St. Patrick's Day Card using Cricut Lite Celebrate with Flourish and Paper Doll Dress Up

I'm entering another challenge- over at Cricut Cardz Challenge #63.  This week's challenge is to create a St. Patrick's Day card using any cartridge or colors but NO SHAMROCKS!  The sentiment came from Celebrate with Flourish, but I had to CUT the shamrock off!! :( kinda sad.  The Pot came from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I had a lot of trouble with the "the" that comes on the cartridge- I was cutting the sentiment at 2 1/2" and the "the" was in cursive and refused to cut well AT ALL!  After cutting it 3 seperate times, I finally used SCAL to cut "the".

Create a Critter and Just Because Cards "Wacky Wednesday #27 Challenge" card

It's been a long time since I've done a challenge card and with the Valentine rush over I decided to get back into them!  The first one I came upon this morning was the Wacky Wednesday Challenge over at More Than Favors.  This week's challenge is a Farm Theme.  The piggy came from Create a Critter and the sentiment came from Just Because Cards.  Hard to see in the photo but I put glossy accents on his nose and it's so cute!  Thanks for the challenge Paula!

Frame decorated with Tim Holtz Fragments

I've seen quite a few wooden frames that have been painted and then decorated with Tim Holtz Fragments and I thought it would be fun to give it a try.... and I was right :)  My 4 year old's room is hot pink with frogs and butterflies so I pulled out some papers from my stacks that coordinated with her room.  I modge podged the fragments onto the paper and then cut around the edges as closely as possible.  I painted the wooden frame with acrylic hot pink paint and then sprayed it with an acrylic sealer .  When the frame was dry, I modgepodged the fragments onto the frame.... and this is how it turned out!  I really Pops in her room and I just love it!

Thank you cards for Basketball Coaches

My daughter's high school needed someone to create some cards and "gift certificates" for her basketball coach, the assistant, and the boys' basketball coach, too.  Yay ME!  What a fun project to volunteer for!  The assistant is also a Spanish teacher at the school, so a friend of mine suggested using "gracias" rather than thank you:)  I liked that idea!  The font for all 3 cards is called "freshman" and it's a free font.  It welds together beautifully!  The basketball and megaphone came from SVGcuts.com's Sports Lovers kit.  The sihlouette of the player came from some place online- a freebie I found.  The gift certificates I created in MS Publisher... so I'm not going to be able to share those with you... but trust me, they are cute! :)

Valentine's favors for classmates

I finally finished them!!  All 3 "critters" are from SVGcuts.com.  The smarties butterflies are for my daughter's 4 year old preschool class.  I used my ATG gun to adhere the smarties to the middle of the butterfly.  Her name is on the back of the butterflies.  My middle daughter's 4th grade class is getting the boxes of Sweetarts.  The boys get the monsters and the girls get the cats! :)  Now, just what to get the teachers?!?

Mini Baby Scrapbook using YourStory Photo for shower gift and a Onesie Card

 

 

I am having such trouble with all these photos!! Maybe that's telling me  I uploaded just TOO many!  But, I wanted to show you all each pocket page of this mini scrapbook that I made with my YourStory Photo!  This one is a 5x7 book. It is my first project and I so enjoyed it, and I spent SO much time on it the last few days.  Honestly, I kept messing up paper cuts.. and finally opted to try a new mat.  Ah, the smell of a new mat... swweeet!  My friend is having a baby...yup, you guessed it..a GIRL!  I guess I'm getting up there in age and not as many friends are having babies this past year.  I was excited to finally put something together using my DCWV Nana's nursery stack!  All of the little interior embellishment cuts are from "baby elements" from SVGcuts.com.  Once again, they had everything I needed!  I used glossy accent on the heart on the onesie, and the baby bottle.  I flocked the row of ducks and I used the cuttlebug on the moon's hat. I also used Martha Stewart fine glitter on the moon and rattle. I cut the front "baby girl" sentiment using the RAVIE font, nudged and welded together.  The background bubble is just one of SCAL's basic shapes- flower, that I warped to fit.  I used a Memory Makers curling tag showing baby feet on the front ribbon.  The left side pages all have Martha Stewart satin photo corners placed for 4x6 photos.  Each page is a pocket to keep whatever momma wants from month to month.  The onesie card I found on a website somewhere... so sorry I can't remember where!  I downloaded the file and then forgot to save the site!  If you recognize it, please comment where it came from! 

Valentine's boxes from SVGcuts.com

Just a quick pick of the SIXTEEN boxes I put together for my daughter's 4th grade class Valentine's Party.  They are going to personalize and decorate them during the party.  I still have one more to make for the teacher!  I'll post pics of their final masterpieces after Valentine's Day!