Baby Side-Step Card

Hey all,

It has been a while so I thought it was about time that I posted something.  Before you know it Christmas will be upon us – I know I’ll have little  time to post then.   

I decide to share a card I made for a friend of mine who just had another grandbaby.  I have been seeing these cute side-step cards for a while now and wonted to try one myself.  Here is my take on it.

I used Everyday Paper Dolls, Life’s a party, and  Art Philosophy cartridges.

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D
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• This is a 10  in by 7 Sheet of cardstock (may need to trim down to fit in 5x7 envelope)
•  Dotted lines are score lines and dark line is cut line.
•   Cut line is centered and starts 1 inch from bottom and is 5 inch long (Ends 6 inch from bottom)
•  Score at start and stop of cut points on one side. (lines A &B)
•  Score another line an inch up from first.(line C)
•   Score last line on opposite side of cutline 5 inch from bottom (line D)

I inked my edge and used a stamp from Emma over at My Creative time. 

Other items:  6 brads, paper clip clothes hanger, pop dots, adhesive, chalk, & coordinating scraps of paper.

This last photo is of the critter I wrapped around the baby blanket -  I made ducks on another post – easy peasy!

School is Back in Session - Bulletin Boards

Okay, school is back in session, so I wanted to share a few things I made for one of my sons previous teachers.

 

First is a bulletin board for the birthdays of the children in the class.  I used Create-a-Critter for the candle flame and balloons and I used Storybook for the big letters.  I used regular construction paper and laminated it.  Laminated paper cut wonderfully on the expression.  I used colored laminated copy paper for the various candle colors.

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The next bulletin board I did was the Accelerated Reader board.  We are the Sipple Stallions so the teacher thought it would be cute to use little horses for the board.  I cutout the bookmarks from the Animal Kingdom cart and I also used Platian Schoolbook, and Hello Kitty Font.  Again I cut these from laminated construction papers and they held up nicely the entire school year.  -- Opps, don't have a picture of this one.

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Now for my favorite project.  This was so fun to make.  It is a homework reward board.  The teacher found the idea on-line and she just wanted me to copy it and then color it – I HAD BIGGER IDEAS.  Here is what I came up with.  I used several carts on this  – Everyday Paper Dolls, Plantain Schoolbook, Hello Kitty Font, Life’s a Beach, and Locker Talk-- sorry I do not have all the measurement for this.  I printed the game cards on the computer.  This was fun for the kids and they used it all year.

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Another thing I did d for the classroom was decorate the door for end of year testing.  They have a little competition each year to encourage the students.  Here is the door I did for her.  I used Plantin Schoolbook, Walk in my Garden and Create a Critter for the little inch worm.

   I inked the edges and curled the petals – I thought the colors were nice and bight.

 

Sorry this is a side veiw -  It is from my phone and i can't seem to turn it.

"Chillin'" - Hot Summer Colors Challenge

Wanted to share this cute card I posted for the “Hot Summer Color” challenge over on  My craft Spot .  I use some cool colors too– It has been so hot here in Texas (in the 100s this week) – I just had to cool this little penguin down. I think he is so cute! 

Penguin:  From ZooBalloo  (one of three)  with a tweaked beak so he could suck the straw

Sun:  Just Because Cards (sunflower)
Sunglasses:  Create-A-Critter (cut in half)
Lemonade glass:  Just Because Cards
Waves: Stand and Salute
Sand: Paper Dolls for Everyday
“Chillin’”: Create-A-Critter
Papers:  The blue “sky” paper is from a boy stack, that I don’t have the name of.  I used open cardstock and sandpaper for the sand.  I used Prismatic Paper Pack  from Best Occasions for the sun and the shades shinny parts . 
Straw: A little piece of silver elastic ribbon
 

This made a nice card for one of the neighbor boy’s birthday.  Hope you are staying cool in the hot summer “colors”.

Happy Summer, God Bless and Happy Scrapin’!

ABC Animal Book (Deployment gift)

 

I have a neighbor who is very sad about going TDY (Temporary Duty) for 6 months to Afghanistan (no they really don’t seem to be pulling out). She will miss all the holidays and birthdays for her 3 small children (ages: almost 1, soon to be 3, and 5 in spring). I wanted to do something to help her stay in touch with the kids.

I immediately thought of little cute cards for her to send home to them. I finally decided on a card a week, and thought that ABC card would be fun. I told her, she can tell the kids, she will be home before “Z”. I wanted the little ones to be able to see all the little animal cards mommy was sending home so I made up an album and place corner tabs for every card with a little label that said the name of the animal and the letter it represented. The front of the book says “How may weeks until mommy is home? Count the missing animals to find out” .

My hope is that it will be fun way for her to keep in touch and a cute way for the children to count down the weeks until she gets home. I also added a birthday card for each child and card for each holiday she will miss.

With all the work I put into this, it surprisingly only took 5 days from start to finish. I packaged all the cards up in a little box for her to pack in her bags, and gave the kids (and dad) the Blank Album to put the cards in as she sends them home. I left plenty of space for pictures of mommy in th front and back of the album  -- so the kids can “see her” as they look at all the cards she sent to them. I was going to pre-pay the postage for each card but have since found out that the military covers the coast of postage for our deployed troops.

I cut all the animals at what ever size each would have a good fit on a 4X 6 card.

I used only five cartridges on this project: Animal Kingdom, Create-a-critter, Designer Calander, Everyday Paper Dolls, and Zooballoo.

I printed the cover using Microsoft office and I used old sticker letters to place in the corner of each card. I also embellished come cards with googol eyes, stickles, brads & gems. I added a note of caution “not safe for children under 3” but hope it will be a book that the kids will share with an adult.

Fathers Day Cards

Here are the cards I created for Father's Day 2010

This was made with Lifes a Beach cart

 Both made with Celebrate with Florish Cricut Cart

This one made with Everyday Paper Dolls cart