Happy Birthday Erica!

 

 

I mailed Erica's card to her so I decided to make a male theme birthday card. Since I have my new favorite cartridge Simply Charmed its super easy!!

What do you think?

Make sure you head over to Erica's blog to see what everyone else on the design team has made to celebrate our amazing leader's day!

Now, if you want to join us, here is the current challenge, make a card and link it up with Erica and you could win a great prize.

click above to go right to the challenge blog for details 

 

A few of my favorite things

I made this card after visiting a new store in my area. I've been a fan of My Favorite Things stamps for a long time. She now has her own store and also makes dies that match and compliment her stamps. Amazing quality. The bird cage is so beautiful.

The scrapbook page is the build a project freebie from Creative kuts. I love this company too. Such adorable files and fun give always and freebies.

I used my Imagine to print the patterns for all the pieces. I'm tickled with how it turned out. So fun.

The final project is a free file from Scraptasical Kreations. The tag album has so many possibilities I could make a ton if only I had the time. The little cherries are from the I cherish you file, one of my favorites.

I've linked to each of the sites so I hope you'll visit them and give them some love, they all have face book pages too.

Close to my Heart

I am annoucing my next venture! I am a new consultant for Close to My Heart! I'm so excited, I got the tracking number for my kit already and can't wait for next week, just want to skip right over the weekend :)
They aren't that important to me anymore since I stay home with Emily lol
I want to share, in case you haven't heard the news, if you sign up this month you get the Art Philosophy bundle for FREE!! Yup, it's valued at $100 and it's absolutely free! So for around $120, with tax and shipping you too could start your new business.

I was a consultant years ago and had so much fun going to people's homes and showing them what I love to do and getting them hooked as well! I'm telling you, it's a lot of fun.
One thing I will be doing to get some new blood so to speak is a CTMH club, what it will mean to be a club member is you will be required to spend $20 or $25 a month and each person will get the chance to be the hostess one month.  So if we have 12 people join, you spend your $20 or $25 a month and I will put each name in a bowl and assign a name to each month.  That way you can plan ahead knowing when your month will be and anticipate all the glorious freebies.  SO, if you want to join my club, please leave a comment and a way for me to reach you so I can get my list started.

I'm working on my website so I will post a blinkie once it's up and ready, but in the mean time, if your looking for great new products, need a new hobby, or want the ART PHILOSOPHY CRICUT Cartridge, let me know, I will hook you up! (lol)

Can you tell I'm excited? 

Simply Charmed birthday scrapbook page

I think I have a new favorite cartridge. Hubby treated me to Simply Charmed, it's one I've wanted for a long time. And there are SO many super cute files in it.
The challenge for today that Erica gave us was to make a scrapbook page with an icon frame. I used the cake and birthday hat as my frames.
I used stickles and liquid pearls to make the candles and flames. The Pom Pom on the hat is also stickles.

Here is a close up of the really cool candles and the google eyes I added to the Happy Birthday title.

And, my adorable cupcake! So fun

The paper is something Erica sent me as a dt perk, It's got so many colors in it I think it would work with a number of themes.  Thanks Erica, it was perfect for this idea too.

Don't forget to head over to Erica's blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with for today.  Shaped photo frames are a really fun way to carry your theme through a layout.

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Fun scrapbook page and a pretty card

I made this scrapbook page using my awesome Lucky 8 doily punch and adorable I Cherish you file from Scaptasical Kreations 

I put a white piece of paper on my mat, cut it then colored the images with my copics then put them together.  Turned out pretty cute, the colors are really bright and cheery.

This is a card I made for a friend for her birthday.  Super simple and super elegant I think.  The stamps are from Stampin Up.

Thanks for looking, be sure to come back tomorrow for another challenge from Erica's craft room :)

Papercrafting World's tribute to Dr Seuss

This is my first project as a new member of the Papercrafting World design team.  

Today is an introduction of our new Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss character files.  They are SO cute.

This is an Easel card, they are so fun and I plan to make them more often,

my original plan was to make a lay out using Thing 1 and Thing 2 and Sam I Am but I ran out of time and had some cutting issues.

So Cat is adorned with google eyes, glitter glue on his tie and liquid pearls for the stripes on his hat and umbrella. I used some red white and blue twine and a green button and black gem stone.  I hope you like it.

Head on over to Papercrafting World and Cooking with Cricut to see more projects from the talented design team.

100 Cricut cartridge blog hop

Welcome to Erica's Craft room 100 cartridge blog hop.

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/  if not please start at the beginning

Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

If this is your first time seeing one of these don't get nervous, you don't have to visit 100 blogs. The design team tries to use a minimum of 3 cartridges on our project or projects.  Please start here so you don't miss any of the fun and inspiration.

Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore!  http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

This Friday she will announce February's Scrapbook swap.... She has a swap each week and you have two weeks to make your project each month. There will be a card, scrapbook, tag, die cut and embellishment swap each month! http://ericascraftroomswaps.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and yesterday to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

If you get a chance please visit Erica's Webstore and enjoy 15% your total purchase this weekend.

Enter the code MARCH during the third step of check out to see the discount.

She has everything crafty.... Cricut cartridges, adhesive, papers, stamps and so much more.....

 www.Shop.EricasCraftRoom.com 

This first project is from the Forever Young Cartridge.  I love this cartridge, so many cute and fun cuts on it. I love purses and so does a friend of mine, this will be her birthday card.  

I used my Gypsy to weld 2 purse shapes and layout the letters in place.  I then changed out my blade for my blue Cricut marker and drew the shapes onto the yellow card stock.  I then went back into the gypsy and deleted the words and replaced the blade into the Expression. This way it would cut the purse and flowers and not cut the letters out.

I then deleted everything but the purse and put pink paper on the mat to get my outer layer of the purse.  Sounds like a lot but it went pretty fast once I had the initial project laid out.

Here's another view, giving you a closer look at my flowers. I added lemon ice stickles and cotton candy stickles. I used my copic marker to outline the pink flower and draw the stitching on the purse.  I knotted some ribbon on the handle to simulate a scarf on the handle. (I'm very tickled with this card)

I colored in the letters with the same copic I drew the stitching with and added another fun flower inside.

The letters are Blackletter font.

My next project is using the Carousel Cartridge.  My parents too Emily on a train ride last month and sine then she's talked and talked about this train.  The other night she decided on her own accord to create a train of her own.  Complete with passengers, seat belts and snacks.  She is such an imaginative child, never ceases to amaze us. So in honor of her train I had to make a page to show case it. 

I kept it super simple because I want her train to be the focus.  The circle background was created using my new Lucky 8 punch, it's the most amazing new tool!!

I outlined the train cars and embellished the letters using my mint green liquid pearls.

I haven't printed the picture yet but here she is, our little conductor. (makes me proud!)

I had to cut ribbons and yarn pieces to make sure everyone had seat belts. It was worth the sacrifice of ribbon to watch her play train conductor.

Now, for more fun and inspiration please head over to Laurie

Here is the line up in case you get lost.  Make sure you leave a comment for everyone to be entered in the blog candy Erica will be giving away.

1.   My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

2.   jenn lorist - http://jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com 

3.   marji http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com 

4.   laurie http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com

5.   Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com 

6.   Dana http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com 

7.    Sabrina  http://sabrinabellabeautiful.blogspot.com

8.   Tonya http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com 

9.   Tamara http://sospoileditscute.blogspot.com 

10. Jess K http://homespunelegance.blogspot.com/

11. Erica http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

12. Mary http://mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com 

13. Claire http://www.ThreeWatersCreations.com

14. Tiffany http://angel4ever-thecraftyteacher.blogspot.com 

15. Teresa http://createenjoyshare.blogspot.com 

16.  Vicki m http://stayathomemomof2inohio.blogspot.com 

17. Heather E  http://pinkpunkcosmo.blogspot.com

18. Gloria C  http://craftnthings.blogspot.com

19. Marinda http://www.nanasscrapspot.com

20. Heather M http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com

21. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Erica s craft room

I used the Pooh & Friends cartridge to create the characters on the name plaque. The letters are Ashlyn font. It's my favorite font.

Please check back with Erica to see what the rest of the design team did for today.

Build a Project from Creative Kuts

Each week Creative Kuts offers a free file to their fans.  The only rule is you must post your project when it's done.  The deadline is Sunday evening and each Monday a new file is offered, if you completed the previous project you can request the new one. Here is my lovely card I finally finished.

 You pull up on the top of the egg shell and the little chick slides up revealing her handfull of pink bunny peeps.  I created a jar of jelly beans using crystal effects for the jar dimension and distress stickles for the lid. I also used stickles on the peeps to simulate the sugar.

Here's a close up of the jar.  The chick and candy files can be found here and the egg slider card is here, at their sister site about half way down the page.

Go check out the facebook page here and tell them Marji Franklin sent you!
You HAVE to check out their new store, Creative Kuts 2 here. When they reach 300 followers they will be giving away a great prize! I'm going to win but you an try at least (wink wink) They have adorable bags and boxes to put together.

New Grandson and a pretty card

This is my Mom's birthday card.  I used my new Spellbinders to cut the hearts.  I really need the embossing mat to make the impressions stand out better.

I used distressed stickles to outline the swirls.

The embossing showed up much better on the yellow paper.  I don't know why I always hand write my sentiments.  Lazy maybe...

Here is my silly Peanut.  She's almost 2 1/2 and likes picking out her own clothes.  She didn't do half bad on this outfit. :)

And introducing Kaiden Tyler Thomas.  The big boy is his super handsome and proud big brother Koray and Em and purple baby.  He was born on Weds. 2/22/12 at 9:47 pm I think it was.  He was just over 6 1/2 pounds and is about 20 inches long.  It's amazing holding him and remembering Emily was this tiny when she was born.  I have a hard time realizing it was only 2 1/2 years ago and look at her now!! Congratulations Shelby and Kevin, we are so happy to have a new grandson. :)

Blog candy!!

Be sure to check out Candy's Craft corner, she's got some amazing blog candy!

Scrapbook page theme - Bugs, Butterflies, Bunnies

Today's theme is Bugs, butterflies or bunnies on a scrapbook  page.  I recently go the Elegant Edges cartridge and fell in love with it even more than I thought I would. This page came from my initial experimenting with the cuts.  The main frame is the negative from another cut.  I tend to save the negative spaces a lot from my Cricut cuts and am finally using them more often.

Here's the closeup of my butterfly, I used stickles and liquid pearls

 Here is a closeup of one of the photos, I used my trendy twine rope I created to swirl in the center then ringed it with the liquid pearls.

 I hand wrote the word love and then dotted stickles and the liquid pearls in the points.

I hope you like my page, thanks for stopping by today and be sure to head over to Erica's blog to see what the rest of the design team has for you today.

Crafty cutter creations blog hop

Welcome to the Crafty Cutters Creations blog hop! Each day this week, the wonderful ladies of this group will be showing you one of their creations. Please come back each day this week to see more great projects!

Today's hop starts with Me! So you are in the right spot.

This will be my hubby's birthday card. I used files from Little Scraps of Heaven. The top of the card is a banner that I welded an oval to then turned it into a card. The banner is the current freebie on the site.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Here is where you can find my moose. I just omited his hat and added a big heart from the love cut out.

This is the inside of the card, I used my new ribbon cutter to cut the ribbon so I don't have to worry about tucking it under the layer.

our next stop on the hop is  Carla 

1.Marji www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com
2. Carla ~  http://www.racincrafts.blogspot.com/ 
3. Eva -  http://www.evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com/ 
4..rhonda -  http://craftingwithblue.blogspot.com/ 
5. Patricia- http://www.creativediva98.blogspot.com/ 
6. Lisa -  http://www.handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/ 
7. Gina -  http://www.californiascrappin-gcinderella21.blogspot.com/ 
 
Please come back each day this week to see more creations from the Crafty Cutters Creations Group!
 
Do you want to join the Crafty Cricut Creations Group on Facebook? Click here! 

Erica's craft room ~ use the shift feature key today

Today we are to use the shift feature key on our projects. I've been wanting to turn this photo album into a brag book of samples for my craft shows. I'm changing my business cards and banners to owls so I took advantage of my lovely Hoot N Holler cartridge. The paper background is random paper I have, I covered up the picture on the original album. The owls I used the Enjoy the season imagine cartridge to put the colors and patterns on their layers. I had to use the shift key to get all of the layers. I know it's not exactly what Erica meant but I'm still under the weather and couldn't manage a whole new project.

So this is the new cover for my sample book. Thanks for stopping by.

Please be sure to check out the other design team members' projects at Erica's craft room

Crafty Cutters Blog hop week

Welcome to the Crafty Cutters Creations blog hop! Each day this week, the wonderful ladies of this group will be showing you one of their creations. Please come back each day this week to see more great projects!

Today's hop starts with Kimberly at http://www.leokc34.blogspot.com, please start there!



Your next stop on the hop is http://www.racincrafts.blogspot.com/


Here is the complete list for Monday's hop in case you get lost!



Kimberly (Barbara) - http://www.leokc34.blogspot.com



Marji www.fstampahlic.blogspot.com



Carla ~ http://www.racincrafts.blogspot.com/



Cori- http://www.createdbycori.blogspot.com



Lucy - http://www.love2createitall.blogspot.com



Eva - http://www.evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com/



Veronica- http://www.scrapinwithmeras.blogspot.com/



Please come back each day this week to see more creations from the Crafty Cricut Creations Group!



Do you want to join the Crafty Cricut Creations Group on Facebook? Click here!

The tree is from the Spring Seasonal cartridge

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