Patriotic Hair Bows

Hi everybody,

This is Jamie and today I want to share some easy to make hair bows with you all. These bows are perfect for 4th of July!

Here is a list of the things you will need to make these bows:
Alligator clips (one per bow)
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Scissors
5/8" red wired satin ribbon
11/2" navy blue mini stars wired ribbon

It took me less than 30 minutes to make these bows start to finish. I made a (hopefully) easy picture tutorial for you just in case.

Step 1.
Cut ribbons to size. I cut the navy star ribbon at aprox. 11 inches and the red approx. 3 inches.

Step 2.
Take your blue star ribbon and gate fold until the ends overlap (make sure to have them overlap enough for a line of glue to hold them together).

Step 3.
Hot glue a line across one of the edges and then press the two edges together to make a continuous piece of ribbon (it should look like a circle or bracelet shape once unflattened).

Step 4. 

Flatten the ribbon you just glued together and grab in the center of the ribbon and pinch together.

Step 5.
While still pinching the center of the ribbon, use your other hand to fold the top and bottom of the pinched area to the back (so that the center now makes a "W" shape). At this point you can hot glue to hold it together or use some twine/thread and tie it in this position if you like.

Step 6. 
While holding the center in a "W" shape (you won't have to hold it if you've tied the center in this position) take your red ribbon and wrap around the center to hide the fold. (The 3 inches is enough to wrap around 2x. If you only want to wrap around once cut off the excess now).

Step 7.
Now secure the red ribbon with hot glue (making sure your ribbon seam end is on the back side of your bow).

Step 8.

Now hot glue your alligator clip (or hair piece etc. of your choice) to the back side of the bow. Make sure you line it up in the middle so that you can't see the clip from the front.

See, I told you easy! I hope my tutorial was easy enough to follow.  Thanks for taking the time to view my project today!

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Happy Jayden Layout

Hey everyone,

Today I'm sharing a layout of Jayden when she was a little baby :). I cut the clouds and title with my Silhouette. I used silver glimmer mist to spray around. Adhered most things with ATG tape and the rest with pop dots (title cloud, cloud above title & date cloud). I inked around some of the clouds with a turquoise ink. Used a glaze pen for the date. Cut the photo corners with remainder of some of the banner papers. Pretty much everything is from my stash.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Stuck On U Sketches - Clear Skies 
Picture This - 1 photo + corners + splatter
Pretty Little Studio - Sketch

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Summer Fun Layout

Hey everyone...

Tonight I have a 12x12 layout to share.  I used mainly scraps for this one but all of the papers are from my stash.. the background is a few years old. I designed/created and cut the suns, title & chevrons with DE and my Cameo. I adhered everything with ATG and Zig glue (for the smaller stuff like the letters and chevrons. And I put the sun on some pop dots.

I was inspired by a Scrap Around the World mood board (March Challenge 23). I was inspired by the colors, chevrons, and the sun on the yellow image. 

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:
Scrap Around The World - #23
Pretty Little Studio - sketch
Clique Kits - Anything Goes
The Studio Challenges - Use your stash

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Dance in the Rain card

Today I have this super cute card to share. I made this for a few challenges, which I will list below, as always. I used the DCWV Juniper Berry stack for the papers. 

The rain drop is cut by hand from some blue card stock and I stamped it with a Peachy Keen wide eyed kids stamp. I filled the eyes in with white gel pen, the mouth with red zig marker, and drew some white lines around to give the effect of water i guess lol. The rain drop is on a pop dot.

The strip of ribbon is from my stash and is pleated, and held on with ATG tape. I also hand cut the banner and stamped with black ink the sentiment using some alphabet stamps from Studio G. 

I inked around the banner and added stickles to the banner and the light blue umbrella below.

I am entering this adorable card into the following challenges:

DCWV - March Stack-a-holic

PKS - Anything goes

The Shabby Tea Room - #158

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Its A Boy

Another Tommy layout.. I know lol. I used Teresa Collins Imagine Baby Boutique cartridge for all of the pattern papers and the title and used the onesie that comes with the basic imagine shapes and filled with different patterns from the Baby Boutique cart. I popped up the circle that says "baby" with pop dots. I used some trendy twine for the line the onesies are hanging on. 

I used the Purple Pumpkin March sketch. Unfortunately I don't have any Purple Pumpkin products or they'd be all over this thing lol :).

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Purple Pumpkin - March Sketch
My Craft Spot - #90 sweet baby
Craftin Desert Diva's - linky party anything goes
DL.ART - Anything goes

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Awesome Dad Layout

I couldnt help myself I had to make the page match Adam's shirt... because it's so true! :) Pretty simple layout..

I started with some chipboard that came with our pillow cases (for a challenge to recycle that I am entering this in it'll be listed where I list the challenges normally). I cut the big star out of the chipboard using the Simply Charmed cart.. I cut it at 3 3/4 inches.

I just flipped it to the other side (it was a solid off white color) and inked it with yellow chalk ink.

Cut the circle out at 4 inches using my circle cutting tool and added a little blue ink to give it some texture. I outlined the circle with white scribbles 3d paint (to make it match the star on Adam's shirt).

The title was cut at 1 1/4 inches using the Pooh Font cart. I cut the white out in Marker Shadow and the blue in just Marker. I ripped blue paper and adhered the title to that and then I ripped white paper to accent the blue (similar to the title). The pics have a small framed blue mat behind them.. and one has Scribbles 3d paint dots in the corners and the other has a white outline with Scribbles 3d paint. Hope you like. This is page #6 in 7 days :( dang I fell behind.. hopefully I catch up today thow :) we'll see!

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

Paper Cutz Challenge - #106

Lollipop Crafts - #46

Fantabulous Cricut challenge - #75

Get Picky - #11

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Baby Boy Card

I cut this card base at 5.5 inches using the Life's A Party cart in blue & white plaid card stock. I cut the onesie shape from at the same size from the same cart and inked the outside and inside of the cut with blue chalk ink. And then I cut the "B" at 1inch from the same cart and also inked the edges. I used some pop dots for the "B" and tada! :)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Cricut Cardz Challenge - #84

Die Cuttin Divas - #24

Wee Memories - #62

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Imagine Help & 4th of July

So.. let me start with the most important part of this post. I got an Imagine for Mothers Day and will sometime this week finally get to open it (YAY im so excited!!). I just kind of jumped into my expression.. which worked.. but it took me forever to figure it out properly. So, I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of blogs, or sites or anything like that where I could go to get all the info I need for starting to use the Imagine.. Im at square one.. I seriously have NO idea how to even begin to work the thing. I dont even know if I have to use a special type of paper for it lol. So any sites or blogs that have helped you out or any tips or info you can give me that helped or anything like that would be great!! thanks so much in advance for your help.

Now, onto my 4th of July. We spent it with my husbands family.. well we spent a lot of it getting ready to go lol. I for some odd reason ended up making a cake (with tons of help from my husband.. actually he did most of it lol). My pics aren't the best.. I took all of them with my iPhone since our Nikon was already packed and ready for the evening.

Adam got up at 6:30am (he couldn't sleep it wasnt like he had to or anything lol) and ended up having to go shopping to get a few things like.. oil and flour. We don't have a lot of stuff that we should have since we're still unpacking etc. He ended up baking all of the cakes and cutting them too.

How we made the flag cake:

We made 1 box of white cake (makes two 9inch circle cakes), 1 box of white cake that we dyed blue with gel food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes, and 1 box of strawberry cake and added some red food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes.

We cut the red and white cakes in half (to make each 1 cake into 2 cakes that could be layered.. not in half like a pie), then we stacked them (from bottom to top) white, red, white, red. With the top red & white layers we took those off the cake and stacked one blue cake with them and traced with a knife the lid of a sour cream container... then we took the middle of the blue cake and put it to the side.. and the outter circles of the white and red cake to the side.

I made a filling from cool whip and mashed up strawberried and filled between each layer.. and in the circle of the blue layer. Then we frosted the cake with cream cheese frosting that I made from my better homes cook book.. its the best frosting ever! lol.

We actually made 2 of these cakes.. one said "Happy 4th" and had fireworks and the other was covered in strawberries and blue berries. I only got a pic of this one cake because the other one was gone already and of course I didnt have my Nikon so its not the best quality of a pic.

The cake pops I made with the left over cake and left over cream cheese frosting. I just kind of eyeballed it.. no recipe or anything just added what needed to be added. I had got some of the melting candy from Michaels the day before.. one bag of white and one of red. I dipped lollipop sticks in the melted candy and then shoved them into the middle of the cake balls. Then I put them into the freezer for about 10-15 mins.. my cake balls were so heavy that it was the only way I could keep them from falling off the sticks into the candy. Pretty simple, I must add this was my very first time doing cake pops and for a first time they turned out pretty good. :)

Hope you all had an amazing 4th of July weekend!! Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

Tower Falls Layout

Made this layout for a scrapbook I am making Adam.. its a book of some of my fav pics of him & Jayden together. This is a layout from our 2nd trip to Yellowstone. In these pics they are posing in front of Tower Falls.

I am entering this into the following challenge:

Off The Wall Craftiness - #42

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Jayden's 1st Birthday Party Supplies!

My little baby Jayden is turning 1 on January 11, 2011! I cannot believe how fast this year went.. Im gonna cry on her birthday I just know it.. (I cry on her month birthdays lol). I have all of this stuff made kind of early (we're doing her party on Jan 1, 2011 so that family can come since we'll be home then). Why so early you ask? Well... we are leaving WY (and my Cricut and all my crafty things) On Dec 12 and won't be back until Jan 5 so I have to get it done now!

This week at SweetSassyDiva DT our challenge was to make party stuff.. (invites, banners, gift bags, cakes etc.)

- What you'll need -

For the invites:

premade cards (I made a total of 19)
blue card stock

bright blue ink pad

hot pink card stock

neon green card stock

purple card stock

black card stock

black Glaze pen

black ink pad

clear accents

Plantin SchoolBook

Create A Critter

Cricut

adhesive

Cuttlebug

divine swirls embossing folder

For the gift bag:

brown gift bag (got mine at the dollar tree 2 for $1)

hot pink cardstock

blue card stock

purple card stock

neon green card stock

black glaze pen

adhesive

double sided foam tape
Create A Critter

Wild West

Cricut

- How To Make It -

The invites:

Cut the blue cardstock to the size of your premade cards (a little smaller than the front) and emboss with the Cuttlebug and Divine Swirls folder. Take your blue ink pad and rub over the blue card stock to give a little dimension to the swirls. Adhere the blue cardstock to the front of the card. With Create A Critter cut some whales and jellyfish (I cut my whales and large jellyfish at 3 inches and my smaller jellyfish at 2 inches). I cut them in pink and purple and saved the green for the tags (its a girl party so I just wanted the green to be an accent). Adhere the whales and jellyfish on the cards (upper middle). With Plantin SchoolBook cut out the #1 using roly poly at 11/4 inch in the green, purple & pink cardstock. Cut some strips of green & pink (they are the ones the words will show best on) approx. 1x4 inches and distress the edges using the black ink pad. Write the sentiment (I had wrote all of mine a stamp or printed version would work just fine) with the black Glaze pen. I just decided to come up with my own theme for Jaydens party, I already knew what I wanted so I didn't have to search for anything. I placed the strips diagonally and put opposite colored 1's over the end of the strip. I then covered the 1's in clear accents to give it the look of water.

The gift bag:
I cut the purple jellyfish at 4inches and the pink whale at 5inches. Adhered them to the bag toward the middle. Cut the strips of waves by the whale by hand and put foam tape on the bottom one to make it pop. I also cut the bubbles by the jellyfish out by hand. Using Create A Critter I cut the "happy birthday" at 2 inches in green, and with Wild West I cut all the other letters and the 1's. I cut the green 1 using shadow at 3 inches and the purple at 3 inches w/o shadow on, and the shadow green "st" at 2inches and w/o shadow in purple at 2inches. Cut "Jayden" in both green and purple at 2 inches (and shadowed them myself using opposites). I cut the "BABY" at 2 inches and the "baby" at 1.5 inches in hot pink. Easy!

I am entering these into the following challenges:

The Invites:

Peachy Keen Stamps - #43 Embossing

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Its A Boy card

I made this Its A Boy card to fit into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge - #13 Anything baby

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - #39 Sketch

The Corrosive Challenge - #86 Get Rid Of White

Pear Tree Designs - #22 Free For All

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