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/

Spring Card

Good Morning everyone! Wow! I just realized that I will be graduating in 10 days! I can't wait to be an alumni from Sam Houston State University :) And tomorrow is also my LAST day of student teaching!!!

I created a Spring Card because I have really enjoyed making these cards. They are so easy to make! The only hard thing about this type of card is finding the right envelope.

Materials Used

Cartridges: Hello Kitty Greetings (Snowman cut at 4 3/4 inches)

                   Winter Lace (snowflake cut at 4 3/4 inches)

Paper:Winter Wonder by DCWV (tags)

           Jingle Bells by Recollections

Ink: Pearlescent Orchid Dew Drop

Winter

I had so much fun making this project because I got the idea from the Oriental Trading Crafts catalogue. They always have cute projects for kids to make and when I saw a tree made out of snowflakes, I just had to make one. It took some trial and error, but to get the beads to stay, you have to use lots of glue. I used a hot glue gun and continued layering the tree until I knew that each bead was stuck.

 Other Views

Cartridge Used: Winter Lace (Snowflakes were cut from 2-6 inches. I added 1/2 inches every time.)

Mini Tutorial

I used chipboard to cut out the snowflakes. (my mom is always able to get the chipboard that comes in business packages from work and gives them to me)

I then cut the snowflakes in glitter paper and glued them onto the chipboard. Once everything adhered, I got some flat beads and hot glued them to the center of each snowflake.

Circle Pal

I made these two cards for my circle pal. I didn’t want to post them up yet until she received her package, but since I had a few problems with the post office (not shipping it to the correct location and not notifying me), I figured that I can share them since she will be getting her package tomorrow I hope.

This is the 1^st package she sent me in December.