stash and made a bow.









I cut three shadow Mickey head icons an inch smaller than the next. This cut is from the cricut cartridge Mickey font.










On the bottom left hand side is a candy stripe journaling tag.









Above is the full 12x12 layout. Doesn't he look dapper sporting his hat? He's just waiting for three photos for the black mat.

Can you guess which Cricut Cartridge was used to make Mickey's hat?  I bet you know how to search for that now.  If not, the secret is on Shawn's site.  I can tell you that from my personal experience that while the Gypsy has a search feature, mycutsearch pulls up more choices. 

Papers:
Ek success Mickey paper pad
Creative imaginations black streamer and Red star sheets
Pinecone press papers happy memories
Stampin up Crushed Curry cardstock
White cardstock

Now on to Blog candy!  We have a GRAND PRIZE for this Blog Hop donated by ContainYa Crafts! You can have YOUR CHOICE of a Scrap'n Tote or a Scrap'n Easel! Each blog in this two day hop has a special letter, and when all of the letters are put together they spell out a secret phrase.
Once you have stopped at each blog in the hop and collected all of the letters, simply email the phrase they create to bloghopcontests at gmail dot com. All entries must be in by Midnight on Monday, November 21st. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 22nd at http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check out the next stop to find out the next letter.  Jenny is next. 

I hope that you will become a follower of my blog if you haven't done so already.  Each day we have a new project and this week the SweetSassyDiva Design team are working on a Thanksgiving DT challenge.  Be sure to check each day to see what wonderful creations we are sharing with you.  Also, be sure to collect letters along the way during this blog hop.  My letter is M. 

I hope you have a wonderful Holiday season and a joyous Thanksgiving as well this week.

Celebrate!

Hi! This is Jen from http://3catsandabug.blogspot.com/. This week Bobbi Jo asked her DT to make easel cards and I wanted to join in on the fun! I like making Easel cards for something different. I start with a 4.25 X 11 inch base. I fold the card in half and crease it, then I take the top half and fold that in half and crease that also.

From there I cut out 2 different color papers. In this case the purple is cut @ 5.5 X 4.25 and 4.25 X 3. I then cut the patterned paper @ 5.25 X 4 and 4 X 2.75.

The largest piece gets glued down to the back side of top folded piece. I know it sounds confusing, but when you get started making one and look at the picture it will make sense. (If not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better!)  Or click here to see a video on the card SweetSassyDiva made!

To decorate the outside of the card, I used Sweethearts and cut the champagne glasses @ 4. I topped off the bow with a purple gem. I cut celebrate out from the elegant cakes cartridge @ 1. On the bottom layer I put a row of purple gems along the top patterned paper to hold the card upright.

To finish off the card, I cut a a piece of banana paper @ 5.25 X 4 and inked the edges so there would be a place to write any sentiment and sign the card.