Challenge 128--Super Scraps Saturday

Yay Super Scraps Saturday!  Dig out those scraps and get busy this weekend.  We all have them.  Why not use them?

This week's prize sponsor is Sweet N Sassy Stamps.  They will be giving out a great prize to the winner on the mail blog this week.  The little bird in on this card is one of their images.  It is adorable!

Now, head on over to Hiding in My Craft Room and enter your scrappy creation!

Challenge 127--Christmas colors

Woohoo!  I finally feel ok putting all of my Christmas decor out.  I just cannot bring myself to get it all out before thanksgiving.  Since we are only 18 says from Christmas, Laurie decided to have Christmas colors week at HIMCR!  I have a tutorial for this week.  We made button Christmas tree ornaments at my aunts' house on thanksgiving.  This was Caleb's.  

Didn't he do a great job?  It was a hard fight though.  The floss kept fraying and breaking and since there is no structure with floss, it was hard for them to get it all done.  Most instructions for this project call for needles.  No way.  So this week, i spent some time coming up with a "child under 8" friendly way to do this.  

First you will need to gather your supplies.  

Use a nylon thread or floss.  I live the sew easy line.  Whatever you use, make sure the ends will melt when exposed to hear.  

I also used 3 colors of buttons, but feel free to use whatever or how many you want.  

Next, cut your thread.  For this ornament, I cut between 18 and 20 inches.  Now, melt the ends of your floss to seal them.  Note:  please don't let your children do this part.  

Next, pick out a large button.  You want this to be the largest button in your tree.  Thread it through the bottom.  

Tie a single time.  This helps keep your bottoms from stacking on each other and gives the tree more volume.  

Now, stack and tie!  You can make it as big as you want.  I tend to organize mine in size order, but as you could see on Caleb's, he did them out of order and it is still adorable!  

Double knot at the top to assure that it stays together.  

Now, take out some of those buttons that you don't use often.  You know, the ones with the backs that stick up?  They don't work well on my pages, so I don't use them much and tend to have a lot of them laying around.  

Thread it on.  I used yellow to represent a star, but I have 3 made using a red button and that works too!  

Tie a knot to keep it on.  

Finished!  Now you are ready to hang it.  I tie another knot near the top of the thread to create a way to hang it, but you can do it however is best for you.  

Now, head over to hidinginmycraftroom.com and enter your Christmas color creation.  I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Challenge 126--freestyle!

I love months with 5 Saturdays!  That means it's a freestyle week.  And this week I have an adorable mini album to share.  I bought this little envelope album at a scrap weekend 3 years ago.  I haven't used it because I wasn't sure what to do with it.  These photos were taken by my friend Angela about 5 years ago.  There are about 50 photos and there is no way I could actually scrap all 50, so this made it easy to pick the 5 best, then put the rest in the envelope pockets so they are all together.  I have tied it all together with a ribbon that is glued to the back.  

Front cover without the tie.  I love wood buttons!

My nephew was only 3 weeks old.  He used to be so quiet!  Lol!

It's such a simple way to keep an event with many photos together!  Head on over to hidinginmycraftroom.com and enter your creation for a chance to win a great prize!!

Challenge 125--thanksgiving

Can you believe that we are only 5 days from thanksgiving?  Today I bought milk that expires on December 8.  Wow.  This week we are celebrating the holiday with thanks themed projects.  My project is admittedly short on fall colors, but my family has a lot to be thankful for this week.  We have all been really sick thus past week and many people have helped with meals, shuttling children, and child care.   This meant it is time to make thank you cards!  

I love using this style of flower.  It adds a lot to any layout or card.  Stay tuned this week for a thanksgiving layout.  Hopefully it will be finished tonight.  

Now head over to the main blog and enter your creation for a chance at a great prize!

Challenge 114--due cuts!

This week the HIMCR dr is all about die cuts.  I have a cricut and had big plans to use it this week.  Then I remembered all of the die cut pages I have.  I buy them because they are adorable, but then I never use them because I might want them for another project someday.  Well, I decided that someday might as well start now.  

Sorry about the poor photo quality this week.  Caleb has been sick so it's a get what you get week!  Head on over to hidinginmycraftroom.com and enter your die cut creation for a chance to win one if two cricut cartridges Laurie is giving away!

HIMCR #123--SSS!

It's Super Scraps Saturday.  Your lovely design team ladies were given adorable images from The Scrapbook Stamp Society to use in our creations this week.  Isn't she cute?!

Now, head on over to the Hiding in My Craft Room blog and share your Super Scrap creation!  

HIMCR #122--Fall colors

Our trees have finally become beautiful in our little corner of Missouri!  Too bad they are all falling as we've had 3 1/2 inches of rain in the last 3 days.  So, it's time to have some fall color on our blog as well.  This week our sponsor is Template Dreams.  She has beautiful designs.  Go and check her out!

Now, be nice about this today!  This is my first ever digi scrap anything.  Yep.  You get to see it folks!

My nephew Ethan was born almost 5 years ago.  Let me tell you, Aunt Di and Aunt Tasha were excited!  Now he runs around showing me his belly button because he knows the rule is "No belly buttons in Aunt Di's house!"  He's pretty sure that Uncle Tony is the best play uncle ever.  

Now, take yourself over to Hiding in My Craft Room and check out the creations the rest of our great design team did!  And make sure to enter your fall colors creation for chance at a great prize from Template Dreams!

Oh!  I forgot!  I need 1 more follower to hit double digits!  Help me out!