Christmas Tree 2014

I was really excited with the way my Christmas tree turned out this year. I made the green bulbs with mop n glow and green glitter.

Green homemade bulbs with silver and black accents

All silver Christmas tree. I added tulle to the strand of lights to add a little more pizzaz!

Black and gold Christmas tree

Glitter Mason Jar Candle Lights

This was extremely easy and fast to make.  Buy a mason jar, add painters tape around, then add white glue, glitter (I always use Martha Stewart glitter), wait an hour before removing the tape, then spray with acrylic to keep glitter from falling off.  I added a flameless candle from Michaels, and it added a little extra to my Halloween table decorations.

30 Sucks (Centerpiece and Lollipops)

30 SUCKS Centerpiece...I had seen something similar years ago on the Cricut message board and thought it was adorable.  

We went to our local Dollar Tree and found the green container, floral styrofoam, purple shredded paper for filler, and green metallic tissue paper.  I wanted all the lollipops to color coordinate to our Mardi Gras theme and went around town looking for orange (gold), purple and green.  Who would of know my husband would find the remaining green ones at the car wash.

Cut outs with Sweet Treats
30=2" (cut off the candle top from numbers)
Scallop Shadow Feature=5.25"
SUCKS = pre-made letters I had.

Happy 30th Birthday Jamie!

Jamie's family threw her a surprise 30th birthday party with a Mardi Gras theme.  If I have time to make a card or make a gift I love to have my colors match the theme of the party.  So of course it inspired me to use gold, purple and green glitter paper to hand make a 30th Birthday Card.  Unfortunately my computer is on it's last leg, and kept booting me out of Cricut Craft room ( I would of done a Happy Birthday on the front too).

Cut with Sweet Treats at 4.75"

Baby Kaelyn Banner Using Cricut

I just received  Letter Envy Font, my new cartridge from being a Cricut Circle member and wanted to try it out.  I was asked to make a banner for our friends baby shower and decided to use the Crest cutout.  

I found silver glitter chipboard at Marshall's for only $1.99 (score)!!!

Letter Envy Font- Crest=6.5"

Sugar and Spice-Flowr4-s=5"

Flow4-s (shadow)=4.25"

Christmas Tree 2011

Every year I love my tree more and more.  This year I found a lot more pink and black bulbs and accessories to keep adding.  Lucky for us they just put in a Hobby Lobby only 30 mins away...my new favorite store.

Tried wrapping in 2 different papers...loved the idea I found on pinterest.com

Custom label initials using my Cricut...Mini Monograms and Plantin SchoolBook all different sizes.

No kids for us yet but still had to buy the Elf on the Shelf...everyday either my husband or I moved it as a joke.  One day it was on the moose...some how the moose even become accessorized.

Happy 30h Birthday Nasim...and were off to VEGAS!

That's right Nas' 30th birthday is tomorrow so we are all headed off to Las Vegas to celebrate.

For her card I welded the 30 from Sweet Treats at 4.5" and also made the Happy Birthday from ST as well.

Biome Ocean Project for Kids Elementary Class

My little friend is in 1st grade and had to do an ocean project in a box.  She chose to do it in a bankers box to give her a little more room.

I helped cut out the sea life animals using Life is Beach cartridge on my Cricut.  After cutting out all the die cuts, we ran them through the Xyron and then added all the different colors of Martha Stewart glitter.

I think she did a wonderful job putting together her project....(I know she must have the best project in class)

She then hung most of the fish and seahorse from fishing line to make them swim.

Shark, dolphin, octopus, crab, fish, seahorse, sun, waves, coral, seaweed, starfish, shells, clam, real rocks, and cotton balls for clouds

Love the way she leaned the octopus, and starfish on a real rock

Little crab with googly eyes, looks like Sebastian from Little Mermaid 

Placed a Martha Stewart pearl in the shell to make it look like a clam

Pink seahorse

Handmade Birthday Cards

Here are a couple easy handmade Happy Birthday cards to make.

Pink Happy Birthday Card

Happy Birthday handmade card used Celebrate with Flourish cut at 3 inches, for a 6" x 6" card.

Corset Bridal Shower Card

Yesterday was Christi's lingerie Bridal Shower, and it was a lot of fun!  I made her a corset bridal shower card using Tie the Knot, since I put it in DS to cut, I started to stretch so I have no idea of the size.

I used SU Teeny Tiny Wishes "for your shower" with Basic Black

Couple Girly Happy Birthday Cards

This first card was made using Sweet Treats and embossed with Swiss Dots, unfortunately I was in a hurry when I took the picutre, and the coloring is not the best.

The butterfly is very similar to the one I did last week, I just changed up the colors.  Butterfly is from Sentimentals and embossed with Flourished Frame.

Ice cream cone was made using Sweet Treats, and embossed with Floral Fantasy.

Valentine's Day Card

I have waited over a week to give my husband his handmade “Box of Chocolate” card I had made. I am usually making a card minutes before an event but this card came to me so easily. Since my hubby is an “anonymous” follower I knew he would see it if I posted it.

All the hearts were done with Sweethearts cartridge, and I used an iridescent white for the card, metallic gold, and red glitter paper, I also used a metallic brown for pieces of the chocolate. Stamped with SU stamp “happy valentine’s day”.