Mad Hatter Tea Party Blog Hop

Welcome to Lynne's Mad Hatter 60th Birthday Tea Party Blog Hop --- don't be late for this very important date and just to be sure you're not late, we're serving tea for not one day but two!! Watch out for rabbit holes, and those drink me and eat me potions as you must do them in moderation. You'll never know what you will see beyond the looking glass --- sew, sit down a spell and enjoy the talented ladies as we hop along in Wonderland. Warning, watch out for the Queen of Hearts as she is losing in the game of croquet and its off with your heads!!!!!

Rather than cake, crumpetts, tarts and cookies, we have blog candy and I mean some sweet treats that are being offered by our great sponsors:

1. Pat Catan's has donated a $25 gift card for shopping at their store, if there isn't a Pat Catan's in your area, we can transfer that out for you
2. Karber Digital Images at http://www.karberdigital.com/ has offered 2 digital designs of the winner's choice
3. Digi My World at http://digimyworld.com/shop/ has offered a $10 gift card
4. SVG Attic at http://www.svgattic.com/ has offered a $20 gift certificate
5. PSA Stamps at www.psastamps.com.blogspot.com has offered a 1 stamper, 2 Peel & Stick packs of winner's choice. MSRP for each package is $55.
6. Creative Kuts has offered a $20 Gift Certificate to http://creativekuts.com/
7. Deborah Marie Foti of http://www.scrappingmamma.net/ will make one of her original birthday cards, Crafty Friends Sentiments Large Sheet by www.gettingcricky.com AND $10 Little Scraps of Heaven Designs Gift Certificate

To be eligible by posting you must comment and post on each stop of our tea party along the way --- now remember to hold your pinky out when drinking your tea --- will that be 1 lump or 2?

If you stopped at my blog to just visit today, I don't want you to miss a single thing along the way and you need to start at the beginning which is two hares by the Cheshire cat who is grinning at you and that darn caterpiller smoking her pipe at http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/!!!

I created a calendar page for my project.  January is an Unbirthday month in our family, so this was perfect for my January page.  You will see that some mischevious creatures from Wonderland played with my layout because there is something VERY WRONG with it.  My family finds this very humerous because I am the Spelling Queen!  I will fix it, but thought I'd share it with you first so you can laugh with us.

Oh well...You get the idea. ;)  I used stamps, papers and inks from Close to my Heart and my Cricut to cut the hat, clock and gifts.  There are no embellishments on this page so it will lay flat (other than the almost flat cork alphabets from Cose to my Heart). 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your tea and crumpets and your next stop is not Twiddledee and Twiddledum but Janet at http://createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Chinese New Year Blog Hop Winner

Congratulations mommahobbit who said...

Very nice annoucement :) ty for sharing :)

You won the grand prize for the Chinese New Year blog hop!  Thank you everyone who joined us!

Chinese New Year Blog Hop Day 2

Ni hao and welcome to the Chinese New Year Blog Hop! This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy our family is adopting from Taiwan. If you'd like to read more about his incredible story, you can go to www.mamacurls.blogspot.com. To celebrate Guan's culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you!

I am so excited for you to see everyone's amazingly creative projects!

For my project, I am sharing our adoption announcement.

I created my card using papers and embellishments available exclusively from Close to my Heart. 

PSA Essentials and I have put together some great blog candy for our grand prize winner. To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post. We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too. I'd also love to meet you on Facebook at Curls & Grins Creations!

Thanks for stopping by! Your next stop is Lynne at slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com

April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Dena - http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/

Chinese New Year Blog Hop Day 1

Ni hao and welcome to the Chinese New Year Blog Hop! This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy our family is adopting from Taiwan. If you'd like to read more about his incredible story, you can go to www.mamacurls.blogspot.com. To celebrate Guan's culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you! 

I am so excited for you to see everyone's amazingly creative projects!

For my project, I created a goody box inspired by Chinese take out boxes.

I created the box by using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, available exclusively from Close to my Heart.  It is inked with Sweet Leaf and Crystal Blue inks, a flourish is stamped on the cardstock, then the box is assembled with decorative brads and embroidery floss.  The final touch is a butterfly gracing the outside of the box.  All supplies and materials are available from Close to my Heart. The sales from my page go towards our adoption expenses.

PSA Essentials and I have put together some great blog candy for our grand prize winner. To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post. We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too.  I'd also love to meet you on Facebook at Curls & Grins Creations!

Thanks for stopping by! Your next stop is Lynne at slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com

Make sure to come back tomorrow for more great projects!
April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Dena - http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/

Monthly Crop Night

Join us for our free monthly crop night on February 24th from 6 to 11 pm. Bring your own projects or pre-order the Stella Workshop on the Go Kit. All of my stamps, inks and tools will be available for your use at no charge, as well as the Cricut and cartridges.

Friends are always welcome, but please RSVP so everyone can have a workspace. Please bring a snack to share. Pre-orders may be placed by emailing me at mamacurls@yahoo.com by January 30th. You can also get directions by emailing me.

There will be a drawing for free product. 1 ticket for attending, 1 bonus ticket for bringing a friend, 1 bonus ticket for 1st time guests and 1 bonus ticket for orders over $20.

Let's Celebrate!

You are invited to join our family in welcoming our new son!  We arrived home from Taiwan last week after completing his adoption.  To honor his culture, we are celebrating Chinese New Year with a blog hop!  Please mark your calendar and join us!