My contribution...the letter T

My neighbor was inspired by THIS:



she is going to do something similar in her kid's playroom. She has been searching around for fun letters and I thought I would contribute a letter to their room! The letter "T". Got the letter and it was a cardboard, unfinished T. Painted it silver and decorated it with white and black vintage buttons! Not the best pictures, but it is in her hands now, so I don't have any better pictures yet...

baby shower gift

Erica's baby shower was last week and unfortunately I couldn't be there :( But I did send her a special gift!

This is a picture of the bedding set she picked out, Enchanted Forest:



Since she is a collector of Robin Toole original paintings, I made these to match the bedding set:









And here she is opening them!





Also, my mom made chocolates to give out as favors, so her and I together made these cute tags using the Cricut cartridge "Create a Critter", I think they matched the theme perfectly!!

teacher's gifts

I admit, not all of my crafts are my original idea. I like to check out other blogs, craft magazines and other places to get ideas that I can use for inspiration. I was stuck with a good teacher's gift so I found some ideas on my favorite website Pinterest...there was a link to this site with the idea I used.

And here is how mine turned out for Brandon's teacher Mrs. Oliff...



And here was the card I made for her:



Then came gifts for the three wonderful aides in his class...Pinterest also let me to this blog. What a cute idea! Here is my version:





I used the cricut to cut out the lemonade and the tags! I thought they turned out really cute!

I also needed gifts for the bus driver and the bus monitor...So for them, I got them each a fun water bottle and a gift card to Starbucks. I cut out a bus for each of them on the cricut and glued them to the gift card envelope with a saying of "The bus stops here!"

kids craft

We had some left over pieces of crayons from the teacher gift, so we decided to melt them up and make "circle crayons"...

Before:


After:


The boys loved using them as circles!

rudolph the red nosed reindeer

I'm making reindeer ornaments for the Handicrafters group at church! These are really cute because the head is made with a wine cork...just add pipe cleaner antlers, googly eyes, a red nose and a bow and you have Rudolph! I think I have made about 15 so far, I think I have about 15-20 more to make...





(pics taken via cell phone...)

for sale...

My neighbor and I have started making some stuff with our scrap supplies that we are going to either a)sell to whomever sees them and wants them b)save them until November for the craft show and sell them at a booth there. Either way, I'm going to post the stuff we make here and if anyone wants them or interested in something similar, let me know. Otherwise, they will go in the craft show box :)

Most of these items are used with extra scrapbook supplies, mostly scraps and stuff we are trying to use up.

The first item is a mini scrapbook album made on thick chip board pages...covered with travel themed paper and cut-outs from the Cricut cartridge "Going Places". This one was made my me :)



There is room on each page to add your own pictures and journaling...









This next mini album was also made by me and it was a kit that I found at the scrapbook expo that I put together...it has a bunch of fun pull out tags that are in pocket pages! Very fun and bright album!







This next album was also from a kit. This one I found at Tuesday Morning...they have TONS of great deals on scrapbook supplies...I can never resist. This one isn't really my style, but sometimes you have to do things that are outside of your own box.



There are a lot of interesting tidbits and surprises on each page inside!





This next beautiful album was made by my talented neighbor Tamara. It is another chip board mini album. She used a lot of fun supplies on hers...flowers, tags, buttons, bling, cricut cartridge cut-outs and lots of other fun stuff! There is room for photos and journaling on every page.











The last thing I wanted to share that is going into the craft show box is something that I came up with to use up all those small scraps of paper that are piling up in our scrap rooms! They are small notebooks that can be used for anything...lists, notes, a mini album, whatever you want. They each have 25 random papers in them, all taken from previous projects that had left over paper. The fronts and backs are made with recycled card board pieces like a cereal box, for firmness and covered with more scraps of paper. They are bound together with my new favorite toy, the "Bind it All"...what do you think? We hope to make a ton of these and sell them for cheap...either $1 or $2.

Silly Bandz

Here are two pages I did for the kids books about them and their silly bandz collections!



I think that was probably the first ever "pink" page I've done in either of the boys albums, but I think it works...I also used glitter paper and stapled actual silly bandz to the pages :)