Getting Cricky Tuesday Tutorial

Hey all! Happy Tuesday! :) Sorry I have been missing for a bit. We spent Thanksgiving with family and I was enjoying it so much I just needed to be with my kids and not worry about other things for a while! But I am back!! :) So here is the scoop, every Tuesday at Getting Cricky with K Andrew it is Tutorial Day. Each week a Design Team member will be posting a video or picture tutorial on how to make a project (except the 3 Tuesday of the month which is Linkin Up the Love Party). So this week is my week! I am so excited! I created a picture tutorial on how to make a diaper cake! Wanna learn how??? Hop on over to Getting Cricky with K Andrew

Here is a little sneak peek picture...


Enjoy the day my friends!!!

Getting Cricky Blog Hop ~ Winter Wishes

Welcome to the "Holiday Wishes" Getting Cricky Blog Hop!!

Hello my wonderful bloggie friends!!! I am so happy you could join us for this month's Getting Cricky Design Team Blog Hop!!  I am UBBER (yeah that is right I said ubber :)) excited to be doing my first blog hop as a Getting Cricky Junior Design Team member! This hop is going to feature 10 of the new Junior Design Team girls (if you have not meet all the new girls be sure to check out my Getting Cricky page and check them out! Or you can find us all on Kristal's page as well! They are a set of AMAZINGLY talent girls and I highly recommend following all of their blogs) along with Kristal and all the amazing Senior Design Team members! Each of us, along with our Special Guest - Ellen from "a little bit of this...", are so pleased to have you here with us!!  Throughout the hop, you'll see NEW ideas for creating cards and projects with Kristal's stamps sets!!

If you've hopped along from Christel from One Scrappin Sista at  then you are in the right place!! If you are just joining me from your dashboard, or reading this via email, please be sure to CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Kristal's blog (you'll want to catch up on all the FUN!!)...

Now you may have heard me mention Kristal's stamps a time or two but here is a little more information! Each of Kristal's stamp sets benefit charity. At least $1 per stamp set goes to benefit the charity noted on the stamp set package. Kristal is donating to the following charities: Cancer Angels, Storefront Shelter for Homeless Children, Intrepid & Fallen Heroes, E. Glaser Pediatric AIDS  Foundation, Doorways Shelter for Women & Children (Domestic Violence), Wayside House for Women, Camp Good Days & Special Times, Adopt a Classroom, and Autism Research Institute. Kristal will donate $1 for every stamp set sold, retail or wholesale to the charity noted; and over time believes this will add up to some wonderful miracles for these special people. So you can feel good that each time you purchase a K Andrew Designs art stamp set, someone around the country is receiving some good help!

K Andrew's stamps are all made and assembled here in the USA, which is very important to Kristal. This ensures all product materials are safe and that jobs are being provided and maintained here in America.  You can learn even more about Kristal's stamps (and pick some up for yourself) by visiting her online store: K Andrew Designs:









Kristal's stamp sets are perfect for cards, layouts, and so much more... Here is THE BEST NEWS OF THE NIGHT/DAY (depending on when you read this) Kristal is offering 20% off all orders this weekend! (Nov18 - Nov 20) STOCK UP NOW! This is an amazing offer!!! They make great gifts for the crafters in your life (you know like me, please feel free to check my wish list!)  SO GO HERE Now and ORDER ORDER ORDER...Enter Promo code cricky20 .... WAIT I WAS WRONG.... check out my cards and then go order order order! ;)

For my project, I'm featuring the Fashionable Friends and Food for Thought stamp sets




 For this hop I have made two different cards

Ms. Snowomen loves to shop! But who doesn't at this time of year right? I love buy gifts for all my nieces and nephews! LOVE TO SHOP... as Kristal's stamp says... "Shopping is my therapy!"

The snowman was made from Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge as were the bags and ornament. I used a little gold glitter glue to dazzle the ornament up a bit. The ribbon was from Walmart as was the back drop paper. The stamp as I said was from the K. Andrew Fashionable Friend stamp set. I love the fashionable friends set. I have used it for sooo many different projects.

Santa is "The Original Red Hatter" my friends! Red Hatter is also a stamp from Fashionable Friends. I printed "The Original" portion off of my computer. Santa is made from the Christmas Cheer Cartridge as is his nice list. The alot of nice at the top of the list is from Food for Thought Stamp Set... see you can just put a ton of these stamps sets together and the projects are ENDLESS!!! :)

Okay Now what you have all been waiting for!! I will be offering Blog Candy.... Tonight's blog candy is a necklace lanyard and Itty Bitty Buttons to go with! What is this you ask? Well my very talented friend Julie makes these adorable buttons that you can attach to a lanyard... best part is you can mix them up. She makes a ton of different styles and you have one for everyday of the week/month or for the mood you are in! They are loads of fun. I will be sending you a couple of scrappy ones (shh... these designs are no longer available but I have an in with the owner!) Check out her wears at Say Cheese Design. I am sure you will love them as much as I do! You have until Sunday November 27 to enter! I will pick a winner and announce it here on my blog Monday November 28... So be sure to stop back and see if you are my lucky winner!!! How do you enter? Well leave me some bloggie love of course! Leave a comment if you would like to become a follow I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it but it is not required!


DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THE AMAZING DEAL ON STAMPS THIS WEEKEND!!! Be sure to hop over and order lots! Holidays are coming up and they make amazing gifts... just sayin! ;)
Thank you so much for stopping on by!

Now you can hop on over to your next stop: Jana at Raining Grace...... Have fun hopping everyone! :)

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Link Up the Love Party - Getting Cricky

Hello Friends! Tomorrow is Wednesday which means we are half way through the week. I don't know about you but these days are just flying by! Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! There are a couple things I want to remind you of! This weekend there will be a Getting Cricky Blog hop. Starts Friday and goes all weekend. Lots of amazing project and prizes as well! Be sure to hop over to that! Second is this weeks Getting Cricky Challenge. This will go until Sunday at midnight. You can enter a project on the Getting Cricky Website that has to do with Tea Time. I posted my project earlier so if you have a chance take a peek at that and be sure to check out the other projects that have been posted. Lots of cute ideas!

Okay now on with today's info! :) Getting Cricky has another event that started today and will go until next Tuesday (11/22). It is called Link Up Love Party! It is a great way to meet others in the bloggie world, and find great new project ideas! For this you get to create a project that has to do with Thanks/Blessing. It is a great time to give Thanks! I wanted to share with you my project and then I will give you a little more information about the PARTY :)

I thought I would make a Thank You for my in-laws for having us over for Turkey day. They have us every year and my mother-in-law makes a big feast! I thought this would be a great way to thank her. I used the Turkey from the Little Critters Cartridge and the Thanks for a great day is actually from two of Kristal's Stamp Sets. I used the words Thanks for from the fashionable friends set. The actual words were Thanks for your support. I just covered up the words your support. The second part is from Food for Thought. The original saying was It's a great day! I just put a little tape over it's and made this little creation!
I have so many things to be thankful for this year and I can't wait to count my blessings with my family!

Okay so here is what you need to do to LINK UP THE LOVE :)
Link Up Love Party: How it Works

*Link Up Party runs from Tuesday 11/15 to Tuesday 11/22. Winners announced 12/20 at next Link Up Love party.
*Grab Kristal's blinkie and post on your blog's sidebar
*Be a follower of Kristal's blog
*Create a new blog post that is titled Link Up Love Party with K Andrew. In your post, you must mention that the link up love party is a way to get to know each other and find new blog inspiration, mention my blog, with a link back to Kristal's blog .
*Post your favorite project that you've done in your blog post THAT HAS TO DO WITH THANKS/BLESSINGS!! That could be a card, layout, treat holder or decoration.
*Copy and paste the link up code into your blog post so the Inlinkz will show up on your blog
*Spread the word so everyone can join in!
*You must visit, follow, and comment on the 5 people before you AND the 5 people after you in the Inlinkz. It would be fantastic if you would visit as many as you can--maybe everyone? If you are one of the first 5 then you will need to blog the ones before you and a few more after--as long as it's a minimum of 10 near you in the link up tool/gadget)
If you do not do the above your link will be deleted, because it's just not fair to those who work so hard linking up and showing love to the ones on the list. I have two moderators who will be checking this out to keep it awesome and fun!




Link Up Party: Giveaway! A FULL year subscription to the best scrappy magazine out there: Creating Keepsakes for TWO lucky followers who Link up and play correctly. Winner will be announced December 20th at next Link Up the Love Party so make sure you come back to see if you won!!!! Remember, if you don't claim your prize within ONE week, it goes back in to the pot!

So link up your projects and have loads of fun! Can't wait to see what you all come up with! Have a great one y'all!

Decorate to Celebrate Month Long Birthday Party - Guest Designer

Hello and welcome to this fabulous Wednesday! I am doing a guest designer spot for the Decorate to Celebrate Month Long Birthday Party for Rhonda and Amy!
In case you missed it...  This month Rhonda and Amy are CELEBRATING their birthday's ALL MONTH LONG (so you'll have ALL month to enter your projects at Decorate to Celebrate!!)...  Also for THIS month (and this month ONLY), they are opening up the challenge to ANY project (yes, this means you can enter a card or a layout too!!)...  Because of this, they have limited the number of entries to a MAXIMUM of THREE -- you can enter up to THREE projects this month for your chance at the Birthday Presents!!  A little birdie told me that there would be one of Rhonda's minis, one of Amy's explosion boxes, and several other FUN prizes thrown into the mix!!  I am sure you have seen Amy's explosion boxes and Rhonda's minis! They are simply fabulous and you would be SOOOO lucky to have one! So get working on those projects for YOUR chance to WIN!!

Okay so I am going to show off a little work I did for my son's 5th birthday! We decided to do a Batman theme. I purchased the Batman Brave and the Bold Cricut Cartridge and had fun creating... I am a little bummed because I was so busy occupying 20 kids that I did not get more pictures so I will show you what I have! :)

These were the birthday invitations. Not sure if you can read it well or not but it says

The Riddler is tricky don't make a mistake.

He has stolen the candles off

Noah's birthday cake.

But you can help Batman recover

the candles by answering

this riddle I know you can handle;

How old will Noah be when his birthday arrives?

Just think of a number that rhymes with "dive"

The answer is ______

Help Batman and Noah find his birthday candles

and then lists all the birthday information.

The backdrop behind the vellum is a city outline with a bat signal... pictured here :)

I made this back drop of what was suppose to be Gotham City... I tried hard but it did not come out the way I wanted and I used a lot of spray paint... I did not think it would take that much but wow I used about 9 cans on this small little section!

Okay so this is a little hard to see but this was a game called stomp out the villains... If you look close you can see the little one on the right side of this picture stomping a silver balloon. I took balloons and filled some with candy and I left some empty. When we brought out the balloons we explained to the kids they were to stomp out the villains and they would get a prize! I had taped some pictures of Batman and Robin on some of the balloons and villains such as the Joker, Riddler, Mr Freeze and The Penguin on others. The kids had so much fun stomping the villains!

For a little down time we played a game of Bat, Bat, Joker (much like a game of duck, duck, goose!)

We even had a surprise visit from BATMAN himself! My sons face was just priceless when he showed up.

No because the information said that the Riddler had taken the candles off my son's birthday cake Batman was there to help. I had placed green cards with question marks on various places outside (like the pool, trash cans, the jungle gym) and gave them riddles as to where they could find the birthday candles! They had so much fun hunting for the candles!

Here are some of the kiddos from the party with Batman... some were to hungry to take a picture with Batman and they just ran off to eat!

Oh this is another picture from the villain stop. We also played a game of Mr. Freeze Dance where we would play music and when the music stopped they had to freeze!

Here is Noah's birthday cake. I wish I had gotten more pictures of the food. I had themes for most of it. I had Cat Claws (buggles), Posion Ivy punch (green punch) Penguins Chips and Dip (Served these is a top hat upside down), Bat Pops (cake pops) Alfred's Gourmet hamburgers... oh there was more. I had also purchased yellow plastic ware and wrapped it in a black napkin and made my own napkin rings with a yellow piece of paper and a bat on them... OH HOW I WISH I WOULD HAVE HIRED A PHOTOGRAPHER ;)

Ha! Well I hope you enjoyed the Batman Birthday! Be sure to hop over to Decorate to Celebrate and check out their month long celebrations if you have not done so already! Enjoy your day everyone!