Christmas Card Swap Blog Hop

The best way to brighten a person's day is to send them a card and the holidays give everyone the perfect excuse to do that. When you add talent to the mix, you have the perfect hand made holiday card to brighten any day.

That is what this hop is about. We have gathered some of the most talented card makers around to bring holiday joy to each other while showing off their talents. Some of the crafter's know each other while others have met for this first time in the Christmas Card Swap group.

Today some of the these wonderful ladies will showing the cards they made. We hope you will join us to see how talented these crafter's are and to get inspiration and ideas for your own holiday cards.

Please begin your hop with LorbysWorld

Now on to the cards and Holiday Cheer!

I did get card idea off pinterest. I just love love pinterest! To make this card I used the gingerbread SU stamp and die set. rhinestones. some pretty DCWV paper and Recollections Gemstone paper. My gingerbread look sparkly because of the paper which I love. I used a CTMH stamp for the greeting. 

 Thank you for hoping with me today and now your on to see Sharon

1. Jearise ~ http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com
2. Melissa Pinter ~ http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com
3. Shelly Lynn ~  http://kccroppers.blogspot.com
4. Sandra Merritt ~ http://merritt-vergaray-connection.blogspot.com/ 
5. Dena Jones ~ http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
6. Shawnee ~ http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com
7. Beth~ motherandaughterdesigns.blogspot.com
8. Tonya ~ http://www.creativeaddictiontopaper.blogspot.com/
9. Ashley W ~ http://marinewifesscrappinlife.blogspot.com
10. Dana T ~ http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com
11. Sharon ~ http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

Heather Lynn's Blog Giveaway!

CHECK OUT HEATHER LYNN'S BLOG FOR AN AWESOME GIVEAWAY!
HERE IS WHAT SHE IS GIVING AWAY:
Basically Bare mini album
Tim Holtz stamp set
CTMH stamp set~new this month
Bag of buttons
Misc ribbons
Off White twine
Smash Journaling pad
K&Co Mat stack
Purple letter stickers
Horoscope sign stickers

CLICK HERE TO GO TO HEATHERS BLOG

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May: My Cricut Craftroom's 100 Cart Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

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

Be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....

And don't forget My Cricut Craft Room is giving away The NEW.....  Wild Card 2 cartridge.  
How can you win?  By commenting on every blog in this hop  

AND DID YOU KNOW.....  IT'S CONTEST TIME:

                 This month Erica is doing 31 days of $31 giveaways

So here are the rules for the .....

Each day make ONE comment with your name, facebook name and blog address....

Add the blinkie below to your blog.  Erica will pick a name from the comments, then go and look at your blog, if you were picked for that day and have the blinkie YOU WIN! 

** Don't have a blog.... that's ok you can comment with your facebook..... Don't have facebook???? Just comment and say you do not have facebook or a blog. You can still win if you do not have facebook or a blog.  It is picked at random so if someone is picked more than once, they will get more than one grab bag. 

The winner will pay the $3.25 shipping.

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

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

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today. Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!
  

For my project I did  a wedding layout. I am currently working on (slowly) my wedding scrapbook album. The cartridges I used today were Cricut Wedding Solutions, Divine Wedding, and Tie The Knot. These are my favorite go to wedding cartridges, the images are so elegant I love the way this layout turned out. 

I cut the doves from the cartridge Wedding, The Car, the Black mat and the phrase are from Divine Wedding. Just Married is from Tie the Knot. The white photo mat is from George and Basic Shapes. I'm not sure what the sizes are because I didn't save this project. I know shame on me!! I hope you liked my layout today.

Your now on your way to Doris http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/

Line up
Saturday
Host- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
Liz - http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com/
Jenny R - http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/
Kathy- http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Dana- http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/
Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
Patti- http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Erica- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
Miranda - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/
Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/ -
Sarah W. - http://www.craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/
Mary - http://mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/
Heather E. - http://pinkpunkcosmo.blogspot.com/
Tracy - http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/
Marji - http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com/
Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

April: My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

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



Be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....
Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

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/

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today. Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!


For my project today I made a small Easter basket for my daughter's basket using Cricut Craft Room Teresa Collins Exclusive Bunnies & Chicks and Easter Basket. You can buy these from www.Cricut.com and you get some cute images for 9.99. I really like how this came out and the paper was so cute. I will give you a hint, I did use BLING and Glitter paper! Those of you who follow me and know how I design it wouldn't be me if there wasn't bling or glitter involved.

The basket is cut at 11x9, the Bow on the sides of the basket is cut at 2" and the bunny is at 2.25. I used white glitter paper to cut my bunny out and then I took chalk and colored the nose a light pink. I plan on putting some plastic eggs in this little basket which some money in it for her bank.

I hope you enjoyed today's project. Your now on to see Tonya http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

My Cricut Craft Room Theme: Easter Eggs & Grass

Welcome to my Theme Day Thursday! For today's theme we are to use Easter Eggs and Grass in our project. For my project I created a Layout using a Easter Bunny picture from when my Daughter was 1. It was her first official picture with the Easter Bunny! I hope you all enjoy today's project!

The cute little sayings around the layout I bought from Archivers I don't know what paper line it was but it was in the Easter Section. The bunny is from Easter 2010 along with the Grass. I welded the grass together in CCR. The Bunny is about 4.50 the eggs are from a CCR exclusive called Easter Basket I cut the eggs out at 1.30. The mat behind my photo is from a rectangle on Art Philosophy cut at 7.61x5.36. As you can see I love glitter and the background paper had glitter as well as mat so I kept that going throughout my layout. I hope you enjoyed today's project.

Please stop by http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see more of the design team members projects!

Also, check out Erica's store she has a lot of goodies on sale this week!!!! http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/


Thanks for stopping by until next time, have a great day!

My Cricut Craft Room March 27th Card Challenge

Hello Everyone and welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's Card Challenge. For today's challenge we were given a sketch and colors to follow. Erica at My Cricut Craft Room has a card challenge every Tuesday and also a Scrapbook Challenge every other week.

Everyone who is interested in a Card or Scrapbook challenge please stop by Erica's Challenge blog! You can also see more challenge entries as well! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

For today's challenge I used Cricut Easter 2010 and Teresa Collins Easter Basket to make this card. My daughter who is 4 helped me make this card. I let her pick out what she wanted. She is giving this card to the Easter bunny she says. All the paper I used today were from the DCWV Shimmer Stack.

Erica's Craft Room- Technique!!!

Today over at mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com we were given a challenge, to use flowers but not in a vase. I knew instantly what I wanted to make as I have become obsessed with Flowers and using my CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge. This is also a Home Decor Project and I'm sure most of you will love it.

I cut my flowers at 3.50 (about 200 of them) and sprayed them with Pearl Glimmer Mist. Once they were dried I rolled them with a quilling tool and hot glued it together. When I was ready to place the flowers around my wreath (I used a 14" wreath from Hobby Lobby in the craft department) I pulled out my pearl head pins I bought from Walmart (100 for 3.00) and stuck them directly through the middle of the flower onto the wreath. Now normally I do wrap my wreaths in ribbon but since I'm pretty good at hiding the white and I use so many flowers I didn't see the need to. You could paint your base first or wrap it in ribbon that's up to you.

After I was done with my wreath it was beautiful but it was missing something. I knew I wanted to add butterflies and I've become very fond of my Art Philosophy cartridge so I used the butterfly on it. I cut the large butterfly at 3.00 and the two smaller butterflies at 2.00. I did use glitter paper and had to adjust my speed to 3 when cutting the smaller ones on my AE2 machine.  I did hot glue the butterflies to the roses and I only put hot glue on top layer in the middle middle/body part of the butterfly so the wings would like kind of 3D.

To purchase some of the goodies I used on today's project like glimmer mist and paper please visit Erica's store at http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/

To see more projects done today please head back over to mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com 

I hope you enjoyed todays project and thanks for stopping by!

Erica's Craft Room Birthday Card Challenge

Welcome today over at Erica's Craft Room it is Erica's Birthday!!! She is a wonderful women and I hope she has a very special birthday! In honor of her birthday we are doing a birthday card challenge with her favorite colors! The colors for this challenge are pink, purple and turquoise. I really hope she likes this card. I also made her another card which I will  post at the end of this post. I made this card today using Jasmine and Mother's Day 2010.

I made the balloons even though they look like lollipops with twine. I colored the twine with glimmer mist. Birthday Queen stamp is from Pink By Design and the stamp collection is called Inner Princess.


To Purchase this stamp set and more goodies check out Erica's Store

 Now, here is the card I made for Erica that is not a part of this challenge but I'll be mailing it to her along with this one.

To see more of my Design Team Sisters project check out http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed today's projects. Happy Birthday Erica!!!!!!