In My Spare Time: Plantin Schoolbox

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Monday, January 24, 2011

Baby Shower Banners

2 of my dear friends had baby showers a weekend apart in TX (I moved to CA) and I asked what I could do to help with the showers and the hostesses suggested I make something crafty so I thought some banners that could be used at the shower and the big welcome home once the babies arrived would be great. Baby Erika was a princess this moment we knew she was a she and Baby Max's room is done in a sweet little safari theme...by the way his mommy is WAY craftier than I am!!

I also decided to use this as my entry for my Made by Momo challenge entry.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Teacher Appreciation

Last week was teacher appreciation week for Clayton's preschool. They designated a gift idea for each day and Tuesday was card day with the theme "Our Teacher's Have the Write stuff"...cute right?

Clayton has 4 teachers that he sees throughout his day and I made 4 of these cards only changing the sticker on the front. I realized that I need a Cricut Cartridge that has more school images ASAP!! Bummer buying another cart will be sooo hard...hehehe

I was pretty short on time so the poem is a lot cheesy but hey it was supposed to be from a 2 year old!

Of course I am all about using stickers to fininsh off the project and loved these little apple stickers

Recipe:

Envelope: Cardstock from value pack cut at 4" Plantin Schoolbox

Card:4" Plantin Schoolbox

Stickers: Whipper Snapper Designs, Oriental Trading, DCWV

My favorite biker turns 50!

This is the first card I actually really used my Gypsy. (1)I welded 2 highway signs from 'Going Places' together at 4.5" width. (2)I welded a rectangle from 'Plantin School Box' to the middle of the highway sign to make it some what like the Harley Logo...I honestly can't say what size the rectangle is because I just enlarged it until I thought it looked right : ) (3) I cut 2 highway signs at 4" using the shadow feature. Then I shadowed the rectangle. I used 1of the shadows on the outside and one on the inside of the card. (4) I cut 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' at .52" using Plantin School Box and '50' at .50" using font from Sesame Street Friends.

All of the paper is from value paper packs:either The Paper Studio or DCWV

I love this card! I know my dad did as well.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Birthday Banner and Food labels

I wish I could take credit for the cake but it was made by a fellow Army wife and was fantastic!!

My son turned 2 a few weeks ago and is SO in love with Elmo and Sesame Street. I originally asked for the Elmo Party cart for my birthday and my husband got me the Sesame Street Friends cart instead and I am so happy with it. SSF is so versitile. I love the icon feature and the numbers and all the little details on the characters and I could go on forever!

The two projects I did for his party were a birthday banner and I made food labels for the goodies to go along with tortilla chips (Slimey Salsa, Count Von Count Cheese dip, and Dorthy goldfish).

I recently got a gypsy and thought I could use it to make the layers of the characters using the layers feature on the gypsy but I was unable to figure it out. So instead I turned to my fellow bloggers for some help and landed on the great video collection on You Tube. I had never used the "paper placement" trick and now I am great at it. What a great trick!! I always wasted so much paper by using the one color at a time one layer at a time method...not anymore!!!