So excited! I'm in May's Chirp!

Happy Friday, All!

I know I haven't posted much in a while, but I just moved so life has been very scattered. I just got internet in my new place TODAY. So of course I had to play first on my crafty websites/blogs and discovered that my Scrappy Moms' Pinwheel centerpiece was featured in the Cricut May Chirp! So awesome!

I really miss crafting and hope to get back to it as soon as I get my new crafting digs situated. In the meantime, I will look forward to looking at all of your blogs for some extreme craftiness!

Happy Mother's Day to all of those moms out there!

Cards of Easters Past

As I have done for all of the other holidays I regularly make cards for, here are my cards from my Easters past:

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011's card is already on my blog, so you can find that post HERE.

 

So there they are! I like being able to go on my blog and use it as a resource to remember what I've done for past holidays. I also love seeing how my girls have grown into beautiful young ladies. Hope you enjoyed the cards, too! 

Easter Card 2012

Well it's still technically April, so I wanted to post my Easter Card I made for this year before the month is over. I also want to post my past Easter cards as a resource for me, so hopefully I'll get to that before the weekend ends.

Here is my VERY SIMPLE Easter card 2012:

On the front, a Spring-y photo of my girls ticket cornered

& orchid baker's twined (from Scrappy Moms)

On the inside, I have a strip from the front photo that

had to be cut off. The font is FZ Script 15 Italic.

So simple, huh? Life's been a bit hectic lately but I still wanted to send a card out, so simple was key.

The photo was taken on a beautiful day in March when my daughters and I went on a photo journey at our local arboretum. The three of us were so busy just snapping away and enjoying God's beauty. Yes, the original intent was for me to take Easter photos of my girls during this visit. But much to my delight, my daughters took just as many photos with their camera and iPod as I did. We had such a great time that we re-joined as members of the arboretum. I can't live in Colorado right now, so I guess I have to pay for God's Beauty for now! :)

Here are a few of my photos from that day:

Ahh, just looking at these again makes me remember that unseasonably warm and fun day. It was such a nice treat! God is GOOD.

Have a wonderful remainder to your weekend!

Dinosaur Train 2nd Birthday Party!

A few weeks back I went to my twin cousins' 2nd birthday party! I offered to help out with the decorations, which led me to get to know the boys' favorite TV show on PBS, Dinosaur Train! It really is an adorable show. And even though I initially suggested Elmo as the theme, I'm glad I was able to branch out into some other characters and personalize the party for my cousins.

Here's what I made:

Personalized party hats for the birthday boys!

I actually altered 2 party hats that were

in my party supply stash. They were a bit

girly before, but now they are fit for boys!

I got the Dinosaur Train graphics

online and printed them out.

The #2s were made with the Cricut Elmo's Party

cartridge and were glittered up with Stickles!

More Stickles on the names (also in Elmo font) . . .

And the letters were placed on foam tape for dimension.

And these were the banners I made!

Again, I used the Elmo font for the lettering,

but I ran the top layer through the Cuttlebug with the

Tiny Mosaic CB embossing folder for a dinosaur skin look!

The ribbons were all different between each of

the letters, but stayed with the color theme.

And again, I printed Dinosaur Train

graphics from the internet.

For added fun, I adhered a photo

of each boy to a letter of their banner.

Eliot is peeking through!

I had some more photo fun when making

these small little kid favors. I edited the twins

into a Dinosaur Train graphic! Everyone got

a kick out of these tags. They were attached

to a bottle of bubbles purchased at our local

dollar store 3 for $1. Simple and cheap!

Just some good ole' curling ribbon to attach the tags!

As part of my gift to the boys, I found these awesome

personalized T-shirt transfers from a store on Etsy!

The store is called customtshirtdesigns, but for some

reason I can't find any items for sale right now for them.

Maybe they're not making them anymore? Gasp!

But aren't the boys so cute in them?

They say, "Look who's 2" and then their

names are on the bottom of the 2. So perfect!

And of course I had to make matching cards!

I went with the design of the tshirt transfer, but with

the color and embossing from the banners.

The letters for the cards were cut using

the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge. That is

definitely a favorite Cricut font of mine.

I use it A LOT.

I would have preferred to weld the card together

instead of adhering the tops of the numbers together,

but my Gypsy had to be replaced by Provo Craft (grrr)

and I hadn't used the Cricut Craft Room yet.

Some day I will dabble in it.

And yes, the sentiment stamp on the inside

is a Scrappy Moms stamp! It's from the

Simple Sentiments set. Love my SMS!

Don't the twins look adorable in the hats?

Ok, it took some major work to get this photo since they

didn't enjoy wearing the hats, but it was worth it!

They had a great birthday party!

Thanks for stopping by! I think that's it for party posts for me for a while. Hopefully I can get my Easter card up before the end of the month (yikes!). Have a great weekend all!

Chocolate Birthday Party

I know I mentioned this party last month, and now I'm finally getting around to post. I helped a friend out who was having a chocolate-themed birthday party for her 13-year old daughter. That 13-year old also happens to be good friends with my 13-year old! :)

The first thing I made was a centerpiece. If you remember from my month of being a Scrappy Moms guest designer, I made a pinwheel centerpiece for a chocolate party. Well, the colors of the party changed, so the centerpiece had to as well! Yeah, like I'm going to bring something that doesn't match- LOL!

I used Cricut-Imagine's Bubblegum Stripes

cartridge to make the patterned paper.

The pinwheel die is the first metal die ever from

Scrappy Moms! It's very cute and super easy to use!

Now for the next few items, I only made the labels and tags using my PC and added the ribbon. And it was without the Cricut (I know-shocker)! The culinary crafty mom of the birthday girl made the actual items.

Such a cool concept - Hot Chocolate on a Stick!

I added the Grape Fizz Trendy Twine and tag.

Aren't these jars adorable? They're from

Hobby Lobby. I used address labels & my

Print Shop program to design the labels.

I helped fill the jars with the sugar scrub and

WOW did it smell yummy - just like brownies!

The play-dough also smelled yummy,

but I was told by the birthday girl's brother

that it did NOT taste yummy- LOL!

The containers were sold in a set of 4

from the local dollar store.

I thought my friend was ingenious for using a paint container

cut apart for the homemade chocolate lip gloss!

All of these fun treats went into a pail that

each girl got to decorate at the party

and then were taken home as the favor! So fun!

And as the star of the show and what started

the idea for this theme, the chocolate fountain!

It was quite the hit at this chocolately party!

We're almost to Friday - YES!! Thanks for popping by. Have a great weekend my crafty friends!