Owl Baby Shower

Hey everyone!! I hosted a baby shower for a high school friend last month and it was so much fun!!! She's having a little boy and is due in a short 3 weeks. The nursery theme is owls so I took it from there and did a blue and grey theme. Loving grey right now!!!

Here's the invites. I love how it stretched my creativity to do something different and the end result was exactly what I had pictured. On the back I put a bigger owl silhouette with her registry information.

 Wishes for Baby. This is becoming a staple for all baby showers. I love peaking at some of the answers people come up with and it will be something to treasure for years to come.

 Cover of the Words for Baby

Words of wisdom for the mommy. I put them on a book ring so that she can hang them in the nursery for those moments when she needs a little advise.

 Banner

 Favors - I did smarties and the tag says "Thanks for giving a HOOT!"

 I made three of these to put on the food table. Even though my thumb was numb when I was done, they're just so cute! Oh, the gummy bears in the background were because she is craving them. And just so happened I crave them too! :)

 Wreath for the front door. My mom has a thick (think 3-4" thick) door so we a traditional wreath hook wouldn't work. I picked up a magnet wreath hook thing that I thought would work since most of the door is glass. That didn't work either because the glass was thick too. So I turned to my stand-by... packing tape. Worked like a charm and wasn't too noticeable.

Details

Invites:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Create a  Critter 2.25 & 3"

Peachy Keen - Bird Faces & More

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Words of Wisdom:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Create a Critter 1.25"

Wise Words for Baby:

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Cherry Limeade 2" shadow

Create a Critter 2.5"

Thankful for U

Hi everyone!! I'm finally getting all of my pictures off of my camera so you should be seeing me for awhile while I update all the pictures I had on my camera.

This was a card I made, *cough* back in November. I'm so sorry for being so far behind but I am thankful for all of you that stayed with me during that first trimester blahs. :)

Details:

Create a Critter 3.25"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

Hampton Arts - Woodland Friends

DCWV - Harvest Gathering

Pink by Design - Bracketful

Gems

Reindeers Galore!

I made a bunch of Christmas cards to have at my last craft show. And my Gramma bought them all! So now I need to make more for my show this weekend. If you're around Belfair WA, come say hi!

I made a box of five for each design.

Details:

Create a Critter 3.75"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

scraps

DCWV - Christmas Combo, Christmas & Winter

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

Spellbinders Labels 8 (cut in half)

Wishing You Sparkle

**Today is the last day for voting on the Master Craft challenge. I'd love it if you would head over and vote for me. :) (I'm #27)

I had a craft show last weekend (it went pretty well, by the way) and figured I should make some boxes of Christmas cards to have. It's a good thing I did because my Grandma stopped buy and bought them all!! haha 

Here's the first set I made. Since you can get 6 mats from a 12x12 sheet of paper, I made a box of 5 and an individual card.

Details:

K & Company - Green Starlight

Create a Critter 2"

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

scraps

An Apple for the Teacher

What's the deal with teachers and apples? Is it just because apples are ready to pick? Anyways, I made this super cute, super easy, card for Carver's teacher to go with her water tumbler and Via.

Details:

Create a Critter 2.75"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

scraps 

Pink by Design - Our Teachers

Gone Fishin

Chris's dad's birthday was May 30th and yes, I'm just now posting his card. Anyways, he LOVES to fish, as in he fishes almost every day. So of course, I had to make a fishing inspired card for him. I wanted to take a different approach than the fish on the fishing pole and this is what I came up with.

 Carver really wanted a fish so I put one on the inside.

Details:

Create a Critter - bowl 4", fish 1.5"

scraps

Marcella - Clove

Pink by Design - Woodland Critters

Giraffe Thank Yous

I've had to send a lot of thank you cards to people that have brought food, contributed to Noah's Memorial Fund or have helped us in some way. I needed the cards to be super simple because of the amount of cards I'd have to make, so here's what I came up with. This embossing folder is one of my favorites and I love how it just makes the card. :)

Details:

Create a Critter 4"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Core'dinations Jet Stream

Cuttlebug Thanks embossing folder

Noah's Announcement

 Here's Noah's announcements. I love the simplicity of it! The giraffe paper gave me a kick though. I found it on ebay but when that seller didn't have enough, and I couldn't find it anywhere else, I went to the manufacturer and placed my first sale at a wholesale only company. I must admit, it was pretty scary. haha

 

Details:

Create a Critter 3.5"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Core'dinations Jet Stream

The Paper Studio - Giraffe Print

Final Set of Onesie Cards

Here's the final set of onesie cards I made for Sara's shower. I love this layout, can you tell?!? haha

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
Create a Critter 2.25"
Paper Pizazz - Soft Trims Lavender Swirls
Recollections - white & kraft
CB - D'vine Swirls
ribbon
Core'dinations Grapevine

Valentine Cards for my Boys

Here's the cards I made for my boys. I have a really hard time coming up with ideas for Chris. But after I got my card from Chris (I'll post that later) and it used the stamp "You are the bacon to my eggs" and he said that he loves bacon, that gave me the idea to use something I love. :)


Details:
Love You A Latte 5"
Bazzill Mud Pie
Recollections kraft
Core'dinations Burgundy

Challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut - fun with puns
Celebrate the Occasion - Valentines day, use a heart


Here's the card for my monkey. He loved it!!

Details:
Create a Critter 4"
Value Pack Chocolate, tan
Bazzill Desert Marigold
DCWV The Green Stack
ribbon
Pink by Design - Jungle Fever

So glad we're friends

First of all, sorry for the lack of posting. I have been busily working on Christmas cards, making presents and favor bags for a Christmas party. I got a couple projects done yesterday so I feel comfortable being on the computer right now. :)

My mom's fiance wanted 20 cards to send to his mom as a Christmas present. Originally he wanted 5 sets of 4 cards. This was the first set I made for her. I made another set yesterday (I couldn't take a picture because my hubby took my camera to work). And then while my mom was here for the day yesterday, we decided to do 4 sets of 5 cards and I pulled two sets I already had done to finish the 20 cards. Yay for getting it done and saving time in the process!!!

*Blogger won't turn the picture (it's right side up on my computer but blogger turns it. So you'll have to crane your neck a little. Sorry!*

Details:
Create a Critter 3.25"
Value Pack white & black
Bazzill Chablis
Recollections Light Pink Stripes
twine
Stampin Up! Ticket stub punch
Pink by Design "Friends to the End"

First project on Cricut Craftroom

Here the first project I actually cut with the new Cricut Craftroom. I have everything for our Christmas cards and the favors for my family get together all set up for me to cut them. I love the Craftroom!!! I didn't want the Gypsy because I didn't want to have to link up my cartridges and the screen was so small. Well, my computer goes pretty much everywhere with me so this was the perfect solution. It was definitely worth the wait. :)

Anyways, onto the card. I'm having a Miche purse party next weekend and needed to send out invites. All I did was take the purse from Create a Critter (it's one of the accessories) and sized it to about 4.25x5.5 so that it would fit in the envelopes. I was able to get 5 to a mat and I made 20. Then I took my trusty ruler and measured about how much room there was for the black mat (3.5 x 3.25) and then went to work on creating a Publisher document for the information. That was cut at 3.25 x 3.

Super easy and they turned out pretty cute. :)

Details:
Create a Critter
Bazzill Chablis
Wausau Paper black

Link Parties:
Joyful Stamper

Big Birthday Smiles

Today is my mom's "friend's" birthday today. Carver picked out the alligator and so that's what we went with. Its one of those that we cut out a few days ago.

Today is my niece's 5th birthday party (her actual birthday is on the 8th) so I'm making this short. Have a great weekend!!

Details:
Create a Critter 2"
Value Pack Chocolate
DCWV Brights stack
Marcella K - Clove
Pink by Design "Crikey"

Challenge:
Whimsical Designs - anything goes

Link Parties:
Joyful Stamper
The Idea Room
Blue Cricket Designs

It was THIS big!!

A couple days ago, Carver and I cut a few things out on the cricut, knowing that I was going to make some birthday cards. This is one of them and it's for my brother-in-law's birthday on Saturday. He's big into fishing and hunting so this is perfect for him. I made the buttons look like bubbles coming out of the fish's mouth.

Details:
Create a Critter 2.5"
scraps
Marcella K - Clove
Value Pack Chocolate
American Crafts buttons
Pink by Design "Just 4 Men"

Challenge:
More than Favors - Button, bling or brads

Link Parties:
You Had me at Craft
I Heart Naptime

Thanks for Giving a Hoot

I have always loved this owl from Create a Critter. It tends to be my go-to owl - unless I'm trying to challenge myself to use a different one. haha I used Pink by Design's You're a Hoot stamp set. This can be purchased from Oh My Crafts, unless you're a Stamp of the Month member.

Details:
Create a Critter - Owl 2.75", Branch 2"
Recollections kraft & brown
DCWV Harvest Gathering matstack
ribbon & button - Scrapbook Expo
Stampin Up! Pumpkin Spice
Peachy Keen Everyday Asst
Pink by Design "You're a Hoot"

Challenges:
MAG Challenge by the Page - Create a Critter page 25
Peachy Keen - face / leaves

Link Parties:
Joyful Stamper
I Heart Naptime
Blue Cricket Designs
Skip to my Lou

Paper Playtime Ch#55

Today is another challenge over at Paper Playtime. This challenge is to make an easel card. Since I forgot to make my dear hubby a birthday card I decided to make this card for him. He'd never seen an easel card before (I don't know if I've actually made one) and he LOVED it! :)

Head on over to Paper Playtime to see what all the rest of the great design team came up with. :)

Details:
Create a Critter 4"
Core'dinations Guava
Recollections kraft
DCWV The Green Stack
Pink by Design "Woodland Critters"
EK Success leaf border punch
twine

Challenges:
Crafting for all Seasons - birthday

Paper Playtime Ch#52

Today is another challenge over at Paper Playtime!!! This month's challenge is a WATER SUMMER THEME. Head over to Paper Playtime to see what the rest of the design team created.

Here's my card. Carver picket out the cut. He's been a little obsessed with crabs ever since the 4th of July.

Details:
Create a Critter 3.75"
scraps
Sand - stash
Value Pack red
TPC Studio Turquoise Shimmer
Pearl
CB D'vine Swirls
Pink by Design "Take the Cake"

Challenges:
Crafting for all Seasons - Beach/Ocean
Card Creations & More by C - Life is a Beach (substituted for Create a Critter)

Good Luck Apple

This turned out super cute! I love how simple it is and yet it'd be perfect for a new teacher. :) I love the notebook stamp from Pink by Design.

Details:
Create a Critter 3"
Bazzill Mud Pie & Guava
Value Pack Red
Pink by Design - Notebook Paper & Scripted Year

Challenges:
OWH Stars & Stamps - sketch
Cricut Cardz - fruit

Link Parties:
Joyful Stamper
Just a Girl
Blue Cricket Designs

Howdy Howdy!

I barely made it for MAG Challenge by the Page's challenge! This week it was to use Create a Critter and page 59. The difference in the challenge blog is that you are limited to the specific page only.

I love this horse and I think it's only the second time I've used him.

Details:
Create a Critter: Horse 3", howdy 1.5"
Value Pack Chocolate
ColorBok Haystack
scraps

Feeling Crabby??

First of all, welcome to all the new followers! Thank you so much for being here. :) I'm having a giveaway for making it to 100 followers. Click HERE for the post.

I just realized that I never told you guys what we did for the 4th of July weekend. My husband's family has a cabin on the Hood Canal (WA) so that's where we were. We had some friends of ours up for part of the weekend. It was spent crabbing, relaxing and enjoying each other. It's always so good to get away. In all, we caught about 55-60ish dungeoness crab. YUM!!!

Ever since we've been home, Carver has been making crab pinchers with his fingers (thumb and fore finger). So we had to make a card with the cute crab from Create a Critter.


Details:
Create a Critter 3.5"
scraps
CB Divine Swirls embossing folder
EK Success border punch
ribbon

Link Parties:
Skip to My Lou - Made by You Monday