It's a Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Christmas in July Blog Hop challenge from Exploring Cricut. If you came here from Georgiana's, your in the right place. By now you have visited a few of the DT's blogs and saw some awesome projects and some great blog candy. This may be the last spot, but I have some goodies too ! My project for this challenge is making a useable Christmas decoration from a couple of thrift store bargains. I bought this cube picture holder for $1.50 and this candle stick for .25. I love it when I find something like this and I knew right away what I was going to make! First, I cleaned them really good and gave them a base coat of white paint and glued the candle stick to the photo cube. I cut my designs from Inspired Heart cartridge and cut my image at 4 inches in black paper. The other 3 sides have cuts too, but I will show the one that is more Christmas. The others can be used at Easter or as a nice decoration. I then cut vellum to fit inside and glued the black image to it. You can put a flameless candle or LED small light inside for the glow. Below are pictures . Be sure to check out my blog candy too! To win, all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post and I will pick a winner via random.org on Saturday when the challenge closes and will announce on Sunday . After you are finished here, be sure to enter the challenge on the Exploring Cricut blog for a chance to win there too! If you somehow missed some of our DT, there is a list at the bottom of this post and you can get to them. Thanks for joining our blog hop.


Thrift store treasures for 1.75! The things you can find to make into new items!

Just in time for all the holiday decorating that will be hitting us in just a few months!!!!!! BLOG CANDY JUST LEAVE A COMMENT, BE A FOLLOWER AND LEAVE YOUR EMAIL HERE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!


EXPLORING CRICUT DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS

Sharon http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com/

Annette http://mymindsdustbunnies.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com/

Emily http://emilyqueenofallthingscrafty.blogspot.com/

Michelle http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/

Lori http://scrappinsaints.blogspot.com/

Kim http://littleredshood.blogspot.com/

Ian http://anewbiecrafter.blogspot.com/

Diana http://craftypeepdb.blogspot.com/

Georgiana http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Diane http://happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com/



I am also entering this in the following challenges:

Clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com

Hidinginmycraft.com