Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #1

Hello Everyone,
I was on a mission yesterday and today to finish up a baby book for a little girl I know. It worked out perfectly because yesterday was National Scrapbook Day (like you didn't know this already) and many of the pages that I already had ideas for fit perfectly in with Robyn's hourly challenges. I didn't stop to post because I was on a crafting mission lol. I'll upload what I can today and show you the rest at a later date. The scrapbook was a 8 x 8 scrapbook and this was my first time working on one. The family I am making it for are non-scrapbookers so I have kept the pages very simple and each page has room for one 4 x 6 photo this way all they have to do is stick them in! I will try and post all the details about all the cuts below. Again, sorry about the picture I have not idea what what going on when I was taking it...it is a terrible picture!
Thanks for looking and I hope you also had a wonderfully productive NSD :)
Tara

Recipe:

Cardstock: Recollections

Pattern paper: scrap pile

Cricut cuts: Cupcakes - Once Upon a Princess cut @ 3"

Title - Create a Critter cut @ 3"

Number stamps: Dollarama

Buttons: Stash

Glitter Glue

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Zig 2 way glue

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Birthday Sundaes Challenge # 8

Hello Crafters,
This week the challenge over on the Birthday Sundaes challenge blog is 2 patterned papers and 3 different embellishments. Here is the card I made for some inspiration! (Sorry about the bad picture, it has been really gloomy here all week). The digital stamp is from Beccy's Place. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make my aunt a card with it for her birthday this month. I coloured it with my Prisma coloured pencils. The spirals on the side of the card are paper clips from Staples! How cool are they?!
Hope everyone can join in this week!
Happy crafting!
Tara

Recipe:

A2 size card

Cardstock: Staples Bulk

Patterned Paper: from scrap pile

Digital Stamp: freebie from Beccy's Place

Ribbon: Offray

Sentiment - Technique Tuesday tiny sentiments

Bling: Dollarama

Spiral Paper Clips: Staples

ATG

ZIG 2 way glue

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Teacher Appreciation Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog and the Teacher Appreciation Blog Hop hosted by the very talented Jen from Jen's Craft Corner. If you have arrived here from Vivien papel then you are on track. If you have just happened to end up on my blog today and would like to start from the beginning (trust me you do, the talent is amazing) then click here. Everyone on the hop today had made a card, gift or special teacher that could be given to a teacher as token of appreciation. Being a teacher I have received many gifts from students and the ones that mean the most are the homemade (and useful) ones.

The gift I made today is bright and cheerful and very useful! (A supply list and directions are included under the picture). As you can see I use mine to keep my Prisma Colour pencils in. I have one friend who uses her's for stickers and another keeps it on her desk for mints. I get requests for them often, as many of my friends are teachers, lol.

Thanks for stopping by and if you decided to make one and post it leave me a link. I would love to see it!
I am your last stop on the hop today thanks for spending time with us and commenting along the way! (if you got side tracked I have included the line up at the end of this post).
Happy Crafting!
Tara

Supply list and Directions

A glass jar (I found that the hot glue didn't stick well to the plastic one I tried)

Enough crayons to go around the jar with no gaps

(I can't give you an exact number because this will depend on your size of jar)

Ribbon

Hot glue gun

yup that's it :)

Okay so first get that gun heated up and put a strip of glue on each crayon and stick it to the jar.

Go all the way around and try really hard to line them up straight (I use the base of the jar as my judge)

Once all the crayons are on then wrap it with ribbon and tie a bow. I always then put a little dab of glue behind each bump on the bow so it doesn't flop over time and a couple dabs on the inside of the ribbon around the jar so that it doesn't shift later.

Super simple!

*** Oh my goodness I almost forgot the blog candy!!! (I am editing this in lol) Since I recently reached 200 followers I am going to do a giveaway in honour of my wonderful followers and to keep with the theme of the hop I will be giving away the Locker Talk Cartridge to one lucky follower! Just leave me a comment on this post (with an email address) for your chance to win! I will randomly pick a winner next Saturday, May 14, 2011.

Here is the lineup:

http://www.jenscraftcorner.com/
http://www.jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/
http://www.amberscraftsandstuff.com/
http://www.beachcreationsforyou.blogspot.com/
http://www.crop-and-create.blogspot.com/
http://www.my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/
http://www.wahoocrafts.blogspot.com/
http://www.passionatecrafter.blogspot.com/
http://www.stampinpearls.blogspot.com/
http://www.scraps4fun.com/
http://www.sparkledmemories.blogspot.com/
http://www.trace-elementz.blogspot.com/
www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com/
http://www.vivienpapel.blogspot.com/

http://www.creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/ (you are here)

April Spending

Hi Crafters,
I have been dreading this post... I did terrible last month but since I can't blog hop since I can't see my blogs (see last post) I figured I might as well bite the bullet and post lol. Within the first 3 days of April I knew I had blown it and by day 9 I was toast. I needed (I'm not kidding here) to buy a large package of quality black cardstock for the favours I am making for my wedding and I found this awesome online store this month that is based out of my province The Scrapbook Cafe . Not only does that help me a great deal keeping shipping costs down but it has amazing prices to begin with! Also if you order over $100 shipping is free (more reason to buy more right)? So even though I knew I was in trouble after the 9th day on the 22nd I headed back on over to the site to order my black cardstock. This may have been a mistake lol. Who was I kidding I was not going to buy just one thing! I was actually able to meet the lady that runs it. She lives about an hour away but was in my area and actually brought my first order closer for me to pick up so I could avoid the shipping costs altogether. She is an amazing woman who saw a need (lack of scrapbooking supplies available in NS for a reasonable price) and decided to do something about it! Boy, am I glad she did or wait after looking at my total for this month, am I lol. Either way I will be shopping from her store often I am sure!
Okay for the totals... don't judge, we all these weak moments right? Next month I am hiding the visa!
Tara

April 2 - Michaels $10.34
              Dollarama $4.60
              My Stamping Studio $16.70
              Elles Studio $11.02
              Digis With Attitude $1.00
              Ebay (Cuttlebug folder) $6.93
April 3 - Rewards $11.49
              Ebay (Father's Day cartridge) $29.81
April 9- Scrapbooking Cafe $62.00
             Rewards $18.95
April 22 - Scrapbooking Cafe $108.50
April 24 - Ebay (New Arrivals cartridge) $54.41 ***I really really wanted it for a while
April 30- Yardsale $10.00

Total - $345.75  (yup, that embarrassing)!

Here are a few haul photos of some of my new stuff:

OH NO!

Hello blog world,
I just signed into blogger and it says that I am currently not following any blogs....please we all know this is not true! lol. This happened once before and they came back once I signed in again but that didn't seem to work tonight. I am trying not to panic and just think it is a glitch and will be restored soon. I noticed there seems to be a few other things (tools and such) in different places too, so I thinking blogger is doing some stuff. Is anyone else having this problem or have in the past?
Tara

I won!

Hello Crafters,

Ann from Ann's Creative Nook just made my day! Heck, she made my week lol! I just found out that I won her challenge from last week when the theme was "Anything Baby". Below is the card I posted in case you missed it! Ann has a new challenge each week and her current one is "Anything Goes with Animals". Everyone should pop over and play along. You never know you might just win something ;)
Happy Crafting!
Tara

Birthday Sundaes Challenge # 7

Hello Crafters,
Can you believe we are already on challenge # 6 over the on Birthday Sundaes Blog!? This week the challenge is 'Anything Goes' and we are sponsored by Patti's Creations. Below is the card that I made with one of her digital stamps. Which can be purchased here . I had so much fun making this card...I actually went a little crazy and made a few which I will show you :) The image was just so great and by justing changing up the colours I could make the same design look like a totally different card. I'll explain more and you can see below.

I also made my own embellishment for this card. I saw similar ones in Michael's a while back and was shocked at the price. Anyways after careful inspection I realized I had all the materials to make my own and they really didn't look that hard. Seriously, once I tried I realized I can make one in under 5 minutes. They are great and I am sure you will be seeing many more of them on my future projects.
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!
Tara

This one was actually the first one I made. It feels a bit little old ladyish to me (shhh I think I am going to send it to my Nanny, she'll love it! lol).

I loved that one but felt it was really not my style. I tried some different colours and made the next one a bit more funky.

Oh wait there is more...on my third go I decided to go really funky with the colours and BAM...Love it!

I would also like to enter this last card into the Bows n Berries  - bold and bright challenge #4

Recipe:

A2 size card

Cardstock: Coloured (Recollections)

White (Staples)

Patterned Paper: scrap pile :)

Ribbon: Offray

Nestabilities

Prisma Coloured Pencils

Sentiment - Technique Tuesday

Embellishment - homemade

Bling: Dollarama

Buttons: from my stash

ATG

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