Ho Ho Ho Blog Hop Winner

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.  I will be back later to post some of the things I made for swaps and presents since everybody has received everything now.


Regarding the blog candy, I  have not heard from Christina yet but am going to give her until January 7th to email me her address because of the holidays.  If I do not hear from her by then, I will pick a new winner. 

Christmas 2 Day Blog Hop and Candy - Day 2

Sorry this is up so late.  I had it scheduled to post this morning but for some reason it did not work.  I just got on to do the hop myself when I noticed mine was not up.

If you are here for the Christmas Blog Hop then you are in the right place! If you are just finding us please be sure to visit Josy's Blog to start at the beginning of the hop. You should have arrived from Alex's Blog and after my blog you will be going to Yolanda's Blog.

My project today is another Christmas present.For today's project I made a mini album for one of my Christmas presents. I am not saying whose present it is in case they read this.

Here are the supplies I gathered together to use but did not use everything

First I started with a round tin that had coasters with it, I bought it at my LSS on clearance for $1.  Then I took the coaster covered each side of each one with coordinating pp from DCWV Christmas paper from last year. I placed the coaster on the back of the paper and traced it and cut them out by hand. I took my black paint dauber and covered all the edges and slightly onto the flat part of the coaster before I taped my pp on. Then I applied Modge Podge over everything to seal the edges of the paper.

I decorated my pages with various embellishments. I tried to only glue the embellishments on the outer edges of the circle so that a photo could be slipped in behind them.

I am offering blog candy for the hop and because it is my blogaversary too. I have the Cricut cartridge Country Life and the Scrapbooking with Cricut book.  To get in with a chance to win this, please be a follower, post this in your sidebar, or if you do not have a blog, do a post about it somewhere and give me the link in your comment and leave a comment by December 18th. If you want an extra chance, visit my post from the blog hop yesterday and leave a comment as well and that will give you a second entry. I will be drawing the winner from the comments on this post and on yesterday's post. I will draw a winner on December 19th, my hubby's birthday.

Here is the order of the hop:
1. Josy http://josyscraftcorner.blogspot.com/
2. TheScrapbookGirl http://www.cricutconfessions.com/
3. 1squirrelygirl http://www.nutsaboutcuts.com/
4. Poohbearbaby http://www.looneybugdesigns.com/
5. Mandy http://mandys-scrap.blogspot.com/
6. Scrapperbecka http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/
7. AthenaHarris1 http://www.pixellaynestudio.blogspot.com/
8. Shawneestamper http://www.paperfrolic.blogspot.com/
9. ScrappidyAshy http://www.scrappidyashy.blogspot.com/
10. Bobbi's Hobbies http://bobbishobbies.blogspot.com/ (You are here)
11. Craftyscentiments http://www.craftyscentiments.com/
12. Bits-N-pieces http://bitz-n-pieces89.blogspot.com/
13. Kreimers http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/
14. Marcjo♫♪ http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com/

Christmas 2 Day Blog Hop with Candy - Day 1

If you are here for the Christmas Blog Hop then you are in the right place! If you are just finding us please be sure to visit Josy's Blog to start at the beginning of the hop. You should have arrived from Alex's Blog and after my blog you will be going to Yolanda's Blog.  This is a two day hop so be sure to come back and hop for more ideas tomorrow.

For today's project I am altering a pocket calendar.  I like to give these as teacher's gifts and little stocking stuffer type of Christmas gifts.  I buy my pocket calendars at M's or J's for $1 and then personalize them for the person receiving it.  You will need the following supplies to start.

First I start by laying my calendar on the back of the pp to measure where I need to cut.

After marking the cut lines, I used my straight trimmer to cut my cover.  Then I put tape on one of the inside flaps of my calendar and fold around the edge, then I lay my calendar flat and put tape near both edges, the middle of each side and the spine.  Then start from one side and smooth it over to the other edge.  Then I put tape on the other inside flap and folder it around that edge.

This is where the fun comes in, I use my Cricut, ribbon, flowers, iRock and stickles to decorate each one to personalize it and add their name.

I did add the person's name to the front but I do not want to show that here in case they read this.  There are several people I know that love frogs so they will not know who it is for until Christmas:)

I am offering blog candy for the hop and because it is my blogaversary too.  I have the Cricut cartridge NIP Country Life and the Scrapbooking with Cricut book.  To get in with a chance to win this, please be a follower, post this in your sidebar, or if you do not have a blog, do a post about it somewhere and give me the link in your comment and leave a comment by December 18th.  If you want an extra chance, come back tomorrow for the hop and leave a comment on that post as well and that will give you a second entry.  I will be drawing the winner from the comments on this post and on tomorrow's post.  I will draw a winner on December 19th, my hubby's birthday.

Hope you enjoyed the hop and don't forget to come back tomorrow for another project and a 2nd chance at the blog candy.

Here is the order of the hop:
 
1. Josy http://josyscraftcorner.blogspot.com/
2. TheScrapbookGirl http://www.cricutconfessions.com/
3. 1squirrelygirl http://www.nutsaboutcuts.com/
4. Poohbearbaby http://www.looneybugdesigns.com/
5. Mandy http://mandys-scrap.blogspot.com/
6. Scrapperbecka http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/  
7. AthenaHarris1 http://www.pixellaynestudio.blogspot.com/
8. Shawneestamper http://www.paperfrolic.blogspot.com/
9. ScrappidyAshy http://www.scrappidyashy.blogspot.com/
10. Bobbi's Hobbies http://bobbishobbies.blogspot.com/  (You are here)
11. Craftyscentiments http://www.craftyscentiments.com/
12. Bits-N-pieces http://bitz-n-pieces89.blogspot.com/
13. Kreimers http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/
14. Marcjo♫♪ http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com/

Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop

There are 25 wonderful women doing a Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop today through October 31st. 

You start the hop at Patricia's Blog here and her blog candy

Bonnie's candy

Catherine's candy

Chelsea's candy

Emma's candy

Jamie's Blog Candy

Karen's blog candy

Kellie's blog candy

Lori's candy

Marlene's candy

Susan's candy

Here is a picture of True's candy

Here is a picture of Kimm's blog candy.  You can go here to enter

I may have missed some of the candies along the way.  Why don't you hop and see what else may be out there.

Opinion Please

My 1st Blogoversary is the beginning of December and I am in a Christmas Blog Hop with some Cricut MB members on December 4th and 5th so I wanted to offer a nice blog candy for the hop and my blogoversary.  Would you rather have a chance to win the Cricut cartridge Rock Princess or Country Life or should I offer up a Christmas cartridge?  Please let me know your opinion in the comments section as soon as possible because I will have to order the cartridge soon to make sure I get it in time for the hop.  Thanks for helping me make up my mind:)  My DH says that I can never make a decision and he is probably right because I want to make everyone happy so I am counting on you guys to make up my mind for me;)

Fantabulous Cricut Crawl

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is having a Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, each Design Team member will be featuring a specific element related to using the Cricut. There will be a wide variety of techniques and elements that will be featured so make sure to check out each DT member's blog! There will be prizes along the way and there will be a grand prize for the participant that incorporates the most featured elements on one project!!!   Go here to start the crawl.

Cokie Pop Paper Boutique is giving away a Robotz Cricut Cartridge if you use her element and link it within the week. 

Whimsie Doodles 1st Birthday Blog Hop

Whimsie Doodles is having its first birthday blog hop today.  First you do the blog hop with prizes at each DT's blog and then they have a card challenge where you can win the grand prize.  Start the blog hop here and read how you can enter a card to win the grand prize.

Fun New Blog Hop Idea

I found this fun blog that is trying out a really fun idea. Does anyone else want to join me?
Vicky at Clips and Cuts is celebrating 100 posts
You don’t have to link them back here. Just tell everyone to add their card making/scrap booking blog and make the collection as big as we can! Can we make it to 1000? If you have any issues let Vicky know and she will be happy to help asap.

This will make a thumbnail collection that will grow on everyone's blog and we can meet each other! Vicky will be moderating, It will be updated on everyone's blog when someone enters a new link.

Floral Fantasies Moving Challenge

Floral Fantasies is having a blog hop and a challenge http://stamping-fantasies.blogspot.com/2010/02/sir-stampalot-challenge-and-blog-hop.html and giving away some fabulous prizes to help Sir Stampalot (http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/rubber-stamps.php) celebrate moving into a new shop. Here is my card for the challenge part which is a card, layout, etc. with the theme of Moving. I made this card to send to my nephew who is at boot camp right now and can only receive snail mail. I used the snail off of the Spongebob cricut cart. with a background paper from the DCWV All Dressed Up stack and printed the sentiment out on my computer. The sentiment says "Sending snail mail to see how the new place is working out". I am also entering this in Practical Scrappers weekly challenge which is diecuts.