CCC week 2 Challenge

I have 19 min. to get this in to the week 2 Christmas card challenge!  ...gotta hurry! I won the first week challenge last week and as my prize I won this cute little elf stamp from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps. Can you believe how fast it came? Thank you Stephanie!

Ok, gotta get this in! I will be posting soon about my wild time at Mall of Amreica today so stay tuned!

Susan

My new assistant!

Please don't think anything has happened to Ms. Kiki, she is just fine. Well, somewhat, she is in a crunchy mood tonight and I could not get her to cooperate. Now little Shadow, always very eager to make the momma, (that's me), happy was more than willing to take her place in picking the winners of my recent blog candy giveaways. He didn't mind getting the extra treats either! Now for my new friends I'm guessing you have no idea what the heck I'm talking about. To sum it up, I usually post a video with my dog, a.k.a., assistant, Kiki pick the winners. It much more fun than just using a random generator.  Here is a picture of my girl and her best buddy Shadow:

Shadow loves his Christmas collar!

So this first video is Shadow picking the winner of the $10 dollar Michaels gift card from the Christmas Decorations blog hop this past weekend.

 And now this video shows Shadow picking the winner of the Savory cartridge! You all were awesome for playing along. I hope you enjoyed my little game! I will be doing this again soon! (Hmm, perhaps January to celebrate my 18th year of my 29th birthday? Ha, get it?)

Ok, now if you can't watch the video and just want to see who the heck won, please check out the picture below:

Congrats HappyScrappin and Lisa (IndyMermaid)! Yay! As soon as you email me your info I will get these to you lickety split! You will find my email on my profile.

Now I have got to get busy, I have to get my week two Christmas card done for the Christmas Card Challenge blog before my friend Rinne thinks I gave up already. (I didn't Rinne, I promise!)  Thanks for visiting everyone!

Susan

Warm Wishes and Savory dishes!

Wow, what a cool title. I should write a Christmas song!


Today is the 14th, hmmm, I'm suppose to do something tomorrow but can't remember. Maybe it will jump out at me. A while back my crafting buddy Jessie gave me this fun cut and challenged me to put it to good use. So that I did. Jessie, I can't recall what cartridge this was from so you may have to help me out here. (Gez, I can't remember anything today!) I do know the stamp is a K. Andrews. And I do know the paper is Close to my Heart. And Stickles, lots of Stickles.

I used little pom poms for the marshmallows

What the heck? How did this get in here?

That's right, tomorrow is the 15th and that means someone is going to win this cartridge! Anyone follower that comments on here today, up until 9 pm Minnesota time, will get another entry. Tomorrow I will post the winner along with the winner of the $10 Michaels gift card from the blog hop I was in this past weekend. I'm looking forward to it! ;)

Have a great day!

Susan

Christmas Decorations Blog hop with Creations with Becka

Before we get a ho ho ho hop hoping I just have a few things to say here this morning. First off, some of you have been naughty with your Christmas cards this year! lol! Glad to see I'm not the only one that doesn't have mine done! Secondly, I know I haven't visited much these last few days but I have all intentions of catching up. Even though I only did two projects this week it was like my hands and brain were not on the same page and nothing seemed to flow together. For the hop today I had started two projects and hated them. I woke up Friday morning without the slightest clue what I was going to do for this hop. While I stood in the kitchen with my cup of coffee and my mind lost in that common crafter daydream of "what to do" I turned my head and caught sight of an ugly cardboard wine holder with a snowman sticker on it that I pulled out with the Christmas decorations. Bingo! And just like that my flow started. Wait! No, I mean creative, oh nevermind.

On with the hop!

This weekend is the Christmas Decorations Blog hop with Creations with Becka at http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/. If you arrived here from Crystal's blog then you are in the right place. If you just happened to stop by to say Hi, then please start at the beginning of the hop over at Creations with Becka . Please make sure you stop by every blog on the list and leave a comment so you are eligible to win the grand prize blog candy- which is a cricut cartridge.

For my project I made a beautiful wine holder.



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I won't go into all the details of how I did this but if you have any questions let me know, I don't mind sharing. I will say the snowflakes were all  cut using Joys of the Season cartridge. I am going to enter this over at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/ for their Challenge me Monday.

Oh, yes I have blog candy. (To my Savory regulars, not this time around, lol!) As I was saying, I will be offering a $10 dollar Michaels gift card to one lucky follower that leaves a comment. The winner will be announced on Dec. 15th so make sure you check back then, you will have a week to claim it!

Thank you for visiting my blog today and participating in the Christmas Decorations hop.  Don’t forget in order to win the grand prize blog candy from Becka at Creations with Becka you must comment on every blog in the hop.

Here is a complete list of the stops on this blog hop in case you get lost. Next up is Tonya!

Becka http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/
Oma Gloira http://omascrafts.blogspot.com/

Julie K http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/

Beckie Woodall http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/

Jamie Larsen http://babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/

Lisa Grave http://lisa-scrappingspot.blogspot.com/

Anna Bee http://annabeedesigns.blogspot.com/

Crystal Kovach http://crystal-kovach.blogspot.com/

Susan http://cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com/ ** That's me!

Tonya Morgan http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/  ** Next one!

Dana Tarchala http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/


Have a great weekend!
 
Susan

Are your holiday cards done?

I don't have all mine done, I admit it. But thanks to my friend Rinne at http://rinnesbliss.blogspot.com/ this may not be an issue next year. You see Rinne is on a DT at  http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.com/ which is how I found out about this fun blog. Every week for the next 52 weeks they offer up a challenge that asks that you make one Christmas card a week. Then come December next year you will have 52 cards done! Now you want to talk about a challenge, I am already wondering how weird it will be to do a Christmas card come Summer but I am really going to do my best to give this a try. For the week #1 challenge CCC asked for a one layer card. Let me tell you, I thought to myself this would be a piece of cake. NOT! It was the hardest thing I've done so far. I went through 3 pieces of card stock making this so called piece of cake card. There is zero room for mistakes! I'm not too thrilled by how it turned out other than I like the colors I used. But it's clean, simple and mostly finished! Week 1 done. Anyone else up for this challenge?

Well...it is one layer right?

The inside. And something "Savory" (hint hint)

See some BLOG CANDY in the bottom picture?  If you are a follower here and leave a comment you will be entered for a chance to win this on Dec. 15th! And check back to see if it pops up in anymore pictures until then for more chances to win!

I also want to send out a big THANK YOU to Miranda at http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/. I was picked as the winner of her blog candy and she sent me the most beautiful Christmas paper stack and some really adorable stickers. Miranda- this is going to help me out a lot during the next 52 weeks...thank you!

Thanks for stopping in everyone and have a great rest of the week!

Susan

"Pop" in and Shred it!

I'm going to enter this in this weeks challenge at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/

When I hear the word "Shred" I think about running paper through a machine. However, in the world of Snowboarders the word shred relates to what happens to the snow after they go down a hill on their board. And just how do I know this important bit of information? I am a proud Mom of two boys that have shredded it since they were both very young, age three to be exact. My card today is one that was inspired by my boys. My goal was to create a Christmas card that could be appreciated by boys around the ages of my sons, Richie, 23 and Dennis, 17. Also, I should mention I used the Cricut Lite cartridge Dude, which I picked up just for this image!

So handsome!

And here they are in action:

Richie

Dennis

They are such great young men. They both have a good head on their shoulders and always, always make me laugh. I don't know where their sense of humor comes from, lol! Since the boys were very young we have collected Nutcrackers at Christmas and the current tally is at 55. Now these are not the expensive ones made in Germany but rather just ones that we liked. Here is a display of some of them. (Hint...something may "pop out" that doesn't belong in the picture.)

Something is out of place.......

If you leave a comment telling me what you see "pop out" in the above picture you will be entered to win it on Dec. 15th. For those that entered already on my last post you will automatically get an additional entry if you leave a comment on this post. (After all, you already know what it is...) Don't forget, any post I put up until Dec. 15th could have this certain something hidden in the background so keep checking back for more chances to win it!

Thanks for stopping in! I'm off to shred it now...but I'm sticking to paper shredding! ;)

Susan