GHWI Challenge #23 Still Happening...

Welcome to a new week!!! Today I have a little inspiration to share for the GHWI Challenge #23 - Christmas in July with a Tag. We are only half way through the month so there is still lots of time for you to play along in the challenge.  Remember all you have to do is create a project, card, ATC any piece of art with a Christmas theme and has a tag!!I 

I decided to get a jump on my Christmas gifts and created a little box this week.I wanted it to be simple since I usually end up making 20-30 of these types of gifts for my co-workers. I cut the box using my Cameo which of course I LOVE!!! I have such a hard time when I'm crafting somewhere besides my craft room and I can't take it with me. 

I used 2 sets in the creation of this little gift - Warm Wishes and Gingham Christmas Greetings!! 

As you can see below the snowflakes with I heat embossed in silver came from the Warm Wishes set that can be found here.

Then I used the Gingham Christmas Greetings for my little tag which you can find here.

Remember these sets can be found on Aletha's sales blog or through Unity but be sure to choose to Aletha as your Ippity Chick!!

I also wanted to invite you to join The GHWI Customer blog hop on August 10-12. We are going to be celebrating Aletha as our awesome Ippity chick!!! The requirements are as follows -

1. To create a project using your favorite {ippity} stamp set. You only need to create one project for the hop.

2. Have it posted on your blog by Friday August 10^th at 8AM EST

3. Include information about and a link to Aletha’s {ippity} sales blog

And if you can't be part of the hop, we sure hope you'll do some hopping along the trail. There will prizes to win along the trail.

Sign ups will close by Friday August 3^rd.  If you are interested in joining the fun then please email me (Melissa Czapor) with GHWI August Blog Hop in the subject line. My email ismelissac1966@gmail.com

As always remember if you haven't joined the Facebook group and GHWI group at The Crafter's Cafe, you are missing lots more inspiration!!

I'd also like to enter this project in the following challenges - 

One Stitch at A Time - Anything Goes

Robyn's Fetish - Christmas in July

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

As always I am so grateful that you stopped by today!! I hope you have a fabulous week!!

Blessings and Hugs,

Melissa 

Happy Father'sDay

I hope all of your husbands and father's are having a wonderful Father's Day!! We started with breakfast in bed delivered by the girls. Then Nat gave Allan a pottery sundae she made in art camp last week since he loves hot fudge sundaes.  We all gave him gift cards to iTunes and Barnes and Noble!! So far so good here today.  We hoped to send him off to golf but not sure that will happen as thunderstorms are rolling through.

Here's the card I made for my dearest husband. He is truly a wonderful Dad to his girls!!

I used the {ippity} itty bitty Fore!!!!!  I made the clouds from paper towels and cut the grass using my Cameo. 

You can find this set as well as any other {ippity} sets you need at my dear friend Aletha's sales blog!! Also you can pick Aletha as your Ippity Chick at the Unity Site she is on the 7th row.  By the way Unity  having an awesome sale this weekend. 

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges -

My Sheri CRAFTS - Father's Day

Bloggers Challenge Masculine Card Challenge

Card Makin Mamas - Father's Day

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Boy Attitude

Charisma Cardz - Male Cards

Do You Stack up - Boys/Men

Thanks so much for stopping by!! I hope you have a very blessed week!!

More Christmas Projects to share!

I can't believe how quickly this week is going by and I still haven't had much crafty time. Honestly, it's not been so much a lack of time but rather a lack of mojo!! I am really hoping to spend the next couple of days getting that mojo back!! :-) 

I wanted to share a few more Christmas gifts I made this year. All 3 were created from the templates from My Time Made Easy. 

As you can tell, I LOVE creating 3D projects. Well this turned out to be a bit more of a problem this year. 2 weeks before Christmas our PC crashed and with it died my SCAL software.  Of course, I hadn't backed it up.  Many of you know about the whole Provocraft issue - suing Craft Edge and now they can't sell it anymore.

Since, I never used my cricut with cartridges (I only have about 5 of them),  but only used it to cut SVG files I was pretty much out of luck!! Well I decided to buy myself an early Christmas gift and bought the new Silhoutte Cameo. I also bought the upgraded Designer Edition software but couldn't make it cut the templates to the right size. Then I bought SCAL3 and while the files still aren't importing at the right size, I am able to resize them to work! It's an extra step or so but at least I'll be back in business with making my projects!! Oh yeah - this time I already backed up my SCAL software!! :-) I am seriously considering selling my Cricut Expression since I won't use it with cartridges. I have to admit I basically don't even know how to use the dumb things!!

OK on with the projects!!  This one is called the Flapper. We filled it with candy and candles!!

The is Fresh Popped also filled with candy and candles!

Take Time

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Many Blessings and Hugs,

PS - Don't forget about The Stamping Boutique blog candy here.