Baby Banner

Happy Saturday everyone,

Hope you all are having an awesome Saturday. I have to work today, but I wanted to share with you all a baby banner I made a couple of weeks ago at a crop I went to. I have been really busy with work lately and haven't had a lot of crafting time, so I was so excited to finish a project. LOLs!

I made this banner with the trusty coasters I love to get at Michaels. I also used the New Arrival and Birthday Bash cartridge for the cuts. I used DCWV Baby cardstock for the paper to cover the coasters with. I just love how it turned out and thought these would be perfect for my friend who are prego right now.

Come back Monday, I am sharing some pictures of some SMASH pages I made for a SMASH swap I was in.

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS BLOG HOP & WINNERS!

Good morning all of my crafty friends.

Welcome! Today I am hosting the Christmas Decorations blog hop and I have a great line up of awesome crafters who have all created awesome decorations for your inspiration. Please make sure you visit all the blog in the hop list and leave a comment on every blog to be eligible to win my grand prize Cricut Imagine Cartridge. Plus, all of these ladies put a lot of time into their projects and would love for you all to visit them.

But first I must announce the winner of the Christmas Cards blog hop last weekend. The winner is Sherrie K, you won Cricut Cartridge Winter Lace. Please email me at scrapperbecka at yahoo dot com by Dec 15th or I will have to draw a new winner.
Also, I mailed out the blog candy from the Fall Decoration hop yesterday, so you should be getting it next week.
Ok, so on with the show. So, I thought it would be neat to have a Christmas Decoration blog hop because I always see the cutest decorations in the stores but they are so expensive. And I always think to myself "Hmmm... I could totally make that."  And of course I have so much crafting stuff, I wouldn't even have to buy anything.. LOL!  So I thought I would put it to the test and see what I could come up with. Plus, I wanted to see other ideas & projects so I could try those too.
So if you visit my blog a lot than you probably know by now that I love to make banners. And I love the $1 bin at Michaels. Yes I know I did it again... I make a Christmas banner out of the $1 bin coasters. Who knew these little coasters would be so handy. LOL!
Anyways here is the banner I made:

Here are some up close pictures

Items needed to make this
4x4 coasters or cardstock
DCWV Christmas Cardstack
Birthday Bash Cartridge- letters cut at 3"
Art Philosophy Cartridge- Stocking cut at 2.65"
Christmas Cartridge- Holly Berry cut at 2.41"
Winter Frolic Cartridge- Presents cut at 2.65"
Sanding paper/ I used d-stressor
Cropodile
Metal 1" rings
Pop-dots

For this blog hop I am giving away the Cricut Imagine Cartridge Mystical Garden. 

In order to win there are three things you have to do.

1. Be a follower of my blog
2. Comment on this post- if you leave your blog address I would love to come visit you
3. Leave a comment on every blog in the hop (this is really important- last week I had to re-pick a winner because she didn't comment on every blog)
Thats it! Easy Peasy!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog today, your next stop is Oma over at Oma's Crafts. Don't forget to check out my 850 follower giveaway at the top of this page, I am almost there and the blog candy is amazing.

Here is a complete list of all stops in case you get lost along the way.
Becka http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com   ME!
Your next stop
Oma Gloira http://omascrafts.blogspot.com
Julie K http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/
Beckie Woodall http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
Jamie Larsen http://babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/
Lisa Grave http://lisa-scrappingspot.blogspot.com/
Anna Bee http://annabeedesigns.blogspot.com/
Crystal Kovach http://crystal-kovach.blogspot.com/
Susan http://cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com/
Tonya Morgan http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com 
Dana Tarchala http://Danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

Circle Nevada Pennant Contest

Happy Wednesday! Is everyone having a lovely hump day? I am because my work day is almost over. YAY! I wanted to share with you a Pennant I made for the Cricut Circle Pennant Contest. We were supposed to make a pennant of our home state that represents our state. I live in NV and last year was our greatest college football season ever! GO WOLFPACK! We went all the way to the Championships with our home town hero quarterback Colin Kaepernick (who was drafted by the 49er's). We had a 13-1 season. It was awesome and totally brought NV pride to Reno. So with that in mind I made my banner honoring the NV Wolf Pack Football team.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check back Saturday for our Operation Owl Blog Hop- where there will be lots of prizes and blog candy, it is sponsored by Amy Chomas.

Cupcakes

Hi Everyone
Hope everyone had a beautiful and wonderful Mother's Day. I had a great day. My son gave me this wonderful card he made at school that read:
Dear Mom,
You are so cool when you make strawberrys, you are the best mom in the whole world. Love Cooper
How cute is that, it totally made me cry.
I made this cupcake card on Saturday for My Pink Stamper National Scrapbook day. I actually did every challenge she had on Saturday and I will post each one this week and next. Also don't forget to join in on my 600 follower giveaway by clicking HERE.
Here is the first challenge: Make a project with a cupcake on it.

I used DCWV cardstock and a stamp from CTMH. Birthday Bash cartridge

Cricut Expression 2 Challenge

Cricut just ran a special challenge to win a new Cricut Expression 2. The challenge was to make up to 3 birthday layouts. I did make 3 and sent them in, now I am just waiting to see if I won. They had over 500 entries to chose from, but I am still hopeful.

This was the last layout I made and my favorite.

This was the 1st layout out I made

 This is the 2nd layout I made..

Make Your Own Holiday Blog Hop- March 26 & 27

Hi Everyone

Welcome to the Make Your Own Holiday Blog Hop! The hop will be running from March 26 12:00 am to March 27th 11:59pm est. So you have all weekend to hop along with us. If you are arriving from the very talented  Jen at Young’s Scrapping then you are in the right place. If not you can start the hop

over at the lovely Karelj at One By One The Flamingos Are Stealing My Sanity .  Karelj is offering an over-all blog candy for those who are hopping along with us. She thought it would be fun to have some holiday-themed candy for this hop--but, of course, made-up holiday items were hard to come by! She decided to do a whole bunch of *regular* holiday themed stamps for you to enjoy. From Fiskars, there is an assorted holiday set; there's an alphabet from All Night Media, a set of 100 plus clear stamps and a storage case from Family Memories, and 5 sets of clear stamps from various dollar bins in big box stores. How to win them? Follow along the blog trail, leaving a comment on each and every blog. On Monday, Karelj will ask her  buddy Randy (random.org) to select a blog number (from the list), a day (Saturday is one, Sunday is two), and a comment number from that blog. Please make sure you have left a reliable way to contact you (email is best, in the safe format of **** at **** dot com ) so you can be notified by her personally. If you don't, she’ll have to select another winner

Ok let's get on to the hop. I thought this was an awesome idea. If you had to make a holiday what would you pick and why. Well, of course I came up with Scrapping Again it will be on every March 26 from now on for me. This is a day where a whole day is set aside for crafting! YEA! My favorite thing! This year I got lucky and it is on a Saturday but when it falls on a weekday, I might just have to play hookie from work-- LOL! We will see how that works out! HAHA. So for this hop, I made this cute Spring banner for my girlfriends birthday.

These are the close ups of the banner, you will have to excuse my messing craft shelf behind it.
I used Whimsy DCWV stack and glitter paper from DCWV for the letters.

I used Storybook for the letters and Accent Essentials for the flowers, and the banner cuts were from Birthday Bash.
Thank you for coming by today, your next stop on the hop is the very talented Jamie at Glitter, Paper, Stamps, Oh My!

Oh yeah, I almost forget the great blog candy I am giving away! Leave a comment and become a follower to be entered to win. I have a brand new Creative Memories Album. It is the Original 12 x12 album and I have a couple different ones you can choose from. Sorry but for shipping reasons this blog candy is only open to US residents.



And is is a complete list in case you get lost along the way.


1. Karelj at One By One The Flamingos Are Stealing My Sanity at http://www.kareljcreations.com/
2. Janice at Cricut Confessions at http://www.cricutconfessions.com/
3. Summer and Jennifer at The Cricut Diaries at http://www.cricutdiaries.com/
4. Denine at Pumpkin and Spice at http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/
5. Colleen at Col’s Creative Corner at http://www.scrappycol.blogspot.com/
6. Mistyrose at Sweet Magnolia Rose at http://sweetmagnoliarose.blogspot.com/
7. Ellen at Card Monkey at http://www.cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
8. Rachel at Suburban Crafter http://www.rachelstampshappy.blogspot.com/
9. Monica at Scraps 2 Treasure at http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
10. Jen at Young’s Scrapping at http://www.youngsscrapping.blogspot.com/
11. Becka at Creations With Becka at http://www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/
12. Jamie at Glitter, Paper, Stamps, Oh My! at http://www.jamieisacraftymomma.blogspot.com/
13. Michelle at Peanut Butter and jelly Designs at http://peanutbutterandjellydesigns.blogspot.com/
14. Celeste at Touched By A Butterfly at http://touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/
15. Leah at Leah’s Card Designs at http://leahscarddesigns.blogspot.com/
16. Calie at Calie’s Creative Corner at http://www.caliescreativecorner.blogspot.com/
17. Audrey at It’s A Beautiful Life at http://www.audreyscardsbydesign.blogspot.com/
18. Bonnie at A Scrap Above at http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com/
19. Diane at Crafting This Moment at http://www.craftingthismoment.blogspot.com/
20. Nicolette at Beyond Scrapping at http://www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com/
21. Gina at Gina Thornton Stamping at http://ginathorntonstamping.blogspot.com/
22. Kathryn at Creations With Kathryn at http://www.creationswithkathryn.com/
23. Yolie at Just Yolie, Just Create at http://justyolie.com/
24. Patti at Short ‘N Scrappy at http://www.shortnscrappy.com/
25. Krista Orr at Scrapaleupagus at http://www.scrapaleupagus.blogspot.com/
26. Kay Craig at 100 Things at http://kopperhead100.blogspot.com/
27. Jane Hollon at Sneezy’s Ramblings at http://sneezy1956.blogspot.com/
28. Jennifer Anderson at Scrappin’ Lil’ Turtle at http://www.creativearmywife.blogspot.com/