Last week, I got together with some friends for a cookie exchange. Who doesn't love friends, wine and dessert! Yum. I made some delicious carrot cake oatmeal cookies I found on the Betty Crocker website. So delicious. My husband also loved them, which means something, because he's not much of a dessert eater. Though, I love baking so there's always desserts around.

Here are some of the other delicious cookies my friends made :)

And of course we had to get a picture of all of us by the Christmas Tree!

Thanks for a fun evening girls :)

I wrote my first technique tutorial on the Lollipop Press Blog HERE. Learn how to create digital polka dot paper. It's super easy and lots of fun.

Also be sure to check out the Lollipop Press 12 Days of Christmas HERE. There will be freebies, such as sketches and embellishments, for the next 12 days! Also don't forget to participate in the December Contest. Click HERE to learn how to participate.

I also made some cute Christmas Tags using the patterned papers in the Santa Baby Kit found HERE. They are very simple to make and so cute.

I love them all and will be using them on my gifts, like shown above! If you'd like to make some tags too, feel free to download the Tags Template I made. Click HERE to download. If you make any tags, come back here and post links to your creations. I would love to see what everyone creates. They aren't limited to just Christmas. All holidays will work! Be creative!

Happy Tuesday!

I made a super yummy carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream frosting for Thanksgiving! My family loved it, especially my Aunt & Uncle who had never seen my cake decorating skills before. My Aunt had to get a picture of it and I sent most of the cake home with them on their long 10 hr drive back to Indianapolis.

At first I couldn't decide what decorations to add to the cake, so I kept it simple...a few leaves and acorns all made out of fondant. Check out my beautiful Thanksgiving Cake!

Check out Lollipop Press' December Kit, called Santa Baby. It's absolutely adorable and perfect for your Christmas layouts or creating Christmas Cards. Click the preview below to buy the kit.

Here are a few layouts I made using this kit.

Also here are a few Christmas Cards I made using the kit as well. It's a very versatile. Visit the Lollipop Press shop HERE.

Check back for January's new kits and layouts in a few weeks and an upcoming blog hop at the end of January. Also pop on over to the Lollipop Spot Blog and enter the contest for December to win a free kit.

I am super excited to announce that I'm a new member of the Lollipop Press Design Team! It's my first creative team position for digital scrapbooking! I will be making digital scrapbook layouts using the Lollipop Press designs and occasionally posting projects and technique posts on their blog. I'm so excited to promote this new company and improve my scrapping skills. Visit their site here, there blog here and the contest blog!

Check out all the new members by visiting the blog HERE!

Here's a new layout I made using a picture I took at Loose Park in Kansas City, MO. I used an overlay from Delicious Scraps and made the digital paper myself. The flowers are from Mary Ann Wise Delightful Felt Flowers Kit found at Design House Digital. The Spring circle is from Carina Gardner Spring Stamps. The font is Scriptina and Sylfaen.

TODAY is the one year anniversary of when I started this blog! How exciting is that! Hard to believe I've been blogging for a year! I know my blog has lots of different directions but that's ME! I love all types of things! All my friends joke that I have too many hobbies! Well I sort of do but I love it! I am a very creative person and NEED to express them in all sorts of ways...cakes, photography, designing, digital scrapbooking and more!  I am thinking about learning to crochet too! I have all the stuff it's just a matter of sitting down and doing it! So in honor of my 1 year blog anniversary! I'm giving away $25 gift certificate to my Etsy store, Erin Leigh Designs!

TO ENTER:

1. Blog about this giveaway
2. Become a fan of Erin Leigh Designs on Facebook.
3. Post about the giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter!

Come back here and leave a comment for each of the steps above! You will have until Thursday, Nov. 25 at Midnight to enter! Winner will be announced on Friday, November 26, 2010.

Enjoy!

Erin

Win a spot in Clickinmoms Photoshop 101! Go HERE to enter! You must be a member of clickinmoms.com to enter! If you aren't go here to become a member! Clickinmoms is an awesome and supportive photography community! I love it!

Our 1 Year Wedding Anniversary was Oct. 17, 2010! Hard to believe one year came and went so quickly! I loved planning our wedding and getting married. It was so much fun and I was able to use all of my creative abilities.  Our first year of marriage was good and not too exciting, which was sort of nice.

We decided to keep this year's anniversary simple. We were very tired. So it consisted of going to mass at the church we got married at, Holy Rosary, in Kansas City, MO. It was nice to spend the morning together. That evening we made dinner together... spaghetti and garlic bread..fancy I know. We also had some champagne and tasted our top tier cake from 1 year ago. Surprisingly, the cake tasted decent but it just grosses me out eating something that is a year old! Erik also gave me some pretty roses.Here are a few pictures from our wedding anniversary!