Welcome to Graduation week.......Day One

Good Morning Blogging friends!!  This past Saturday Kel had a graduation party for her daughter. Well you all know how crafting minds think, we all went into overdrive and had great fun with banners, decorations, cards and even a present!! We will showcase our work all week.  Hope you enjoy it!!!  Also, if you comment everyday you will be eligible for a fun little prize!!!

Here is the present (and bag it went in) I made for Kelly's daughter. She loves, loves owls.

I started out with a plain white frame from Michael's in the clearance section for $4.99 plus a 25% off coupon. Plus the plain white bag.  Kel told me Amanda's room was teal and zebra, so I went with the teal.

I used the following:

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink, Blue Hawaiian to ink up the white frame and the owl.
Create a Critter for the Owl and all her cute little parts cut at 5" the branch was cut at 2.50".
WR Memory Keepers White Out Collection - the polka dot paper
Twine was free, yes free!!! I order some other colors from Anniespaperboutique.com and they threw in the teal and white twine with my order.  It worked so perfect!!
Locker Talk Cartridge for the Graduation cap, cut at 3.25"
Letters and numbers came from Don Juan cut at 3"
Cuttlebug Forest Branch folder for the owl and the branch.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to stop by and comment each day this week to be eligible for a fun prize.

Hippity Hoppity Birthday

Happy Rainy Tuesday.  Looks like rain all week here in the Northeast!  Here is a birthday card I did for Dawn's little guy for his birthday.  He loves, bugs, and frogs and snails.  So I found this frog paper, DCWV, I just purchased two sheets from Michaels.  The frog is from Create a Crittter and Birthday wishes is from My Creative Time Stamp set, Teeny Tags. I love that stamp set.  Of course my favorite kraft paper and Fiskar's scalloped punch.  Have a great Tuesday!

Thanks a Bunch!

Good morning!!  Here is a card and that Kel and I did, sometimes it takes two!!  I made this for Dawn and her family for the gift they gave my son for his bday.  The frog and his super cute lily pad are cute from Create a Critter. We ran the frog through the cuttlebug, I believe Mosaic Folder.  The lily pad we ran through the cuttle bug too, but I can't remember the name of the folder.  Thanks a bunch comes from My Creative Time, love, love her stamps.  

Yep, thats right, I said SPRING-ISH-LY, LOL

Here are some flowers I cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. I made these at 9" inches so I can write in the names and birth dates of the kids in my class on them. I realize it's odd to think flowers in New England in February, but we've had sort of spring-ish-ly type weather around here , so I thought I might as well start spring decorating! LOL. I did a lil flower and butterfly to post on my cirriculum board too.

Outside the Layout Day 2

Good morning fellow bloggers! Hope all is well I can't believe Thanksgiving is Thursday. Wow this month flew by.

Here is a project that my son did on Sir Isaac Newton. We started with a shoe box and then our imaginations just ran. We cut out the trees from the Cricut and the "Sir Isaac Newton" doll was cut out from the Cricut. See the Cricut is not just for scrapbooking and cards. I was so happy to show this to my hubby and prove that the Cricut is a wonderful tool, lol.

We found a chipboard like ornament and my son painted it red. He came up with the clever idea to write the formula around the apple (the teacher thought that was a great idea).

My hubby and son came up with the idea to have the apple fall. The stuck a toothpick in the top of the box and when you pulled the toothpick out the apple fell.

We also used some patterned paper for the grass as well as for the clouds in the back ground. It really was a fun and easy project.

Notice to the right of the project it the card Dawn made us for Halloween, didn't plan that, lol!!

Have a great day.

Anniversary Card

Good morning everyone!! You will be happy to know I got down to the scrapcave this weekend, it had been a while. Also, Dawn was up in the scrap attic, I got to more awesome layouts from her as well!! I guess everyone is getting their mojo back, or we just need to get away from the kids, lol! I was checking out the blog scene yesterday and I saw on Rhonda's blog, http://bumblcreate.blogspot.com/.

how it was it was 11:30 am and she was wondering how long it would take her hubby to realize it was there anniversary! Husbands are a funny bunch aren't they? Anyway got me to thinking, my anniversary is coming up, so I should whip up a card. My biggest problem is remembering where I put the card when my anniversary comes! Here are the deets of the card:

Create a Critter for the birds, I selected two birds to print and I flipped on before it cut, pg 65, 2.50", with layer 1 and 2.

Brach Create a critter page 25 cut at 2.50"

Card base is 5.5 x 5.5" bigger than the standard card.

Swiss dots cuttlebug folder for the birds and forest branches for the branch.

The calendar is from a Tim Holtz stack I have and the Happy Anniversary is from My Creative Time.

The google eyes (well this is a funny story). I text Dawn a while ago to ask if she had any google eyes, because I couldnt' find mine. She looked and looked and couldn't find hers either. So she order some, I am not sure of the website, but she got a TON. When they arrived, one morning over coffee we sorted the google eyes, we have enough to last us a life time!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!

MOTHER'S DAY CARD

Good morning, ok, now I that I know today is only Thursday, I am doing better. But having two Thursday's in one week can be very confusing! I whipped up a Mother's Day card for my absolute favorite Aunt. She might as well be by Mom. She lives in New Jersey, so I don't get to see her often, but we talk on the phone a lot and she is an awesome, awesome lady!
I have to say I scraplifted this idea from one of the cards I received in the last swap we did, it was a birthday card with a bunny on the front, so who ever did that one, thank you!!
I used Create a Critter for the flowers, layered them up and cut them at 1.75 and 2 inches. I used my glitter pen to glitter them up. The stem is a stamp from StampinUP! I think two step flower set. The twine, well let me tell you, I thought I had pink and white twine. I did not. So I used the lightest color I had, yellow and white, and ran my pink stamp pad all over it. I have to say not too bad!!
Fiskars border punch for the white strip across the middle. Celebrate with Flourish for the inside. Done! Ok, that makes it sounds like it took my 2 minutes to this. Since cards aren't my "thing", it took me probably 2 hours. I am always impressed with the ladies that put up a new card everyday!!!
And this is NOT how it started out in my mind.

Thanks for stopping by! I am exhausted from my cardmaking!

BLOG HOP - BLOG HOP - BLOG HOP

Welcome to the Basket Case Blog Hop!! Kel and I are so excited to show off our fun Easter centerpiece we made. We started with a glass vase measuring 6 x 5.5 we purchased at JoAnn's with a coupon. We used vinyl to decorate it. We used the following cartridges for this project, Plantin Schoolbook for the grass page 69 cut at 7"x 3" and A Child's Year page 33 for the eggs cut at 1.5" x 1", the clouds were from Create a Critter page 28 cut at 3" x 1.5." Feel free to add spring flowers, or butterflies if you make one of your own. We cuttlebugged the images using Tiny Mossiacs, Swiss Dots, Divine Swirls and Bubbles. The adorable pink and blue treat holder 3D eggs were made by Dawn on her silhouette. This was such a fun project to do and it was so easy to use the vinyl. Basically cut, peel and stick and your project is done. We have been having so much with vinyl that we are GIVING AWAY 4 PIECES OF 12 X 12 VINYL to a lucky winner during this blog hop (check side bar for prize).

So please be sure to comment, following is OPTIONAL and we will pick one winner from both days of comments. So if you comment both days you have a better chance of winning!!

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