Joy' legwarmers

Joy got a little knitting machine for her birthday yesterday and here's what she made:












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Cindy Loo Paisley card

This was an image off of the Cindy Loo cart used with the coordinating embossing folder. The layering took awhile, but I'm happy with the result. I used my Scrappy Moms Stamps & photo paper for the white paper. Have a great day!

"Connection" Valentine

This was a fun challenge from The Cuttlebug Spot to use children's games as inspiration.  My kids are really into Connect 4 right now and the colors and design is so graphic and fun that I decided to use that as my springboard.  To keep things quick, I used a large heart punch and a white Souffle pen to write, "We have a CONNECTION, Valentine!"  Then I ran the whole front of the card through a nice spots embossing folder.  Hope you like it!

Joy's Paperdoll Invitations

 I used my cricut rewards to order Paper Doll Dress Up. Joy (almost 7) and I love it!  It has the blackout feature on the doll bodies, so we get to use our Peachy Keen Stamps.  She embossed the dresses and cards with the cuttle bug and adhered the dolls with pop dots.  It was a fun mother/daughter project. ;) Comments welcome.

Birdie Birthday Wishes

I used the sweet birthday chick off of Once Upon a Princess. I embossed the sentiment and used pretty yellow glitter paper for the chick. This will be for a good chick-friend of mine's birthday coming up. I am submitting it to the BBTB2 challenge this week HERE. Have a blessed day.

Happy New Year!!

I am so happy to be posting after being AWOL for a few weeks. I have been crafting like mad, but I was in a bit of a frenzy and just couldn't post it all. I will save a few fun Christmas-y things for inspiration at the beginning of next Christmas season (sorry, I didn't mean to go to next Christmas already! Do forgive me!) Anyhow, I am having a New Year's Eve party this year and got the itch to decorate which is kind of funny since I never did get into the Christmas-decorating spirit too much this year. But, I am excited to show you what I created today.

I'd seen those banners everywhere last year and was so happy to use my Country Life cart for the font (already in the pennants). Now, I really wanted to use this glitter paper I got for cheap, but knew from experience that my cricut mat did not take kindly to the glitter shedding all over it, so I glued them onto the glitter paper and cut out with my "vintage" decorative-edge scissors! {tickled pink!} I also used the "happy" from Beyond Birthdays (I just wanted it pre-welded so I found the "O Happy Day" phrase and used that). The beautiful clock is from Graphically Speaking and I did glue a tiny rhinestone in the center. I also strung it all together with some sturdy ribbon and adhered the "2011" with removable adhesive so it will be re-usable, too!

Next, I got these pretty balls from Target today 50% off. Don't they match the banner perfectly?

There were 50 for $7.50 and they came with the silver ties! (I did have to tie them, but I have an excellent almost-7-yr-old helper for that!)

Here's how I used those:

That was in my dining room. My pretty mural that my mama painted may make them a bit hard to see.

And here:

That's whimsical to me and reminds me of the pom-pom trim you can sew on stuff. (Oh, my son just informed me one just fell...maybe I should have dusted before I taped them all up there!)

Well, I hope you have had a beautiful holiday thus far and enjoy a Happy and Safe New Year's, too! May God richly bless you and your home in 2011!

Wrap it Up - first try!

This is my first try with the Wrap it Up cart. I thought I would really enjoy the little boxes in particular. The princess castle is so sweet. I am not sure if I did something wrong, but I did have to trim a bit off one edge so it would not overlap into one of the windows. It's very small (only about 2.5 x 2.5") cut "Fit to Size" on 12 x 12 paper. I think it turned out pretty cute. :)