Erica's Projects: April 2015

Giveaway and Design Team Call!!!

We are looking for you!!!

Yes YOU, we love great talent but we also LOVE beginners.
Everyone loves to come here and find projects that they feel like they can do it. So we like to offer a variety of talent levels,
If you are an expert crafter, we are looking for YOU,
If you are a moderate crafter, we are looking for YOU,

If you are a beginner, we are looking for YOU.

We want a diverse team of various talent levels

and various crafting styles.

Even if you have never shared a project before...

Now is your opportunity.

Would you like to show your amazing (or even simple) projects to almost 25,000 Social Media followers and over ???

Over 1,106,545 Blog Views
and over 540,000 MONTHLY Pinterest views

Over 20,000 video tutorial views

15,109+ Pinterest followers,

4,990 Facebook followers,

1,907 Mailing list subscribers,

1,405 blog followers

391 Ustream followers

282 Blog Lovin' followers

457 Twitter followers
YouTube coming soon!

What is your commitment??
A term of 6 months- during which you will create only two projects a month.

If you don't have a blog? We will help you set one up in 5 minutes... that is all it takes.

To submit for the design team call
please do the following....

Email to EricaSmole @aol.com
With the subject line DESIGN TEAM CALL

Before Monday May 4, 2015...

1. Your name

2. Blog Address if you have one

3. Social media sites, pinterest, twitter, and any galleries where your work is.
( If you don't have any that is ok. )

4. Any design teams that you are on or have been on (No experience needed)

5. Why you would like to be a part of this design team?

6. Attach 3 of your best projects showing your style of work. You can post a link to your project if you have posted it somewhere.

Love free SVGs and FREE Cricut Design Space files???

Here is the group for the file download...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/659932084060165/

Here is a sample of one of the FREE files in the group...

You can cut the Frozen images with your
Cricut Explore and Cricut Design Space.
Enjoy!

https://us.cricut.com/design#/canvas/project/24065888

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To enter the giveaway,

just simply comment on this post
or one of the other blogs...

Each place that you comment or share from facebook, Pinterest or on one of our blogs...
will give you an additional.
SHARES count as an entry as well.
Or just share directly from facebook..

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

http://craftloverscomehere.blogspot.com/

http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/

http://craftingblogevents.blogspot.com/

http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

The Pinterest link to share for the contest....

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/105130972528165018/

Click here for Erica's facebook

Winner will be picked from random.org on

May 8 with the Design team announcement

Our logo got a little facelift...

But we still do the same thing...

If you do not know what Sunshine and Smiles is, it is a project set up to give cards to kids who are in the hospital to bring them some sunshine while they are there. We hope each card brings at least one smile to the faces of those kids who are in the hospital for whatever reason. So the cards should be FULL of bright sunny thoughts, try and take all of the happiness that you have and SQUEEZE it the card....

Any person can send us a request for cards to take to your local children's hospital.
Over the past 4 years we have collected over 28,000 cards for kids in the hospital.

This cannot be done on its own. We need your help.

Do you have tons of hand made cards and you don't know what to do with them?

We would love to have them.

If you love to make cards or love to bring sunshine into a hospital or a

smile to a child's face who has a health concern....

Then send us a request and we will get some cards out to you.

I currently have about 400 cards waiting for requests.

Some answers to some questions from the past are...

YES you can make duplicates,
You can make them with whatever you would like,

They do not need to be Cricut created,

They can be made by kids as well,

No envelopes are needed. (unless they are Mother's Day or Father's Day cards.

Please write a positive message inside the card for a child in the hospital.

A new request has been made for cards (with envelopes) for the kids to give to their parents. I love how this project has grown. With Mother's Day and Father's Day coming up those would make some great cards for kids to give to their families. (no messages needed in these. That way the children can fill in their own message.

If you make cards for the kids to give to someone, Please include an envelope.

This will help our sorting process. Thank you in advance.

We don't usually collect birthday cards, just a general everyday happy card that can be given on any normal day

There are kids of all ages, including teenagers.... so the sky is the limit as far as rules go.
We try to NOT remind them of their illness, some are cancer patients....
so just lots of positive messages to encourage them no matter WHY they are the hospital.....

***NEW RULE.... These MUST be from a non-smoking home.
I had a hospital reject a small batch of cards because they smelled of smoke

and were a health risk to the children. ***

If you have a local Joann fabrics near you... great place to set up FOR FREE and make some cards with your friends.

Thank you in advance!

You can send all of these cards to

Erica Smole

1757 Liberty Dr
Akron, OH 44313

Please send any questions or requests for cards to

EricaSmole@aol.com

Also feel free to comment here with any questions.

All requests for cards to be sent to you MUST be emailed.