These have got to be my most favorite card set that I've made. I couldn't tell you the materials I used, but I can kinda guess which carts I used. I absolutely love this set and can't seem to part with it no matter how many times I've tried to talk myself into giving it away.

Hello Cupcake - Home Decor, Alphalicious

Cherry On Top - I can't seem to find this cut, but I know its a cricut cart

Yummy - Indie Art

One in a Melon - Doodlecharms

Sweet - Graphically Speaking

Feel free to lift all you want :)

You should have come here from
Shannon Lefew of My Scrappy Creations at http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/

After you leave here you should head on over to
Kathy of Creative Cutter at

http://www.creativecutter.org

Be sure to leave me a comment at my candy post for a chance to win some copics this weekend. You can find it here.

Cricky Across the 50 Blog Hop!

Hey all! Welcome to the Cricky Across the 50 Blog Hop! I am typing to you now with a kitty laying across both my arms looking at the keyboard wondering why I'm not petting him instead of pounding the keys. Well for once, the blog is much more important than kitty rub down time. You should have come here from

Shannon Lefew of My Scrappy Creations at http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/After you leave here you should head on over to

Kathy of Creative Cutter at http://www.creativecutter.org/

I'm super excited about this blog hop! It's the largest I've ever been in or even seen online! And there are so many amazing prizes to be won! Not to mention my own blog candy!!!! I know, you're totally excited too right? Without further ado, dah da da daaaaah -

Set of Copic Markers

Which will include

B93, B95, YR14, YR18, Y15, and Y17!

I'll post a pic soon. If you are the winner and you already have these, I'll have a list of backup colors just incase for you to choose from. These are my absolutely most used markers. The blues are awesome for making blue jeans. The yellows and oranges are what I use to make my red and yellow hair as seen in my first post today. Yes you read it right, I'm posting many throughout today and tomorrow and sunday! As I said, I'll post a pic of the markers very soon.

To win this awesome blog candy, all you have to do is become a follower and add your comment to THIS post! I will be making lots of posts this weekend so make sure to leave your comment on how to contact you HERE!

My absolute favoritest project that I've made lately is this card.

I used the markers listed above for the hair. This image is a free digi stamp at www.cuddlybuddly.com They have some of the cutest stamps I've ever seen. I also stitched the sides with red embroidery ribbon. I don't do this often but felt this was the perfect image for some hand stitching.

As I said, more projects to come soon!

Here is the line up for this weekend....

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://koolchikcrafts.blogspot.com/

ARKANSAS

Teela Young of Coffee24Tea

http://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://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://beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com

Peggy Brustman of CeltikGirlCreations

http://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://simplybrenhavingfun.blogspot.com/

ILLINOIS

Lori Brown of Saving My…

http://savingmine.blogspot.com

INDIANA

Angela Urell of Creative Crafting

http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com

LOUISIANA

Darlene Saucier of Simple Southern Blessings

www.talesoftayandbay.blogspot.com

MAINE

Karen Madden of Lilac and Lupines

http://lilacsandlupines.blogspot.com

MARYLAND

Karen Turner of Midlife Mysteries & Masterpieces

http://www.midlifemysteries.com/

MASSACHUSSETTS

Andrea Fogleman of Scraplity

www.scrapality.com

MINNESOTA

Krystal Gibson of Krystal’s Kreativity

http://www.krystalskreativity.blogspot.com

Jenny Johnson of Paper Crafting Crazy Me

www.papercraftingcrazyme.blogspot.com

MISSOURI

Kathy Northup of I Love My Crazy Life

http://ilovemycrazylife.blogspot.com

MONTANA

Kathy Floen of The Beautiful Life

http://kathy-thebeautifullife.blogspot.com

NEBRASKA

Gloria Sleeper of Oma’s Crafts

www.omascrafts.blogspot.com

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Kristal of Getting Cricky

www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com

NEW MEXICO

Brynn Thornburgh of Flair and Frills

www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com

NEW YORK

Erin Span of I am SpantastiKreations

http://www.spantastikreations.blogspot.com/

NORTH CAROLINA

Amy Westray of redwolfSCRAPS

www.redwolfscraps.com

OHIO

Patricia Logan of MDN Creates

www.triciatreasure.blogspot.com

Joe, Carol, Joe, and Betty of CreateNCraft at

www.createNcraft.com

OREGON

Rebecca Maddux of Crafting with Becka

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://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://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 feel so bad that I don't remember where I found this free digi stamp. This is probably one of my favorites so far and I can't find the location. Still searching and as soon as I know I will def let you know. Hope you enjoyed the card.

*updated....I found the blog that I got this stamp from. You can find it here.

This little old guy just made me laugh when I saw him. He is a digi stamp from http://allgluedup.blogspot.com . And he was so much fun to color. This card is actually for my grandfather. His birthday is V-day and I'm always teasing him about being old. I think he's gonna like it though. Thanks for looking.

A little birdie...

I adore this digi stamp. I got it off www.cuddlybuddly.com . I'm a huge fan of digi stamps now. I can print a few copies of it and make all the mistakes I want until I figure out what I want to do. I can't believe how great the wings turned out. Thanks for looking :)

Cupcake card

Wow, this Cricut Mag is so full of great ideas! I saw this card and couldn't help myself. The dimensional bottom was interesting. Never done something like that. I cut the card from Sweet Treats Cartridge. The bottom is just a straight strip that I punched a scalloped edge. This is going to be fun to give away!

Missing U.....

One of my favorite "basic" cards. I got this idea out of the new Card magazine. It was a pain to glue all those little letters down, will def do alpha stickers next time. But for now....I love it. And it was well worth it. This is getting donated to Operation Write Home.

Baby Boy

I just bought the new Cricut Magazine this week and OMG, I love it!!! So many great projects to do. My first out of the gate was this adorable baby card made from the Plantin Cartridge. Was so easy to make and I can't wait to give it to someone. This is the first time I made a "shaped" card. I never liked to because it was hard to figure out the folding. But this book showed me how to do a star and I can apply the same concept to other shapes. Oh, let the fun begin!

As I said, this card is made entirely from the Plantin Cartridge. I cut the star background at 5.5" and the argyle blue star at 5". Then the small green star was at 1.75". All three are the Roly Poly feature. The tag as well, which was cut at 1" tall. And "boy" was cut at 1.5". I inked all pieces with a light brown then adhered the button with red embroidery thread. I think this card took me about 8 min to make, and that was with all the cutting as well!

Copic Card....Princess

I'm loving my copic markers today. Colored this yesterday while I was at work and while I'm not a huge fan of this card, I adore this image. It's another free digi stamp from someone on photobucket. You can get it here. Again I will try to list the markers I used, but I completely forgot to write them down before putting them away yesterday.

Materials used:

Copics B02, B04, G85, G82, G24, V15, V17,

E00, E02, R04, YR14, Y15, Y17, Y19

White, Yellow, Purple Cardstock

Striped paper from Colorbook

Brown ribbon

Copic Card...Friends Like You

Here's my first project of the day. I decided to break out the copics and make a cute card. I would list all the markers that I used but I completely forgot to write them down before putting them away and I have no idea which one's I used. I'll list as many as I remember. I think this is the first time I used thread on a card. And def the first time I've done X stitching. I love it! Little bit of a time consumer but well worth it. Now I know why my best friend likes to do it all the time. The digi stamp is from www.cuddlybuddly.com in the freebie section. I just adore this stamp and there are many others to choose from. Check them out :)

Materials Used:

Copics B000, B00, BG13, BG15, YR12, YR14, YR18, Y15, Y19, E00, E02, E37, E33, G85, G24, BV09, BV17, R04, R11, R14, and Colorless Blender.

White, Brown, Yellow Cardstock

Stamp from Stampabilities

Red Embroidery Thread

Coordinating Page Kits = 3 layouts and 5 cards

One of the things I love to do is make my own page kits. Each of my kits include....

3-4 sheets of coordinating patterened paper

3-4 sheets of coordinating solid cardstock

1-2 alphabets

A handful of embellishments such as chipboard, bling, titles, journaling blocks, etc

2-3 yards of different ribbons

Once I have my page kit together, I'll just slip it all into a 2 gallon size baggy and throw it in my travel bag for the next crop. Here are some creations I made yesterday in 4 hours by using one of my kits I put together. Let me tell you, there was only one journaling strip and 2 yards of ribbon left when I got done, I used every single sheet and embellishment.

I also made some cards with the leftovers.