10 Gifts in 10 Days! Day 9

Birthday DIY Calendar Sign/Wall Decor

This is my first one of these to make. I have several others in progress but not even close to being finished. This one is almost complete, but not quite. I'm undecided on what to do for the "names" & "dates" and how to "attach" them together under each month. I have several ideas I'm working on but as usual my pain gets in my way of my creativity. You can find many different designs on "Pintrest" which I have a love/hate relationship with. I love it cause it gets my creative juices flowing and I've learned many new things. I hate it because somehow I loose days at a time being on there, I start out on Mon. with my cup of coffee and next thing I know its Thurs and time for bed. Just kidding its not that bad but I do loose alot of hours "browsing" and "pinning." Anyways, Just do a search for "birthday signs" and you'll see where I got my inspiration from!

I had this wooden "plaque/sign", I purchased years ago at Craft Warehouse. I painted the "sign" a dark brown (its not as dark as it looks in the picture), the background paper is a lt. blue with white gloss flowers. For the "birthdays" word and mats, I used gold flower "embossed" paper, blue cardstock for the mat. I used white card stock and a sizzix flourish die to make the flourish die cuts. The "letters" are from Sizzix alphabet dies and I used "lagoon" (i think thats the name?) CTMH Cardstock for the shadow letters, and CTMH print (forget what collection the paper is from) for the top letters. I inked all the edges of all the papers because i'm an "inkaholic", if I don't ink the edges, i have this compulsion to do so and its bad. Its not that things don't look good if their not inked but if its mine and I don't i loose sleep over it no matter how great it turned out. Anyways, I then used CTMH Stamp set, Cherish the Day (S1111),  for the "months", i thought it worked perfect for this. Sadly, i havd this stamp set for years and this is only the 2nd time I've used it.

Close up of the "birthdays" wording & matting

Close up of the "months" stamped with CTMH "Cherish the Day" (S1111) stamp set Satmped in blue ink

When I finally finish this sign I will post my final choice of how I decided on the "names" & "Dates" and how I decided to go about attaching them.

Until Next Time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

REMINDER! LAST DAY OF STAMPAGANZA !

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF STAMPAGANZA!

HURRY ONLY A FEW hOURS LEFT TO GET THIS DEAL!

Buy two My Acrylix^® stamp sets, get one FREE in June.

Fabulous stamp images for your cards, scrapbook pages, banners, and more can be yours FREE in June. For every two My Acrylix^® stamp sets* (sizes A, B, C, D, or E) you purchase at full retail price, you'll receive a third stamp set of your choice FREE* (of equal or lesser value)—a savings of up to $29.95 per set! 

You Can shop online at my CTMH Website HERE!

Or you can email me your order with a paypal payment or request a paypal invoice!

* Stamp sets that count toward the qualifying purchase and available for FREE include full-priced A, B, C, D, and E sets only. Customizable (K-size) stamps, Workshops on the Go™, Cricut^® collections, and Stamp of the Month sets do not count as qualifying purchases and are not available as free sets. Offer valid June 1–30, 2012. Tax and shipping/handling may apply. The lowest priced set(s) in the entire order will be the free set(s).

Plus spend $50 and get the SOTM (Stamp Of the Month) for ONLY $5!

June's SOTM is only available during JUNE! And Can NOT be used in part of the Stampaganza Promotion.

Until Next Time...

Happy Stamping!

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic

HURRY! STAMPAGANZA TIME IS ALMOST OVER!

 STAMPAGANZA TIME Is Almost Over!

Hurry Only A few Days Left to get this deal!

Buy two My Acrylix^® stamp sets, get one FREE in June.

Fabulous stamp images for your cards, scrapbook pages, banners, and more can be yours FREE in June. For every two My Acrylix^® stamp sets* (sizes A, B, C, D, or E) you purchase at full retail price, you'll receive a third stamp set of your choice FREE* (of equal or lesser value)—a savings of up to $29.95 per set! 

You Can shop online at my CTMH Website HERE!

Or you can email me your order with a paypal payment or request a paypal invoice!

* Stamp sets that count toward the qualifying purchase and available for FREE include full-priced A, B, C, D, and E sets only. Customizable (K-size) stamps, Workshops on the Go™, Cricut^® collections, and Stamp of the Month sets do not count as qualifying purchases and are not available as free sets. Offer valid June 1–30, 2012. Tax and shipping/handling may apply. The lowest priced set(s) in the entire order will be the free set(s).

Plus spend $50 and get the SOTM (Stamp Of the Month) for ONLY $5!

June's SOTM is only available during JUNE! And Can NOT be used in part of the Stampaganza Promotion.

Until Next Time...

Happy Stamping!

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic

Jolee's Series Part 2 ~ School Days Theme

Continuing on with the Jolee's Series, we are now moving on to Part 2 ~ School Days. Part One was Disney Princesses. Once I start feeling better and can talk without my throat hurting or sounding like I have a frog in my throat I will be adding video tutorials until then, unfortunately I am stuck with just picture and written posts.

For the first Part of Part 2 School Days, I thought we'd start with "First Day", thinking best to start at the beginning of a Child's days of school :)

Need Jolee's check out Rachel's yardsale HERE or her Etsy Store HERE Let her know I (The Scrapoholic) sent you.

You can also check out my yardsale HERE and my CTMH Website HERE for CTMH products

Of course I used Jolee's Boutique 3 Dimensional stickers, along with other products to make my layout. I didn't do a sketch on this one this time. I used a pre-existing partially done layout I was working on that needed finishing touches and of course the Jolee's First Day was perfect!

As you can see, I changed up the title, I didn't like the yellow with the pinking edge under the First Day nuetral/beige colored cardstock. I used my undu to safely remove it and put a different simple chocolate cardstock layer under to go with the colors I was already using. I added the lil embellishments to the paper and saved some for other pages I plan to do later.

My Layout:

Close up of title:

Close up of embellisment corners:

Stay Tuned for more Jolee's Series Part 2 School Days Theme.

Until Next time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic

CTMH Rock The Block + Charity

This Past month CTMH has Rock The Block Campaign. It includes one of the new items that will be in the New Spring/Summer Idea Book! Its simple, order $25 from the Winter catalog which you can do on my website HERE or email me your order and I can send you a paypal invoice, pay me either thru paypal, money order or personal check( personal check has exceptions and rules.) and get The My Creations Collage Cubes plus a bonus E-size adorable Rock The Block Stamp set.

Here's the great part, not only do you get to get some fun new CTMH items to use for your scrapbooking or cardmaking or whatever papercrafting project your working on now or in the future. I am taking my profits and going to give it to a friend who has been fighting cancer and her husband has been recently been laid off and they will be loosing their health insurance.  I personally know what its like to be out of work and not have any social government benefits, such as unemployment or disability) to relieve your income loss but to also have mounting medical bills and the stress to find a way to pay them and try to pay just the day to day bills that you barely make enough to pay. So, This campaign ends Jan. 31, 2012. Thats a week to order!! So please Hurry! You will be helping, not just my friend, but me too by meeting my minimum too!

I will have more opportunities to help raise money for my friend too!

Until Next Time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic

Rock The Block CTMH Promotion

The promotion statred yesterday and runs thru to Jan. 31st.

What is it?

A collage cubes and the "Rock the Block" stamp set, which work together for interactive fun!  

What do You have to do to get it?

When you place a $25 minimum order from the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book, you get TWO valuable new products: the My Creations Collage Cubes (this is a sneak-peek product from the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book, will retail for approx. $15 then) and the EXCLUSIVE "Rock the Block" E-size stamp set (available only during this promotion and a $29.95 value). 

How much does it cost?

The set is $15 when you place a minimum of $25 order. That's over a $45 value

for only $15!

Check out the CTMH promotional video

Want to shop On-line with me send me an email and I will send you an evite to shop on-line and be able to order too from while it lasts (clearance) section, towards the $25 order. collage cubes and the "Rock the Block" stamp set, which work together for interactive fun!  While shopping, don't forget that if you spend $50, you also qualify for the cute Dec. SOTM (stamp of the Month) set Mad About You for only $5

Unfortunately, CTMH has closed my website even though I have paid for it and we all were suppose to get free on-line websites in Oct. then got delayed til Dec. and now not sure when. While others get to get free websites,for some reason I would still have to pay even though, I have but because their records are wrong, until they offer me the free website, I'm stuck with the e-vite.

Anyway, I have a set and haven't had a chance to do anything with it or not sure what I want to do, so watch hopefully soon I'll have something creative done.

Until Next Time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic

30 Days of Handmade Gift Giving Blog Hop ~ Day 24 Project 2

This is my 2nd project for today, normally its jsut one project but with it being Thanksgiving I thought I'd add some extras for those who aren't going out on Black Friday and are staying home to be safe! :P

If you missed Project one click HERE

Here are some more of the Poinsettia Paper Wreaths I've made. I made some last year too and I just love making these, they are very easy, fun and festive!  I simply cut out the base of the wreath usually in green cardstock, so it looks like leaves. Then I cut out a ton of large and small poinsettia flowers, then emboss them using several different emboss folders. Since I use CTMH cardstock which has a white core I then sand the flowers to bring out the white, but not all of them some I just leave. Then i do either sand or ink the edges of the petals around the flower. Then I take a pen or pencil and round the tips of the petals. I use 3D glue dots to pop up the small flower on top of the large flower then use either silk or paper smaller flowers for the center and plop either a brad or rhinestone or a pearl in the center. Then I arrange the flowers on the base I already cut by using large glue dots sometimes I use two depending on how large I cut the flowers.

        

Check out my Video Tutorial from last year HERE

As soon as I can sign into payloadz to get my links to purchase I will post them.
The Files are $1 for either MTC or SVG format.

If your just joining us below are the past days of the hop.

Simply Click their names to go to their blogs

Day  1 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Countdown Calendar 

Day  2 ~ Jessica The Creative Stamper ~ Wreath
Day  3 ~ Debbie DD's Crafts ~ Notepad

Day  4 ~ Sarah Pink Cricut ~ Scarf
Day  5 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Alterted Paper Mache Book

Day  6 ~ Crafty Queen ~ Calendar
Day  7 ~ Playing with Paper ~ Candle
Day  8 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Recycled Jars/Containers

Day  9 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Altered Clipboard

Day 10 ~ Thatz Uneek ~ Altered File Album

Day 11 ~ Kinderstampo ~ table setting 

Day 12 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Candle

Day 13 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Altered Candles

Day 14 ~ Funky Cards ~ Wall hanging

Day 15 ~ Creations With Gill ~ Treat Box

Day 16 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Sweet Treat Cups

Day 17 ~ Cardstock and Coffee ~ Recipe, Box, n Ornament

Day 18 ~ The Cropping Canuck ~ Mini Album

Day 19 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Altered Tin

Day 20 ~ The Scrapoholic ~ Home Decor

Day 21 ~ Playing With Paper ~ Recipe

Day 22 ~ Scrap n Today ~ Sweet Treat

Day 23 ~ Simple Sarah ~ Ornament

Don't Forget to check out my 30 Days of Christmas Cards too. 

(Cards and Sketches are posted later in the day)

Until Tommorrow...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN Jill (aka The Scrapoholic)