Cute little owl pillow boxes

There is a site called www.kerryspapercrafts.com that has the cutest craft ideas!  I don't know if this was her idea originally, but I saw it and fell in love.  I decided to try to put some together on my own.  I first picked up the pillow box file from SVGcuts.com- the Christmas Gift Bags and Boxes collection has the pillow box.  I then used the basic shape files in SCAL2 to cut out the circles for the feathers and eyes, the ovals for the wings, and 3 heart shapes for the feet and beak. For the beak I cut the heart in half.  I used rhinestones that match the paper for the twinkle in the eyes.  My 10 and 5 year old snapped them up!!  They are now adorning their 3D names on their bedroom walls!  I {heart} them so much!!

Create a Critter Owl Card

"it's your Birthday!"  The owl and branches are cut at 3".  The owl and one set of leaves are pop-dotted.
I cut the "hoot" out at real dial size set at 1".  I cut HOORAY using SCAL and the arial font, welded together.  I used the cuttlebug to emboss the leaves with divine swirls and the phrase was embossed with dots.  I inked all the edges and added the sparkly blue ribbon to match the owl.  I used my phone to take the pic, so the colors aren't as vivid as the actual card.

Mother's Day Cards

I spent this morning- actually the past few hours- huddled in my craft room enjoying the fact that my kids are back in school after Easter break and just the dog and I are home!!  I got a few mother's day cards completed and I love the way they turned out.  I used the floral accordian card from SVGcuts.com's Lunch with Mom kit and the Swallow Tail Butterfly card from their Edisto Island kit.  Lots of pieces in each card... LOTS!... but the end result is SOO worth the time :) All the patterned papers are from K&Co.  It's teacher appreciation week, so I better get to work on them next!

Cupcake Birthday Card

I treated myself to a little shopping at Joann Fabrics today!  I picked up the DCWV Celebration stack.  My youngest daughter has a friend's birthday to attend and I needed to make a card. So, once again, I used a file from SVGcuts.com's 3D birthday card kit.  The file includes a layered cupcake that I manipulated a bit in SCAL to get the pieces I wanted to use.  I knew I wanted to have the "frosting" white and a seperate piece of paper from the original sihlouette of a cupcake.  I covered the frosting piece in Glossy Accents and carefully sprinkled tiny multi-colored glass beads on it to make it appear to be cupcake sprinkles.  I'm happy with the result. :)  You can't see it in the photos, but the background cupcake paper has pretty blue foiled cupcake liners and the card "sparkles" in person.

Sympathy cards using cherry blossoms

4.25 x 5.5 card

5x7 card

Unfortunately, I've had to make 2 sympathy cards in 2 days :(  But, thankfully, Mary over at SVGcuts.com has the perfect freebie this week for such a card.  I also used two different freebie frames they have available on that site, too.  Another rainy day here, so I'm off to take the teens to the mall.  Wish me luck!

Rolled Roses or flowers, Spiral SVG

It's a rainy morning so what better way to spend it than in my craft room!  I came upon this website: Paper and Flowers  where a gifted crafter is selling a "rolled roses" svg for $.99.  Well worth the dollar- I tried to make one myself in Inkscape and failed miserably.  I have spent the morning cutting, gluing and glitter spritzing the roses you see here.  My 14 year old is just nuts about decorating stuff- anything- with my paper flowers that I BUY, not make.  She's gone through an entire large tube of them in a month.  So, I felt really good about using my scrap paper to make all these roses this morning!  Now, I'm off to do laundry :(- not so fun!

FREE SVG: Banner template and Spring Banner craft

I'm so in the mood for spring but it's still pretty darn  COLD!  Soccer games start today and we are going to need to bring lots of coffee and hot chocolate to stay warm. But, I'm trying to stay upbeat by creating a spring craft- a banner for my mantle. The pics I have show it on the wall.  The paper is from DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies... can't get any more spring than that!!

I created this Banner template in SCAL2 and you are free to download it!

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".

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!

Mongrammed / Personalized Lap Desks!! Wow! What a great find!!

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I went "hunting" at Tuesday Morning after dropping off the kids at school... there was  a 2 hour delay due to snow/ice.. whatever that was.  When I say hunting, I mean HUNTING!  Our Tuesday Morning is just a disaster zone.  I go to find interesting scrapbook stuff to embellish my cards.  The first time I went I hit the jackpot, but honestly, there hasn't been anything wonderful ever since... until TODAY!   What I found wasn't card making supplies, they were LAP DESKS!  They have colorful thick acrlyic tops and the bottoms are velcroed on, with a cover that can be unzippered and washed!  They were only $10 each... so I bought 3 for my 3 girls as Valentine's gifts after I put their names on them with vinyl. (My husband is always yelling at our 14 year old not to leave her laptop on her comforter!  Now, she won't.. I hope.) But, now that I'm thinking about it, I might save the last one to personalize for the 16 year old who is having her sweet 16 soon!  Really, my 4 year old doesn't need a lap desk just yet ;)  OR, maybe I should go back and buy them OUT!!  I used the Ravie font on SCAL to cut out their names on the cricut.  Quick and Easy Peasy!

Sweet 16 Birthday Gatefold Card

Another one of my daughter's friends is turning 16!  Mine still has almost 2 more years to go... and she's already planning her wannabe party!!  I really love this friend of hers and thoroughly enjoyed making her card!  I used The Paper Studio's "Poteeka Souffle" stack that I bought at Hobby Lobby a couple of months ago. I adore the papers in this stack!  They are fun, modern, and whimsical prints and colors.  I ran the chipboard numbers through my xyron and then glittered them. The bubble was cut using the basic shapes library on SCAL, and then I shadowed the bubble at .5 and cut it again to get the green background bubble.  Actually, I believe it's a cloud, as it was under the "weather" category of basic shapes. I found the sentiment online- cute:)

Advent Calendar Project

SVGcuts.com has a Christmas Advent Calendar file that I just HAD to try.  Now, while I enjoyed making it, I can promise you I will NOT be making them as gifts as it is a very time consuming project.  I really could have added much more to it, but I got to the point where I was ready to have it done! :)  I did emboss some of the pale green paper with my snowflake folder/cuttlebug.