Cricut Secret Sister Swap-Gifts I sent

My swap partner was GrannyAnne.  I met her at the Cincinnati meetup in 2011.  I was so happy to hear she was my partner for this swap since we actually met each other.  The handmade item I made for her was a shadow box!  My very first one!  I wanted to keep it for myself!  Graycie had to be in a picture of course.  Also a pic of my card made for Simple Stories paper.  On the box I used Everyday cricut on the block for letters and pics of cricut.  I also covered the c-7 ornament with red tinsel glitter.

 

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 1

Day 1 is finally here!  So sad but the last gift is always the best!  I just love it!  The glue box is great and already put to good use!  They also made me a sled ornament out of wood with my name on it!  This will be a keepsake ornament on my tree for years to come!  Please Thank your DH for this-he is so talented!  My DH is jealous of his wood working abilities!  The Mai Tai glass is great too (and has my name on it so no one else can use it) and looking forward to using it soon!  Thanks so much Mai Lei!  You are a great Swap Partner and so talented!  I just loved all of my gifts and will put them all to good use!

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 2

Day 2 brings me sweets!  The best of both worlds-chocolate chips and Reese's cups!  Never saw these before!  Am I in heaven or what?  Thanks Maile Lei!

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 3

Day 3 brings American Crafts goodness!  Love it!  Don't have any either!  Love these packs of goodness!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 4

Day four brings: More Tim Holtz goodness!  I love these and use these mini pads like no tomorrow!  More tools to add to my tool organizer!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 5

Day 5 brings paper pad-DCWV Mat Stack in Neutrals!  Can definately use on my cards!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Cricut 12 Days Swap-Day 6

Day 6 gifts include my favorite-Tim Holtz Distress Sprays-Festive Berry and Pine Needles.  Christmas Colors!  Love it!  Didn't have either of these.  I also received Sequins!!!  Love the sequins in their round stackable boxes.  Love organization especially since I need it!  Thanks Maile Lei!!

Cricut 12 Days of Xmas Swap-Day 7

Day 7 has all kinds of crafty goodness!  Love the vintage embellishments and Martha butterfly stickers!  I also adore the mini album Maile Lei made me and the blue matchbox a small lotion inside!  So cute!  Love it!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Cricut Secret Stocking Swap-Dec 19

Opened my stocking today from Sage Taber and Wow!!!! Loved all of the goodies.  I especially loved the Graphic 45 Matchbox she made with the Christmas Emporium paper!  The box is on my coffee table for Christmas.  Just love it!!!!  The box card was great too!  It looks like she used the cricut cartridge Nursery Rhymes.  So cute!  Love all of the G45 papers and goodness.  Will put to good use.  Also received the new Anna Griffin cartridge-Kitsch.  Great swap partner!  She also made all of the boxes out of paper for my gifts!  So talented!  Thank-you for all of the goodness!

Here are the pictures:

Maile Lei's bird & pay day candy bars!

Just Love it!  Scooter is eating the Pay Day candy bars I sent to Maile Lei for our Swap!

OMG!

Cricut 12 Days Swap: Day 8 & 9

Day 9:  Cricut Explore Goodness from Maile Lei!  KittyScraps just had to be a stinker and stick her tongue out when I took the picture!

Day 8 of Cricut Swap brings Glue Dots!  Yeah!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Secret Swap #10

Today's gift is:  Inka Dinka Doo Nature Stamps and a very cool stamp from Hawaii.  My DH guessed what this saying meant: Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas).  Love this stamp!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Secret Santa Swap #11

Today's gift is:  Tim Holtz 4 pack of Distress Stain with metal case!  Can never go wrong with Tim Holtz!  Thanks Maile Lei!

Secret Santa Swap #12

And Today's gift is:  New Tweezers and Tim Holtz Staples!  Yeah!  Thanks Maile Lei.

12 Days of Christmas Cricut Swap

And my partner is Maile Lei.  I sent presents to Maile Lei in Hawaii and she sent me presents to Ohio!  Oh what postage we had!  And fun of course!  :)  Here is a pic of the gifts that Maile Lei sent me.  Her DH made me count down coins from wood.  I just love them and will use them in my December Daily book this year.  I was so excited just to see the count down coins!  Can't wait to see what other crafty items I will get!  Note the Aloha Hawaii on the priority box I received.  Love it!  Love her card too!  So Festive!

Thanks Maile Lei!!!!!

National Cats Day!

National Cats Day was October 30th!

Graycie at play!

TH June Tag 2014

Hi Everyone!

I finally finished it-my June tag!  Took forever to get the technique right but loved how the tag turned out!

I used my Sun "Rays" stencil and the butterfly stamp from Mini Blueprints 2.  I used five colors of ink on the stencil-Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick and Festive Berries.  I also used Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Broken China and Evergreen Bough to watercolor the butterflies.  I made the "Paula Bow" and added a compass coin and says on the sun rays from the Simple Sayings stamp collection.  I hope you like it!

I am also going to enter into the CC3C Challenge 5 sponsored by Inspiration Emporium.  

pic for th blog

Tim Holtz-12 Tags of 2014-May

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

Happy Saturday everyone!  Tim Holtz has done it again-another great tag for May.  This month was really fun since we get to use our embellishment stash.  So here is Tim's Tag!

Here is my tag!  Every month I make two tags- one for me and one for mom.  So this month I decided to make Mom a Mother's Day tag!  I have four generations of the women in my family on this tag-great-grandma, grandma, mom and me!  I am the baby with the alfalfa do in the baby tub.  I used all Tim Holtz items on this tag except the glue and Ranger juniper paint on the ornate frame.  I used the Wallpaper cardstock on this tag and just love it!  I got to use some of my older embellishments: S charm, pen nib, ornate frame and plastic rectangular facet over the pic in lower right corner.  I used the following stains for the background of the tag: crushed olive, peeled paint, evergreen bough and broken china.  I also added vintage photo and walnut stain inks. 

I hope you enjoyed my tag and have a good day!

E

Tim Holtz-12 Tags of 2014-March

Hi Everyone! 

Well, doesn't look like Spring is starting anytime soon with the several inches of snow we got last night.  But at least Tim is trying to inspire us with this month's tag.  The first picture is Tim;s tag and the second is mine.  I really enjoyed Tim's new Air diffuser.  Pretty cool!  I also like his new stamp we used.  Such nice detail.  So onto the tags:

Tlhanks for stopping by!

A Child's Year and Wild Card-Anniversary card for DH

I used the Wild Card cart for the Heart card and heart cutout.

I used A Child's Year for the child cut out with the shadow behind them in black.

I used burgundy, mulberry, creme and black paper.

Wedding Scrapbook for DSS

Hi everyone!  Here is a few pics from the scrapbook I am making for my DSS.  I had previous posts of The Red Shoes and Gotta Wear Shades which were used on the Cricut Fanatics blog a few months back and were from this same scrapbook.  For this layout I used a wedding picture of my DSS and his new wife and recreated it using the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge.  I have been working on this layout since last summer.  I am still going to make a few changes yet but here are the pictures.  I hope you like it.

   Erika

Goodbye to Archivers-The best papercrafting store in my area!

It was so sad to hear that Archiver's was closing after all of the reorganizing they did over the last year.  Since they are basically a family owned company, they can't compete with the bigger stores!  So sad.  They had the best service-employees, products, classes, scraps and the Memory Lab was awesome!  Wish I could have used it more.  I had two stores an hour away from me and would drive out there a few times a year.  I learned how to stamp, emboss and make creative cards at Archivers.  This is also where I learned about Tim Holtz products and how to use some of them!  I attended a few scraps at Archivers too including the one in Mason, Ohio for the CHA Cricut Gathering in July 2011.  What a great event!  Two nights at Archivers with 100 circlettes!  What is the Mall of America-Scrapfest going to be without Archivers hosting it?

 I hope Archiver's will try to come back in some form into the scrapping world.  I did order my Archiver's bag which I will use with pride at my future scraps!  I went to the Fairlawn store on the last night-2/15/14 and no merchandise left just some shelving, hooks and plastic bags.  Very sad to see an empty store.  They had a sold out Scrap that night and all employees there for the final night.  Sure won't be the same without them!  Thanks for all of the great memories Archivers!  Here are some pictures from the store in Fairlawn, Ohio a few days after they announced their closing in January. 

Fairlawn, Ohio-January 10, 2014-

Christmas Tree at Archivers-1/10/14



New Valentine's Products at Archiver's-loved these racks!  Could get the new products here in my area. Otherwise only on the internet.



Archiver's Memory Lab

Archiver's Memory Lab-other side-loved it!  Could make digital scrap books, scan your 12 x12 pages, make cd's of pictures, calendars, cards, whatever.  Even get other media changed to CD rom!  I did this with my Wedding and reception video tapes. 

Archiver's had two rooms for scrapbooking.  This is only one room and could see out into the store.  20% off when in scrapbooking.

My favorite-Card Classes!  I took a Tim Holtz Christmas Vintage card class a few years back!

So farewell to my friends at Archiver's!  Thanks for the great memories.  Currently the website is still available to order products as of this post.  See everyone later.

Erika

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014-January-The forgotten post

Hi everyone!  Apparently I forgot to post my tag for January and more importantly forgot to post it on Tim's blog! :(  I had to completed in plenty of time and still did not get it posted!  Better late than never I guess.  Here is a picture of Tim's tag for January.



My Tag photographed on 3 different papers for effect.  I used all Tim Holtz products except for the Baker's Twine and the Darice steampunk embossing folder.  I used my TH Love, Wish, Dream stamp since I did not have the same stamp as TH.  I added an a small TH light bulb since I have not used these yet.  I like how it looks with the light bulb.  The paper is from Jillibean Soup-Irish Farmhouse Soup-Sea Salt.



Same tag on Fancy Pants Collecting Moments Paper.  I like the clocks on this paper.

Same tag on Kaisercraft paper-Base Coat Collection-Cardboard.  Cool isn't it? 

I hope you like my January tag.  Let me know which background you like better!  See you soon!

     Erika

Valentine's Day Projects-Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014-February

Hi all and Happy Valentine's Day!  With all of the neverending snow we've had this year, it is nice to have Valentine's Day to look forward to.  Creating projects with a love theme is always fun and heartwarming.  Onto the fun!  First picture is of Tim Holtz's tag for February.



Here is my Valentine's Card and TAG for February.  I used 3 different embossing powder techniques on my card-stencil, glitter and regular embossing.  I stamped the xoxo.  I used heart washi tape and baker's twine to finish off my card.  I used 3 stencils on my chalkboard stamp on my tag-hearts, cargo and harlequin-bottom row.  I followed Tim's instructions to make the stencil hearts and glitter heart.  I added a trinket pin with a love charm and a red jewel charm I had in my stash.

 

I made another tag and added a red glitter cupid and an extra industrial sticker arrow.

Here is my table on Valentine's Day.  I made my DH a red metal bucket and glued sequin hearts on it.  I used Tim's red glitter technique to make the hearts and cupids that I attached to heart straws and used in the red heart and red metal bucket.  The bucket was filled with Valentine candies and chocolates.  I also made a Paper Mache Box and a Red Heart basket .

I painted this box with Martha Stewart Pink Taffeta Pearl Paint and added Making Memories paper on the top and top sides of box.  I decorated the box with heart sequins, Martha Stewart heart stickers and a red glitter cupid and pink glitter valentine from Making Memories.  I added red heart buttons with bakers twine threaded through them.

I added heart sequins to the sides of the red plastic heart basket. I fussy cut the hearts out of Making Memories paper I had.  It took a half hour to cut out using cutterbee scissors but worth it.  I used Tim's red glitter technique on the cupid  and heart.  The cupid was cut from the Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  The heart was cut from the TH die.  The heart straws are from Hobby Lobby.

I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day and stop back soon!

Erika