Christmas cards, neck warmers and tree skirt

Wow, I cannot believe it's been almost two months since my last post.  There have been a lot of things going on in my life for the past weeks, some good, some bad, so almost no time to be creative.   

Last week I decided it was time to go back to my craft room and start creating. Due to the time constraint, this year I only made one third the number of Christmas cards that I usually do, just for my closest friends and family.  I'm learning how to color with Copic Markers and wanted to use my brand new Magnolia Tilda stamp I bought last month.  For the card base I used Bazzill textured paper.  Patterned paper is from My Mind's Eyes (12 days of Christmas).

I also knitted a neck warmer for my sister and an infinity scarf for her fur baby (a tiny Chihuahua so into fashion), my niece Lola.  Hope they like them.  This is first time I make crochet flowers. I just followed the instructions from a Youtube video I found through Pinterest and I think they turned out okay.  Hope my sister and Lola like their presents.

Finally, I made a Christmas tree skirt using some felt for the base, some left over brown fabric, burlap in light brown, ivory and olive green, tons of hot glue, and some SU! Chocolate Chip felt ribbon (retired).  The tree skirt idea is not mine and I also found it on Pinterest. Can you tell I'm loving Pinterest?  I just modified it a little bit and instead of using 2" burlap strips, I used 3" strips. Isn't it pretty?

As you can see, it was a very productive week.  This week I will be getting ready for the Christmas Eve dinner (I'm cooking again this year) and want to make some baked goodies for my neighbors.  I will try to post pictures of all of it, but if I don't have a chance, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012. Thanks for stopping by!

Cricut 360 Challenge No. 15

Hello my friends.  It's time for another challenge at the Cricut 360!  Cold weather is finally here (well at least were I live) and with Winter in mind, this week's challenge is to create a card or layout ALL in white, no other color are allowed at all and using any of the Cricut Cartridges.  

My take for this challenge was to create a card using cuts from the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.   This cartridge is one of my favorites!! Cardstock is Georgia Pacific (Walmart) and glitter is from Martha Stewart Collection.  Since this card is all white I decided to used embossing to give dimension to it. Hope you like it!  To check out the amazing creations from the rest of the design team don't forget to stop by the Cricut 360 Challenge blog. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend.

Giveaway Winner!

Hello my friends!  Just wanted to announce the Winner of my giveaway, a 8x8 DCWV Latte cardstock pad.   I used random.org and the winner was:

Post No.9!!
 Kimberli said...

What a beautiful banner - your whole fireplace looks amazing all decorated for Halloween! I'm a new follower!

Kimberli
kimbean20 at gmail dot com
http://kimberliscreations.blogspot.com/

OCTOBER 14, 2011 11:24 AM


Congratulations Kimberli. Please send me your address to leiradcarrasco at gmail dot com and will send your prize right away.  To the rest, thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and participate in this giveaway.  Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Cricut 360 Challenge No. 14 - Blog Hop

Hello my friends!! It's time for another Challenge at the Cricut 360.  This week we have the Cricut 360’s Spooky Halloween Blog Hop!

The talented DT has created amazing projects for this week's challenge and blog hop.

If you've come from visiting Darlene at The Simple Southern Blessings' Blog, you are in the right place!

If my blog is your first stop and you would like to play along with our Spooky Halloween Blog  Hop, please start HERE.

Please, don't forget to visit the rest of the DT members' blog to check out their amazing creations for inspiration.  Also make sure you collect the key words that will reveal this week's challenge.  

There will be prizes along the way at some of the DT members' blogs, AND a grand prize, a  Freshly Picked Cricut cartridge.

If you want to play along, please link up your project over at Cricut 360.  

My take for this week's project was to create a Halloween banner to decorate the beautiful mantle my dear husband made (from scratch) for our fireplace. 


Edited to add that the plastic pumpkins (from Michaels) were hand-carved by my wonderful husband. I made the flowers arrangements for the pumpkins using flowers and ribbon I bought at Joann's.  

Tools:

• Cricut Expression
• Crop-a-dile
• CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge
• Happy Huntings Cartridge
• Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge
• Doodlecharm Cricut Cartridge

Materials:

• Black cardstock from Joann's
• Whisper White cardstock
• Recollections Halloween 12x12 cardstock pad (2010)
• Black, orange, and green ribbon from Michaels
• Eyelets
• SU! brads
• Braided wire

As an special thank you for participating on this blog hop, I am giving away a Latte 8x8 DCWV paper pack. You just need to become a follower of my blog (if you aren't already) and leave a comment in this post.  The winner will be randomly selected and announced on Wednesday October 19th, 2011. 

My key word is: AND 

Hope you really like my project and now please go and stop by Lisa's blog, Beyond Beauty to check out what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to Cricut 360 for a chance to win!

Make a wish B-day card

Hello my friends, hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Today I wanted to share with you a card I made for a good friend. Tomorrow is her B-day and I sent this card to her last week, so I hope it gets on time. For this card, I used sketch 207 from Mojo Monday. The butterfly was cut using my Cricut Expression and the Create a Critter cartridge.  All designer papers, cardstock, embellishments, and sentiment are SU! (most of them are retired). Thanks for looking!!