Personalized Graduation Card

I'm baaaaaaack!!!!!!!!

I know it's been waaaaaaay too long!! I finally got motivated to get back into my crafting last night and made a card for a graduation party I am going to today. Nothing like waiting until almost the last minute, right?

This is the 3rd daughter graduating within 2 years from this family, so I wanted to make a card similar to the ones I made for her older sisters, but yet be a little different.

Here it is:

School colors=navy blue and orange

The photo was sent with the grad invite,

so I scanned it and cropped it into a star.

 

Below are the older twin girls' cards I made

2 years ago (prior to having my blog).

I used Gypsy Wanderings for the "Congrats" on those,

but everything else is pretty much the same.

 

Supplies:

• Cricut Life's A Party cartridge for "Congrats!" phrase
• Orange, navy blue and white cardstock
• Cuttlebug stars embossing folder
• Stampin' Up ticket corner punch
• Harrington PC font
• Foam Dots to give dimension to "Congrats! "phrase

The triangles that hold the check were just squares I cut in half. Then I carefully applied my ATG adhesive to the edge of the triangles where the check would be furthest from. The nice thing about ATG is that you can sort of roll it with your fingers to get it to be in the place you want it. That's what I did here.

Part of the reason why I've been away from crafting so long is that I got a puppy! Her name is Bella, and she got to meet Cricut tonight! This is how it went . . .

Isn't she the sweetest?? The photo below was the day we adopted Bella 1 month ago at the tender age of 6 months old! She is an American Bulldog mix. In my experience, mutts are the BEST! And the high school mascot where we now live is Bulldog, so now we have our Bella the Bulldog!

Most would say I rescued her from her shelter, but I'd say I feel rescued, too. :)

Enjoy this beautiful Summer day wherever you are!

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!