Read Across America Day! Create a Book Blog Hop plus a special giveaway.

It's the NEA's Read Across America Day and it's also Dr. Seuss' Birthday today!

 

Thank you for joining us on the Create A Book Blog Hop hosted by Joy of joyslife.com! 

The following is the list of blogs who are participating on this hop. Did you come here from Rosy's blog? If not, just click here to start the hop from Joy's blog and keep hopping until you're back here. In case you get lost hopping, just come back here and refer back to the list below to get back on track. 

Joy - http://joyslife.com
Tammy - http://tammyjennings.blogspot.com
Rosy - http://sweetdelightspapernmore.blogspot.com
You're HERE--->Jin - http://www.underacherrytree.com
Melissa - http://melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com
Amanda - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com
Ruthie - http://www.septemberninth.blogspot.com
Martha - http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
Scraps2Treasures - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Sandra - http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Becky - http://www.cricutinmyclassroom.blogspot.com/
Misty - http://www.abusyplace.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com/

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This hop is really special to me because we love books in our house. My kids are avid readers and I love to use my Cricut to write stories for them. Here are a few stories that I have written for my daughters:

  The Boy and his Big Blue House

   



Pan-Dee Gets A Christmas Tree

Pan-Dee Meets The Spider

 

Pan-Dee Takes A Vacation

Panda Love

By the way, in case you are wondering, Pan-Dee is my youngest daughter's lovey. :-)

For today's hop, I made a special little tab-style board book. The entire project was created with Make-the-Cut, my Cricut Expression machine, the Canon PIXMA MP250 Inkjet Printer and SVGs, Graphics, Fonts, and Papers by Lettering Delights. I do not use nor own a Cricut Imagine.

This book was inspired by my three daughters who are 8 years old (twins) and 5 years old (Baby Sister). The main image on the front cover was cut out with Make-the-Cut using the Print-and-Cut technique. All the pages are made strong with cardboard from cereal and cracker boxes. The book was put together with Zutter's Bind-it-all.

Here is our book of words to remember; words that Hubby and I tell our children so very often... 

I hope that you enjoyed my book. This is the list of Lettering Delights products that I used:

Sweet Nothings Graphic Set

Love Labels SVGs

Sweet Nothings Paper Pack

Bookworms Graphic Set

LD Funky Chunky Font

Backyard Fun Graphic Set

Monster-licious Graphic Set

DB Baby Faces DoodleBat Font

Pampered Princess Graphic Set

Grown Up Girls Graphic Set

Because no blog hops should go without a giveaway, I have blog candy too. Since Read Across America was started to celebrate the joy of reading, today's giveaway is special and is something that you can win for the little one in your life. I am giving away ONE Dangerous and Daring Gift Set for Boys and Girls.

Here's how to win:

You must be a follower to enter in the giveaway. If you are not already a follower, just click on the "Follow" button on the right.

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Make sure that you leave your email address or any other form of contact so that I may inform you if you win.

Due to the heavy weight of this item, this giveaway is only open to U.S. Residents with a U.S. Mailing Address.

Entries to the giveaway will be accepted from now until Wednesday Mar 9, 11:59pm PST. The winner will be chosen by RANDOM.ORG and announced on Thursday Mar 10, 2011.

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If you're ready to continue on your hop, your next stop is Melissa's Moe Creations. 

Happy Blog Hopping, and don't forget to Read a Book Today! ;-)