Flaunt It Friday's Hello Kitty Blog Hop

Hello Welcome to the Flaunt It Friday's Hello Kitty Blog Hop. If you are here from STACEY  then you are in the right spot. If you just arrived here and would like to start from the beginning please go directly to Flaunt It Friday's Blog. For this week's challenge we were asked to flaunt the Hello Kitty with Airplane on Page 65 from the Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge.

For my project I used left over paper I had printed when I had my Friducha. Font is from the Cherry Lemeade Lite Cart, they read "bienvenido papi" which translates to Welcome Daddy. I created this LO because my hubby is in Mexico right now and I can just see my daughter's face when she sees her papi when he arrives on Sunday!

I also created second project using the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge. 

For this project I used my Cri-Kit pens and created a little coloring book for my daughter and I used the Bind-It-All to put it together. The ribbon (the cutest!!!) I think I got at Walmart.

AND I promise just one more thing!!! I have to share a couple of cakes I did back in June and September using the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge.

What is a Blog Hop without candy??? Well, how about a Cricut Cake Apron!!!

Make sure you leave a comment on this post! and I do not require you to become a follower, but don't forget to come back and check on Monday if you are the winner of this awesome apron!!!

Flaunt It Fridays is having a grand price!! The Love Always stamp set sponsored by Pink By Design. The grand prize will be on Sandra's blog! You will have all weekend to complete the hop and they will draw the winner sometime on Monday or Tuesday.

Thank You so much for taking the time to hop with us for the Flaunt It Friday's Hello Kitty Blog hop we can't wait to see how you "Flaunt" your Hello Kitty this week at Flaunt It Fridays. 

Your next stop is CHERYL!

Emma is back!!!

Hello my dear followers!!! Do you know what day today is?? Yep.... we have missed Emma's Throwback Thursdays for a while!!! So what do you need to do? You can use ANY older cart, you can do ANY project, just make sure you use a heart!

and if you have been absent from the blogging world.... Emma has her own stamp sets!!!!!! and they are just GORGEOUS!!! I love the font she used and the presentation... WOW you will love it!!! So head on over to her site to check them out!!! Just click HERE!!! 

Here is my project!

Here is what I used for this card:

SEI "with all my heart" collection paper

Peachy Keen Stamps PK496

Treasure Box's Bear Holding heart from the Valentine's Collection

Joy's Life Lots of Pun stamp set

Gypsy Wanderings for card and Scalloped Heart

Tim Holtz Distress ink in Vintage Photo 

Ribbon and buttons from collection

and

see that cute handmade flower???

Well, my grandmother (80 years old) made more than 100 of these for me!!! I found a Joanns that was closing and had that thread on sale... so I bought a bunch of them and asked my grandma to make me a few! Well, she made more than a few!!!!! i have about 20 different colors... I have a proposition for you... would you like some of them??? All I am going to ask is that you send my grandma a couple of bucks for her hard work, I'll pay for the shipping!. What do you think? Email me at scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com so we can discuss details!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

and just to make this fun go visit my sister's new website, she is launching her creations and become a follower... I will pick five followers next Thursday and will send those five some of these cute flowers!!!

Winners!!!

¡¡¡Feliz Día de Reyes!!!! I have a couple of winners!!!

For the BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP FOR ASHLEY the winner is:

stefeni said...

Great card! I love it when I don't use my Cricut sometimes. Makes life simpler :)

For my ANNIVERSARY/WEDDING CHALLENGE the winner is:

Cricutting Wendy

Ladies please email me at 

scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com

You have until Saturday to send me your address!!

Snow Fun over at Cooking With Cricut!!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!! It's challenge time over at Cooking With Cricut!!! and the theme is Snow Fun!!!

I created this card using the Polar Bear Sitting Forward from CWC. 

I used the following for this card:

CWC Polar Bear

DCWV paper

Spellbinders/Nestabillities

Core'Dinations cardstock

Pink By Design Stamps

Please make sure you go visit Cooking with Cricut and see all the wonderful projects the other design team members have created!!!

Birthday Blog Hop for Ashley!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

I want to start of by saying Thanks to Ashley for the invitation to be part of this hop. If you got here from Darlene, then you are on the right track! But, if you just happen to pop in here then head on over to Ashley, the birthday girl and the beginning of this fabulous hop!!! 

Ashley asked us to create something to celebrate birthdays and to incorporate animals.... but, I am still not home!!! So, I created this cricut-less birthday card! 

I did use the Cuttlebug, Spellbinders and Scrappy Mom's stamps.

What is a Hop without candy?!?! Leave a comment and a lucky winner will win a collection of stickers!

Your next stop is:

TRACY

and just in case you need the line up... here it is:

Ashley http://www.myscrappinpalace.blogspot.com
Courtney http://www.courtscrafts.blogspot.com
Wendy http://www.wendyscreativecraftingcorner.blogspot.com
Angela http://www.creativecraftin.blogspot.com
Jillian http://www.princessandthepaper.blogspot.com
Darlene http://www.talesoftayandbay.blogspot.com
Abby http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com (ME!!)
Tracy http://www.adventures793.blogspot.com

   Momo http://www.madebymomo.blogspot.com/ 

April http://www.ajoy2scrap.blogspot.com
Kristin http://www.lilsweetpeasplace.blogspot.com

SEI Challenge #10 Winner and new format for challenges!

Hello my crafty friends!!!! I hope that you all had an awesome Christmas and I wish you nothing but the best for this New Year!!!

Last time I communicated about SEI challenges and told you that I was not sure for how many more challenges SEI would sponsor. Well, SEI agreed to sponsor the challenges for a few more times and I have decided to change the format just a bit!

I will have two challenges per month with one giveaway. If you participate in both challenges for the month, your name will be entered twice! So, with that said here are the dates for the next challenges

January 10th and 24th

February 7th and 21st

March 7th and 21st

This time around SEI sent us their beautiful new collection With All My Heart. For giveaways we have for you two paper pack collection and other goodies!!!

Here is a sample of their gorgeous new line!!!

SEI With All My Heart assortment pack includes 24 sheets of double-sided paper (2 sheets of each style) and 1 sheet of stickers.

With All My Heart glittering romance
die-cut accents with glitter each includes 58 die-cuts


What do you think?? Isn't just beautiful?! Well, get ready to get crafty!! Don't forget to come back and join in the fun January 10th!!!

Sandra from 365 Days Of Cricut and Kich from Scrappy'Kich Designs will be joining me in the fun as Guest Designers!!!

Now, onto the winner of Week 10

Terri S

Abby's Anniversary Challenge

Hello my dear followers and visitors!!! Happy 15th Anniversary to me!!!!! Today, 15 years ago I woke up to become Mrs. Grimaldi!! 

Funny thing about that last name.... one of my uncles made a joke about me marrying my hubby just for the last name!! hehehehe 

Well, on the 23rd of December 1995 I got up and started to get ready.... everything was going great...... when it came the time for my dad to give me his blessing...omg!!! I am the oldest and very close to my dad. Just the thought of him giving me his blessing made me cry! Everyone came close to where I was (the den), keep in mind, I was ready for church, my make-up and hair was already done! I saw my dad come and he was already crying!!! He could not even speak!!! I started bawling!!! I don't remember if he did give me his blessing, I just remember all the crying!!! LOL funny, right?? I went to the kitchen to get a drink of water and one of my aunts thought that a sip of COKE would help me better............yep!!! you thought it right!!! I DROPPED IT RIGHT ON MY DRESS!!!!!!! You think that's bad.... wait!!!! We misplaced the keys the to rental car!!!!!! We were 20 minutes late to church!!!

But, after all that Church was the most beautiful thing ever! and the party afterwards, WOW! It was so much fun!!! 

I have to say that we just loved our wedding!!!

Thank you honey for these 15 years and 4 beautiful kids!!!

So without further ado, here is my project celebrating my anniversary!

What do you think?! I liked LOVE how they turned out!!!

I used Make The Cut software and the cuts I bought online.... need to look where! 

Paper is all DCWV and I used a Sixxix embossing folder for the dress.

and I have a little surprise for you guys! 

Joining me on this celebration I have an awesome Guest Designer!!! 

Sandra from 365 Days of Cricut

Isn't that the cutest?!!? I love all that shimmer!!!

Thought I share with you a couple of pictures of the family!

So, in honor of my wedding anniversary I am having an anniversary challenge!! In which you can win a set of Stamps!!!!!

Here are the rules for the challenge!

*** Create ANYTHING for anniversary/wedding

***You have to make sure you link back here and say that it is for 

ABBY'S WEDDING/ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE

*** You have to link your challenge post to Mr. linky, please make sure you link the specific post. Anyone that doesn't will be disqualified!

*** You have until January 4th to link your post

*** I will announce winners on January 5th so make sure you come back and check!

Little Cute Gift Bags for Sweet Sassy Diva!

Hello all!!! Today, I have for you a pair of cute boxes I am using as gift boxes for my cousins. In them fit a couple of nail polishes, a nail file and a few kiss candies. I found these cute box cuts for free from Freedigitalscrapbooking! Go there and you can find extra things for free too! 

I have to say that these are not my favorite after decorating... But, with everything we have to keep playing and see what hits that happy button! I will definitely use these cuts for another occasion and play with the decoration!

Now, I have a very important tip when cutting these files. I used the Make The Cut program and the cut is set up to cut the little tiny cuts for the folding lines. Well, I stopped the cut after it was done cutting the outer part and did the scoring on my own. If you let the machine do all those little tiny cuts it will look messy. 

Here they are:

These will look great hung on the tree before giving them away!!!

All materials are SEI Kris Kringle Collection

Thanks for taking a peek!!!!

I am a Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer!!!!!!

I am the happiest person on this earth!!!!!!!! I am one of the new Peachy Keen Guest Designers!!!!! This is one of my favorite companies and to become a designer is just a dream come true. The first time I saw PK stamps was with Emma. I just thought that they made our cuts so cute!!!

This little post is just to let my followers and viewers know about my happiness that is to be part of the PKS family!!! 

Here are some things I have done using my PKS!!!!

Thanks for taking a peek!!! 

My Peachy Week spot is 

MAY 9-14

Paper Playtime~~Anything Christmas!!

Happy Monday everyone!!! Can you believe we have only 4 more days of shopping?!?! I have only shopped for my 4 kids... I still need my hubby's!!! and the way the economy is..... I don't know if I am getting my siblings and grandmothers. Maybe just a nice card and a little gift card to Starbucks... hmmmm that sounds good.

Well, today is another Paper Playtime Challenge!!! and the theme is super easy! Anything Christmas!!!  Here is my card for the challenge:

I used the Create a Critter cart, paper is from K & Company and

Pink By Design Stamps

and if you want to "kill two birds with one stone" why not join the Gaby Abby Challenge with a Santa or Snowman theme?!?! The giveaway for that challenge is a 12x12 Kris Kringle paper pack collection! and the Paper Playtime Challenge is anything Christmas!! and the giveaway there is digi stamps!!!

Come on!! Get your scrappin on!!!!!

Kathy's B-Day Hop Winner and a Market Street and Peachy Keen Card!

Happy Sunday all!!! I am writing to you sitting on my mama's dinning table!!! I am excited because being back here is the best!!! I am also very excited to announce the winner of Kathy's B-Day Blog Hop!!! But, before that I wanted to share a card I created using Market Street and Peachy Keen Stamps.

I used the BFFs set from Market Street Stamps and the Princess Face Assortment from Peachy Keen. I inked the chile stamp and with a Qtips I took off the ink for the eyes and mouth. Then, I used the PK princess face in place of the original! I love it!!! I also inked the chile on a piece of plastic and transfered that so that it was a mirror image of the original one.... need to work on that technique!

I hope you like what you see!!!

and

The winner has until Wednesday to email me with her/his address!

and that person is:

Gretta!!!

Please email me at scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com