Celebrate with Cuttin and Stampin!

Friday, January 4, 2013 // 30 comments




Hello Crafty World,
Here at Cuttin and Stampin we are HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY and in the mood to CELEBRATE.  Today we are having a blog hop Celebrating our new Design Team and kicking off our weekly challenge blog.  Each of us has produced projects to Celebrate.  (If you got here from somewhere other than Robin's blog, please click here to start at the very beginning of our hop.) 

There are 11 new Design Team members and the final stop is where you can enter to WIN blog candy.  There are (2) $25.00 gift certificates to A Muse Studio up for grabs.  So grab a cup of coffee and hop along to meet the NEW CUTTIN and STAMPIN Design Team. 



I’m Teresa and a SAHW. I just recently took a leave of absence from my teaching career to determine if early retirement is for me. I began scrapbooking when my first grandchild was born almost 16 years ago. I have dabbled in all kinds of crafting since I was a very young mom. You name it I have done it. Being a SAHW has allowed me the time to really get back to creating. I am so very thrilled to join in with Tammy and be a part of this new and exciting team. I hope you are inspired along the way to get creative and crafty. Make sure you visit A Muse Studio to see all the great products they have in their catalogue.  

I used the brown cardstock as my card base. It is the typical A2 card size 5.50 x 4.25.
I embossed the top white piece which on the back side is the chevron pattern with my swiss dots embossing folder.
Then, cut a small strip of the dark pink for the bottom. I adhered these two together and then distressed all the edges.
I cut the bird at 3.5" from my Cricut cartridge "Cherry Limeade"
I inked around the edges with chocolate ink. Stamped the sentiment with A Muse Studio's Contemporary Greetings
stamp set. I then used twine to tie around the bottom edge of the dark pink.
I turned the top right corner down and secured it with a pink sparkle brad from my stash.
All product except ink and the pink sparkly brad used to make this card came from A Muse Studio.
 I am in love with their products.


I want to thank you all again for stopping by and being part of our CELEBRATION Hop.  Your next stop is the fantastic and talented Kim. 

Don’t forget to hop all the way through leaving comments for each of the DT members and enter to win blog candy at the end. 

In case you get distracted along the way, here is a complete line up so you can make it to the candy.

 Tammy – http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com
Teresa K – www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com
Janet – http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com
Doris – http://momsbeenscrappin.blogspot.com
Sherri – http://sherri-iloveflipflops.blogspot.com
Pam – http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com
Robin – http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com
Teresa R – http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com
Kim – http://kimross.blogspot.com
CallyAnn – http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com
Daphne – http://craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com

Status of My Weekly Menu Posts and other changes to regularly scheduled blog posts

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 // No comments
I have really fallen down on putting up my Weekly Menu posts. One of the things I plan to do over this first month of the year is to try to do some different things regarding my weekly menu post. Monday Menus just goes so well alliteratively speaking but it is sometimes very difficult to get it up on Mondays. I am going to really try. I also am going to begin linking up the recipes when I post the menu cause it got to be too time consuming to return and link up and give a critique of each meal. So anyhow, here is this week's Monday Menus but a couple days late.
 

Monday:
Ate a very yummy dinner at my daughter's with her family and my son's family.

Tuesday: New Year's Day
Brown Sugar Glazed Ham w/Pineapple
Hoppin John (Black-Eyed Peas) 
White Rice
Collard Greens
Cornbread Muffins

 Wednesday:
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Garlic Bread
Salad
Peanut Butter Brownies

Thursday:
Steak w/Blackberry Sauce
Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Salad
Rolls

Friday:
Fried Pork Chops
French Fries
Succotash
Key Lime Pie

 Saturday:
Cracker Barrel Chicken Tenderloins
Roasted Potatoes
Leftover Veggies from Week

Sunday: 
Macaroni Cheesy Ham Bake (original recipe) I will link this up when I create it.
Rolls
Salad



Also, I am going to share Thursday Thrifty Tips with you but that will not be every week. Well, mainly because sometimes I just plain don't have a thrifty tip every single week! haha...Baking Days with my daughter is only going to happen every other week...in her busy schedule as a SAHM of 3 children she found it just too much to do it every week...so I will have a baking day every other week with her and then the alternate week will be by myself.

I want to really bring some regularness of posts to my blog this year and share both my domestic and my crafty sides of life with you. Hope you enjoy the freshness and renewed happenings around here!!



Happy New Year!!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013 // No comments
Happy New Year to all of you wonderful people! Hope you have a wonderful and healthy new year! I love new beginnings! Change is good and I am embracing many this new year. I will be sharing things that I plan to do over the next few days. But today the first thing I am sharing is my newest blog adventure...2 girlfriends and I are beginning a new crafting blog. I am soooo excited to be sharing this with you. So, hop on over there and become a follower there will be lots of inspiration and some blog candy along the way too!

Three Scrappy Gals is the place you want to be!



Theme Day Thursday with My Cricut Craft Room

Thursday, December 20, 2012 // 3 comments



Only 5 more crafting days till Christmas!!! I hope you have gotten all your crafty presents complete or almost there! I had the need for a holiday card so thought I would whip out this snowman card....I cut him from Snow Friends and then dolled him up with some stickles,  plopped him on this absolutely adorable piece of paper I pulled out of a stashed stack in my Christmas pile of paper. Then, I added a snowflake button up in the top corner. It took all of about 5 minutes to whip out this card....mainly because I have a whole stash of Cricut cuts I keep on hand to use in a quick pinch! Hope you enjoy!


So head on over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what my design team sisters have created to share with you. 






Winners of 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop!!!...Finally!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 // 2 comments

Please forgive me for not getting to this sooner! I had some major computer issues along with Christmas busyness it really took me a while to get to this. So here is what I plan to do...since I only have 1 prize I am going to do a random drawing to pick the day, then do a random drawing to pick the winner of that day...


So the day is Day 10!



And the winner of that day's comment is #18...which is Jodie R. Congratulations!!! I will be getting your Christmas prize package out to you within 3 days after I get your info!

Jodie R. please contact me at teresascraps@gmail.com with your address information!

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 // 2 comments


I am thrilled to show you one of my most favorite layouts of my little princess and Cinderella. We went to Disney for the first time the year after she turned 2 in September...that seems like yesterday and at the same time seems so long ago.

I cut Cinderella at 6" and then added lots of bling with stickles. The tag embellishments are Jolee's and I do not know where the blingy bird came from. I also added liquid glass to the castle turrets on the page. Thanks for taking a look.


Don't forget to head over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what my other Design Team sisters have to share with you.




Christmas Blog Hop

Sunday, December 9, 2012 // 22 comments


I have the privilege of being in this awesome Christmas blog hop with Ashley over at The Blog Hop Princess and I have created a really cute project for someone special. There is going to be some wonderful talent in this hop so make sure you go to each blog and see what is there for you!

Here we go again! I am getting my craft on this season! And it feels so good! I have all these wonderful ideas running around in this head of mine and keep seeing more to add to them. I wanted to buy my granddaughter a pink Christmas tree and ornaments for her bedroom but the funds were just not there for me to do that. Well, it pays to have been a scrapbook hoarder...oh I mean collector...over the past several years. I saw this adorable ribbon tree...on Pinterest of course! So, I went to the craft supplies and low and behold I had everything I needed to make this for her and it even goes with the wreath I made her for her bedroom door. You can see her wreath here.

For the ribbon tree you need lots and lots of ribbon...You can use all the same width or you can vary it like I did. You need to cut the ribbon in 4" strips. I made a cardstock measuring instrument and used it to wrap my ribbon around it and then cut both ends so I could cut lots of 4" strips at a time.

Then, you hot glue the ends together and put a dab of hot glue on the other side and adhere it to your cone. Stagger the ribbons as you go up the cone so you are covering up any of the styrofoam that may show through. Once you get to the top you can wrap a ribbon around the top...I happened to have this fancy trim so I wrapped that around several times hot gluing as I went...(I am surprised I did not burn my fingers). Then I pulled some 3D flowers out of my scrapbooking stash in the color scheme and pinned them to the top. My granddaughter is going to absolutely love this!
It looks like it is leaning but it is straight I promise!


You should have come here from the very talented Cindy...if you didn't you might want to start at the beginning over here...and after reading, seeing, and commenting (I love comments!) you can hop on over to Paula and see what inspired her for Christmas.

Here is the whole lineup for the blog hop just in case you need it!

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