Bunny & Chickie Easter Favours

My Husband said I was crazy, but the end result is one happy little girl who gets to give "eggs" (aka willy wonka plastics ones with nerds etc in them) to all her little friends at JK. As usual, I put them off to the last minute and was finishing them up last night and early this morning (Kate is an early riser).

They are super easy to make and do not take that long, but I had to make 23 of them! I'm really hoping her Kindergarten class in the fall is a lot smaller!

Recipe:

Bazzill Paper - Yellow, Lily White, Black, Orange, Pink (sorry I have no clue their actual names!)

Ribbon - Stampin' Up Clearance Bin - forget the name? Chocolate Chip I think

Big Shot Dies - Fancy Favours Box, Build a Flower #2 (in the clearance bin of SU right now!)(ears of bunny), Top Note (bodies)

Punches - 1" & .5" Circle, 1.25" Square

Markers - Basic Black, White Gel Pen

Cricut - Create-a-Critter - Heart - 1" for the Bunny's Nose and then I made the same heart longer and thinner for the Chickie's wings. This would have been easier if I had SU's Trio Heart Punch.

Creative Idea: I got the idea from Stamp With Tami, but for some reason I can't seem to get her site to load anymore.

Online Stampede Calling Card

One down, 60 more to assemble. hah! When I signed up for this a couple of weeks ago, I had no idea that 45 others would sign up, I figured, *maybe* 20. Then, the Cdn girls decided to do one, so that bumped me up to 61! So I needed something super simple and super easy to assemble. This did the trick.

I got the idea from the Cricut Magazine, used some DSP from SU that I'd been hoarding and of course it was no surprise that my calling card would have butterflies on it. :0) I needed 100+ total, but with my cricut, it was only 8m of cutting them out from each pc of patterned paper. The long, boring part of all this is going to be sticking them to the card.

Recipe:

SU Paper: Whisper White, Parisian something DSP

Cricut/Provo Craft: Swiss Dots Embossing folder, Serenade Cricut Cartridge (butterfly)

SU Stamps: Tiny Greetings (Hello, stamp is Hello Baby, but I just inked up "hello")

So it's the first day of Spring (officially) and surprise surprise it's snowing. bleh. I've been participating in a challenge all weekend and this is set is part of that, the note card challenge. :0) Since it's snowing and dreary I decided to do a Summer themed set. Plus I got to use my Block Party Cartridge that I bought recently. :0)

Note Card Box - Excuse my poor Dude, I cut him a few times and he never seemed to line up right? The leaflets for the Lite Cartridges are horrible. Tiny tiny images and some of the images are not in the correct order for assembly. I think I went blind trying to piece some of them together. And as mentioned, my poor "Dad" just does not look right at all.




At an angle, the note card holder slides inside it, normally I'd add gromits and add ribbon to the end of the holder to easily slide out, but realized later that I had sold my crop-a-dile last yr and had no other tool that would do the job. oops?




Note card holder that slides into the box:

Note Cards:

I'm quite impressed with my Pitcher of Lemonade, I used Velum to make it look more realistic;

Recipe:

Cartridge: Cricut Lite Block Party

Paper: Stampin' Up - Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Rose Red, So Safron, Basic Black, Yo Yo Yellow, Certainly Celery, Creamy Caramel, Dusty Durango, Old Navy, Basic Grey, White Vellum, More Mustard, Garden Green, Rockability DSP

Ribbon: SU Very Vanilla

New Arrival

Finally! After a couple of years hiatus from scrapbooking, I finally completed a double page layout for Miss K's album. I love these photos taken by Fresh Sugar Photography! I can't believe my now 1.5 yr old was soo wee. Some days I really miss her being so tiny.

I used a ton of carts for this layout, (which I scraplifted from the talented Faith Abigail!) but it was well worth the effort. I even went and a bought a couple of things to be able to complete the layout (Tiny Texture and MS Fence Punch Edger).

For some reason my house is a bit crooked, but I think it adds a bit to the charm. :0)

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridges:

- Kate's ABCs (butterflies)
- Create a Critter (grass)
- Bloom (Flowers, Trees - love those trees!)
- Mickey Mouse & Friends (Clouds/Sun)
- New Arrival (Title, carriage)
- Sugar and Spice (Stork, House)

Embossing Folders - Tiny Texture (House), Tiny Bubbles (carriage)

And the tiny fence is a Martha Stewart Punch called "Fence".

All Papers are Stampin' Up - Chocolate Chip, Lavender Lace, Elegant Eggplant, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Garden Green, Old Olive, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, So Safron, Only Orange. The Blue DSP is SU but I forget the name of the set it came from and the other two DSPs (butterflies and brown) I forget as well sorry!

Birthday Wishes

Let the Birthday Season begin. It's that time of year again where it seems all of N's little friends have a Birthday. I'm not sure just how many are having parties this year, but she has received 2 invites so far. This card is for a little boy who is turning 2. I changed it about a bazillion times before I finally settled on this design.

You know how the Gypsy is suppose to help you design on it and save paper? Umm yeah not so much with this particular card. hah
Recipe:

Stampin' Up Paper: So Saffron (cupcake base), Chocolate Chip (cupcake icing, party hat), Real Red (cherry, party hat trim/pom pom), Old Olive (Sprinkle & Leaves), More Mustard (dinosaur), Crushed Curry (Dino belly, spikes, spots), Dusty Durango (Card Base), Soft Sky (Title, Sprinkles), Blue Bayou (Sprinkles)

Designer Paper: Imaginisce - Dino Roar

SU Markers: Close to Cocoa, Old Olive

Ink: SU Blue Bayou (Title)

Cricut Carts: Birthday Bash, Create a Critter

Elle

Look at me, all crafty lately. hah I made this card for a friend who is due in the next couple of weeks. She's having a little girl and has already picked her name, but I always worry people will change their minds once their baby is born, so instead of using her name I just put congrats on the card.

Recipe:

Stampin' Up Paper - Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Amethyst, Lavender and Lace

Designer paper - Enchanted (I forget by who!)

Inks: Pretty in Pink, Lavender and Lace

Ribbon: Pink Pirouette

Cricut Cartridges: Sugar and Spice (Lite), Birthday Bash (Font)

Embossing: Cuttlebug Swirls

Finished Page

Much to my duaghter's delight, I finished my Tinkerbell Page yesterday. :0)

Tinkerbell - my first project in a loonngg time.

It's been a really long time since I've done anything crafty. Well that's actually a partial lie. A few weeks ago I did a Valentine's day card for my daughter to hand out at JK. It was pretty simple though and not anything so big.

Today, after running around like crazy yesterday after a week away, I spent the afternoon creating Tinkerbell with my brand new Cricut Expression. :D She's for a little project I have decided to start and hopefully finish.

I can't say she was a breeze to make, she is a ton of layers, many small cuts (people were not kidding when they said to make the Disney ones big or you'd pull your hair out trying to assemble them due to teeny cuts!) that made my head want to explode, but I persevered and completed her as well as adding a mushroom for her to sit on. Hopefully tomorrow I'll find the time while my youngest naps to do the actual page layout.