Nothing Crafty, But I'm Still Here...

 Hey Folks, I don't have anything crafty to show you today...about 10 days ago, we got a new dog, Hurley. He's a year old and still very puppy like. His old owners spoiled him rotten (as do I now ), so now, everytime I go into my craft room, he either jumps on my lap and lays there, or if he can't jump up, he whines at my feet til I let him up. Makes crafty very very hard.

 His a minature pincher and soooo much fun, but yes, very spoiled:) My poor lab is sooo jealous

She is the most gentle animal you will ever meet. Even non dog lovers fall in love with her:)

 My daughters soccer season started yesturday, and the other today, so I have a soccer game or practice every day of the week lol, yikes!!

I have 2 LO's started, so I hope to finish them tonight. If your looking for some awesome crinkle ribbon, make sure you check out 3 Girl Jam. She has some amazing new colors coming to the store tomorrow, and is having a contest to name the bundle:) Could you be the winner?

3 Girl Jam- 1st DT post

Good Tuesday Morning folks. I am in a wonderful mood, AND its my 1sy ever DT post and its for a great product. 3 Girl Jam.
 

 Just a sneak peak at what I'm showing over there:

Head on over to 3 Girl Jam and check out the whole layout, see the other great projects, and maybe purchase some great crinkle ribbon and twine!!

Its My Party.....

With it being friday, its been almost a full week since my daughters birthday party. I've showed you a few sneak peaks and projects along the way, and today I'll show you how it all cam together. It was a ton of fun, and am already planning my other daughters 5th birthday in July:)

WARNING: Picture heavy

Cart: Art philosophy for the present and " P"

         Sweet Treats for the cupcake holder

The cake part of the cake and cupcakes where blue and purple too:) The sparkle "P"  was from walmart. The purple ribbon is 3 Girl Jam

 And this is where I have to leave it...blogger is not downloading pictures for some reason:( I will edit this later to add more if it lets me. Off to craft:)



We Have a Winner....

Thats right folks, we have a winner from our very first DT Blog hop for 3 Girl Jam. Make sure you check out the other snazzy ladies to see if you are one of the lucky winners:)

  The very first winner from my blog is:

 Linsey

Well Angie, I have no problem becoming a follower of yours when you have awesome ideas like this! That personalized barette holder is darling and your banner is equally charming! Thanks for sharing your wonderful inspiration and congrats on what looks like a super cool DT and company to design for! Hugs! on "Nice to Meet You" Blog      So Linsey, shoot me an email @ aashuk@ shaw . ca  (no spaces) with you addy, and I will get Julie to send out your wonderful Twine:)   I am still using my hubbies horrible netbook, so I did use Random Org. to do the drawning, I just can't figure out how to uses this silly machine to post a picture. I should have mine back tomorrow.

Linsey

on 4/11/12

Oh Man!...

 To check out the 3 Girl Jam blog hop click HERE. Its awesome. Trust me!!

  I had the intention of showing you all some projects I have finished for my DD birthday party tomorrow, but somehow I got a virus in my laptop. So while its getting fixed I have my hubby's netbook, which, ugh, is horrible. Hopefully, I will have my laptop back by tomorrow. This won't stop me from posting my winner for the blog hop. You still have time to check it out:)

  On another note...as crafters, do you sometimes worry you go alittle overboard for parties? As i work on the finishing touches for my daughter's party, I'm starting to wonder if the other mom's are going to think I'm nuts lol. I stay at home, so I do have the time to finish these projects, and I usually start a month before the actual party, so its not like a cram all this craftness into a week or 2. But now I'm wondering if its TOO much. I guess as long as my daughters happy thats all that matters. Anyways, just a though:)


 Happy Scrapping.

"Nice to Meet You" Blog Hop

Hey folks, Welcome to the first ever 3 Girl Jam Design Team Blog Hop. If you just stumbled upon me today, head on over to Julie at A Little Bit of Bling. to start the hop at the beginning. You should be coming from Jessica E at Chick n Scrap, if so, your on the right track:)


  I want to thank all my old followers and welcome my new followers. Its been great talking you you and can't wait to meet new friends. Now on to the nitty gritty.... My name is Angie Ashuk and I am a 34 (almost 35 shhhh dont tell) year old mother of 4 ranging in age from 18 to 4. I live in central Canada...Winnipeg, Manitoba. I started scrapping about 12 years ago, and took a small break right after that. I got into it again about 9 years ago and have never looked back. About 2 years ago, after moving into a new house I was able to finally have my own "space" and since then my crafting has taken on a whole new dimension. I started making everything, just not cards....me and cards don't seem to mix. I love trying new things, and if I'm not crafting I'm reading. I LOVE to travel and have a not so secret love with DisneyWorld.

 I am very proud and excited to be apart of this amazing team. I was lucky enough to have won some 3 Girl Jam ribbon from a few blogs, and fell in love with it right from the start. I love the colors and the feel. I've mentioned before, it truely is an amazing product. Unfortunatlly, I wasn't able to recieve some of the new goodies the rest of the team recieved, in time (being in Canada and then the Easter holiday), but I was able to make something with a bit of my treasured stash:

 I made this barrette holder to hold my DD's pretties. The ribbon is wonderful crinkled or ironned straight. I just love it.

 And here's a small glimps of the banner I made for my other DD's class birthday party. I just used a bit of the crinkle ribbon on the flower buds for some great texture:

 Great colors eh? So, whats a blog hop with some great prizes right? Julie has been kind enough to donate a wonderful prize to one of my lucky followers. A twine sampler pack, which is new to her store!!!

 All you have to do is:
1. Become a follower of mine
2. Become a follower of all the rest of the lovely ladies blogs ( but why wouldn't you want to, they're all great)
3. Leave me a comment.

 Pretty simple right:) You have until Saturday April 14 to leave a comment. All winners will be announced Monday April 16th. Best of Luck.


 Your next stop on the hop is Jovan at Cards By Jovan and incase you get lost along the way here's the full line up:

Julie- A Little Bit of Bling

Julie E- Chick n Scrap

Angie- Crazy "Scrap" Lady

Jovan- Cards by Jovan

Mackenzie- Cheese and Crafters

Ashley- The Glamorous Side of Scrapping

Jessica S- Jessica's Craft Shaque

Zeni- Scrappy Zeni

Avery- Iowa Craft Girl

Gloria- Oma's Crafts

Carri- DoubleClick- AKA Abusybee

3 Girl Jam- 3 Girl Jam

 Make sure you hop along to all. There are some great prizes along the way and an amazing grand prize:)

Party Planner...

  So out of all my kids, I only have 1 that I have to party plan for. 2 are " too old" 1 hasn't started school yet, so I'm thankful right now about that. This is not to say I don't plan parties, but the family ones are was less pressure then the class parties. Next year, when the youngest is in kindergarten, I will be planning 2 class parties, then I'm in trouble lol.

 So far I have made the invites (see that post here) and a banner (sneak peek during our 3 Girl Jam Blog Hop). I've got tshirts with there names on them and hoping to make buttons for them. Today I'm gonna show you 2 little things I made for the goodie bags (which I will show you on a later post):

A bookmark

and a cute little post-it holder

Cute eh? Very simple, but for 9 9 year olds, its about as fancy as I'm will to spend time on:)

Cardstock- Bazzill
ink and stamp- CTMH
Butterfly punch- Fiskers
label punch- SU
glitter ritz
twine - Twinery
bling


Off to think about the buttons:) Happy Scraping. Don't forget about our 3 Girl Jam Blog hop tomorrow starting off with Julie at A Little Bit of Bling.

My First Hop....

Mark Your Calendars for a fun Hop with 3 Girl JAM

Coming to a Blog Near You

on

April 11th

"Nice to Meet You"

Blog Hop

showcasing the

Awesome Products at 3 Girl JAM

and the

new

Design Team

starting at the 3 Girl JAM Owner, Julie K's Blog

A Little Bit of Bling

JOIN US FOR SOME FUN

Prizes ~ Inspiration ~ Friends

Busy, Busy, Busy

 Wow, I still can't get over the fact that I made the 3 Girl Jam design team. Its my first team I've been on, so I hope I can live up to the product....but I am so excited and raring to go. The last couple of weeks have kept me busy, busy, busy. I had the Crop and Create 2 weeks ago, which lead into Spring Break. The start of Spring Break was a rough one with my family getting the flu, but not all at once...one at a time. So including my hubby, that was 4 sick people. Not to be gross, but thats a lot of vomit. Then on Saturday I had an all day crop with my MIL and CIL (cousin in law). Sunday, my daughter had a birthday party, which an hour before, I still hadn't gotten a gift. My Hubby was at work, and at some point I still needed to pick up my 12 yr old from his friends house on the other side of the city. My daughter's birthday is wednesday and I still have yet to buy her her gifts. Whew, I'm exhuasted just thinking about it.

  On the plus side though....because of the Crop and Create I was just wiped out. So for the crop on saturday I decided to just focus on getting stuff ready for my daughters Class birthday party which is on the 14th. Easter is next weekend, and her friend in her class has the same birthday, so her party was the sunday party, so I pushed Payton's til the 14th. I was able to make the invitations, a banner and the bookmarks for the goodie bags. Because I'm making as much as I can, and because between her birthday and Easter and all that comes up in May I made these items very simple, but pretty.

 Every year we have a theme for their parties...this year I thought the simplest theme would be a color theme. Well that was before my daughter picked this color combo. I was hoping for pink and black. I love this color combo, but boy is it hard to find things that match.

 The card shape is a simple shape cut from the CTMH Art Philosophy cart.

Cardstock-Bazzill
Stamp and ink- CTMH
Glitter- Glitter Ritz
bling

  A very simple idea and layout, but I think they turned out great. Just an fyi though, something I soooo did not even think about....teal does not show up on dark purple cardstock ( duh, I know). Well there you have it folks. Stay tuned for the rest of the party planning, and of course some 3 Girl Jam projects. And once I have it all figured out I will have the whole design team posted on my side bar :) Happy Scrapping.

Exciting News....

 Whoo hoo, I am excited to tell you all that I made the very 1st 3 Girl Jam design team. I am very honored to be a part of this team because it is a product that I love....Crinkle ribbon. I've been choosen along with some very talented ladies, so I will have my work cut out for me!!! Stop by 3 Girl Jam say Hi the the rest of the amazing women of the design team and take a look at the great ribbon too:)

  I'm a day late in annoncing this, as I was at an all day crop yesturday, so between last weekend and yesturday I have a lot to share with you all. I'm off to run my daughter to a birthday party then hopefully back to post again:)