You Say It's Your Birthday Blog Hop - In An Octopus's Garden

I'd like to be, under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade

He'd let us in, knows where we've been in his octupus' garden, in the shade.

We would shout(out) and swim about The coral that lies beneath the waves

Oh what joy for every girl and boy Knowing they're happy and they're safe

We would be so happy you and me No one there to tell us what to do

I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden with you

Welcome to the "You Say It's Your Birthday" blog hop.  If you've come from Glenda's blog you are in the right place.  If you have just happened upon my blog, go back to the beginning at the very talented Erika's blog and join all of us on this amazing hop.  The line up is at the end of this post if any of you get lost along the way.

For this hop, we were asked to use Beatles songs to inspire us to make a card for Erika's daughter Ashley who is having a hard time right now.  Ashley is turning 11 years old and has her own blog and although not an official part of this hop go visit her at Ashley's Creative Journey and leave her some love :)

Although I was born in the 60ies I am not much of a Beatles fan (much to Erika's dismay) so when I began searching for songs I changed my mind many times.  But when I even heard the title of "In An Octopus's Garden" my mind immediately planned a card in my head.  And for once the card in my head and the card I made look very similar.

OUTSIDE:



INSIDE:

This card is a 5"x 5" square.  The plain card stock is by Recollections and the glitter card stock is by DCWV.  The octopus, background plants and coral are from "Life is a Beach" Cricut cartridge.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occassions.  Flowers, bling and wiggly eyes are from my stash.  I hope Erika and Ashley enjoy it.

Thanks for joining us on this hop today.  We have some amazing sponsors so please remember to leave some love along the way for a chance to win prizes from Peachy Keen Stamps, Cricutmachine.com, Kich N Bleus and 40:31 Stamps.  Now it's time to hop on over to Cheryl's blog and see what she has created for you.

And if you do get lost along the way, here is the complete line up:

Erika  - http://www.cricutlove1.blogspot.com/

Abby-  http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/
Janis -  http://www.pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
Sandra -  http://www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Raven - http://www.love4stamps.blogspot.com/
Carley -  http://www.the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/
Lauren-   http://www.laurenscraps.blogspot.com/

Stephanie-  http://www.alwayscrafting.com/
Jess- http://www.myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/
Corri-   http://www.buglvr.blogspot.com/
Jennifer- http://www.kozfam5.blogspot.com/
Melissa- http://www.apaperjourney.blogspot.com/
Lisa- http://www.crop-and-create.blogspot.com/
Elsa- http://www.cricutlvr.blogspot.com/
Glenda- http://www.glendascards.blogspot.com/
Heather- http://www.princesspaperprojects.blogspot.com/  (this is ME!)
Cheryl -  http://www.pinkandpaper.blogspot.com/
Melin- http://www.cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/

Have fun on your journey.  Take care, my friends!

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

A Reminder & "Thank You" Card/Gift Card Holders

Good Sunday morning, all!  Well, today is Super Bowl Sunday.  Are you crafting?  I am going to spend some time in my craft room working on some upcoming design team projects and my own scrapbooking.  Big goals for this afternoon and evening.  :) 

Just sharing a reminder of the blog hop that starts tomorrow that I am going to be participating in.  It is all projects inspired by Beatles songs and we have a fantastic line up of talented ladies.  You won't want to miss it.



And I just couldn't post without sharing a couple of "Thank You" gift card holder cards I made the other day.  The tutorial for making them I found here at Made by Momo's blog .  One is for a friend of mine and uses no Cricut cuts at all, just inking, twine and flowers from my stash.  The other one is for my Dad to give to his neighbour that has been kind enough to shovel his snow this winter as my Dad has not been able to himself for the first time ever.  The snow angel girl is from Winter Frolic.  All other supplies are from my stash.  Each of these cards needed to hold a gift card and they were perfect for that.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your day no matter how you spend it.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

FIF #10 - Lips

Good morning, my friends!  Today at Flaunt It Fridays the cut that was used in the challenge was the lips from Indie Art.  I do not actually own this cartridge but it was part of the free Gypsy download so I was able to use the exact cut.  This is the card that I created.

Outside:

and inside:

It is an extremely simple card, using the new Recollections printed card stock from the Elegant package, all black and white printed card stock.  It also used the Sizzix embossed Valentine's Day border.  Lately I have been finishing the inside of my card as well just to give it a polished off look and to have it ready to sell. 

Hope you enjoyed my project.  Thank you for dropping by and remember, please come join us at Flaunt it Fridays this week and show us your creations.  We love it when you do.

Until next time,

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather 

Hugs and Kisses

Good snowy morning, all!  Just an extremely quick card I threw together before I had to go out in the snow to catch the bus for work.  We have about 10 cm of newly fallen overnight snow and I think there is a bit more coming this afternoon.  No where near what was predicted and definitely not enough for a snow day for me  :(  Oh well......here is the card:

It uses Smiley Cards, one of the free downloads for the Gypsy.  This was the first time I had used this cartridge.  Peachy Keen stamps gives these hugs & kisses their cute faces.  Lots of doodling, a hand written sentiment, a button and a bow and viola!  a quick and easy card.

Thanks for stopping by.  I am off into this storm.  Wish me luck  :)

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

BLOGGERVERSARY!!!!

Good morning, all! 

Is the title of this post even a word?  You know me & my grammar :)  But the point is that yesterday was actually my blog anniversary.  I have had it up and running for a year.  Only a year and I have 154 followers, a Facebook fan page (that grew out of this blog), am a member of 2 amazing design teams and have made a HUGE number of friends and acquaintances in the crafting world.  WOW!!!!! 

I had no idea when one of my co-workers handed me a list of blogs and U tube people that she followed where it would take me.  My first stop was (and I am going to do some name dropping here because it is where I started) Robyn at My Pink Stamper.  I enjoyed her videos, tutorials and challenges from the get-go....and I still do :).  From Robyn, I moved on to Emma at My Creative Time where she still even had blogspot in her name.  I found Sarah at Pink Cricut, Mari at Made by Momo and Mary at CARDZ TV, just to name a few of the first blogs I followed.  I found fellow Canadians like Kerry at Momma K Crafts and Lisa at Crop and Create.  One of the first "conversations" I recall having in my new world was with Janis at Pause, Dream, Enjoy about where she got a specific cricut cut and she sent me some of the cuts as I did not have that cart.  By no means is this an exclusive list, because that list would fill  pages and pages of my blog, but just a few of the highlights of the past year.  My family has even began to say that all of my friends live in this little black box in my den :)

So, where do I see myself a year from now?  Well, first and foremost, I do this for me.  So whether I lose or gain followers my blog will still be here as a record of all the crafting and fun projects in my life.  I would love to be able to get a face lift for my blog, that is, have a blog designed especially for Princess Paper Projects and lose the .blogspot in my name too.  I would love to have many, many more followers whom  I inspire on a weekly basis to paper craft.  And I hope to still be on some design teams, whether they be my present ones or others that I have moved on to.  A design team of my own someday would be awesome but I don't see it for the next year anyhow ;)  I want to still have my blogging friends that inspire me to be the best I can be at my crafting. 

Just a final thought before I end this post......THANK YOU!!!!....Thank you all for everything you have meant to me over this year.  All the support, love and comments continue to move me along my journey to being the best I can be.  And I can't be that without all of you. 

Until next time (where I hope to post a project, not just ramble on with words),

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

Digi Week at Paper Playtime - Tabatha and Tony Tiger

Good Monday morning, my blog friends.  Today we are featuring digital designs over at Paper Playtime.  I must admit that when I signed up to be on the digi team I had never printed, coloured or used a digi in any project.  It would be a challenge for me and I enjoy crafting challenges. 

I chose the design from Digis With Attitude of Tabatha and Tony, two cute tigers.  Printing out the image from my computer without cutting their tails and the hearts off proved to be my first challenge.  My husband finally solved that problem by resizing the digi and it printed whole.  Second challenge was colouring with my water colour markers and not getting the image to run.  To be totally truthful,  I still haven't figured out how to stop this all the time and there are a few edges on this card that if you look too close are smudged.  I would love to invest in some copic markers and learn to use them properly to blend and colour my images but for now this will have to do.  Not sold on this card but not awful for my first try.  Maybe by next month, things will be smoother.  Any hints you have for me, please don't hesitate to leave in my comments.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please join us at Paper Playtime this week.  The theme is ANYTHING GOES but maybe try a free digi from one of the companies.  Until next time, take care, my friends.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

Would You Be Mine???

Hello, all my blogger friends.  How is it in your area this winter?  It has been SOOOOOOO cold and snowy here that I have been spending time inside.  And after all the stuff that can't wait like housework and laundry I have been creating a few cards and getting ready to teach my first class in 3 months on Sunday.  Lots going on!

I am not really a big fan of Valentine's Day at all but I did make a cute card to send to my great nieces because who doesn't like getting mail. 

 This card uses Create A Critter for the little bee cut at 2 1/2".  The card stock is from Recollections.  The red layer uses the new Sizzix heart embossing folder.  The patterned paper is from K & Company Die-cut Valentine's Mat Pad.  The stamp is from the $1.50 bin at Michaels.  Ribbon, a button, baker's twine, googly eyes and stickles finish off the card. 
I made a few of these girly cards and now I just have to figure out what to make for the boys.  Maybe I will crack open my new Robotz cartridge and give that a try.

Again, as always, thanks for dropping by.  Have a wonderful day.

{{{{HUGS}}}}, Heather

Hop! Hop! Hop!!!!

Good morning, my friends.  Just a heads up about a couple of blog hops that I am going to be participating in during the next couple of weeks.  Please pass the word around to your crafting friends and feel free to post the buttons on your blog to help us advertise. 

The first blog hop I am in is "YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP"  hosted by my friend, Erika from Cricut Love to honour her daughter's birthday as Ashley has been having a hard time lately.  The theme is Beatles songs.  It is February 7th and shoould be a riot.  Come join us!!!



The second hop is "PAPER DOLL DRESS UP BLOG HOP" hosted by Sandra and Janis from
Flaunt it Fridays and will feature members of our amazing design team.  It happens February 11th.  It uses the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge and we will have some wonderful projects and fun stuff to share.





As with any blog hops, I am sure there will be blog candy along the way and possibly grand prizes from sponsors as well.  So make note of these and please join me and the other talented ladies on these hops.

Until next time, have a wonderful day.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather