End of Year Teacher Gifts

Hello!  Today I have the cards I made for my cute kiddos to give their teachers for the end of a great school year.  I have loved all the teachers and thought they deserved a break in the sunshine!  Don't we all, actually?  My baby is done with Preschool tomorrow and my heart is so heavy that she's growing so big.  She has two of the best teachers around and we were so fortunate that she got to have the same ones as my 8 year old!  I hope I don't cry too much while delivering them!  Their gifts are sunshine related.  A beach towel, sunscreen, a water bottle, some treats and a magazine!  It was so fun to put together and I hope they love them as much as I do.  

Here is the card I made.  And I gotta say, I LOVE my Cricut Explore  I used a ball point pen in the machine on a whim and it totally worked, and my card just fell together!  I used Create a Critter and wow is that a cute cartridge!   The inside is from All Mixed Up and the stitching is just a computer font I turned and twisted and added to my writing!  I was SO excited and I cannot wait to do more sentiments with my Explore!

My 8 year old said "It looks like the crab and starfish are having fun!"  Good thing, 'cause that's what I was going for!  

Thank you so much for visiting today.  Hope you all can enjoy some fun in the sun!

Diva Tuesday Sketch Challenge!

Hi Friends!

I am so excited I could finally join the amazing Die Cuttin' Divas for their amazing "Diva Tuesday" today.  I have a birthday coming up for one of my sweetest and most dear friends and I was sooooo excited when this sketch was posted:

I had to join and it was just the inspiration I needed.  Here is my project I am submitting to the Die Cuttin' Divas

I used the adorable gift bag from Birthday Bash and it just fell together.  Be sure to check out all the beautiful entries at the Die Cuttin' Divas Weekly Challenge

Thank you for visiting today!!

Baby Shower Favors

Good Morning!

Today I wanted to show you some baby shower favors I got to make for my cute friend.  I had made a little box for the ladies I started working out with two nights a week with the rosettes from the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge and one of them was so excited with the decoration that she asked me to make some for her niece who was going to have a baby.  Of course!  I decided to do one of my favorite Peachy Keen Stamp faces and a rosette.  They turned out cuter than I could've imagined!

Thank you for visiting today.  Have a wonderful day!

Flowers for Mom

Hello Friends!

Today I have a post that should've been made in 2012, but I wasn't quite ready for it.  My sweet Mom passed away in February of 2012 and her birthday in August was truly a hard time for me.  I wanted to do something special with my girls to celebrate my Mom's life.  I decided to decorate her grave with some crepe paper flowers I made and some zebra print bags with hearts and I used some leis to decorate the edges of her grave stone.  She loved black, white and red so I went with those colors and it all fell together.  Although I cried my eyes out while I was decorating, it was such a healing project for me and my girls loved helping water her flowers and it was a beautiful day. 

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Valentine's Day

Hi There!

Today I wanted to show you my daughter's Valentine Box that my husband made.  I was looking at Pinterest and trying to find activities to do at her school party I was in charge of.  I asked her what kind of box she was thinking to collect her Valentines.  Of course she said "A MINION!" Her daddy can't say no, so I was searching and searching and he finally just designed one with a Nordstrom box and some yellow wrapping paper. 

He did let me help with the font on our computer.  HaHa.  The hair is pipe cleaner and he just hand cut the teeth and tongue and it was so fun to watch him create this Minion Masterpiece.  It truly was the hit of the class! 

 

Of course her Valentines she was going to pass out had to match.  Little sis wanted to pass the same ones out and thanks to The Winthrop Chronicles I found a perfect printable and the girls' Valentines definitely were "one in a Minion".

 

My girls are obsessed with Despicable Me so these were the perfect thing for them to give their friends!

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Old West Monograms

Hello Friends!

Today I have a project to show you that my husband helped me with for Christmas of 2013.  I wanted to try actually sticking to our budget and asked him if he could cut some wood monograms for me that I could paint and decoupage.  He helped picked the font Old West from Cricut and I cut them on plain white cardstock at 11" and he used them as a template and cut the wood for me.  I was SO excited!  I could then have the Cricut cut the same letter again in my cute paper.  Quite possibly the easiest wood to paper project I've done so far.  Next time though, I'm going to have him cut the shadow, and then I'll do the normal letter with paper.  It'll be perfect! 

I did three C's, four N's and one M for all of my husband's relatives that we trade gifts with.  I was very proud of them and can't wait to make more! 

 

Thank you for visiting today!

Cuttlebug Thank You Cards

Hello!

Today I have two cards I made to say "thanks" and I decided to challenge myself to mostly use my Cuttlebug.  Easier said than done, I must say.  But I truly love how both of them turned out. 

I love to emboss flowers and cut them out from the Cuttlebug.  It makes a whole new look! 

Thank you so much for visiting today.  Have a wonderful Wednesday!