Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Day!

Happy Wednesday, friends!! It's Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons day!!

For my layout today, I played with Lisa's new Patriotic Balloon Files (a freebie in the store until Friday!!).

These pics are from when we brought our very last baby, Taylah, home from the hospital. I remember thinking about all journeys our sweet little girl would take over her lifetime. She has already flown all the way to Orlando, Florida, by the time she was only 7 weeks old! :) 

I used the Sunday Afternoon stack from DCWV, which I am in love with right now. 

Here is what I used for this layout...

- Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Patriotic Balloon Cutting File

- DCWV Sunday Afternoon paper

- American Crafts Thickers with Grey Martha Stewart glitter

- Peachy Keen ABCs and 123s stamps

- Recollections pearls

- natural hemp

Mark your calendars for this weekend's Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Get Well hop this weekend! 

I guarantee there will be some awesome projects and blog candy, of course! Have a great day!! 

Jaded Blossom Challenge - Food Related

Click HERE for Monica's Surprise Baby Shower Blog Hop!!! 

Happy Saturday!! Hopefully the weather where you are is beautiful!! It's another gloomy, rainy day here, but we're making the best of it by having a movie morning in the basement! The girls get to watch a movie, and I get to work on some little crafty projects! :) 

I have been wanting to participate in a Jaded Blossom Challenge for a while, but just never seem to get my projects done one time!! I am linking up by the skin of my teeth today!! :) 

I used the 'What's Up Buttercup' digital kit by Heather Roselli (from Sweet Shoppe Designs) to create a topper for my little treat. I started with a square filled with a pattern paper, added a cute little digital flower embellishment, then a layer that looks like some yellow paint. 

I stamped the cute little bee from the Love Stings set by Jaded Blossom onto yellow cardstock, and embossed with black powder. I colored in it's wings and eyes with a white gelly roll pen and cut around the edge. I added a little sentiment in the corner and popped my bee up on a thick pop dot. 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Monica's Surprise Baby Shower Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to Monica's Surprise Baby Shower Blog Hop!!! Our friend, Monica from Monica's Creative Madness is expecting a baby BOY!! We are all making layouts she can use to put together a great scrapbook of all the pics of her little guy in his first year!!

If you have arrived here from Ana Maria's blog, you are in the right place. If you just stumbled upon this hop, make sure to head over to the Cameo Creations Blog to start!! There is some awesome blog candy up for grabs, so make sure you don't miss a single blog!

My first layout is for the baby's first bath!!

Here's what I used...

- Squeaky Clean cutting files from Miss Kate Cuttables

- bubbles from Silhouette store

- Chocolate Sprinkles Trendy Twine

- It's A Boy DCWV paper stack

Here is my second layout...

Here is what I used...

- Stinkin' Adorable digital kit from Jady Day Studio

- The Twinery Twine

Now onto your next stop in the hop - Sandra from 365 Days of Cricut!!! 

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

Cameo Creations Blog - http://cameocreationschallenge.blogspot.com/

Ceci - http://www.craftinginthenight.com/

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

Cassie - http://allsmilesandsunshine.blogspot.com/

Elsa - http://cricutlvr.blogspot.com/

Melody - http://www.asplashhereandthere.blogspot.com/

Patricia- http://www.creativediva98.blogspot.com/

Abby- http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

Gaby- http://www.gabycreates.com/

Xochitl- http://www.cricutcritter.blogspot.com/

Ana Maria - http://www.shortycreations.com/

Candace - http://www.scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com/ (you are here!!)

Sandra- http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

Kristy - http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com/

ScrapbookSteals - How Tosday!

Hi friends!! :) Hope you all had a GREAT weekend!!

Today I am over at the ScrapbookSteals blog for How Tosday!! Every Tuesday a member of the DT posts a great "How To"! My tips today are how to take a plain die cut, and turn it into something amazing!! :)

Head on over there!! I would be supper happy if you left me some love! :) 

Hairy Lil Monkey

Click HERE for the ScrapbookSteals June Blog Hop!!! 

Hey everyone!! Did you see the newest Peachy Keen stamps?? Awesome, as always!! There are a couple new face assortment sets that I NEED to get my hands on!! Today I had my two older girls in my craft room with me long enough to put together a fun little layout using the Summer Days Collection by Echo Park - my FAV - for one of the PK release challenges!!!

I had some American Crafts Thickers left from the ScrapbookSteals hop (going on right now - HERE) and I wanted to use some of my brown flock that has been collecting dust. The brown hairy letters screamed 'MONKEY' to me! :) I used this cute little monkey graphic from Pixel Paper Prints a couple days ago on THIS card and I loved her so much I wanted to use her again!! I love how the PK teddy faces look on her!! 

Of course I used some dies from My Creative Time... I have never been a die person until lately!! I am sooo in love with Emma's dies and I used them on almost every project! I LOVE when I get my money's worth out of craft supplies!! 

Here is what I used to create my layout..

- Peachy Keen Teddy Bear Face Assortment

- Echo Park Summer Days collection

- My Creative Time doily and scalloped circle die

- American Crafts DIY Thickers

- brown Martha Stewart flock

- dollarstore rhinestones

Hope you liked my layout!! I am hoping to get in a project for the other Peachy Keen release challenge going on right now, too! :) 

ScrapbookSteals Blog Hop!!

Hey there!! If you are here from Teresa's blog, then you are in the right place!! If you just stumbled upon this hop, make sure you head back to the beginning - ScrapbookSteals BLOG - to make sure you don't miss any of the awesome projects!!

The products we got to play with - American Crafts DIY Thickers - for this hop are soooo much fun!! The possibilities are endless!! I actually wanted to make a few more projects for this hop, but ran outta time!! I had so many ideas!!

My first project is a layout using family pics from this fall when our baby, Taylah, was born...

Just in case someone out there has never seen, or heard of, DIY Thickers before... They are adhesive on both sides so you can totally customize them!! I used Martha Stewart glitter on the letters in this layout, but you can use flock, coarse glitter, flowersoft... the list goes on! :) 

Here is a little tip for using the letters.... They come in a long sheet, and I like to lay out my projects to see how everything will fit, so I cut each letter out so that I could easily figure out the best spot for them on my layout. Once I knew where they should go, I just peeled the backs off and stuck them to the paper. 

Here is what I used to make my layout...

- American Crafts DIY Thickers

- Recollections Fabulous Girl stack

- My Creative Time We Are Family stamp set and doily and button dies

- Pink By Design Bracketful stamp set

I also made a quick card...

These Thickers are material chipboard letters and sooo fun!! I sprayed them with dark blue Ditto glimmer spray and they turned out really neat! They look like blue jean letters. I forgot to take a pic, but the inside of the card reads,"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad". 

For this card I used the following supplies...

- American Crafts DIY Thickers

- Ditto Glimmer spray

- file from the Silhouette store

- Pink By Design Our Fathers stamp set

Your next stop in the hop is 

Misty's blog!! 

If you would like to get your hands on some of these Thickers, check out THIS link!! They are the steal over at ScrapbookSteals today!!! 

Enjoy the rest of the hop!! Below is a list of all the stops in case you get lost along the way! 

1. ScrapbookSteals 
2. Lanette Erickson - Stacks of Scraps  http://stacksofscraps.blogspot.com/
3. Teresa Fenstermacher - Teresa Jaye Is Here to Play http://teresajaye.blogspot.com/
4. Candace Zentner - Scrappin 2 Little Princesses  www.scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com (YOU ARE HERE)
5. Misty Buck - Lil Buck's Creations   http://mistylynnwhat.blogspot.com/
6. Jennifer McDermott - Wonky Wares  http://wonkywares.blogspot.com/
7. Brenda Smith - The Imperfect Scrapper  http://theimperfectscrapper.blogspot.com/
8. Heather Conklin - Goldiecar Designs http://goldiecar.blogspot.com/

Swinging By to Say Hi!

It's Wednesday night, so what does that mean?! Candace is working on her weekly Peachy Keen Challenge project! :) It is becoming my weekly routine!!

The theme this week over at Peachy Keen is a sketch challenge...

And here is the sketch...

I used an adorable monkey from the Monkey Girl set from Pixel Paper Prints and added a Peachy Keen face. I bet you didn't know the PK teddy bear faces work GREAT for cute little monkeys!? 

Here is what I used to make this card..

- Peachy Keen Teddy Bear faces

- Monkey Girl Graphics from Pixel Paper Prints

- sentiment from the Jungle Fever stamp set from Pink By Design

- twine from the twinery

- grass from the Silhouette store

- doily die from My Creative Time

Now I'm off to link up over at Peachy Keen, then I'll be working on some more projects for their release challenges tonight!! FUN!! :)