My favorite projects of the year

 

Hello everyone!! I have been busy making a calendar for my little sister and it is taking me longer than I thought it would, but I gotta say I am loving the way it is looking and I will post pics as soon as it is done!!

Well I was looking through my pictures and decided to post a few of my favorite projects I created this year!

 

Here they are:

 

I started my blog in September of this year and I already got to know some amazing people! I am looking forward to the New Year and everything it brings! Thank you so much for supporting my blog and all the wonderful comments and words of encouragement I really appreciate it!

Blog Makeover Complete!

 

I am so happy with the way my blog looks!! I was a bit of a pain in the butt lol, but Madeline Mele from the Shabby Vanity was super patient and did a wonderful job! If you are looking to customize your blog I really recommend her she will work on it until you love it! I especially love my new blinkie!

Let me know what you think of my blog makeover!

I’m in Heaven!

 

Crafting heaven that is!! Hello all I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with your families, I know I did! And Guess what Hubby Claus came through and got me my Imagine!!

Oh I am in awe of this amazing machine and I have been trying to get to know it a little better! I also got two new sets of Peachy Keen Stamps to prepare for my Guest Design week! I have been sitting in my new Beatles pj’s  and playing with my new toy! I will hopefully be posting something in the next day or two!

I am also working on a new blog design with a very talented designer and it should be finished soon! I am so excited!

Thanks for stopping by have a great evening!

Thinking of you..

 

Oh I am so excited only two days until Christmas! Whatever Hubby Claus got me is Top Secret, he ordered it online all by himself ( first time) and had it sent to his mom’s house so I couldn’t even see the box lol!

Well anyways, I have had my card for the Flaunt it Friday Challenge since Sunday, but the only camera I have takes horrible pictures and I was supposed to go to my mom’s house to use her camera, but my poor mommy has been working long hours and hasn’t gotten a day off.  So I just went ahead and took the picture with my ugly camera hopefully it doesn’t look too bad.

The Challenge for this week was to use the cup and lemon on page 48 from the Simply charmed cartridge, I was thrilled because I just recently got this cartridge and haven’t really explored it!! I know that I am definitely going to be using it more often! I also got to use my sample action wobbles for the first time, I got to say.. I love them, I can’t wait til they are available to buy.

Ok now on to my card….(sorry told you horrible camera)

I made this for my baby sister who is in Georgia, we are very close and she is the first one to move far away. I have been missing her like crazy. The little sad glass of milk is me and she is the cookie lol.

Materials Used:

• Simply Charmed
• Gypsy Wanderings (card base)
• Smiley cards (thought bubble)
• Peachy keen every day character faces
• Peachy Keen Princess face assortment
• sentiment inkadoo stamps
• white and red jelly roll pen
• action wobbles
• Tis the season paper stack ( in my two favorite colors)

I really like this card and I know it will make my little sister laugh,I hope you will like it too!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

I'm a Peachy Keen guest designer!!

 

Hi everyone!! I hope you are all having a fantastic Christmas week! I know I am. Well I got some really awesome news last week, that I have been dying to share with you all!

I was chosen to be a Peachy Keen Guest designer!! OMG! I could not believe it, when I received the email from Angelica I thought it was to tell me thanks for trying lol! I have been so excited and can’t wait to get started!

I will be a guest designer on January 24 – January 28, that is right around the corner!! I will also be giving away a Peachy Keen stamp set during my week so be sure to leave comments that week!!

I am so excited thanks Peachy Keen Stamps for being so awesome and giving me this great opportunity! And thank you to all my followers for supporting my blog, I am grateful for every single one of you!

I forgot to also mention; thanks to K Andrew, I will be getting my cupcake note cards and mini journal(on the holly jolly blog hop)  published in the Scrap street Magazine! I am so honored, she is so amazing and sweet! Be sure to look out for that it is coming up in a month!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

 

P.s I have a card complete for Flaunt it Fridays but I really need a new camera! I am going to my moms tomorrow to take some good pics of it, I am so happy with the way it turned out! I will be posting it tomorrow be sure to stop back!

Let’s Face it Friday Challenge

 

Hello everyone!! This week has been super busy I am finishing up my gift bags for my kiddos classes! I learned my lesson with the treat bags I made for Halloween this time I made them all the same lol!

When I saw the challenge for Lets Face it Friday I knew exactly what I was going to make and I think they came out adorable! ( I had trouble with my camera last night and I didn’t realize the link expired  oh well.) I found these brown paper bags at the dollar tree but they are different than any I have seen..they are bigger and thicker! I bought 10 packs ( hey when I find something good I stock up lol).  and here is what I came up with…..

Here is a close up of my favorite little elf

sentiment says “Christmas is on its way”

I am so happy that I finally finished all 60 of them! Now on to finishing my Christmas cards!

Materials used:

• Jolly Holiday cartridge
• Winter Frolic ( presents)
• DCWV Tis the season paper stack
• PK- 640    princess face assortment
• white sakura pen
• Brown paper sacks
• sentiment Christmas stamps from Inkadinkadoo  (Michaels)

Thank you so much for all the support you have shown me! I love reading your wonderful comments and I appreciate every single one!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Happy Tuesday

 

I am sorry for not posting the winner yesterday, but I had some trouble with blogger, I am still having trouble hopefully this gets through. Thank you so much for all your wonderful comments! I am so happy that I have some new followers, I hope that I inspire you and that you will be back to visit often!

Now on to the winner of the Holly Jolly Blog Hop!

Random.org picked #3

Stephanie said... Wow, those do look like they were a lot of work, but definitely worth it.

Congrats Stephanie email me with your address and I will send you your prize out to you!!

I will draw the winner for reaching 200 on Friday from a random post! Come back and check on Saturday if you were the winner!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

 

Holly Jolly Blog Hop day 2

 

Good morning everyone!! Thanks for joining us for day two of our hop! You should be joining me from Marianne's Blog, if not you can start from the beginning at  Stephanie @ Always crafting. You don’t want to miss a single stop!

I am so excited because I hit 200 followers last night so on top of the the prize for the hop I will be picking a random winner for the PKS or Irock ( winners choice)!

Ok on to my project… I made this for my kindergartener’s teacher, when her students get hurt or are not feeling well she sends a little note for them.. Have you ever looked at the container for Nestle quick and notice it looks a lot like a band-aid box? Well I did………….. I covered it with paper and used her favorite colors yellow, green and blue.

Here are the cards that go inside ( the front)

and the back

I love them!! I made 100 of these little suckers I couldn’t stop lol!

Materials used…

• PKS-491  Everyday Character Face
• Indie Art Cartridge ( band-aids cut out at 4.50)
• Gypsy wanderings ( tag on container)
• Chocolate Milk Container
• Mod Padge
• White gel pen
• chalk
• to make the lines on the back I used a recipe card stamp
• So sorry is from Michaels in the dollar section

Make sure to leave a comment and check back Monday to see if you were a winner!

Next on the hop is the talented Marige

Lots of Cricutlove,

Erika

Holly Jolly Blog Hop!

 

Happy Friday!!  Welcome to our 2 Day Jolly Holly Blog Hop. We are happy to have you hoping along with us. We have over 20+ holiday gift ideas to show you over the next 2 days. There will lots of blog candy along the way. In addition we will be having 3 grand prize winners.! Remember in order to qualify for the grand prizes you have to leave a comment on all the blogs!!

Our hop begins with Stephanie from Always Crafting and ends with Jess from My Scrap Diary. If you get lost along the way you can find the master list on Stephanie's or Jess's blog. 

You should be hoping over from Marianne’s blog, if not you can go back to Stephanie’s blog and start from the beginning, you don’t want to miss anything!

Ok well I have been super excited about my project it has been agony keeping it a secret all this time lol!

Here is my project I made a set of notecards and a matching journal for my daughter to give to her friends for Christmas! I am also entering this into the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge, to make a homemade gift!

 

Here they are all packaged up I don’t think you can see it but there is a mini pen in there an some envelopes. Each package has 10 cards

 

I made two different sets ( I made 6 of each)

 

WHEW!! They were a lot of work, but I really enjoyed making them and I am so happy with the way they turned out!!

Materials I used:

• DCWV Tis the season paper stack
• Pink by Design Rock on stamp set
• PK-    Princess face assortment ( my fav)
• Smiley  card cart ( pencil)
• Rock Princess cart ( cupcake)
• mini journal ( they were 3 for a dollar at walmart)
• Ribbon, white and red, gel pen, buttons

I cut the notecards out at 4by4. To do the mini journal I mod podged paper onto it and then hot glued a ribbon on the inside center as a book mark. I love that I don’t throw things away! The little packaging they are in was from some floating candles I bought for a party!! They were a perfect fit and I had 15 so I think I may some as stocking stuffers for my little cousins !

Ok now for blog candy…. HMM I haven’t decided what I am going to give I am heading to Micheals tonight lets see what I pick up maybe another I rock!  In order to win you have to be a follower and leave a comment !Remember in order to qualify for the grand prizes you have to leave a comment on all the blogs!! We will announce the winners on Monday!

Oh and don’t forget to come back tomorrow for day two and another project ( it is my favorite so far)! I will also post the blog candy I am offering tomorrow!

Have fun hopping next is Margie

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

Flaunt it Friday Challenge

 

Hello everyone!! I was so excited to be able to get in my craft room! I have a few projects I am working on, one is my entry for the very first Flaunt if Friday Challenge!

Our challenge is to create something using the snowman on page 29  from the Winter Frolic Cartridge! I love this cause I am using a cut I normally wouldn’t use, since it doesn’t snow here in San Antonio!

Here is the inside of the card

When I was designing this I remembered the only time it snowed here since I was born was in 1985, I was only 3 and don’t remember it, but I was looking through my pictures and I found one with my mom standing in front of my grandma’s house with a snowman they made. He was wearing my grandpa’s cowboy hat and this was my inspiration.

I am also entering this card in the Cooking with Cricut Challenge. We can make anything we want but it can only have red or green not both!

Ok well I better get back to crafting, I hope I will have something to post later! Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by tomorrow for the Holly Jolly blog hop it is gonna be lots of fun and there will be great prizes along the way!!

Lots of Cricut Love,

Erika

First Design Team Project

 

I’m sorry for posting this late I had my finals today and I forgot about it, oops!

I was thrilled when I was chosen to be on Kassidy's winter design team! It came at the perfect time since this is my last week of school and I will be able to stay home and craft!!

This is our first project. Its was to make something a card, layout, etc. and incorporate a snowflake.

Here is what I came up with ( but sorry about the poor quality of the pic, my camera broke and had to use my daughters).

I am making a few of these cards to send out to family for Christmas.

Materials used:

• Jolly Holidays cartridge
• DCWV Tis the season paper stack
• Sentiment is from Michaels in the dollar section
• PK-640 Princess face assortment
• crystal lacquer to make the “Ice” shine

This is a super cute card that is easy to mass produce it really does look nice in person the pic is so ugly lol!

Ok I am exhausted and running on fumes Finals are horrible so glad that after today its over (at least for a month).

Have a great day thanks for stopping by!

Lots of cricut love,

Erika