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Hello! Today I'd like to show you some invitations I made.

In September among the craziness in my life I got a new calling in my church.  I was called to be the Young Women's  President.  Crazy!! For those that might not know what this is; I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Our group of girls are ages 12-17.  Well I've been asked or called to preside over them to be there leader.

We only have a few girls that were coming regularly and I wanted to extend an invitation to all the girls.  I wanted to get to know them and have them get to know me.  So what better way then with Chocolate, LOL.  We did a chocolate fountain.  I made up invitations to personally invite each girl.

Each invite was a little different

All the animals are cut using the Cricut

The banner and the Sentiment is from the Silhouette.  I really like cutting vinyl for the sentiment.  I think it looks better than stamping and I can make it say whatever I want.  The Silhouette cuts so intricate I just love it for the small things. 

The turnout for our night was AWESOME!!  We had more girls come then have been in months.  I'd like to say the cute invites helped, LOL.   

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  I hope you come back again soon.

Boys will be boys

Hi I hope your having a great week thus far!

 I have a million things to show you and not enough time lol. 

 Today I wanted to start with a paper bag album. I had a customer order, a "boy" paper bag album at my last farmers market. I got so busy with life and everything that I put off the order until the night before I said I'd have it ready. Well if your like me you don't just whip something up real quick. I always say that but it never happens that way.

So anyhow it only took me 2 hours and I think it turned out pretty dang cute. Now I did use cuts that I all ready had cut. The only cuts I made that night was the "Boys will be Boys" and the tags.

I used B is for Boys to cut the tittle at 3.84"

The dinosaur is from Create a Critter

 This frog was pre cut from Create a Critter

The tags were cut from TBBM at 4.00"

Again Create a Critter to cut this alligator

 Create a Critter for the Lion

                                    This skunk was cut using the Silhouette from the Silhouette Store

 Create a Critter for the Monkey as well

Here is the back.  

The whole book was bound together with small binding and each pocket has a tag in it to add any additional journaling or photos.

Thanks for taking a look, come back again soon!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!  I hope that you find yourself and you family in good health.  Today I couldn't help but think of all the things I have to be so grateful for.  I am truly blessed.

I also wanted to show another quick Easter Card I made.

The bunny is from Create A Critter.  The stamp is a $1 bin stamp. I used scrap paper from the other Easter card I had made earlier. Then the ribbon was also a scrap from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by on this beautiful Easter day.  Please come back again soon!

Happy Easter Eve!

Hello I hope everyone is having a great Saturday.  Our Weather here in AZ is beautiful.  Today I wanted to share another quick couple cards I made for Easter. 

I used Create A Critter on both of them.  The Stamps were $1 bin stamps and the Ribbon was from my stash.

The border punch I used is Martha Stewart.  I added Googly eyes on both of them to give them a little more personality.

Well thanks for stopping by and taking a look,  Please come back soon.

Easter Wishes!

Happy Friday! It's almost Easter and so I made a few Easter cards.  The other night I had completely lost my mojo.  I couldn't think of anything crafty if my life had depended on it.  So knowing that Easter was coming I was going to need to make cards I just took some time to cute out a couple of bunnies and chicks.  So when I finally got my mojo I back I was able to sit right down and make a card and not have to cut. 

The first card I made using the Chick from Create A Critter.  I cut it first using my Gypsy and hiding the face.  I have the Peachy Keen faces and well they just didn't look right.  It said for 3-4" and this was cut at 3.75".  I just added some googly eyes instead and used the original beak.

The plaid paper is from the Spring DCWV pack.  The pink paper I embossed using the 5x7 Polka Dots Cuttlebug Embossing folder.  The Easter wishes stamp was a $1 bin stamp punched out with an eKsuccess punch.  The ribbon is from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.  Please don't forget to leave a comment and come back again soon!!

My Life is Brighter because of you!

Happy Friday!  Today I have a happy card.  Well it makes me smile.  I found this stamp in a $1 bin and created the card around the sentiment.  There is nothing brighter then the Sun so I used the sun from the Create a Critter cartridge as my theme.

The paper I used are all scraps and the satin ribbon is also a scrap.  I outlined the card and the sun with yellow stickles.  I love how it makes it sparkle.

Well thanks for stopping by and please come back again soon!

Best of Luck

Hello! We've almost made it to another weekend. Yay! I wanted to share this card I made with you.  I've been so into the shape cards lately.  They are just so much fun to make.  The Cricut Craft Room makes it so easy too. 

 This shape is from the Lacy Label Cartridge. This little lady bug is from Create a Critter.  You can't see in the photo very well but I used lots of stickles. Then on the bottom right side I used the heart shaped iRock gems. The twine is Martha Stewart.

Thanks for stopping by. Please come back anytime.

I'm NUTS about you!

Hi! Yay its Friday! I need some house cleaning/crafting time. But mostly Crafting time, lol  I made the little squirrel using Create a Critter and it had been laying around my craft room and I really wanted to use it.  I printed this Sentiment up from the computer and I think it fit good.

I got to use my iRock.  I love it and need/want to use it more.  I used paper from a Recollection's Stack, All Girl.

Well that was it for today but thanks for stopping by. Please come back again soon!

Teacher Appriciation Gift

 This particular teacher's favorite color was purple and she liked cats so I pulled a couple of those things into her gift.

Thanks for looking, I should have another Teacher spotlight gift ready in 2 weeks and my entry for the Provo Craft E2 Layout contest coming soon!!!

                                                                  

Gift Card Holders

Hey everyone! If any of you are like me you watch everything that goes into the garbage because, "I might be able to do something with that."  Well that went for the Toilet paper rolls as well.  I wanted something cute to mail a gift card in.

The frog and the bee are from Create a Critter and the cute little dancing owl is from Twinkle Toes.

Here is a quick show of how I made these.

This cupcake was make using the Sweet Treats Cartridge. I used Martha Stewart

Tourmaline Glitter for the heart.

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bee-lieve gift set.

We are doing teacher spot lights at our church in our Primary.  These teachers are fabulous and we wanted to recognize them so a couple times a month we will pick one teacher and spot light them.  This particular teacher is our youngest of only 21. Her favorite color is Yellow so I went with a bee theme.

I got these little 6"x8" clip boards at our Dollar Tree. I covered it in a yellow w/ white polka dot paper from DCWV Everyday paper pack. I used the Create a Critter bee. I cut the wings out of Vellum to try and give it a real "wing" look.  The "bee-lieve" I used Quarter Note and welded together on the Gypsy. I didn't add anything with texture or dimension since most likely it will be used to write on.

Now these little composition notebooks I also bought at the Dollar Tree. They came in a 3 pk and measure in at @4"x31/2". I added the little bee, of course, from Create a Critter. The first photo was without Googlie eyes.  But I decided to add the Googlies. They just add so much I love googlie eyes. The paper again was a floral from DCWV Everday paper pack. I added clear stickles to the wings and some yellow ribbon. Oh and I inked around the edge a little with some black ink.

Then to put these little bee's in I made a quick little gift bag. I feel it needs more doodling or something but I had to hurry and do it in the morning last minute (suprise suprise). So I kept with the Bee theme. I used the Martha Stewart punch around the page loop punch. Added some ribbon and a bee and of course Googlie eyes.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  I will have a new theme every other week so hope to see you back soon!

Turtle ♥ Love

My 17 yr old little brother came over last night and asked me to make a card for his girlfriend because today is there 1 yr anniversary.  He wanted something different not a ordinary card. So I went with the Tri-fold because I only had a couple hours to make this card and Tri fold is easy peasy.  He said that she loves Turtles and she loves green and he wanted it to be somewhat romantic.  Ok that was a challenge. But this is what we came up with. I hope that she likes it.

The Turtles were cut from Create a Critter then added green stickles.  The heart and "Love" is from the sweat hearts Cartridge.  I did there names on the Gypsy using Quarter Note font and covered in Onyx glitter from Martha Stewart. Did a little doodling with my black Zig pen. Then for the final touch I added several jewels using the I-rock.

                                                  Thanks for looking, Hope to see you again soon!!