At school I am known for my cards. I try to make cards for my classmates’ birthdays. I now have a lot of girls who ask me to make cards for them. This was a request from a classmate for a St. Patrick’s day for her grandmother. She also bought a lovey-dovey card that had been previously made. She told me that she wanted me to use sparkles, so I tried to achieve that with Stickles over my stamped shamrock. I also used gold embossing powder with the sentiment. Here is a close up of the sentiment.

I really love how this card turned out. I have had the shamrock paper for a couple years, so it was nice to be able to use a little more of it!

Hope you enjoy! Erica

Have you seen this!!! OMG! I can not wait until June 30th. Thank goodness for New Moon’s DVD release in just 9 days! Until then, eat up this yummy eye candy!

I just had to tell you all something funny that happened today. I play live trivia every Wednesday night. It is a bunch of fun, but I really just go for the beer and to hang out with friends. There are 6 categories and 6 questions in each per round. As the questions go on in each category, they get harder. One of the categories was Movie Questions and here was the 5th question, with the visual aid.

What is the last name of the family that has this hanging in their home?

Needless to say, I saw the visual and didn’t even let him finish the question. We got second place overall tonight. It was a lot of fun as always!

Remember…

The Friends Having Fun challenge blog is almost ready to start having fun!

(Grab the badge!)

We have four teams and each team will host a weekly challenge.

Let’s meet our team leaders:

Alison – Color Challenge (week 1)

Dani – Sketch Challenge (week 2)

Sarabeth – Recipe Challenge (week 3)

Erica – Pop Culture Challenge (week 4) (yep that’s me!!!)

Each team is looking for 3-4 friends (design team members) who would like to have fun!

Deets:

• 3 Month Term
• Post 1 time a month
• Can apply for as many teams as you’d like but can only be accepted to 2 max at a time. Please indicate your preference order. At the end of term, you can apply for another team!
• Bring your fun! We’re looking for topic ideas to post about during the week. For example, home organization, health information, exercise, travel, etc.
• Entries must be received by Friday, March 12th. Terms start in April.
• Email 2 of your favorite projects, a little about yourself and your blog address to tonya@stamphappens.com. Prior experience is not necessary.

Anyone who is interested in sponsoring us should contact Margie for information.

I hope that you all apply and play along! We have some great things in store!

Enjoy! Erica

I can’t believe it is almost Spring Break! I have survived so far! Today was a very good day. I got two very good pieces of news. First, was early this morning when Elizabeth Dulemba emailed me and told me I would be featured in her newsletter for THIS card. The second piece of good news was that I got the part-time retail job I had been interviewing for recently! Busy, busy, but it is all worth it! I celebrated by buying a new stamp set. I will hopefully play with it tomorrow. For now, I have a card that I made for a friend. She needed thank yous for her teachers. I will be making mine….later.

Of course I pulled out teachabella by Stamping Bella! The pattern paper is Me & My Big Ideas. I used Taylor’s sketch this week as my design. Off to bed now. Hope to have some new project tomorrow!

Erica

So I got this weird urge to make St. Patty’s Day cards…again, I am trying to avoid homework at all costs.

This card also was inspired by several challenges. Here is the card:

The challenges it follows are:

• The Cuttlebug Spot: Green
• The Pink Elephant: Green
• Cute Card Thursday: Lucky Green!
• Stampin’ for the Weekend: Monochromatic

I ended up making 10 of the cards. They were super simple and fun! Hope you enjoy!

Erica

When I saw challenge 81 on Clean & Simple, I knew I wanted to try it. This is what I made.

Only, I couldn’t stop there. The newest Christmas Stampin’ All Year Long challenge involves making a card purse. I thought these cards were so simple and sweet that they would make perfect gift packs. Here is the purse I made it.

I made 4 cards per purse. Yes, I said per purse because I made 2. They are so simple. Next time I will do more to the outside of the purse, but I like the simplicity. All of the sides are different colors, the same colors as the prints on the circles of the card. There are also 4 different sentiments in the pack. They are “hello,” “merci,” “Thanks for being you,” and “thank you.” I have no idea who is going to get these, but they are so fun to make. I am sure I will be making more.

Enjoy! Erica

• Paper: My Mind’s Eye
• Stamps: Inkadinkado (Circle Sentiments and Chelsea sentiments)
• Ink: Memories
• Accessories: American Crafts ribbon and Basic Grey brads

I am avoiding homework at all costs today. I decided to be productive and create a little. Here is the first card of the day!

I started by picking my image. I had printed several of this digi image, but hadn’t colored it in yet. This is from Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s coloring pages. I love all the cool reading images. I have a bunch more that I plan on coloring and making cards for my class. I colored the fairy in with colored pencils and then sponged pink Whispers ink around the edges. I cut out the image, but then I needed help with the sketch. I found Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch this week and it worked perfectly for the image.

I had been wondering how to use this paper from Basic Grey. This seemed to be the perfect opportunity. Finally I finished the card off with a little brown ribbon and Making Memories brads. Hope you enjoy!

I also wanted to use the fairy image because Charisma Cardz challenge this week is Fairies!

Off to make more or maybe make a dent in my homework…ok off to create more!

Erica

I had to play along with this week’s Bellariffic Friday. The theme was spots and I had to call it Spot and Dot. Spot and Dot is this new technique in learning how to read and I love it. Sorry, it is a nerdy teaching thing.

Anywho, I used this cute typewriter that I got at Stamping Bella. The sentiments come with the image. My dots come from my embossing folder.  I had gotten this one a while ago, but this is the first time I used it!

I also used the Our Creative Corner sketch.

Enjoy! Erica

I have been wanting to play along with The Wild Flower Patch challenges for awhile and I finally got to play with this week’s sketch today. I used the Alice image from Wild Flower Patch Kids. This card also works perfect for the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge’s movie challenge. I used some double sided October Afternoon paper and Die Cuts with A View.  The sentiment is from Tad Tidbits by The Angel Company.  Finally, I finished it up with some Dew Drops and a Martha Stewart punch.

Enjoy! Erica

I am SOOOO (yes, SOOO) excited to announce that I am a Team Leader for the new Friends Having Fun challenge blog. We are looking for some people to join us, so please read on!

The Friends Having Fun challenge blog is almost ready to start having fun!

(Grab the badge!)

We have four teams and each team will host a weekly challenge.

Let’s meet our team leaders:

Alison – Color Challenge (week 1)

Dani – Sketch Challenge (week 2)

Sarabeth – Recipe Challenge (week 3)

Erica – Pop Culture Challenge (week 4) (yep that’s me!!!)

Each team is looking for 3-4 friends (design team members) who would like to have fun!

Deets:

• 3 Month Term
• Post 1 time a month
• Can apply for as many teams as you’d like but can only be accepted to 2 max at a time. Please indicate your preference order. At the end of term, you can apply for another team!
• Bring your fun! We’re looking for topic ideas to post about during the week. For example, home organization, health information, exercise, travel, etc.
• Entries must be received by Friday, March 12th. Terms start in April.
• Email 2 of your favorite projects, a little about yourself and your blog address to tonya@stamphappens.com. Prior experience is not necessary.

Anyone who is interested in sponsoring us should contact Margie for information.

I hope that you all apply and play along! We have some great things in store!

Enjoy! Erica