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Hello dear blogging friends!!

I am so sorry that I have been MIA, but I have been super busy with house stuff and also my camera broke and I am trying to find another one! I am planning a party for my daughter next week and I have some things I need to work on for her party as soon as I can get my crafting tools out I am going to work on them and I will post a pic!!

Also I will announce the winners from the kids blog hop tomorrow, sorry for the wait!

Kids Blog Hop

HI I hope you had an awesome time Hopping with us on the Kids Blogs Hop!! IF you are coming from Jillian's amazing blog then you are in the right place!!

If not you can start at the begging from my co-host Abby you don't want to miss a single fabulous blog or a chance to win all those grand prizes!! Thank you all for supporting the kiddos in this they are so young and super talented we need to get more kids into crafting and creating!

Speaking of Prizes the super generous and sweet Sarah from The pink cricut has donated a set of Ashley's favorite stamps for this hop!! That I am giving away on my blog!

To win all you have to do is

• Be a follower
• Leave a comment telling me if you liked crafting when you were young {er} lol

I also wanted to take a minute to say thank you to all our amazing sponsors!! Everyone was so sweet to donate these goodies for the kids!!



Cooking with Cricut Sweetshop Blog Hop Day 2

Good morning!! Welcome to Day 2 of CookingWithCricut.com Sweetshop Blog Hop! 

If you've come from visiting Deb @ Bug Juiced, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to Cooking With Cricut and start at the beginning. 

With Valentine’s Day just a few days away we are sharing some wonderful ideas and inspiration for your viewing and crafting pleasure!  Each Design Team member will be featuring an original project each day (Saturday & Sunday) made especially for this hop. Make sure to check out each DT member's blog and collect the special letter there.   There will be prizes along the way AND there will be some nice PRIZES with a few different ways to win at CookingWithCricut.com!

Here is the “secret” letter you need to collect to be eligible for a prize package at CookingWithCricut.com.{  __V___  }

{sorry I just could not get good pictures of this}

Here is the card by itself the sentiment is from My pink stampers spooky puns set I love the way this little girl is holding a little cupcake!! It is a stamp and I cut it out and replaced the cat that was originally in her hands, the girl is cut from the Playtime cartridge!

Now it's your turn! Let’s see your sweet Valentine projects. Be sure to include a Cricut or other die cut machine cut on your project and link it up at CookingWithCricut.com.   The Design Team will pick their three favorites and one lucky sweetheart will be chosen randomly to win one of the six prize packages being offered in this hop.

For today I wanted to share the Valentines card that I made for my daughter's class! I made 22 of these little cuties that she will be giving her friends tomorrow at their party :) This little cutie was cut at 3 inches from Create a critterI love this little guy :)

For my blog candy I will be giving away this super cute daisy cut file courtousey of Melin!!

To win it all you have to do is.

1. Be a follower
2. leave a comment on today's post

Next stop...  Gaby @ Gaby CreatesGo see what she has in store for you today.

And don’t forget, when you're done, make sure to head back to CookingWithCricut.com and get entered to win one of SIX prize packages!  Here’s how: 

1. Link your sweet Valentine project and be one of the top three chosen by our Chefs.

2. Link your project and be the randomly drawn winner.

3. Collect all the letters and unscramble our “secret” phrase correctly and leave it in the special comment section on CookingWithCricut.com.

4. Or just leave a comment at CookingWithCricut.com and let us know how you liked our Sweetshop Blog Hop.

Thanks for joining us and have a great day!! Get your hop on!!!

Cooking with Cricut Sweetshop Blog Hop Day 1

Good morning!! Welcome to CookingWithCricut.com Sweetshop Blog Hop! 

If you've come from visiting Deb @ Bug Juiced, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to Cooking With Cricut and start at the beginning. 

With Valentine’s Day just a few days away we are sharing some wonderful ideas and inspiration for your viewing and crafting pleasure!  Each Design Team member will be featuring an original project each day (Saturday & Sunday) made especially for this hop. Make sure to check out each DT member's blog and collect the special letter there.   There will be prizes along the way AND there will be some nice PRIZES with a few different ways to win at CookingWithCricut.com!

Here is the “secret” letter you need to collect to be eligible for a prize package at CookingWithCricut.com.{  __V___  }

For today's Project I made this sweet little bag {filled with goodies}with a card for my baby girl Vanessa...

{sorry I just could not get good pictures of this}

Here is the card by itself the sentiment is from My pink stampers spooky puns set I love the way this little girl is holding a little cupcake!! It is a stamp and I cut it out and replaced the cat that was originally in her hands, the girl is cut from the Playtime cartridge!

Now it's your turn! Let’s see your sweet Valentine projects. Be sure to include a Cricut or other die cut machine cut on your project and link it up at CookingWithCricut.com.   The Design Team will pick their three favorites and one lucky sweetheart will be chosen randomly to win one of the six prize packages being offered in this hop.

For my blog candy I will be giving away this super cute daisy cut file courtousey of Melin!!

To win it all you have to do is.

1. Be a follower
2. leave a comment on today's post

Next stop...  Gaby @ Gaby CreatesGo see what she has in store for you today.

And don’t forget, when you're done, make sure to head back to CookingWithCricut.com and get entered to win one of SIX prize packages!  Here’s how: 

1. Link your sweet Valentine project and be one of the top three chosen by our Chefs.

2. Link your project and be the randomly drawn winner.

3. Collect all the letters and unscramble our “secret” phrase correctly and leave it in the special comment section on CookingWithCricut.com.

4. Or just leave a comment at CookingWithCricut.com and let us know how you liked our Sweetshop Blog Hop.

Thanks for joining us and have a great day!! Get your hop on!!!

WINNERS!!!

Good Morning Good Morining
Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been

Nothing to do it's up to you

I've got nothing to say but it's OK

Here is a picture of Ashley and her baby brother Preston {he is very attached to her :)}

Well that's not true, I have alot to say today lol but I figured I would end this fabulous week with one more Beatles song!! Thank you all so much for helping me make this the best birthday for my Ashley!! She was so excited all week with the Beatles projects and was totally surprised with the blog hop in her honor! She loved the projects that all the very talented ladies made just for her and we loved reading all the sweet comments!!

Ok now on to all the winners for the Beatles week!!

1.)  Day one {I wanna hold your hand}- a $10.00 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps

           # 51 Barbra- she said...

My favorite song of the Beatles is Yellow Submarine, the second choice would be  Strawberry fieldsForever!!!! Nice blog. I'm a new follower, you can also visit my blog and become a follower at: http://barbaras-crafty-corner.blogspot.com/ Thanks!!!!

2.) Day two {All you  need is love}- Journaling stamp set

#48 Celeste B.- she said...

After I got pregnant with my first little one, my memory started going and I had to write down everything. I love it, and could really use one of these!! The stamps would be perfect for scrapbook pages or even cards. Thanks so much for the chance!! :)

3.) Day three{here comes the sun}-edging scissor set

# 30 Sharon- she said...

These are just great!!! Love the sun!! :)

4.) Day four {All my loving/Love at first sight blog hop}- $15 gift certificate to Market Street stamps

# 46 Jennifer-she said...

Hi Erika,

Your sister must love getting her mail! What a cute card!!! :)

You say it's "easy peasy", but I LOVE all the Beatles' songs! It's so hard to pick one...but with the theme of this blog hop in mind, I'll pick Love Me Do!

Thank you so much for sharing!

Crafty hugs,

Jennifer

partridgelu at yahoo dot com

5.) Day five { Hey Jude}- $10 gift certificate to Peachy Keen stamps

#8 Magen she said...

i love them.. how cute...

Ok now for the winners of the You say it's your birthday Blog Hop!!

• Love stamp set-

# 91 Kim- she said...

 Happy Birthday Ashley.
This is a lovely gift and keepsake, beautifully made and something that Ashley can look back on in years to come.
Kim xXx

• PKS wide eyed face assortment-

# 4 Rosie- she said....

OMG! I so want those men!! The book is so adorable

• Kich-n- Bleus digi stamps-

 # 69 Meagen-she said...

Happy Birthday, Ashley!!! This is so cute Erika! I love this idea!
Meagan

• Simply Charmed-

 # 54 Creative Diva-she said...

OMG this is too fabulous! Happy Birthday to Ashley! Thanks for a chance to win.
creativediva98@gmail.com
creativediva98.blogspot.com

• Fab 4 SVG cuts-

 # 45 Jessica

WOW! I love this!! How canI buy the svg? I would love it, please let me know.
Jessica
Creativestamperspot@gmail dot com
Thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com

Whew!! That was alot of work lol!! I wish I could give something to every single one of you, this has been the best week ever and Ashley had a wonderful birthday because of it!! All the winners please email me your addy by Monday so I can send out all those prizes!! I hope you all enjoyed my projects all week!! Have an awesome day!!!

You say it's your birthday Blog Hop!! Happy Birthday Ashley!!

They say it's your Birthday!
It's my birthday too!
They say it's your birthday!
We're gonna have a good time!

Hello and Good morning dear friends!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY!

Today is a very special day, it is Ashley's 11th Birthday and to celebrate we have a special birthday hop just for her!! We have some talented ladies joining us with Beatles inspired projects to share with you and some yummy prizes along the way including some
Grand prizes right here:

• A simply Charmed Cartridge- sponsored by Cricutmachine.com

• Love stamp set- sponsored by Lauren from 40:31 creations {one of her new sets!}
• Wide eyed kids face assortment -sponsored by peachy keen stamps

• Entire February release of digi stamps- sponsored by Kich-N- Bleus

All you have to do to win these awesome prizes is :

• Leave a comment Here
• Make sure to leave a comment on everyone's blog on the hop

Easy Peasy!! You dont want to miss a single fabulous project or a chance for some yummy blog candy!

Here is my project for today! It is inspired, of course, by their song Birthday!!

I made Ashley a HUGE card/book for her with pages for her friends to sign for her birthday!

Here is the inside! {with a very special note from me}

Oh and did you notice my Fab 4? They were created especially for me and this hop by Melin from Cooking with Cricut! Aren't they Fabulous and completely adorable!

Today on top of the grand prizes I will giving away  this cute SVG set which includes all 4 Beatles!

Materials used for this fab project:

• SVG Fab 4 set
• Nifty Fifties cart {for happy birthday}
• PK boy mates face assortment
• K&Company Valentines paper stack
• white jelly roll pen
• cupcake stamps
• Irock
• Chipboard
• cinch
• white cardstock

Ok so now it is time for you to get your hop on!! Next  is the Fab Abby fromScrapbookaholicbyabby!

Incase you get lost along the way here is the list of Fab blogs:

Erika -MEhttp://www.cricutlove1.blogspot.com/

Abby-
http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

Janis-
http://www.pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/

Sandra-
http://www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

Raven-
http://www.love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Carley-
http://www.the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/

Lauren-
http://www.laurenscraps.blogspot.com/

Stephanie-
http://www.alwayscrafting.com/

Jess-
http://www.myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/

Corri-
http://www.buglvr.blogspot.com/

Jennifer-
http://www.kozfam5.blogspot.com/

Melissa-
http://www.apaperjourney.blogspot.com/

Lisa-
http://www.crop-and-create.blogspot.com/

Elsa-
http://www.cricutlvr.blogspot.com/

Glenda-
http://www.glendascards.blogspot.com/

Heather-
http://www.princesspaperprojects.blogspot.com/

Cheryl-
http://www.pinkandpaper.blogspot.com/

Melin-
http://www.cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/

I hope you have enjoyed all my Beatles projects for the week and today! I will be announcing all the winners on Wednesday Morning!! Have a great day!!

HEY JUDE!

Hey Jude  

Don’t make it bad

Take a sad song and make it better!

Hello everyone and good morning! I am sorry I am late with today’s post! I hope you are all enjoying my Beatles week as much as I am! For today I decided to make my Baby boy and niece Tabby some Beatles onsies!

For my baby his name is Preston Jude but we all call him Jude so I made him this shirt

Here is my little model with his shirt on {he really liked it}

This is the shirt I made for my niece Tabby {this is her mommy; my sister Sam’s, favorite song strawberry fields forever}

This is my little Tabby modeling her shirt! { her and Preston are only a month apart!} She really loved it and cried when we tried to take it off her lol!

I loved the way the shirts came out and they were so much fun to make! I am working on a few more that I will post this next week!

Materials used:

• Imagine
• Imagine more cart {for strawberry}
• Indie Art {for cassette tape}
• Nifty Fifties {for Hey Jude}
• Mickey font {for fields}
• Irock
• Printable Iron on Transfers/ iron
• onsies
• Two of the cutest babies for models LOL

For today’s blog candy I am giving away another $10 gift certificate to Peachy Keen stamps!!  All you have to do to win is leave a comment on this post and be a follower! Don’t forget to leave comments on all my other posts this week for a chance to win some really yummy blog candy!

P.s Tomorrow is the You say its your birthday blog hop for my Ashleys 11th Birthday!! We have some awesome projects and did I mention the Prizes!!

• Simply charmed cartridge
• 40:31 creations Love stamp set
• Peachy keen wide eyed kids face assortment
• Kich-N-Bleus February release of digi stamps { the cutest ever!}

You don’t want to miss it! Hope to see you there!!

Love at first sight Blog hop

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
tomorrow I'll miss you
remember I'll always be true
and then while I'm away
I'll write home everyday and I'll
send all my loving to you!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Love At First Sight Blog Hop hosted by Sandra 365 Days Of Cricut day 4 of my Beatles week!. If you are here from Jenny@ Crazy about Cricut than you are in the right spot. If you just arrived here and would like to start from the beginning Here. For this blog hop Sandra is celebrating her anniversary of when she met her hubby 8 years ago "It was Love At Fist Sight", also her 7th wedding anniversary, and of course Valentine's Day! She has asked us all to make a Love-Themed Gift for someone that we love and we will be sharing pictures of us with the person we love.

I decided to make a card for my baby sister Gena! I am the oldest of 4 girls, we were all heartbroken when the baby {she is 18} moved to Georgia with her boyfriend who is in the Military. I promised her that I would send her at least 2 cards a month! This card is inspired by her favorite Beatles song All My Loving!! { the song today isn't sung by the Beatles but this is her favorite version of the song from the movie Across the universe}

This is one of my favorite pics of us being nerds we always laugh so much when we are together

 { she is the one in the front}

This is me and her this past Christmas

Ok now on to my card!

I love, love the face on this little cutie!!

Here is the inside



 Materials used:

• Create a critter cart {for card base cut @ 5.5 inches}
• Twinkle toes cart {she is cut @ 3.5 inches}
• Wide eyed kids face assortment
• white gel pen
• K&Company Valentines paper stack
• I made the sentiment using my computer

Oh did I mention that I have some yummy blog candy to give away?!!

 I am giving away a $15.00 gift certificate to Market Street Stamps!!!

To win all you have to do is

1. Be a follower
2. Leave me a comment telling me what your favorite Beatles song is!

That's it easy peasy!! Now it is time for you to hop on, your next stop is the super talented Denise@ Designs from my heart! Don't forget to join me tomorrow for day 5 of my Beatles week! Have a great day hopping!

Here comes the Sun

Here comes the sun
here comes the sun
and I say Its all right!

Happy Friday morning my sweet friends!! Today is day 3 of my Beatles week and my first post as a returning Inking it up DT post to create any type of project we would like to! I hope you have been enjoying my projects as much as I enjoy making them!

For today I made a set of mini cards inspired by the song "Here comes the sun"! This song is so sweet and to me it was perfect for making a set of encouragement cards! {they were inspired by my Ashley I thought it would be nice to give her one so she can remember "It's all right"}.  I love the images on the kate's kitchen cartridge, this is the first time I used it for anything other than the paper, it is soo cute!

I love the way the colors look together!

This is what the inside of the cards look like

Materials used:

• Imagine
• Kate's kitchen Cart {for image and patterned paper}
• sentiment was created on my computer
• white gel pen
• Kraft cardstock
• ribbon
• Atg gun
• pop dots
• cards where cut @ 3.5 in

These cards were very simple and quick to make which is good because i made 10 of them!

Ok now on to my giveaway for the day!! I am giving away a set of edger scissors there are 4 in the pack!{ I couldn't get a good picture of them so i will try again when it is brighter and post it}!

To win all you have to do is:

1. Be a follower
2. leave a comment on this post



Thank you all so much for all of your support and sweet comments I really enjoy reading every single one of them! Dont forget to join me tomorrow for the Love at First sight Blog hop!! See ya then!!

All you need is LOVE

** second post for the day to see Thankful Thursday Post click HERE**

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.                     
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.                                  
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy.                                                                                                    
All you need is Love, love, love is all you need.

Good Morning all my crafty friends! It is another super cold day in San Antonio, luckily I get to stay inside and craft {hehe}.

Well for today’s Beatles inspired project I decided to make myself a little “Shopping List” book! The song I chose for the inspiration is my all time favorite song {you might have noticed the picture on my sidebar and the frame in my banner}! Anyone who knows me can tell you that that is my Philosophy in life is “All you need is love” I truly believe that, I have been through more rough times than I would like to remember but I always tell my hubby and kids all we need is love and that is what helps us get through it!
I was so excited about this cause I got to use my cinch for the first time and it was super simple to use I love it!

Here is the inside of the book, I really needed this because I am terrible when I go to the store I forget to get half the stuff I went there to get in the first place lol {it could be because I get distracted in the craft section }

Materials used:

• Mickey Font Cartridge
• Kraft Cardstock
• cinch
• white gel pen
• Irock
• ATG gun
• chipboard
• ribbon from Michaels
• mod podge
• the lined paper is from the dollar tree { I bought 10 of the memo pads}

Ok now on to today’s blog candy {YAY} for today I am giving away a stampology  journaling stamp set!

To win all you have to do is:

1. Be a follower
2. Leave a comment on this post

I will be picking a winner from all the posts on Tuesday February 8! Thanks for visitng me today!! Hope to see ya again tomorrow!!



Thankful Thursday

Good morning!! As you may know I am a proud designer for Crazy about Cricut's Family Friday,well as of today we will be posting on a new day!! Now we are the Thankful Thursday DT!! For our first post we were asked to create Valentine's Classroom treats..

My little Vanessa's Kinder teacher asked me to make her some treat containers for her to pass out to her class! This is what I came up with...

I love to make these sour cream containers they are super simple { they look like a lot of work but really are not shh dont tell lol} and really cute!

Materials used:

• Imagine more cards cart {for the tags}
• K&Company Valentines paper stack
• Stamp is from inkadinadoo valentines stamp set
• Ribbon

Dont for get to check back in a little while for day two of my Beatles week! Thanks for stopping by hope to see you again later :)

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND!

Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand!!!

Hello everyone!! I am so excited that today is the first day of my Beatles week!
I am a die hard Beatles fan I decided to share that love with all of you by posting a project everyday based on one of their songs, leading up to a very special blog hop; starting right here on Monday Feb. 7 for my daughter Ashley's 11th Birthday!

Ok so now onto my project today.. with Valentines day coming up I just could not help myself, I had to make a card based on this song! This is a special card, because it is my first slider card!!

Here is the card closed

Notice how his hair is shiny? I used liquid laqcuor to give it that effect, so dapper lol!

Materials used:

• Twinkle Toes Cart
• PKS Princess Face assortment
• PKS Boy Mates Face assortment
• White Jelly roll pen
• Red Tria Marker
• Sakura Liquid Laqcuor {for his hair and their shoes}
• Chalk
• Paper is from and Old DCWV paper stack
  
  Oh did I mention? I am giving away a little blog candy all week!! Doesn't that sound yummy lol, today I am giving away a $10.00 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!!

To win all you have to do is:

• Be a follower and
• Leave a comment on this post!

I hope you will join me all week and help me make this the best birthday ever for Ashley!!!

WINNER

 

Good morning everyone! I am sorry I didn’t get to post this yesterday, not only am I sick but it seems like my baby boy might have the flu too! Aww my poor angel he didn’t even want to pick the names out of the box {and you know 1 year olds love to play with paper and boxes} so I know he is sick.

Well on to the winner…………

Cathryn67!!!! Thank you so much  Cathryn for your comments all week~I am glad to see that you are a follower as well!! Please email me with your address so I can send your Peachies out to you!!

Don’t forget day 1 of my Beatles week starts tomorrow you don’t want to miss this giveaway !!See you tomorrow!