Creative Crafting!: February 2011

A Big Cricut Hello & Chirp to each of you! Welcome to the Cricky Across the 50 Blog Hop hosted by K Andrew of Getting Cricky! (http://www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com). If you are here from Lori's blog(http://www.savingmine.blogspot.com) then you are in the right spot. If you just arrived here and would like to start from the beginning please go to KAndrew's Getting Cricky http://www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com). For this blog hop K Andrew is celebrating her big move across the country with a big road trip, and of course this hop across the 50 states! She has asked us all to post a little bit about the state we are representing, and then to post our Favorite Craft Project. I am representing the state of Indiana.

Fun Fact:
Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana when he was 7 years old. He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy.

My favorite place to visit is Shipshawana because there is tons of crafting things to see there so of course it is my favorite!

On to my project: I decided to make a card for this hop and this is how it feels in Indiana right now. I used a stamps set from one of our wonderful sponsors: Pink by Design stamps Woodland Critters.

Here is the recipe for this card

I used paper trey ink cardstock(solid) and DCWV patterned paper

My Imagine and the Snow Angel cart

ATG gun

Paper trey ink ribbon

On to the blog candy:

All you need to do to win this set is leave a comment and become a follower if you are already a follower leave a second comment telling me that you are and that will give you a second entry!

Please make sure to leave comments on all of the blogs for a chance to win a ton of different Grand Prizes on Getting Cricky's blog, from these great companies:Scrap N Tote, Scrap N Easel, Cri-Kits, Creative Charms, Memory Miser, Scrappy Chic Cafe, Loralie Designs, My Pink Stamper, Peachy Keen Stamps, Cricut Town, The Scrappin' Table, Piktails, and Pink by Design.

Please make sure to visit ALL the blogs, as EVERY single blog will have fabulous giveaways (cricut cartridges, paper packs, copic markers, yourstory bundle, clear stamp sets, and tons more). Each blogger was extremely generous with their own personal giveaways

Next stop on the hop is Darlene http://www.talesoftayandbay.blogspot.com

Here is our Blog Line Up!

BEGIN: Getting Cricky With K Andrew http://www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com

ALABAMA

Tanya of Scrappy Scavenger http://www.ScrappyScavenger.blogspot.com

ARIZONA

Renee Kowalchik of KoolChik Crafts http://www.koolchikcrafts.blogspot.com/

ARKANSAS

Teela Young of Coffee24Tea http://www.coffee24tea.blogspot.com

CALIFORNIA

Jess Marin of My Scrap Diary http://www.myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com

Nicolette Simpson of Beyond Scrapin http://www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com

COLORADO

Jennifer Anderson of Scrappin Lil Turtle http://www.creativearmywife.blogspot.com/

Amy Courchaine of Scrapbooking, Card Making, and Living with Fibro http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/

DELEWARE

Meagan Jarjabka of Beyond Paper Designs http://www.beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com

Peggy Brustman of CeltikGirlCreations http://www.celtikgirlcreations.blogspot.com/

FLORIDA

Stephanie Hedderick of Always Crafting http://www.alwayscrafting.com

GEORGIA

Brenda Haskin of Simply Bren is Having too much fun http://www.simplybrenhavingfun.blogspot.com/

ILLINOIS

Lori Brown of Saving My… http://www.savingmine.blogspot.com

INDIANA

Angela Urell of Creative Crafting http://www.creativecraftin.blogspot.com

LOUISIANA

Darlene Saucier of Simple Southern Blessings http://www.talesoftayandbay.blogspot.com

MAINE

Karen Madden of Lilac and Lupines http://www.lilacsandlupines.blogspot.com

MARYLAND

Karen Turner of Midlife Mysteries & Masterpieces http://www.midlifemysteries.com/

MASSACHUSSETTS

Andrea Fogleman of Scraplity http://www.scrapality.com

MINNESOTA

Krystal Gibson of Krystal’s Kreativity http://www.krystalskreativity.blogspot.com

Jenny Johnson of Paper Crafting Crazy Me http://www.papercraftingcrazyme.blogspot.com

MISSOURI

Kathy Northup of I Love My Crazy Life http://www.ilovemycrazylife.blogspot.com

MONTANA

Kathy Floen of The Beautiful Life http://kathy-thebeautifullife.blogspot.com

NEBRASKA

Gloria Sleeper of Oma’s Crafts http://www.omascrafts.blogspot.com

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Kristal of Getting Cricky http://www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com

NEW MEXICO

Brynn Thornburgh of Flair and Frills http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com

NEW YORK

Erin Span of I am SpantastiKreations http://www.spantastikreations.blogspot.com/

NORTH CAROLINA

Amy Westray of redwolfSCRAPS http://www.redwolfscraps.com

OHIO

Patricia Logan of MDN Creates http://www.triciatreasure.blogspot.com

Joe, Carol, Joe, and Betty of CreateNCraft at http://www.createNcraft.com

OREGON

Rebecca Maddux of Crafting with Becka http://www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com

PENNSYLVANIA

Midori Vasquez of Scraps for Me http://www.scrapsforme.blogspot.com/

RHODE ISLAND

Karel Jennings of One by One the Flamingos are Stealing my Sanity http://karelj.blogspot.com

SOUTH DAKOTA

Brenda Burffrau of Creativity is a State of Mind http://createbyburffrau.blogspot.com

TENNESSEE

Shannon Lefew of My Scrappy Creations http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com

TEXAS

Kista Orr of Scrapaleupagus at http://www.scrapaleupagus.blogspot.com

UTAH

Kathy of Creative Cutter at www.creativecutter.org

VIRGINIA

Chris Hanselmaan of Chris' Crafty Creations from the Corner http://scrappinchris.blogspot.com/

WASHINGTON

Mariam Satchell of Purple Lily Studio http://www.mariamsatchell.blogspot.com

WISCONSIN

Janice Wilson of Stamping with Janice www.stampingwithjanice.blogspot.com

WYOMING

Jamie Larsen of Baby Jayden’s Mommy http://babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/

Lindsay Loo of Lindsay Loo Designs http://www.lindsayloodesignz.blogspot.com/

END: Getting Cricky with K Andrew www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com

I am so glad you stopped by to join us and a BIG thank you to K for being a wonderful blog hop host!

Have a wonderful day!

Hello Good Afternoon Everyone,

I made this card for Emma's challenge she is so sweet and amazing. This is my first challenge EVER I am so excited to be doing this. This throw back challenge was to use Wild Card or Just Because Cards cricut cartridge so I choose to use Wild Card. Since it was for Emma Challenge I decided to use my Gypsy!

Here is a pic of my card and envelope I made for this challenge there will be details to follow.

Recipe:
Wild Card cricut cartridge
My gypsy and expression
The paper is made by: ME yes I said me I designed it and printed it on my cannon printer!
Black diamond stickles
ATG gun
Embossing powder and martha stewarad glitter
Tim Holtz metal heart
Pop Dots
The envelope was cut at 5.5 and I used K&Co paper from last year
The heart was cut out at 5.25in
I also inked up the edge of the card with color box ink.
Sentiment: LOVE is from Fiskars love set!

Let me know how you like it I love to read comments!