Some more halloween projects

my sons 5th b-day invite


birthday spider cupcakes


party favors


visiting teaching gifts



wooden letters scrapbook paper and modpodge



halloween banner cut out from my cricut

Halloween Projects

Halloween is comming and it is one of my favorite holiday besides Christmas! I am trying to resist from decorating for it now! However here are a few projects I have been working on for it.




These lanterns will been on my front porch. I made these images in
photoshop and than printed them on clear label sheets. Inside I put
fake tea lights to illuminate them at night.





Here is my wreath I made for my front door. I found these
fake beaded pumpkins at Walmart.

b-day card

End of the year teacher gifts

I found these clear paint cans at Micheals and of course had thought of a million uses for them as they have plenty of room to hold lots of fun stuff. Inside each container has school supplies that the teachers will be able to use through out the year like staples, push pins, thank you cards, paper clips, binders clips, dry erase markers, black pens, red pens and some candy.

Random Cards I have made

I know I am long overdue for updates on this blog so here are a few cards and projects I have been meaning to post.

Birthday gifts

Jewlery box

Baptism Card

Target card

Christmas Card

Birthday Card

Fathers Day Card

Mothers Day card

Birthday card

Easter card


blank all purpose cards

In the mood for Mod!

Believe it or not I had no baby shower cards on hand! ( hint hint to my ladies in my card group for the next theme! ) I wanted to break out of the traditional babys and animals and do something a little different. I used my cricut cartridge "New arrival".

Valentines card

I got a few new CB folders for christmas and was glad that I had a good excuse to use one. To add detail to the embossed argyle I used pink chalk.

Christmas wall art

I created this wall art for christmas to replace my "Thankful" banner. I used my "Storybook" and "Joys of the season" cricut cartridges to create these. I had these 8x8 picture frames that I purchased from the 99 cent store a few years ago with the intention I would have purpose for them one day!

My christmas Villages

I made these villages now two years ago and I still get excited about putting them out. I made them out of birdhouses that you can buy from Micheals. There is alot of detail on each of the villages. I shingled each roof with popsical sticks. On santas house and the blue house I added siding onto the houses that I got from a hobbie shop. On the church and the school house I bought these stucco mixes that came with stencels that I could put on the the villages to make the stone and brick look. I added doors to the blue house, school and gingerbread house. I also had my husband cut out holes in the back of each village so that I could add light. I spent many many hours to create these but it was well worth it as I will have them for years to come and hopefully to be kept as a heirloom one day.

Thanksgiving table center peices

Thanksgiving was held at our house this year and of course besides preparing part of the food I had to make something fun for the tables. I used my cricut paper doll cartridge to cut all images and I made these box stands to stick the cute little Indians and pilgrims in. The kids loved them!

Thanksgiving banner

I used my storybook cricut cartridge again for this banner. Its hard to tell but I distressed all the letters and paper and popped out the letters for more detail.

Baby shower card

I had two baby showers to shop for, and both were having girls. I was inspired with one of them because the colors that were chosen for the babys crib set was this cute pink and brown bedding. I Loved it! I love the colors anyway and wanted to make a card with using them. I used my new cricut cartridge called "Storybook"for the monogram letter and scallop. I am really lovin' this cartridge!!!

Halloween Birthday Cake

My son requested a Halloween Birthday cake for his 4th birthday. I had a lot of fun making it as it was not the traditional B-day cake. I used my paper doll cricut cartridge to cut out the bats and taped them on wooden skewers.

I'm published!!!

I am so excited to share this as I have been waiting for 6 months for papercrafts special issue to come out. I submitted my very first project to papercrafts magazine and it was excepted in Febuary. I was completely suprised as I just decided to submit my work on a whim and wasn't expecting for them to actually except it for publication. Well here and on stands starting August 12th!

Bridal Shower Invite

Designed this invite for a friend. The stamp set used was "always" from stampin up

Hannah Montana birthday invite

This is my interpretation of Hannah Montana. I desined this invite for my my niece's birthday party. I only had to make 6 and I made my sister help me, so it wasn't that bad! The stamp sets used were "Baroque Motifs" and "simple shapes" from stampin up.

Thank you card

This is the thank you card that I made for everyone that gave my husband graduation presents. The stamp set I used was "Friendship blooms" from stampin up.

Thank you card and Memory box

Alright, hopefully this project has been worth the wait! I have been such a slacker on posting...I know! So while my husband was in pharmacy school his parents AKA my parents because we don't differentiate between inlaws, let us live with them to save money. We are so grateful they put up with us through these years! I made this memory box aka explosion box that contains pictures of my kids with Grandma and Grandpa and special memories they shared while living with them. you can't see the bottom layer which is ok because I have not finished it yet, but it will contain pictures of the graduation to complete the memories of living with them. I gave this to them on graduation. I also made them a thank you card that expressed our graditude to them. The card size measures 5x5 and the stamp sets used were "Baroque Motifs" and "Always" by stampin up.

Fathers Day Card

I made this card for my card group and also of course for dads and grandpa. This card was a bit of a challenge for me as I am not used to making guy cards. I got the new "Campout" cricut cartridge which I was exited to use and inspired this card.

Thank you card

This card was made for my husbands boss as it was going to be my husbands last day of interning . Graduation is in two weeks! Yes I am counting! This card was so much fun to make. This was a fun color combo to use. I used my new cuttlebug embossing plate "birds and swirls" that I ordered online because you can't find it in any store yet. I embossed it on blue cardstock and than sanded it to add extra detail. I used the "Always" stamp set from stampin up (bird and plants) and the" Lots of thoughts" set from stampin up (many thanks).

Graduation Announcement

It's done. Finnally! This has probably been the most exciting and tedious project I have done so far! Exciting because my husband is graduating from pharmacy school. Yea! Tedious because I had to make 45 of these announcements! Now for the details. The white cardstock measurement is 5"x11" scored at 3" and than at 8" The blue inside mat measures 5"x9" and is scored at 4" The inside mat with the info is 4 1/4" X 4 1/4" The seal with the school logo on it was printed on vellum and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Very cool technique! The tie on the outside of the announcement was also embossed and I used the linen backround stamp from stampin up (hard to see the details on this picture). The pocket measures 1 3/4"x 2 1/4" scored each edge at 1/4".

Birthday gift set

This was a fun one to make. I made this for my friend Marin who's as crazy crafty as I am. I made this for her birthday with her favorite candy bars which inspired my color scheme. The candy box measurements are 1 3/4''x 5'' I posted the template for this box with different measurements in a previous post. Inside the gift envelope is a scallop nestabilities set. I took a 12x12 piece of card stock and folded it in thirds and embellished the outside. The stamp set used for the candy box is a stampin up set call "Lots of thoughts" and the "for you" stamp is from an acrylic set from Joanns.

Birthday Card

I made this card for my card group. I used my cricut to cut the cake and than used my xyron sticker maker to make it sticky enough to glitter the whole cake. The card size is 5x5.

Baseball favors

Sorry its been a while since I have posted anything. I have been focusing on designing and putting together my husbands graduation announcments. I will be posting that at a later date. Anyway I designed this favor for my neices softball team. Me and my sister Heather made 22 of them. The baseball is a 3" circle cut at 2" the box is 2 1/2"x 1 1/2". Inside each favor will have 2 mounds candy bars.

Another birthday card

Ok so this seems to be the only cards that I am making these days. I think I made about 24 this week using four different designs. I sold about 12 of them and the others I will be giving as gifts. The goal of this one was to make it more boyish and not so cutesy. I used the birthday whimsy set again (lovin' it!) and the "celebrate" word stamp was a micheals $ stamp.

Birthday card

I'm not used to using alot of white for a backround but just trying different things out! The stamp set used for this is "birthday Whimsy" from stampin up.

Birthday card sketch challenge

I decided to try something different this time. So I took on a sketch challenge by Beate I have never done this color combo before but I think it turned out alright. Had fun with this one. The stamp set used for this was "Birthday Whimsy" by stampin up and I used the cuttlebug for the backround. The card size is 5x5.

Transformer party invite and favor

My son who is turning 6 really wanted a transformer b-day party, so I had to figure out a design for it. I looked everywhere online for some kind of transformer stamp and of course I couldn't find one! I ended up having to make my own. I stamped the image with versamark and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. The scratches on the inside of the card and on the box is stamped with the "sanded" backround stamp from stampin up. I just got it and it is quickly becomming one of my favorites! The favor is a 2 1/2" square box designed after the allspark cube. If you have seen the Transformers movie than you know what I am talking about. I will probably fill them with candy and have the kids go on a treasure hunt to find them(maybe).

This is the stamp that I made for the invite. Its made out of foam. I found an image in google and I printed it out. I than cut out the image and traced it onto foam and glued the peices onto another piece of foam. The stamp doesn't look all that pretty but it works really well.

Mothers Day Card

For my card group this month we decided to make mothers day cards. As you can tell I just can't get enough of using transparency sheets. I have been dying to make a card out of it. The butterflies are stamped with white craft ink on vellum and than embossed. I got the butterfly stamp from Joanns $ section. The "Cherish" and flourish stamp is from the Baroque Motifs set from Stampin up. The"Happy Mothers day" is also stampin up but it was borrowed so I'm not sure what set it belongs to.