Halloween Spooktacular Banner Hop for Special Needs Children

Welcome to the annual Halloween Spooktacular Banner Hop for Special Needs Children!

I am delighted to join with more than 3 dozen other women who have each made at least one Halloween-themed banner that will be donated to hang in the room of a medically-fragile child at Pediatric Specialty Care in Pennsylvania.

Our Hop Hostess (Ellen CardMonkey Jarvis) works at PSC’s Bucks County site as Admissions Coordinator. The Banner Hop starts there, so please be sure to circle back to the beginning to see all of the terrific banners have been made for these very special children.

Ellen shared this information with us about Pediatric Specialty Care: “PSC is a very special place where children stay either long- or short-term, typically after hospitalization.  Most are dependent on ventilators and other technology to survive. Some have been born too early or with genetic diseases or birth injuries.  Other children suffer injuries later in life that require constant care later, including brain injuries from trauma or loss of oxygen (from choking, suffocation or drowning) and spinal cord injuries.

These children and their families -- and PSC’s staff -- will be thrilled to receive the Halloween banners, to help brighten the season when their friends and siblings will be out trick-or-treating.”

Here is the banner I am sending to a child at PSC

I created this BOO banner using coasters.

 Close Ups

 I used dimensionals.

Materials Used

Cartridge: Hello Kitty Font (letters cut at 2 3/4 inches)

Paper: Halloween by We R Memory Keepers

Ink: Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress Ink by Ranger

Tutorial

To make the rosette, I first cut a 12x12 sheet into 2 inch strips.

I then cut 1 of them in half and taped them together to make a longer strip.

I then used a punch and I only punched out 1 side.

I used my score board to score the strip.

I scored the strip on every inch.

I then cut out 3 squares measuring 3X3 because that's the size of the coasters I used.

 I glued them to the coasters and cut out the edges.

I then used distress ink on the edges and glued the rosettes and letters on them.

This Hop is two days (Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2), and on each day you will see different banners. Be sure to visit on both days to see the truly inspirational work of these generous bloggers, and leave some love (comments) on as many sites as you can – because if you do, you can up your chances to win some Spooktacular blog candy.

Thanks for hopping by and your next stop is Jamie.

Diva Birthday

I just love using my Hello Kitty cartridges for any occasion. 

I used pop dots on Hello Kitty.

Materials Used

Cartridges: Hello Kitty Font (HK cut at 2 inches)

                  Lacy Labels (label cut at 5 inches)

                  Birthday Bash (banner cut at 2 1/2 inches)

                  Tags, Bags, Boxes & More (tag cut at 1/2 inches)

Stamp: Crikey by Pink by Design

Paper: Safari Untamed by the Paper Studio

Hello Kitty Love

Today Erica asked us to create Valentine die cuts. I love Valentine’s Day because of all of the pinks and reds! I also enjoyed giving out cards when I was in school and making my own for my parents. I can’t wait to celebrate Valentine’s Day with my future students :)

Since I love Hello Kitty, I decided to make myself a Valentine’s Day Home Décor.

Materials Used

Cartridges: Hello Kitty Font (HK cut at 4 1/2 inches)

                 Create a Critter (Love cut at 3 inches)

Mini Tutorial

I first cut out 2 Hello Kitties (I clicked on the Flip button for the 2nd Hello Kitty)

I then cut 2 HK using chipboard and glued it behind the 1st cut.

I then cut out some more chipboard to make the stand and used my scoreboard to make it easier for me to fold it.

I glued these behind each HK to make them stand up.

January's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

If you are looking for the It's Cold Outside Blog Hop, click here.


Welcome to January's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!


I created this teacher gift for my best friend who just started her first teaching job a few days ago. She is a PreK teacher :) My dream job! I saw this design a few years back on a Christmas ornament and I just had to make something that resembled it.

Close ups

I used Glossy Accents by Ranger on the pencil's eraser.

Tutorial

I first started off by cutting a sheet of red paper to 9 1/2 by 6 inches. I also cut out a piece of chipboard and glued it to the pack of the paper.

I then cut out a sheet of black paper (8 1/2 by 5 inches) and used my corner punch on the red paper.

I used my Crop-A-Dile II to punch the holes.

I also added chipboard on the cut outs. I then used Mod Podge.

Materials Used

Cartridges: Locker Talk (crayon and globe were cut at 2 3/4 inches, and pencil at 1 1/2 inches.)

                     Doodlecharms (apple was cut at 3 inches)

                     Nursery Rhymes (font used for her last name was cut at 1 1/4 inches)

                     Hello Kitty Font (font used to cut teacher was cut at 2 1/2 inches)

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Your next stop is Jen Lundy's blog.

It's Cold Outside Blog Hop

Good Morning everyone! Welcome to my 2nd blog hop for today. Today a few ladies and I created projects that relate to winter. I made this banner to hang on the door of my future classroom.

Close ups

Tutorial

I cut 12 x 12 sheets of card stock to make strips that were 2 inches wide.

I then used my Martha Stewart score board to score the strips of paper. I scored them at 1 inch intervals.

I used one of my punches to punch out circles and used my glue gun to glue on the rosettes.

I then added glitter around the rosettes. I used the Winter Lace cartridge to cut out the snowflakes at 6 3/4 inches. I distressed the snowflakes using Brilliance inks~Pearlescent Sky Blue. I also used the Hello Kitty Font cartridge to cut out the letters at 1 1/2 inches.

Thanks for hopping by! Hop on over to Lynne's blog.

Blog Hop Line Up

Zenita http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/

Janet http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

Lissa http://www.somanycrafts.com/

Ellen http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/

Anita http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/

Ashley http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/

Teresa http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/

Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/ (You Are HERE)

Lynne http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/ (Next STOP)

Shannon http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog/

Melissa http://www.timeweavers.wordpress.com/

Pammejo http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Jennifer http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com/

Throwback Thursday Challenge

I have missed doing challenges, so I enjoyed doing two challenges yesterday.

This challenge is from My creaTive Time and I was to:

Use ANY "OLDER" cartridge of YOUR choice & PLEASE incorporate the color GREEN & YELLOW somewhere on any project of your choice!

I  made a banner for my mentor teacher and I used one of my favorite cartridges, Hello Kitty Font.

Graduation Cards

In 7 months I will be a college graduate, so that means student teaching in August! I had so much fun attending graduations and making cards for my friends and sisters who just graduated.

I made this card for my line sister. Her family pattern is zebra print, so I used the school colors on top and our sorority colors on the bottom.

I used the Hello Kitty Font cartridge for the numbers and the cap is from the Wrap It Up cartridge.

This a picture of my me with my line sisters and the graduates.

The cap is the same one I used from Wrap It Up and the numbers are from Birthday Bash.

Calling Card

I had such a fun weekend at my 2^nd circle swarm here in Houston. Michael Wigton came and talked to a group of 50 ladies about the circle and provo craft. I learned so much and enjoyed crafting that day and collecting so many creative calling cards.  I can’t wait to go to the Cricut Swarm in Dallas!