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/

A Mini Album: The Sweetest Story Ever Told

As you may know from reading my posts over the last few months, my husband Ed was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer back in May.  He has been going through chemo and is now having surgery tomorrow. I wanted him to have something to keep at the hospital to remind him of us because he will be in there for 5 days.  I also think he can take it to chemo with him or just look at it whenever he is having a bad day to remind him how much we love him.  This may be my first "real" mini album.  I used the Cricut Artiste and the chip board that came with it.  I used some paper I had, I think from a few different stacks and I used a few different stamps from Pink by Design as well as one $1 stamp (worlds best dad).  I also had the kids each write him a note and I wrote one as well (I helped my 3 year old, she help my hand as we wrote it together). He cried when he opened it and looked through it.  So did I.

I can only pray that one day we both look back at this album and all of the worry we had and be thankful for how much it made us appreciate what we have.

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

PS:  I will be linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/09/link-tuesday-21/

Back to School Teacher Gifts

Hello.it is back to school time in our house.  This year all 4 of my children will be in school.  My youngest will just go to preschool 2 days a week for 2.5 hours but still it will means lots of class and teacher goodies :)  My boys started Monday so I had to have their teacher gifts ready.  Thanks goodness for crafting time while at football practice with my boys and at chemo with my hubby or I would not have been ready.  My 4 year old starts Pre-K tomorrow so I have to get hers ready tonight :)  The same teachers gift for all of them.

I found this idea on Pinterest, here, and just thought it was so cute.  I had already picked up some apple post it notes and some other supplies so I knew it would just take the time to make and put it together.

Here is the final product.

I ended up adding a small decorated container of hand sanitizer and I wrote a note on the top of the post it pad but did not take a picture after that since it was last minute.  I love the little clip chalk board I used for the name.  I bought this in an 8 pack from the $1 section at Michael's and just used white jelly roll pen to write on them.  Worked perfect.  The school paper is a 8.5 X11 paper pack from Recollections from Michael's, I love it.  I used it last year for end of the year teacher thank you cards also (here).

 

Also, here are my handsome boys :)  I cannot believe they are in 4th and 6th grade.  Yikes!

Well I better get to work on my other 4 that I need for tomorrow! (2 teachers, the Principal and the Admin Assistant).

Have a craft day.

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/08/link-party-8/

Brownies and a cute plate from Pinterest!

Hello all.  I wanted to make some brownies for the nurses at my husbands Oncologist's office because they are so sweet and do such a great job of taking care of people all day each day.  He had to go in today so I made some chocolate chunk and peanut butter chip brownies.  I had recently seen this cute idea on Pinterest on how to upgrade a simple paper plate.  I used a cute ribbon I already had to make my plate cute and to tie the plastic wrap that I used for the brownies :)  I use my pizza cutter to cut the brownies to try to make them nice and sqaure :)

Then I used my My Creative Time XL Label Die and XL Label Borders stamp set to cute and stamp a cute tag.  I then used a cheapy $1 stamp for the thanks so much sentiment, I added a little to it with my white gel pen.

The nurses loved it and I even overheard one of them talking about how cute the plate was :)

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a crafty day!

PS:  I entering this over at My Creative Time's Pinterest inspired challenge (http://www.creativetimeforme.com/2012/08/new-challenge-host-emma-pinterest.html) and linking up over at Sarah Hamer designs http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/08/link-tuesday-17/ ) .  Stop by and enter the challenge or link up too :)

Thank You Cards

When my husband Ed was first diagnosed with cancer back in May I told my girlfriend I needed to create some thank you cards to have on hand because people were doing things for us on a daily basis.  She was so sweet and made me a stack of cards.  Fortunately I ran out of them quickly because people are so generous.  So recently I began making some of my own.  I was going to use one of the one sheet wonders but really just wanted a bunch of the same cards but maybe using different patterned paper.  I wanted something easy that I could do while sitting in the car or in my chair while watching my boys at football practice.  I was able to find these gold shimmery card packs (of 20) for $1.00 at Michael's on clearance.  I also bought the envelopes to match for $1.00.  I could not pass those up.  So I just used some sold card stock and patterned card stock that I had on hand to make a few varieties.  I also bought a stamp set a few months ago (the same one my girlfriend used on the set she made me) because I wanted to be able to use punches so again I don't need my Cricut, but can instead punch the circles and stamp where I am.  This makes it easy to craft at football, while I am with my husband at chemo, etc.  Here are the cards I have made (and mailed-I need to get started on some more) so far.

I am not usually a fan of "crazy" patterned papers but loved the colorful animal print and zebra print and think they turned out cute.  I know the cards are no where near as much as people have done for Ed and I but I hope they let them know how thankful we are for all they have done for us.  Well, off to make more cards :)

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/2012/08/link-tuesday-16/

Wedding Card

Hello all.  Wow, I really have not been crafting lately!  Things are so busy with Ed and the kids so I do not have much free time but I did get to make a simple card for a wedding.  I also made some tags for the wedding favors but I will share those later!  I used some simple hearts (Art Philosophy) that I then used a very small recollections punch to cut out hearts.  I then used Art Philosophy to cut a small tag and used my Pink By Design Big Thoughts set to stamp love.  Lastly, I inked the edges of the small tag.  I loved the background paper with all of the XOXOXOXO's on it and it matched the colors of the wedding so it was perfect!

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/2012/07/link-tuesday-13/

Mady Moo Turns 3: Mickey Mouse Invitations

Hello all.  I hope everyone is doing well.  It has been another long couple of weeks but we are hanging in there and are so blessed to be getting so much support from family and friends. (Thanks for the prayers).

I decided to do a Mickey Mouse Club House birthday for my baby girl, Mady Moo, who will be 3 this Friday.  I am doing her party next weekend because my hubby has chemo this week and I want him to be able to help and be a part of the party so we are doing it on an off week.  I saw a few of these invitations online in different places when I search for Mickey Mouse invitations.  They were super easy.

I used my Mickey Font cartridge to cut the base of Mickey in black, then I used Art Philosophy to cut the red circles and then just cut those in half using my paper trimmer.  Lastly on that side I just added two white buttons from the little jar of white buttons I bought at Michaels in the $1 section.  For the details I printed them on the computer, I did download one Mickey font for the Hot Dog... part.  I then printed 4 on a page and used the center cut feature on the Cricut and a circle from Art Philosophy to cut them out.  They were pretty easy but just took a little time to cut and assemble.  I stayed up late one night last week doing them.  I think they turned out cute. 

Because we have so much going on the party is going to be very small and I do not plan to do much except a banner, center piece (maybe) and cupcakes (maybe cake pops too).  I go with my hubby to his chemo appointment this Wednesday which is all day so I am hoping to get some of the banner pieces cut and take it with me to work on, we will see!  Maybe I can get him to help...doubt it :)

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope everyone has 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/2012/05/10552/

Class Treats for St. Patricks Day!

Hello all.  Sorry I have been MIA, it has been busy around here.

So I am going to my 8 year olds class today as a mystery reader (he has NO idea I am coming :)).  Since I chose a couple of St. Patricks Day themed books I also wanted to bring a treat but like usual waited until the last minute :)  While I was driving I remember I had two unopened bag of M&M's.  One from Christmas and one from Valentine's Day.  I knew I could pull out the greens from Christmas and the whites from Valentine's and do M&M sticks!

Here they are:

I decided to go with an easier topper and did a shamrock from Art Philosophy (it was on a tag so I did hide contour for the tag parts) and then I did a flip on one and welded the two together to make it a topper.  It worked perfect.  I also had a cute cheapy little $1 stamp from AC Moore that said Happy St. Patricks day.  It was PERFECT!  I hope the kids will love them!  Now I have to keep myself from eating the leftover pink and red M&M's!

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!  It is at http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/03/link-party-6/
I am also entering this over at Cooking with Cricut for this weeks challenge, so stop by and join the fun!  It is http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/2012/03/77-st-pats-and-rainbows.html