Welcome to Bouncyflouncyfunfunfun and the CookingWithCricut.com Holiday Blog Hop!

If you've come from visiting Brandylynn's blog, created by brandylynn you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to CookingWithCricut.com and start at the beginning. Go HERE



With the holidays fast approaching we are sharing some wonderful ideas and inspiration for your viewing and crafting pleasure!



Each Design Team member will be featuring an original project made especially for this hop. Make sure to check out each DT member's blog. There will be prizes along the way at our DT members' blogs, AND there will be some nice PRIZES with a few different ways to win at CookingWithCricut.com!

For my Holiday project, I've created a stair step card. These are fun and three dimentional so you can add as little or as much detail as you would like.

Start off with a piece of card stock 5 1/2 inches by 10 1/2 inches. Next we're gonna make score lines parallel to the 5 1/2 inch side. Score at 1 1/4", 2 1/2", 4 1/4", 6" and 8 1/4". Fold accordian style along score lines. Now it's time to decorate your layers.

I printed the Cooking With Cricut Gingerbread House on Confetti White card stock and colored it with Copics. To add some sparkle I used red stickles on the candy canes and gum drops. The icy snow was made by sprinkling dazzling damonds over glossy accents.

I wanted some fun trees so I printed a couple more of the Gingerbread House images on designer paper and then cut them out and added stickles.

The Gingerbread man is a stamp from Stampabilities.

The snow was cut free hand from Confetti.

The sentiment was made using Mini Monogram and George carts.

This is my very first stair step card but I had so much fun making it won't be my last.

Now it's your turn! Let’s see your wonderful holiday projects. Be sure to try and include a Cricut or other die cut machine on your project and link it up at CookingWithCricut.com.

In addition to all the wonderful prizes to be given away on the Cooking With Cricut blog, Melin has been so sweet to offer a free digital image or cutting file to one lucky person who leaves a comment on this blog post. I will be drawing a random winner on Monday at 10:00 AM CST so be sure to leave your comment. This is the fabulous image you can win.

Next stop..Michelle's blog, mumoftwo . Go see what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to head back to CookingWithCricut.com and get entered to win one of the fabulous prizes to given away there!

Happy Holiday Hopping! TTFN

Hugs, Becky

House Mouse Challenge

Okay! I know I said I was gonna clean my stamp room before I created anymore, but I just couldn't help myself. I was getting ready for bed, when I remembered that my dear friend Stacy (twinshappy on SCS) had a House Mouse blog challenge on her brand new blog. I had it on my list of things to do today and had forgotten about it til then. Where is my brain these days? If you see it, will you let me know where it is? I digress, anywho, I only have (are you ready for this) two * House Mouse stamps *gasp*, so it took a lot of the guess work out of deciding which image to stamp. Either I was gonna do a Christmas card or a non Christmas card. I chose the non Christmas card. Here is what I came up with.

Stamps: Lip Stamp (Stampabilities). Papers: Summer Sun, Red, Basic Grey DP. Inks: Black Stazon. Accessories: Piercing tool, Ribbon, Reinkers, Aqua painter.

Aren't those little guys the cutest? I love House Mouse don't you? What a fun challenge. If you get the chance, pop on over to Stacy's blog and check it out. She's a terrific person and an awesome stamper and I'm so glad she joined the blogging world.

I'm really finished stamping for tonight and I'm gonna go get some sleep. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have some sweet stampin dreams. TTFN

Inky fingers day!!!!

Oh my! I don't know the last time that I made so many different cards in one day. I mean, I've made several of the same card design in one day, but to design 5 cards in one day has to be some kind of record for me. SCS is celebrating their anniversary by inviting Fan club members to join them in challenges. Imagine my excitement!!! I get to stamp and stalk with the Dirty girls. Today was the big kick off and boy was it fun! I am just going to load all four of the cards and the layout challenge card in one post, otherwise it would take forever! KWIM

So here I go.

This first card was for the regular layout challenge that is posted every Wednesday. The challenge was to make a tent topper card. I've seen these before and liked them but have never made one before today! I will be making more of these. They are super simple and so nice looking. I made this to send to Beth Silaika who posts the Featured Stamper challenges on SCS. She just had a baby girl last week.

The DP is from MME and the ribbon I picked up at HL. I used the wagon from Favorite Teddy Bear and masked off the image and then stamped the baby from Cuddles and Tickles! I colored the image using my SU markers and Prisma color pencils! Love how this turned out!

This next card was for the Dare To Get Dirty challenge to make a pet card! The only animal image that I own is Fishy Friends. I wanted to make another tent topper card and this is what I came up with. The white CS is cuttlebugged using my Fiskars bubble embossing plate. I used my slot punch to make the scallop strip and stamped the tag using Lexicon Of Love and the small fish from Fishy Friends. I stamped the big fish twice. Once to watercolor and then once to cut out the fin and pop it up on dimentionals. He has Dazzling Diamonds glitter all over him! I really like how this one turned out!

For this one the challenge was to use brads. There are 30, count em, yea...I said 30 brads on this card. That would be a record for me! I used Bud Basics for this one and my piercing tool to make the stems for the flowers. The giant photo corner is hiding a 'rock the stamp boo boo". All in all, I like this one too! It's not my fave, but it looks really good IRL.

The challenge on this one was to make a toile looking card! Not too sure I accomplished that here. I probably should have left the butterflies with no color. I just couldn't do it. The butterfly stamp was one that I found at the dollar store. I really had to smoosh it down in the ink to get it to ink well, but it worked. I also used Too Terrific Tags and Print Pattern and Canvas stamps on this card! I think I am finally getting the hang of tying bows. For the most part, I struggle with that one.
And now, last but certainly not least. The layout challenge card. This was my favorite card that I made. It just came together so easily. It took me 20 minutes to put this one together!

The DP is from MME. The stamp is from Stampabilities! I used jeweled brads just to give some bling! Whew! Am I am tired! I'm off to beddy bye now! Hope you have a wonderful day!