Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Fun Creative Kuts Video

I hope you will all enjoy this video I made.
Come on over to Creative Kuts for some oh so cute and fun paper piecing files in so many formats including svg to cut on your Cricut.  We also play games and give free files over at our fan page on Facebook.  Come join the fun and become a fan today and tell them that Eva sent you.


Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Monday, November 28, 2011

Free file from Creative Kuts

Get a fun new file to add to your collection just for playing along in the Build-A-Project over at Creative Kuts on Facebook.  We have a Build-A-Project each week and this week it is Build-A-Tag.  So fun and cute.  Here are the rules:
Here is the video of the photo tutorial to help you build your Tags.  E-mail Gina today and let her know if you want the boy tag or the girl tag and get started making yours today.  File requests are only good through Tuesday, thats tomorrow folks so get yours today before it is to late.  Then make sure you get your completed project posted on the fan page by Sunday at 5pm.
Also at the end of the week I will be making a new video starring all of the fun Tags that are submitted, so hurry on over and get your Tag project highlighted in our fun video!!!

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Friday, November 25, 2011

Turkey Day Crafts

Hello My Crafty Friends. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! We did at my house with lots of Family Love!!! Dinner was awesome and we were all stuffed...lol. I am now looking forward to doing it again on Christmas!!! I really love the Holiday's and cherish all of the Family moments we get to share. I wanted to share a few projects with you for my last minute Turkey day projects and also an extra special piece from my grandson.

To start off with, I made this adorable Turkey from a fun challenge over at Creative Kuts on FB where you do a Build-A-Project...so fun. The files are mailed to you for free just for playing along. Get over there and play along and get your Turkeys turned in by Sunday. Then you can play again next week!!!

Next I want to share another Creative Kuts file that I made for a challenge over in our Forum for the Paper Piecing Challenge hosted by our DT member Bonnie. This Sunflower Treat Box I made 4 times for all 4 of the Grand kids yesterday to give them for Thanksgiving, I filled with some M&M's and other treats.

Next, I have these adorable Napkin Rings that I made with the 5 and 6 year old yesterday.  I got the Turkey from SVG Attic.  The Rings I got at the dollar store and ripped off the not so attractivr sunflowers that were on them.  I cut the pieces and showed the kids how to layer them up.  With the help of their Mom, they glued all of the Turkeys together.  I added the beak's and eyes and then hot glued then to the rings.  Loved this super fun project with the kids!!!


and last but not least...My 6 year old Grandson wanted to make a Robot Turkey for his Kindergarten class project.  I cut and sent hin the pieces for a Robot from my  Best of 2010 Cricut Cartridge and Turkey Parts from Svg Attic and Creative Kuts.  When I he came over for Thanksgiving yesterday, he brought it to share with me...It Is Soooooo  Cute!!!!!!!

 That is it for now but I will be back soon to start posting some Christmas Projects!!!

I hope you enjoyed my project, I would love to read your comments so please leave one.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you back very soon.  If you are not already, I would love for you to become a Follower/Friend of my blog.  If you have trouble with the follower button, just reload the page, sometimes you have to do this a couple of times.  I try to add lots of new projects every week for all to enjoy.

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Build a Turkey Video



Hello my Crafty Friends.  I hope you are all doing well today.  I wanted to invite you all over to Creative Kuts on Facebook to play along in the weeks fun Challenge.  You get the free files just for playing along.   If you are not a fan there already you are missing out.  So hop on over there and like them if you are not already a fan and then email Creativekuts@gmail.com with Turkey in the subject line to get your first part of the free file.  Once you have your Tail Feathers part completed, post it on the fan page at Creative Kuts on Facebook then email
 Creativekuts@gmail.com for the 2nd part of the free file set.  The post your completed turkey on the fan page  for all to see, plus your Turkey will be starring in our video too.  Here is a small video to inspire you even more.


I hope you come join in the fun and end up with your very own adorable Turkey to help decorate your your Thanksgiving Table.  Tell them that Eva sent you.   Creative Kuts on Facebook

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Monday, November 21, 2011

Winner Winner Winner!!! Hopping through the Holidays

Hello Crafty Friends, I am back again to announce yet another winner!!!  Yay!!!
I had so much fun in this hop with all of my DT girls over at CK!!!  I wanted to share a video I did of just our team's projects.  We all worked so hard and it was so rewarding to see everyones completed masterpieces.  So enjoy the video, it is only a sampling of the photos from the hop.


We so enjoyed sharing our projects with you and loved all of your wonderful comments!
Thanks so much again for hopping with us and we look forward to having you join us next time.
If you didn't hop and you want to see the entire hop then either scroll down or go to http://creativekuts.blogspot.com/ to find the info there.  I hope you enjoyed the slideshow.
Now on to my Winner for the goodies I was offering.

Congratulations to:  one of my new followers ~~~~~~~~~ scrappin4mykids
Yay, Congratulations!!!!!  email me your mailing info to evascrapslife(at)gmail(dot)com
so I can mail your goodies out to you.

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Winner of my Dandilicious Blog Hop

Hello my Crafty Frinds, I have a winner for my Dandylicous Blog hop over the weekend.  I first want to welcome all of my new follower/Friends.  So happy to have you here.  Love to be in the blog hops and get to meet so many of you.  Thank you all so much for hopping with me.  I will be back soon to announce the winner of my other blog hop too.   But for my Dandylicous winner..........................................................................................................................

I have chosen  Ashley Nicole from http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/

Whooo Hooooo Ashley!!!!  Congratulations!!!!!

Please contact me at evascrapslife@gmail with your addy so I can get your goodies out to you!!!

Be back in a bit to announce my other winner!!!

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Hopping through the Holidays Day 2


Make sure you hop through Day 2 to be eligible for all of the goodies to win!!!  Including the $100 Cash Grand Prize from Creativekuts.com  Just Click on the blog Button to be taken to the beginning of the line up for Day 2!  have fun Hopping!!!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Hopping Through The Holidays Blog Hop





If you are looking for the Dandylicous Blogiversary Blog Hop
Welcome to the "Hopping Through The Holidays" Blog Hop. Come hop along with the design team members of Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs November 19th and 20th. You will see some awesome projects using both Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs paper piecing patterns. We’re super excited to be doing this hop together! Our design team members will be showcasing their amazing creations they have created especially for this hop. This hop will feature projects for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our intentions of doing this hop is to show each and everyone of you all the wonderful projects you can create using Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs paper piecings. We hope to give you some great ideas and inspiration through out this amazing blog hop.

Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs are offering an AMAZING couple of grand prizes also. Creative Kuts will be awarding one lucky winner a $100.00 Cash for their grand prize. Scrapping Bug Designs will be offering one lucky winner a $100.00 in free files. How about that?? Isn’t that awesome!!

To be eligible to win these wonderful grand prizes you MUST:

1) Go through the entire blog hop (both days) and leave a comment on EVERYONE'S post.

2) Become a FOLLOWER of everyone's blog (both days).

3) Visit Creative Kuts Store (you will need to do this to meet the last requirement)
(http://www.creativekuts.com/)

4) Visit Scrapping Bug Designs Store (you will need to do this to meet the last requirement)
(http://scrappingbugdesigns.com/)

5.) At the end of each day you will end at Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs blogs. You will need to leave them a comment stating you have made it through the entire hop and you will also need to leave in your comment what is your favorite pattern set in their store.

Be sure to hop through the entire hop both days to be eligible for the grand prizes, as well as all the other blog candy throughout! We hope you all enjoy this hop and find a lot of great ideas, inspiration, and most of all have loads of fun!!

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way.

  1. Linn Cloninger ~ http://www.linnsscrapshack.blogspot.com
  2. Jane McKinney~ http://janettarosedesigns.blogspot.com
  3. Cynthia Franco-Guerrero ~ http://luv2scrap-luv2scrap.blogspot.com
  4. Pam Pease ~ http://www.geezypeaseypapercrafting.blogspot.com
  5. Julie Warren ~ http://www.juliescreativepieces.blogspot.com/
  6. Lisa Graves ~ http://www.bljgraves.blogspot.com
  7. Bonnie Guess~http://scrap-n-away.blogspot.com
  8. Paula Wells ~ http://www.owlbescrappin.com
  9. Eva Laney ~ http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com   You are here now
10. Linda - http://linda-scrappinwmn.blogspot.com/
11. Gina Long ~ http://c90designs.blogspot.com
12. Denise~ http://wolffdesigns.blogspot.com/
13. Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
14. Scrapping Bug Designs Blog ~ http://scrappingbugdesigns.blogspot.com
15. Creative Kuts Blog ~ http://www.creativekuts.blogspot.com

For my First Project, I will be starting with Fall.  I made a video so that I may show you all of the details of this fun project. 

I used the Creative Kuts File Falling For You.  You can find it in the CK store by clicking  Here.  For the patterned papers I used the Fall Paper Kit from Oriental Trading CO, only the Papers were used from this kit.  The Solid papers are all Bazzill.  The Ribbon to make my bow and inside accents was from Recollections.  The boys face is stamped with a peachy Keen face stamp from the everyday character face assoertment.  The big leaves on the top of the box are embossed with D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder and all of the small leaves are embossed with Stylized Flowers Cuttlebug folder.  I used only the leaf accent spots on the folder so I could only emboss five or six at a time...lol.  This ended up taking awhile!!!  The Fonts I used were from Kates ABC's and the box itself is from svgcuts.

My Second Project today is one of my favorite things to make.  This Bottle light is Beautiful either lit up or not.
Pointsettia Bottle, Daylight - No Lights
Pointsettia Bottle, Daylight - Lights On
Pointsettia Bottle, Lit Up In the Dark
I used the Creative Kuts Pointsettia Etching File  You can find it in the CK store by clicking HERE.
I first used Armor etch over the stencil to etch the bottle.  Now normally you would wash the etching cream off to remove when your etching time is up, but I wanted to try something new and so I carefully wiped off the cream with a wet paper towel until it was all off, so that I didn't raise the edges of the stencil.  I then took my Tim Holtz alcohol inks and a small paint brush and began coloring the etching in.  I used Red Pepper for the Petals, Oregano for the leaves and Mushroom for the center.  I did several coats of each.  After it was completly dry I removed the Pointsettia Etching stencil and then I added gold stickles to the center.   The bottom part is simply a Holiday candle ring I bought at Michaels.  The Bow is made with my Bowdabra mini.  It is a wire edged ribbon by believe also bought from Michaels.  I added in some Holiday red and white cording by Celebrate it and added some cute little jingle bells to the ends.  Normally I make my bottle lights with a plug in style Christmas light strand but this time I used a strand of battery powered lights, which give off a softer glow.  After adding the lights, I dropped in clear glass pebbles and it pushed the lights down and adds the perfect accent lighting and glow to the bottle when lit.




I also have some Blog candy for you today.
Make sure you are a follower here and at Creative Kuts Blog
and leave a comment about my projects and good luck!!!
you may have to reload the page a few times for the follower button to work
if it is giving you any trouble.
 


Now, Go Check out the Wonderful Projects Linda has in store for you next. 

Don't forget to come back for Tomorrow's Line up too which I will be posting in the morning for you.


Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Dandylicious Blogiversary Blog Hop

If you are looking for the Hopping through the Holidays Blog Hop
CLICK HERE


Dandylicious Blogiversary Blog Hop Nov. 19th, 2011


Welcome to the Dandylicious Blogiversary Blog hop.  You should have came from Debbie.  If you would like to start from the begining then please start with Dandy.  Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way.

I decided to make a trifold Birthday Card in honor of Dandy's Blog Birthday.  I used the file from SVG CUTS from their Merry and Bright Christmas Card Kit, I just changed it to my colors.  I used these beautiful papers from a a 4.5 by 6.5 paper stack called Latte Matstack, love, love love it!  From DCWV.  I also used some fun embelishments from a scrapping kit I had.  I added some bling to them.  The big flower on the left is a paper embellishment on the bottom layered with a cute purple flower from my stash and a metal flower with fancy brad through the middle, that is popped up on foam squares.  The tag in the center of the card was also cut from the same file and I added an eyelet to the two tags.  I tied a piece of lavender floss into a bow through the eyelet.  I Stamped the tag with a Happy Birthday sentiment from a new fiskars set called wishes all around that I recently won from my friend Sandy at http://thecraftycreationspot.blogspot.com  Thanks Sandy, love em! 

I have some blog Candy for you for this hop.
  To be eligible for my Candy:
  1. You must be a follower here on my blog
  2. You must leave a comment about my project on this post
  3. For a second entry:  Go check out Creative Kuts Fan page, Like them and leave a comment saying that Eva sent you
  4. come back here and leave a 2nd comment that you did
I hope you enjoyed my project, I would love to read your comments so please leave one.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you back very soon.  If you have trouble with the follower button, just reload the page, sometimes you have to do this a couple of times.  I try to add lots of new projects every week for all to enjoy.

Your Next Stop on the Hop is Krista.  Enjoy the rest of the Hop!!!


Have a Wonderful Weekend!!!
Eva :0)

Hopping through the Holidays Win Big $$$ Too

Come Hop through the Holidays with us on Saturday and Sunday.
You will get lots of Holiday Inspiration for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Plus there will be Prizes drawn for our lucky hoppers and one of the Grand Prizes is $100!!!!
Hope you will come hop with us in the morning!!!

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Come hop with us $100 CASH Grand Prize

Come Hop through the Holidays with us on Saturday and Sunday.
You will get lots of Holiday Inspiration for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Plus there will be Prizes drawn for our lucky hoppers and a $100 Grand Prize!!!
Hope you hop with us!!!

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Come hop with us $100 CASH, Please vote too!

Hello my crafty friends, I hope you are all well half way through this chilly week.  Looking forward to this weekend for sure.  I hope you all come join us for our blog hop this weekend, it is going to be fabulous and lots of inspiration and goodies too.  The Grand Prize is $100 cash prize...just in time for Christmas!!!  so come hop your way through the holidays with the Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs Teams.  We have such talented ladies to share some real wow factor projects with you all.

I would also love it if you would hop over to the creativekuts.blogspot.com and vote for us on the top 100 paper piecing patterns list.  there is a button on the top right hand side of the blog for you to cast your vote.  I will be back in a little bit to post a project .

Have a wonderful Day!
Eva

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hopping through the Holidays

Hopping through the Holidays with Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs...Coming on Nov 19 & 20.  I hope you will Join us!!!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Creative Kuts Fall Challenge


Hello My Bloggy friends and fellow Crafters.  I am so excited to be on the Creative Kuts Design Team and my New post to head up the Quotes Challenge over in our forum.  Here are the entrants so far in this Months Quote Challenge "It's Fall Y'all"


I would love for you to come join us at the CK Forum and enter some of your fantastic Fall themed projects.  Here is some further info for you on the challenge.

For this Month the quote is “It’s Fall Y’all” So you can do Fall, Thanksgiving, something falling…you pick and have fun with it. You may use any files to make your project but if you use files from Creative Kuts you get an extra entry into the drawing (make sure you say which Creative Kuts file you used in your post to get your second entry in the drawing. Plus if you use a CK file to make your project then You will win double the Gift Certificate. You can make any type of Paper Project you would like…card, layout, 3-d object, Banner whatever you want to create. You may enter as many times during the month as you would like as long as you stay within the theme of the quote for each project. You have the choice to add the wording of the quote on your project or not…that is up to you. There will be one winner randomly drawn at the end of the month for each challenge.
The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to www.creativekuts.com.

Cheryl added this new Twist:
Let's really get those energetic juices going. In addition to the free files for the winner, that Eva has posted in the forum, I will have Eva have a special drawing for $25 for dt members only. This is going out to any and all dt members on facebook. Just think, extra Christmas money. Eva has set it up so easy and you can enter as many times as you want. You have the whole month.

So come get joined up for your chance to win at the CK Forum.

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Monday, November 7, 2011

My Fall Bottle Lights Plus Winner!!!

Hello all of my Crafty fun Family.  I need to anounce the winner of  the Thanksgiving Table Decorations Blog Hop I was in over the weekend but I also wanted to share one of my other crafty loves.

The card in the center is one I made with Creative Kuts files, Hangen in the Patch.  You can go find more info on the card here.  I love to add beauty to wine bottles and I am looking forward to making more for the holidays and maybe even taking some orders this year.
Let me post my winner now, the first name I chose was not a follower so sorry she did not win...so that took me to my next pick...............Cathy from Happy Scrapin!!!!!

Woo Hoo Cathy, congratulations!!!  Send me your mailing info so I can get your goodies out to you!!!  evascrapslife(at)gmail(dot)com

Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Thanksgiving Table Decor Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my Blog. If you hopped over from Patty, then you are in the right place. If you happened to just come by to visit my blog and you would like to play along. Please do so by starting at the beginning with  www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com
Please make sure to stop by all of the blogs as there are some really talented ladies with Fabulous projects on this blog hop. And I am sure there are some offering up some Yummy Candy like me and I wouldn‘t want you to miss out.

So Here are my Projects,


These 2 little Turkeys I am entering in a challenge over at






I had found these adorable feather picks a couple of months ago.  I had no idea what I wanted to make with them but knew something would come to me.  The adorable Turkey files and pilgrim files are all from a set I purchased last month after falling in love with the set at a blog hop I was checking out.  The set is called Thankful Friends from SVG Attic.  This is only 3 of the 9 characters in this awesome set.  I made a girl Turkey by changing the colors and adding a bow to her head.  I simply made two sets of turkeys, the boys I placed the Red feathers pick in between and then glued them together and the the same with the girls and the purple feathers pick.  in the center one I placed the girl pilgrim and the boy pilgrim back to back, glued them together at the top only and then stood them in a tent position,  I love these Big hurricane candle holders that my Stepdaughter got me for Christmas one year and I love finding new fun ways to fill them and decorate with them for any and all of the holidays.   Hmmmm, now I will have to get some idea's going for christmas to fill them again.  Thats it for me today...


but I do have a little Blog Candy for you.


To be eligible for my Candy

1. Be sure to become a follower here if you are not already

2. Leave a comment with your blog addy so I can visit you too


List of Participants



















I hope you enjoyed my projects, I would love to read your comments so please leave one.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope
to see you back very soon.  If you are not already, I would love for you to become a Follower/Friend of my blog.  I try to add lots of new projects every week for all to enjoy.

I have a fun new challenge I started over in our Creative Kuts Forum, Click here to join in on the fun.  There are prizes offered to, even cash...check it out.
This month the theme is this quote "it's Fall Y'all"  so any fall themed project will work but you get extra chances and extra prizes if you enter with a Creative Kuts File from Creativekuts.com
 Your next stop on this blog hop is Laura  Enjoy the rest of

the HOP!!!




Have a Wonderful and Crafty Day!

Eva :0)

Friday, November 4, 2011

Scarecrow Plaque

Hello my Crafty friends.  Happy Friday to you all.  Just a quick post for my newest creation.  I made this for the Cuttin' Up with Class Scarecrow Challenge.  You get the free file to make your project and then enter it into the challene and maybe you will even win.  But hey even if not you already scored the adorable files that you made your project with.  Thanks Jani, Love your files.  So if you are not playing in the fun challenges over there yet...you really should go and check it out. Click Here

So I decided to make the cute little scarecrow plaque where the crows don't look to scared...he he.
I got the scarecrow and the crows cut files from cuttin' up with class free for playing along.  I took a 12x12 paper.  Cut it into thirds at 4 x 12 each.  I then took those three pieces of paper and scored each one at 1 inch intervals, then flipped it over and scored at 1/2 intervals to make my big rosette.  I recently saw a project one of our DT members did with a big rosette and loved it so I thought I would try my own take on it (Thanks Lisa -  http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/).  After getting the Rosette together, I adhered the fun Scarecrow and the crows all around him.  On the crows I inked the edges in white and popped up the attached wings to give it more depth.  I then mounted the whole thing to a gold charger plate and place in an easel.

I am entering this in a challenge over at:

I hope you enjoyed my project, I would love to read your comments so please leave one.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you back very soon.  If you are not already, I would love for you to become a Follower/Friend of my blog.  I try to add lots of new projects every week for all to enjoy.

Tomorrow I am in a fun Blog hop for Thanksgiving Table Decor, I have some really cute and fun stuff I made for it.  I will have blog candy too!!!  I hope you can come hop with us in the morning.


Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Eva :0)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

A Fun New Challenge, come play and win!!!

We have a FUN new Challenge for everyone over at the Creative Kuts Forum

For this Month of November the quote is “It’s Fall Y’all”

I will be heading up this FUN Quote challenge.  Here is a little info fo you.

You can do Fall, Thanksgiving, something falling…you pick and have fun with it.

You may use any files to make your project but if you use files from Creative Kuts you
get an extra entry into the drawing.

You can make any type of Paper Project you would like…card, layout, 3-d object, Banner whatever you want to create.

You may enter as many times during the month as you would like as long as you stay within the theme of the quote for each project.

You have the choice to add the wording of the quote on your project or not…that is up to you.

There will be one winner randomly drawn at the end of the month for each challenge. The
winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to www.creativekuts.com.   Here is my Project.

I made Thanksgiving Blocks to show youthat you can even make some awesome 3-d project from Paper Piecings.   I had so much fun making this. I Made my own different sized Blocks and then added the fun Paper Piecing Kit from Creative Kuts. I use inks to ink the edges of all my pieces before I assemble them. I think this is so important for the overall outcome in paper piecing. I used my D’vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder on the watering can and Swiss Dots for the center of the Sunflowers.  Here are some individual shots of each Block.






So have fun and good luck to all of you!!! ~ Eva DT


I hope you all will come join up and play along each month.  There are also loads of other fun challenges, games and freebies from Creative Kuts over on our fan page.  Remember to tell them Eva sent you.  You can also come follow our CK Blog  so you don't miss out on any of our DT Projects.


I hope you enjoyed my project, I would love to read your comments so please leave one.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope
to see you back very soon.  If you are not already, I would love for you to become a Follower/Friend of my blog.  I try to add lots of new
projects every week for all to enjoy.


Have a Wonderful & Creative Day!!!
Eva :0)