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My First Glass Etching Project: Bridal Shower

2013-04-09T10:30:00.001-04:00

Hello everyone. One of my closest friends is getting married in May and my girls are the flower girls :) They are so excited to wear their wedding dresses (as they call them).

Her bridal shower was this past weekend and I have been wanting to try glass etching. So I did a very simple glass etching on a glass baking dish as part of the gift. I used Alpahlicious to cut the letters out of vinyl. I was really impressed with how simple it is and can't wait to do more!

I also made a very simply card using Artiste for the bow and Art Philosophy for the background.

Here are some pictures.

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/2013/04/link-tuesday-44/

Thank You!

2013-03-26T21:54:00.002-04:00

I am so thankful for the beautiful thank you cards I have received from the different bloggers. I have used them all up so I have to make myself some more (that is not a complaint because I have so many people to thank-I am blessed). So tonight I had some time while the kids entertained themselves and had some scrap paper and ribbon laying around (from Valentines if you cannot tell) and a new Thank You stamp from Peachy Keen Stamps. I also added a cute Peachy Keen face and some faux stitching to my heart :)

I was able to get 10 cards done tonight which I think with 4 kids running around is a success!

Thank you again for the nice notes on the blog and prayers. I know they are helping give me the strength I need for each day.

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

PS: I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs, stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/03/link-tuesday-42/

Update: Loss of My Husband

2013-03-07T11:34:00.002-05:00

Unfortunately my wonderful husband Ed, lost his battle with cancer on February 24, 2013. He was an amazing husband, father, friend, son and brother. It has been a tough week and half for our children but they are really hanging in there, going to school, keeping with their routine and making me proud. My oldest son even did a reading at my husband's mass this past Monday. I of course am trying to get things organized and handled before I go back to work next week-yikes :(

Here is Ed's obituary:

http://www.colefuneral.com/obituary/3360

I just wanted to post and share the news and also share two blog entries from some crafting ladies that I admire dearly and were so willing to do this request for me:

http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/03/needed/

http://acaffeinatedcrafter.blogspot.com/2013/03/can-you-help.html

I hope you will stop by their blogs and show some love (comments) on how wonderfully generous they are.

I hope to get back to crafting and posting soon.

Hope you have a crafty day.

Valentine's Day 2013

2013-02-18T20:10:00.001-05:00

Hello all. I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. Unfortunately my husband has not been doing well and my cousin passed away unexpectedly the weekend before so it was not the best Valentine's Day for me but I still wanted to make it super special for the kids and those around us.

I had purchased some $1 note pads and pen packs back in January and knew I would make simple Valentine treats for the teachers. I used the same idea I used back in December for the preschool teachers and just used one sheet of paper to make a cute little wrapping for the notepad, tied it with ribbon, added the pen and an easy tag I made on the computer and punch out with a circle punch.

Then for the boys I thought the You Rule idea found here was too cute to pass up (and it was super easy with the free printable).

Lastly, for the girls I wanted to use my Silhouette Cameo that I received for Christmas since I had not used it so I did the butterfly lollipop holders for them. Very simple, I just let them put a couple stickers on each and they were done! It was nothing fancy but I am glad they all got done (early) and saved my a little bit of stress the night before.

I also made the girls some more bleach pen shirts by just freehand drawing some hearts on. Here is my MooMoo girl modeling hers :)

For my kids I just did small buckets with little a little candy, a few trinkets for the girls and some baseball cards for the boys. The girls also received balloons because they LOVE them and Mady has been asking for a heart balloon for weeks. The girls and I made these cute mailboxes for their American Girls a few nights before and so the AG's were SO lucky to find a card and a necklace in their mailboxes on Valentine's Day also. This cute idea came from right here! The only difference was I used a glass candle stick holder from the $ store versus a wood one to paint. You have to stop by The Real Thing with the Coake Family, I am just loving her blog!

Sorry for such a long post but there was a lot for Valentine's Day! Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a CRAFTY day!

PS: I will be linking up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/02/12329/

Teacher Appreciation 2013

2013-02-11T00:20:00.002-05:00

Hello all.

The week before last was Catholic Schools Week for my 3 oldest children and the last day of the week is Teacher Appreciation Day and each year I try to make something for the teachers. This year I decided to make a TEAcher appreciation gifts for each teacher (it has become more work since my oldest entered middle school there at the school (it goes from pre-k to 8th) because he has so many teachers but I do not want to leave anyone out. I also do a gift for the Principal and the Admin. Assistant because they are so wonderful. I found this idea online and LOVED it immediately so I began picking up the supplies back in January and actually got most of them done before the last minute :) I put a tea bag, three packs of sugar and a spoon inside the cup. I made the tags by hand cutting the pencil and it pieces so that took a lot more work than I expected, but I did not mind because they turned out so cute. I used My Creative Time My Teacher Rocks sets for the sentiment stamps and I used a Peachy Keen set from their August kit for the pencil and face stamps.

I also wanted to do something for the other teachers so I decided to do this idea I had seen on Pinterest. But I make one tag for each soda in the 6 pack, just so if the teacher wanted to keep the tag they could. They were easy enough to print onto card stock (I made the from portion in word) and then I just punched out each piece and used adhesive to put them together with the ribbon in between the two pieces of the tag. I put three 6 packs with the tags in the teachers lounge that morning. I received multiple thank yous at pick-up last week.

Now I have to get to working on Valentine's Day! Those will be finished up last minute probably.

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/2013/02/link-tuesday-38/

Thank you SNOW much!

2013-01-31T09:56:00.001-05:00

I need some more thank you cards recently to try to catch up on thanking people for being so generous at Christmas and for those folks who make us meals, etc. I had a bunch of snowman left because when I made my Christmas cards I accidentally cut my first batch of snowmen too small so I thought this would work out great. I just used left over Christmas paper for the cards also. Here is a peak at two of the cards.

I used Peachy Keen snowman stamp for the face and he was cut from Doodlecharms. I did the Thank you SNOW much! on the computer and used a Close My Heart stamp for the There's snowman like you sentiment. Now if I can just get them mailed out!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a CRAFTY day!

Happy 5th Birthday Princess Tea Party

2013-01-17T10:10:00.000-05:00

My oldest daughter turned 5 in early January. She wanted to have her birthday out at like BounceU or somewhere like that but I could not believe the prices of those places. I decided to rent a little room at our local community center and do a girly Princess Tea Party. We had make-up, dancing, finger foods, marshmallow pops and tea cup cupcakes! I did not get to use my Cricut for anything, I wanted to make centerpieces but things with my husband have been tough and between him and the 4 kids I just ran out of time. Luckily my super craft friend Stephannie (born2beach.blogspot.com) is always amazing! She made the cutest birthday banner and the MOST adorable little purses that had a lip gloss and nail polish in them. She is the BEST!

As you can tell from the pics pink was the theme :) I tried to find or make candies/snacks with the pink theme in mind except for the actual food (mini sandwiches and hotdogs in crescent rolls). The girls really seemed to enjoy the party, what can be better than make-up, dancing and lots of sugar!

The table was set for 12 princesses to have a nice tea

I found a cute idea online to use a necklace as the napkin ring. So then I thought of course they need a ring and bracelet to go with it :)

Of course there was dancing (that mys girl in the pink-she takes her dancing very serious)

And time for make-up

And time for crafts, this is my youngest Moo Moo

Here are the cute tea cup cupcakes with little princess crowns on top,
on the right on some cute marshmallow pops I made, it was my first time
but they were easy and a big hit

My Princess had a special crown cupcake holder and princess candles

Here is my big girl giving me the candles and my little girl always helping

YUM!

We did a silly pic of Ally's friend "drinking" her cupcake :)

Well now onto getting ready for teacher appreciation day! I am going for simple this year but still need to get it done by the week of the 27th so I better get on it!

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

Hap'bee' Birthday

2013-01-03T16:15:00.000-05:00

My youngest niece turned 4 this week and my children were invited to lunch and bowling at their Country Club for the afternoon. I wanted to make here a cute card and love this set from The Stamps of Life. I do not like hand cutting out images so instead of their bee stamp I used Create a Critter to cut a cute bee for the card! I gave her a cute Peachy Keen Princess face and an action wobble to finish her off. The card was quick and cute! Just what I needed. My girls love playing with her before we gave it away :)

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a craft day!

PS: I am linking up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2013/01/link-tuesday-33/

Our Family Christmas Card 2012

2012-12-27T10:12:00.001-05:00

Each year I like to make our family Christmas card. I knew I wanted to do a snowman this year because I had recently purchased some Peachy Keen snowman face stamps and I had found this cute paper pack at Michaels :) I also wanted to do an unique fold.

Here is what I came up with.

I used my Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge for the snowman and my computer for the inside sentiment. I also wrote a note to each person on the inside just to make it a little more personalized. I added some pics, a twine scarf and I was done! I had these made back in November but needed to add the pictures so I did not get them out until mid December (I am going to start in October next year :)).

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a crafty day!

PreSchool Teacher Gifts and Class Treats 2012

2012-12-23T10:33:00.000-05:00

So like usual I waiting until the last minute for school treats for the kids...needless to say I have been busy but still should have planned ahead more!

My youngest only has 6 kids in her class (thank goodness) so I had to hurry to get them done the last day of class before break which was very early for her school for some reason. I used a digital print from Paper Crafting World for the cute girl elf. I wish I had time to individually cut them out but did not, I also wish I had a machine that cut SVG's but I don't :( So this was the best I could do in a hurry. The Elf Girl is so cute and reminds of my Mady Moo which is why I used her :)

I also needed something quick for the teachers. I had some Christmas themed magnetic notepads from last year and I had picked up some GIANT pens from the dollar store so I knew those would work. I just love how easy these were and how cute they turned out. I used the directions for the paper pad "cover" from here.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope everyone has a craft day!

Altered CD Case

2012-12-06T13:37:00.000-05:00

Hello! My girlfriend Stephannie made me the cutest altered CD case with a Starbucks gift card in it (you can see it here) and she also gave me some empty CD cases to use myself so when I need a gift card holder for my son's good friends birthday I new I wanted to use one! I used Stephannie's as inspiration.

I hand cut the paper just using the case for measurement for the front and back covers (put inside the CD case), I used some sports themed paper I bought years ago from AC Moore for the football patterned paper, then I cut the football for the outside from Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge and I embossed it used my Cuttlebug. I used My Creative Time's All Around Birthday for the Happy Birthday circle stamp and then I used the football from My Creative Time's Touchdown stamp set for the center. I used the My Creative Time's gift card die to cut my giftcard holder for the inside and stamped it with the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Gift Card Sentiment stamp set. I added some faux stitching with my white gelly roll pen and some more of the football themed paper. I used a few glue dots to stick the gift card holder on and filled it with a Sports Authority gift card (it is getting hard and harder to buy for my 11 year olds friends but they all love sports!). I hope he liked it!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a craft day!

Purse Explosion Box Post It Note Holder

2012-11-29T10:49:00.002-05:00

A co-worker of mine has accepted a new position so we threw her a farewell get together. She and I have worked together for almost 7 years so I wanted to make her a little gift. I saw this purse explosion box at http://qbeesquest.blogspot.com/2011/01/explosion-box-purse.html and knew I wanted to try it. Once it was made I thought it would be perfect as a post it note holder for her desk in her new office so I just added a pen and some post its. I think it turned out cute for my first try :)

The best part is I only used 3 pieces of paper, a ribbon and velcro (to keep it closed). One for the box, the black for the top (I used Art Philosophy to cut the topper) and accents and the pink animal print. I love how cute it turned out and may do some in Christmas paper if I can find some cute Christmas post it pads for the teachers. You could easily make it a gift card holder or add some candy. So many possibilities! I added the Thank You from a My Creative Time stamp set but you could do any sentiment here!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a crafty day!

Youth (not high) Chairs

2012-11-27T22:12:00.001-05:00

My 3 year old has been wanting this chair that her cousin has and so I finally broke down and spent the $40 for it in hopes she will sit it in until she is 10! Then of course my 4 year old had to have one too...another $40. They come unfinished so I had to stain them...I have never done that before! I bought a water based stain and finish and it turned out fine for my first time :) Then I used my Cricut and the Artiste Cartridge to cut their names from vinyl and then I used it as a template to paint the girls names on the chairs so there is NO confusion on who's chair is who's :) In the end it was a great idea because it puts them at the perfect height for the table (no more sitting on their knees!).

Here are the finished chairs, the only issue was my 3 year old kept asking for her white chair back (because the chairs are so light/white looking when they are not stained), she finally got used to her stained chair :)

Thanks for stopping by to see my non-paper craft but I still used my Cricut :)

I hope you have a crafty day!

PS: I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so feel free to stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/11/link-tuesday-29/

Thank You!

2012-11-10T18:44:00.000-05:00

Last month my hubby and I wanted to go away for the night before he started chemo again. One of my dearest friends Stephannie is best friends with a very nice lady who works at a hotel in Ocean City, MD where we wanted to go. She got us a room and even sent us some wonderful dessert that night (strawberries and chocolate cake!). We would have used our money to go because we wanted to go away but honestly the money we saved made a huge difference. I wanted to make Brenda a card to thank her. I just recently purchased the Faceless Fall 2 set from Peachy Keen Stamps and have been wanting to use it. Why as soon as you add a Peachy Keen face to anything does it become the cutest thing ever? I do not know! I used my Everyday Character Assortment for the face. I used My Creative Times All Around Everything for the thank you circle and I used a thank you sentiment from the My Teacher Rocks set for the Thank You in the middle of the circle. I think the patterned paper is from a DCWV fall stack I had from last year. I hope Brenda likes the card :)

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a craft day!

PS: I will be entering this over at the PK Challenge so stop by and enter too!

http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/11/peachy-keen-challenge-43-anything-goes.html

Girly Birthday Card

2012-11-07T08:50:00.001-05:00

My niece's birthday was recently and I wanted to make her a cute card but not too little girly since she was turning the big 9! LOL. I used the side stair step card tutorial over at Split Coasters. I used Sweet Treats for the cuts and a cheapy $1 stamp for the happy birthday sentiment. I added a ribbon and some bling.

Thanks for stopping by, have a craft day!

Happy Halloween!

2012-11-01T06:00:00.000-04:00

Hello all. I hope everyone had a great Halloween. We just survived Hurricane Sandy. We were very lucky here in central MD to not get much (we had worse back in July with the Derocho storm). We actually did not lose power which is amazing for us, we usually lose it for 4 days at a time. I think we were better prepared this time. Unfortunately, folks to the east and north were not so lucky. We are praying for a quick recover for them all.

This year for Halloween I made two crafts (I still need to do something for my 3 year olds preschool class but have until next week :)). First, I made cute little bats with a fun size Hershey bar in them for my 4 year olds pre-k class because she dressed as a bat :) I used the Artiste cartridge for the bat, a circle punch for the face and some papers I had left over from last year. For the face, I used a Peachy Keen set called Monster Mash (I combined a mouth and eyes from different stamps in the set because I did not want my bat to look mean:) I had my daughter write her name on the inside and I used a ribbon that can easily be slid off to keep them closed.

Here are my bats and my cute little bat (I hand cut her mask because we could not find a bat costume):

For my boys (9 and 11) I used this post from My Creative Time for inspiration and did some cute little cuts from Art Philosophy (I could cut 9 at a time versus using a die to cut one at a time) and put some pixie sticks through added a cute little Halloween sentiment from My Creative Times All Around Halloween set.

Here are those cute treats:

Lastly, for Halloween I made some costumers or parts of costumes. For my 3 year old she wanted to be a bat and I am not a sewer so I decided to do hers out of paper. I used the Art Philosophy for the tear drops which I then turned upside down. I used Create a Critter for the owl which I had cut down to make into a mask and added some circles and small feathers and an elastic band to make into a mask. She loved it and luckily it survived. Of course she has to wear it next week to preschool because her class Halloween event was cancelled this week due to the Hurricane so I hope it makes it until then! I also made my 9 year old sons Jayson Werth beard using a picture, some cardstock and some elastic. Here is a picture of the two cuties:

My oldest wanted to go as the Sun Drop guy (have you seen those soda commercials, he walks around dancing which cracks my son up). All I had to do for him was make an iron on since we did not have a Sun Drop t-shirt. It worked ok but I did not have the iron on for dark colored shirts so it is not that visible via picture. Here is my handsome guy:

WOW! That was a lot in a few days of work! I guess now it is onto Thanksgiving and Christmas! Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a crafty day.

PS: I am linking up over at Sarah Hamer Designs, stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/10/link-tuesday-25/

Acorns!

2012-10-23T09:16:00.001-04:00

Hello all. I had seen this idea on Pinterest a few weeks or so ago and knew I had to try it but needed the right occasion. My daughters Pre-K class was hosting (along with the K class) Teacher Appreciation Breakfast/Lunch this week and we were doing a Fall theme so I knew these would be a perfect little treat. You just use nutter butters (the small round ones that come in a bag), Hershey kisses, mini chocolate chips and a little peanut butter for "glue" (the original Pinterest post says to use melted chocolate but I thought the peanut butter worked just fine- http://sixinthesuburbsblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/chocolate-peanutbutter-acorns.html). I also use the technique of decorating a paper plate with a ribbon but since the plate is white and the ribbon is white it is hard to tell but I did use some fall themed ribbons :)

Here are my acorns:

I used a stamp set from The Stamps of Life called Raccoon2love. It was perfect for these cute little acorns :) I hope the teachers enjoyed the little snacks. I am planning to make some for my work later this week or next week.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a crafty day!

PS: I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs, hope you will stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/10/link-tuesday-24/

Simple Boy Baseball Birthday Card

2012-10-18T07:30:00.000-04:00

My younger son (9) has a birthday celebration after school today because there is no school tomorrow. This morning around 7am I realized we had no card or gift...YIKES! Luckily it is my work from home day so I can run out at lunch and get something. I also had time to make a QUICK card. Did not even use my Cricut! Just my computer for the sentiment (printed right onto red card stock), some baseball stickers that I already had leftover from another project and my white gelly roll pen! Super easy.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a craft day!

Happy 5th Birthday Little Dancer

2012-10-16T15:36:00.001-04:00

My daughters are going to a 5th birthday party this weekend for our neighbor who also happened to be in ballet with my older (4) daughter. I knew right away I wanted to use the Twinkle Toes cartridge. This little ballerina is just too cute! I have to make this same card for my little ballerina when she turns 5 this January!

I used Twinkle Toes for the ballerina and Art Philosophy for the card base (I welded the two shapes together to make a card, the cut it a little smaller and cut in the middle for the patterned paper). I used Peachy Keen Princes Faces for the face and I used My Creative Time for the All Around birthday stamp. I used an Action Wobble to make my little dancer dance! I used my white gelly roll pen to add the faux stitching accents.

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/2012/10/link-tuesday-23/

A Mini Album: The Sweetest Story Ever Told

2012-09-25T22:19:00.001-04:00

As you may know from reading my posts over the last few months, my husband Ed was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer back in May. He has been going through chemo and is now having surgery tomorrow. I wanted him to have something to keep at the hospital to remind him of us because he will be in there for 5 days. I also think he can take it to chemo with him or just look at it whenever he is having a bad day to remind him how much we love him. This may be my first "real" mini album. I used the Cricut Artiste and the chip board that came with it. I used some paper I had, I think from a few different stacks and I used a few different stamps from Pink by Design as well as one $1 stamp (worlds best dad). I also had the kids each write him a note and I wrote one as well (I helped my 3 year old, she help my hand as we wrote it together). He cried when he opened it and looked through it. So did I.

I can only pray that one day we both look back at this album and all of the worry we had and be thankful for how much it made us appreciate what we have.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all have a crafty and blessed day!

PS: I will be linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too! http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/09/link-tuesday-21/

Monsterific Birthday!

2012-09-18T06:00:00.000-04:00

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

2012-09-11T16:11:00.000-04:00

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

2012-08-28T10:31:00.000-04:00

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!

2012-08-23T22:19:00.000-04:00

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

2012-08-14T10:49:00.003-04:00

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/