Thank You!

I am so thankful for the beautiful thank you cards I have received from the different bloggers.  I have used them all up so I have to make myself some more (that is not a complaint because I have so many people to thank-I am blessed).  So tonight I had some time while the kids entertained themselves and had some scrap paper and ribbon laying around (from Valentines if you cannot tell) and a new Thank You stamp from Peachy Keen Stamps.  I also added a cute Peachy Keen face and some faux stitching to my heart :)

I was able to get 10 cards done tonight which I think with 4 kids running around is a success!

Thank you again for the nice notes on the blog and prayers.  I know they are helping give me the strength I need for each day.

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs, stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/03/link-tuesday-42/

Teacher Appreciation 2013

Hello all.

The week before last was Catholic Schools Week for my 3 oldest children and the last day of the week is Teacher Appreciation Day and each year I try to make something for the teachers.  This year I decided to make a TEAcher appreciation gifts for each teacher (it has become more work since my oldest entered middle school there at the school (it goes from pre-k to 8th) because he has so many teachers but I do not want to leave anyone out.  I also do a gift for the Principal and the Admin. Assistant because they are so wonderful.  I found this idea online and LOVED it immediately so I began picking up the supplies back in January and actually got most of them done before the last minute :)  I put a tea bag, three packs of sugar and a spoon inside the cup.  I made the tags by hand cutting the pencil and it pieces so that took a lot more work than I expected, but I did not mind because they turned out so cute.  I used My Creative Time My Teacher Rocks sets for the sentiment stamps and I used a Peachy Keen set from their August kit for the pencil and face stamps.

I also wanted to do something for the other teachers so I decided to do this idea I had seen on Pinterest.  But I make one tag for each soda in the 6 pack, just so if the teacher wanted to keep the tag they could.  They were easy enough to print onto card stock (I made the from portion in word) and then I just punched out each piece and used adhesive to put them together with the ribbon in between the two pieces of the tag.  I put three 6 packs with the tags in the teachers lounge that morning.  I received multiple thank yous at pick-up last week.

Now I have to get to working on Valentine's Day!  Those will be finished up last minute probably.

Thanks for stopping by, have a CRAFTY day!

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/02/link-tuesday-38/

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!

Hap'bee' Birthday

My youngest niece turned 4 this week and my children were invited to lunch and bowling at their Country Club for the afternoon.  I wanted to make here a cute card and love this set from The Stamps of Life.  I do not like hand cutting out images so instead of their bee stamp I used Create a Critter to cut a cute bee for the card!  I gave her a cute Peachy Keen Princess face and an action wobble to finish her off.  The card was quick and cute!  Just what I needed.  My girls love playing with her before we gave it away :)

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

PS:  I am linking up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/01/link-tuesday-33/

Our Family Christmas Card 2012

Each year I like to make our family Christmas card.  I knew I wanted to do a snowman this year because I had recently purchased some Peachy Keen snowman face stamps and I had found this cute paper pack at Michaels :)  I also wanted to do an unique fold.

Here is what I came up with.

I used my Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge for the snowman and my computer for the inside sentiment.  I also wrote a note to each person on the inside just to make it a little more personalized.  I added some pics, a twine scarf and I was done!  I had these made back in November but needed to add the pictures so I did not get them out until mid December (I am going to start in October next year :)).

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

Thank You!

Last month my hubby and I wanted to go away for the night before he started chemo again.  One of my dearest friends Stephannie is best friends with a very nice lady who works at a hotel in Ocean City, MD where we wanted to go.  She got us a room and even sent us some wonderful dessert that night (strawberries and chocolate cake!).  We would have used our money to go because we wanted to go away but honestly the money we saved made a huge difference.  I wanted to make Brenda a card to thank her.  I just recently purchased the Faceless Fall 2 set from Peachy Keen Stamps and have been wanting to use it.  Why as soon as you add a Peachy Keen face to anything does it become the cutest thing ever?  I do not know!  I used my Everyday Character Assortment for the face.  I used My Creative Times All Around Everything for the thank you circle and I used a thank you sentiment from the My Teacher Rocks set for the Thank You in the middle of the circle.  I think the patterned paper is from a DCWV fall stack I had from last year.  I hope Brenda likes the card :)

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a craft day!

PS:  I will be entering this over at the PK Challenge so stop by and enter too!

http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/11/peachy-keen-challenge-43-anything-goes.html

Happy Halloween!

Hello all.  I hope everyone had a great Halloween.  We just survived Hurricane Sandy.  We were very lucky here in central MD to not get much (we had worse back in July with the Derocho storm).  We actually did not lose power which is amazing for us, we usually lose it for 4 days at a time.  I think we were better prepared this time.  Unfortunately, folks to the east and north were not so lucky.  We are praying for a quick recover for them all.

This year for Halloween I made two crafts (I still need to do something for my 3 year olds preschool class but have until next week :)).  First, I made cute little bats with a fun size Hershey bar in them for my 4 year olds pre-k class because she dressed as a bat :)  I used the Artiste cartridge for the bat, a circle punch for the face and some papers I had left over from last year.  For the face, I used a Peachy Keen set called Monster Mash (I combined a mouth and eyes from different stamps in the set because I did not want my bat to look mean:)  I had my daughter write her name on the inside and I used a ribbon that can easily be slid off to keep them closed.

Here are my bats and my cute little bat (I hand cut her mask because we could not find a bat costume):

 

For my boys (9 and 11) I used this post from My Creative Time for inspiration and did some cute little cuts from Art Philosophy (I could cut 9 at a time versus using a die to cut one at a time) and put some pixie sticks through added a cute little Halloween sentiment from My Creative Times All Around Halloween set.

Here are those cute treats:

 

Lastly, for Halloween I made some costumers or parts of costumes.  For my 3 year old she wanted to be a bat and I am not a sewer so I decided to do hers out of paper.  I used the Art Philosophy for the tear drops which I then turned upside down.  I used Create a Critter for the owl which I had cut down to make into a mask and added some circles and small feathers and an elastic band to make into a mask.  She loved it and luckily it survived.  Of course she has to wear it next week to preschool because her class Halloween event was cancelled this week due to the Hurricane so I hope it makes it until then!  I also made my 9 year old sons Jayson Werth beard using a picture, some cardstock and some elastic.   Here is a picture of the two cuties:

My oldest wanted to go as the Sun Drop guy (have you seen those soda commercials, he walks around dancing which cracks my son up).  All I had to do for him was make an iron on since we did not have a Sun Drop t-shirt.  It worked ok but I did not have the iron on for dark colored shirts so it is not that visible via picture.  Here is my handsome guy:

WOW! That was a lot in a few days of work!  I guess now it is onto Thanksgiving and Christmas!  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a crafty day.

PS:  I am linking up over at Sarah Hamer Designs, stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/10/link-tuesday-25/

Happy 5th Birthday Little Dancer

My daughters are going to a 5th birthday party this weekend for our neighbor who also happened to be in ballet with my older (4) daughter. I knew right away I wanted to use the Twinkle Toes cartridge.  This little ballerina is just too cute!  I have to make this same card for my little ballerina when she turns 5 this January!

I used Twinkle Toes for the ballerina and Art Philosophy for the card base (I welded the two shapes together to make a card, the cut it a little smaller and cut in the middle for the patterned paper).  I used Peachy Keen Princes Faces for the face and I used My Creative Time for the All Around birthday stamp.  I used an Action Wobble to make my little dancer dance!  I used my white gelly roll pen to add the faux stitching accents.

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

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and Link Up Too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/10/link-tuesday-23/

Monsterific Birthday!

I was in AC Moore last week and noticed they had Mini Monsters on sale.  Although my crafting budget is very limited these days I had some birthday money from my sister in law so I decided to buy it!   I had recently bought some Peachy Keen stamps too (with birthday money -gotta love my in-laws :)) and I needed a 5th birthday card for a friend of my daughters who is having a party this week.  What a great opportunity to use my new goodies!

I used the cartridge to cut two monsters and then I used to the stamp set to add the cute faces.  I used my Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch for the top border and stamped it with a cheapy $1 happy birthday stamp.  I also added the 5 all over the card since it is his fifth birthday.  I used an action wobble on the big guy (for the first time) which I think will be cute for the 5 year old boy.  I have enjoyed playing with it :)

I printed the sentiment on the computer using the chiller font in word.  It looks cute and not too scary, LOL.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a crafty day!

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/09/link-tuesday-20/

Cooking with Cricut Weekly Challenge-Birthday and Cake, Balloons or Cupcakes

Hello and welcome to another Cooking with Cricut Weekly Challenge.  This week the theme was birthday but you also had to include either a cake, cupcakes or balloons. 

I chose balloons (I used Create a Critter for the balloons) :)  I just love the colors pink and green together too so I used those colors for my card.

Here it is:

I had to add some cute Peachy Keen faces and the sentiment is from My Creative Time.

Now I hope you will stop by Cooking with Cricut and see what all of the designers have come up with this week and join us in the challenge! 

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

Cute Elephant Birthday Card

My girlfriend loves elephants so I wanted to make her a cute card for her birthday.  Of course I had to use the elephant on Create a Critter because it is too cute!  I also used Create a Critter for the balloons and party hat, then I added some twine for the balloon strings, some ribbon across the bottom, a cute Peachy Keen face stamp, a gem to the hat and that was it!  I can't believe I actually got it in the mail on time, LOL.

25 Days of Crafting Fun with Cooking with Cricut Day 11

Welcome to Day 11 of the 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Showcase.  Today we are focusing on the month of June!  Make sure you stop by Cooking with Cricut to check out all of the designers wonderful projects today and each day during our showcase!  

Today I made a June 6X6 calendar page to go along with the other 6X6 pages made so far in the showcase.  I used the free digi print, the free calendar prints and added some twine.  It was as simple as that!

Here it is:

I used one of my Peachy Keen face stamps to give my cute Bear Dad a little smile :)

Don't forget to go back to Cooking with Cricut to see all of the great freebies and ideas shared by the other designers.  You can also enter to win some great prizes!  (Make sure you read the requirements for the giveaways completely).

Thanks for stopping by and have a craft day!

Cute Cupcake Birthday

My girls were invited to a birthday party last weekend so I wanted to make a cute little cupcake card.  The little girl was turning 3 so I did 3 cupcakes.  

Here it is:

I used my NEW (yeah) Princess Faces Peachy Keen face stamps (I love those little lips, LOL).  I used Once Upon a Princess for the cupcakes and I used My Creative Time Many Greetings for the Happy Birthday sentiment.  I used an edge trimmer for the candles and I added some gold stickles for the "flames".  I also added some pink stickles to the cupcakes.  TFL!

Christmas Cards

Last Saturday my super crafty friend Stephannie came over so we could be ahead of the game and get our Christmas cards done.  This is the first time I have had them done in November.  I knew a month or so ago I wanted to do a gingerbread man but was not sure exactly what I wanted it to look like...here is how it ended up:

I went to Michael's Friday and they had ribbon 60% off plus I had an additional 25% coupon so I found two rolls of ribbon with gingerbread men on them and they ended up being 59cents!  I used Jolly Holidays to cut my gingerbread man and then I decided to use a cute Peachy Keen face on him and to give him a little scarf with some more ribbon I bought at Michaels (got it Saturday but still on sale and with the coupon but it was a little over $1 because it was more to start).  It looks like twine but has a wire in it so it worked perfect for the scarf!  I printed the sentiment on cardstock then just cut it out.  I found cute little button brads and used my white gel pen to add some details to the gingerbread man.  He is cute right? :)  Now the trick will be finishing them up by adding the family photo and getting them mailed in early December!  TFL.

CWC Wednesday-Fruits, Harvest, Cornucopia, etc.

Hello, welcome back for another Cooking with Cricut Wednesday Weekly challenge!  This weeks theme is fruits, harvest, cornucopia, etc.  I decided to make a table centerpiece, something I could put on a tray and put in the middle of the table.  I made two paper pumpkins, two paper apples and a little turkey (I may end up making a few more turkeys, maybe one for each family member in different sizes). 

Here it is:

Each item was super easy.  I tried to explain it here in writing but even I confused myself so I thought this would be a great time for my first video!  So here you go, take a look and let me know what you think :)

I did not talk about my cute little turkey in the video, for him I used the super easy directions from Pink By Designs ustream last Friday to make him.  I used a borrowed (but now I have to buy it) Peachy Keen stamp from the Critter Faces set, to give my turkey a cute little face.

I think these will all look cute on the table once I find a little tray to put them on!  

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!