Party time!!!

Just a few short days ago my baby girl turned 5!! The next day she lost her first tooth!! Such a happy last few days we have had!

Back to scrapbooking! Over the past month I have been busy making stuff for Julia's birthday party! I made just about everything that I could. From the party bags to the banner. I used my gypsy for everything I made. I LOVE my Gypsy, I like the fact that while I can look at what I am going to design before I cut it out. So, here is what I made!

The invitation! I made this using the Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge. This is the cupcake with the heart, I cut the heart off and added a cherry! Then I embossed the bottom using a Quickutz embossing foler and the top using a Cuttlebug folder. The pink embossed glitter is Zing, I love it!! The pink bow is tied around the cupcake using tule. The back of the invite is solid brown with a pink box with all the party info!!

Here are the party bags, also cut from Sweet Treats! I added the scallops around the top. Then added a cupcake and covered the opening with acetate paper. For handles I used pink tule!

This is a tub I got from the dollar spot at target. I added the cupcake to it using pop dots. Such a cute little thing for utensils.

This one, I did today. I had a hard time finding blowers to match the cupcake theme so here is what I did. I bought some on clearance cut a circle from my cricut of course and stamped the cupcake image on the circle. Then glued it down over the original image!!

And now the banner! This I made from celebrations and alpahlicous. And my new favorite thing to use tulle!! Seriously have you used it yet, its so nice! I took a class with a friend of mine at Archivers and they gave us some to tie around a jar we altered ever since then we have both been addicted to the stuff!!

So, that is what I have been doing! Hopefully after this weekend I will get more done!! Scrapping and blogging!

Happy Valentines Day!

Brothers and Sisters

A few months ago, my mom and her siblings took a group picture. This is probably the first one they have taken in a few years. So, for my design team challenge I used this picture, with the title brothers & sisters. The challenge was to use the & symbol from any cricut cartridge. Mine came from Alphalicous. I used the color core paper from coredenations (sp?), I ran it thru the cuttlebug using swiss dots then sanded it. It came out soo super cute! I also added a few pieces of bling! I mated the picture on a scallop frame that I made using ds and George. Then I added white to the edges to make it look as I had put sewed (sp?) it, but as with my own sewing it did not come out straight! Hope you enjoy the layout! I will be back later this week with my altered calendar I am currently working on!