Frozen Blog Hop

Welcome to the

 FROZEN Blog Hop 

We are so happy you decided to join us on this wonderful wintery weekend. We hope to bring you some magical winter projects and inspire you to create some of your own! If you wish to start at the beginning, Connie Can Crop is the first stop on this wintery blog hop.
You should have arrived from   Sarah - www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com

This is a one day blog hop and we appreciate your leaving a comment for all of these talented crafters who are here sharing their ideas and creations.

We have two amazing sponsors and giveaways for this hop!

Craftin Desert Diva's is giving one lucky winner an awesome stamp set!!
http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CraftinDesertDivas

AND

Alicia with Golden Goddess Designs
is giving one lucky winner the
Adventure Templates from Kiwi Lane Designs
http://www.goldengoddessdesigns.com

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 12:00 am Monday to finish this hop and leave your comments.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday at Connie Can Crop.

Be sure to follow everyone and leave your blog love along the way!

Are you ready to build a SNOWMAN? Let it go!!

Elsa Frozen Block. I used my cricut explore to make this Elsa block for my daughter... She is crazy over anything to do with Frozen... 

This has light blue tulle inside of it with no light. My daughter did not want to have a light in hers, she actually wants it to put candy inside of it... 

Happy Hopping ... Make sure you to become a follower and watch for new projects and videos coming soon.... 

Up next is the lovely and talented Theresa - www.scrapsbygracie.blogspot.com

Here is our complete line up in case you get lost along the way:

1.Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
2.Holli- http://www.sunflowerholli.blogspot.com
3.Jenny - http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
4.Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
5.Alicia - http://www.goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
6.Lori - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
7.Sarah - www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com
8.Audrey -http://kreativekreationsbyaudrey2.blogspot.com/
9.Theresa - www.scrapsbygracie.blogspot.com
10.Miranda - www.nanasscrapspot.com
11.Jessica- www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com
12.Debbie ~ http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
13.Lisa- http://lisakelly110803.blogspot.com
14.Melinda- http://www.mypapercrafting.com
15.Ellen- http://cardmonkeyspaperjungle.com

The cold never bothered us anyway!

Craft Decor Cricut Explore

Good Afternoon!

Today the girls went back to school, so I am taking this time to play in the craft room.... I am working on my Foto Folio from Kathy Orta... 

I am having a hard time with it so I am taking a little break from it.... 

Last night I decided that I wanted to make something for myself.. I hardly make anything for myself and keep it. So I made myself a lighted Glass Block for my craft room. 

I love it and I have it displayed in my craft already...

I used the Cricut explore to make it.... 

I was looking for a design for "live laugh love" and ended up finding one that was perfect for the craft room... 

"Live Love Craft" 

If you do a search in the images you will find it... type in live laugh love and this design will show up.... 

This is made with the Small Square Block from Hobby Lobby. 

It is the perfect size for the craft room.... 

I used vellum on the inside to give it that frosted look.... I cut it to 1/8" smaller that size so that way when I apply it to the inside it fits perfect... I used tiny glue dots to hold the vellum in place... 

I hope you enjoyed today's project and come back again... 

I am excited that I am currently working on a new tutorial.... coming soon! 

Happy Crafting and Have a wonderful day! 

First Project with Cricut Explore

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. 

Today is the last day of Christmas Break for my daughters. 

We were getting some nasty wintery mix weather here this weekend, so I wanted to work on something for the girls room for them. So took a trip to Hobby Lobby with them Friday. We were supposed to go to one store and ended up a different one, which was interested and fun.

It was a great afternoon for the girls and me. 

We picked up a few projects for all of us to work on. 

I love the glass blocks and have been wanting to make one for each one of my daughters. 

Each one of my daughters like something different so it was fun creating each one of them a block.... 

I made each one a block... I will show you 2 of 3... the third one I am keeping a secret until January 18th... you will have to come back then to see it.... 

( I am in a Blog Hop and I am going to use it has my project) 

I used my Cricut Explore to make these. I had to use Inkspace to create an SVG file for the batman block. 

My oldest daughter is in love with Batman everything ... she is 18 but still loves to be a kid at heart... 

I used a image that I found on the internet for her block... I did it on the girly side for her... 

Batman one is layered and has a light added to the bottom of it.... 

I really like how it turned out. 

I used vellum as the background to give it that frosted look. 

My Middle daughter's nickname is Minnie and she loves everything to do with Mickey Mouse and Minnie. So I found an image on my Cricut Design Space and used the black out for the Mouse Head and then used Walt Disney Font from my computer to do her nickname. 

She doesn't want a light in it. She wants to put candies in hers. I put white Tulle inside of it until she adds candy to it. 

I really love how each one turned out.... 

I am having fun playing with the Cricut Explore and Design Space.... 

I hope you enjoyed my project for today ... come back often and watch for tutorials coming soon.... 

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year! 

We stayed home with our daughters and watched movies and had pizza dinner... 

It was a great night. Hubby and the two younger girls passed out minutes before midnight, so my oldest daughter and I brought the new year in together.... 

So today is the first blank page to a new 365 page story... 

I am starting my with a positive attitude and going to start small and work my way up .... 

I spent the day with my daughters and watching tv and resting up after this long week. 

Hubby had to work a few hours today. 

So now I am sitting up in the craft room and setting up to start a new project... I bought Kathy Orta's Foto Folio 2 Tutorial kit last month and have been wanting to start one and just did not know where to begin or what I wanted it for. But today I decided that I want to make one that I can reflect back on next years day of my daughters... so for the next 12 months I will be taking pictures of them and putting them in the foto folio, so next year I can see how much they have grown and changed over the year.... they are growing so fast and sometimes we don't realize how much that they have changed. So I thought this would be a great way to see those changes and have those memories forever.... 

Here is the link to Kathy Orta's Site.... She has some wonderful tutorials and can't wait to get started... 

http://shop.paperphenomenon.com/main.sc

Well it is time for me to get started on my new project.... I will post pictures and a video when it is finished.

Happy New Year Everyone! 

Christmas Is Over!

Good Morning Everyone! 

Happy New Year Eve to you all.

I hope you all have a Safe and Happy New Year! 

We don't have anything planned for this evening. We usually 

stay home and celebrate with our daughters. We watch a movie and make hot cocoa. 

So that is what we will be doing tonight and then tomorrow having a nice Roast Beef Dinner. 

So what are your goals for the New Year? 

I have been thinking hard on it and I usually always set goals that are

way to big for me to accomplish, so this year I decided to think small. 

My Goals are to focus more on my little shop and to move out of the area where we 

live. Hopefully rent a house.  To take a few more mini trips with the girls this summer. 

Those are my goals this year. 

Well now on to some crafty stuff..... 

I am currently working on my middle daughter's birthday invites, banner and cupcake toppers. 

She is doing a roller skating theme at the skate rink. 

It will be a lot of fun.... 

I am using the my Cricut Explore to make everything for her party... 

I haven't really had much time with the girls being home for Christmas break to play with the Explore, but I am taking today to play with it and learn a few more things...

It has a bit of a learning curve from the other cricut machines and the silhouette cameo 

I am also going to focus on making more new showcase videos and tutorials too this year. 

I have a new youtube channel due to the same issues with my old blog... so here to new beginnings and fresh starts.... 

Click here to go to my new youtube Channel!

Tomorrow I will post a recap to this past year of projects that I have done ..... 

Happy New Year Everyone! 

Be Safe and Enjoy! 

Welcome to My New Blog

Welcome to My new blog. 

Time for new beginnings and a fresh start to the new year. 

I have been having issues with my old blog and being able to sign in, so it was recommended to 

start a new blog and start over. I was not sure about starting a new blog, but then I thought it would

be wonderful to start fresh and new with the new year. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. 

I would like to wish you all a wonderful, safe and Happy New Year!