Summer 2011

My friend, Darcie Bagott, had blocks painted and decorated to say "SPRING". When I was at her house last, I attempted to take a mental picture of how it looked and transfer it to my own seasonal sign. This is the best I could do. Note to self: From now on when I go to Darcie's I shall have my camera with me at all times.

Christmas Sampler

I "lifted" this idea from Jeannine. I love the one she made so I did my best to recreate it. I'm thinking I'd like to make one for each of the seasons.

Supplies:

16 X 20 frame

red and ivory poster paper

SU! Christmas Jingle scrapbook kit

SU! Merry Moments scrapbook paper

Cricut: Jubilee

Cut red paper 16 X 20

Cut ivory paper 12 X 16

Cut background rectangles 2 1/4" X 2 1/2"

Add embellishments and stickers as desired

Summer CD Challenge

Made CD Label with Click n Design and imported my own background. I scanned in SU!'s Flamingo paper so I could size it to what I needed and also because I didn't have enough paper to make 8 cd covers.


Inside cover: Wrote song titles over background paper using Microsoft Publisher and inserted small picture of the same photo used for CD label. I made a pocket for the cd by sewing it into place.


Cover size 5 1/2" X 5 1/2"

WHAT IS A SUMMER CD CHALLENGE???

My friend Jackie Carter puts together these great cd challenges. She basically comes up with a theme - summer in this case - and then comes up with certain criteria such as: finding a song with "ocean" in the title or content, a cruising song, song that evokes a special summer memory etc. Our title had to be a song lyric from the 5th song on our cd which for me happens to be Radio Song by REM.

It was a lot of fun putting it together and I'm looking forward to see what others have put on their CD.

Teacher Christmas Gifts

Here are the Christmas gifts my daughters' teachers recieved. They each got a 2009 planner that I altered the front of. I got this idea from Tami Vik several years ago. They also recieved four coordinating note cards. I've been giving this gift to their teachers for years now and it seems to go over well. At least, that's what they're leading me to believe. : )


This planner went to Josie's Hip Hop dance teacher.
Cricut Cart: Stamped



This set went to Josie's teacher.
Cricut Cart: Storybook


I cover the planner with a transparency sheet and then staple it to the cover. I should've taken the photo before I added it so you wouldn't see my refelction in the photo. At least I'm fully dressed. If you don't know what I'm talking about look up Reflectoporn on snopes.com. Warning: it's a tad graphic.

This set went to Annabelle's teacher.

Cricut Cartridge: Storybook

I need to be better about writing down what papers I use but a lot of the papers are from old stock that I can't remember where they came from.