Craftin' and Stampin': June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Last Guest DT post for Jaded Blossom-Thank you Nurse!

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Hey All!!

OH MY GOSH! My month of Guest DT posts for Jaded Blossom is officially over after this post today :( I had SUCH a wonderful time with the girls here! They are SO talented, kind, caring, and FUN! I will certainly miss being a part of their team! I hope I made them proud this month, and I hope to be able to jump into a Guest DT post again soon! Hopefully REAL soon!!!

For today's post, I wanted to show you the project we made for the School Nurse of Brandon's school. Brandon has Laryngomalacia and would end up needed a neb treatment at school, so he would spend a bit of time with Nurse Ann. This is something that happened from him being intubated at birth and he will have this until he is a teenager the doctor said. What it means is that his larynx will just collapse and he will have trouble breathing. He just needs a quick treatment and to catch his breath. It usually makes a "whooping cough sound" of cough which scares the people around him. A few of his teachers had told me that they thought he was choking! Nurse Ann would instruct the teachers about what happens to him during this time and she would make him feel right at home while he was having a treatment. This is a Thank You for her for taking EXCELLENT care of my kiddo when I could not be with him at school!

Here is what I made for her:

Once again, these stamps make it SO personal!!

SUPPLIES:

Jaded Blossom Items: School Day Candies, Teacher Appreciation Candies. Fancy Topper Die, 3x4 Clear Bags

Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo

SVG's-Bandaid-Silhouette Online Store.

Paper: School Day DCWV mat stack; Recollections

Thank you SO MUCH for checking my blog out every day while I was guest designing!

Thank you Candace and Michelle for allowing me this privilege to work with you and your DT! I had a great time and cannot WAIT to do it again!!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Jaded Blossom Design Day! Thank You to Our Lunch Lady!

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Hey All!!

Today is my 2nd to last guest design team post for Jaded Blossom and I wanted to show you another project I made to say THANK YOU to someone at my kiddos school!

For today, we said THANK YOU to my kiddos lunch lady! Brandon is Autistic and has issues with texture and with eating. There is one thing, and one thing only that he loved to buy at school: Trix Yogurt. He LOVED when I would give him money in the morning to get it! Last year, he would get VERY upset because by the time he went down for lunch, there was not any left. It would ruin his whole day. Well, one day, at the end of last year, Mrs. Judi, asked him why he was so upset in the lunch room. Brandon told her because all he wanted with his lunch was his yogurt. She came up to me after school and asked me if that was "normal". I explained to her all about his texture issues and how he just wanted to "buy" lunch like the other kids (even though I did send him with soup every day). She said that every day, she would save him one, no matter what! I thought that was so kind of her to do! And since Brandon is leaving this school, I just wanted to make her something to show my appreciation for looking out for my little guy!!!

Here is what I made:

Look how cute the lunch tray is!

SO cute how these stamps REALLY add that personal touch!

SUPPLIES:

Jaded Blossom Items: School Day Candies, Teacher Appreciation Candies. Fancy Topper Die, 3x4 Clear Bags

Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo

SVG's-Lunch Tray-Silhouette Online Store.

Paper: Recollections

I hope this idea helps you to remember those that help you and your kiddos out during the school year! Be sure to come back tomorrow for my last guest DT post with Jaded Blossom!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Friday, June 28, 2013

Jaded Blossom DT Design Day-Last Day School Gift Part 1

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Hey All!!

This is my last weekend as the guest DT over at Jaded Blossom! I AM SO BUMMED :( I had SUCH a great time posting my projects and creating new projects with all the girls on the DT over there! I feel as though I got to meet new friends, and I will learn a lot from them! I do still have tomorrow and Sunday to do posts! So be sure to check back those two days!!!

For today's project, I was thinking of the people in Brandon's school who have helped him over the last 4 years. See, Brandon is leaving his "little" school now because it only went up until 2nd grade! He now moves on to the school right across the street from my house that goes from 3rd until 6th grade! So, I wanted to be SURE that I got all of the people in his school that have helped him a little something special that I made!

Today's project was for Mr. Jim. He is the schools custodian. He was ALWAYS so helpful to Brandon! Whenever it rained, he would stand at the front of the school to be sure the kiddos made it up the steps safely. He would make sure that the gates were locked for them to play safe in the school yard at recess, and when Brandon lost his little figure at school the one day, he stayed late to help us find it! He is a really great man, so I made him this to say thank you!!!

(It says: Our school SPARKLES because of you)

Cute little stamps on the bottom of the kisses-see the Custodian one??

I loved this broom!!

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Jaded Blossom School Day Candies and Teacher Appreciation Candies

Machine: Silhouette Cameo

SVG: Silhouette Studio- Broom

Misc: Jaded Blossom Fancy Topper Die, Jaded Blossom 3x4 Favor Bags, Hershey Kisses, ATG

Paper: School Days Pack DCWV & Recollections

I hope the projects I made for this weekend will give you some ideas for next year for the end of school to give to those that help your child that you may not remember right away when thinking of little thank you's to give!! So be sure to check me back out on Saturday and Sunday before I am done my guest DT spot with Jaded Blossom!

Hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

My Birthday Blog Hop Winners!!!

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Hey All!!!

Thank you ALL so much for hopping along for my birthday this past weekend! I hope you all enjoyed all the projects from the designers and I hope you got some fun crafty ideas from them!! I really enjoyed myself while seeing everything these awesome ladies created for me!!! And now, I want to announce the winners of the prizes from my hop! Please email me at craftinandstampin @gmail.com to give me your name, address, & email address to get you your prizes!!!

All winners were picked with Random.Org!

#21 Creative M

Creative M said: Happy Birthday Jessica and Many more!!!
Have a wonderful day and eat lots of cake and ice cream too!
A beautiful card and an AWESOME hop as well!
Have a wonderful day,
Migdalia

#22 Sandy Lewis

Sandy said:Happy Birthday - and many more! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!

#18 Candace

Candace said: Happy Happy Birthday!! So excited to be in this hop celebrating it! I hope you have a fabulous day!!

#29 Michelle I

Michelle I said: very cute card, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

2 winners for this one:

Scrapbook Mini is # 23 Bonnie

Bonnie said: Happy Birthday....hope you have a wonderful day and may this year be filled with love,happiness and peace. Thanks for sharing your day with us.
Hope everyone has a very crafty day:)
Bonnie

$20 Giftcard is #13 Snappy Scrappy

Snappy Scrappy said: So pretty, love the colours!

Please email me right away so I can make sure you get your goodies right away!!!

Thank You Principle Goodies!

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Hey All!!

For today's post, I wanted to show you the project I made for the Principle of Brandon's school. He will no longer be at that school, and our Principle has known us since Brandon was 3 1/2. She ALWAYS treated him like such a little man, and she taught him MANY things! I will be FOREVER grateful to her and we will miss her TERRIBLY!!!

Here is what I made for her:

I thought Thank You should be HUGE on this!

Once again, these stamps make it SO personal!!

SUPPLIES:

Jaded Blossom Items: School Day Candies, Teacher Appreciation Candies. Fancy Topper Die, 3x4 Clear Bags

Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo

SVG's-Apple-Silhouette Online Store.

Paper: School Day DCWV mat stack; Recollections

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Monday, June 24, 2013

Craftin Dessert Divas Linky Party-On The Farm

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I am posting today as a guest designer for Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party hosted by Tara of Craftin Desert Divas! Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly linky party and you could win fabulous prizes!!

This linky party theme is ON THE FARM! The sponsor is BUG BITES & PINQUE PEACOCK. The more you link up, the better chance you have to win. Visit Craftin Desert Divas for all the rules and to play along.

Here is what I created for this linky party. Its a card for my Bubba for getting out of school!

Supplies:
Silhouette Cameo
Silhouette Studio File: Miss Kate's Cuttables-Over The Moon, Frames were from an old SVG file that I had, not sure where it was from.
Misc: Chomas Creations Pens and Pen holder for the saying, Pop Dots, Star Punch, American Crafts Blue Twine

Hope you will Craft It Up & Link It Up!!!

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Craftin' and Stampin' Birthday Blog Hop!

Click HERE for the start of the Craftin' and Stampin' Birthday Blog Hop!!!

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Hi All!

Welcome to the Craftin' and Stampin' Birthday Blog Hop!!!

You should of arrived here from THERESA'S Blog! If you have not, please start at the beginning HERE with CANDACE! !

We are so excited that you could hop along to celebrate my Birthday!

Some of my crafty friends have come together to show off their AMAZING talents and to create a fun filled hop for my birthday!

WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!! What would a Blog Hop be without any prizes??? Look what we have for you today!!!

THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN ROYAL CASTLE SHOPPE

2 Scrapbook Kits (Robot & Space Layout Kits)

LOVEBUG CREATIONS

$15 Store Gift Certificate

SVG CUTTING FILES

$10 Store Gift Certificate

RIGHT AT HOME SCRAPBOOKING

A total SCRAP KIT complete with:

Paper, Alpha Stickers, and an Embellishment Kit.

A Smash Book Mini &

A $20 Gift card to either Michael's or Joanne's! Winners Choice!

In order to win one of these awesome prizes from our sponsors, you need to follow each of the hop participants, and you must comment along the way! Winners will be picked from Random.org on Wednesday and listed on the Craftin' and Stampin' blog! So don't worry if you are not reading this until Sunday or Monday! You still have time! And if you hoped once, come back and view it again!!! :)

But first, here's a little something from me .....

Thank you SO MUCH to all the talented ladies that got together to make a special blog hop for me! Thank you for taking the time out of your own schedules to show off wonderful projects to make my birthday a special one! Thank you to all the sponsors for being so generous and donating to this hop!! I appreciate you all more than you know!! This totally made my birthday!!

Here is a little card I made to say THANK YOU to all you wonderful ladies!! You sure are TOP QUALITY in my book :)

Supplies:

Silhouette Cameo Cutting File-Card shape and scallop borders

Stamp: Jaded Blossom Picture This

Icon: Basic Grey Hey Boy Collection Diecut

Stampin Up Scallop Oval punch, and small oval punch

Misc: Pop Dots, ATG

Paper: From my stash

Here is the lineup in case you get lost along the way!

Candace- www.papercraftsbycandace.com

Michelle- www.scrappinwithmybug.com

Diana- www.daisylovecreations.blogspot.com

Lori- http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

Pam- http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

Janet- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

Miranda - www.nanasscrapspot.com

Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Lisa - http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Sarah - www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com

Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com

Melissa- http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com/

Theresa-http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Jessica- www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com

Thank you all so much for hopping along with us!

Hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'!

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Retirement Invitation

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Hey All!!

I feel like I have not posted in days! I have been SOOOO busy getting things together for my kiddo to FINALLY be out of school! He is no longer a second grader! And he is no longer at the little kid school...My baby isn't a baby anymore :( WAAAHHHHH! I am so crushed by this. I could not WAIT for him to get out of that school because I wanted him to be in the school across the street from us since it would be so very easy in the morning, and so I would not have to "jockey" for position in the morning to park! But, my heart hurt SO BAD picking him up yesterday! This is the end of the innocence! His old school was from pre-k to 2nd grade. This new school next year will be 3rd through 6th. They are the older kids....Oh boy...this momma has some crying to finish up before next year!!!

On a lighter note...Here is a card I created for my co-worker a few weeks ago for her moms retirement party that I forgot to post! I am only showing the front of the card, because the back has all her info. Don't want to be sharing that in Cyber Space! LOL!

Here is the card I made her mom. She was a secretary. I knew I had a file that would fit this PERFECTLY!

Supplies:

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Studio File: Jennifer Wambach Typewriter Card file

Stamp: My Creative Time Teeny Tag Greetings

Mics: Pop Dots, Paper From Recollections, Stampin' Up Basic Black Ink, Corner Rounder

I think this card came out REALLY cute!

Thanks so much for checking my card out! And don't forget to come back this Saturday for my Birthday Blog Hop! LOTS of talent and a bunch of prizes!!!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Celebrate Summer Blog Hop with Kreative Karma! Day 2

Click HERE for the Made Especially For You Blog Hop!!!

DAY 2!

Click HERE for Day 1!

Happy Fathers Day & welcome to Our Kreative Karma Blog Hop!

We are celebrating Summer, Graduations, Vacations, Reunions, Out of School fun!! How do you celebrate? We hope our projects will give you some inspiration! And we're offering some prizes along the way!!

Our sponsor this month is

Janet is a Close To My Heart Dealer and she's put together this great prize package for our Grand Prize winner! How do you win? Comment on every Blog in our hop! Be a follower of all blogs in the hop,if you aren't already! There are some pretty crafty hoppers here, and you don't want to miss out on their awesome projects. Be sure to follow and comment on Our Kreative Karma's blog as well. We all rotate posting on that blog and you never know when we'll do something that just might surprise you! It'll always be a friendly spot! Now for that grand prize photo!

Awesome huh? Over $50.00 in creative Summer fun for you to document those fun summer activities you love!

This hop takes place over two days! So plenty of time to visit all the blogs, and there's not too many each day that you have to be rushed! So grab a cold drink and hop to our fun ideas for the summertime!

Here is the project I made for today's hop!

Supplies:

Cut Files: Popsicle-SVG Cutting Files; Popsicle Box-Silhouette Store

Paper: DCWV-My Sunshine Stack; Recollections Solids

Stamps: Jaded Blossom Picture This

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Misc: Pop Dots, Scotch Quick Dry

I will say, this box was VERY difficult for me to put together, but I just wanted it to match the cute little popsicle that anyone that subscribes to SVG Cutting Files received on Friday! Check out their awesome files!

Start here on both days:

http://ourkreativekarma.blogspot.com/

Day 1

2. Lisa http://desileedesigningdivas.blogspot.com/
3. Janet http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

4. Jodie           http://jodiescraplab.blogspot.com/
5. Marji          http://stampaholic.blogspot.com/
6. Dorothy       http://scraphappyinohio.blogspot.com

Stop back by the Karma blog and tell us what you thought of today's projects! Any faves??
7. Karma         http://ourkreativekarma.blogspot.com/

Day 2

8. Christina     http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/
9. Susie      http://scrappyrandomness.blogspot.com/
10. Tess Hilton-     http://sassycricutcrafting.com/
11. Jessica Wilson   http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com/

Stop back by the Karma blog and tell us what you thought of today's projects! Any faves??
12. http://ourkreativekarma.blogspot.com/

A winner will be drawn on Monday! So to be eligible-make sure you've visited every blog and left a comment and be a follower of Our Kreative Karma blog as well as our hop stops this weekend! Thank you and be sure to leave a way to contact you if you win! Follow the individual blogs rules for any blog candy they offer please! We appreciate your spending some time with us this weekend!

Hope to see you back soon and I hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'!

Jaded Blossom Guest Designer Post-4th Of July Star

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Hey All!!

Its time for another post from me as the Guest Designer at Jaded Blossom! I am starting to get sad because I have 3 more posts to go and then I am done my guest DT month :( BUT, I will still be posting in the Garden of Creativity and I will be buying up their stamps! Well, as much as money would allow! LOL!

All kidding aside, how about you take a lookie at my project for today??? This is a little decoration that I made up for the 4th of July. I found it in the Silhouette Store, and I INSTANTLY had an idea for it! I wanted to put Potpourri inside it, and hang it in my entry way for when people come over for the holiday (I have the BEST view of fireworks..right from my front porch)! I am SURE I could of put little jawbreakers, or M&M's in there, but I wanted the fresh smell instead for this!!!

Here is my project:

Isnt that too cute? Here are the supplies I used:

Jaded Blossom Stamps: Celebrate America

Dies: Candy Charms and Banners Jaded Blossom

Paper: Recollections

Potpourri-Dollar Store

Misc: Red and Blue Twine (American Crafts), Scotch Quick Dry

OK all!! I hope you come back to check me out again at the end of this month!!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Made Especially For You 2 Year Blogoversary Blog Hop!

Click HERE for Our Kreative Karma Blog Hop!

Click HERE for my 500 Follower Giveaway! Make a comment on that post & follow my blog for your chance to win!!!

Click HERE for my Guest Design Team post for JADED BLOSSOM

Welcome to Made Especially For You's 2 Year Blogoversary Blog Hop!

If you've come from Stephanie's blog, you're in the right place! If you just came across the hop, please start at the beginning over at Made Especially For You.

I have know Ashley for 2 years now! I was on the ME4U DT for a year, and I loved EVERY minute of it! I made new crafty friends for her, and I learned a lot! Ashley was so kind and took the time to help explain a BUNCH of blog info to me, seeing as it was my first DT that I was on! I will never forget her for that! When she said it was the ME4U 2 year anniversary, I wanted to pay if forward and be there for her! So, thank you so much for all you did Ashley! Enjoy this occasion!

Instead of having a theme for the hop, Ashley put together a bingo board full of some of her favorite crafty things and we were to choose at least 3 of them and create a project.