Thank you SNOW much!

I need some more thank you cards recently to try to catch up on thanking people for being so generous at Christmas and for those folks who make us meals, etc.  I had a bunch of snowman left because when I made my Christmas cards I accidentally cut my first batch of snowmen  too small so I thought this would work out great.  I just used left over Christmas paper for the cards also.  Here is a peak at two of the cards.

I used Peachy Keen snowman stamp for the face and he was cut from Doodlecharms.  I did the Thank you SNOW much! on the computer and used a Close My Heart stamp for the There's snowman like you sentiment.  Now if I can just get them mailed out!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a CRAFTY day!

Cooking with Cricut Design Team Day-Cake, Cupcake and or Teddy Bear Challenge

Hello everyone.  Today is Cake, Cupcake and/or Teddy Bear Challenge Day over at Cooking with Cricut!  As you may have noticed from this post and the cute little button on the right side of my blog I am now officially a member of the Cooking with Cricut Design Team!!!!  Yeah!  I am super excited to join this group of talented crafters and even more excited to be participating in my first challenge as a design team member! 

For this weeks challenge I made a cute little take-out box adorned with the cutest little cupcake (this is for my 8 year old niece).  I used the Art Philosophy cartridge for the box and the cupcake, I then embellished the cupcake with stickles and a cute little Peachy Keen face.  I also used a happy birthday stamp from My Creative Time to stamp all over the box.  Lastly, I wrapped some twine around the box and tied two bows (because I used two different colors of twine so I did one bow for each one). 

My 3 year old helped me pick out the contents for the little box.  She picked out 3 little bears in her favorite colors of pink, purple and green :), then we added some lip gloss because what little girl doesn't love lip gloss.  In the end I decided to punch two holes, one on each side of the box, and tied a ribbon through so I could attach it to the mini pillow pet we also purchased for my niece.  I hope she loves it :)

Now it's your turn!  I hope you will head on over to Cooking with Cricut  to enter your project!  TFL.

Have a crafty day!

Cricutless (dare I say that) 40th Birthday Card

I made this card for my SIL for her upcoming 40th birthday.  As you may seen me mention my hubby and I are going away (kidless) next week and her party is the day we come home so I had to go ahead and get it done.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE pink and green and I had this new adorable paper pack from Recollections so I had to use it.  I used the My Creative Time Make a Banner set for the banner, I stamped the green paper with the polka dot stamp then I embossed it (hard to tell from the pic) then I used some super old stamps I had in my stash for the 4 and 0.  I used twine to "hang" the banner.  I used one of the stamps from my new Close to My Heart stamps for the cupcake, cut it out then added a twine bow to accent it.  The two sentiments in the box are both from the Close to My Heart Many Greetings set.  I hope she likes it!  TFL.

 

Anniversary Card for My Hubby

My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary at the end of the month, we will be taking a 1 week trip to Naples, Florida (stopping in Savannah and Orlando on the way) to celebrate.  This will be our first time away from the girls and our first time away from all of them for so long.  Luckily my Mom is coming to stay at our house to take care of everyone.  I wanted to make my hubby's card this year so I decided to go ahead and get that out of the way.

I just picked up my Art Philosophy-Close to My Heart bundle over the weekend and KNEW it would be perfect.  I used the chip board accents for the banner, I then cut out the paper to go on top from the cartridge.  Next I used some stamps I received as a part of my purchase (love FREE stamps).  Those stamps were A Typeface for the I and U, Pair-a-Phrase for the heart and Frames, Tags and Borders set for the U and me 4 ever ticket (I cut the paper out using the cartridge).  Although the color combo is not something I would normally do I had already gone with the yellow and orange before I decided I wanted a pattern paper and I found this heart paper in a DCWV stack I had (thanks Steph) called Madly in Love so I wanted to use it and I think it all works.

I inked the banner by rubbing a cottonswab with in over it and rubbed the edges, just so it did not look so "clean", I used red stickels for the heart and I used my recollections heart edge punch on the bottom. 

I hope my hubby loves it (along with his new smoker grill :)  TFL.