Pick of the Patch

 

Hi everyone! I hope this week has been going good! This week has been great for me, the weather is awesome, it is beginning to feel like fall here in South Texas!

I finished this card two days ago but couldn’t get my camera to work ( I really need a new one) I am entering in the PKS Sketch Challenge. This is the sketch we were to follow and we had to use Kraft cardstock.

 I am also entering this card in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #29, which is to create a project using some type of stitching, hand, machine or faux stitching

Here is my card…

Materials I used to make this card:

• Create a Critter
• Paper Doll Dress up  ( pumpkin costume)
• PK-754 Critter faces set A Medium
• My Pink Stamper’s Spooky Puns for the sentiment
• Kraft Cardstock, paper flower, brad brown ribbon all from Michaels
• Paper  Recollections Ravenhead Manor paper pack
• Cuttlebug polka dots embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by, I love and appreciate all your comments! Have a great day!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Best witches to you!

 

My Pink Stamper is having a 5 million hits giveaway!! One of the challenges was to make something with a bird on it,I used my favorite little owl, she is so cute!

Materials used..

• Create a Critter Cartridge
• Give a hoot cartridge ( branch and leaves)
• Paper doll dress up ( broom)
• PKS Princess face assortment ( for the eyes just turned them up sidedown)
• My favorite paper stack K&Company Spooktackular paper pack
• Flower and brads
• Black gel pen for stitching

Thanks for looking have a great weekend!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

“Cricutless Card”

 

Happy Friday everyone!!

This Throwback Thursday Challenge at My Creative Time was to make a card, Sans the CRICUT!  It was a tough one, but on the brightside I got to use these great little stamps I picked up at Michaels last month, I just added the little google eyes!

Let me know what you think, I really value your opinion !

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Monsterrific!

Robin over at My Pink Stamper   is having an anything goes challenge using My Pink Stamper stamps. My daughter Ashley has been asking if she could help me make a card so we created this one together!

She picked the paper, and her favorite monster and she even picked the stamp, she says its her favorite from the Spooky puns set!! We had a blast making this together and we will definitely have some more mother daughter Cricut time!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lots of Cricut love,

Erika

Look what the UPS Man brought me

No…not the Imagine, ( I wish ) , My sweet husband knows how much I want the imagine, and he knows he can’t get it for me right now , so he told me to get the next thing that I had been wanting….

HERE IT IS..

 

 

I actually didn’t want this until recently, I have seen so many of you make awesome projects with a cuttlebug, it made me reaallllly want it!  I saw this on HSN ,the many times I’ve been on there recently, it comes with 12 embossing folders so it’s ready for me to get to work with it!! I’m so excited I can’t wait to make something with it!

Have a great day!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

“Have a Bloody Good Halloween”

 

These last few days have been super hard for me because I had a book report to write ( I wrote it on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, which is actually the inspiration for this card) , an essay and had to study for my history exam    ( whew), so I am so glad I got to get my card done for the Paper Cutz Challenge!

This challenge was to make a Halloween Card without using the colors Black and Orange, I was  excited because I had this great little Martha Stewarts Halloween paper pack that has a lot of red and brown and grey I just didn’t know what to use it on! I also had this great stamp that I got at Michaels on clearance for $1.00 and haven’t gotten to use it yet either!

Well here is my card

A close up of the stamp

This is the paper pack it has great patterns especially for you Vampire lovers like me!

I really enjoyed making this card!! I hope you like it as much as I do!!

Thank you for visiting and leaving me all the great comments I love and appreciate them all!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Lets Face it Friday Challenge #1

I hope you had a great weekend, I know I did!!

Over at Peachy Keen they have a new challenge it’s called Let’s Face it Friday and it gives you a chance to use all your wonderful little face stamps!! I am so excited about this because I love my stamps!!! I am on a mission to buy one pack a week until I own them all!! ( so far I have 7 sets).  This first challenge is to make a Halloween Treat Bag!!

Here is mine:

I decided I wanted to make a gable box and it took me all weekend to design it on my Gypsy using my Plantain School Book Cartridge, I was really happy with the way it turned out!! 

Materials used

• Plantain Schoolbook
• Critters pumpkin
• Paper doll dress up ghost
• Preserves for the tag
• PK-550Pumpkin Faces  and PK-493 Everyday Character face parts
• eeeeeek! is from Martha Stewarts Halloween stamp set

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Momos Hubby Challenge

I saw this challenge over at Made By Momo and I knew I had to get my hubby to try and make a card since he is always standing over my shoulder giving me “suggestions” when I make my cards lol! So he sat at the table last night with my cricut, gypsy  and started creating…

 

and came up with this card  …..

I think he did a great job for his first card, he didn’t let me help him at all!! He even cut the grass out by hand (he is too cute)!!( He said the that the cat knocked over the cauldron and that’s why the witch is jumping).

Well I guess he enjoyed him self because he decided to make another card (at midnight) and this one came out awesome I almost decided to claim it for my own.. but he’s here watching me post this, hehe.

I think this is a great challenge and enjoyed spending this much needed time with him thanks Momo!!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Birthday Challenge

Hello all!! Here is another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge! This weeks Challenge was to make a Birthday Theme card or Project. This was such a great challenge and different since just about everyone else is having Halloween Challenges!

I really enjoyed making this card..I got a chance to use my new Simply Charmed Cartridge!!

Materials Used:

• Simply Charmed Cartridge
• George Basic shapes Cartridge
• Gypsy wanderings Cartiedge
• Sentiment is from my Pink Stamper’s Spooky Puns
• Stickles (pink)
• Sakura jelly pens in white, pink blue, green and orange ( for stitching and sprinkles

I really love this card and so did my daughter she begged me to give it to her little friend for her Birthday lol.

Thanks for looking! Have a great evening!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Treat Box

Happy Happy Wednesday!!

Getting Cricky is having a Halloween Challenge!! I decided to make a little treat bag for this challenge!

To make this little bag I used the gift bag from the George Cartridge and I welded a an oval on the bag with my Gypsy.

I had the plastic from the Simply Charmed Charmed Cartridge I got this week, and I cut it to fit behind the oval. The little spider and web are from the Mini Monsters Cartridge. I liked the way it came out so much that I am going to make them for my daughter Ashley’s little buddies, ( she volunteers to read to 4 little Pre-k  students, she is such a good girl !)

By the way…

Getting Cricky is also giving away this awesome blog candy you have until September 3o to enter!! Go check it out!!

Thanks for visiting my blog!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

I made this card for  Always Crafting Whimsical Wednesday Challenge . The challenge was to make something using the Mini Monsters cartridge, and as you can see from my blog I love love love this cartridge!! Especially this little candy corn girl, isn’t she just the cutest ever!!  I was so excited cause just as I was putting this card together the mail came bringing me my new stamps, My Pink Stamper’s Spooky Puns Set YAY!!

Ok so Here it is..( sorry my camera just isn’t cooperating with me I think it’s time for a new one) 

Materials I used to make this card..

• Mini Monsters Cartridge
• Sugar& Spice Cartridge
• Peachy Keen Everyday character face assortment
• My Pink Stamper Spook Puns set
• Polka dot  paper K&Company Spooktacular paper pack
• paper on the circle is from Martha Stewarts Halloween mat pack
• ribbons and button
• Stitching with my white Sakura pen

Thanks for looking!!  Have a great evening!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Cardz T.V. Halloween Challenge

 

 

I hope everyone has had a great weekend I know I did!! Yesterday was my Preston’s 1st Birthday Party !! It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun!! Here is my little guy, I mean big guy, eating a birthday cupcake!!

Amidst all the chaos I actually managed to get some crafting done, don’t ask me how lol!

I designed this card for the Cardz T.V Halloween Challenge, http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2010/09/halloween-challenge.html and I loved the way it came out!!  

I actually designed the “film” on my gypsy a couple of weeks ago using the George cartridge, but then got crafter’s block and just saved it! When I saw this challenge a light bulb went off !!  This is my favorite card so far!

I hope you like it!!

Thanks everyone for all the great comments you have left me on my projects!! I really appreciate it and it gives me more confidence to keep creating!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Jitterbuggin -My Favorite Things Challenge

I have been trying to finish this card for the Jitterbuggin challenge, this will be my first entery, but I have been so busy! I finally got to lock myself in my craft room and work on it!!

The challenge was to

Follow the sketch. 

Use your favorite thing as the subject - your favorite animal, your favorite food, your favorite character, etc.

Use your two favorite colors.

For my card I used my two favorite colors which are the colors of my craft room even my cricut and laptop are the same candy apple red! My favorite thing is apples my entire kitchen is decorated with apples!

I made this card using

The cartridges I used were George(for card) I welded two squares with my gypsy, Give a hoot (apple), Everyday paper dolls (basket)and the circle is from the sugar and spice cartridge.

The paper I used came from the All boy paper pack by My Mind’s Eye

The little buttons and brads came from Michaels

I love the way it came out!! I hope you do too :-)

Thanks for looking

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Halloween Lollipops

Hello again!! Whew I have been busy busy this weekend!! At the preschool I work at we are all making treats for Halloween to sell to raise money for the Adopt a Family program we are involved in every year. We start raising money in September and in November we go out and buy presents for the family for Christmas it is a great program that I am very proud to be a part of ! The sale will begin in two weeks but I decided to start early… I decided to contribute lollipops but they were so plain.. I dressed them up using my Mini Monsters Cartridge and of course my Peachy Keen Stamps!! I made a grand total of 30 I have 20 more to go!! Thanks for looking

Lots Of Cricut Love,

Erika

CANDY!!

Usually on the first day of school I like to send a little gift for my kiddos new teachers, but I kinda got sidetracked and I forgot!! So I decided to give them Hershey’s candy Bars with theses cute super simple little wrappers I made using my Preserves Cartridge and My peachy Keen Stamps. I hope they like them!!

 

I was just going to make apples BUT since I love Peachy Keen so much I decided to make a Peach one in honor of them!! :-)

Thanks for looking, I would love to know what you think so please leave a comment and if you like what you see please follow my blog!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Practical Scrappers White Pen Challenge

This is my first challenge as a follower of Practical Scrappers and it was a fun one! I really enjoyed making this card, this is the first time I got to use my Hoot N Holler lite cartridge!!

I designed this card using my gypsy and it opens under the branch , I did all the white stitching using my Sakura Gelly Roll Pen

This is the inside ,sorry not the greatest picture, but my camera does not want to cooperate with me :-(

Thanks for looking Please leave a comment I would love your opinion!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

I got my new peachy keen Stamps!!

 

I got my stamps on Monday but my hubby was in the hospital for an emergency surgery.. he is at home and doing well now, so I didn’t get to use them until today :-( . I  had these all designed on my gypsy and they turned out great I love them!!

My First Project is a little treat bag

This is what I used:

Cartridges: Once upon a princess, Mini Monsters, and George

I stamped the face using Peachy Keen’s Monster mash face set

The paper I used was from K&Company Halloween paper pack from Michaels

The stamp Ghouls just want to have fun is one of five I picked up at Michaels for 1 dollar each!!

My next Project is a little ghost card

 

This is what I used:

Mini Monsters and George cartridge

Gypsy

K&Company Spooktacular paper pack

Boo stamp is from Martha Stewarts Halloween stamp collection from Michaels

Face is from Peachy Keen’s Monster Mash Face set

Thank you for visiting my blog! Please Leave a comment I’d love to know what you think about my projects!!

Lots of Cricut love,

Erika