Teacher Gifts 2012

Happy Friday! Four more sleeps! 'Tis the season for teacher gifts and this is what went in to my kids' teachers today ... Sticky Note Holders!

They were made from this Silhouette file: dual sticky pad holder
using the DCWV Traditional Holiday Kraft stack:

 I think the snowflakes are K and Company.

Outside:

Inside:

All 9 that I made in their gift bags!

Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend!

Happy Hollydays Card

Hi, gang! Only 5 more sleeps! (Can you tell I have little people in my house counting down?) Here is this year's Christmas card that I am sending out. I have to make 120 of these each year, so I try to keep the design simple. Or so I thought ... I figured out that I touched each card 13 times in making them, not counting putting them in envelopes and addressing them!

1 - cut the snowflake out of the white paper with the Cameo
2 - stamp the sentiment on the white paper under the snowflake
3 - use glitter pen on the berries on the sentiment
4 - cuttlebug the white paper using the snowflakes folder
5 - edge the white paper with green ink
6 - cut the patterned paper for behind the snowflake
7 - attach the patterned paper behind the snowflake
8 - cut the red cardstock to mount the white paper on
9 - mount the white paper on the red cardstock
10 - cut kraft paper into A2 size cards
11 - mount the red paper with the snowflake onto the front of each card
12 - stamp sentiment into the inside of each card
13 - sign each card

So much for keeping it simple, huh? LOL!
We hope you are having a beautiful holiday season and can't wait to see some of your own creations on your blogs! See you tomorrow!

Holiday Tag Swap

There is a holiday tag swap going on over at Boston Area Scrap Fanatics that I am in. The work that these ladies do is incredible, so I am very much looking forward to seeing what they create. I decided to do mine in Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas style.

Each one will have some slight variations, but this is basically it. I cut the tag with the Cameo from glossy paper and used alcohol inks and glimmer mist to color it. I had the stamp in my stash and used Stazon to stamp it. The small glass tag is a Tim Holtz acrylic fragment with a G45 image attached to the back with Glossy Accents. The micro beads are also held on with Glossy Accents. The snowflake is Maya Road chipboard painted with acrylic paint and then I used a glitter snow pen on top of it when it dried. The brad is Basic Grey, I think. The fibers are also Basic Grey; the crinkly ribbon is from 3 Girl Jam; the little ornament was from the Christmas section at ACM. I hope everyone will like them!

More SVG Fun

Happy Friday! I have found a new obsession: SVG cuts. They are so much fun to cut and put together and there are a ton of them out there; some free, some for purchase. And you don't necessarily need an electronic cutting machine to use them. Some can be printed and cut by hand. 

SVG Cuts has some amazing files. I can't wait to play with some of them. I plan on making the Family banner from their Thanksgiving Dinner Kit and will share with you when I do! Lettering Delights also has a ton of great files. Oh boy. This could definitely lead to needing a bigger hard drive! Google SVG files and you will find a ton of inspiration and will see what I mean!

This Gary file from Lady Wolf was easy and quick to put together. She gives you great detail pieces, so this:

becomes this:

I stuck him in each of the kids' lunch boxes this morning with a little "Meow ♥" written on the back. For those who watch Spongebob, you know that is snail for "I love you!" :)

Have a great weekend!!

Fabric Cutting

Here is a little fabric owl that I cut with my Silhouette and then sewed together. I used the fabric interfacing available at the Silhouette online store, but I have read on other blogs that people have used regular fabric interfacing and cut all sorts of fabric things with their Cricut. I am not a very good sewer, but he wasn't too hard and is oh-so-cute in real life. His eyes are buttons that I got at Joann Fabrics. We would love to hear about and see any fabric creations that you have made!

Happy Birthday!

Here is a birthday card that I made for our good friend Susan! It was so easy to make! I used this Silhouette file: http://www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/v2/viewShape.aspx?id=14858, Divine Swirls and Bloom Dots Cutltlebug folders, iRock bling, a little Quick Quotes chalk ink, glitter pen and a chipboard sticker from my stash. I love how it pulls out of the base to reveal the message inside. Fun!

Trick or Treat

This is a cute little treat box that I made using the Silhouette. This file cuts with all the little perforation marks, so folding it up was super easy. The Witch Hazel label was printed off the internet and then run through the Silhouette to cut it out, using the Trace feature. The skull inside is a Silhouette Print and Cut file. Now, how to keep my little Goblins from eating all the candy before Halloween gets here? 

More lunch box fun!

The Silhouette cutting machine has a neat feature called Print & Cut. Basically, you choose a shape from their library, print it on your regular home printer and then send it back through the Silhouette, which cuts it out for you! My kids love Bugs Bunny and his friends and Silhouette recently added Looney Tunes shapes to their library! Yay - more lunch box surprises! You can't tell in these scans because I mounted them on white paper, but the images were actually cut out with the Silhouette. I was amazed at the accuracy of the cutting, especially since my past endeavors with Print & Cut hadn't gone very well. Silhouette updated their software recently and the P&C feature must have been one of the fixes, because these cut perfectly! DD got Sylvester, DS got Marvin, DH got Pepe; I am saving Michigan for another round. I wish I could be a fly on the wall to see how the kids and hubby react to them! I'm such a goof.

Sylvester

Michigan J. Frog

Marvin the Martian

Pepe le Pew

Life's A Beach

Happy Friday, crafty friends! After this week at work, this card shows where I would really like to be: on a beach somewhere with an umbrella drink! LOL! Actually, I made this card for my sister for her 40th birthday. Her friends treated her to a few days in Aruba to celebrate! Nice friends, no? All cuts were with the Silhouette; stamp is Stampin' Up!; tiny mosiacs, swiss dots and divine swirls Cuttlebug folders; patterned paper from the stash.

Hope everyone has a craft-tastic weekend!

Die Cut Fun

I am a fun mom. OK, I think so anyway. I think nothing of jumping out of the car in the driveway if there is a good song on the radio and dancing on the front lawn. The children run onto the porch in horror, but I see them watching and laughing at me from up there. I do random silly things, like tackle my children and blow a big ol'e  bronski on their bellies. I will get down in the sand at the beach and make a sand castle with them or dig for worms in the back yard. I also love to put notes in their lunch boxes for school (much to the chagrin of the 11 year old - "Moooommmmm! My friends saw it!") Both my kids love Angry Birds, so, when I saw Norma's Angry Bird Treat Bag at PinkBlingCrafter, I knew what the next fun mom thing was going to be! I don't have all the punches that she has, but I do have a Silhouette and Google. (Laurie has dubbed me Google Queen. I can find anything on it.) I found some cute Angry Bird SVG files over at The Lady Wolf's Free SVGs, very stealthily asked the children which bird was their favorite and got to creating these cute little guys. I wrote a note to each of them on the back of the birds in white Signo pen. (THE best white pen evah!)

I hope they bring smiles to their little faces today. They sure made me smile!

Totally Hip

Good Tuesday morning! It is feeling like summer again here in the NorthEast; 80 degrees yesterday and in the 70's today. My poor mums are so confused; they like the cool weather and don't know whether to pop open or not! You can see them in the picture that I used for a challenge over at  Use Your Stuff. This is a fun new blog that my friend, Lynne, contributes to. For this challenge, you had to use Orange, Pink, Green, Yellow and Blue all in the same layout. My DD dressed as a hippie for Halloween last year and her costume had just about every color in it! I used paper from the We R Memory Keepers Nonsense stack that was a perfect match to her costume, embossed the orange paper with the Cuttlebug Bloom Dots folder and inked it, then added a transparency flourish (I think from Fancy Pants?) and a few retro buttons from my stash. I cut the flower shape on the Silhouette by enlarging it to 10" and then used the cutting tool in the software to chop it in half before actually cutting it out. I can't wait for the 12" Silhouette to come out to be able to cut full 12" shapes! Hope everyone has a Terrific Tuesday!

Anniversary Card

Happy Monday and Happy Anniversary to Laurie and her hubby! Well, it was yesterday, but I didn't get to post, so I am announcing it today! :) I made this card for them with my Silhouette with papers from the DCWV Immortal Love stack, which Laurie had given me for my birthday! Love giving back!

Supplies:

DCWV Immortal Love Stack

Silhouette files:
Heart Flourish

Phrase

Ribbon and bling: stash

It was a beautiful weekend here in New England, full of fun family stuff. I hope you got to get out and enjoy it in your neck of the woods!

Have a fantab Monday!            

ETA: Entering in More Than Favors Anniversary Challenge                            

Silhouette Cameo!!

I love, love, love my Silhouette machine, so you can imagine how excited I was when I heard that they are coming out with a new 12" machine at the end of October!! Have you seen this??

Oh ya. It will have to be both my Christmas and birthday presents, but I am soooo getting my hands on one of these babies as soon as they come out! You can learn more about it at Silhouette America.

Our friend Susan has invited Laurie and I to participate in a Christmas Shoebox swap. I had to ask what it was, but I am always up for anything to do with Christmas and swapping! The idea is that you make a card and then cut and supply enough parts for each participant to make your card. At the end of the night, you will walk away with as many different cards as there are participants. Sounds like fun to me!

I used my Silhouette to make my card for this swap. I originally used this first design, but I decided it was going to be too difficult to make 15 tree cuts after trying to cut and weed the trees at such a small size. More trees ripped than came out whole. I have the original Silhouette machine and some of the newer files are just too intricate for it at smaller sizes. Can't wait to try them with the Cameo!

So, I changed the design a little and went with this one instead. I still like it, just not as much as the first one. I hope the ladies in the swap will like it! I still think it needs a little something else, but I don't know what yet. I would love any suggestions! Thanks in advance!

Details:
Silhouette files:
Christmas Card kit
Tree Flourish
Cuttlebug folder: Snowflakes