Saturday, December 31, 2011

Blog Hop Winner

Hey my wonderful bloggie friends! I have missed you over the Holidays. I was going to try and post while I was away but honestly found myself enjoying my family time and could not pull away to post! But tomorrow is the New Year and my New Year's resolution is to get back on track with my crafting and post twice a week or more! I would also like to have fun give aways in 2012 but they will not start until February. But speaking of giveaways! I owe one lucky person from the Getting Cricky Blog Hop some candy!

The winner of the Winter Wishes Blog Hop Candy is

Ildi who said:

Great job Heather!! I love shaker cards and yours came out awesome!!
Hug's and Happy Craftin :)

Ildi-Getting Cricky SrDTM
The Craftin Mama
Thanks for all the wonderful post everyone! I hope you have a wonderful New Year's Eve!
All my Bloggie Love,
Heather

Friday, December 16, 2011

Getting Cricky SNOW MUCH FUN Blog Hop -

Welcome to the "Snow Much Fun" Getting Cricky Blog Hop!!

Scrappy Holidays my bloggie friends!  We're so excited you could join us for this month's Getting Cricky Design Team Blog Hop!!  In addition to Kristal and the Senior Design Team, we look forward to introducing you to the rest of the NEW Junior Design Team (be sure to visit Kristal's Blog to see ALL of our "new additions"!!)...  Each of us, along with our Special Guest - Patty from "Creative Diva", 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 the scraptabulous Laura at Lady B Crafts 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!!)...

You all know I LOVE LOVE LOVE my K. Andrew Design Stamp Sets!!! They are amazing quality, they have the best sayings, they are extremely versatile and are so darn adorable! But did you know each of Kristal's stamp sets benefit charity? It is true! 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! See not only are the stamps amazing but the maker of the stamps has the biggest heart! All the more reason to scoot over to K. Andrew Design and buy yourself or someone on your Holiday shopping list some amazing stamps!


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...

For my project, I'm featuring the fabulous Winter Wishes Stamp set! I bought this set last month and have tons of fun creating with it! LOVE IT :) I had been eyeing it up since it came out and finally bought it! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Did I mention that I love it!?!? ;)  Here is what it looks like...





Winter Wishes






K Andrew Designs

Soooo many options right? I have had lots of fun just playing around and making cards!

I used this stamp set to make my Christmas card which is my first ever shaker card! WHAT WAS I THINKING? You know I have over 60 people on my Christmas card list? Nuts and then I decide to try something new! I am a weee bit crazy. I have to admit I had a ton of fun making it though! Only problem... who would have thought by December 16 in Wisconsin we would not have any snow!!! I wanted a picture of my kids playing in the snow for this but NO LUCK!!! But here is how my card turned out...



For this card I of course used my Winter Wishes stamp set which is where the words Winter Wonderland and the snowflakes came from. I used an embossing glitter to give it a little bit of dimension (I have not done embossing in FOREVER so I am pretty happy with the way it turned out). I used my Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge to make the snow globe at 3 1/2 inches. Inside is a picture of my fabulous little monkeys and some glitter so when you shake it up you get this...

 It is like actually having a snow globe right? Although it was loads of fun I think I shall pick an easier project for next years cards ;)
On the inside I simply stamped Merry Christmas (again using the Winter Wishes stamp set) and will sign the card love my family:) 


Okay so that was my main project but I had to share this card with you again.. I shared it on an earlier post but thought I would pass it along again because it turned out pretty darn cute...

I love the little elf and Snow much Fun is the reason for the Blog Hop right? So I had to pass it along! If you have a chance after you are done hopping you can stop back and visit my earlier post with this Elf and other fun ways to use Winter Wishes. (The elf was from Close to My Heart Happy Pursuits)


SO WHO WANTS CANDY?!?!? I will be offering blog candy but I have to be honest with you and tell you it will not ship until the last week of December or the first week in January! My friend Julie owns this amazing company called Say Cheese Design. She makes the most adorable buttons, wine stops, magnets, post cards... I could go on but please visit her site! I am going to give the Blog Hop Winner a retractable key ring and a couple of her adorable magnets to go with it. The reason I am not sending right away is Julie had a little fire in her shop and is not sending out at this moment... The good news I will be going to see her the end of December and can pick some up directly from her.  So I will send them to you as soon as I can. You have until December 24 to enter. How do you enter? Just leave me some bloggie love and of course I would love if you would follow my blog but it is not required. On the 25 I will pick a winner using random.org.

This is what your prize package will look like but because I am shipping after the Holidays I will get you some everyday scrappy magnets!
Well I hope you enjoyed my cards! Now it is time for you to head off to the next amazing Design Team member!

Your next stop is my scraptastic friend Faith at Faithfule Creations

SCRAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ONE AND ALL!!!





Getting Cricky Blog Hop

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Check out this giveaway at scrappin mamma's blog

My friend Deb over at Scrappin Mamma's Crafty Creations is having a major giveaway! Stop by and check it out!
http://www.scrappingmamma.net/2011/12/hello-my-friends-its-december-only-22.html

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Fun Thursday Post

Well hello my bloggie friends! Hope you are doing well today! I have been playing with my K. Andrew Design Winter Wishes stamp set and wanted to show you all some of the fun cards I have come up with (well at least I think they are fun).

(This is my favorite)

(This is my husband's favorite)

My kiddos like this one because they are dying to make a snowman!

Fun right? The sentiments came from K. Andrew Designs Winter Wishes Stamp set (LOVE IT!). And the elves are from Close to My Heart Happy Pursuits. They are funny little elves! The Snowflakes are also off the Winter Wishes stamp set.

I am so excited to start my Christmas cards... I just need some snow so I can take my kids picture outside in the snow! I have this whole layout in my head and I can not wait to see how it turns out I just need the snow so it turns out the way I am hoping it will. But with no snow in the forecast for us in the near future I may have to rethink my picture! You would think by December 8th in Wisconsin we would have some snow right? Well I guess I will have to move North! ;)

Thanks for stopping over friends! Hope you have a truly delightful day filled with many blessings!
All my bloggie love,

Heather

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge! - Joys of the Season

Hi my dear bloggie friends. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Today is Sunday which means it is time for a new Simply Sunday Challenge at Getting Cricky! This weeks Simply Sunday Challenge is Joys of the Season. We are creating projects that have to do with the joys of the Season!

I have made two projects for you today!

The first is a picture frame I wrapped and hung on my wall!


This is it hung on my wall! :) Looks cute huh? Yeah my kids think so but they want to open it. I used ribbon I got from Michael's, the tag is cut from Christmas Cheer and Of Course I used Kristal Andrew Winter Wishes stamp set! Be sure to check it out!


For my second project my children and I created an advent calendar! I used tags cut at 4" from Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge and I stamped Kristal's Winter Wishes stamps on each card... I took several pictures so you can what they look like all together and close up!!











 I love the way this turned out and now the kids and I can take one down everyday and they know how close we are getting to Christmas!! Sorry for any color issues of blurriness of the pictures... Maybe Santa will be good to me and bring me a new camera!

Here is the Winter Wishes stamp set I used
K Andrew Designs

If you would like to purchase Kristal's stamp set you can do so HERE

Want to enter the Simply Sunday Challenge yourself? Here are the requirements

Challenge Requirements:
  1. Post any Joys of the Season holiday decoration of your choice & link up by 12/17/11
  2. Post as many projects as you want that fit the criteria
  3. Make sure Kristal's blinkie is up on your sidebar, and your blog post entry is linked back to Kristal's blog Getting Cricky
  4. Leave on Kristal's page
  5. HAVE FUN & spread the word!
  6. The winner will receive a surprise K Andrew Design Stamp Set!!
HAVE FUN ENTERING!!! THANKS FOR STOPPING BY! Enjoy the week!!!

Friday, December 2, 2011

Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge

Hey all! Oh wow... It has been a little while since I have posted a project. I am soooo sorry!  I know how you all live for my projects...hahaha. Well I hope everyone has a very blessed Thanksgiving. I had a wonderful time with my loving family! It was a great week and now I am playing catch up! But I wanted to enter the Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge... have you had the opportunity to check it out yet? If not you should. The theme for this weeks Simply Sunday Challenge is "Give Thanks". The Design Team did an amazing job with their projects and everyone who has linked up has done amazing work! If you have not checked it out please stop by and check it out... if you have the time you should link up your project as well! Here are the rules,
Challenge Requirements:
  1. Post any "Give Thanks" project of your choice & link up by 12/3/11
  2. Post as many projects as you want that fit the criteria
  3. Make sure my blinkie is up on your sidebar, and your blog post entry is linked back to my blog Getting Cricky
  4. Leave a comment here
  5. HAVE FUN & spread the word!
  6. The winner will receive a surprise Cricut Cartridge!
Alright so here is my project....


For this project of course I used two of five greatest blessings! ;) My little man and my hubby. This picture was taken when my son was about 5 months. Such a happy little guy! I am very blessed with a wonderful family. For this I used paper I had laying around. For the letters I used the Storybook Cartridge at 2" and the leaf like things came from there as well. The stamp is of course one of Kristal Andrew's Stamps! It is from the Food for Thought Stamp Set!  Like the set? Yeah me too! You should look into ordering if you haven't already... But I should warn you!!! If you do not have any of Kristal's stamp sets be careful! They are like Pringles... BET YOU CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE! ;) I have several and always looking to add more... you can check out Kristal's stamps HERE!
 Okay so be sure to check out Kristal's stamps and also check out the Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge you have until 12-3 at midnight to enter!
Thanks so much for stopping! Have a great weekend y'all!

Winner of the Getting Crick Blog Hop

Hey all! I know you all have been waiting for this and I said I would do it Monday but I have been trying to catch up from last week! But thank you for all the bloggie love! I hope that you enjoyed the hop!
Now via random.org the winner of my blog candy....

Lucky Number 16 mamawcindy who said...
Oh, Your Cards are so Cute and Fun! Love them! Thanks for Sharing! I'm now following you. :0)

This is what you have won! My friend Julie of Say Cheese Design has made this adorable retractable key chain and magnets to put on there... sorry the picture is so dark but one is a snowman and the other says Scrappy Holidays!  Cute right?? I hope you enjoy!! Thanks again for sending me your bloggies love! Don't forget to visit my friend Julie's website and also Kristal Andrew at Getting Cricky
 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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!!!

Friday, November 18, 2011

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

K Andrew Designs
K Andrew Designs

 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! :)









Getting Cricky Blog Hop


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

*Getting Cricky with K Andrew*: 2800 Follower Giveaway!!! Two GREAT prizes!!!

*Getting Cricky with K Andrew*: 2800 Follower Giveaway!!! Two GREAT prizes!!!: Congratulations to us--we have now met the 2800 mark of fabulous people loving our blog! woohoo! Let's give away.... A Starbuck's Gift C...

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!


Monday, November 14, 2011

Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge - Tea Time

HELLO! Okay so my New Years Resolution is to get better about posting and I have just the reason to do it now! I have made the Getting Cricky Junior Design Team! I am sooooo excited and greatful to Kristal Andrew for this opportunity. As you know I LOVE her stamps and love to use them on any and every project I can. They are amazing stamps made right here in the US! Fabulous right? It gets better. For all of the different stamp sets she has, Kristal has picked a charity (that she has researched) to give money to. So for each set she sells she gives $1 to the charity! She truly is an amazing, talented and given person. I am blessed to call her my friend! So be sure to check out her stamp sets!!!

So I created a new little card using her Fashionable Friends stamp set. Here is the set!

K Andrew Designs

Lots of fun to be had with this set! And her sets are all so versitle and easy to use with any project!  With the sales of this set $1 per set goes to Cancer Angels to help Stage 4 level Cancer patients. Cancer Angels gives atleast 95% of all monies raised to the people in need. AMAZING :)

Okay so for my project!

I used just a plain Jane piece of blue paper for the backround. The snowmen came from the Christmas Cheer cartridge as did the coffee mugs. I added a little glitter glue to style up the snowmen and to add snowflakes to the back drops. The stamp saying is "Old friends never go out of style!" The ribbon is from a dollar bin at Target from over the summer.

This card goes along with the theme for this weeks Getting Cricky Challenge. The theme is Tea Time!
Challenge Requirements:
  1. Post any Tea Time project of your choice & link up by 11/19/2011
  2. Post as many projects as you want that fit the criteria
  3. Make sure my blinkie is up on your sidebar, and your blog post entry is linked back to Kristal's blog Getting Cricky
  4. Leave a comment here
  5. HAVE FUN & spread the word!
  6. Prize will be a surprise K Andrew Stamp Set!
 So get on over to Kristal's blog and check out the great projects the Senior Design Team has done (leave them some bloggie love too).
If you have the time check out my page on here all about the Design Team and hop around to the different blogs and check out my DT sisters. Join us this weekend for the Winter Wishes Blog Hop!!! It will be loads of fun!
Okay that is all from me tonight my bloggie friends! HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

Weekend Blog Hop!!!!

Hey all! I just wanted to give you a heads up, this weekend the Getting Cricky Design Team will be putting on a blog hop! We hope you can attend! The theme is Winter Wishe. You know it sounds like fun and you were looking for Holiday Project ideas anyway right! So hop on over and join us... here is the information....

                                          Getting Cricky Blog Hop

Join the Getting Cricky Design Team and our special guest for this month's hop celebrating the upcoming holiday season!!

The fun begins at http://www.gettingcricky.com/ at the following times (the hop will continue through the weekend, so if you can't make it on Friday, we hope you'll be able join us later!!):

6pm Pacific
7pm Mountain
8pm Central
9pm Eastern

If you're in Alaska, please join us at 5pm...
If you're in Germany, please join us after 3am on the 19th...
and if you're in Sydney, Australia, please join us after 11am (on the 19th)...
Need another time? Please let us know, and we'll be happy to post it!! :)
This will be the first time some of the JR. Design Team will be showing off their stuff so come and support the girls!!!!

If you have facebook you can get more information HERE!!!
Hope to see you on the weekend of November 18th!! :)