Hi All

 

I am busy busy this is my last week of school and I am trying like mad to catch up on some work that I missed when I was at home with my ankle! I also have to study for my finals.

So thats why I haven’t been able to post any projects, but I have been working on some projects for the Holly Jolly Blog hop.I can’t  

I was also excited to be chosen to be on Kassidy's DT!! So look forward to some projects for that!!

After this week I will get back to crafting so look for some really cute projects that are already designed in my gypsy!!

I am so happy to see that I have new followers and I am so close to 200 and my giveaway!!

Thanks for all your support have a great evening!!

Lots of cricut love,

Erika

Stylish blogger Award

I am so happy and honored that three of my beautiful crafty friends; Audrey,Claire and Amanda have decided to pass this award on to me.

In order to accept this award I have to :

1.Thank and link to the person who awarded you this.

2.Share 8 things about yourself.

3.Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered.

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award.

Here are 8 things about me:

1. I am totally obsessed with Johnny Depp ( who isn’t)
2. I love The Beatles, and I have passed down that love to my kids who know and sing all the songs!
3. I am a Rock Band champion lol I got it for my son and I ended up playing it more than him!
4. My favorite shows are Dexter and True Blood
5. I don’t like Twilight, but my 10 year old makes me buy them for her and watches the movies 10 times a day lol.
6. I love to read
7. My 3 sisters are my best friends I can’t live without them
8. I got banned from Michaels by my hubby for a month for spending waaaaay to much once. He took me back the next weekend, but he felt good for “putting his foot down” hahaha!

Ok enough about me now on to the 8 totally creative amazing women I am passing this on to:

1. Stephanie @ Always Crafting
2. Debbie @ DDs crafts
3. Diane's place
4. Gaby @ Gaby creates
5. Jess @ My scrap diary
6. Sharon @ meemeescreations
7. Abby@ scrapbookaholic
8. Kim @ Scrappin mom of one inspiring littleboy

I hope every one enjoys their award Have a great day!!

Lots of cricut love,

Erika

Santa Rocks

This is my second post for the day! To see my post for Throwback Thursday Challenge click HERE.

 

I made this easel card ( my very first) to enter into Imagine-nation Monday Challenge! I still don’t have an imagine :( but hopefully Phillip Claus (a.k.a hubby) will bring me one!

Materials used:

• Simply Charmed Cartridge ( santa)
• smiley Cards ( guitar)
• Mickey Font
• buttons
• DCWV Tis the season paper stack
• PK-493 everyday character face parts

Thank you for stopping by I really appreciate it and enjoy your comments soo much!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Cricutless card

 

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful Saturday! I have been in my craft room all day!! I am working on a few projects all at once, trying to get caught up!

This is the first challenge I ever entered so I am glad this is the first one I am entering since my accident, Emma’s Throwback Thursday Challenge.

The challenge for this week was to create a card WITHOUT a cricut! This was the perfect challenge for me to find my groove again lol. I actually made two cards cause I was having so much fun!

Here is the first card…

Isn’t this reindeer the cutest thing ever!  I love the green and brown together I was trying to stay away from traditional Christmas colors.

Here is the second card…

Again I am trying to stay away from the red and green I used my two favorite colors I love the way these two colors look together.

Materials used:

• Kraft cardstock cut at 5.5 x 11 in
• DCWV ‘Tis the season stack ( I love this stack it has beautiful prints)
• buttons
• ribbon
• white gel pen

Thanks so much for stopping by It feels good to post a project again!!

Lots of cricut love,

Erika

I think i lost my mojo!

 

Hello everyone!

I really thought I would be able to spend some time crafting, with my little “break”, but it was too hard to move around with my ankle. Today I finally felt up to it and I sat down and…nothing!! I didn’t have any card ideas come to me! Hmm maybe its the meds one side effect might be loss of imagination lol!! Well I am going to try again because there are a few challenges I want to enter and I really miss my cricut. Wish me luck!

I did manage to get a couple of scrapbook pages done, but I wasn’t too happy with them :(

Have a great Friday and I hope to see yall tonight for Emma’s U-stream!!

Lots Of Cricut love,

Erika

Look what I got!

 

WOW! I am so honored that Jenny over at Crazy About Cricut  passed this award over to me!! She is super sweet and has lots of great projects and inspiration on her blog! I am very fortunate to be on her Family Friday Design team!

Well I am supposed to list three things about me that make me different: hmmm.

1. I am very optimistic and always trying to find the good in a bad situation and encouraging everyone around me to do the same.

2. I am a full time student on my way to becoming an Art Teacher!! I love children and anything creative so this is my dream job!! I have been using things I am learning in my art classes on my layouts and projects.

3. I have a great ability to see something and figure out a way to change it to make it unique, That is what I love about my Gypsy and Cricut. If you look at my projects I hardly ever use a cut the way it is in the handbooks I always find a way to tweak it to make it different and my own!!

Ok now on to the five people I am going to pass this Award to:

• Joanna at Scrap-making.  She is a super sweet person and her blog is terrific!! She has some of the cutest cards ever, and is a part of the Peachy keen DT. I get tons of inspiration from her and her amazing creations.
• Abby at Scrapbookaholic. I was fortunate enough  to be a part of her Amazing Dia Del Los Muertos Blog hop. She has an amazing blog that"’s packed full of inspiration, from cards to layouts and everything in between, in English and Spanish!!
• Stephanie at Always Crafting. I just recently was a Guest Designer on her blog for her Whimsical Wednesday Challenge! It was one of the first challenges that I entered when I started my blog! She is very sweet and very talented
• Ana Maria at Teach U 14. She is very sweet and she has lots of really cute projects on her blog!!My favorite is the baby wipes cases, they are so cute and unique!
• Gaby at Gaby Creates. She is the sweet person who contacted me to be on her blog hop! I am amazed at how talented she is. I love to visit her blog just to see her beautiful creations. She also has a great challenge going on with Abby they have amazing prizes and the challenges are fun!

Thanks for visiting make sure to visit these amazing women if you haven’t already! Have a Great Day!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Awesome giveaway

 

Hello I hope you are all having a great Friday. I want to thank everyone for the sweet comments, they really lifted my spirits!! Today I am feeling much better and the Dr. said my ankle is looking good, and he is not going to put a full cast like he thought just a splint and wrap that’s better for me I could not  stand to be in a cast!!

Well have you heard about the awesome giveaway over at Dawn's Craft Place? If not you gotta go check it out for a chance to win this:

Thanks for stopping by!

Lots Of Cricut Love,

Erika 

UGH…

 

Well I was planning on finishing up some projects yesterday to post today, but we decided to go eat dinner at my in laws and on the way out the door i slipped and heard a crack and down I went!! I have a broken ankle and some of the worst pain ever!!

I’m always trying to look on the bright side though and I will be staying home for two weeks, no school!!! That means more cricut time, I have some new stamps and a beautiful new christmas paper stack to play with too when I am better!

Not today though hurts too much but maybe tomorrow!

 

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Smiley Cards Ornament

 

I just love the Smiley Cards Download!! The images are too cute! I have been playing with it all morning and I made these two ornaments for the two baby’s in the family; My son Preston and niece Tabitha.

I am entering them in the Lets face it Friday challenge over at Peachy Keen stamps.

The challenge this week:

create an ornament with  your peachy keen stamps!

Well here they are…

 I just love them they are sooo cute!   I can’t wait to hang them up!

Materials used:

• Smiley Cards (gingerbread)
• Simply Charmed Cartridge ( stocking and candy cane)
• Paper doll Dress up  ( hat)
• PK –640 Princess Face assortment
• White gelly roll pen, ribbon

Thanks for stopping by have a great Friday! Don’t forget to check who the winner was for the Dia Del Los Muertos Blog Hop!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

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