Fathers Day

Father"s Day is coming up soon and I wanted a really cool card to make for my dad. I came across this really adorable card on pinterest that I just HAD to make. So here is the final product:

Its so cute isn't it? It was super easy to make too! Here is the link where I found this awesome card design:

http://tiffkeetch.blogspot.com/2010/06/thinkin-about-dad.html

Cute Personalized Cards

I haven't been crafting much lately. Although there is not really reason a thought that I should get back into it, so here is what I produced! I want to make packs of cards where people could easily personalize the inside themselves. I made one a birthday theme and one a thank you theme.

 This card is 5 1/2 x 4 and was made using my Cricut Expression with the Create A Critter cartridge.

 This card is 5x7 and was made with the cartridge Birthday Bash.

Enjoy :)

 

Heart Crayons

Hello everyone! My college classes just recently started again which means I get to go back to my placement at an elementary school on Monday. The class that I help out with is a first grade class and I basically just go once a week and help out with the students and do anything the teacher needs me too. Like most first grade classes my class is having a Valentines Day party so I wanted to make some really special for them. I was looking around on Pinterest one day and found a really cute idea for rainbow heart crayons...I thought to myself that would be perfect!" So I decided to make them.

Their are about 23 students in my class so I figured I would need a lot of crayons to make the hearts so I went on Ebay and ordered a giant Ziploc bag of used crayons instead of having only one of every color in a 64 pack. I peeled each crayon and put them in a container. I also bought a Wilton Silicone Mini Heart Pan on Amazon.

 

 After I finished that I started chopping up the crayons...that was starting to take forever so I just snapped them into pieces by hand. 

 When I they were small enough I added them to the pan. The directions on Pinterest did not say any specific way to put the chopped up crayons into the pan so I made sure their were some light colors along with dark colors in each just to make it more of a colorful heart. I set the oven to 235 degrees and put them in for 15 minutes to melt.


I suggest putting the silicone pan on a baking sheet just so its easier to take out of the oven and so the melted wax doesn't spill everywhere.

After I took the pan out their were a few tiny pieces of crayon that did not melt fully so I just pushed the piece into the center of the heart and you couldn't even notice! I decided to take the silicone pan off of the baking sheet and placed it on two gel ice packs to help them cool down faster. After about a half hour they were ready to pop out. This was my final result! I plan to add them onto a Valentines Day card.

Happy Holidays!!!

 I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. I have been so busy with everything that I really did not have much time to make cards in the days leading up to Christmas. Now that things have slowed down a little (And I don't go back to college until the 16 of January!) I have found more time to make cards. Including my birthday, I have quite a few friends who have birthdays right after Christmas so I have been making cards for all of them! Here are a few:

Welcome Baby Card!

I have been wanting to use Cricut Craft Room for a while now but I haven't had the chance to until tonight. If you have the chance I would definitely recommend trying it out! I have seen cards time to time with a baby onesie so I was pretty excited to find out that their is one that is free on CCR! So this is what I came up with: I used the onesie cut on CCR, the heart from Plantin Schoolbook, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Folder, My Pink Stamper Stamps, and some white ribbon...

 

Enjoy!

37 Days Until Christmas!

I haven't had much time in the past few days to really do anything. For my education classes we had to go to a diversity placement for the whole week this week. I had a lot of fun but I am also excited to get back into the swing of things because I am absolutely exhausted! I did manage to make two cards with my Cricut this week though which I was pretty excited about since its starting to get close to Christmas again! So here are the cards I made....for both of them I used my new Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge that I got last year for Christmas but I never had the chance to use until this year!

 Also my boyfriend Adam had his birthday today so we went out to eat for hibachi and sushi! It was delicious! This is the card I made for him...

Early Christmas Cards

So I know its a little bit early to even think about Christmas since its not even Thanksgiving yet but I was really in the mood to make a Christmas card the other day! So here it is...its simple but has just the right amount of detail I was looking for. Keep checking back for more Christmas cards to come soon!

I made this card using ribbon and paper from Michaels, the stamp is from one of the Christmas stamp sets from My Pink Stamper, and I used a snowflake Cuttlebug folder to make the snowflakes.

Its been a while!

I know its been a while since my last post (1 year!!) but I figured I would start back up again with this whole blog thing! I figured I would share some of my favorite cards/projects I have done in the past year.

During the past year the university that I go to has been having all of the elementary education majors spend a few days a week in a classroom as part of the state requirement. We have to have a certain number of hours so we can graduate. Last year I was in a second grade classroom for the whole year. It was so much fun and I enjoyed getting to know the teacher and the students. For Valentines day I made them these along with the card you see for the teacher with my Cricut. Everyone loved them! This year I'm with a First grade classroom so I am looking forward to getting to make those students some things as well!

                               

This was a card that I made for my boyfriend on Valentines Day!

I went to my first Creative Memories party recently and got these adorable paper flowers to use. The stamp is from a set of My Pink Stamper stamps! 

 My best friend Megan (Spelled the wrong way! lol!) loves Gators and Cheetah Print so this was her birthday card.

Just a quick and cute birthday card I made for my future sister in law!  We both share a love for cupcakes so I figured this card would suit well! :) The stamp is from a set of stamps from the My Pink Stamper line.

I had so much fun making these cupcake boxes!! I used the new Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge that Provo Craft released this summer. I made these, with cupcakes included, for my neighbor and her son who let us borrow some fans this summer when our air conditioning died.