Birthday Girl!

Good Morning all!

Just skipping through here real quick. Jory is in his Senior year, but is also taking college classes and some more of those start today! :0 So I am on the run.

I am going to show you the birthday goodies I created for my niece who just turned 11 last week.

First off, you should know she had a skating birthday party!!! Not that you could not have guessed that after you see everything...tehe!

First I created her invites using the FREE template from Lauren Meader (its located over on the Papertrey site HERE)  Its supposed to be a stocking, but hey....its a skate this time:-)

I used my cricut and the storybook cart to created "LETS ROLL".

The banners for her "BIRTHDAY GIRL" and "GRACEN" I also used my cricut...these where super fun, and also way EASY with my cricut! :-) My sister used te "Gracen" banner behind the candy table on the mirror, and "Birthday Girl" on the front of the candy table. Is that table not ADORABLE?

Lastly I made her a set of 20 monogrammed cards  for thank yous and other notes (she writes her big brother now, he left for college this year...so sweet!)

Hope you enjoyed this quick preview of her fun stuff....and have  super blessed week!

Wedding cupcakes!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Today is a quickie post, off and running!

Here is the cupcake wedding cakes my sister-in-law and I made. :-)

Believe it or not the cupcake stand was made on the cheap! :-) We picked up the large glass mirror on the bottom at Ikea for $15, the clear glass and smaller mirrors are from Hobby Lobby at $3 each after sale prices, the centers are the glass candle holders from the Dollar tree for a $1 each:-)

We glued it all together and it really turned out beautiful! We will forsure be using it at my daughters wedding next July for the candy table! :-)

Enjoy....and have a super day!

A great contest! Some Odd Girls!

Go and check out the "Some Odd Girls" blog for a fun contest to name their newest stamp! Its the cutest little monkey ever!

I have choosen Jory, Chongo/Changa, Peanut, & Munch-kin. We shall see is if I win, but maybe it will be you. Go enter your name and give it a try!

Have fun and happy weekend!

Wedding...this way

Well HELLO out there!

I feel like I have not been here is forEVER! goodness! Things have been busy busy for us here...so I am going to show you a few things I came up with for a friend of our wedding.

They needed signs to point folks to there grand event, so first of you see my MOCK up poster. (I forgot to take pictures of the finished product! UGH) But you get the idea, and of course the lines where not on the final pieces.

I picked up poster board from the dollar tree for 2 for $1, heavy foam board for a $1 piece. I created all of the letters and the arrow with my Cricut Expression (I so LOVE my machine!) I did the signs on the poster board, then backed them with the foam board to make them sturdy. I purchased a contractors packet of stacks and that is how we placed them along the route. I made five and they really helped people out, since the wedding was a ways out in the country.

I will be back tomorrow to show you what else we did for this wedding, stay tuned, you wont want to miss the cool trick we used for the cupcakes!

tata till then! :-)

Charity DT Stamp- Sneek Peek!

HAPPY DAY CRAFT BUDDIES!

I am so excited to show off this set! I'd also like to take a minute to thank Laura for giving me the opportunity to help create this set and for being a part of the DT4.  I have enjoyed each and every member of the DT4, and getting to know you. Ms. Laura you are an amazing lady, and I am glad to call you friend.

An exciting new thing happened with DT4. Our team was given the opportunity to create a brand new stamp set for a charity of our choice. We have chosen Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This charity supports the research and cure for childhood cancer. You can click on the link to find out more about their foundation.

We have named our charity stamp set "LEMONADE STAND". This set will release on Wednesday September 1st, 2010 on the Creative Clear Stamps Store website. The size of this set is 6x8 and features 20 clear stamps. The cost of this set is $20.00, of which $10.00 will be donated to the foundation throughout the month of September. The first 10 orders will receive a free secret bonus item with their purchase.

The Creative Clear Stamps Store will be closed  tomorrow Tuesday August 31, to prepare for some changes to the site before the release. A new rewards program is headed our way!

Here is my sneak peek of this set!


This first card I made for my friend that is going through breast cancer treatment right now. I gave this to her a couple of weeks ago with a meal. She is a really sweet lady, and my neighbor. Please pray for her, she is a true gift of a friend.

The next set is also for her, I will be delivering it tomorrow. It has a card, a homemade body scrub that is Lemonade-Tea Scrub, and a little notes clip so she can attach doctors appointment cards to it.  I think she will enjoy it!

I hope you enjoy this and enjoy the rest of the hop! This is such a great cause and I would love to see them get a lot of donation from this set. 

Thanks for hopping by and don't forget to order your "LEMONADE STAND" during the month of September and help us find a cure for childhood cancer!

Click the link below to continue the hop and see what amazing creations that Joni has done.








Laura
Tina
Shelly - That's ME! :-)
Joni
Michelle

CUPIECAKES - Fun challenge & FREE DIGI!

Happy FRIDAY!

WOOT! Hubby will be home this evening! I have really missed him! :-)

Today I am sharing one of MANY cupcake projects you will be seeing over the next couple of weeks. (My son's girlfriend, who happens to be one of my best friends daughter has a birthday in September, she will be 16 and she LOVES cupcakes!) The first little project is a bookmark...I had to remove the top of this one, due to the fact it is a bookmark and would not survive the beating I am sure it will take! 

Next I worked on her gift bag, I am thinking I will add HEY CUPEYCAKE words to the top...still thinking on that, but the giant cupcake is so flippin' cute! 



So do you like that CUPCAKE????  Isn't it ADORABLE! and the DIGI is FREE! Thats right....FREE! 2 Cute Rubber Stamps is running a little 2 Cute challenge, and it runs to Sept 6th! So you better move it and go, get your FREE DIGI, and CREATE! :-) ha!

Who knows you may win some more of their super cute stamps! You should check out there store....fun stuff!

Enjoy your weekend!

TWELVE & All from SCRAPS!

Happy Thursday Chica's!

Hope today is finding you getting to craft a little! I have twelve cards here to share with you today...YEA! you read that right TWELVE!

I signed up for a little swap over on SCS. The goal was to use all scraps, except from your base and embellies! Lets just say I have enough scraps to back 1000 more! (rolling my eyes) SERIOUSLY! I just can't seem to get rid of some of those papers!

Hope you enjoying seeing what I came up with for each card, as they are all different!

TA TA! Enjoy your weekend!