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/

Mady's First Day of Preschool

So my youngest finally had her first day of preschool today.  She loved it although there were a few tears shed (mostly by me) but I think for her she really just whined for a second as I left.  When we left and I was crying a little my husband asked me if I wanted to go get a puppy.  I said why so I can have one more thing in the house who doesn't listen to what I say, LOL.  Maybe one day.  She was so happy when I picked her up and was telling me all about her day.

Last year when he sister went to preschool I decorated her bag by using my Imagine so I decided to break it out (it has not been used since last September...yikes) and decorate Mady's too.  It actually came out much better because I learned a lesson or two when I did Ally's last year.  I used Alphalicious for the letters and Best Friends for the little girl.  I think I may make my nieces some pillows this year for Christmas using this cartridge and the iron on.  It is so cute and really so easy.  It would be a good excuse to open my sewing machine that I have never used too!

Here is the bag:

I chose the little girl with the lipstick and girl power shirt because my Mady loves lip gloss but is a strong willed little mama who says she will play football, not be a cheerleader when she gets older.

Mady has not seen it yet but I know she will love it when I show her!

Here is picture of my littlest girl on her first day before the bag was decorated.

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs, you should stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/09/link-tuesday-19/

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's 3rd Birthday Party: Welcome to the Clubhouse

Earlier this month we had a little family party for my youngest baby, Madyson.  I call her Moo Moo, or Moo, or Mady.  Sometimes when I give her something I will say "Here you go 'mam" and she says "Call me Moo Moo".  I LOVE IT!  She is a tough, sweet, cute, little bunch of joy.  I really cannot believe she is 3.  It makes me want another baby SO bad but instead I will just enjoy the 4 amazing children that I have been blessed with :)

As shown in an earlier post I made the simple Mickey Mouse invitations for the party and had hoped to do a banner and center piece.  Well with everything going on with the hubby I really did not have the energy to do much but luckily I have the most amazingly crafty and generous friend Stephannie (born2beach.blogspot.com).  She stopped by a week before the party to show me the goodies she made for Mady's, it took all I had to not cry.  She made a banner, food labels, M&M sticks, gummies and brought a BUNCH of food.  She is AMAZING.  The only thing I ended up adding was a bigger Mickey and Minnie head to hang from our porch because we did not have plants yet and I wanted something to hang from there for some reason, LOL.

Here are some pics of her amazing work (I did not do her banner justice when it was outside so I took a pic inside on just a piece to show you how cute it is):

Aren't her decorations SO cute!  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful friend who would do so much for me and my family.  Thank you Steph for being so amazing!  You're the best.

Here is my birthday girl, she loved her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse party.

Hope everyone has a crafty day!