Elmo Crayon Box

So there is a sweet little boy who just turned 2 and I wanted to make something special for him. Since we were only giving him some toys my youngest daughter was donating to him and some money, it had to be something different. I was going to make a pop-up box card but I thought, I already did that earlier in the year for his sister. I knew he liked Elmo so I flipped through some of my Sesame Street and Elmo Cricut cartridges and found alot of things I liked. I decided that the size of the crayon box on the Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge was perfect to not only hold a box of crayons but the money too and that is what I decided to do.

I used these items to create my Elmo Crayon Box:

• Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge - Elmo crayon box cut @ 8 inches and all layers
• Martha Stewart red (ladybug) flocking powder - on Elmo's face 
• Glossy accents - on the crayons
• Black pen - on the crayons
• My Craft Spot clear stamp set - In & Out Set #2 - Happy Birthday and back sentiment
• black and white ink

I am entering my Elmo Crayon Box in the following challenges:

• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #84 - Anything Goes
• DL ART - September Linky Challenge - Anything
• Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #185 - Anything Goes
• (Pin)spirational Challenges #125 - Anything Goes
• Craftin Desert Divas - Craft it up Link it up Linky Party #41 - Anything but a card

This was such a fun and easy project. Thank you so much for checking out my Elmo Crayon Box.

Kaitlyn's Elmo Birthday card for Jaidyn

Kaitlyn is my 9 year old daughter and this is her card she made for her sister Jaidyn's 2nd birthday.  She designed it based on the crayon box in the Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge.

Kaitlyn is entering this card in Craft Your Passion Kids Crafts Challenge #2 - seeing red - create a project with red on it.

Here's a close up of the bottom:

Here's the inside:

I know Jaidyn won't understand it until she's much older, but there was alot of time and love put into this card and we are so proud of Kaitlyn for doing it!!!

Elmo's Party Game

I made this game for my daughter Jaidyn's 2nd birthday party.   I'm unsure of it's measurements but the base is half of a piece of foam board, then I cut everything out using the Design Studio and the Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge.  This was super fun to make and is nice to have something a little different than the usual "Pin the tail on the Donkey."  I wrote the players names on the game pieces (crayons).  The object of the game is to give Elmo his crayon and the prize for getting the closest was a box of brand new crayons!

I am entering this project in the Decorate To Celebrate Challenge #12 - create any project to be used as a party decoration (or party supply) for a SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY!!  Let's celebrate EVERYTHING WONDERFUL ABOUT GETTING OLDER (tee hee) with your table decorations, party banners, pennants, yard signs, cupcakes, party favors and more!!  

Elmo Birthday (easel) card for Jaidyn

Today is my daughter Jaidyn's 2nd birthday party and this is the card I made for her.  My original design had Elmo holding the balloons in the other hand and the balloons were above the top of the card.  But using stickles on them made them too heavy and they just would fall over so I had to re-design my idea.  I think this way looks cute too!  I decided to do an easel card because so far that is my favorite style of card to make but I still have lots more to discover!

Here's a close up of just Elmo:

And here is a close up of the Happy Birthday:

I used these items to create my Elmo easel card:

• Design Studio
• Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge - for Elmo and crayons
• Birthday Cakes Cricut cartridge - for the Happy Birthday
• Recollections pattern paper from my stash
• Cardstock from my stash 
• Martha Stewart flocking powder
• Red and Yellow stickles
• foam squares
• black pen

I am entering this card in this challenge:

• Cardz TV - Challenge #1 - "Just My Style"

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Elmo Birthday (easel) card for my NOW 2 year old daughter!!!  I will be posting pics of the party later tonight, if all goes well!

I'm a WINNER @ Decorate To Celebrate!

I am so honored to be chosen 1st place winner at Decorate To Celebrate  for my Elmo Invitations and the wonderful Rhonda  from Scrap Happens with Rhonda made me this fabulous Elmo mini album!!!

Here's the inside:

The Decorate To Celebrate Challenge is still going on all month long and it is open to ANY project (yes, this means you can enter a card or a layout too!!)...  Because of this, they are LIMITING the number of entries to a MAXIMUM of THREE -- you can enter up to THREE projects this month!!!  This is so exciting and so much fun!  I hope you too will join in on the fun!

Thanks again to Rhonda and Decorate to Celebrate!  I can't wait to see this Elmo mini album in person!

It's an Elmo Party Part 3 - Invitations

I finally finished Jaidyn's invitations for her 2nd Birthday Party this month!!!  You would not believe how many issues I had trying to create these, but now that they are finished I am so pleased with the outcome.

I am entering this project in Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #12 - Surprise its a Birthday - you are to create any project to be used as a party decoration (or party supply) for a SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY!!  Let's celebrate EVERYTHING WONDERFUL ABOUT GETTING OLDER (tee hee) with your table decorations, party banners, pennants, yard signs, cupcakes, party favors and more!!  :)

This design was my original design but in order for me to do this I had to have the Cricut cartridge Street Sign Solutions, which I didn't have.  I looked through every cart I have (over 60 carts) and didn't have anything that came even close to looking like the Street Sign font.  I found the cart at the Cricut website and they just happened to have a sale going on, so I bought it and basically saved on  the shipping cost!!!  Once I had the cartridge I was able to start creating.

This is what I used to create this invitation:

• Design Studio - mainly for the street sign to say,"2 Jaidyn's Party" but everything was cut using the Design Studio
• Cricut cartridge Elmo's Party - card cut at 5 1/2, "You're Invited", Elmo face, Pop-up elmo (inside) and the #2 (inside)
• Cricut cartridge Sesame Street Friends - street sign
• Cricut cartridge Street Sign Solutions - used the font to create the,"2 Jaidyn's Party"
• Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes - to cut out the pattern paper at 5.1
• Recollections RSVP stamp set - stamp (inside)
• Martha Stewart flocking powder - ladybug

Here's a couple close ups of the front of the invitation:

Now the inside:

I just love the way Elmo pops up...he is just so adorable.  I was so lucky to have found the perfect size stamp for the party info.  It was alot of work but totally worth it. 

On the 1st day my Design Studio wasn't working for what ever reason I have no idea.  I spent like an hour just trying to get things to cut out.  Then it was just a matter of getting everything on the page the way I want to cut it.  Plus I had to size things just perfectly on the sign for it all to fit.  Then it was a matter of putting everything together.  At one point in the day I walked away from my workspace (aka the kitchen) and Jaidyn decided to rip the tape on my Advanced Tape Glidder...I just about lost it, she got sent to the corner and I needed to walk away and count to 10.  I have had issues in the past when trying to re-load the tape and spent an hour one day doing so.  I was lucky it only took one try this time!  My goal was to have this finished Sunday night and in the mail Monday well, now it is Tuesday and they will hit the mail Wednesday!  I will be one of those people late to my own memorial (I plan to have it written in my well that my ashes arrive 15 minutes late).  People who know me will totally get that!  So I worked late Sunday, all day Monday and then finished this afternoon.  Oh, and the BIG KICKER, when I went into my Design Studio this morning I couldn't pull up the file for the invitation...it said,"Cricut Design Studio cannot read that file. The file may be corrupt or empty. The error that Windows returned was: Unable to read beyond the end of the stream."  I immediately bawled my eyes out for like 20 minutes...the hours and time I spent on these invitations just went down the crapper and I wasn't even finished yet.  I still have yet to recover the project but I'm hoping someone on the Cricut message board will be to help me out!

So that's my story...sorry for it being so lengthy but it was a very challenging project and I hope that someday I'll be able to look back at this and laugh a little!

Thanks for checking out my Elmo Invitaion for Jaidyn's 2nd Birthday...have a great day!

It's an Elmo Party Part 2 - Banner

I'm finally getting some decorations done for my daughter's 2nd birthday, which is in November.  I finished the table centerpiece a week ago or so, you can view it HERE!  I was also working on this banner during the same time but just couldn't finish it until now.  Having an almost 2 year old and a 9 year old keep me extremely busy so trying to get anything done that I want to do is always a challenge.  I hope to get more done this week, especially a sample invitation, a game board and yard sign.  So be on the look out for some additional items for our Elmo Party to come!

I used these items to create this banner:

• Design Studio
• Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge
• Stampin' Up ribbon

I'm entering this in Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #9 Baby Birthday
Here are a couple more images:

Thanks for looking!

It's an Elmo Party

I'm trying to get a jump start on decorations for my daughter's 2nd birthday party in November...she's having an Elmo party.  My daughter loves Elmo and when I saw the Cricut cartridge Elmo's Party and Cricut cartridge Sesame Street Friends I just knew I had to have them and create her party decorations and ,of course, the invitations.  I am also entering this in Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #8 - Anything Goes Any Theme. 

I used these items to create the centerpiece:

• fish bowl I had in my garage
• shredded paper from the $1.00 Store as filler
• red ribbon
• skewers
• Cricut cartridge Elmo's Party for the Elmo face, 2, and Jaidyn
• Cricut cartridge Sesame Street Friends for the Elmo characters
• Cricut cartridge Birthday Cakes for the Happy Birthday
• stickles
• white gel pen

I am still working on many other items for my daughter's 2nd birthday in November...this is just the beginning! 

Thanks for looking!