My first Christmas Card

Hello everyone!! I hope everyone is having a great Halloween Weekend!! Today I decided not to work on homework or even do housework (my hubby was house husband today lol) I locked myself in my room and worked on a few projects.

This card is my first Christmas Card, I have been wanting to use this little reindeer since I got the Create a Critter Cartridge and I got to use my two favorite colors!!I gotta say I love this little guy, I made this card to enter into  Emma’s Throwback Thursday Challenge. I missed the last challenge so I am so glad I got to enter this one!!

 

Materials used:

• Create A Critter
• Gypsy
• George Cartridge
• DCWV Christmas Paper stack (from last year)
• cuttlebug
• snowflake embossing folder
• PKS stamps for mouth ( eyes are googley eyes)
• sentiment is from Michaels in the dollar section

I hope you like this card! I am so excited about my firs Christmas card, can’t wait to make another!! Thanks for visiting!! Don’t forget to come back Monday for the Dia Del Los Muertos/ A celebration of life blog hop, I am so excited and proud to be a part of this awesome hop with these talented women!!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

First Family Friday Project

Hello everyone!! I am so glad it is Friday, this will be my first post as a Family Friday DT Member, I am so excited! I have had a super busy week and next week isn’t looking any less busy, I hope after next week things will go back to normal and I will be able to create some cards! I am also entering these into the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge and Cooking with Cricut #3 challenge!

This week ( yes it took me almost the whole week) I made treat bags for 3 of my kiddo’s classes , 64 total, which took five, 3lb bags of candy to fill them! To top it off they wanted to have different types of bags so I made 3 different sets ( exhausting I know). Good thing is they came out great I love them all!

These are for my son Phillip’s class, I had wanted to try the sour cream containers and they were  so easy! He requested monsters on his….

These are for my Baby girl Vanessa’s Class, she said to make the ghosts with funny faces so her friends wont be scared….

 

This last set is for my older daughter’s 5th grade class..she wanted something “for big kids”. I designed these pillow boxes on my gypsy after seeing them at Walmart in a kit.

Materials used:

• Mini Monsters Cartridge
• Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge
• Gypsy wanderings ( for tags)
• PK-550 Pumpkin Faces
• PK-693 Monster Mash face assortment
• Spooktacular Paper Stack
• Ribbon
• Hot Glue Gun
• White, Black, Purple, Red Jelly roll pen
• orange small paper sacks
• Black 12x12 paper
• Sentiments from my favorite My Pink Stamper’s Spooky Puns set

I know this was a super long post, sorry. Well hope you like my treat bags, I know it got the Halloween out of me til next year lol!! Thanks for stopping by, Have a good weekend!

Lots of Cricut love,

Erika

Autumn Candles

 

Hi all my beautiful crafty friends!! Ok this is my second post of the day scroll down for my first.

Today I was getting all the kids Halloween treats ready for their classes and I realized that I had forgotten their teachers!! That is a no no, ( I am known for giving teacher gifts lol) so I ran out to Walmart and got some small pumpkin spice scented candles and brought them home and decorated them,without the use of my cricut ( gasp!).  These are the first I have ever done, they were so super easy to do and I think the teachers will love them!

 

Materials used:

• Autumn Splendor Paper stack
• Ribbon
• Scented candle with lid
• little flower from Michaels  ( set of 8 for $0.99)
• hot glue gun

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great evening!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Candy!!

 

I made these little treat boxes for my Daughter’s girl scout troop! I am so glad there aren't that many only 25 lol!! I am entering them into the Gaby/Abby Week 4 Challenge

I made these by welding the Tombstone from Simply Charmed onto the Bride treat box from Tie the knot, with my gypsy.

Materials used:

• Simply Charmed Cartridge
• Tie the Knot Cartridge
• PK-693 Monster Mash 1 1/8” set
• Ravenhead Manor paper pack
• White and Black jelly roll pen
• white ink pad
• sentiment is from the Martha Stewart Halloween wooden stamp pack

These were so simple and came out cute! Thanks for stopping by my little blog!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

BookMarks

 

Hello my crafty friends, I hope you are all having a great weekend so far!! As for me I was busy with my daughter Ashley making bookmarks for the girls in her class. They have been reading Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory and she said she wasted to make bookmarks for herself and her classmates ( she is such a sweetie).

Here is my Ash using Modpodge to put the paper on the chipboard.

Here are the pieces that went on each book mark.

 

These are the finished bookmarks ( we still need to add the names to the top)

Materials Used:

• Rock Princess Cartridge
• Gypsy and Cricut
• Stamps Rock on by Pink by Design ( these are so cute!)
• chipboard
• paper from Me and my Big Ideas All girl paper pack
• Modpodge

We made 11 total today for all the girls in her class, tomorrow we will make 11 more for the boys!! These were so fun to make, it was great spending time with my crafty little girl!!

Thanks for visiting, Please leave a comment, I love them, it really makes my day!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Fall card

 

Hello everyone!! I hope you had a great weekend!

Well for today I have a card that I made for two challenges; Throwback Thursday Challenge and Challenge me Monday!

For Emma’s challenge we had to create  a project using an Animal theme, and for Fantabulous Cricut we had to create a project with at least one leaf on it.

Here is my entry

side view

I love this card! I think it is my favorite so far!!

Materials used:

• Create a Critter Cartridge
• Designer’s Calendar ( leaves)
• Gypsy Wanderings ( frame)
• PK-754 Critter Face Set Medium A
• Autumn Splendor Paper Stack
• Pop Dots

(I crumbled up the leaves and inked them to give them a textured look as well as the tree stump.)

Thanks for stopping by…Have a good evening!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Fall Wreath

ok this is my second post for the evening. I made this for two challenges! I told you I got to get a lot of crafting done today lol! Well I made this project to enter in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge. Our challenge is to create something to hang on the wall, vinyl, shadow box, sign etc. The second challenge I am entering it in is and Getting Cricky's Fall Blessings Challenge! She is giving away an awesome prize go check it out for a chance to win!

I decided to make a wreath to hang on my door. This is my very first attempt to make a wreath using the cricut, all the leaves were cut with the cricut!! It was a lot more work then I thought but I am happy with the way it turned out!!

Materials Used:

(There are 4 different types of leaves)

• Create a Critter ( 2 leaves come from this one)
• Everyday Paper doll Dress up
• Give a hoot
• DCWV Autumn Splendor Stack ( patterned and glitter paper)
• DCWV Autumn Splendor Solid Stack
• Foam Wreath
• Ribbon

First I wrapped a ribbon around the foam. I cut the leaves at 6 in, 5.5 in and 5 in ( real dial size) .

After cutting them out I inked the edges and crumbled them up and inked on the front of the leaves. To give them a textured look.

Then I used hot glue and began to layer them onto the wreath. I decided to have them all go in one direction( it looks neater that way)

That’s it simple, but time consuming!!

I think it may need something more, what do you think?

Well that’s all for tonight..time for bed! Thanks for visiting have a great night!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

EEEEEK!

 

Hello everyone!! I hope your weekend is going good! I have been super busy this week I finally got to sit down to do some crafting today! ( YAY!) I mad this card to enter in the Cricut Cardz Anything Goes Challenge!

This card was actually my son Daryl’s idea and he helped me make it!

This is the front of the card

Here is the inside

I think this is so cute and funny we really had a great time making this card!

Materials used

• Create a Critter Cartridge ( cupcakes)
• George Cartridge ( oven)
• PKS Monster Mash face assortment set
• sentiments from My Pink Stamper’s Spooky puns set ( I wrote the talking cupcake part by hand)
• White and Black Jelly roll Pen
• Black paper is from Walmart it is from the Metallic Paper Pack

Thanks for stopping by please leave a comment at let me know what you think, I love comments!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Crazy about Cricut DT member

 

Happy Wednesday one day closer to the weekend! Ok I am so honored and excited! I found out that I am going to be a Family Friday DT member!!! I can’t believe it, I just got my little button, it is so super cute (its on my sidebar)!! I can’t wait until my first Family Friday creation!! Be on the look out !!

Have  a great day!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

My First Blog Award

 

 

I am so honored and excited to receive my first Blogger award from Ana Maria at Teachu14! Her blog is awesome and her creations are beautiful; if you haven’t visited her blog you will love it!!  I am totally honored that she considered giving me this award she is such a sweetie!!

I am supposed to give this award to five people so I will be contacting them shortly!! Thanks so much for all the sweet comments I really appreciate them all, it really makes my day and motivates me to keep doing what I love!!

Have an awesome day!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

“Poison”

I made this invitation for a friend who is going to have a Halloween Party. She wanted something simple and “grown up”  I really liked the way it turned out! I am entering this card into the Cricut Me That Halloween challenge.

Materials used:

• Create a Critter ( poison bottle, its the milk jug)
• indie art ( skull)
• Once upon a princess
• Paper from RavenHead Manor paper pack
• Black Jelly roll pen for stitching

I hope you like it; let me know what you think!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Got Scraps Challenge

This is my second post for the day,I am trying to get caught up on the challenges! I am entering this card in the Got Scraps Challenge.

It is to make a Autumn or Halloween scrapbook page or card. I had this designed in my gypsy all week but just got to make it today!

Isn’t she a cutie she reminds me of my niece, with those little pigtails!

Materials Used:

• Sugar and Spice Cartridge
• Give a Hoot
• Stretch your imagination
• PKS princess face assortment

Thanks for visiting! Have a great night!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Toil and Trouble

 

Hello Everyone! TGIF! I am feeling so much better today; I even got to get some crafting done. My poor cricut and gypsy feel so neglected lol.

Well I made a card to enter into two challenges the first one is the  very first GabbyAbby Challenge, to use the colors purple, orange, and black

and the second challenge I am entering it in is the Jitterbuggin sketch Challenge.

I love how my witch turned out! I had so much fun making this card! I got to use my new  Cartridge and it was my first attempt at a gate fold card!

 

Inside of card

Materials used:

• Rock Princess cartridge ( witch)
• Mini Monsters (broom)
• Paper Doll Dress up ( hat and cauldron and spell book)
• Paper is from the Ravenhead Manor paper set
• PKS Princess face assortment set
• MPS Spooky puns
• black and white gellyroll pens

Thanks for visiting! Have a great Friday evening!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

I’m still here

 

 

I know I have been MIA for a few days now, but I was so sick I couldn’t even get out of bed. I had a severe infection in my kidneys and almost passed out from the pain a few times. I am on a series of antibiotics and other medications, but I am starting to feel better. Hopefully I can enter Emma’s and the Gabby Abby challenges this week!

I just got the CRI-Kits in the mail today so I am anxious to use them!

Have a good day!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika