On The 4th Day of Christmas....

my true love gave to me....4 Calling Birds!!
We are doing the 12 days of Christmas over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog!! I hope you join us for all the fun!! There will be TONS of inspirations too!!! Head on over!!

So, today I'd like to share with you an altered record! I thought it would be a fun "vintage" wreath! I picked up the record at my local antique shop for a quarter a piece!




This was super easy to make...and seriously took less than half and hour!!
First I cut a couple "extra" small branches off the back of my Christmas tree and hot glued them to the side of the record. The added some holly berries and some white flowers. I tied a HUGE bow and glued that under the holly berries and then added my "Calling Bird"! Tada!!

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!

Cuttlebug Challenge "Festival of Lights" **ROSE Tutorial**

I hope you are all ready to learn how to make these fabulous flowers!!
Like I said before, they are super easy and really fast!!
You will need:
*Cardstock
*Pencil
*Scissors
*Cuttlebug and folder of your choice
*Zots/Gluedots

Yep, that's it!!
So, let's get started!!

1. Draw a spiral circle on your cardstock. I've used a sharpie so you all can see what I've drawn...please use a pencil so you can erase the lines. I have also marked a X where the Zot/GlueDot is to go for later.



2. Cut out the spiral and erase your pencil lines.



3. Run your spiral through the Cuttlebug. I've used Coredination Cardstock...so I've sanded my paper to give it a fun look.



4. Start rolling the outer part of your spiral all the way towards the middle like shown in the photo below.



5. Release the rose when you are all the way to the end to loosen it up a bit. This will give it a more relaxed look. Then Zot/Glue Dot it down to the bottom where I have marked with an X.




TADA!!!
Told you it was super easy!!
You can create different size roses by making the spiral circle larger or smaller.
Hope you all enjoyed learning how to create these!!


If you have any questions please feel free to ask!! :)

Cuttlebug Challenge "FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS" Blog Hop

So, for this week we have something really excited all planned out for you!! Stocked FULL of inspiration...are you ready?
Let's get started.....




Welcome to our First ever Festival of Lights from the fabulous team at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog!

The party kicked off over on the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog with a map of the participating Design Team , if you get lost on the way no worries, just check the DT off the map.

In addition to the fabulous projects, we have decided to make this party the most fun ever, by hiding 2 treasures along the hop!

Two "selected" Designers will draw a random winner from the comments left on her blog in the hop, But of course, it wouldn’t be a treasure hunt if you knew which blog is hiding the treasure, right?

The winner will receive a $30 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!

You will also get a free year subscription to Technique Junkie Sponsored by Pat Huntoon.

So as you hop, make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win, and add the Cuttlebug blinkie to your blog!!

Here's a list of all the participating Design Team members:

Cassie Larson
Cindy Royal
Karen Maldonado
Mel McCarthy
Maggie Lamarre
Nathalia Castellon
Shantaie Fowler
Terrie Bailey
Beth Ullman
Betty Brett
Meda Halmaciu
Danielle Wycough
Ingrid Danvers
Jackie Gallagher
Jenn Koss
June Houck
Ellen Sonoski

P.S. the more comments you leave the better chances you have at winning!!!

Okay, so for my project I decided to alter a candle holder I found at my local thrift store! A little bit of paper and twine and it's ready to sit on my table for Christmas...or any other occasion!
These flowers were super easy and really fun to make...and best of all, they took a couple minutes to put together!! Make sure you come back here Saturday evening at 6pm Eastern time for the tutorial on how to alter this candle holder!!

Teresa Collins and Cuttlebug Challenge

Yep, you've heard that right!! Teresa Collins is our sponser this week at Cuttlebug Challenge!! She has such amazing "lines" out there and her work is just fabulous!! But that's not all...we also have the wonderful and fabulous Jamie Harper too!! So make sure you look at both Wednesday's post and Tuesday's post so see the gorgeous projects created by these two talented ladies!!

The challenge for this week is to create a "Thanksgiving" project...so here's what I made for my table!!



Thanks for looking and I hope you join us in this super fun challenge!!!

Cuttlebug Challenge #55

Hi everyone!! I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!!
Can you believe the month is almost over?? How time flies!!

So, this weeks challenge over at
Cuttlebug Challenge is to create a project that has "your favorite" thing on it!! So, can you all guess what mine would be? lol...for those of you who know me I'm sure can guess right away!! Yep, FLOWERS!! I love putting flowers on my projects!!!

Make sure you go check out the rest of the cards by the design team!! This weeks sponser, My Favorite Things is such fabulous stamp company!! Their stamps are so amazing, and beyond fun to work with!!