Festive Friday Blog Hop

Welcome to another post on the Festive Friday Blog Hop!! If you came from April's blog then you are in the right place! This is a circular hop, you can start anywhere and just work your way around (you will find a list of all the participating blogs at the bottom of this post). Hope this will spark your creativity!!

I re-created the advent calender in our Holidays From The Heart Gift Guide on page 3. I did change a couple of things to suite my needs...I didn't have the Sparkle & Shine Assortment so I made my own flags and a rosette from the Artiste cartridge. I also did not have all the washi tape that was used...I made due with what I had on hand!! Because that what we crafters do right?!

z1880 Designed Decor Black Frame
X7176B Sparkle & Shine Paper Packet
D1552 Magical Days
Z1907 Sparkle & Shine Washi Tape 3-pack
Z1815 Mini Clothes Pins
Z1790 Cricut Artiste Cricut Cartridge
Z1861 Ruby Mini-Medley Accents Collection

To purchase any of the above items shop my website at
www.theresamiller.ctmh.com

Thanks for stopping by...now hop on over to Brenda's blog for more holiday inspiration!

1. Diane Tuggle

2.Rebecca Brown

3.Carol Loftus

4..Linda Pekrul

5.Jamie Barney

6.Paige Dolecki

7.Mary Ellen Driggs

8.April Grigson

9.Theresa Miller

10.Brenda Lapp

11.Ashley Denny

12.Mary Schwimer(Ida's Attic)

CTMH Festive Friday Blog Hop

Welcome to my second posting in the CTMH Festive Friday Blog Hop!! If you have come from April's blog you are in the right place!!

Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday!! I wanted to create an album where I could scrapbook all of my favorite traditions, recipes, and decorations throughout the holiday season. So at the moment its empty since its only September, but I can't wait to fill it with my favorite things for this upcoming season!

I used the My Creations Kraft 3-Ring Album, covering the spine with Ruby Cardstock, and used our Geometric Backgrounds stamp set. The Jute Ribbon and Red Shimmer Trim were layered to run down along the edge of the Ruby Cardstock.. I covered one of the frames from Dimentional Elements Snapshots with Chocolate Cardstock, the background of the frame is B&T paper from Huntington, and cut the leaves out of Olive cardstock and the berries from Red Shimmer Trim. December was cut from the Artiste Cricut Cartridge and our brand new Green Glitter Paper. Memories was also cut from Artiste in Colonial White cardstock and then covered with Liquid Glass to give it the glossy look. Houndstooth Alphabets were used for 2013 and then inked with Bamboo Ink. The shapes were cut with the Artiste Cricut Cartridge in Olive and Bamboo Cardstock and then some Ruby Chevron Ribbon tied in a knot.

To purchase any of the items I used on this album click on the items above or visit my website www.theresamiller.ctmh.com. Now hop on over to Brenda's blog and thanks for stopping by!!

1. Diane Tuggle
2.Rebecca Brown
3.Michelle Bowley  
4.Carol Loftus
5.Linda Pekrul
6.Jamie Barney
7.Paige Dolecki
8.Mary Ellen Driggs
9.April Grigson
10.Theresa Miller
11.Brenda Lapp
12.Ashley Denny
13.Mary Schwimer(Ida's Attic) 

Create with Cricut® Collections

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SKETCH CHALLENGE LAYOUT

I decided to do my first ever sketch challenge!! When I saw that Dr. Phil posted this challenge I was like "why not?" My layout is about my son's wrestling season! It ended up being real simple because I'm in the middle of getting ready for my OPEN HOUSE! Let me know what you think!!

The materials I used:

Outdoor Denim cardstock
Honey cardstock
White Daisy cardstock
Cricut "Artist" Cartridge
ProPlayer paper pack (Available Aug 1st)
ProPlayer Assortment (Available Aug 1st)
Cricut "Artbooking" Cartridge and stamp set (Available Aug 1st)

Please contact me here to pre-order the Cricut "Artbooking" cartridge bundle and receive free shipping! In order for you to receive free shipping you must order through me and do so before August 1st!


Sketch Challenge Layout

I’m excited to launch my first Sketch Challenge Giveaway. You will have till the end of Saturday, July 20 to participate. Simply use the sketch below to create your own layout, then link it using the tool below the sketch. Your link must be to the actual post of your finished project on your own blog and you MUST mention and link my website on your blog post in order to be entered into the giveaway. Throughout the week me and my design team will be participating in the sketch challenge ourselves…so stay tuned!

One lucky winner will get a Cricut Extreme Fonts cartridge!

Link up by visiting the Announcement post - http://drphilscraps.com/sketch-challenge-giveaway/

Artbooking Cricut Cartridge

Take your scrapbooking to never-before-seen levels with the new Cricut Artbooking collection! With oodles of images in each of 15 layout themes, you can create several coordinating pages for each theme using just two keys and one dial size. Images include accents, borders, titles, overlays, photo mats-in standard photo sizes!!-and more. The Cricut keys are optimized for creating 12" x 12" pages in a jiffy. You'll love creating 10 themed mini books, also optimized for several different sizes using just two keys and one dial size. Celebrate birthdays, new baby, vacations, friends, sports, Halloween, Christmas, and more!! When you're finished cutting use the coordinating stamp sets and Dimensional Elements shapes to add more pizazz!!

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My Mini-Me Album

My mini-album was a challenge for me. I scrapbook about everyone else (mostly my kids) and never myself or my husband. Like the rest of us I'm the one behind the camera. Well my new challenge is to take more pictures of myself and scrapbook about it.

The mini album was fun and easy to create with the paper pack Avonlea (one of my favorites right now), Scholastic paper packet, and the brand new Cricut Arstiste cartridge. The pages of the mini album are dimentional elements that come in the Cricut Artiste Collection. I covered the dimentiional pages with our Avonlea paper which I cut out with the Artiste cartridge.

On the cover of the album I used our Houndstooth Alphabet for the title and inked in one of our brand new colors Slate.

I also added some Silver Shimmer Trim and a flowers from the Floret Papers Shapes pack throughout the album.

I used the brand new Approved Acrylic stamp set to make pockets, sayings and tabs.

Materials used:
z1790 Cricut Artiste Collection
c1521 My Acrylix Approved
x7155b Avonlea Paper Packet
x7159b Scholastic Paper Packet
x5929 Whisper Cardstock
x5639 Sweet Leaf Cardstock
1385 White Daisy Cardstock
z1764 Just Blooms Floret Paper Shapes
z1799 Silver Shimmer Trim
z1802 Slate Satin Polka-Dot Ribbon
z1263 Bitty Sparkles

To purchase any of the items listed above visit me here.