Updates and a cute head band

Hello my friends!! I just wanted to stop in with some updates and show you a cute hair band I made today. :-)

Did you see our first challenge for the blog hop? Click here for more details but all ya have to do is spread the word about our blog hop next weekend. Grab the wonderful badge in the sidebar and display it on your blog. Click the above link to enter your blog in to the linky tool. You will be entered for a chance to win a wonderful prize. :-)

Hey, don't you think that blog hop badge is fabulous? The wonderful (and super sweet) Karen from The Bald Dragonfly created it for me! Thank you a TON Karen, I love it!!

Also you can enter the challenge I have going on right now. Did you see the wreath's I made for my design team? Well if you can guess the number of 4" circles that were used to make just one of the wreath's you could win one. The person that guesses the closest will win. Oh, and the wreath form I used is 12". Click here to enter.


And check out this super cute head band I made today. Do any of you recognize the flower on the top? It is from Precocious Paper's Etsy shop. :-)




And what do you think of our model? Isn't she a doll!! :-)

Alright, well that's it. Stop by tomorrow for some more awesome projects from one of our lovely Delightful Designers!

4 wreaths

Good Morning!

Today I wanted to share with you some wreaths I made for my DT. They are super easy to make and I LOVE the way they turned out. These wreaths were a thank you gift for all their hard work. Abby will be staying on another 6 months or so but I wanted to give it to everyone on the team at the same time.

Artful Delight's first design team was such a success, they all helped me tremendously and I cannot thank them enough. Debbie will also remain on the team helping me with the kits and brain storm ideas. I wish I could keep all the ladies on for another term. It was wonderful to get to know these ladies and I hope to remain friends with them far past the end of their term. I am also SUPER excited to bring on the new team, get to know them, and to see what they can do with Artful Delight kits.

Be sure to join us for the blog hop when we introduce the new team!!!

So first I would like to share with you the wreaths, then at the end of this post will be your first chance to win prizes for Artful Delight's first blog hop. So be sure to scroll down.

This first one was made for Debbie:

This one for Courtney:

Next I made this for April:

And last but certainly not least, this was for Abby:

The "Welcome" was cut with my Cricut. The wreaths were made from individual circles that I cut and adhered to a wreath base. I must say that I did have the help of my oldest daughter inking each and every circle with distress ink.

How about a contest?? Leave a comment on this post guessing how many individual 4" circles I used for just ONE of the wreaths. The person that comes the closest will win a handmade wreath. :-) I am going to leave this contest open until September 23rd.

Edit: I didn't state the size of the wreath (for the contest, that might help in guessing the number of circles) The wreath form measures 12". :-)

Next here is another chance to win a prize. This is the first challenge for our upcoming blog hop. All I ask you do is spread the word that we will be having a hop next weekend. Please snag that badge in my sidebar and post it on your blog. That's it! Then come back here and link your blog in the linky tool. Just label it with your name. :-) This linky tool will remain active until 11:59pm EST on September 22.

Alright that's it for today. I sure hope to see y'all playing along with our challenges next week. :-)

Pure Joy

Happy Monday, I am excited because today is supposed to be a beautiful day. They claim it is supposed to reach 78 degrees, WAHOOO!!!

So today I have a card to share with you that Courtney created using April's monthly kit.


Such an adorable bright card. Be sure to check out Courtney's blog for more details about this card, she is having a tutorial.

That's it for today, super fast post. Monday=school day; so not much time to post.

Be sure to check out the following challenge blogs and get your entries submitted for your chance to win April's monthly kit.

• Lasting Memories
• The Scrappiest
• The Paper Variety
  

You can also enter Artful Delight's sketch challenge for your chance to win May's kit.

Crossword Puzzle anyone?

*this is my second post for the day, be sure to scroll down or click here to see the fabulous LO Debbie created using March's monthly kit and this month's sketch*

So ya know the other day when I had like 3 hours to spare on the challenge over at Lasting Memories? Well I am glad that I played along because look what I got

My LO was chosen, well me and 2 other ladies. I felt so honored. Thanks to all the fab products in March's kit the LO came together really well. So anywho, I decided to play along again, this week's challenge "You're the boss". So what did I do, I decided to try my hand at another mosaic LO. If any of you have been following for awhile you will recall the last one I made, I was so frustrated that I swore off ever making another. Well to make my life easier I headed to Michaels and bought a 1" punch, something I didn't have the last time around and I had to cut every single 1" square. Yeah I thought I was going to cry the last time I made one but I kept thinking how cool they looked. So this time I had the 1" punch and I had such a FUN time putting this together. I LOVE puzzles so this felt like I was putting together a puzzle and I will certainly be making another.
So all the pictures are of my oldest daughter, from birth to present. So that's it, what do ya think? I might make a little, well, it will be a 12x12 but when I say little I mean just a couple LO's in it and they will all be crossword style. Maybe one for each of the kids and one or two with all of us, The only thing that stinks is it uses a lot of photos. There are 100 spots to put pictures, of course if you use a bigger picture that helps but in this LO I still used about 40-50 photos. I am totally surprised I had that many of her that I hadn't scrapped already.

Anywho, I hope ya like.

Happy Crafting!!

Have a sweet birthday

Good morning my friends! I hope y'all are having a wonderful weekend so far. Mine is the same as usually, pretty low key, watching my kids play, laundry, dishes, homework....mostly all the things I do everyday of the week. LOL!

Today I have a super cute card I made last night, another one of my moments I had to craft.


I was going to take a short video of the card because the candy machine wobbles and obviously you can't see that in the picture. Unfortunately I am video challenged and the video quality on my phone stinks and I would have to charge the battery for the video camera and tape it, edit it and upload it and for a 30 second video, that seems like a lot of work. LOL!

Anywho, I used papers from Echo Park's A Walk in the Park collection for this card. The candy machine image is from mygrafico, what I love about this store is that not only do they have digital stamps but they also have SVG files to use with my SCAL/Cricut. LOVE it! Ok, so I printed several of the candy machine images on several sheets of pattern paper, then I began to cut and paper piece it all together. It was a lot of work but it was a TON of fun. I used some Glossy Accents to make it look like a glass container (where the candy goes). The sentiment is from Skipping Stones Design, I have had this stamp set forever and I never used it. Thought it was a perfect card for it. Buns-N-Crunches is the name of the stamp set. Super CUTE!

I did a little sewing action on the outside of the card. So my kids must have played with the dials on my sewing machine because the stitch I made on the outside of the card is certainly not the one I wanted but it turned out ok. This is the first time I decorated the inside of the card, I did that because the sentiment I used was kind of a two-parter. LOL!

Now for the super COOL part of the card, the image is popped off the card using an Action Wobble. Have you guys seen these things.
Such a cool product. I bought a package of 25 for $9.95, they just started selling them in smaller quantities. I am going to have to use these more often on my cards, they are awesome.

Anyways, I am going to enter this card in two challenges. The Paper Variety, you were to sew on your project, whether you hand stitch or use a sewing machine and then also to the Sketches in Thyme


Alright well that's it for today. Have you seen the March kit reveal? People are already reserving their kits so be sure to check it out before they're gone. There is an option in my sidebar to reserve your March kit, or if you subscribe to a 3 or 6 month subscription by clicking here you can also reserve a kit.

Happy Crafting!!