Christmas gifts for crafting

I got several craft related things for Chrsistmas this year including a new lens to take pictures from scrapping and to document the projects to share with all of you!

My husband got me some shelves and more importantly since I am 5 months pregnant put up my shelves in my craft closet/room. I needed some shelves really bad!

We got the ribbon holders at World Market when the one in out area went out of business and was selling their fixtures. They are perfect for the ribbon spools.

I got a bunch of new glitter glue and some paper but I already put it my storage area before I took the picture.

I also got 3 new carts! I am so excited for the crafts to come!

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!!!

Some up close shots of the characters:

The recipe:

All solid paper: The Paper Company Value Pack

Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio: Back to Basics: precut 4.5X6.5

Oscar and Count Von Count silver metallic is from a scrap pack

I cut everything at 6" any smaller and the details ripped

Hope you enjoyed!

Elmo Potty Chart

My first ever Cricut project was a card for my cousin who had just had a new baby but I will be honest in telling you that the Cricut is a learning experience and the card was horrible!

So I would like to count this Potty Reward Chart I made for my almost 2 son as my first complete and worthy of showing project.

Keep checking my sister site to find out if the chart works!

Recipe for the project:

Orange construction paper for the background
All other paper is from a multi-colored value cardstock pack
-The circles: Designer's Calendar cart (fit to page 8.5x11)
-Days of the week letters: Designer's Calendar cart (2")
-Elmo: Sesame Street Friends (5")