Season's Greetings from Owl of Us and Owl Be Home For Christmas Blog Hop Reminder

Hello crafty friends! I hope all of you are having a great week! Today I have a card to share and I wanted to remind you all about my "Owl Be Home for Christmas Blog Hop" that is coming up this weekend!!!

 Please save the date and join us! My talented friends are amazing! There is sure to be awesome projects and great prizes, too! Here's a couple pictures of the grand prize!

7 Darice embossing folders, 8 small See D's stamp sets, and a beautiful large stamp set, too!

AND....

Some beautiful Webster's Pages goodies, Martha Stewart glitter, and some embossing powder!

I sure hope you will come by and join us for the hop! It will start right here on my blog!! I know there is going to be more prizes along the way offered by my friends!

Here's is the card I have to share today.......

I just love that stamp that Jessica gave me for my Birthday by the Craft's Meow! The patterned chevron paper is by Simple Stories. I used Copic's to color in the image and added some cute green twine.

I want to thank each and every one of you for stopping by today! My life has been crazy lately so I am sorry I haven't been by to visit you all much lately! It will calm down soon and I will have more times again! :)

I hope you have a great day!

Hugs,
Heather Lynn

Birthday Hooo-ray!

Happy Friday friends! I have a card I wanted to share with you today. I made it a couple of weeks ago but hadn't posted it yet. Jessica posted it over on our Pinque Peacock Facebook page so if you are a fan you might recognize it.  I am not feeling well today so it's going to be a short post. Here's my card....

Supplies~
White cardstock
Orange Cardstock
K & Company patterned paper
Darcie's stamps
Pinque Peacock  fabric covered button
Ric Rac
Twine
Copic markers
We R Memory Keepers Corner punch
ATG
Pop Dots

This card came together really quick. I love this owl stamp..so cute! I hope you like my card today. I also hope you all have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,
HL

For Owl You Do

Happy Friday, friends!! The weekend is here! I hope you all have some fun plans for this weekend. I am going to a crop with friends tomorrow..can't wait! I still have to pack so I better make this a short and sweet post so I can get that done! I made a cute little card to share with you using the Happily Ever After Cricut cartridge...

I cut the sweet little owl out at 4 inches and added some Want 2 Scrap gunmetal pearls to her eyes. The doily was white and I inked it up with some pretty pink ink. The twine is by The Twinery. The cute little button is one of ours from Pinque Peacock. I made it to match my card. The ribbon is by 3 Girl JAM. I added some  little pink bling down at the bottom and that's it. I hope you like it!

Have you heard about Jessica and I starting a new venture yet? We are opening our own store very soon! Please be sure to check out our new blog Pinque Peacock and follow along! There just might be a giveaway soon..just sayin'!

Thanks so very much for stopping by! I am going to be trying to visit all of my friends in the new couple of days!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,
Heather Lynn

Thinking of You and a Gift Bag

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Happy Sunday, crafty friends! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I went to a crop yesterday and made 2 projects to enter in a couple of challenges and I wanted to share them with you. Here's what I made..

For this card, I started with kraft cardstock. The patterned papers and paper embellishments are all by Authentique. (My sweet Jessica gave them to me.) The gun metal pearls are by Want 2 Scrap. (Jess gave me those, too.) The crinkle ribbon is by 3 Girl JAM and it's Antique White..so pretty. I used my bow maker by 3 Girl JAM to make that cute little bow. It really makes bow making sooo super easy!! The stamp is by The Crafts Meow. I am going to enter this card into the "Anything Goes Challenge" over at the 3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog.

On to my next project..

I started with a little kraft colored gift bag and added some pink polka dotted paper from my scrap pile. the next two layers of papers are by Webster's Pages. I cut a little die cut out with my Slice machine and added the Hoot Hoot sentiment. The little owl is a stamp but I am not sure what brand it is, it was a gift from my other friend Jessica I colored in the flowers on the owl with my Copics and inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink. The little pink ribbon is a punch and the pink fluffy trim is by Webster's Pages. I would like to enter this little bag into the challenge over at the Craft Your Passion Challenge Blog. This week's challenge (ends tonight) is called Save the Hooters. 

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

HL

Butterflies and Bows Challenge~ 3GJ~tag/card envelope

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 Happy Friday friends! How are you all doing? Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend! I am going to Pittsburgh to the zoo, aquarium, and to visit some Diners Drive-Ins and Dives spots. I can't wait to get away for a little bit!

 Have you heard? 3 Girl JAM just started a new challenge blog! I haven't entered in a challenge for a while but wanted to be sure to make time to enter this one. I love 3 Girl JAM Crinkle Ribbon and the Owner, Julie, too! This weeks challenge is called "Butterflies and Bows". Be sure to head over to 3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog to see all of the rules if you'd like to enter! Here's what I made to enter.

 I made a tag/card and a decorated envelope. I used my CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut the tag, envelope, and butterfly. I used a K. Andrew Design stamp for the "for you" and the sentiment is an Itty Bitty by Unity. Jessica, my Sweet Friend Forever, gave me the little pearls that I added to the butterflies. They are made by Want to Scrap. The 3GJ Crinkle Ribbon is in the color Iris. I used it for the bow and for the top of the tag. I did emboss my stamping with purple embossing powder, although it's hard to tell. That's it! Pretty quick and simple.

 I hope you like my creations today! Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Heather Lynn

Altered Clipboard and Huge Giveaway

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Hello crafty friends! Hope you all are having a good week! Today I have a altered clipboard to share with you and some info on a HUGE giveaway! I went to goodwill a while back and found a  new clipboard for 35 cents. I snagged it up knowing I could do something with it. Here's what I came up with..

I used my new CTMH Artist Cricut cartridge for the cute owl. I cut it out at 6 inches. I used Bo Bunny SWEET TOOTH patterned papers, vintage photo ink, some ribbon, a flower, and brad. The stamp is an Itty Bitty by Unity that my friend Jessica gave me.  That flower was white and I inked it to match my project. The clip was also white so I added some staz on ink to that to make it not stand out so much. I think it turned out pretty cute! Here's another view.

Do you have a Cricut? Do you LOVE it like I do? I have more than one Cricut and they have never let me down!!  Well right now there is a HUGE giveaway going on over at My Cricut Craft Room! Erica is giving away cartridges and paper packs so be sure and head over to get entered to win! There is also and event on Facebook HERE. 

I hope you all have a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me!

Hugs,

Heather Lynn

Ready...Set...Craft!

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 Hi friends! How's everybody doing so far today? It's cloudy and rainy here..good day for a nap, but that will never happen!  Ryelynn, 9 months, is in to everything!!! lol Help me!!! ;)

 So, the other night I went to Jessica's and we got to craft together for a bit. Yay! I had seen a digi stamp on facebook and she printed it out for me. I fell in love with it!! So, I colored her and made a card that I want to share with you. Here it is..

 The digi stamp is called "Crafty Lizzie" by Whimsie Doodles. I used K. Andrew Designs "Crafty Friends Sentiment" stamp set for the sentiment. All of the glitter papers are by Core'dinations. The white paper was from my stash and the twine and Bo Bunny bling I bought from Erica. I think it turned out pretty cute! I like colorful, as you can see! lol

I am hoping to have time to come by and visit all of my friends' blogs today! There are just not enough hours in the day! Where do my days go?! Hope you all enjoy your day! Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Heather Lynn

A card to share and kids can REALLY help in the craft room!

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Happy Sunday to all of you! Hope you have had a great weekend so far! I have a card to share with you today and a few tips on how you can have your kids help you out in your craft room. It really does help you out and it keeps them busy while you are getting your craft on. ;)

So, I went to my friend Jessica's recently and we got to craft together for a bit. I made a few projects and today I want to share this super quick and easy card!

For this card I used Core'dinations glitter cardstock (that I picked up for 4/$1 at Joann), black cardstock from my stash, a piece of patterned paper from K&Co Edamame stack (that I picked up for $6 on clearance at Joann). some chevron washi tape I snagged from Jessica, some black twine, and a hoot hoot stamp by inkadinkadoo. This card seriously took me maybe 10 minutes! I think it turned out pretty cute for such a quick card. Hope you like it, too!

Now it's time to share a few hints with you that might let you get some crafting done if you have little ones around.

Kids love to use the Cuttlebug! We like embossed papers! Here's what you do..you get out your Cuttlebug, a bunch of papers in different colors and sizes, and all of your embossing folders. Show your little one how to use it a time or two and let them at it! They will have a blast embossing all of your papers in different colors with different embossing folders! Then put them all together so later you can grab the stack of already embossed papers and grab the perfect one to go with the project you are working on! Saves time and keeps the kids out of your hair for a bit, too! LOL Here is Gretchen getting her Cuttlebug on..

Another tip is to do basically the same thing but with punches. Get out all of your punches, lots of scrap papers and let the kids use up your scraps and make you some shapes to use at a later time. These are also great to let your kids glue down when they want to make a card or project while you are crafting. I hate to throw away scraps, so I love to try and use every bit I can. (even though I have a gazillion sheets of paper!!! LOL) Here's Gretchen making me some cute punched goodies..

My last tip for the day is to have your kids help you organize in your craft room. Kids love to help so take advantage of it and let them help you out! :) I always have a big thing of scraps..I have a shelf I use to organize them by color but when I am crafting I tend to just throw them in a basket. I give the basket to the kiddos and have them separate them all out my color. They are learning colors in the process..see..it's not ALL just for fun! ;) Then after they get them separated you can either put them on a scrap shelf like I have or in drawers or even in gallon size ziplock bags. It sure makes crafting easier when you are organized! You can also have them separate buttons, brads, etc by color, too! You get the idea.

I hope you all enjoyed my tips for today! Please leave me a comment and tell me how your kids or grandkids help you in the craft room! Thanks so much for stopping by to visit! I appreciate it so very much!

Hugs,
Heather Lynn