Pop Up Baseball Card

A birthday card for my precious son who is turning 11 tomorrow!


He lives and breathes baseball right now. I knew I wanted to make a pop-up card and wanted it to be simple, too. The stamps are from two Close to my Heart stamp sets called "Baseball" & "All Star".


I really wasn't in the mood to cricut all those letters and glue them on individually...so I used the awesome cricut markers! Sooo much easier. They have a stamped look, right? especially since I inked the edges.


I used an old sticker I had that was already 3-d. I adhered it to a piece of cardstock, and then cut it out so it wouldn't stick where it wasn't supposed to. I also used the method of sewing to stick my two pieces of cardstock (infuse and outside) together...no glue, so no lumps or bumps. Yay!


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Thanksgiving Lamp

Isn't this fun? I just love these sweet pilgrims from A Child's Year & the sentiment is from Lyrical Letters.

I used chocolate brown vinyl and used the "Flip" feature on the Expression because I adhered it to the inside if the lamp shade. I also used transfer tape to make it easier to stick on.

It's kind of like a little surprise. See how it's barely visible with the light off?


It could be peeled off and discarded after the holiday, but I'm a bit tempted to buy another inexpensive shade (this was $15 from Walmart) and make one for Christmas. But then I'll have to store extra shades. Hmmm...,what do you think?


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Quick Card for a Grad

I made this from Lyrical Letters and embossed the background and used a gel pen to outline the "Ta Da!" sentiment.


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Life is our Classroom Layout

I made this whimsical layout for the My Creative Classroom challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2. You needed to use the word "classroom" in your project. I was inspired to use the word "classroom" because we homeschool, and even though we definitely have "school time" each day, we all know that we are all constantly learning new things with each new experience.

I used Design Studio to cut out the title with Lyrical Letters--one of my favorite font cartridges. So many great fonts on that cart!



The supplies (and part of the LO idea) were from a kit from My Personal Scrapper. Love the colors and patterns.


This big scalloped circle was something new I tried with Design Studio. I made the scalloped circle huge and slid it way over on the mat (on the computer screen) and cut it out.



I used the negative image so I still have this great design element for another layout out of that great lettered pattern:


I added rhinestones and awesome dimensional flower stickers.





The great thing about machine stitching is that it doesn't have to be perfect and it still looks good.


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Cute Pair Card

I just finished this card...the glue is still wet! I thought it was a cute pun for the Peachy Keen Challenge and would be great for a bridal shower or wedding (or twins!). The cut was from Lyrical Letters and was great because I could just stamp without having to use DS to hide the cut or anything. The sentiment is a Scrappy Moms Stamp.












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Menu Board

So excited to have this pretty and functional board in my kitchen. I saw this in a great post on A Girl and a Glue Gun. She gives great instructions and sells them, too.








The main thing I had to change was that I had to use Velcro since my acrylic calendar was simply too thick for the magnets to stick through that. I could have saved a lot of money if I'd figured that out in the beginning and not been so stubborn about it. You know, "I'm going to MAKE this work!" Well, even someone as hard-headed as me will give up after approximately 8 coats of that expensive magnetic paint! :)








But I love the final product.

Another thing I have to share.  One of my friends said, "You should title your post, 'How to drive your kids crazy'."  Here's why: for the first couple of weeks when I had this up, I had not been to the store for a true menu-planning-grocery-shopping session.  So I had just randomly thrown all the entrees up on the board for aesthetics.  Everyday, my 9 yo would say, "Oh, good, we're having fill-in-the-blank for dinner tonight," and I would say, "Sorry, not tonight," he'd say, "But, mom, the board says...."  I wasn't intentionally trying to drive him nuts, you know, but it was funny to me, I admit. :)

I used the cricut Storybook cartridge to cut out the little scalloped squares at 1 1/4".  I also cut out the pretty flower/medallion off this cart.  Also used From My Kitchen for "dinner" and the Lyrical Letters, Loopy for the other words.

Here is a picture of the board in action:


I have a little glass dish next to it to store extras and I keep a list of new recipe names I want to add when I make more. Have a blessed day!  I'd love to see your boards if you make one.
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Scrapbook Pages 2 for Logan

These are a few more of the pages I did for Logan's book. I loved the pic of him raising his hands in victory. The font is my much loved Pooh font. The layout of the Sante Fe River comes from A Child's Year, both the font and images, except the sun, which is from Accent Essentials and it's stickled (I had to sneak a little glitter in!). The corner flourishes out of the dark purple are from Story book. The "Coffey Kids" are out of another great Font, Lyrical Letters.

Easter Banner

This was my first time cutting out fabric with the Cricut. I used the Lyrical Letters cart for the letters. They are cut from white satin. I used a wonder under-type product and then used the mirror image so I could place the right side down on the cricut and the blade would go through the paper (rather than the fabric) side first. I'm so pleased with the way it turned out. You can't see it in the pictures, but all elements are lined with gold foil which really catches the light during service. Hurray for "cricuting" for the Glory of God!

Lyrical Letters Cards

These were so much fun to make. I've had this cart for a while, and just recently discovered the awesome card sentiments and shapes. Hope you like them!