CWC Weekly Challenge # 71-Kiddie Valentines-Must use pink, red and white

Hello and welcome to another weekly Cooking with Cricut challenge!  This week we were challenged to make a kiddie valentine using the colors pink, red and white.

I am (still) having trouble deciding on what Valentine's to do for the classmates of each of my 3 kids that are in school so I thought I would make a sample of this one to see if I really really really wanted to do it.  It was actually pretty easy.

Here it is:

First I had seen the idea of melting down crayons in a heart shaped silicone "pan" on several sites, including Pinterest my latest obsession, so I did that but I only used pink, red and white crayons :)  Then I cut the card from Spring Holiday Cards (had to cut several sizes to see how the hearts would fit on there) and finally settled on 5 inches for the card and then I cut the base at 5 inches also. I inked the edges with some pink ink, attached the heart crayons with some pop-up/foam adhesive and it was done!  Here is the card without the crayons so you can see how I matched up the heart crayons to the card:

Don't forget to stop by Cooking with Cricut to see what the other designers have come up with and to join us in this weeks challenge!

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

Cartridge Showcase at CWC: Spring Holiday Cards

Hello everyone, today I am spot lighting the Cricut cartridge Spring Holiday cards over at Cooking with Cricut so I hope you will stop by and take a look :)  Here a peek at a project I made using it:

Thanks and have a craft day!

Birthday Card for My Hubby :)

My husband is a beer connoisseur so for most occasions besides a regular gift, he always gets some sort of beer.  Last year for our anniversary I got him a beer of the month club membership (bimonthly).  This year he is getting car parts for his project car but as usual I will get him a 6 pack of beer, hopefully I can find his favorite summer beer before summer ends but we will see.  In honor of that I made him a beer card :)  I used the St. Patrick's Day beer card on the Spring Holiday Cards cartridge and took away that sentiment and put in Happy Birthday using my gypsy.  Then I stamped it with the sentiment conserve water drink beer from the Pink By Design just for men stamp set :)  I then used some stickels to add some glitter to the "beer" portions of the card (very similar to what I did for his Valentine's Day card).  I think he will get a kick out of it.  TFL.

An Early Easter...Sort Of

Next weekend we will be away for Easter so we decided to do a little egg hunt with the kids, we invited some neighborhood children, just a couple, another friend and her family and my nieces.  It ended up being my 4 kiddos, my niece and 2 little girls from our neighborhood.  (I had the idea to invite folks on Thursday and the hunt was on Sunday, LOL, so that may be why turnout was low).  I did make invitations for the neighborhood kids using the Spring Holiday Cards Cricut Cartridge (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE), the picture looks like they were green and red but they were a nice spring green and pink (darn iphone).  I also tooks some picks of the hunt and the cupcakes, little and big, that I made for the occassion-they were yummy!  The kids had a great time.  My mom, she is the best, did all of the eggs and brought them down with her.  Thank goodness (and God :)) for her.  Happy Early Easter to everyone.  TFL!


 

  

St. Patrick's Day Part 2 :)

So I think maybe I overdid it for St. Patrick's Day this year...but the kids enjoyed it :)  I ended up making the boys a small little goodies using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge and just attached a think of mentos to the back.  I put them on their seats in the car before I picked them up from school, they loved the little surprise.  My won son loved it so much he took his leprechaun to school the next day to show his friends.  So sweet.  We also did the green macaroni and cheese.  It was just as delicious as when it is the regular old white receip I use (Ina Garten's recipe, it actually has tomotoes and bread crumbs on top but I did not take a picture after I did that part).  My hubby also made himself some green beer to go with his card I made him.  I could not decide which card to use from the Spring Holidays Cards cartrdige so I did a double sided card for his using the 2 I could not decide between!  Hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's Day!  TFL.

 

 

 

St. Patrick's Day

Even though I am not Irish, I have always loved St. Patrick's Day.  Maybe because our Parish for so many years, where we were married and where all 4 of my children were baptized was St. Patrick's Catholic Church or maybe it is because green is one of my favorite colors!  I have always done silly stuff for my kids, like making food green, so of course they wanted some green stuff this year.  For school I do green cream cheese on bagels for lunch.  I also attempted green popcorn (not that successfully).  Tonight for dinner there will be green macaroni and cheese and green eggs (and a pork loin but no attemp at making that green :))




Also, the kids (my 7 year old started the idea) wanted to make t-shirts to wear to school because they were having a tag (out of uniform) day to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and to raise money to send to the Japanese and New Zealand Earthquake Victims, so I printed and cut out printed 2 shamrocks from the Spring Cards cartridge on my Cricut Imagine and put those on the girls shirts and they also helped color some too (using fabric markers) and we used a little bit of fabric glitter for the pot of gold :)





Lastly, I wanted to make something for my children's teachers and the administrative staff.  I found this cute idea on http://paperboutique.blogspot.com/2011/03/saint-patricks-day-candy-box.html so I made some Hershey Nugget boxes for the teacher's.  I bought the patterned paper at AC Moore, I cut the scallops in white and green (Creative Memories paper) from Winter Woodlands and then I used a $1 stamp (that I got for $0.60) from AC Moore.  I used pop dots to put on the scallops.  For the back closure I used a cute small button brad I had in my stash.  Happy St. Patrick's Day and TFL.

Valentine's Day 2011

Wow, there has been a lot going on in the last couple of weeks with the boys and school.  I cannot imagine how it will be when all 4 are in school.  Here is the Valentine's Day run down:  sour cream containers for the boys teachers (filled with hershey kisses and one edge cut with a heart punch), Valentine's for the boys classmates (orginally was going to do pop rocks but they are expensive and it would have cost me like $32 for all of them so we went with pencils!), little Valentine containers decorated and filled for each one of my kiddies with age appropriate goodies, a cute card for my hubby (who loves beer) to go with his dinner, a candy bar and a six pack of some of his favorite beer, I used my Gyspy to modify the card to remove the word IRISH and add the word MINE.  I used the Spring Holiday Cards for each gift except the sour cream containers.  I love that cart.  WOW!  That was a lot!  (I also included a pic of the beautiful flowers my hubby surprised me with during the middle of the day yesterday!)  TFL.