WINNER!!

 

Hello Everyone! It has been a great week! I have the winner from the Dia Del los Muertos Blog Hop generated by random.org

THE WINNER Is………………………………………

#34 joeygirl86 said...

OMG I LOVE THIS!!! You are so creative..the faces are awesome!! I thought it was a PK face at first and I was like 'why don't I have that face yet??' sooo super cute! Defintiely my fav project so far! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

Congrats Joeygirl please email me your address so I can send the irock out to you!

Since I am pretty close to hitting 200 I thought why not another giveaway?  When I hit 200 I will give  you a choice of a PKS snow cuties 1 1/8 set  or an irock to one  lucky person!

           

Spread the word about my blog! As soon as I hit 200 I will have a random drawing so be sure to come back and leave comments to win!! Thanks for all your support!

 

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika  

Whimsical Wednesday Guest designer

 

Happy Wednesday!! I am so honored to have been asked to be a Guest designer by Steph and Jess for the Whimsical Wednesday challenge.

The challenge:

Create an altered item.

If you are like me you would rather spend your money on crafting items like stamps, paper, cartridges, etc. Not actually on the containers to hold them. In a month or so my husband will be finished building my craft room and I realized I needed stuff for the desks and shelves he is building, ( yes he is building those too) . When I went out to the store I saw how expensive the containers are and they do not match my decor I have a lot of red ( even my cricut is Red). So I decided to make my own containers using the Gerber Graduates Cheese Puff cans ( don’t worry I don’t eat those lol I have a toddler).

I found a paper stack that had paper that have the two colors I am using in my craft room!!!

I stitched around the tags and inked the letters and added some little doodling with my white gel pen..

Directions:

• cut a strip of paper 4 inches by 12 in
• using Modpage cover the can ( i do it in sections) and apply paper
• I cut the tags using Gypsy Wonderings at 2.75 height x3.75 width (red part)
• inner tag was cut at  3 in wide x2 in high
• the letters were cut at 1/2 an inch
• glue the two tags together and then the letters on top
• add any doodling you may want
• with Modpage glue the tag to the container let dry
• put another coat of Modpage over it all, making sure to get a good coat and cover it all especially the letters
• When it is dry you can add any other elements you want using a hot glue gun

Materials Used:

• can (you can also use powdered formula cans)
• Compete Boy Paper stack by My Mind’s Eye
• Modpage
• cricut/gypsy   
• Gypsy Wanderings (tags)
• School book Cartridge ( letters)
• hot glue gun
• flowers,brads, ribbon
• White gel pen

Simple and fun to make! The best thing is that you can use what ever paper you want to match your decor. I made 4 so far but I have 4 more to go, I like everything to have its own place lol!

Here is a sneak peek at what Stephanie  and Jess made.   To view their entire projects check out their blogs…..

Steph  Always Crafting

JessMy Scrap diary

Thanks for stopping by Hope you get to do some crafting today!

Lots of Cricut love,

Erika

Dia Del los Muertos day 2

 

Hi all!! I was amazed by all the wonderful comments yesterday. You all truly made my day!!

If you haven’t seen day one click here. Remember to leave a comment  for the Prize.

For today I made this quick little card for my Cousin Alyssa’s 14th Birthday! My aunt bought her an i-pod and asked me to make a  card that had some kind of music on it….

It didn’t quit turn out like I had hoped but my aunt loved it!  Remember to check out all the other blogs to see their amazing creations! Happy Hopping!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika 

Dia Del Los Muertos

 

Hola Bienvenidos a todos! Ok well I hope I spelled that right cause my Spanish isn’t the greatest!

Welcome to the Dia Del los Muertos/ A celebration of life blog hop!  If you just came from Karla's blog you are in the right place, if not you can go back and start from the beginning  with one of our very talented Hostesses Abby you don’t want to miss out on any of the amazing blogs!

Ok now on to my project! I knew right away what I was going to make for this hop, what better way to celebrate life than with a wedding…

This is a close up of the bride and Groom I drew the faces on myself

 

After gluing her together her dress seemed so plain, so I had an old dress that had this beautiful material on it, I cut it and sewed it on top to make it crinkle. I think it gave it more definition.

Materials used:

• Simply charmed Cartridge
• Paper doll dress up
• Ravenhead Manor Paper stack
• Autumn Splendor paper stack ( for red glitter paper)
• fabric and needle/thread
• Sakura 3d crystal lacquer to make grooms hair and shoes shiny
• Martha Stewart Markers to draw the faces

Did I mention the awesome grand prize? One lucky winner will win all this!! So make sure to hop to every blog and leave a comment!

OH!!! I am giving away a little something to one lucky person; an  I-rock!

How awesome is that? All you have to do to win is to:

1. Become a Follower
2. Leave a comment on this post

I will be picking a winner and post it on my blog Friday so be sure to check back!!

Thanks for hopping by now on to the next blog….

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika