She's Back!!!

Finally, I am back in the land of blogging and crafting! I have really missed you guys and I think I might have actually heard my Cricut & Gypsy sobbing last night from feeling so neglected. It saddened my heart.

The last few weeks have held some stress and busy times for me. Besides the family situation we had, I had orders for almost 200 teacher appreciation items, had a garage sale (Yea for me...made over $400 on my junk!), made 30 paper teacups for our women's tea last night (with help from my good pal, Cassie), had to make what seemed like a gazillion birthday cards for May and a bunch of other little stuff that took up way too much time.

I am officially taking a breath for the first time in 2 weeks.

WOW! That felt good.

Ok, so now for the real reason you're here... My good friend Trudy is the president of PTA at her kid's school. She was kind enough to hire me to make goodies for their teacher appreciation week festivities. Although it's hard work, I really do enjoy it and I certainly enjoy the money!

This is one of the 3 items I made. This hanging treat box was designed on my Gypsy and was actually easier to design than I'd anticipated. I am planning to make several styles and offer them for download in my store in a few weeks, if any of you would like to try them as well.  There were several blogs I saw where they hand cut them all, but if I can use my Gypsy, that's what I do.  It's such a time saver for me. 

The patterned paper is from The Paper Studio and I purchased it at Hobby Lobby. For the crayon, apple and pencil, I used the Gypsy and the cartridges are listed below. The sentiment was printed on my computer, then punched out with a 1.5" punch. I used a 2" scalloped circle punch to cut the bigger circle.

Pencil - Smiley Cards

Apple - Doodlecharms

Crayon - Simply Charmed

I glued everything to the box and then adhered the pencils/apples/crayons with a foam dot. 

Each container held a single serve packet of drink mix (I used Hawaiian Punch Lemon Berry and Strawberry Lime - YUMMMMM) and a pack of either cheese or peanut butter crackers. From what Trudy said, they were hit and that makes my heart happy!

I'll be back soon with the rest of my projects for the school and then will post my Mother's Day projects after I deliver them.

Have a blessed and wonderful Friday!

Cheryl

Cuppy-Cake!

Wow…It’s been a while, hasn’t it?  I’ve missed you guys!  =)  I know the holidays are always busy, but it seems this year is even busier than before.  I need about 5 more hours in each day to get everything done!

Last night, I finally took photos of all the cards and projects I’ve done over the last week or two so I’m hopefully getting caught up!  Today I want to share a fun birthday card I made...

Fun Acorn Card

Today I want to share a fun little card I made.  This will probably be my last Thanksgiving card because it's time to get ready for Christmas.  I realize alot of folks have been sharing Christmas projects for weeks now, but I think we rush into Christmas way too fast, so I decided to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday before moving to the next holiday.  OK...on to the important stuff.

 The colors aren't great in the pic.  As I mentioned in a previous post, since I killed one of my lights, I'm having difficulty getting good pictures.  I am working on getting a new one (bought one and it's worthless so I have to try again).

For the card base, I used the rounded square from George and Basic Shapes and welded the acorn to it using my Gypsy.  The acorn is from Doodlecharms.

I cut the acorn out in kraft cardstock and attached the card.  I then cut it again in the darker brown and just used the top portion.  I embossed it and attached it with foam dots.

The sentiment is a stamp from Walmart's dollar bin.  I added some twine and bling and attached it with foam dots.  I inked the edges of everything with Chestnut Colorbox ink.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I so appreciate all of you taking time from your busy schedule to check out my crafty stuff.  And I love sharing it with you!

Blessings,
Cheryl

Grateful Leaves Card

Well, I made another card for a challenge.  I don't know why I'm on this challenge kick lately, but I'm enjoying it.  This card was made for the red, orange and brown challenge at FCCB this week.  

I have to start off by saying the leaves look really yellow in this picture, but they really look more orange in person, so I did try to follow the rules of the challenge.  You know me, I'm not a rule breaker!  =)

This is a regular A2 sized card.  I cut the base in white and then the mat from kraft cardstock.  I embossed the kraft paper using my new embossing folder by The Paper Studio.  I don't remember the name of it, but it looks like wood and I love it!  It's super fun, don't you think?  I thought this was a woodsy-ish card.  =)

The brown and white scallop is from my new cart, Winter Woodland.  The stamp is from the dollar bin at Walmart.  I inked the edges of everything with Chestnut Colorbox ink.

I cut the leaves and acorns from Doodlecharms.  I don't know the exact sizes; I just cut 3 sizes using my Gypsy.  It's hard to see, but the brown is shimmery and really lovely in person.  I added a couple layers of each leaf and used foam tape to give it dimension.

As you can tell here, I got a little carried away with the inking on my leaves.  I had to toss several of them because I dropped the ink pad on them.  Don't ya hate it when that happens?

Here's a quick look at the inside of the card.  It's really simple, but I wanted some color in there.

If you have time, you should check out this challenge - it was quite fun!  Have a great Monday evening!

Blessings,
Cheryl

So thoughtful card…

Happy Monday!  I hope all of you in the USA have had a nice Memorial Day.  I woke up with a really bad headache and sore throat, so I spent most of my morning just sorta laying around.  I think it was sinus/allergy related, so once my medicine kicked in, I was good to go.  I spent the rest of my afternoon working on some projects for the craft classes I’ll be teaching in a few weeks and I made a few cards.  I thought I’d share one of them with you.

The flower is from Doodlecharms.  I LOVE this flower for layering.

I added bling to the center of the flower.  Now that I look at it, I think a button might be better…..  The paper is called Poteeka Souffle from The Paper Studio.  I love those cute little birdies!

That’s it for now.  I’ll be back tomorrow with the project from the cartridge of the month. 

Blessings,
Cheryl

Doodlecharms–Week 2

Today I’m sharing my 2nd card made using Doodlecharms, the cartridge I’m exploring this month.  Thanks to all of you who left such kind comments about my last card! 

I made a shaped card by welding together the shadow of the present from Doodlecharms.  I added a button with twine and the sentiment on the tag is handwritten.  The paper is by KI Memories.  I LOVE this paper!  It’s hard to capture in a picture, but it’s really pretty in person.  I really love gray.  Especially with pink.  =)

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you all have a happy, wonderful and BLESSED day! 

Doodlecharms!

Happy April!  It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so that means it’s time to explore a new cartridge.  I was trying to decide on a cart for this month and decided I needed to pick one I don’t use too often.  Doodlecharms is an older cartridge, but I jus ordered it a few months ago from Ebay.  I remember thinking I really needed it (we need them all, right????) and to be honest, I have barely used it.  So here goes! 

For today’s project I used the flower on page 90 of the handbook.  I cut 3 of each at 4 different sizes and layered them.  I topped with a matching button.  The sentiment is from a dollar stamp from Michael’s and the paper is from My Mind’s Eye – the Home stack.  LOVE THAT PAPER!  The border punch is by Martha Stewart.

Thanks for looking!  Have a wonderful day, my friends!  I’m so glad you stopped by for a look.

Happy {Belated} Valentine’s Day!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!  I apologize for the delayed post; I was swamped yesterday and forgot to get this posted.  Every year we host a large dinner at our church that I help plan and it was yesterday.  It went really well, but it’s a long day of cooking and decorating and hard work. 

Now…onto the paper crafts!  I made valentines for the kids on my class at church and thought I’d share.  I made boxes based on the tutorial here.  These are super easy and super cute.  It was a ton of work, but my kids really like them, so it was well worth it!  I have tons of pictures, so here we go….

Flaunt it Fridays #9–Paper Pups

Hallelujah…it’s Friday again!  That means sleeping in and no work for the next couple of days…woo hoo!  It also means it’s time for another challenge at Flaunt it Fridays.  This week’s challenge was to use the cut of the cat and dog from the Paper Pups cart.  Since I don’t have that cart, I used Create A Critter for the animals, Doodlecharms for the heart and Lacy Labels for the card.  I welded the shadow feature for the card base with my Gypsy and made the little sparkles with Martha Stewart Glitter Glue (LOVE IT!!).  The sentiment is handwritten.  Be sure to head over to Flaunt it Fridays and see the great projects from the other designers.  We’d love for you to flaunt right along with us!!