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!

PAPER PAPER PAPER!!

I, along with just about everybody else I know, have too much of it! Today, I went to Joann's for there 5 for $.95 sale, and bought like 60 sheets. Like I really needed it. I love it though, ever since they started selling the core'dinations by the sheet I stock up every time they have a sale. Lat go round I bought 65 sheets. I also found some cute Christmas paper for cards and Halloween paper. Now, in order to justify my purchase I came home a went threw all my card stock and got rid of all the stuff that has just been sitting there. Hopefully it can find a new home soon!

And now my latest creation. I have been sick lately so haven't got much done but did manage to make my card for the whimsical scraps and bugs design team. It came out cute, the card base itself I made a few months back but never finished it. Well, I pulled it out and finished it!! It came out pretty good, definitely could have done better. This weeks challenge is to make a card or layout using a cupcake!! Love it!!

Cards

I would love to say that I have been so so busy scrapping away that I have had not had the time to blog, but the truth is......I have been clipping and printing coupons! Strange huh, well it has been saving me of money! I have been working on a few layouts, and tearing apart a few layouts that I was not happy with. Late last night, I made 3 card with 1 8x8 , and 1 8.5x11 sheets of paper. I made 2 of them for my dd's MDO teachers, the other I made just because I was on a roll! I also worked on my Whimsical Bugs Challenge for this week, for that I made a birthday card for my mom. I liked the colors we had to use Brown, Red, Yellow, Tuquorise, and White.
So, thats all for now. Hopefully I can try and blog more often. Have a great Memorial weekend!

I LOVE my Cricut!

Well I have been creating for days now and I must say I love, love, love my Cricut! Don't think that I haven't always loved it, I just seem to love it more today than when I first got my baby bug. Why, you ask well because I have been working on my whimsical bugs dt challenge and it has made me look at all my cartridge's and say "Wow!!" I have used a variety of cartridges for this creation, maybe 5 so far. I am loving it!!

I also started working on my b-day cards for the swap. I am happy with the first set I made not sure what I am doing for the second. For my cards, I used the new EK punch not sure of the name but its the one that looks the paper was torn out of a notebook. I have had this punch since the beginning of the month and barely used it last night!

B-day cards.....

Whimsical Bugs Challenge so far............

Spring is coming!

I have spent the past 2 days, getting everything cleaned and ready for spring!! I have also started pulling out all the Easter decorations, and making a few also! Thought I would post them before I head to bed! I made a few Easter decorations for the flower boquet I made in February. I also made another wall hanging, just need to finish it. Today, I also did my WHimsical bugs challenge! The challenge was to make a St Patricks day card, I've never made a card for this holiday so it was a challenge. I am happy with the end result! Ok, now to bed! Oh, and I am also adding a bday card I made for my dd's bday party.