Red, White and Blue Thank You card

This morning I give you a little red, white and blue thank you card. I created this card for one of my neighbors. Before the weather got extremely too hot in AZ to be outside, my neighbor helped teach my 4 year old daughter how to ride a bike without training wheels. He had first taught his own daughter how to ride without training wheels. So when she got the hang of it he had asked my daughter if she wanted to learn and of course she said yes. He had wedged a pole into the back of the bike so that he could hold on and help the rider gain their balance while riding and then when everyone was comfortable he would let go. My daughter picked it up fairly quickly and has been training wheel free all summer. And not only did he help teach her how to ride a bike without training wheels he gave my daughter his daughter's old bike (my daughter's bike was a little small). The 2 girls have become the best of friends and I'm sure once the temps get cooler again they will be riding all day.

I used these items to create my card:

• Campin' Critters Cricut cartridge
• red, white, blue, black, and tan cardstock 
• craft paper
• red gingham pattern paper
• red, white, and blue brads
• silver star brads - on the bike
• white gel pen
• clear Thank You stamp

Oh there is one little thing I haven't told you about this card yet...Pull the tab on the side and the little raccoon bike rider slides across the card to reveal a little message.

I am entering my Red, White and Blue Thank You card in the following challenges:

• Cardz TV Challenge #4 - Red, White and Blue Thank You Card
• Craftin Desert Divas - Link it up Summer Linky
• Shopping Our Stash - SOS #160 - Can't Put it Down or Away - this would be for sure my Cricut
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday Challenge #136 - Thank You
• Stuck on U Sketches - July 11 - Die Cut Challenge - Going Somewhere

This card was so much to fun to make and I just love that little raccoon bike rider. Thank you for stopping by and checking it out.

Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card

I have here for you today a card I was inspired to do because of a couple of challenges:

• Krafty Girls Challenge #11 - Color Splash - create a paper kraft that is black and white with a burst of color of your choice - I used green - ends 7/15
• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH#141 - Butchered Blueprint -You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses the following sketch.
  
  
   You can follow the sketch completely, or you may take some
  artistic license. Either way, the sketch should be obvious and easy to find - ends 7/15

• I think I was able to follow the challenge with just a minor change in the location of the stiches

• Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #76 - Lets Get Punchy - ends 7/16
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes - ends 7/20

I used these items to create this easel card:

• Design Studio
• Martha Stewart punch
• Eyelets
• Floss
• October 31st Cricut cartridge - spider
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut cartridge - web
• Glossy Accents - spider
• misc. Halloween clear stamps
• foam squares - spider

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card.

You're the Best! Teacher Appreciation card

I think this is the last teacher appreciation project for this year.  We've had a rough last 2 weeks with my youngest having Strep last week and me and my oldest just having a really bad sickness this week.  Plus, Tuesday our dear bassetthound Lady passed away.   She had been going down hill quickly since the weekend so we knew it was coming.  We were able to say our goodbyes and she went in her sleep Tuesday night.  Today we buried her and our youngest really couldn't understand why we put Lady in a bag and in a hole, she did though repeatedly say,"Bye Bye Lady."  I'm relieved and sad but I know she's in a better place and not in pain anymore. 

R.I.P. Lady!

This card is going along with the other projects I made this week for my daughter's 4th grade teacher.  I was inspired by another blogger to make this card into not just a card but a post-it note holder, too. 

I used these items to create this card:

• Post-it note - from the dollar store (2 pk.)
• Calligraphy Collection Cricut cartridge - "You're the Best!"
• A Child's Year Cricut cartridge - apple
• Green and red Stickles
• Martha Stewart white glitter - on the "You're the Best!"
• white gel pen
• Misc. clear Thank You stamp - on the Post-it note
• foam squares - behind the apple

 Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Teacher Appreciation card.

End of the Year Pillow Boxes

I had such a blast creating these little pillow boxes for my oldest daughter's 4th grade class.  The colors I choose are purple and yellow which are the school's colors.  The comet also represents the school, they are known as "The home of the Comets." 

So I had never made a pillow box so I did a little research on the internet about what size I should cut them with my Cricut.  The one person that I watched cut her pillow boxes at 5 inches, I decided to cut mine at 5 5/8 inches.  I found out at this size I could cut 4 boxes out of 1 12 x 12 piece of cardstock and it also allowed me to fill the boxes with 4 SMARTIES candies.  This only shows half of what I made.  I had to make 28 of these little darlings.

I designed the boxes using my Design Studio, the Wrap it Up Cricut cartridge and the Ultimate Creative Series Sampler Cricut cartridge.  I couldn't find just a plain pillow box on the Wrap it Up Cricut cartridge so I used the one with the diploma on it, hid the contours and inserted the shooting star from the Ultimate Creative Series Sampler Cricut cartridge.  I cut the inside out from yellow cardstock and then once the box was assembled I stickled it.

 On the back I used a clear stamp I got from the Michael's dollar bin.

I am entering my End of the Year Pillow Boxes in the following challenges:

• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #23 - "All for the Teachers!!" (classroom parties, teacher gifts, etc.)
• Paper Playtime Challenge #73 - Anything Goes + a Blog Hop

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my End of the Year Pillow Boxes.

St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card

So you might think this is just a St. Patrick's Day card...well you're wrong!  This is actually a birthday card for a sweet little girl who is turning 1 on St. Patrick's Day!  Earlier in the year when I first saw this Cricut cartridge I just knew I had to have it and I got it as apart of my Valentine gifts...YAY ME!!!  I just love all the Sesame Street characters and so does my 2 year old daughter.  I know I will get many uses from this cartridge and this is just the beginning.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Elmo & Friends Holiday Cricut cartridge - Elmo
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - "Happy Birthday"
• Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge - 1st
• Martha Stewart flocking powder (ladybug) - Elmo
• brads
• "celebrate" wooden stamp (Michael's $1.00 bin)
• ric rac
• foam squares - just to pop up Elmo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting When We Can Challenges #12 - Big Birthdays - 1st Birthdays are BIG Birthdays in our house
• Little Scrap Pieces Challenge - Use Green

I had some challenges with this card but all in all I am pleased with it.  I know the little girl who is turning 1 will never know what challenges I had.  It was a fun card to make and who can resist Elmo!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card!  

Zombie Love card

So I couldn't resist when I got this FREE digi from Dilly Beans to do her up in time to make the

• Zombie Love Challenge 
• Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #25 - Create a project with the theme Alternative girls, plus the color challenge (red, black, grey and white). 
• Haunted Design House - HDH #119 Freakers Free For All

Once I got to coloring her everything else just fell in place...the glossy accents, then floss, the prefect paper and here she is.

I used these items to create my Zombie Love card:

• Dilly Beans Digital Stamp
• Sharpie markers
• Glossy Accents and floss - for the hearts
• white gel pen - for the eyes and accent in the hair
• metal charm - Love
• ribbon
• heart brads
• scissors - to hand cut the large heart
• misc. clear swirl stamps
• black ink

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my Zombie Love card.

Matchbook Valentines

Today I bring to you 28 Matchbook Valentines, which I made for my daughter's 4th grade class.

I had seen on either The Cricut MB or someone blogged about it, but they had made these adorable Matchbook Valentines and I knew I had to try them.  First I found which cartridge I had that had the matchbook cut on it, Alphalicious Cricut cartridge was it.  I brought it up on my Design Studio so I could figure out what size I needed.  I determined that I didn't actually need to use the cartridge to create this matchbook, I just needed to create the folds.  I then got out my Martha Stewart scoring board.  Using an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of cardstock, I scored the cardstock at 3/4, 1, 4 1/4, 5 and cut to a length of 8 inches and 2 3/4 inches in wideth each.  I got 4 matchbooks out of 1 piece of cardstock.  I creased all of the scored parts and then inked all the edges.  I cut strips of white cardstock, punched the edges with my Martha Stewart edge punch and inked all the edges.  I used my Advanced Tape Glider (ATG) to adhere the punched edges to the front/bottom of the matchbook.  I cut some Valentine ribbon and adhered that to the front of the punched edge.  I stamped the inside with a wooden Studio G Valentine stamp and a Recollections clear "From" stamp.  I then adhered the Sweethearts candy to the inside.

I then cut 28 hearts from Designer's Calender Cricut cartridge at 1 3/4 inches.  I applied Glossy Accents to all them.  I adhered the hearts to the front of the matchbook, leaving just a little room at the bottom for the heart to overlap the bottom of the matchbook to keep it closed.

I am so pleased with the way these turned out.  I am really loving the Glossy Accents, such a fun product to work with.

Here's all 28 ready for Valentine's Day...and I got them done way ahead of time...YAY ME!!!

I am entering these Matchbook Valentines in the following challenge:

• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #17- Valentine's Day Party - you are to create any project to be used as a party decoration (or party supply) for a Valentine's Day Party!!  Celebrate EVERYTHING WONDERFUL ABOUT LOVE with table decorations, party banners, pennants, yard signs, cupcakes, party favors and more!!
• Paper Playtime Challenge #66 - Anything Goes + Blog Hop 
• Party Time Tuesdays - 53 - Anything Goes
• Cooking with Cricut Challenge #71 - Child's Valentine - Must Use Pink, Red, and White

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my Matchbook Valentines!

Just a Little Thank You card

The other day while working on another project I was inspired to create this little thank you card.  The project I was working on wasn't turning out the way I wanted so I decided to trash it...I did though save some of the parts. 

I used these items to create this card:

• white and blue cardstock
• Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge
• a piece of basket wrap recycled from a gift - showing through the snowflake
• Martha Stewart punch set
• Many Thanks stamp and misc. snowflake stamps - on inside
• Snowflake die cuts and punches - on inside salvaged from project that wasn't woking out
• Stickles - on the Many Thanks stamp

Here's another view and the inside:

 You can see in the above photo how the basket wrap is peaking through the snowflake cut.

 I am entering this Thank You card in the following challenges:

• She's a Sassy Lady Challenge - Thank You Cards
• Paper Playtime Challenge #64 - Cricut Creation - Use Something Recycled
• Anythin Goes Challenge #57 - Colour Blue and One OtherColour

I just love these 2 colors together...I had so much fun creating this little thank you card.  I hope you enjoyed it too!

Magical Dust

A couple years ago my mom introduced our family to the "Magical Dust."  As the card reads, "On Christmas Eve sprinkle magical dust on your lawn.  The glitter will sparkle in the moonlight, and help Santa find your house.  The smell of the oats will guide the reindeer."  So every year since we have practiced this tradition, now we are passing this tradition on to my daughter's 4th grade class.  I know 9 and 10 year olds might not have the belief in Santa like they once had but maybe they could pass this on to a sibling or other younger child.  So this Tuesday is Kaitlyn's last day before Winter break and along with the Magical Dust we will be sending her in with the Rudolph Treat Bags/Ornament/Gift Card Holder.   I hope the kids like everything...I had such a blast making all of it!

Here are BOTH my daughters Jaidyn (2) and Kaitlyn (9) helping make all 30+ bags of Magical Dust.

Here are ALL of the completed bags:

I used these items to create this project:

• Snack size Ziploc bags
• Qatmeal - 1/3 cup
• Buffalo Snow Flakes - 3 or 4 Tablespoons ** you can use regular glitter but the Buffalo Snow Flakes was more cost effective **
• Red and white cardstock
• Computer printer - to print out saying
• Misc. Christmas stamps - for the Santa and Reindeer
• Red and brown ink -  for the Santa and Reindeer

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed my Magical Dust!