Green, Yellow and Brown???

So green, yellow and brown are not colors I would normally pick for a card...however Robyn from http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ was having a challenge and I needed a Thank You card for a Parent Party for my son's school that we went to over the weekend so I thought I would give it a try.  Here is the result:

I used Lyrical Letters for the Thank You and the dragon fly.  I used an embossing folder for the brown background.

Hippo Card

I needed a graduation card for a co-worker, I wanted to use Create a Critter so I decided to do HipHipHoray with a graduation twist.  I used Paper Dolls for the cap and diploma.  Hope you and my co-worker like it :)

Finally being productive...and I got Create A Critter!!!!

Today I was finally able to get my care package for my aunt in the mail (I used the Get Whale Soon card for her) and I was able to get the baby gift done for a girl at work (sorry the pictures are not so great).  Nothing fancy but just a cute little gift "box", I thought it packaged well!  I was also (finally) able to find Create a Critter at Michaels today.  Although I did not get to use it yet I plan to this week to make a graduation card and a few thank you cards.  Can't wait!  Well here is the baby gift.  Now off to work on making some journaling boxes for my 3rd graders class to write notes on for the end of the year teachers gift.  Good night :)

Mother's Day!

So what did I get for Mother's Day??? Not Create a Critter :(  But not for lack of trying.  My hubby did try to find it but Michael's was sold out.  Hopefully it will come in soon.  My girlfriend Stephannie on the other hand was lucky enough to find one and was nice enough to have me over Saturday.  We had planned a day to Scrapbook.  I did get about 6 pages done (which I of course forgot to take pictures of but will) and I also made a card using her Create a Critter.  I also made some cards today for Mother's Day (a trifold that Stephannie cut out and I decorated for my mom) and a card for my sister-in-law.  I enjoyed being able to play with the Cricut this weekend! Hopefully I can get some more scrapbooking done soon.  I also baked some cupcakes and made a flower out of them to take for the cook-out at my sister-in-laws today.  They were yummy!

My Baby Boy Turned 9!!!!

Yesterday my oldest, my very first baby, turned 9.  For some reason I am having a hard time with it.  I think it is because double digits are next.  NOOOO!  In celebration (and because he was supposed to have a baseball game) I made some baseball cupcakes (baked in cake cones) and cut out baseball gloves from Sports Mania, cut a hole in them and put the cones in so it looked like a baseball in a glove.  I thought they turned out very cute!  They were also yummy!  The kids (and grown-ups) enjoyed them.  His party is this Sunday, I am not sure what I will make for those but I am sure some how the Cricut will be involved!

Easter...I cannot believe I forgot about Easter!

I cannot believe I forgot to post about Easter.  Not that I did anything special but I did use the Cricut to decorate the Easter Eggs so I at least need to post that!  I cut our names from the vinyl, put it on the eggs and then dyed them.  Then I removed the Vinyl (you can see my son Kyle's egg with his vinyl on it before he dyed it).  I think next year I will do some decorations. I think it was neat.

I also worked on a card tonight but it is not complete, I need to add some pictures but here it is for now.  I will post a better picture once it is really done :)

Love the Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge Flower

Hello all.  I have not been crafting as much because I have been actually going to bed once the kids are in bed, I am a little run down with my now 10 month old STILL not sleeping through the night.  We are worried she may have some milk protein issues like my 2 year old so I think I have been spoiling her more than I need to at night and just need to finally let her cry it out for a few nights. Ahh, the joys of motherhood!  I love the blog www.mypinkstamper.com and on Saturday she had a challenge for a chance to win a Create a Critter cartridge, which is adorable!  So here is my submission:  it had to have pink, green and black which I totally love the color combination of pink and green anyway, so I was excited to make it.  I am obsessed with the flower on the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge so I had to use it (again) for this one.  I loved using ribbon for the stem also, instead of paper.  I think it added a nice little touch.  Hope you like it!