Wife Cards

Mother's Day card
Cricut Cart: Storybook

I wasn't sure what to give our male friends and family this year until I came up with this gem of an idea. I made a set of "Wife Cards", cards for them to give their better half through out the year. I put them in a gift bag and on the outside have written: "Wife Cards - If you want a guarantee for hugs and kisses, just give these cards to your Mrs." So far they have gone over really well.

The cards I want to include are:
Valentine's Day
Mother's Day
I Love You
Just Because
Anniversary
Birthday
Sorry


Birthday card
Lifted from: SU! Fall/Winter 08 pg. 66


Valentine's card
Cricut Cart: George


I Love You card
Lifted from: SU! Fall/ Winter 08 pg.23
Cricut cart: George


Anniversary card
Lifted from: SU! Fall/ Wonter 08 pg. 79


Blank/ Sorry card
Lifted from: SU! Spring/ Summer 09 pg. 95

You're the Best card

Lifted from: SU! Spring/ Summer 09 pg.62

Cricut cart: Alphalicious

Carrie's B-Day Apron

I've been collecting apron patterns because they are all so cute and are fairly easy to make. This is one I made for my sister, Carrie. Annabelle is modeling it for me. I used Simplicity 3752. It was a lot of fun picking out the girly fabric and sewing it for my sister and she liked it as well.

Birthday Party 8 X 8 Mini Album

This months Kit Club Challenge from Paper Pals was to make a mini album using products from the Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine Line. The colorful paper was perfect for my birthday party layouts. I printed the photos in black and white as to not compete with the colors and patterns.

Cover: I made the cover using chipboard and covering it with paper
Cricut: Printing Press


My friend Malia and I share the same birthday so we threw ourselves a little soire.
Cricut: Street Sign, Storybook


Cricut: Street Sign

Cricut: Accent Essentials, Stamped

Layout: Page Maps

Layout: Page Maps

Layout: Page Maps

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.

A Horse is a Horse, Of Course

Jackie Carter holding up some of the treasures from the horse box.



I made this card to go with my gift for our annual White Elephant party. Now this card isn't very White Elephant-ish but the gift these cards accompanied were. I had gone through all of my daughters' horse things they no longer played with such as: a large ceramic horse, clock, books, T-shirt, and CD-ROM game. This gift was actually very tame compared to some of the others. The party was lot of fun and I look forward to it every year.

The card inspiration came from the latest SU! catalog without as many of the embellishments only for the fact that I crafted these within hours of the party.

A Christmas Card

I made these for my table gift at UMW Christmas Dinner.
Cricut Carts: Storybook & Going Places

Here was my inspiration piece taken from a back issue of Paper Crafts magazine.

It's A Dolly Holiday

Elizabeth and Ellie are ready for a party in these holiday outfits.