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.

Lucky Streak!

I try to win everything I can online, scrapbooking items, stamps, cartridges, etc.  Recently I have managed to win two wonderful "items" that have really benefited my entire family...but having nothing to do with crafting, LOL.  Two weeks ago I won (through Facebook) an opportunity for my family to be the VIP family at our local Mardi Gras Parade.  This meant our entire brood got to ride on the parade float.  Let me tell you, my boys were BEYOND excited (my niece came to watch but was able to ride with us also).  They got the biggest kick out of that.  We also won 6 passes to the Circur for later this month or next month (whenver we choose to go).  Then last week I won a gift certificate (through a blog but I found about the contest on Facebook) for a local photographer who takes amazing photos (I am SO excited to get some great pictures of the kids).  I hoping my lucky streak will continue and I can win some stamps or a new cartridge here soon :)  Here are some pictures from the parade:

I will be sure to post pictures from the photographer after our April 3rd photoshoot :)  TFL.

Bake Sale!

My sons 4th grade class is having a bake sale today so I made some (yummy) chocolate chip cookies (sorry I forgot to take pictures) and some cupcakes.  The theme is Mardi Gras so I used my Cricut Sweet Treats card to cut cupcake holders, then I used Don Juan to cut out the fleur-de-lis on 2 sides (if I had planned better I could have designed it on my Gypsy but it was last minute...it still works out).  I used the cutouts to decorate the mini cupcake holders so it worked out well.  I thought they turned out cute.  I also attempted to cut some fleur-de-lis from fondant on my Cricut Cake, I got a couple out but it was late and I was having trouble (I have not mastered the texture that the fondant needs to be to cut well yet).  It was fun trying and I had some helpers (my two girls).  TFL.

Baby Bump

A young lady in my office recently told me that she is pregnant so of course I wanted to make her a card. Unfortunately I did not have any cartridges with a pregnant lady image on them...but of course my friend Stephannie came to the rescue with Going Places! Here is the quick card I made. TFL.

What a week!

Last week was crazy, I attempted to start two cards and was in a funk so luckily I did not need them right away so I put them away to come back to later.  3 of the 4 kiddos were sick last week and that was pretty draining as well.  Especially because 2 were my little ones and they really need their mommy when they are sick.  So since I did not get any crafting done I thought I would share a link to my friend Stephannie's page.  She is the MOST creative person I know.  Her projects are always amazing and this past week she did a "haul" video on the great deals she found last week so stop by and see her page.  She is at http://born2beach.blogspot.com/

Stephannie let me borrow her Going Places cartridge so I am going to try to make a card for a co-worker who just told me she is pregnant.  I did not have any carts with the baby bump on it but luckily Steph did!  Hopefully I can get it done this week.  Thanks Steph and thanks for looking!

Thank You Cards!

I saw a few blogs with pictures of children holding a real lollipop for a Valentine (Here is where I saw it first http://24-7-365.blogspot.com/2009/02/lavish-me-with-praise.html).  My boys were TOTALLY against it (they said they are too "old") and my daughters are not in school yet but I really wanted to try it so I decided to use the concept for my daughter's thank you cards for her 3rd birthday.  I finally got those done and actually in envelopes to mail...now to just get to the post office!  Maybe I will get them done before her 4th bday (LOL-her bday was in January) Here is the card (the real one has her name, not a flower) :)  I used Create a Critter to cut the cute heart balloon, a $1 stamp for the thanks and just printed the pictures at home .  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.